 | Richard Corbet, Octavius Gilchrist - 1807 - 356 Seiten
...maydes were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleaneliness, OR, Lament, lament, old abbies, The Faries lost command ; They did but change priests babies,...some have changd your land : And all your children sprung from thence Are now growne Puritanes ; Who live as changelings ever since For love of your demaines.... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 Seiten
...less Than mayds were wont to doe, Yet who of late for clean el iness Finds six-pence in her shoe ? Lament, lament, old Abbies, The fairies lost command...your land : And all your children stoln from thence Are now growne Puritanes, Who live as changelings ever since, For love of your demaines. At morning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 Seiten
...who of late for cleaneliness, Finds sixe-pence in her shoe ? Lament, lament, old abbies, The Paries lost command ; They did but change priests' babies,...some have chang'd your land • And all your children sprung from thcnct Are now growne Puritanes ; Who live as changelings ever since For love of your demaines.... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 456 Seiten
...ckaneliness Finds sixe-pence in her shoe ? I-ament, lament old Abbies, The fairies lost command ; 10 They did but change priests babies, But some have...your land : * And all your children stoln from thence Are now growne Puritanes, Who live as changelings ever since, 15 For 1ove of your demaines. At At morning... | |
 | 1819 - 394 Seiten
...edition) as published under the eye of the bishop's family. Bishop Corbet died in 1635, at the age of 52.] Lament, lament, old abbies, The fairies' lost command :* They did but change priest's babies, But some have chang'd your land : And all your children stol'n from thence Are now... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 448 Seiten
...completely routed them, leaving nearly three hundred dead on the field, and getting many silver hilled swords, and some fine horses amongst the plunder."...your land : And all your children stol'n from thence Are now growne Puritanes, Who live as changelings ever since, For love of your domains." Bishop Corbet.... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - 1824 - 132 Seiten
...dissenter. His little song of " The Fairies' Farewell," is au affected Lament over the olden times.— " Lament, lament old abbies, The fairies' lost command...They did but change priests? babies, But some have changed your land." The third line sounds oddly enough ; but the bishop was a wag, though not much... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 Seiten
...who of late for cleanliness, Finds sixe-pence in her shoe ? Lament, lament, old abbies, The Faeries lost command ; They did but change priests' babies,...some have chang'd your land : And all your children sprung from thence Are now growne Puritanes ; Who live as changelings ever since For love of your demaines.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 374 Seiten
...wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds sixpence in her shoe ? " Lament, lament, old abbeys, The fairies' lost command ; They did but change priests' babies, But some have changed your land ; And all your children sprung from hence Are now grown Puritans, , Who live as changelings... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 Seiten
...Than maides were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleunlinesse, (•'iudi's sixpence in her shooe ! Lament, lament, old abbies, The fairies lost command, They did but change priests babies But some have changed your lande." The Ellyllon of Wales, seem to assimilate in their habits with the elves of other... | |
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