...the intoxication of the whole piece is almost unmatched. The blood stirs all through as you read : With Spanish yew so strong Arrows a cloth-yard long...And like true English hearts Stuck close together. I always privately wish that he had written Shot close together, but why gild the lily ? Still better...

...signal aim To our hid forces; When, from a meadow by, Like a storm, suddenly, The English archery Struck the French horses With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows...fellow starts, But, playing manly parts, And like to English hearts, Stuck close together. When down their bows they threw And forth their bilboes drew,...

...English archery Stuck the French horses. With Spanish yew so stiong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, 'i hat like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather ; None...manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close togelher. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbos drew, And on the French they flew,...

...65 When from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, 70 The English archery Stuck the French horses. The Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stong, 75 Piercing the wether; None from his death now starts, But playing manly parts, And like true...

...65 When from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, 70 The English archery Stuck the French horses. The Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stong, 75 Piercing the wether; None from his death now starts, But playing manly parts, And like true...

...When from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, 7° The English archery Stuck the French horses. The Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stong, 75 Piercing the wether; None from his death now starts, But playing manly parts, And like true...

...have none, I swear, but these my joints.'" Farther on in the same poem we find this passage : — " None from his fellow starts, But, playing manly parts,...And like true English hearts, Stuck close together." The note (which contains a reference to the one just given) is as follows : — " Stuck close together....

...meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, The English archery Struck the French horses, With Spanish yew 2 so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather ; 3 None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close...

...signal aim To our hid forces; When from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly. The English archery Struck the French horses, With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows...And like true English hearts. Stuck close together, 1x— 306 When down their bows they threw. And forth their bilbows drew, And on the French they flew,...

...That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake, Trumpet to trumpet spake, Thunder to thunder. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long,...And like true English hearts, Stuck close together.' The preceding lines indicate, I think, the probable source from which Lord Tennyson derived the metre...