 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1925 - 502 pages
...pleasure entertained me ; 't was a handsome Milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...nightingale. Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it j "t was that smooth song, which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago : and the Milkmaid's... | |
 | Augustine Birrell, A. B., Nicholas Ling, Hugh Macdonald - English poetry - 1925 - 282 pages
...poem is printed in Walton's Compleat Angler 1653 under the title of The Milkmaid's Song — ''twas that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago' — and there is a manuscript version in the Thornborough Commonplace Book. (See Mr IngraIn's Christopher Afarlowe... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1653 - 284 pages
...a fecond pleafere entertained me, 'twas a handfomc Milk-maid, that had caft away all care, and fung like a Nightingale -, her voice was good, and the Ditty fitted for it-, 'twas that fmooth Song which was made by #/> Marlotvjnow at kaft fifty years ago-, and the Milk maids... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - Antiques & Collectibles - 1981 - 274 pages
...time he fished this stream. Crossing into a nearby field, he had found a handsome milkmaid who sang "that Smooth Song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the Milkmaids mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his yonger dayes." In... | |
 | Millar MacLure - Reference - 1995 - 219 pages
...loved that loved not at first sight?' The Passionate Shepherd was the most popular song of the time, 'that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago', says Izaak Walton in 'The Compleat Angler' (1653, 1655). Parody and burlesque, from whatever motives... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 500 pages
...first edition of 1653 Walton (ed. Keynes, 1929, p. 61) — as Percy noted in 1765 — had spoken of "that smooth song, which was made by Kit. Marlow, now at least fifty years ago: and . . . an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days." Manuscript copies... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 318 pages
...\edEnglanflsHelicon'; then again in 1651 in The Cornpleat Angler by Isaac Walton, who quoted it "under the character of 'that smooth song, which was made by Kit. Marlow, now at least fifty years ago. . . . Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.'"17 Here is the text of Marlowe's poem as it was printed... | |
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As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too... 
