| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...Xlir. Witness those rings and roundelay! Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's day» ld but teach him how to tell my story ; And that would...her that she did pity them. [Queen Slab.] 0 then, I Ave-Maries, Their dances were procession : But now, alas ! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...is to milking rose, Then merrily went their labour, And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs which yet remain, Were footed...which we note the fairies Were of the old profession, Then- songs were Ave-Maries, Their dances were procession But now, alas ! they are all dead, Or gone... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...rounddelayes Of theirs , which yet remaine ; Were footed in queene Maries dayes On many a grassy playne. But since of late Elizabeth And later James came in...They never danc'd on any heath, As when the time hath bin. By which wee note the fairies Were of the old profession: Their songs were Ave Maries, Their dances... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 Seiten
...Ciss to milking rose, Then merrily went their tabor, And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain ; Were...late Elizabeth And later James came in ; They never danced on any heath, As when the time hath bin. By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession:... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...merrily went their tabor, And nimbly went their toes. »Loufaxm. Witness those rings and roundelayi Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen...Mary's days On many a grassy plain ; But since of late F.lizabeth, And later, James came in, They never danc'd on any heath As when the time hath been. By... | |
| Francis Channing Woodworth, Timothy Shay Arthur - 1854 - 256 Seiten
...people, than to employ a couple of stanzas from the bishop's playful ballad: " Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, -which yet remain, Were...late Elizabeth, And later James came in, They never danced on any heath, As when the time hath been. " By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley, J. T. Headley - 1855 - 356 Seiten
...part of the sixteenth century. Thus runs one stanza of his satirical song : — " Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's reign, On many a grassy plain ; But since of late Elizabeth, And later, James, came in, They never... | |
| University of Edinburgh - 1857 - 430 Seiten
...home from labour, Or Ciss to milking rose, Then merrily went the labour And nimbly went their toes, By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession ; Their songs were Ave Marics; Their dances were procession. Hades and Fairy-land seem to have been identified — purgatory... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 Seiten
...Cis to milking rose, Then merrily went their labour, And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs which yet remain, Were footed...fairies Were of the old profession, Their songs were Ave-Maries, Their dances were procession But now, alas ! they are all dead, Or gone beyond the seas... | |
| David Masson - 1859 - 718 Seiten
...milking rose. Then merrily, merrily went their tabor. And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs which yet remain, Were footed...late, Elizabeth, And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath, Ai when the time liuth bin. By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession;... | |
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