 | 1783 - 360 ページ
...wheel to thread their flax I pull ; I grind at mill Their malt up ftill, I drefs their hemp, I fpin their tow ; If any wake, And would me take, I wend me laughing, ho, ho, ho! When houfe or hearth doth fluttifh lie, I pinch the maidens black and blue ; And from the bed the bed-clothes... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 456 ページ
...their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill f . , 55 Their malt up still ; 1 dress their hemp, I spin their tow. If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho ! . ... 90 When house or harth doth sluttish lye, I pinch the maidens black and blue 5 The bed-clothes... | |
 | 1819 - 394 ページ
...while they sleep, snort, f — t, and fease, With wheel to thread their flax I pull j I grind at mill Their malt up still, I dress their hemp, I spin their...doth sluttish lie, I pinch the maidens black and blue ; And from the bed the bed-clothes I Pull off, and lay them nak'd to view ; 'Twixt sleep and wake,... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1823 - 450 ページ
...while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill 55 Their malt up still; I dress their hemp, I spin their...And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho! 60 When house or harth doth sluttish lye, I pinch the maidens black and blue; The bed-clothes from... | |
 | 1823 - 816 ページ
...With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still, I dress their hemp, and spin their tow ; If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho ! When men do traps and engines set In loop-holes, where the vermine creepe, Who from their fields and houses... | |
 | William Martin - 1852 - 434 ページ
...wheel to threads their flax I pull I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I drew their hemp, I spun their tow ; If any wake And would me take, I wend me laughing, ho ! 'no ! ho ! VII. When any need to borrow ought, We lend them what they do require ; And for the use... | |
 | 1833 - 574 ページ
...And while they sleep, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their...take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho ! When house or harth doth sluttish lye, I pinch the maidens black and blue ; The bed-clothes from the bedd pull I,... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 ページ
...And while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pulL I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their...take, I wend me laughing, ho, ho, ho ! When house or harth doth sluttish lye, I pinch the maidens black and blue ; The bed-clothes from the bedd pull I,... | |
 | 1835 - 378 ページ
...And while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull, I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their...take, I wend me laughing, ho, ho, ho ! When house or harth doth sluttish lye, I pinch the maidens hlack and blue ; The bed-clothes from the bedd pull I,... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1840 - 570 ページ
...wool, And while they sleep and take ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull, I grind at mill, Their malt up still, I dress their hemp, I spin their tow, If any wake, And would me take, I wend mo laughing, ho, ho, ho. When men do traps and engines set, In loop holes where the vermin creep, Who... | |
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Who's this?" I answer nought but ho ho ho ! Yet now and then, the maids to please, At midnight I card up their wool ; And, while they sleep and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at... 
