...desire. No frost nor snow, nor wind, I trow, Can hurt me if I wold, — I am so wrapt, and thorowly lapt etc. And Tyb, my wife, that as her life Loveth well good ale to seek, Full oft drinks she, till you...

...no snow, no wind I trow, Could hurt me if it would ; I am so wrapp't, and thoroughly lapp't, Of this jolly good ale, and old. Back and side, go bare, go...send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old." From this last place they adjourned to the Black Boy in Old Millgate, where the party dined, and the...

...care, I nothing am a-cold ; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Back and sides go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold ! But belly, God send thes good ;ilj enough, Whether it be new cr old.' The bishop, it will be observed, speaks of ale, and...

...let me lie. (1. 1—2) 2 I am so wrapped, and throughly lapped of jolly good ale and old! (I. 16) 3 gh not as Thee. (1. 115-122) CH; FM; HelP; MePo; NAEL-1;...OAEL-1; OBS; PoEL-2; SeCP; SeCV-1 295 POETRY QUOTATIONS (1. 17-20) 21 This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor,...

...Maud bhoso: naked. Gc, bare. OSw, ballast: a "bare" load, not cargo, just for the balance and weight. Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand...send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old. —Song in Gammer Gurton 's Needle (1566), ii bhrag: emit a smell, pleasant or not. L, fragrare, fragrantum....

...sixteenth-century toper's lament, 'I cannot eat but little meat, My belly is not good', with its haunting refrain: Back and side go bare, go bare; Both foot and hand...send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old. One of the women, 'a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta', whose hair hung down to conceal a very...