Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns! THOMAS NOEL: The Pauper's Ride. In the days when we went gypsying A long time ago; The lads and lassies in their best Were dress'd from top to toe. EDWIN RANSFORD: In the Days when we went Gypsying. Speak gently! 't is a little thing Dropp'd in the heart's deep well; G. W. LANGFORD: Speak gently. Hope tells a flattering tale,' Miss Nose, nose, nose, nose! And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Vol. ii. p. 86. RAVENSCROFT: Deuteromela, Song No. 7.2 (1609.) The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." GEORGE HAKEWILL: Apologie. Book iii. Chap. v. Sect. 9.3 1 Hope told a flattering tale, That Joy would soon return; Ah! naught my sighs avail, For Love is doomed to mourn. ANONYMOUS (air by Giovanni Paisiello, 1741-1816): Universal Songster, vol. i. p. 320. 2 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act i. SC. 3. 3 Hakewill translated this from the "Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ," vol. iii. Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, WILLIAM CAMDEN: Remains. Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me! Much of a muchness. PLAYFORD: Musical Companion. (1687.) VANBRUGH: The Provoked Husband, Act i. Sc. 1. Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, The bed be blest that I lye on. THOMAS ADY: A Candle in the Dark, p. 58. (London, 1656.) Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos, WILLIAM HARRISON: Description of Britain (prefixed to Thirty dayes hath Nouember, RICHARD GRAFTON: Chronicles of England. (1590.) Thirty days hath September, Excepting leap year, — that's the time The Return from Parnassus. (London, 1606.) Thirty days hath September, Excepting February alone, Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, 1 Altered by Johnson (1783), Common in the New England States Between the stirrup and the ground, Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Every other thirty-one Except the second month alone. Common in Chester County, Penn., among the Friends. "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." There is a garden in her face, 1 Where roses and white lilies show; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row; Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow. A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Obliged to triumph in this legacy.2 Ibid. The British Princes, p. 96. (1669.) When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman ? Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion.3 1 I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. 2 Esdras xiv. 25. 2 The oft-quoted lines, A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won, have been ascribed to Blackmore, but suppressed in the later editions of his poems. 3 HUME: History of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8. Now bething the, gentilman, MS. of the Fifteenth Century (British Museum). Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet; Next Dr. Mery-man, And Dr. Dyet.2 Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (edition of 1607). The King of France went up the hill The King of France came down the hill, And ne'er went up again. 8 A quarto tract printed in London in 1642, p. 3. This is called "Old Tarlton's Song." 4 As early as 1691, Benjamin Harris, of Boston, advertised as in press the second impression of the New England Primer. The oldest copy known to be extant is 1737. Young Timothy Xerxes did die, And so must I. Zaccheus he Did climb the tree Our Lord to see. Our days begin with trouble here, And cruel death is always near, Now I lay me down to take my sleep,' I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, His wife, with nine small children and one at the breast, following him to the stake. Martyrdom of John Rogers. Burned at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1554.2 And shall Trelawny die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why. 1 It is said that in the earliest edition of the New England Primer this prayer is given as above, which is copied from the reprint of 1777. In the edition of 1784 it is altered to "Now I lay me down to sleep." In the edition of 1814 the second line of the prayer reads, "I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep." 2 The true date of his death is Feb. 4, 1555. 3 Robert Stephen Hawker incorporated these lines into "The Song of the Western Men," written by him in 1825. It was praised by Sir Walter Scott and Macaulay under the impression that it was the ancient song. It has been a popular proverb throughout Cornwall ever since the imprisonment by James II. of the seven bishops, -one of them Sir Jonathan Trelawny. |