 ... soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two, And...  The Fairy Mythology - Página 134de Thomas Keightley - 1828Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 168 páginas
...vulgarly supposed to be the work of elves and fairies in the night. So in Rom. and Jul, i. 4.: ' —plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks...sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes.' Drayton, in his Heroical Epistles, makes Elinor Cobham say: ' 0 that I were a witch, but for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 728 páginas
...And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night ; And bakes the elf-locks...sluttish hairs, Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes : This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, That presses them, and learns them first to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 176 páginas
...And being thns frighted swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab , That plats the manes of horses in the night, And bakes the elf-locks in fonl slnttish hairs, Which once nntangled mnch misfortnne bodes. Se« Ärieger« fä^rt fie fyin, tooranf... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1022 páginas
...And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats e ? One, but painted thus, Would be interpreted a...self-explication : * senses. What 's the matter? W bodes. This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, That presses them, and learns them first to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 706 páginas
...And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night ; And bakes the elf-locks...sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, That presses them, and learns them first to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 188 páginas
...wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night, And bakes the elf-locks...sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. Mer. True, I talk of dreams, Act I, Sc. 4. Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1867 - 356 páginas
...And — being thus frighted SWEARS a prayer or two And sleeps again This is that very MAB That plats the manes of horses in the night And bakes the elf-locks...sluttish hairs Which once untangled much misfortune BODES This exquisite passage of wit is to be pronounced " trippingly on the tongue/' and not to be... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1867 - 744 páginas
...impish work. These are the horse-hags described by Shakspeare : " That very Mab That plats the mimes of horses in the night, And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once entangled, much misfortune bodes." linn'-ii and Juliet. stable, he was assured by the groom, with much... | |
 | 442 páginas
...night, Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love. . . . This is that very MAB, That plats the manes of horses in the night ; And bakes the elf-locks...sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes."1 Ben Jonson. in his " Entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Althrope," in 1603, describes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1967 - 308 páginas
...And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plaits the manes of horses in the night And bakes the elf-locks...sluttish hairs, *> Which once untangled much misfortune bodes. This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, That presses them and learns them first to bear,... | |
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