 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,...  Puck of Pook's Hill - Page 16by Rudyard Kipling - 1906 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...Brow,' by the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of ' Fortune.' ' FAREWELL, rewards and fairies !' Good house-wives 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... | |
 | Richard Gooch - College verse - 1823 - 310 pages
...Brow," by the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of " Fortune." " Farewell, rewards and fairies ! " Good house-wives now may say : For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And tho' they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness... | |
 | Cambridge tart - English poetry - 1823 - 318 pages
...by the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of " Fortune.' ' " Farewell, rewards and fairies !" Good house-wives now may say : For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And tho' they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness... | |
 | Poor Humphrey's calendar - 1828 - 60 pages
...in the outset of A proper New Ballad, entitled^ THE FAIRIES FAREWELL. Farewell Rewards and Fairies I 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1836 - 358 pages
...the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of Fortune." — " Farewell, rewards and fairies, (iood housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And though they sweep their hearths no lose Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...Brow, by the learned ; by the unlearned, to the tune of Fortune." " 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 Ho, Yet who of late for cleanliness... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...hy the learned ; hy tlic unlearned to the tune of Fortune: nm*a " " 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, Vet who of late for cleanliness... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...never king made such ! Faraedl to tic Faifla. Farewell rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may N o UR M1t < U R J ʙYo ": )~?4 e G Y c X And though they sweep their hearth? no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness,... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1845 - 352 pages
...Medow Brow by the learned, by the unlearned to the tune of Fortune." 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...Of Heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire. KEATS. FAIRIES. 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,... | |
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