 Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours with mutual chirpings find, I early rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away; A-field I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my kine (for so should...  Scenes of the Olden Time - Page 19by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...Prior and Convent and the whole Town, humbly kneeling in the Church-yard upon Two Hard Pointed Stones." Afield I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my kine; for so should housewives do. GAY. Can she be faithful to her luckless lord Who will be absent in affliction's hour ? Is it not then... | |
 | John Gay - 1879 - 606 pages
...paramours with mutual chirpings find, I early rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chas'd the stars away; « A-field I went, amid the morning...dew, To milk my kine (for so should housewives do) The first I spied, and the first swain we see, In spite of fortune, shall our true-love be. Ver. 21.J... | |
 | William Jones - Superstition - 1880 - 778 pages
...Christmas to Easter. Gay, in his " Shepherd's Week " (Pastoral iv.), says in allusion to Valentines Day : " A-field I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my kine (for so should housewives do) : Thee first I spyM ; and the first swain we see, In spite of fortune shall our true love be." IT was considered unlucky... | |
 | William Jones - Folklore - 1880 - 584 pages
...Christmas to Easter. Gay, in his " Shepherd's Week " (Pastoral iv.), says in allusion to Valentines Day : " A-field I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my kine (for ^o should housewives do) : Thee first I spy'd ; and the first swain we see, In spite of fortune shall... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1882 - 298 pages
...once. Gay, in his admirable Shepherd's Week, has a capital description of the " first seen" method : Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours with mutual chirpings find, I rearly rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away ; Afield I went amid... | |
 | Edward Walford, George W. Redway - Archaeology - 1884 - 354 pages
...down and challenged him for her valentine." It is apparently of this custom that Gay writes : — " Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours with mutual chirping find, I early rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away, Afield... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...youth. With my sharp heel I three times mark the gromi, And turn mo thrico around, around, around. Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours...break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away ; И A-field I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my kino (for so should huswives do) ; Thee first... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 202 pages
...by their flight I never can divine, When I shall couple with my Valentine." Herrick's Hespnides. " Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours...mutual chirpings find, I early rose, just at the break ot day, Before the sun had chas'd the stars away ; A-field I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my... | |
 | Archaeology - 1884 - 640 pages
...came down and challenged him for her valentine." It is apparently of this custom that Gay writes : — "Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours with mutual chirping find, I early rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away, Afield... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1888 - 876 pages
...so that each of the young men lights upon a girl that he calls his valentine, and each of the girls I early rose just at the break of day, Before the sun had chas'd the stars away ; A field I went, amid the morning dew Го milk my kine,(for so should house-wives... | |
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