 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 552 pages
...are, 'the fairies dance, the elves dance, and the urchins dance. This is the latter : " By the moone we sport and play, With the night begins our day ; As we friske the dew doth fall, Trip it little urchins all, Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828 - 392 pages
...this piece, Mopso, Joculo, and Frisio are on the stage, and " Enter the Fairies singing and dancing." By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day ; As we dance the dew doth fall — Trip it, little urchins all, Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 534 pages
...for Ascanio a vision of Eurymene, after which the fairies are introduced, singing and dancing — ' By the moon we sport and play, ' With the night begins our day : ' As we dance the dew doth fall. ' Trip it, little urchins all, • Lightly as the little bee, ' Two by two,... | |
 | Thomas Oliphant - Ballads, English - 1837 - 374 pages
...with twelve rustics habited like " satyrs : they dance, and then exeunt." ccxc. The Urchins' Dance. By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins...as the little bee, Two by two, and three by three, Thus about, about go we. Urchin in its original signification is a hedgehog, but came to be applied... | |
 | Francis Douce - Clowns in literature - 1839 - 678 pages
...are, the fairies dance, the elves dance, and the urchins dance. This is the latter: " By the moone we sport and play, With the night begins our day; As we friske the dew doth fall, Trip it little urchins all,' Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...song of the fairies — By the moon we sport and play, ЛУНЬ the night begins our day : As we dance _Z m xȴ{ < ] ϯ |v ? <3 ߿h 6 ; |q = K *o { _ Ъу three, And about go we, and about go we. The genius of Lyly was essentially lyrical. The songs... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1845 - 352 pages
...Metamorphosis, 4to. Lond. 1600, a play attributed by Kirkman to Lilly.] Enter the fairies, singing and dancing. By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day : ' 1 So Milton,— " Come, let us our rites begin ; Tis only daylight that makes sin." As we dance... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...winged choristers still there, To banish winter clean out of the year. Or the song of the fairies — o no man befall ; Who least, hath some ; who most, hath never all. dance the dew doth fall, Trip it, little urchins all. Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...winged choristers still there, To banish winter clean out of the year. Or the song of the fairies — YV/?sɴ % 1u' O à h & #. (Zf9& e 3a=N@\ pZ 31 \ dance the dew doth fall, Trip it, little urchins all. Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
 | English fiction - 1848 - 588 pages
...so prominent a part as in this play. Their songs somewhat remind one of the Midsummer Night's Dream. By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day : As we dance, the dew doth fall. Trip it little urchins all, Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
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By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day : As we dance the dew doth fall, Trip it, little urchins all. Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three by three, And about go we, and about go we. 
