The Sources and Analogues of "A Midsummer-night's Dream"Chatto and Windus, 1908 - 196 pagina's |
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Pagina 151 - So little care of sleep or sloth These pretty ladies had; When Tom came home from labour Or Ciss to milking rose, Then merrily went their tabor And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late Elizabeth And later James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath bin.
Pagina 10 - And in his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther noon under the sonne. Ful many...
Pagina 148 - She that pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers When they rake not up their embers: But if so they chance to feast her, In a shoe she drops a tester.
Pagina 155 - Serve us for our minstrelsy ; Grace said, we dance awhile. And so the time beguile ; And if the moon doth hide her head, The glowworm lights us home to bed. On tops of dewy grass So nimbly do we pass, The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends when we do walk ; Yet in the morning may be seen Where we the night before have been.
Pagina 145 - And while they sleep and take their ease, With wheel, to threads their flax I pull ; I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow ; If any 'wake and would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Pagina 155 - None escapes, nor none espies. But if the house be swept. And from uncleanness kept, We praise the household maid, And duly she is paid ; For we use, before we go, To drop a tester in her shoe.
Pagina 78 - I will pursue thee dead, And wretched woman as I am, it shall of me be sed That like as of thy death I was the onely cause and blame, So am I thy companion eke and partner in the same.
Pagina 154 - Through keyholes we do glide; Over tables, stools, and shelves, We trip it with our fairy elves.
Pagina 134 - In deede your grandams maides were woont to set a boll of milke before him and his cousine Robin goodfellow, for grinding of malt or mustard, and sweeping the house at midnight : and you have also heard that he would chafe exceedingly, if the maid or goodwife of the house, having compassion of his nakednes, laid anie clothes for him, beesides his messe of white bread and milke, which was his standing fee. For in that case he saith ; What have we here? Hemton hamten, here will I never more tread nor...