 | Thomas Percy - 1876 - 630 pages
...entitled, The Fairies Farewell, or God-a-mcrcy Will, to be sung or whistled to the tune of The Medilow 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,... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 pages
...Mede might be the king instead. 6. Gather the rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a.flying. 7. Farewell rewards and fairies, Good housewives now...now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. 8. Speak, whimpering younglings ; and make known The reason why Ye droop and weep. 9. Our life is short,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...JosErH RODMAN DKAKF. FAREWELL TO THE FAIRIES. FAREWKLL rewards and fairies ! Good housewifes now 7nay say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness,... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 510 pages
...would greater be Than was his father Henery, Who, men thought, did the same. FAREWELL TO THE FAIRIES. "FAREWELL, rewards and fairies !" Good housewives...foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And, though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness,... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...The: "or, God-*mercy Will ; a proper new ballad, to be §unf? * whistled to the tune of the Meddow Brow, by the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of Fortune." It is to be" found in the Poética Strometa (1648) of Bishop CORBET ; the departure of the faines being... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...would greater be Than was his father Henery, Who, men thought, did the same. FAREWELL TO THE FAIRIES. 1 Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now...foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1881 - 388 pages
...are no more Fairies. Aunt C. So was a learned Bishop. Grace. A Bishop ! 25? THE FAIRIES' FAREWELL. Farewell, rewards and Fairies, Good housewives now...foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness... | |
 | 1881 - 272 pages
...entitled ' The Fairies Farewell, or God-a-mercy Will ;' to be sung or whistled to the tune of The Meddow Brow, by the learned ; by the unlearned to the tune of Fortune." Dr. Richard Corbet having been bishop of Oxford about three years, and afterwards as long bishop of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 416 pages
...proper new Ballad, entitled the Faeryes' Farewell, to be sung or whiseled to the tune of the Meaddow Brow, by the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of Fortune " — " Farewell, rewards and faeries, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And though... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 328 pages
...of the seventeenth century. The poem is named " A proper new Ballad, entitled the Fairies' Farewell, to be sung or whistled to the tune of the Meadow Brow...Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dailies Do fare as well as they ; And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont... | |
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Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds sixpence in her shoe ? "... 
