 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 560 pages
...This is the latter : " By the moone we sport and play, With the night begins our day j As we friske the dew doth fall, Trip it little urchins all, Lightly...little bee, Two by two, and three by three, And about goe wee, goe wee." Sc. 2. f). 4O. CAL. It would control my clam's God Setebos. In Dr. Farmer's note... | |
 | Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 462 pages
...called—Hunting, Hawking, Dancing, &c. ; set to music by Bennet, Pieri, and Havenscroft, 4to.] 13 Y the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day ; As we frisk the dew doth fall, Trip it, little Urchins all, Lightly as the little bee, XXXIV. THE ELVES DANCE.... | |
 | Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 444 pages
...caDed—Hunting, Hawking, Dancing, &c. -, set to music by Bennet, Fieri, and Kiivenscroft, 4to.] 13 Y the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day; As we frisk the dew doth fall, Trip it, little Urchins all, Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
 | Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 424 pages
...called—Hunting, Hawking, Dancing, &c. ; set to music by Beimel, Pier», and Ravenscroft, 4to.] O Y the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day ; As we frisk the dew doth fall, Trip it, little Urchins all, Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828 - 392 pages
...this piece, Mopso, Joculo, and Frisio are on the stage, and " Enter the Fairies singing and dancing." By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins...three by three; And about go we, and about go we. Jo. What mawmets are these ? Frit. O they be the faieries that haunt these woods. Mop. O we shall be... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1833 - 396 pages
...this piece, Mopso, Joculo, and Frisio are on the stage, and " Enter the Fairies singing and dancing." By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins...three by three; And about go we, and about go we. Jo. What mawmets are these ? Fris. O they be the faieries that haunt these woods. Mop. O we shall be... | |
 | Musa, Thomas Oliphant (president of the Madrigal society) - Madrigals - 1837 - 520 pages
...with twelve rustics habited like " satyrs : they dance, and then exeunt." ccxc. The Urchins'Dance. By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day: As we frisk, the dew doth fall; Trip it, little urchins all: Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
 | Francis Douce - Clowns in literature - 1839 - 678 pages
...are, the fairies dance, the elves dance, and the urchins dance. This is the latter: " By the moone we sport and play, With the night begins our day; As we friske the dew doth fall, Trip it little urchins all,' Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...thy cave! Words from Oman. (Cramer and Co.) GLEE,/or 3 Voices.—Dr. CALLCOTT. (2 Sopranos and Bass.) BY the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day; As we frisk the dew doth fall, Trip it little urchins all. Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1843 - 720 pages
...year. Or the song of the fairies— By the moon we sport and play, \Vith the night begins our day : A» Chambers The genius of Lyly was essentially lyrical. The songs in his plays seem to flow freely from nature.... | |
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By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day : As we dance the dew doth fall. Trip it, little urchins all, Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three by three, And about go we, and about go we. 
