 | Percy Society - 1840 - 584 ページ
...that the several versions vary considerably from each other. Tune — " Come, follow my love," &e. WHEN Flora with her fragrant flowers bedeckt the earth so trim and gay, And Neptune with his dainty showers came to present the month of May, King Henry would a hunting... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 434 ページ
...that the several versions vary considerably from each other. Tune — " Come, follow my love," &c. WHEN Flora with her fragrant flowers bedeckt the earth so trim and gay, King Henry would a hunting ride, over the river Thames passed he, Unto a mountain-top also did... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1844 - 178 ページ
...Chronicles for the year 1511, but the ballad is probably a century more modern. WHEN Flora with her flagrant flowers Bedeckt the earth so trim and gaye, And Neptune with his daintye showers Came to present the month of Maye ; King Henrye rode to take the ayre, Over the river of Thames past hee ; When eighty... | |
 | 1845 - 258 ページ
...dramatic piece ; in all which Shakspeare concurs with this ballad. SIR ANDREWE BARTON. Dati t$c first. " WHEN Flora with her fragrant flowers Bedeckt the earth...Neptune with his daintye showers, Came to present the mouthe of Maye ;" King Henrye rode to take the ayre, Over the river of Thames past hee ; When eighty... | |
 | 1847 - 584 ページ
...however, as Percy's version (that best known) bears evident marks of being an " improved edition." " When Flora with her fragrant flowers bedeckt the earth so trim and gay, And Neptune with his dainty showers came to present the month of May ; King Henry would a hunting... | |
 | 1851 - 362 ページ
...(chiefly from a block-letter copy in the Pepys collection), as also by conjecture. THE FIRST PART. " WHEN Flora with her fragrant flowers Bedeckt the earth so trim and gaye, And Neptune with his daintve showers Came to present the monthe of Maye* j" King Henrye rode to take the ayre, 6 Over the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853 - 464 ページ
...extensive information, we have been frequently indebted. 358 . . ALp I fitfSfifi SlR ANDREW BARTON. HEN Flora with her fragrant flowers Bedeckt the earth...daintye showers Came to present the monthe of Maye ; King Henrye rode to take the ayre, Over the river of Thames past hee ; When eighty merchants of London... | |
 | Joseph S. Moore - 1853 - 900 ページ
...cbronicles, under the year i Ml :' it Is told by Hume, (Hist, of England, ch. 27.) THE FIRST PART. HEN Flora with her fragrant flowers Bedeckt the earth...daintye showers Came to present the monthe of Maye; King Henrye rode to take the ayre, Over the river of Thames past hee; When eighty merchants of London... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1859 - 344 ページ
...from a black-letter copy in the British Museum, " printed by and for WO, and sold by the booksellers." WHEN Flora with her fragrant flowers, Bedeckt the earth so trim and gay, And Neptune with his dainty showers, Came to present the month of May, King Henry would a-hunting... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 336 ページ
...latter (chiefly from a black-letter copy in the Pepys collection) as also by conjecture. THE FIRST PART. [WHEN Flora with her fragrant flowers Bedeckt the...his daintye showers Came to present the monthe of Maye;]1 King Henrye rode to take the ayre, 5 Over the river of Thames past hee ; When eighty merchants... | |
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Over the river of Thames past hee ; When eighty merchants of London came, And downe they knelt upon their knee. " O yee are welcome, rich merchants ; Good saylors, welcome unto mee. 
