 The lady speaks again in Welsh I understand thy kisses and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation, But I will never be a truant, love, Till I have learned thy language, for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned, Sung by a fair...  The Monthly Magazine - Page 2991810Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 406 pages
...loftiest expansion — from the ;ase and familiarity of measured conversation to the lyrical sounds ' Of ditties highly penned, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division to her lute.' it is the only blank verse in the language, except Milton's, that for •self... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...But I will never be a truant, love, 2oo Till I have learnt thy language, for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower With ravishing division to her lute. GLENDOWER Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad. The lady speaks again in Welsh... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 340 pages
...200 But I will never be a truant, love, Till I have learned thy language ; for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bow' r, With ravishing division, to her lute. GLENDOWER Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad. The... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...But I will never be a truant, love, / Till I have learnt thy language, for thy tongue / Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned, / Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower / With ravishing division, to her lute. William Shakespeare, 1597, Henry IV, Part i, III. i. 202 14:39 MISTRESS QUICKLY... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...husband cannot understand (mi), but he likes the sound of her voice : . . . thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned. Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division to her lute. (in.i) Mortimer, Sir Hugh (3H.VI) He and Sir John Mortimer are uncles and followers... | |
 | Megan S. Lloyd - Drama - 2007 - 230 pages
...disputatton. But I will never be a truant, love, Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned. Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With a ravtshing divtsion, to her lute. (III.i.202-208) Interestingly, Lady Mortimer's stage direction requests... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1871 - 268 pages
...one of these same metre ballad-mongers." Again, Mortimer tells his wife — " Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned ; Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division to her lute." Falstaff, too, "the merry knight," is always hahbling of song and ballad* —... | |
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