 | Ballads, English - 1783 - 360 pages
...black and blue ; And from the bed the bed-clothes I Pull off, and lay them nak'd to view ; 'Twixt fleep and wake, I do them take, And on the key-cold floor...If out they cry, Then forth I fly, And loudly laugh I, ho, ho, ho ! When any need to borrow ought, We lend them what they do require; And for the ufe demand... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...bed-clothes from the sluggard, and then, as Robin Goodfellow says in the old ballad, " 'Twixt sleep and wake I do them take, And on the key-cold floor them throw." A respectful attention to their wants and inclinations, however, never failed to propitiate their good... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 380 pages
...sluggard, and then, as Robin Goodfellow says in the old ballad, • * Act II. sc. 2. " 'Twixt sleep and wake I do them take, And on the key-cold floor them throw." A respectful attention to their wants and inclinations, however, never failed to propitiate their good... | |
 | Arts - 1830 - 824 pages
...black and blue ; The bed-clothes from the bed pull I, And lay them naked all to view. 'Twixt sleep and wake, I do them take, And on the key-cold floor...forth I fly, And loudly laugh out ho ! ho ! ho ! When men do traps and engines get In loop-holes, where the vermin oreepe, Who from their foldcs and houses... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1833 - 574 pages
...black and blue ; The bed-clothes from the bedd pull I, And lay them naked all to view. 'Twizt sleep and wake, I do them take, And on the key-cold floor them throw. If out they cry, Then forth 1 fly, And loudly laugh out, ho, ho, ho ! When any need to borrowe ought, We lend them what they do... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - England - 1834 - 432 pages
...black and blue. The bed-clothes from the bedd pull 1, And lay them naked all to view. 'Twixt sleepe and wake I do them take, And on the key-cold floor...Then forth I fly, And loudly laugh out, ho, ho, ho !" Milton thus celebrates this spirit in his " L' Allegro." " Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 pages
...blnck and blue. The bed-clothes from the bedd pull I, And lay them naked all to view. ' IV. i;.t sleepe and wake I do them take, And on the key-cold floor...Then forth I fly, And loudly laugh out, ho, ho, ho !" Milton thus celebrates this spirit in his " L' Allegro." " Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...black and blue ; The bed-clothes from the bedd pull I, And lay them naked all to view. 'Twixt sleepe and wake, I do them take, And on the key-cold floor...ought, We lend them what they do require : And for the use demand we nought ; Our owne is all we do desire. If to repay, They do delay, Abroad amongst them... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...hlack and blue ; The bed-clothes from the bedd pull I, And lay them naked all to view. 'Twixt sleepe and wake, I do them take, And on the key-cold floor...ought, We lend them what they do require : And for the use demand we nought ; Our owne is all we do desire. If to repay, They do delay, Abroad amongst them... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...hlack and hlue ; The hed-clothes from the hedd pull I, And lay them naked all to view. 'Twixt sleepe and wake, I do them take, And on the key-cold floor...them throw. If out they cry, Then forth I fly, And londly laugh out, ho, ho, ho! When any need to horrowe ought, We lend them what they do require, And... | |
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Twixt sleepe and wake, I do them take, And on the key-cold floor them throw : If out they cry, then forth I fly, And loudly laugh out, ho, ho, ho ! When... 
