Identifier: laysballadsfrome00smed (find matches)
Title: Lays and ballads from English history, etc
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Smedley, Menella Bute, 1819 or 20-1877
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Publisher: London, E. Lumley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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dis-couraged a league of the vassals against their suzerain. Anothercheck was in time supplied by the progress of citizenship (seeBurgher). The number of free and chartered cities, nolonger in a state of vassalage, of course abridged the power ofthe nobles, while it tended rather to increase that of themonarch, to whom such cities continued to owe fealty andallegiance. Wassail.—Derived from Wees heal, two Saxon words signifying Health to thee. The wassail-cup, or bowl filled with spicedwine, w^hich was the favourite beverage at the feasts of ourSaxon forefathers, received its name from the words pro-nounced by Rowena, the beautiful daughter of Hengist, whenshe presented it at a banquet to Prince Yortigern, her futurehusband. She advanced modestly towards him, and offeredhim the goblet, saying at the same time, Wees heal hlafordcorning—Health to thee, my lord king. In its moregeneral application, the word wassail signifies merriment orrevelry. JOHN CHILDS AND SOX, PKINTEKS. &a
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&**$/ A Series of Works is here prefented to all interefted in themental cultivation and improvement of the Rifing Generation,which cannot be too highly commended, either for their materialor intellectual beauty. They are effentially of a high order, inconftruction, character, and incident. Nor is there anythinglikely to injure that pure and tender fpirit of childhood, forwhofe perufal thefe works are more efpecially intended. Theyhave been moft carefully edited (fome have been revifedfive times) and every word, of each, may be read aloud ina Family : fo that Parents or Teachers of every Denomination,may, with the greateft confidence, place thefe works in the handsof the Young. Among them are fome of the moft popular Ger-man Romances, and other moft charming works of Fiction,together with attractive Biographies, Hiftories, and Poems. The Arabefque borders, which are in the German tafle, arefanciful and elegant. The beautiful illuftrations confift of pic-turefque defigns, very fupe

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