Sigh-clout: sieve-cloth. Somers: sumpter horses. Spleen, on the: in anger or discontent. The spleen was once supposed to be the seat of anger and discontent. Spurn: strife, as a kicking against. "That tear began this spurn," that rent began this strife. Stalworthy: stalwart. Stound: space of time.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"Kalf! thou hast fought at Bokn well; Of thy brave doings all men tell: When Harald's son his men urged on To the hard strife, thy courage shone. Thou soon hadst made a good Yule feast For greedy wolf there in the East: Where stone and spear were flying round, There thou wast still the foremost found. The people suffered in the strife When noble Erling lost his life, And north of Utstein many a speck Of blood lay black upon the deck. The king, 'tis clear, has been deceived, By treason of his land bereaved; And Agder now, whose force is great. Will rule o'er all parts of the state."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
"Here in the south, from Sogn is spread The news that strife draws to a head: The bondes will the king oppose -- Kings and their folk should ne'er be foes. Let us take arms, and briskly go To battle, if it must be so; Defend our king -- but still deplore His land plunged in such strife once more."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
"The wily Svein, I think, will meet These inland Norsemen fleet to fleet; The arrow-storm, and heaving sea, His vantage-fight and field will be. God only knows the end of strife, Or which shall have his land and life; This strife must come to such an end, For terms will never bind King Svein."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
"Ne woulde God never betwixt us twain, As in my guilt, were either war or strife" Would to God there may never be war or strife between us, through my fault.英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
The wind of change for ever blows Across the tumult of our way, To-morrow's unborn griefs depose The sorrows of our yesterday. Dream yields to dream, strife follows strife,英文原著 · 《The Golden Threshold》