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 67by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1863 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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