 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...well I warrant betimes ? He to the countryman said : But the countryman smil'd as the stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. I hasten'd as soon...in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than I, TIT FOR TAT. A miphty Elephant that swell'd the state Of Aurengzebe the Great, One day was taken... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1860 - 204 pages
...married couple that drank of it. Hence the following incident is related by a Welsh Benedick : — " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done. And left my wife in the porch, But i'fakh she had been more clever than me, For she took a buttle to church." — Carcw. St. Cenau is... | |
 | J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 218 pages
...said : But the Cornish-man smiled as the Stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. -*-:» x; " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the poreh : But i' faith she hud been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to chureh." Sfo: I NIGHT. NKIUT... | |
 | John Thomas Blight - Cornwall (England : County) - 1860 - 206 pages
...concludes with the following lines : — " I hastened as Boon as the wedding was o'er, And left my good wife in the porch, But i' faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." * * The whole of this poem is published in a sixpenny pamphlet,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...said : But the Cornish man smiled as the stranger spoke, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hastened as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife...in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." LVIL — SUNRISE FROM MOUNT BRTDONE. [This extract Is from A Tour... | |
 | William Winwood Reade - Druids and Druidism - 1861 - 276 pages
...countryman said, But the countryman smiled as the stranger spoke, And sheepishly shook his head. I hastened as soon as the wedding was done. And left my wife in the porch, But i'faith I found her wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church. I must not omit to mention a method... | |
 | Henry Besley - 1862 - 308 pages
...overmatching her anxious but less witty husband, " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And I left my wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to Chureh." Notwithstanding the unbelief of most strangers who visit the well, its miraculous virtues... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Names, Personal - 1863 - 524 pages
...forget that best of all Southey's humourous ballads where the Cornishman confesses, — ' I hastened, as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife...the porch ; But, i• faith, she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church.' Cornishmen, apparently, never forgave St. Keyne for the properties... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Names, Personal - 1863 - 532 pages
...life. No one can forget that best of all Southey's humourous ballads where the Cornishman ' I hastened, as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; Bat, i' faith, she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church.' Cornishmen, apparently,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...said; But the Cornish man smiled as the stranger spoke, And sheepishly shook his head. • " I hastened as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife...in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than I, J ASPAR. TASPAR was poor, and vice and want J Had made his heart like stone : And Jaspar looked... | |
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You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes ?" He to the Cornish-man said ; But the Cornish-man smiled as the stranger spake. And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had... 
