 | Books - 1837 - 556 pages
...astray ; Sometimes a walking fire he'd be, and lead them from their way. Some call him Robin-Goodfellow, hob-goblin, or mad crisp ; And some againe doe tearme...the best name he deserves is Robin the Good Fellow." We feel that we are already trespassing beyond the limits which we ought to assign to our paper, or... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1837 - 548 pages
...call him Robin-Goodfellow, hob-goblin, or mad crisp ; • . • ; And some againe doe tearme him oft But call him by what name you list, I have studied...the best name he deserves is Robin the Good Fellow." We feel that we are already trespassing beyond the limits which we ought to assign to our paper, or... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 522 pages
...Rohin-Goodfellow, hob-goblin, or mad crisp; And some againe doe tearme him oft by name of Will the Wispe: Rut call him by what name you list, I have studied on my pillow, I think the best name he deserves is Rohin the Good Fellow." We feel that we are already trespassing beyond the limits which we ought to... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1840 - 584 pages
...a walking fire he'd be, and lead them from their way. Some call him Robin Good-fellow, Hob goblin, or mad Crisp, And some againe doe tearme him oft by...the best name he deserves is Robin the Good Fellow. At last upon a summer's night King Oberon found him out, And with his Elves in dancing wise straight... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 138 pages
...a walking fire he'd be, and lead them from their way. Some call him Robin Good-fellow, Hob goblin, or mad Crisp, And some againe doe tearme him oft by...the best name he deserves is Robin the Good Fellow. At last upon a summer's night King Oberon found him out, And with his Elves in dancing wise straight... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1845 - 352 pages
...sometimes a skipping frog ; Sometimes a kirne, in Irish shape, to leape ore mire or bog : Sometime he'd counterfeit a voyce, and travellers call astray,...the best name he deserves is Robin the Good Fellow. At last upon a summer's night King Oberon found him out, And with his elves in dancing wise straight... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1846 - 322 pages
...fire he'd be, And lead them from their way. Some call him Robin-Goodfellow, Hob-goblin, or Mad Criap ; And some againe doe tearme him oft By name of Will...the best name he deserves Is Robin the Good Fellow." It would be easy for us to trace the familiar and mischievous elf in England, in a hundred different... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...Good-fellow, Hob goblin, or mad Crisp, And some againe doe tearme him oft by name of Will the ffape : But call him by what name you list, I have studied...pillow, I think the best name he deserves is Robin the Good-fellow." The Merry Puck, nd] ment from one place to another. Some mariners call it St. Herme's... | |
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Hob-goblin or mad Crisp, And some againe doe tearme him oft by name of Will the Wispe ; But call him by what name you list, I have studied on my pillow, I think the best name he deserves is Robin the Good Fellow. 
