 Churne of Staffordshire Give laud and praises due, Who every meal can mend your cheer With tales both old and true : To William all give audience, And pray ye for his noddle, For all the fairies' evidence Were lost, if it were addle.  Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft - Side 153af Walter Scott - 1836 - 338 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 sider
...Staffordfhiro, Give laud and praifes due, Who cv'rv meal can mend your cheer With tales both old and new: To WILLIAM all give audience, And pray ye for his noddle ; for all the fairies evidence Were loft, if it were addle. « POLLIO. '"THE peaceful ev'ning breathes her balmy flore, The playful fchool-boys... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 sider
...shire Give laud and prayses due, Who every meale can mend your cheare With tales both old and true : To William all give audience, And pray ye for his noddle, For all the Fane's evidence Were lost, if that were addle. A AOJV SEZUITUR. (FROM " wrr RESTORED," 8vo. 1658.)... | |
 | 1819 - 394 sider
...Staffordshire, Give laud and praises due, Who every meal can mend your cheer With tales both old and true : To William all give audience, And pray ye for his...the fairies' evidence Were lost, if that were addle. BALLAD XXVIII. ON THE DEATH OF SIMON DE MONTFORT, EARL OF LEICESTER, AT THE BATTLE OF EVESHAM, 1266.... | |
 | Richard Gooch - 1823 - 310 sider
...Staffordshire, Give laud and praises due, Who every meal can mend your cheer, With tales both old and true : To William all give audience, And pray ye for his...the fairies' evidence Were lost, if that were addle. EPIGRAM. With bodkin drawn in Freedom's cause, The dread of each assailer, At Virtue's call comes little... | |
 | Cambridge tart - 1823 - 318 sider
...Staffordshire, Give laud and praises due, Who every meal can mend your cheer, With tales both old^and true : To William all give audience, And pray ye for his...the fairies' evidence Were lost, if that were addle. EPIGRAM. With bodkin drawn in Freedom's cause, The dread of each assailer, At Virtue's call comes little... | |
 | William Howitt - 1838 - 414 sider
...Staffordshire Give laud and praises due, Who every meal can mend your cheer With tales both old and true : To William all give audience, And pray ye for his...noddle ; For all the fairies' evidence Were lost if it were addle. Possibly the fairies may yet linger in the dales of Ettrick Forest, where poor Hogg... | |
 | 1845 - 356 sider
...else they take their ease.1' The remaining part of the poem is dedicated to the praise and glory o? old William Chourne, of Staffordshire, who remained...whence the concluding verse. "To William all give andience > And pray ye for his noddle, For all the fairies' evidence, Were lost if that were addle."*... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1846 - 242 sider
...Staffordshire, Give laud and praises due, Who, every meale, can mend your cheare With tales both old and true; To William all give audience, And pray ye for his...noddle, For all 'the Fairies' evidence Were lost if it were addle.' There, gentle reader, that was the way in which the Bishop-Poet spake of me. I warrant... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 sider
...Staffordshire Give laud and praises due, Who every meal can mend your cheer With tales both old and true : To William all give audience, And pray ye for his...noddle, For all the fairies' evidence Were lost, if it were addle. CORBET. 362.— THE VOLUBLE LADY. JANE AUSTEN. [Op the hundreds of Novels that have... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1870 - 426 sider
...and glory of old William Chourne of Staffordshire, who remained a true and staunch evidence in hehalf of the departed elves, and kept, much it would seem...fairies' evidence, Were lost if that were addle." * * CORBET'S Poems, edited by Octavius Gilchrist, p. 215. This "William Chourne appears to have attended... | |
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