At schot war nevir so slie.[[84]]
Ed. John Small, Part II, p. 193.
Gisburne is in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the borders of Lancashire, seven miles from Clitheroe.
He that had neither beene a kithe nor kin
Might haue seene a full fayre sight, 361,2,
anticipates Byron:—
By heaven, it is a splendid sight to see,
For one who hath no friend, no brother, there.
Childe Harold, I, 401,2.
Translated, after Percy’s Reliques, by Bodmer, II, 128; La Motte Fouqué, in Büsching’s Erzählungen, p. 241; Doenniges, p. 174; Anastasius Grün, p. 103; Cesare Cantù, Documenti, etc., p. 799 (the first thirty-seven stanzas).