Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Trust me, Master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause that our good Queen Elizabeth did so often wish herself a Milkmaid all the month of May, because they are not troubled with fears and cares,... "
The Compleat Angler - Page 67
by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1863 - 304 pages
Full view - About this book

The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 6

Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...with me, and be my love. Venator — Trust me, my master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause...because they are not troubled with fears and cares, and sing sweetly all the day, and sleep securely all the night: and without doubt, honest, innocent,...
Full view - About this book

The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature ..., Volume 14

Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...with me, and be my love. Venator — Trust me, my master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause...because they are not troubled with fears and cares, and sing sweetly all the day, and sleep securely all the night : and without doubt, honest, innocent,...
Full view - About this book

The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 14

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 444 pages
...with me, and be my love. Venator — Trust me, my master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause...because they are not troubled with fears and cares, and sing sweetly all the day, and sleep securely all the night : and without doubt, honest, innocent,...
Full view - About this book

The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 9

Economics - 1901 - 694 pages
...the grass as she sang snatches of old songs or called to the distant cows. Isaac Walton thought it "not without cause that our good Queen Elizabeth did...often wish herself a milkmaid all the month of May." Like the queen, he saw the idyllic side of rural life. The dairy had its poetry and its prose for mistress...
Full view - About this book

Social Life Under the Stuarts

Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 350 pages
...If all the world and ' love were young.' Venator, much pleased, remarks that ' it was not with' out cause that our good Queen Elizabeth did so often '...because ' they are not troubled with fears and cares, and sing ' sweetly all the day, and sleep securely all the night ; ' and without doubt, honest, innocent,...
Full view - About this book

Social Life Under the Stuarts

Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 362 pages
...herself a milkmaid all the month of May, because ' they are not troubled with fears and cares, and sing ' sweetly all the day, and sleep securely all...doubt, honest, innocent, pretty Maudlin ' does so.' No doubt she did, especially if she lived in the house hard by which so took Venator's fancy for a...
Full view - About this book

The British classical authors: with biographical notices. On the basis of a ...

Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...my love' [etc. as on p. 19] 146 Viat. Trust me, my master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause that our good Queen Elizabeth did so often wish iso herself a milkmaid all the month of May, because they are not troubled with fears and cares, and...
Full view - About this book

AN ENGLISH PROSE MISCELLANY

JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...have done. (The Milkmaid sings.) Venator. Trust me, master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause...because they are not troubled with fears and cares, and sing sweetly all the day, and sleep securely all the night ; and without doubt, honest, innocent,...
Full view - About this book

Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...live with me, and be my love, etc.t Yen. Trust me, master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause...without doubt, honest, innocent, pretty Maudlin does so. I '11 bestow Sir Thomas Overbury's milkmaid's wish upon her, "That she may die in the spring, and being...
Full view - About this book

Century Readings for a Course in English Literature

John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - English literature - 1910 - 1174 pages
...herself a milkmaid all the month of May, because they are not 55 troubled with fears and cares, and the abandoned Earth, now leave it bare Even to the...which smile on its despair! He is made one with Nature I '11 bestow Sir Thomas Overbury's milkmaid's wish upon her, ' That she may die in the spring, and...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF