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" In a vein of renovating sweetness, the good mermaid sung to him : " Wad ye let the bonnie May die i' your hand, And the mugwort flowering i' the land ?" He cropped and pressed the flower-tops, and administered the juice to his fair mistress, who arose... "
Deutsche mythologie - Page 1160
by Jacob Grimm - 1844 - 1246 pages
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Select Writings of Robert Chambers, Volume 7

Robert Chambers - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 372 pages
...grave, was lamented by her lover. In a vein of renovating sweetness, the good mermaid sung to him — " Wad ye let the bonnie May die i' your hand, And the mugwort flowering i' the land ?" He cropped and pressed the flower-tops, and administered the juice to his fair mistress,...
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The Botany of the Eastern Borders: With the Popular Names and Uses of the ...

George Johnston, George Tate - Botany - 1853 - 436 pages
...Culpeper, Student in Physick and Astrology, more grateful antidotes to " melancholy and sad thoughtsf." * " Wad ye let the bonnie May die i' your hand, And the Mugwort flowering i' the land ? " See Chambers' Popular Rhymes, p. 34. In the " History of the Medical Profession " contained...
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Deutsche Mythologie. [With] Anhang, Volume 2

Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1854 - 674 pages
...alle an ihrer rettung verzweifelten, sang eine meerfrau, die dem volk oft heilsamen rath ertheilte: wad ye let the bonnie may die i' your hand, and the...Glasgow vorbeigefahren, da streckte die mermaid das haupt aus dem wasser, und rief mit langsamer stimme: if they wad drink nettles in marcb, and eat muggons...
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The popular rhymes of Scotland, with illustr., collected by R. Chambers

Robert Chambers - 1869 - 420 pages
...grave, was lamented by her lover. In a vein of renovating sweetness, the good mermaid sung to him : " Wad ye let the bonnie May die i' your hand, And the mugwort flowering i' the land ?" He cropped and pressed the flower-tops, and administered the juice to his fair mistress,...
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Teutonic mythology, tr. by J.S. Stallybrass, Volume 3

Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 458 pages
...and all had despaired of her recovery, when a mermaid, who often gave the people good counsel, sang : Wad ye let the bonnie may die i' your hand, And the mugwort flowering in the land 1 They immediately plucked the herb, gave her the juice of it, and she was restored to health. Another...
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Teutonic Mythology, Volume 3

Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1883 - 462 pages
...and all had despaired of her recovery, when a mermaid, who often gave the people good counsel, sang : Wad ye let the bonnie may die i' your hand, And the mugwort flowering in the land ! They immediately plucked the herb, gave her the juice of it, and she was restored to health. Another...
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The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of ..., Volume 2

Stopford Augustus Brooke - Anglo-Saxons - 1892 - 534 pages
...Galloway song which a mermaid sings to the sorrowful relations of a girl dying with consumption — Wad ye let the bonnie May die i' your hand And the Mugwort flowering in tue land ! As to the " loathly things," compare Grimm's quotation, which is too amusing to leave out,...
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The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of ..., Volume 2

Stopford Augustus Brooke - Anglo-Saxons - 1892 - 688 pages
...mermaid sings to the sorrowful relations of a girl dying with consumption — Wad ye let the honnie May die i" your hand And the Mugwort flowering in the land ! Remember thou, Mugwort, what thou declaredst, What thou preparedst at the great declaration ! Thou...
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Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland

Proverbs, Scottish - 1896 - 454 pages
...green cheese, or that spade shafts bear plooms ? Indicates incredulity. What you suggest is absurd. WAD ye let the bonnie May die i' your hand, And the Mugwort flowering i' the land ? This was the advice given by a mermaid in Galloway to a young man as to how he should...
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The Ascent of Olympus

James Rendel Harris - Religion - 1917 - 196 pages
...and all had despaired of her recovery, when a mermaid, who often gave people good counsel, sang : — Wad ye let the bonni'e may die i' your hand, And the mugwort growing in the land ! They immediately plucked the herb, gave her the juice of it, and she was restored...
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