XXXI The first good shoot that Robin led, He mist but an inch it fro’: The yeoman he was an archer good, But he cold ne’er shoote soe.
In place where that he stood, He said that yeoman should have no harm, For love of Robin Hood.
Twenty strong halted over the night atYeoman Kester's farm on Heather Gill--a fellow that would do anything for me since we fought side by side on the day of the Herrings.
Hat of the Yeoman of the Guard, with three plumes, from a contemporary picture.
The costume of a yeoman of the period consisted of a narrow-brimmed hat with flat crown, a doublet with large wings and short skirts, a girdle about his waist, trunk breeches, with hose drawn up to the thigh and gartered below the knees.
Not a Soldier orYeoman was so much as slightly wounded!
Arles, was by mistake put into the hands of a Loyal Yeoman of the same christian and sirname, and residing in the same place: The bearer was conveyed to Maryborough and executed, and the letter sent to Col.
Also, great lords recruited younger brothers of yeoman families for servants and fighting men, who ultimately settled down as tradesmen in the towns.
The yeoman of the pantry served the bread, salt, and cutlery.
The old yeoman class was disappearing due to their selling their land to larger landowners.
A yeoman was the second-rank person of some importance, below a knight, below a gentleman, below a full member of a guild.
A yeoman ewery washed the hands of the lord and his guests and supplied the napkins, ewers [pitchers], and basins.
But a yeoman could give his sons a chance to become gentlemen by entering them in a trade in a town, sending them to university, or to war.
Some patrons sold the right of selection to a tradesman or yeoman who wished to put in his son or a relative.
The average yeoman had a one and a half story house, with a milkhouse, a malthouse, and other small buildings attached to the dwelling.
The distance between baron and a country knight and between a yeoman and knight was wider.
Now the common yeoman could order goods from the London market, communicate readily with friends in London, and receive news of the world frequently.
Great houses had a wardrobe chamber with a fireplace in front of which the yeoman of the wardrobe and his assistants could repair clothes and hangings.
On one extreme was the well-to-do yeoman farmer farming his own land.
A yeoman cellarer or butler served the wine and beer.
Thereupon Little John and Friar Tuck went to the storehouse of the band, and there chose for the yeoman the robe of a Gray Friar.
Take me, fellows; but let me tell you that ye ha' laid hand upon the stoutest yeoman that ever trod the woodlands.
This last yeoman carried three stout bows of yew tree, two fancifully inlaid with silver and one with gold.
But the Sheriff was ahead of the others, and so caught up with the yeoman before he reached the shelter of the woodlands, then leaning forward he struck a mighty blow.
While they so shouted with loud voices, a tall burly yeoman of the King's guard came forward and plucked Robin by the sleeve.
Then Sir Robert came straight forward to where Robin Hood stood, and he spoke to the yeoman in a cold, stern voice.
But ere the yeoman had gone far the Sheriff roused himself.
So, being vexed to his heart by this, he set forth at dawn of day to seek Little John at the Blue Boar, or at least to meet the yeoman on the way, and ease his heart of what he thought of the matter.
Yeoman Thorkel took the sibyl by the hand, and led her to the seat which had been made ready for her.
And as he sat, anon a knight went riding past on the black steed which the yeomanhad led.
At that moment came a yeoman with another horse for the king, which, when the knight saw, he earnestly prayed to be given him.
Yet followed he on foot as fast as he could go; and as he went there met him a yeoman riding on a palfrey, and leading in his hand a great black steed.
And presently after came the yeoman back in haste, and asked Sir Percival if he had seen a knight riding his horse.
But Glam began to gather strength anew, and now went so far in his mischief that every one fled from Thorhall-stead, except the yeoman and his wife.
Grettir rode to Thorhall-stead, and the yeoman received him heartily.
After this they went to look at Grettir's horse, and found that he had not been meddled with, so the yeoman thought that everything was going on well, Grettir stayed another night, and still the thrall did not come about them.
The yeomanreceived him well, but the others did not like him, and the good-wife least of all.
The yeoman thought it high time to leave the place now, and fled from his farm with all that he could remove.
Robert was the Robert Arden, Yeoman of the Chamber, to whom Henry VII.
The description is worded loosely: "John Shakespeare yeoman and Mary his wife .
Then the table spelt out, by means of the alphabet, the name of a yeoman who had died impenitent and blaspheming at the period before referred to.
They had never been duck-hunting there since, but others had, and the bold yeoman was very sore on the subject, and bent on making an example of the first boys he could catch.
We was six mile from the town, when we meets an old square-headed gray-haired yeoman chap, a jogging along quite quiet.
She had fixed her affections on a handsome yeoman of the guard, Owen Tudor, a Welshman.
His wife, too, came of a good yeomanfamily who farmed their own land, and no doubt John Shakespeare did business with his kinsfolk in both corn and sheep.
No more ye shall no good yeoman That walketh by green wood shaw, Nor no knight nor no squire That will be good fellow.
It is the greatest sacrament of life, and that old church does yeoman service to humanity in the stand she takes for Christian marriage.
He is like a lively, sympathetic horse that will keep the step of the team he is harnessed in, and in the department of lively nonsense he'd do us yeoman service.
With the first morning light Mrs. Boulby was down at Warbeach Farm, and being directed to Farmer Eccles in the stables, she found the sturdy yeoman himself engaged in grooming Robert's horse.
The steel heart of the bold yeoman had well-nigh given way, and he suppressed with difficulty a shout, which, in the defenceless posture and situation which they then occupied, might have cost all their lives.
Seneschal, let our faithful yeoman have a cup of brandy; it will be more germain to the matter.
The smell of the fields and the barns, the friendship of familiar trees, the heritage that was in their blood from old yeoman ancestry, touched them with the spirit of England, and it was because of that they fought.
She eased down into station astern of the Lyddite, and the Yeoman of Signals on the Depot ship's bridge shifted his telescope from the shaking canvas of the wind-dodger to the steadier support of a stanchion.
Marius made no attempt on the model of the Gracchi to restore the backbone of the army by rehabilitating the yeoman class.
They called it a farm-house, and every thing was in accordance with the largest idea of a great English yeoman of the old time.
With that he swarved the main-mast tree, So did he it with might and main; Horsley, with another broad arrow, Strake the yeoman through the brain.
He threw the keys there at their heads, And bad them evil to thrive, And all that letteth any good yeoman To come and comfort his wife.
The mayor smote at Cloudesle with his bill, His buckler he burst in two; Full many a yeoman with great ill, "Alas, treason!
Then spake the good yeoman Clym of the Clough, And swore by Mary free, "And if that we stand long without, Like a thief hanged shalt thou be.
Mr. preceding it, a title generally accorded to a yeoman or a well-to-do tradesman; and one in 1735 is buried as a pauper.
His was a smallyeoman family in very fair circumstances.
The King, who held Payne in great favour, made him a yeoman of his guards, and Sir Godfrey Kneller, the Court artist, was employed to paint his portrait.
Skewis had been for some time the patrimony of a succession of yeoman proprietors of the name of Rogers.
The gallant and appeased yeoman said he supposed her to mean chopping off heads, blowing out brains, and that kind of business, and thought it quite right that a tender-hearted thing like her should feel a little horrified.
But the yeoman on perceiving this went on talking to her in so civil a way that he irresistibly amused her, though she tried to conceal all feeling.
The water was not remarkably deep, but as the yeoman fell flat on his stomach he was completely immersed; and it was some time before he could drag himself out.
The military in the background laughed a little, and the yeoman then for the first time discovered that there were more regulars present than one.
In a moment or two she looked back, and seeing the well-known Herculean figure of the yeoman behind her felt rather alarmed, though she determined to show no difference in her outward carriage.
But at this moment the yeoman left the house, and Anne, to escape further parley, returned to the dwelling by the way she had come.
At the end of another mile he met a large number of pikemen, including Bob Loveday, whom the yeoman resolved to sound upon the whereabouts of Anne.
Before the yeoman had replied somebody opened the door, and the firelight shone upon the uniform of the person they discussed.
But before the young woman's eyes had quite left the trumpet-major they fell upon the figure of Yeoman Festus riding with his troop, and keeping his face at a medium between haughtiness and mere bravery.
