 | John Docwra Parry - Ballads, English - 1829 - 460 pages
...the North. ROBIN HOOD AUD For it met one of the sheriff's men, — Good William a Trent was slain. It had been better of William a Trent, To have been a-bed with sorrow, Than to be that day in the green-wood slade, To meet with little John's arrow. But as it is... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - Names, Personal - 1849 - 300 pages
...ravine, a plain, a breadth of green land in plantations or ploughed fields, a small open hanging wood. " It had been better of William a Trent To have been abed with sorrowe, Than to be that day in the greenwood slade, To meet with Little John's arrowe." Robin Hood. " And how he climbeth up the bankis,... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - Names, Personal - 1849 - 302 pages
...ravine, a plain, a breadth of green land in plantations or ploughed fields, a small open hanging wood. " It had been better of William a Trent To have been abed with sorrowe, Than to be that day in the greenwood slade, To meet with Little John's arrowe." Robin Hood. " And how he climbeth up the bankis,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...Yet flew not the arrow in vain, For it met one of the sheriff's men, And William a Trent was slain. IA sorrow, Than to be that day in the greenwood slade, To meet with Little John's arrow. For as it was... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1867 - 706 pages
...opiense. — P. foote.— P. ffor now. — P. or Yet.— P. 8 Altered in the Religves, 1st od. i. 81, to To have been abed with sorrowe, Than to be that day in the green wood sliwle To meet with Little Johns arrowe. — F. ' Fyvc.—Sel. 10 insert now. — P.... | |
 | Widecombe-in-the-Moor - Widecombe in the Moor (England) - 1876 - 132 pages
...within a woodland." One of the numberless rhymes concerning Robin Hood says : — " It had been be'ter of William a Trent To have been abed with sorrowe, Than to be that day in the greenwood slade. To meet with Little John's arrowe." THE OLD CLAPPEE BEIDGE AT DAETMEET. " These... | |
 | Harry Alfred Long - Names - 1877 - 266 pages
...allied to Feyetable, from Vigere : to flourish. These = SLAOE. " It had been better for William a'Trent To have been abed with sorrowe, Than to be that day in the greenwood slade To meet with little John's arrowe." Compare William a'Trent with Thomas a'Becket.... | |
 | Sidney Lanier, Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1882 - 512 pages
...Yet flew not the arrow in vain, For it met one of the sheriff's men, Good William a Trent was slain. It had been better of William a Trent To have been abed with sorrow, Than to be that day in the green-wood slade, To meet with Little John's arrow. But as it is... | |
 | Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley - Names, Personal - 1889 - 648 pages
...strip of green plain within a woodland. One of the numberless rhymes concerning Robin Hood says — It had been better of William a Trent To have been abed with sorrowc, Than to be that day in the greenwood slade To meet with Little John's arrowe. Its nature is... | |
 | Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley - Names, Personal - 1898 - 680 pages
...pronounced ' a,' as ' William a York,' or ' John a Bolton.' For instance, it is said in an old poem anent Robin Hood — It had been better of William a Trent To have been abed with sorrowej where it simply means ' William of Trent.' ! This, of course, is met in France by ' de,1 as... | |
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It had been better of William a Trent To have been abed with sorrowe, Than to be that day in the greenwood slade, To meet with Little John's arrowe. 
