 | William Wallace Fyfe - 1860 - 190 sider
...merrily vent their tabor, And merrily went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theira which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days,...They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been. By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession, Their songs were Ave Maries, Their dances... | |
 | English poems - 1863
...rose, Then merrily went their tabor, And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen...late Elizabeth, And later, James came in, They never danc'd on any heath As when the time hath been. By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession,... | |
 | 1863
...rose, Then merrily went their tabor, And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain ; Rut since of late Elizabeth, And later, James came in, They never danc'd on any heath As when the... | |
 | 1867
...— " Witness those rings and rounclelayes Of theirs, which yet remaine, Were footed in Queen Marie's days On many a grassy plain. But since of late Elizabeth...They never danced on any heath As when the time hath bin. By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession : Their songs were Ave Maries, Their dances... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867
...disappearance of the English fairies very accurately when he writes : — ' But when of late Elizabeth, Or later James came in, They never danced on any heath, As when the time hath bin.' For the reign of James I marks — as far as the English nation is concerned — the sudden expansion... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1870
...merrily, merrily went their tabor, And nimbly went their toes. " Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed, in Queen...They never danced on any heath As when the time hath bin. " By which we note, the fairies Were of the old profession, Their songs were Ave Maries, Their... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 672 sider
...rose, Then merrily went their tabor, And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen...late Elizabeth, And later, James came in, They never danc'd on any heath As when the time hath been. By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession,... | |
 | 1909
...their tabor, And nimbly went their toes." " Witness these rings and roundelays Of theirs which still remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days, On many...late Elizabeth, And later James came in, They never dance on any hearth As when the time hath bin." Isn't it charming ? Could it ever have been done better,... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872
...rose, Then merrily went their tabor, And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen...They never danced on any heath. As when the time hath been. By which we note the Fairies Were of the old profession ; Their songs were Ave Marys, Their dances... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1872 - 406 sider
...merrily, merrily went their tabor, And merrily went their toes. " Witness, those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed, in Queen...They never danced on any heath As when the time hath bin. ' By which we note, the fairies Were of the old profession, Their songs were Ave Maries, Their... | |
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Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been. 
