 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1886 - 626 pages
...shrift of this red sword I " With that he smote his King through the breast ; And all they three in that pen Fell on him and stabbed and stabbed him there...merciless murderous men. Yet seemed it now that Sir Robert Grseme, Ere the King's last breath was o'er, But a cry came from the troop above : — " If him thou... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 362 pages
...shrift of this red sword ! " With that he smote his King through the breast ; And all they three in that pen Fell on him and stabbed and stabbed him there...came from the troop above : — " If him thou do not sky, The price of his life that thou dost spare Thy forfeit life shall pay ! " O God ! what more did... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 582 pages
...shrift of this red sword ! " With that he smote his King through the breast ; And all they three in that pen Fell on him and stabbed and stabbed him there...Robert Graeme, Ere the King's last breath was o'er, li 171 THE KING'S TRAGEDY. But a cry came from the troop above : — " If him thou do not slay, The... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 582 pages
...shrift of this red sword 1 " With that he smote his King through the breast ; And all they three in that pen Fell on him and stabbed and stabbed him there Like merciless murderous men. Yet seemed ft now that Sir Robert Graeme, Ere the King's last breath was o'er, Turned sick at heart with the deadly... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti - 1890 - 584 pages
...shrift of this red sword ! " With that he smote his King through the breast ; And all they three in that pen Fell on him and stabbed and stabbed him there...life that thou dost spare Thy forfeit life shall pay I " O God ! what more did I hear or see, Or how should I tell the rest ? But there at length our King... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pages
..." Mine hour is come ; But oh ! to succor thine own soul's doom, Let a priest now shrive my soul I " And the traitor looked on the King's spent strength...life that thou dost spare Thy forfeit life shall pay ! " 0 God ! what more did I hear or see, Or how should I tell the rest ? But there at length our King... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
..."Mine hour is come ; But oh ! to succor thine own soul's doom, Let a priest now shrive my soul 1 " And the traitor looked on the King's spent strength...price of his life that thou dost spare Thy forfeit lif e shall pay ! " O God ! what more did I hear or see, Or how should I tell the rest ? But there... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1903 - 394 pages
...shrift of this red sword 1 " With that he smote his King through the breast ; And all they three in that pen Fell on him and stabbed and stabbed him there...life that thou dost spare Thy forfeit life shall pay 1 " O God ! what more did I hear or see, Or how should I tell the rest? But there at length our King... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pages
...that he smote his King through the breast ; And all they three in that pen Fell on him and slabbed ~^. Kre the King's lust breath was o'er, Turned sick at heart with the deadly sight And would have done... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1904 - 1196 pages
...shrift of this red sword ! " With that he smote his King through the breast ; And all they three in that pen Fell on him and stabbed and stabbed him there Like merciless murderous men. 0 God ! what more did I hear or see, Or how should I tell the rest ? But there at length our King lay... | |
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And the traitor looked on the King's spent strength And said : " Have I kept my word ? — Yea, King, the mortal pledge that I gave ? No black friar's shrift thy soul shall have, But the shrift of this red sword... 
