 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 280 页
...learning an answer devise. Then home rode the Abbot of comfort so cold, And he met his shepherd agoing to fold ; ' How now, my Lord Abbot, you are welcome...him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodie. ' The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crown of gold so fair on his head,... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 页
...welcome home ; What newes do you bring us from good King John ?" " Sad newes, sad newes, shepheard, I must give; That I have but three days more to live...him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bod'ie. " The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crowne of golde so fair on his head,... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1866 - 346 页
...welcome home ; What newes do you bring us from good King John ? " " Sad newes, sad newes, shepheard, I must give, That I have but three days more to live...him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodie. " The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crowne of golde so fair on his head,... | |
 | John S. Roberts - 1868 - 674 页
...Cambridge and Oxenford But never a doctor there was so wise, That could with his learning an answer devise. Then home rode the abbot of comfort so cold, And he...him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodie. ' The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crown of gold so fair on his head,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 页
...welcome home : What newes do you bring us from good King Jolin ?" " Sad newes, sad newes, shepheard, I must give ; That I have but three days more to live...him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodie. " The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crowne of golde so fair on his head,... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 534 页
...are welcome home, What newes do you bring us from good King John ? Sad newes, sad newes, shepheard, I must give : That I have but three days more to live...him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodie. The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crowiie of golde so fair on his head.... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 页
...devise.21 Then home rode the abbot of comfort so cold,22 And he met his shepherd a-going to fold.23 " How now, my lord abbot, you are welcome home ; What...him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodie. "The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crown of gold so fair on his head, Among... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 页
...are welcome home ; What newes do you bring us from good King John ? " "Sad news, sad news, shepheard, I must give, That I have but three days more to live;...first is to tell him, there in that stead, With his crowne of golde so fair on his head, Among all his liege-men so noble of birth, To within one penny... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 页
...are welcome home : What nowes do you bring us from good King John ? Sad newos, sad ncwea, shephcard, I must give : That I have but three days more to live;...him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodic. The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crowne of goldo so fair on his head.... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1874 - 332 页
...from our King John?" " Sad newes, sad newcs, shepheard, I must give : That I have but three weelcs more to live ; For if I do not answer him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodie. " The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crowne of golde so fair on his head,... | |
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I must give, That I have but three days more to live ; For if I do not answer him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodie. 
