 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1765 - 418 pages
...thee, fay not foe : For fiuce my true-love dyed for mee, jj '1 is meet my tears fliould flow. And will he ne'er come again ? Will he ne'er come again ? Ah...is dead and laid in his grave, for ever to remain. 6a Hi* cheek was redder than the rofe, The comlieft youth was he : — But he is dead and laid in his... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1765 - 692 pages
....'/• And, will he ne'er come again ? Will he ne'er come again ? Ah ! DO, he i: dead and laid in nil grave, For ever to remain. His cheek was redder than the rofe, The eomlieft youth was he •. — But he is dead and laid in hit grave, Alu, and wot is me ! Sigh no more,... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1774 - 316 pages
...pray thee, fay .not fo : For fince my true-love died for me, 'Tis meet my tears fhould flow. And will he ne'er come again ? Will he ne'er come again ? Ah...to remain. His cheek was redder than the rofe, The com'iieft youth was he : — Put he is dead and laid in his grave : Alas I and woe is me ! Sigh no... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...fay not «?, ^hpu holy Friar, 1 pray thee, fay not fo,: For fuice my true-lpve dy'd for me»And will he ne'er come again ? Will he ne'er come again ? Ah! no, he is dead and laid in his grav«. Fur ever to remain. His cheek was redder than the rofe; ThtTcomelieft youth was he!— But... | |
 | Beauties - Anthologies - 1794 - 228 pages
...pray thee, fay not foe : For fince my true-love dyed for mee, 'Tis meet my tears mould flow. And will he ne'er come again? Will he ne'er come again? Ah...was redder than the rofe, The comlieft youth was he :— Blit he is dead and laid in his grave r Alas, and woe is me ! Sigh no more, lady, figh no more,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 478 pages
...lay not fo : For fmcc my true love died for mr, 'Tis meet my tears fhould flow. And u til he never come again ? Will he ne'er come again? Ah ! no, he...to remain. His cheek was redder than the rofe, The comclitil youth was he. But he is dead, and laid in his grave, Alas ! and woe is me! Sigh no more,... | |
 | John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 508 pages
...pray thee, say not so : For since my true love died for me, 'Tis meet my tears should flow. And will he ne'er come again ? Will he ne'er come again ? Ah...For ever to remain. His cheek was redder than the rose, The com'liest youth was he : But he is dead, and laid in his grave : Alas ! and woe is me ! Sigh... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...say not so ! For since my true-love died for me, 'Tis meet my tears should flow. And will he never come again? Will he ne'er come again ? Ah, no! he...For ever to remain. His cheek was redder than the rose, The comeliest youth was he. But he is dead, and laid in his grave, Alas ! and woe is me ! Sigh... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...say not so ; For since my true-love died for me, "t'is meet my tears should flow. " And will he never come again? Will he ne'er come again? Ah ! no ; he...is dead, and laid in his grave, For ever to remain. R " His cheek was redder than tile rose; The comeliest youth was he ! — But he is dead, and laid... | |
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His cheek was redder than the rose ; The comeliest youth was he ; But he is dead and laid in his grave ; Alas, and woe is me ! " " Sigh no more, lady, sigh no more ; Men were deceivers ever ; One foot on sea and one on land, To one thing constant never... 
