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" FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. "
Historical reader. English history - Page 94
by Historical reader - 1880
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Drayton. Carew. Suckling

1793 - 810 pages
...CAMBRIO-BRJTO^S, a»dtbtir HA?P, Hit fallad of A¿iacovrt* FAI» flood the wind for France, When we our fails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Kan- , the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. And taking many a fort, Furnim'd...
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Drayton, WArner

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 692 pages
...strike the slave for ever dumb. TO TflK CAMBRIC BRITONS, AXI> THEIR HART, Ills RAM All Of AOItiCODRT. FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails...Seine, With all his martial train, Landed king Harry. And taking many a fort, Furnish'd in warlike sort, M;nv lii'tli towards Agincourt In happy hour; Skirmishing...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...where the most impure, All times, and every where, The Muse is still in ure. THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT. ne can sin against And taking many a fort, Furnish'd in warlike sort, Marched towards Agincourt In happy hour; Skirmishing...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...OF AGINCOURT. FAIR stood the wind for Franee, When we our sails advanee, Nor now to prove our ehanee k-master, leads t And taking many a fort, Fumish'd in warlike sort, Marehed towards Agineourt In happy hour ; Skirmishing...
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The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Correspondence. Miscellaneous pieces

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 484 pages
...wonderfully flat and prosaic : the adventures are entertaining, however. Dover, Sept. 17, 1785, 8 o'clock. Fair stood the wind for France — When we our sails advance ; Nor now to trust our chance Longer would tarry .... IT is not very fair neither, for there is scarcely wind enough...
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The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Volume 2

Mrs. Anna Letitia - 1825 - 494 pages
...wonderfully flat and prosaic : the adventures are entertaining, however. Dover, Sept. 17, U85, 8 o'clock. Fair stood the wind for France — When we our sails advance ; Nor now to trust our chance * Longer would tarry .... IT is not very fair neither, for there is scarcely wind...
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Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, Volumes 1-2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 pages
...one of the Battle of Agincourt, by Michael Drayton, beginning, — Fair stood the wind for France, As we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train Landed King Harry. All this I readily concede...
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Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 270 pages
...our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train Landed King Harry. All this I readily concede ; but that the old Spanish ballads are infinitely and every way inferior...
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Henry of Monmouth: Or, Memoirs of the Life and Character of Henry ..., Volume 2

James Endell Tyler - 1838 - 512 pages
...expressions may sound strangely and quaintly to our ears. It will be found in Drayton's Works, p. 424. " Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails...Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. And taking many a fort, Furnished in warlike sort, Marcheth towards Agincourt, In happy hour. With...
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The Book of Archery

George Agar Hansard - 1840 - 594 pages
...gave rise to the following spirited burst of poetry, entitled — OUR CAMBRO-BKITONS TO THEIR HARP. Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails...Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. And taking many a fort, Furnished in warlike sort, Marched towards Agincourt, In happy hour. Skirmishing...
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