 | Samuel Butler - 1744 - 498 стор.
...your Raillery. Sir (quoth the Voice) y' are no fuch Sophi, As you wou'd have the World judge of ye. And for my Pranks, Men call me by The Name of Robin Good-fellow. See Old Ballad of Robin Good-fellow. Mr. Peck's New Memoin of Milton, p. 2b. Bibliotbeca Pepyftaa.... | |
 | 1765 - 404 стор.
...inftead, And wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho ! no From hag-bred Merlins time have I Thus nightly revell'd to and fro; And for my pranks men call me by The name of Robin Good-fellow. Fiends, ghofts, and fprites, n> Who haunt the nightes, The hags and goblins do me know ; And beldames old My... | |
 | 1783 - 360 стор.
...And wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho ! M z From From hag-bred Merlins time have I Thus nightly revel'd to and fro ; And, for my pranks, men call me by The name of Robin Good-fellow : Fiends, ghofts, and fprites, That haunt the nights, The hags and goblins do me know , And belldames old My... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1794 - 428 стор.
...wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho! n« From hag-bred Merlin's time have I T hus nightly revelf'd to RIK! fro .. And for my pranks men call me by The name of Robin Good-fellow. Fiends, ghofts, and fprites, nJ Who haunt the nightes, The hags and goblins do me know ; And beldames old My... | |
 | 1819 - 394 стор.
...country dances : as in Drayton's Poly-olbion, Song 25. ' Dance many a merry round, and many a hydegy.' When larks 'gin sing Away we fling, And babes new-born steal as we go, An elf in bed We leave instead, And wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho ! From hag-bred Merlin's time have... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 584 стор.
...to the old ballad of Robin Goodfellow : " From hag-bred Merlin's time have I Thus nightly revell'd to and fro, And, for my pranks men call me by The name of Robin Goodfellow." To those traditionary opinions Milton has reference in L' Allegro :— " Then to the spicy nut-brown... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1823 - 450 стор.
...minstrelsies. When larks 'gin sing, 105 Away we fling; And babes new borne steal as we go, And elfe in bed We leave instead, And wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho ! 110 From hag-bred Merlin's time have I Thus nightly revell'd to and fro: And for my pranks men call... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1825 - 386 стор.
...a fairy troop ; " When larks 'gin sing Away we fling, And babes new borne steal as we go, And elfe in bed We leave instead, And wend us laughing. Ho ! Ho ! Ho !" And again from the Irish Hudibras (8vo. London, 1689, p. 122), we learn that fairies " Drink dairies... | |
 | 1830 - 824 стор.
...in meadows greene, We nightly dance our hey-day guise ; And to oar fairy-king and queene We chaunt our moonlight minstrelsies. When larks 'gin sing,...Away we fling ; And babes, new-born, steal as we go, An elf in bed We leave instead, And wend us, laughing, ho ! ho ! ho ! From hag-bred Merlin's time have... | |
 | William Martin - 1852 - 434 стор.
...bed We leave instead. We wend us laughing, ho ! ho ! ho ! XI. From ancient times, in frolic I Hare nightly revelled to and fro ; And for my pranks, men call me by The name of ROBIN GOODFSLLOW I Fiends, ghosts, and sprites, Who haunte the nightes, The hags and goblins do me know ;... | |
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Thus nightly revell'd to and fro ; And for my pranks men call me by The name of Robin Good-fellow. 
