 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1847 - 370 pages
...Carol as sung at Queen's College, Oxford, and given in Dibdin's Ames. Vol. ii. p. 252. The boar's-head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary ;...convivio. Caput Apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's-head, as I understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land, Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...boar's head brought into the hall in procession on Christmas-day, while the old carol is sung — " The Boar's head in hand bear I Bedeck'd with bays...and rosemary ; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Qui estis in convivio, Caput Apri defero, Reddens laudes Domino." A little lower down the High-street... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 492 pages
...acceptable to such of my readers as are curious in these grave and learned matters, I give it entire. The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays...defero, Reddens laudes domino. The boar's head, as 1 understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land, Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland Let us servire... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1849 - 538 pages
...acceptable to such of my readers as are curious in these grave and learned matters, I give it entire. The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays...defero, Reddens laudes domino. The boar's head, as 1 understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land, Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland Let us servire... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 484 pages
...acceptable to such of my readers as are curious in these grave and learned matters, I give it entire. The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays...you, my masters, be merry, . Quot estis in convivio. 1 Caput apri defero, Reddens laudes domino. The boar's head, as I understand, Is the rarest dish in... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - American fiction - 1849 - 512 pages
...most elaborately disguised, and singing a stave of a classical old song — which ran as follows — " The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you, masters, merry be, Quot, quot estis in convivio." Which was received with great applause. The commander-in-chief,... | |
 | sir John Bernard Burke - 1850 - 516 pages
...chaunt, as the procession moved along : — " ' The boar's head in hand bring I, Bedeck'd with bay and rosemary; And I pray you, my masters, be merry Quot estis in convivio. Capnt apri defero Reddtns landed domino. "'The boar's head, as I understand, Is the rarest dish in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 488 pages
...acceptable to such of my readers as are curious in these grave and learned matters, I give it entire. The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays...defero, Reddens laudes domino. The boar's head, as 1 understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land. Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland Let us servire... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1852 - 580 pages
...acceptable to such of my readers as are curious in these grave and learned matters, I give it entire , The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays...Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero. Reddens landea domino. The boar's head, as 1 understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land, Which thus bedeck'd... | |
 | England - 1853 - 428 pages
...<fcc. of the college : the following carol is sung as the head is slowly borne to the dinner-table. " The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays...laudes Domino. The boar's head, as I understand, Is the bravest dish in all the land ; When thus bedeck 'd with a gay garland, Let us servite cantico. Caput... | |
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The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you, my masters, be merry Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero, Reddens laudes domino. 
