 | Henry Christmas - 1849 - 414 pages
...belief in these matters, when, speaking of their evening's amusements, he beautifully says : — " Till the live-long daylight fail, Then to the spicy...stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets ate. She was pinched and pulled, she said, And he by friar's lanthorn led. Tell how the drudging goblin... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...dower she loaves. With Thestyljs to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat: She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound 335 Sr To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd...told of many a feat, How Fairy Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...will invite, And the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a...the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a felt, How fairy Mnb the junkets eat, She was pinched and pulled, she said, And he, by friars, lantern... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...her bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come... | |
 | 1850 - 454 pages
...she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the i. niu'. ! haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the iocund rebecs sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequerM shade ; And young and... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd...stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets ate : She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...2nd and 7th Eclogues. the occasion than tells his story. Or if the earlier season lead To the tanned haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the checkered shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holyday, Till the live-long daylight... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 pages
...bower she leave* With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead Sometimes, with secure delight,...bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many S youth and many S maid, Dancing in the chequer' d shade ; And young and old come forth to play On... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tanned haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade ; And young and... | |
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Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail... 
