 | 1895 - 588 sider
...visibility, and a prognostic of the advancing cyclone, as the old ballad-monger properly expressed it : — ' I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi" the auld moon...we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.' But the portent is special to these latitudes ; further south — at Malta, for instance — the phenomenon... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 sider
...gude red goud, " Out o'er the sea wi' me. " Make ready, make ready, my merrymen a' ! " Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear, " I fear a deadly storm ! t " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, " Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; " And if we gang to sea,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 sider
...gude red goud, " Out o'er the sea wi' me. " Make ready, make ready, my merrymen a ' ! " Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear,...gang to sea, master, " I fear we'll come to harm." • Gane—Suffice. f Half-fou—l\\e eighth part of a peck. They hadna sail'da league, a league, A... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 sider
...gude red goud, " Out o'er the sea wi' me. '' Make ready, make ready, my merrymen a' ! " Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear,...gang to sea, master, " I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 sider
...gude red goud, " Out o'er the sea wi' me. " Make ready, make ready, my merrymen a'! " Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear, " I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new inoon, late yestreen, " Wi' the auld moon in her arm; " And, if we gang to sea, master, " I fear well... | |
 | 1863 - 376 sider
...foreboded. Great confidence is placed in this old prognostic : " I saw the new moon late yestreen AV'i' the auld moon in her arm, And if we gang to sea, master, I f'uar we'll come to harm." — Sir Patrick Spens. (6.) Haloes predict a storm (rain and wind, or snow... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1827 - 566 sider
...half-fou o' gude red gowd Out owre the sea wi' me. " Make ready, make ready my merrymen a' ! Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake ! my master dear,...we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 sider
...half-fou o' gude red gowd Out owre the sea wi' me. "Make ready, make ready my merrymen a'! Our gude ship sails the morn." "Now, ever alake! my master dear,...we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - 1829 - 460 sider
...snow or sleet, Our ship maun sail, the morn. 0 ever alack ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm. 1 saw the new moon late yest'reen, Wi' the auld moon...in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we '11 suffer harm. They hadna' sailed a league on sea, A league but barely one, of year;" which the... | |
 | 1841 - 956 sider
...prognostic of a storm occurs in an ancient ballad, entitled " Sir Patrick Spens," of Scottish history: — " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon...we gang to sea master, I fear we'll come to harm." NOTES ON TRINIDAD IN 1803. — By Capt. GH Columbine, RN (Concluded from p. 593.) THE CURRENTS. —... | |
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Now, ever alake ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm. 
