 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 560 pages
...quoted. The first is the Fairy queen, printed in Percy's Ancient ballads, iii. 207, edit. 1775. 3 " But if the house be swept, And from uncleanness kept, We praise the houshold maid, &c." The other is the Fairies farewell, by Bishop Corbet, printed also in Percy's collection,... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 552 pages
...be quoted. The first is the Fairy queen, printed in Percy's Ancient ballads, iii. 2O7, edit. 1775. " But if the house be swept, And from uncleanness kept, We praise the houshold maid, &c." The other is the Fairies farewell, by Bishop Corbet, printed also in Percy's collection,... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 456 pages
...nimbly creep, And find the sluts asleep; There we pinch their armes and thighes, None escapes, and none espies. But if the house be swept, And from uncleanness kept, We praise the house and maid, And duely she is paid; For we do use, before we goe, To drop a tester in her shoe.... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 456 pages
..., Up stairs we nimbly creep, 15 And find the sluts asleep : There we pinch their mines and thighes; None escapes, nor none espies. But if the house be swept, And from uncleanness kept, 20 We praise the houshold maid, And duely she is paid : For we use before we goe To drop a tester in... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...And find the sluts asleep ; Then we pinch their arms and thighs ; None us hears, and none us spies. But if the house be swept, And from uncleanness kept, We praise the household maid, And duly she is paid ; Every night before we go, We drop a tester in her shoe. Then o'er a mushroom's head... | |
 | Philip Bliss - Carols - 1813 - 94 pages
...bowle, Up staires we nimbly creepe, And finde the sluts asleepe: Then we pinch their armes and thighes, None escapes, nor none espies. But if the house be swept, And from uncleannesse kept, We praise the house and maid, And surely she is paid: For we do use before we go... | |
 | Poor Humphrey's calendar - 1828 - 60 pages
...creep, So much for punishment of offences; next, as in moral justice, comes reward for services:— Bat if the house be swept, And from uncleanness kept, We praise the household maid, And clnly she is paid: For we use, before we go, To drop a tester in her shoe. Dr. RICHARD CORBET, Bishop... | |
 | Mr. Forsyth - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1833 - 354 pages
...escape and none espies. And if the house be swept, And from uncleannesse kept, We praise the house and maid, And surely she is paid ; For we do use before we go, To drop a tester in her shoe. Upon the mushroome's head, Our table-cloth we spread, A graine o' th' finest wheat, - Is manchet that... | |
 | Walter Scott - Waverley novels. Selections - 1833 - 412 pages
...escape and none espies. And if the house be swept, And from uncleannesse kept, We praise the house and maid, And surely she is paid ; For we do use before we go, To drop a tester in her shoe. Upon the mushroome's head, Our table-cloth we spread, A graine o' th' finest wheat, Is manchet that... | |
 | Walter Scott - Waverley novels. Selections - 1833 - 418 pages
...escape and none espies. And if the house be swept, And from uncleannesse kept, We praise the house and maid, And surely she is paid ; For we do use before we go, To drop a tester in her shoe. Upon the mushroome's head, Our table-cloth we spread, A graine o' th' finest wheat, Is manchet that... | |
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Through keyholes we do glide ; Over tables, stools, and shelves, We trip it with our fairy elves. And if the house be foul... 
