When, lo ! a straunge and cunning boy Before him did appeare. A kirtle and a mantle This boy had him upon, With brooches, rings, and owches, Full daintily bedone. Second Walk Through Wales, - Page 23by Richard Warner - 1800 - 365 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ballads, English - 1765 - 404 pages
...a knight. And there he kept his Chriftmas 5 , With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a ftraunge and cunning boy Before him did appeare. A kirtle, and a mantle This boy had him upon, IO With brooches, rings, and owchcs Full daintily bedone. He had a farke of filk About his middle meet;... | |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...there maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And there he kept his Christmas With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning...boy had him upon, With brooches, rings, and owches, 398 He had a sarke of silk About his middle meet ; And thus, with seemely curtesy, . He did King Arthur... | |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 242 pages
...many a knight. And there he kept his Ghriftmas With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a ftraunge and cunning boy Before him did appeare. A kirtle,...rings, and owches, Full daintily bedone. He had a farke of filk About his middle meet ; And thus, with feemely curtefy, He did King Arthur greet. —... | |
| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 456 pages
...maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And And there he kept his Christmas 5 With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning...appeare. A kirtle and a mantle This boy had him upon, 1O . With brooches, rings, and owches, Full daintily bedone. He had a sarke of silk About his middle... | |
| Thomas Jeffrey Llewelyn Prichard - English poetry - 1828 - 214 pages
...With mirth and princely cheere, When lo ! a strange and cunning boy Before him did appeare. A kirtlc and a mantle This boy had him upon, With brooches, rings, and owches, Full daintilie bedone. He had a sarke of silk too, About his middle meet; And thus with seemly curtesy,... | |
| Theodor Georg von Karajan - European literature - 1842 - 182 pages
...maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. 5 And there he kept his Christmas Whit mirth and princely cheare , When , lo ! a straunge and cunning...boy Before him did appeare. A kirtle and a mantle 10 This boy had him upon , Whit brooches, rings, and owches,** Full daintily bedone. He had a sarke25... | |
| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1844 - 318 pages
...there maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And there he kept his Christmas With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning boy Before him did appears. A kirtle, and a mantle This boy had him upon, With brooches, rings, and owches Full daintily... | |
| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1846 - 318 pages
...there maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And there he kept his Christmas With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning...brooches, rings, and owches Full daintily bedone. He had a sarke of silk About his middle meet ; And thus, with seemely curtesy, He did king Arthur greet. " God... | |
| Electronic journals - 1863 - 418 pages
...there maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And there he kept his Christmas Whit mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning boy Before him did appearo. A kirtle and a mantle This boy had him upon, 10 Whit brooches, rings, and owches, Full daintily... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 548 pages
...broocha, &c. Falstaff is here again singing a scrap of an old ballad (Percy's ' Reliques,' vol.L):— " A kirtle, and a mantle, This boy had him upon, With...brooches, rings, and owches Full daintily bedone." b It has been suggested to us by a critical reader of Shakspere, that these lines are metrical; that... | |
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