 | Ballads, English - 1765 - 382 pages
...to goe foe fine, Then take thine old cloake about thee. Hi. My cloake it was a very good cloake, 25 Itt hath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it...is not worth a groat; I have had it four and forty yeare : Sometime it was of cloth in graine, Tis now but a figh-clout as you may fee, 30 'It will neither... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1765 - 406 pages
...goe foe fine, Then take thine old cloake about thee. HE. My cloake it was a very good cloake, 2Itt hath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it is not worth a groat ; I have had it four and forty yeare : Sometime it was of cloth in graine, 'Tis now but a figh-clout as you may fee, 30 'It will neither... | |
 | Beauties - Anthologies - 1794 - 228 pages
...It is not for us to goe foe fine, Then take thine old cloake about thee. HE. My cloake it was a very good cloake, Itt hath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it is not worth a groat ; I have had it foure and fortye yeare : Some time it was of cloth in graine, 'Tis now but a figh-clout as you may... | |
 | Beauties - Anthologies - 1794 - 236 pages
...foe fine, Then take thine old eloake about thee. HE.. My eloake it was a very good eloake, Itthath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it is not worth a groat ; I have had it foure and fortye yeare : Some time it was of eloth in graine, 'Tis now but a figh-elout as you may... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...cloake about thee. H.. TAKE THY OLD CLOAK ABOUT THEIi HE. I My cloake it was a verry good cloake, 2i Itt hath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it is not worth a groat ; I hare had it four and forty yeere : Sometime itt was of cloth in graine, 'Tis now but a sigh clout as... | |
 | Henry Slingsby (writer of fiction.) - 1825 - 682 pages
...— vol.. i. THE OLD GREY CLOAK. STalr. My cloake it was a very good cloake, Itt hath beene always true to the weare ; But now it is not worth a groat — I have had it four-and-forty yeare. OLD SONG. THE OLD GREY CLOAK. THE bells of the little city of Birling did not... | |
 | English poetry - 1839 - 374 pages
...the plur. numh. HE. My cloake it was a very good cloake 2a Itt hath heen alwayes true to the neare, But now it is not worth a groat ; I have had it four and forty yeere : Sometime itt was of cloth in graine, "fis now hut a sigh clout as you may see, 50 It will neither... | |
 | John Skelton - English poetry - 1843 - 498 pages
...note in Drayton's Polyolbion, Song 25. p. 111. ed. 1622. — Compare a celebrated ballad ; " My cloahe it was a verry good cloake, Itt hath been alwayes...worth a groat ; I have had it four and forty yeere." Tahe thy old cloah about thee, — Percy's Rel. of AEP i. 206. ed. 1794. Page 97. v. 63. wall] ie wool,... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1844 - 400 pages
...husband, couucell take of mee, It is not for us to go soe fine, Man, take thine old cloake about thee. HE. My cloake it was a verry good cloake, Itt hath been...worth a groat ; I have had it four and forty yeere : Sometime itt was of cloth in graine, 'Tis now but a sigh clout as you may see, It will neither hold... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1858 - 466 pages
...to go soe fine, Then take thine old cloake about thee. He. Mv cloake it was a very good cloake, lit hath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it is not worth a groat, I have hnd it four and forty yeare: Sometime it was of cloth in graine, 'T is now but a sigh clout as you... | |
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Itt hath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it is not worth a groat ; I have had it four and forty yeere... 
