I rode nine Leagues before I sought repose, And never agen drew nigh the Walles of Peste.
The uttermost walles were lime and bricke; But thoughe they won them soon anone, Long e'er they wan the innermost walles, For they were cut in rocke of stone.
Howbeit, these two walles were not the onelie partitions betwéene these two kingdoms, [Sidenote: Two other wals.
This onlie remaineth certeine, that the walles made [Sidenote: A rampire.
They Sound a Parley: Enter two Senators with others on the Walles of Corialus.
Your King, whose labour'd spirits Fore-wearied in this action of swift speede, Craues harbourage within your Citie walles France.
Is't not enough to breake into my Garden, And like a Theefe to come to rob my grounds: Climbing my walles inspight of me the Owner, But thou wilt braue me with these sawcie termes?
Haue you climb'd vp toWalles and Battlements, To Towres and Windowes?
And alle the walles with colours fyne Were peynted, bothe text and glose, [Of] al the Romaunce of the Rose.
Without the diche were listes made, With walles batayled large and brade, 4200 For men and hors shulde not atteyne To neigh the diche over the pleyne.
Such abundance of water fell in October, that at Bury in Suffolke the church was full of water, and at Newmarket it bare downe walles of houses, so that men and women hardly escaped drowning.
Thus Ielousye hath enviroun Set aboute his garnisoun With walles rounde, and diche depe, 4205 Only the roser for to kepe.
If the walles be made high, thei bee to moche subjecte to the blowes of the artillerie: if thei be made lowe, thei bee moste easie to scale.
The Fortresses also, I would builde concernyng the diches and the wallesin like maner, to the intent thei should have the like difficultie to be wonne.
There was a knighte, in their companye, had made a vowe, the day before, that he wolde ryde to the walles or gates of Parys, and stryke at the barryers with his speare.
And when they were placed, and behelde the walles, they were ashamed of their owne folly: for where they thought those walles had bene adorned with siluer, they founde them cleane contrary.
And that was the thing that the Spaniards thought had bene walles of siluer.
This monument was made like vnto a Theatre, more larger than broade, wrought of lyme and stone, with ascending steppes, in the walles whereof was graffed betwixt stone and stone a skul with the téeth outwards.
Now than pose that in tyme of warre the towne beynge harde besieged / an alien dwellynge in the towne getteth hym to the walles amonge the soudiers / & doeth more good than any one man agayn.
MEn say it is a law in Caleys that no straunger may go vppon the towne walles on payne of dethe.
The place of the welles and of the walles and of many other thinges bene zit apertly sene, but the richesse is voyded clene, and it is not long gon sithen that place was destroyed.
And on the morwe un-to the yate he wente, And up and down, by west and eek by este, Up-on the walles made he many a wente.
For certeyn, Phebus and Neptunus bothe, 120 That makeden the walles of the toun, Ben with the folk of Troye alwey so wrothe, That thei wol bringe it to confusioun, Right in despyt of king Lameadoun.
Gallions, with some French ships, which also nowe and then shot among our fleete, but they lay so neere the wallesthat wee could do them no harme at all.
The walles to be parieted without, and within, and diuersly paincted.
In the entry the gylted walles shyne on euery syde with incomparable splendour.
It is on euery syde fortified with mountains, in the stead of walles or bulwarkes, and hath foure entries.
And thus with good hope and with herte blythe (1020) They take hir leve, and hom-ward gonne they ryde To Thebes, with his olde walles wyde.
Myn is the ruine of the hye halles, The falling of the toures and of the walles Up-on the mynour or the carpenter.
Depeynted been the walles up and doun Of hunting and of shamfast chastitee.
Her foes they besett her on everye side, As thinking close siege shee cold never abide; To beate down the walles they all did decree: 55 But stoutlye deffyd them brave Mary Ambree.
That baron he to his castle fled To Barnard castle then fled hee; The uttermost walles were eathe to win, 115 The earles have won them presentl[i']e.
The uttermostwalles were lime and bricke, But thoughe they won them soon anone, Long e'er they wan the innermost walles, For they were cut in rocke of stone.
But all the residue of the people were placed farre away without the walles of board, and in this maner they staied almost til noone.
The strength of their townes is in the mightie walles and ditches, artillerie haue they none.
The gate houses are built on high with towers, and the lower part thereof is made of bricke and stone, proportionally with the walls, from the walles vpward the building is of timber, and many stories in it one aboue the other.
The walles of the same church to be in height ninetie foot imbattelled, vawted and charerooffed, suffcientlie butteraced, and euerie butterace fined with finials.
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