But their keepers delivered them shortly, or else the Marchmen had destroyed the jails.
Having armed and arrayed the Marchmen of Wales, York advanced toward the capital.
The Marchmen seemed disinclined to stir in a dynastic quarrel which they did not quite understand.
He has calld him forty marchmen bauld, I trow they were of his ain name, Except Sir Gilbert Elliot, calld The Laird of Stobs, I mean the same.
He has calld him forty marchmen bauld, Were kinsmen to the bauld Buccleuch, With spur on heel, and splent on spauld, And gleuves of green, and feathers blue.
He has called him forty Marchmen bauld, I trow they were of his ain name, Except Sir Gilbert Elliot, called The Laird of Stobs, I mean the same.
He has called him forty Marchmen bauld, Were kinsmen to the bauld Buccleuch; With spur on heel, and splent on spauld, And gluves of green, and feathers blue.
Lesley, who dedicates to the description of border manners a chapter, which we have already often quoted, notices particularly the taste of the marchmen for music and ballad poetry.
Footnote 36: This practice of the marchmen was observed and reprobated by Patten.
To the licence of the marchmen the failure was attributed; but the same cause ensured a safe retreat.
THE MARCH He has called him forty Marchmen bold, I trow they were of his ain name, Except Sir Gilbert Elliot, called The Laird of Stobs, I mean the same.
He has called him forty Marchmen bold, Were kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch; With spur on heel, and splent on spauld, And gluves of green, and feathers blue.
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