| Henry Lonsdale - 1872 - 342 pàgines
...esteemed Howard, that it is said they conveyed the following warning to him in his tent : — " Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold." Sir John Beaumont, in his poem on Bosworth Field, makes the valiant Oxford, who had fought with Lord... | |
| Edith Thompson - 1873 - 394 pàgines
...which, however, he disregarded, against joining the King. It was in two lines written on his gate :— " Jack of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold,'" This was true enough ; for Richmond's step -father Lord Stanley, who could muster many followers in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1873 - 512 pàgines
...fein; SSerfauft ift bein Meifter 8iidjarblcin." 3n Colinf^eb'e Sb,roni( lautet be: 35ctS fo: „Jocky of Norfolk, be not too bold; For Dickon thy master is bought and sold." @. 138, 3. 5 B. o.: „3tt ber Stetagne etnäljrt Bon unfrer SKutter." — SRidjt 9îid)arb'e 3Jîutter,... | |
| James Grant - 1873 - 594 pàgines
...fixed to the [Stuke-Bardolph. gate of the house he occupied in Leicester, and which ran — "Jacky of Norfolk be not too bold. For Dickon thy master is bought and sold." Immediately after the battle, the Earl of Richmond fell on his knees, returned thanks to God, and then... | |
| James Gairdner - 1874 - 292 pàgines
...in the following rhyme, which was discovered the night before, written on the door of his tent : — 'Jack of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold.' 11. Lord Stanley, who had drawn up his men at about equal distance from both armies, received messages... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 652 pàgines
...devotion ; and that night Norfolk's followers found pinned upon his tent this ominous coaplet : — "Jocky of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold." That night Henry, who hail reached Tamworth, marched to Atherston. His army did not amount yet to half... | |
| Alfred Henry Paget - 1875 - 56 pàgines
...change a line to avoid it. Thus, when Norfolk gives the King the paper, found in his tent:— " Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold," Richard boldly declares it— "A thing devised by the enemy." That would not do for Gibber; he wrote—... | |
| Thomasin Elizabeth Sharpe - 1875 - 156 pàgines
...that was set upon his tent to deter him from going forth to Richard's support at Bosworth, " Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold." Many other efforts for the same purpose were made, hut all failed ; for " though," as writes an old... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pàgines
...field, insomuch that the night before he should set forward toward the king one wrote on his gate — " w, who Tet all this notwithstanding, he regarding more his oath, his honour, and promise made to King Richard,... | |
| Joseph Yelloly Watson - 1877 - 274 pàgines
...just before the battle, that a warning as to the fate of the King was affixed to his gate — Jocky of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold. Shakspere, with poetic license, states that this distich was found on the Duke's tent on the field... | |
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