 | Ballads, Danish - 1806 - 448 pages
...duller ? No, let us sing some roundelayes, To make our mirth the fuller. And, whilst thus inspir'd we sing, Let all the streets with echoes ring, Woods...hills, and every thing, Bear witness we are merry. OLD CHRISTMAS.* From the Pepys Collection of Ballads in Magdalen College, Cambridge, Vol. I. pp. 474-5.... | |
 | Robert Jamieson - Ballads, Danish - 1806 - 434 pages
...duller ? No, let us sing some roundelayes, To make our mirth the fuller. And, whilst thus inspir'd we sing, Let all the streets with echoes ring, Woods and hills, and every thing, Bear witness we are merrv. OLD CHRISTMAS.* From the Pepys Collection of Ballads in Magdalen College, Cambridge, Vol. I.... | |
 | 1807 - 856 pages
...Then wherefore in these merry daies, Should we, 1 pray, be duller? No, let us sing some, roundelavcs, To make our mirth the fuller. And. whilst thus inspired we sing, Lc'tall the streets with echoes ring, Woods and hills, and every thing, Bear witness we are merry.... | |
 | English literature - 1806 - 816 pages
...hen wherefore in these merry daies, Should we, I pray, be duller? No, letussingsoiiie-roundclayes. To make our mirth the fuller. And, whilst thus inspired...hills, and every thing. Bear witness we are merry. We were in great hopes of rmfling in this collection, a number of those artless expressions of sentiment... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...Some youths will now a mumming go, Some others play at Kowland-bo, And twenty other game boys rao, Because they will be merry. Then, wherefore, in these...Should we, I pray, be duller ? No, let us sing some roundclaycs, To make our mirth the fuller ; And, while thus inspired we sing. Let all the streets with... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...pray, be duller? No, let us sing some roundelayes, • , . To make our mirth the fuller. And, while thus inspired we sing, Let all the streets with echoes...hills, and every thing, Bear witness we are merry. The Venetians, on Christmas eve, eat a kind of pottage, called torta de lasagne, composed of oil, onions,... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...duller? No, let us »ing some roundelayes, To make our mirth the fuller. And, while we thus inspired sing, Let all the streets with echoes ring ; Woods...hills, and every thing, Bear witness we are merry. From Mr. Grant's " Popular Superstitions of the Highlands," we gather the following account :— •... | |
 | 1828 - 400 pages
...noddy. Some youths will now a mumming go, Some others play at Rowland bo, And twenty other game boys mo, Because they will be merry. Then, wherefore, in these...Should we, I pray, be duller ? No, let us sing some roundelayes To make our mirth the fuller ; And, while thus inspired we sing, Let all the streets with... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Ballads, English - 1829 - 460 pages
...Some youths will now a mumming go — Some others play at Rowland-bo, And twenty other games boys mo', Because they will be merry ! Then, wherefore in these...roundelays, To make our mirth the fuller. And, whilst we thus inspired do sing, Let all the streets with echoes ring — Woods and hills, and every thing,... | |
 | William Sandys - Carols - 1833 - 368 pages
...duller ? No, let us sing some roundelayes, To make our mirth the fuller. E And, whilst thus inspir'd we sing, Let all the streets with echoes ring, Woods...hills, and every thing, Bear witness we are merry. A CARROL FOR A WASSEL-BOWL, To be sung upon Twelfth-Day at Night, to the tune of '' Gallants, come... | |
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Because they will be merry. Then wherefore in these merry days Should we, I pray, be duller ? No, let us sing some roundelays, To make our mirth the fuller. And, whilst thus inspired we sing, Let all the streets with echoes ring, Woods and hills, and... 
