 Then led hee them through a way where a horse might very well have been up to the belly ; they followed him, and were so durtie, as though they had wallowed in the myre like swine ; sometime gave hee them rest onely to laugh at them ; then were they so...  Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England - Pagina 55geredigeerd door - 1866 - 321 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1816 - 406 pagina’s
...play, that they fell to the ground. Then en the sudden would hee play againe, and make them start vp and follow him. Thus kept hee them the better part of the night. At last hee in pittie left playing, and let them rest. They being asleepe on the bare ground he tooke... | |
 | Robert (le Diable.) - 1828 - 326 pagina’s
...sleepie when hee did not play, that they fell to the ground. Then on the sudden would hee play againc, and make them start up and follow him. Thus kept hee them the better part of the night. At last hee in pit t ic left playing, and let them rest. They being asleepe on the bare ground he tooke... | |
 | William John Thoms - 1828 - 354 pagina’s
...sleepie when hee did not play, that they fell to the ground. Then on the sudden would hee play againc, and make them start up and follow him. Thus kept hee them the better part of the night. At last hce iii pitlic left playing, and let them rest. They being asleepe on the bare ground he tooke... | |
 | William John Thoms - 1858 - 348 pagina’s
...at them : then were they so sleepie when hee did not play, that they fell to the ground. Then on a sudden would hee play againe, and make them start...him. Thus kept hee them the better part of the night. At last hee in pittie left playing, and let them rest. They being asleepe on the bare ground he tooke... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1864 - 342 pagina’s
...his master had endued with supernatural properties, over hedges, ditches, &c, "yet had Fryc- ^acon," the narrative tells us, "not revenge enough of them,...object. Mr. Prior, in his Ancient Danish Ballads, 1860, has furnished English versions of one or two pieces, in which the interest of the story hangs... | |
 | Edmund Goldsmid - 1886 - 60 pagina’s
...play, that they fell to the ground. Then on the sudden would hee play againe, and make them start vp and follow him. Thus kept hee them the better part of the night. At last hee in pittie left playing, and let them rest. They being asleepe on the bare ground he tooke... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1889 - 456 pagina’s
...at them : then were they so sleepie when hee did not play, that they fell to the ground. Then on a sudden would hee play againe, and make them start...him. Thus kept hee them the better part of the night. At last hee in pittie left playing, and let them rest. They being asleep on the bare ground he tooke... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1889 - 456 pagina’s
...at them : then were they so sleepie when hee did not play, that they fell to the ground. Then on a sudden would hee play againe, and make them start...him. Thus kept hee them the better part of the night. At last hee in pittie left playing, and let them rest. They being asleep on the bare ground he tooke... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1889 - 460 pagina’s
...sleepie when hee did not play, that they fell to the ground. Then on a sudden would hee play ngaine, and make them start up and follow him. Thus kept hee them the better part of the night. At last hee in pittie left playing, and let them rest. They being asleep on the bare ground he tooke... | |
 | 1866 - 342 pagina’s
..."yet had Fryer Bacon," the narrative tells us, " not revenge enough of them, but bid his man Wiles leave them some larger measure as hee thought fitting,...object. Mr. Prior, in his Ancient Danish Ballads, 1860, has furnished English versions of one or two pieces, in which the interest of the story hangs... | |
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