 Ye lie, ye lie, ye liar loud ! Sae loud I hear ye lie : For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 1271859Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Walker - Scottish literature - 1893 - 240 pages
...the whole range of ballad literature are to be found in them. Such is the dream of Douglas : — " But I hae dreamed a dreary dream, Beyond the Isle...dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." And when the fatal wound is received he refers to the dream again and draws comfort from it: — '"My... | |
 | Ballads - 1893 - 700 pages
...loud I hear ye lie; For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. 19 " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye: I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." 20 Ho belted on his gude braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good That... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Ballads - 1894 - 308 pages
...not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - Scotland - 1911 - 324 pages
...that is I." In the ballad Douglas says: Last night I dreamed a dreary dream Beyond the Isle of Sky, 1 saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I. Godscroft knew, he said, a ballad on the subject. Did he take his version from that, or did Hogg take... | |
 | Robert Borland - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1898 - 338 pages
...men yestreen, To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmit good, That should... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Great Britain - 1899 - 440 pages
...exclaiming, with the foreboding of a brave man : " ' I hae dream'da weary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was i 1' " He belted on his good braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, English - 1902 - 432 pages
...yestreen, To dight my men and me. XIX ' But I hae dream'd 2 a dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I.' xx He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 432 pages
...liar loud, Sae loud I hear ye lee ; For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. But I have dreamed a dreary dream Beyond the Isle of Skye ; I...dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." Upon this reminiscence he arms, but the delay occasioned by his incredulity is fatal to him : He belted... | |
 | Harold Edgeworth Butler - English poetry - 1903 - 248 pages
...liar loud! Sae loud I hear ye lie: For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dreamed a dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye; I...dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran; But he forgot the helmet good, That should... | |
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