 | Edward Smith - Beverages - 1873 - 546 pages
...Queen's College, Oxford, and the following ditty sung : — The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedecked with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you my masters be merry, Quot estis in convivio. The boar's head, as I understand, Is the bravest dish in all the land ; When thus bedecked with a gay... | |
 | Edward Smith - Beverages - 1873 - 546 pages
...Queen's College, Oxford, and the following ditty sung : — The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedecked with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you my masters be merry, Quot esti? in convivio. The boar's head, as I understand, Is the bravest dish in all the land ; When thus... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1877 - 802 pages
...song, as at present sung in Queens' College, runs thus : — The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedecked with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you, my masters,...Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero, Reddens la1tdes Domino. The boar's head, as I understand, Is the bravest dish in all the land ; When thus bedecked... | |
 | English periodicals - 1877 - 796 pages
...song, as at present sung in Queens' College, runs thus : — The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedecked with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot tstis in comiivio. Caput apri dtfero. Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head, as I understand, Is the... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1879 - 402 pages
...stave of the Boar's Head song is sung : it is as follows : The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedecked with bays and rosemary, And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio. All then join in the chorus : Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. After this the procession advances... | |
 | Christiana Jane Douglas - 1879 - 344 pages
...a cask of ale and other viands, all singing — " The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedecked with rue and rosemary, And I pray you my masters be merry, Quot estis in convivio," and so on to the end of the ancient ditty, which is said to have appeared in a collection of carols,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) - 1880 - 444 pages
...acceptable to such of my readers as are curioui In these grave and learned matters, I give it entire. The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you, my musters, be merry Quot estist in convivio. Caput apri defero, Reddens laudes domino. The boar's head,... | |
 | 1880 - 96 pages
...of the college assembled at dinner joining in the chorus : The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedecked with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio. C'aput Api'i dej'ero, Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's beaxl, as I understand, Is the rarest dish in all... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...as are curious in these grave and learned matters, 1 give it entire. The boar's head in hand bear 1, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Qaot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The table was literally loaded with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 550 pages
...acceptable to such of my readers as are curious iu these grave and learned matters, I give it entire. " The boar's head in hand bear I, • Bedeck'd with...I understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land, ' AVhieh thus bedeck 'd with a gay garlund Lot us servire cantico. Caput apri defero, etc. "Our steward... | |
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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. 
