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" The wine is left behind !' Good lack ! quoth he — yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise. "
A Little Book of Light Verse - Page 17
1902 - 193 pages
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 3

William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul !) Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she lored, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, Ami hung a bottle on each side, To make his balance true. Vhen over all, that he might be Equipped...
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The Copeland Reader: An Anthology of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1

Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pages
...round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it griev'd 1 will not deliver your message. I brush'd and neat, He manfully did throw. Now see him mounted once again Upon his nimble steed, Full...
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The Copeland Reader

Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came ; for loss of time, Although it griev'd him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would...hung a bottle on each side, To make his balance true. 246 Then, over all, that he might be Equipp'd from top to toe, His long red cloak, well brush 'd and...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...Now mistress Gilpin, careful soul, Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling...Equipp'd from top to toe, His long red cloak, well brush'd and neat, He manfully did throw. Now see him mounted once again Upon his nimble steed, Full...
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Reading and Literature, Book 1

Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - 586 pages
...Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul !) Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling...his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak, well-brushed and neat, He manfully did throw. Now see...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...Mistress Gilpin (careful soul!) 65 Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, nj 70 And hung a bottle on each side, To make his balance true. NINETEENTH CENTURY Then over all, that...
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William Cowper: Selected Poems

William Cowper - 2003 - 124 pages
...he— yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise In which I bear my trusty sword When I do exercise. 64 Now mistress Gilpin (careful soul!) Had two stone...hung a bottle on each side, To make his balance true. 72 Then, over all, that he might be Equipp'd from top to toe, His long red cloak, well brush 'd and...
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