 | Thomas Percy - 1794 - 422 pages
...proper new Ballad, intilled, The Fairies " Farewell, or God-a-mercy Will, to be fung or whiftled " to the tune of The Meddow brow, by the learned; by the " unlearned, to the tune of Fortune." The, departure of Fairies is here attributed to the abolition of monkery: Chaucer has, with equal humour,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...SUNO OR WHISELED TO THE TUNE OP " THE «BDOW BROW," BY THE LEARNED; BY THE ! VJ'*' • TO THE TONE OF " FORTUNE." FAREWELL rewards and Faeries, Good...well as they. And though they sweepe theyr hearths no !c« Then maydes were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleaneliness, Finds sixe-pence in her shoe ?... | |
 | 1819 - 394 pages
...shell. BALLAD XXVII. THE FAIRIES' FAREWELL, OR GOD-A-MERCY WILL. BY DR. CORBET.* To be sung or whistled to the tune of ' The Meddow Brow,' by the learned...to the tune of ' Fortune.' ' FAREWELL, rewards and fairies !' Good house-wives now may say : For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And... | |
 | Richard Gooch - 1823 - 310 pages
...Emanuel College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Norwich. To be sung or whistled to the tune of " The Meadow Brow," by the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of " Fortune." " Farewell, rewards and fairies ! " Good house-wives now may say : For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ;... | |
 | Cambridge tart - 1823 - 318 pages
...Emanuel College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Norwich. To be sung or whistled to the tune of " The Meadow Brow," by the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of " Fortune.' ' " Farewell, rewards and fairies !" Good house-wives now may say : For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...not to be expected that the Bishop of Norwich was very eminent as a divine. FAREWELL TO THE FAERIES. FAREWELL rewards and Faeries, Good houswives now may...daries Doe fare as well as they. And though they sweepe theyre hearths no less Then maydes were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleanliness, Finds sixe-pence... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 374 pages
...proper new Ballad, entitled the Fairies' Farewell, to be sung or whistled to the tune of the Meadow Brow, by the learned; by the unlearned, to the tune of Fortune."— " Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And though... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...works. The Fairies Farewell was originally published under a whimsical title : " to be sung or whistled to the tune of the Meddow Brow, by the learned : by...unlearned to the tune of Fortune." FAREWELL rewards and Fairies! Good housewives now you may say ; For now foule sluts in dairies, Doe fare as well as they... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...works. The Fairk-a Farewell was originally published under a whimsical title : " to be sung or whistled to the tune of the Meddow Brow, by the learned : by the unlearned to the tune of Fortune." CORBET. THE FA;RIES FAREWELL. FAREWELL rewards and Fairies I Good housewives now you may say ; For... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1837 - 936 pages
...proper new Ballad, entitled the Fairies' Farewell, to be sung or whistled to the tune of the Meadow Brow, by the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of Fortune." " Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ,And though... | |
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Meadow Brow, by the learned; by the unlearned, to the tune of Fortune."— " Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And though they... 
