 And by our mirth expelled all moan; Like nightingales, from whose sweet throats Most pleasant tunes are nightly blown. The Gentle Craft is fittest, then, For poor distressed gentlemen.  The Gentle Craft - Page 21by Thomas Deloney - 1903 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...or THE OEITTLE CRAFT. " Our shoes were sow'd with merry notes, And by our mirth expell'd all moan ; Like nightingales, from whose sweet throats Most pleasant...nightly blown : The Gentle Craft is fittest then For poor distressed gentlemen 1" St. So* This representation of St. Crispin and St. Crispinian at (heir... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...Crfópínían E GENTLE CRAFT. " Our shoes were sow'd with merry notes, And by our mirth expell'd all moan ; Like nightingales, from whose sweet throats Most pleasant tunes are nightly blown : The Genllc Craft is fittest then For poor distressed gentlemen !" Si. Hngk't So*f. This representation... | |
 | Xtopher Twigum (pseudonym.) - Colleges, etc., Great Britain: Eng.: Cambridge Univ - 1830 - 50 pages
...Tailors who will not work under price, and often strike (only for wages). The Dungs, vice versa. f Like nightingales, from whose sweet throats Most pleasant...nightly blown : The gentle craft is fittest then For poor distressed gentlemen. St. Hugh's Song. What boots it now, if no new boots they make, Nor measures... | |
 | Joseph Sparkes Hall - Boots - 1847 - 236 pages
...applied to that art : — " Our shoes were sewed with merry notes, And by oar mirth expelled all moan ; Like nightingales, from whose sweet throats Most pleasant...nightly blown : The Gentle Craft is fittest then For poor distressed gentlemen." The immortal Sbakspere has given a speech to Henry the Fifth, before the... | |
 | Robert Jackson MacGeorge - Canadian poetry - 1858 - 282 pages
...taper off our prelection : " Our shoes were sewed with merry notes, And by our mirth expelled all moan; Like nightingales, from whose sweet throats Most pleasant...nightly blown : The Gentle Craft is fittest then For pool' distressed gentlemen !" AMATEUR HISTRIONICS. We learn that an appetite for private theatricals... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1898 - 234 pages
...St. Hugh's Song,' viz. — 'Our shoes were sow'd with merry notes, And our mirth expell'd all moan; Like nightingales, from whose sweet throats Most pleasant...nightly blown. The Gentle Craft is fittest then For poor distressed gentlemen.' What could be the origin of this phrase? The only mention of a shoemaker... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...time I lived, being still unknown. Spending my days in sweet content, With many a pleasant, sugared song; Sitting in pleasure's complement, Whilst we...recorded lovers' wrong. And while the Gentle Craft we used, True love by us was not abused. Our shoes we sewed with merry notes, And by our mirth expelled... | |
 | Thomas Deloney - Shoemakers - 1928 - 104 pages
...many a pleasant, sugared song; Sitting in pleasure's complement, Whilst we recorded lovers' wrong. 5 And while the Gentle Craft we us'd, True love by us was not abus'd. Our shoes we sewed with merry notes, And by pur mirth expelled all moan ; Like nightingales, from whose... | |
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