 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 ? Lament,...  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 1461845Full view - About this book
 | Robert Herrick - 1891 - 378 pages
...penee. Cp. Bishop Corbett's The Faerye's Farewell : — " 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 ? " 729. Up tails all. This tune will be found in Chappell's Popular Musie of the Olden Time, vol.... | |
 | Religions - 1892 - 850 pages
...But 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." We meet with these elves again in the mythology of the Esthonians (a Finnish and not a Slavonic people)... | |
 | Religions - 1892 - 880 pages
...But 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." We meet with these elves again in the mythology of the Esthonians (a Finnish and not a Slavonic people)... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1893 - 628 pages
...fare as well as they: »f; And though they sweep their hearths no less 5 Than maids were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds six-pence in her shoe ? Lament, lament old abbies, 3-, The fairies last command; 10 They did but change priests babies, But some have chang'd... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - English literature - 1897 - 308 pages
...included in many collections. Here, as in many of his verses, his strong anti-Puritan feeling appears : ' Lament, lament old abbeys, The fairies' lost command...changed your land ; And all your children sprung from thence Are now grown Puritans : Who live, as changelings, ever since For love of your domains.' William... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - English literature - 1897 - 282 pages
...included in many collections. Hefe7"as" in many of his verses, his strong anti-Puritan feeling appears : ' Lament, lament old abbeys, The fairies' lost command...but change priests' babies, But some have changed yonr land ; And all your children sprung from thence Are now grown Puritans : Who live, as changelings,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1906 - 340 pages
...dairies Do fare as well as they ; For though they sweep their hearths no less (' Join in, Una ! ) • Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds sixpence in her shoe ? ' 12 The echoes flapped all along the flat meadow. ' Of course I know it,' he said. ' And then there's... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...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...changed your land ! And all your children, sprung from thence, Are now grown Puritans ! Who live as Changelings ever since, For love of your demains. At morning,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleancliness Finds sixe-pence in her shoe? Lament, lament old Abbies, nd $ 2 stoln from thence Are now growne I'uritanes, Who live as changelings ever since, For love of your demaines.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less ie A little further off, to make thee room : Thou...my brain excuses, I mean with great but disproporti thence Are now grown Puritans ; Who live as changelings ever since, For love of your domains. At morning... | |
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