The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . Four men-at-arms came at their Ixicks,With hall)ert. ])ill, and battle-axe ;They bore Lord Marmions lance so strong,And led his sumpter-mules along, And ambling palfrey, when at needHim listed ease his last and trustiest of the fourOn higli his forky pennon bore :Like swallows tail in shape and hue. MARM ION. ^7. Fluttered the streamer glossy blue,Where, blazoned sable, as towering falcon seemed to , twenty yeomen, two and two,In hosen black and jerkins falco
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . Four men-at-arms came at their Ixicks,With hall)ert. ])ill, and battle-axe ;They bore Lord Marmions lance so strong,And led his sumpter-mules along, And ambling palfrey, when at needHim listed ease his last and trustiest of the fourOn higli his forky pennon bore :Like swallows tail in shape and hue. MARM ION. ^7. Fluttered the streamer glossy blue,Where, blazoned sable, as towering falcon seemed to , twenty yeomen, two and two,In hosen black and jerkins falcons broidered on each breast,Attended on their lords , chosen for an archer hunting-craft by lake or wood;Each one a bow could far a cloth-yard shaft could send;Each held a boar-spear tough and at their belts their quivers dusty palfreys and arrayShowed they had marched a weary way. T is meet that I should tell you now,How fairly armed, and ordered how. The soldiers of the guard,With musket, pike, and morion,To welcome noble Marmion, Stood in the castle-yard ;Minstrels and trumpeters were there,The gunner held his linstock yare, For welcome-shot prepared :Entered the train, and such a clangAs then through all his turrets rang Old Norham never heard. The guards their morrice-pikes trumpets flourished brave, The cannon from the ramparts gl
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