 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 552 pages
...Poetica stromata, 1648, ]8mo. It is also in a preceding edition of the bishop's s, 1647, 18mo. " Farewell rewards and fairies ! Good housewives now may say;...less Than mayds were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds sixepence in her shoe ?" Sc. 2. p. 170. ± ORE. To the best lride bed will we, Which... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 560 pages
...stromata, 1648, 18mo. It is also in a preceding edition of the bishop's poems, 1647, 18mo. " Farewell rewards and fairies ! Good housewives now may say...dairies Doe fare as well as they : And though they sweepc their hearths no less Than mayds were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds sixepence... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...griefs to this are jolly, Nought so damn'd as melancholy. Dr. CORBET* THE FAIRIES FAREWELL. •pAREWELL, rewards and Fairies! .*- Good housewives now may say;...less Than mayds were wont to doe, Yet who of late for clean el iness Finds six-pence in her shoe ? Lament, lament, old Abbies, The fairies lost command !... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 456 pages
...Oxford about three years, and afterwards as long bishop of Norwich, died in 1635, setat. 52. J*ABEWELL rewards and Fairies ! Good housewives now may say ; For now foule sluts in dairies, Poe fare as well as they : And though they sweepe their hearths no less 5 Than mayds were wont to doe,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...audience. And pray yee for his noddle; For all the'fairies evidence Were lost, if it were addle. FAREWELL, rewards and Fairies! Good housewives now may say;...they; And though they sweepe their hearths no less Thau mayds were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds six-pence in her shoe I Lament,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 418 pages
...SUPERSTITIONS. Farewell rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say; For now fowle sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they : And though they sweepe their hearths no lesse Than maids were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleanlinesse Finds sixpence in her shooe ? BISHOP... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1823 - 450 pages
...Oxford about three years, and afterwards as long bishop of Norwich, died in 1635, a-tat. 52. FAREWELL rewards and Fairies! Good housewives now may say;...they: And though they sweepe their hearths no less 5 Than mayds were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleaneliness Finds sixe-pence in her shoe '• Lament,... | |
 | Scotland - 1827 - 808 pages
...less than three per cent. But they are all gone ! And we may sing, with jolly Dick Corbet, " Farewell, rewards and fairies! Good housewives now may say,...dairies Doe fare as well as they : And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to doe, Yet who, of late, for cleanliness, Finds sixpence... | |
 | John Roby - Lancashire (England) - 1831 - 408 pages
...so that one of the principal features in our story no longer exists. THE FAIRIES' CHAPEL. Farewell rewards and fairies ! Good housewives now may say...wont to doe, Yet who of late, for cleaneliness, Finds size-pence in her shoe?" Percy t Rtttques. ABOUT two miles north from Rochdale lies the hamlet of Healey,... | |
 | 320 pages
...: " Farewell rewards and fairies, Good house wives now may say, For now fowle sluts in dairies, Do fare as well as they : , . And though they sweepe their hearths no lesse Than mnides were wont to doe, Vet who of late for cleanlinesse, Findes sixpence in her shooe... | |
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AREWELL rewards and Fairies ! Good housewives now may say ; For now foule sluts in dairies Doe fare as well as they : And though they sweepe their hearths no less Than mayds were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleaneliness Finds sixe-pence in her shoe... 
