 | 1765 - 404 pages
...the maids to pleafe, At midnight I card up their wooll; And while they fleepe, and take their eafe, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill • 5J Their malt up ftill; I drefs their hemp, I Ipin their tow. If any 'wake, And would me take,... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 456 pages
...Yet now and then, the maids to please, , 7 At midnight I card up their wooll ; And while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill f . , 55 Their malt up still ; 1 dress their hemp, I spin their tow. If any 'wake, And would me take,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1825 - 392 pages
...! Yet, now and then, the maids to please, At midnight I card up their wool ; And while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still, I dress their hempe, and spin their tow ; If any walke, And would me talke, I wend me, laughing ho !... | |
 | 1823 - 816 pages
...nought, but ho, ho, ho ! Yet now and then the maids to please, At midnight I card up their wooll ; And while they sleep, and take their ease, With wheel...flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still, I dress their hemp, and spin their tow ; If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho,... | |
 | 1825 - 390 pages
...! Yet, now and then, the maids to please, At midnight I card up their wool ; And while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still, I dress their hempe, and spin their tow ; If any walke, And would me talke, I wend me, laughing ho !... | |
 | 1825 - 392 pages
...Yet, now and then, the maids to please, At midnight. I card up their wool ; And while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still, I dress their hempe, and spin their tow ; If any walke, And would me talke, I wend me, laughing ho !... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pages
...! Yet, now and then, the maids to please, At midnight I card up their wool ; And while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still, I dress their hempe, and spin their tow ; If any walke, And would me talke, I wend me, laughing ho !... | |
 | 1833 - 574 pages
...nought, but ho, ho, ho ! Yet now and then, the maids to please, At midnight I card up their wooll ; And while they sleep, and take their ease, With wheel...flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow. If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...! Yet now and then, the maids to please, At midnight I card up their wooll ; And while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pulL I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow. If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me laughing, ho, ho, ho... | |
 | 1835 - 378 pages
...! Yet now and then, the maids to please, At midnight I card up their wooll ; And while they sleepe, and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull, I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow. If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me laughing, ho, ho, ho... | |
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And while they sleepe and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow, If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho... 
