| Ballads, English - 1782 - 348 pages
...fall, Melodious birds fing madrigal. There will I make beds of rofes, With a thoufand fragrant pofies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle , Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle: A gown made of the fineft wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Slippers lin'd choicely for the cold, With buckles... | |
| Goldfinch - 1782 - 318 pages
...fall, Melodious birds (ing madrigal. There will I make beds of rofes, With a thoufand fragrant pofies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle, Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle ; A gown made of the fineft wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull ; Slippers lin'd choicely for the cold, With buckles... | |
| George Ruggle - Latin drama, Medieval and modern - 1787 - 470 pages
...miftrel's, and to induce her to conient to marry him, promues her as a prefent, belides other things, ' A cap of flowers and a kirtle, ' Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.' And Holinßed, in his Chronicle, p. 1375, edit. 1577, relating the conduit of Richard HI, then protector... | |
| English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks, And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. There will I make thee beds of roses, With a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 476 pages
...thee beds of roses ,,With a thousand fragrant posies, ,,A cap of flowers, and a Mrtle ,,lrnbroidcr'd all with leaves of myrtle; ,,A gown made of the finest wool, j.'Which from onr pretty lambs \ve pull; ,,Fair lined slippers for the cold, j.'NVith /biichlcs of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 522 pages
...mis-recites the lines, which iu the original run thus : " There will we sit upon the rocks, " And see the shepherds feed their flocks, " By shallow rivers, to whose falls " Melodious hirds sing madrigals : " There will / make thee heds of roses " With a thousand fragrant posies," &c.... | |
| Arthur Cayley - Explorers - 1806 - 466 pages
...groves, and hills, and fieldi, Woods, or sleepy mountains, yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow...thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers and a kirtle, Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle ; A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs... | |
| Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...vallies, groves, or hills and fields, And all the steepy mountain, yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow...fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle, Embroidejr'd all with leaves of myrtle. A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...valleys, dale and fleld, And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks, And see the shepherds feed their flocks; By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. There will I make thee beds of roses, With a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers,... | |
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...groves, or hills and fields, And all the steepy mountain yields. , And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow...thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle. A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs... | |
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