The Ingoldsby Legends, Or, Mirth and Marvels: Third series

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Richard Bentley, 1852 - 364 páginas
 

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Página 286 - The Lady Jane was tall and slim, The Lady Jane was fair, Alas ! for Sir Thomas ! — she grieved for him, As she saw two...
Página 363 - Ran free, As I laye a-thynkynge, most pitiful to see ! As I laye a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, Merrie sang the Birde as she sat upon the...
Página 287 - I've ate; but any So good ne'er tasted before! — They're a fish, too, of which I'm remarkably fond. — Go — pop Sir Thomas again in the Pond — Poor dear!— HE'LL CATCH US SOME MORE!!
Página 287 - And from each of his pockets they pulled out two! And the gardener himself had secreted a few, As well we may suppose ; For when he came running to give the alarm He had six in the basket that hung on his arm. Good Father John Was...
Página 282 - Thomas's place. Wearily, wearily, all that night, That live-long night did the hours go by ; And the Lady Jane, In grief and in pain, She sat herself down to cry ! And Captain...
Página 280 - When the grass is so green, and the sun is so bright, And all things are teeming with life and with- light, — That the whole of the house was thrown into affright, For no soul could conceive what was gone with the Knight! It seems he had taken a light breakfast — bacon, An egg...
Página 286 - Had not been by her side, With the Gardener ; they both their assistance supplied, And managed to hold her up — But, when she
Página 288 - If you've spectacles, don't have a tortoiseshell rim, And don't go near the water, — unless you can swim ! Married Ladies, especially such as are fair, Tall, and slim, I would next recommend to beware How, on losing one spouse, they give way to despair ; But let them reflect, ' There are fish, and no doubt...
Página 275 - spees," with a tortoise-shell rim, And his hat was remarkably broad in the brim, And she was uncommonly Fond of him, And they were a loving pair...
Página 283 - t will be, — nor long the day, — Ere we, like him, shall pass away ! Yon sun that now our bosom warms, Shall shine, — but shine on other forms ; — Yon Grove, whose choir so sweetly cheers Us now, shall sound on other ears, — The joyous Lamb, as now, shall play, But other eyes its sports survey— The stream we loved shall roll as fair, The flowery sweets, the trim Parterre, Shall scent, as now, the ambient air. — The Tree, whose bending branches bear The one loved name — shall yet be...

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