 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 692 pages
...doth call, And bids them to be ready all, She would go see her summer hall, She could no longer tarry. Her chariot ready straight is made, Each thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be stay'd, For nought must her be letting: Four nimble gnats the horses were, Their harnesses of gossamere,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...doth call, And bids them to be ready all, She would go sec her summer hall, She could no longer tarry. Her chariot ready straight is made, Each thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be stay'd, For nought must her be letting : Four nimble gnats the horses were, The harnesses of gossamer,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1836 - 416 pages
...Shakspcare's Queen Mab, that we are almost tempted to conclude, either that Dray ton borrowed from Shakspeare, or our great dramatist from him : both, it will be...reign of James I. "Her chariot ready straight is made, Karl; thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be staid, For nought must be her letting... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1845 - 352 pages
...doth call, And bids them to be ready all, She would go see her summer-hall, She would no longer tarry. Her chariot ready straight is made, Each thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be stay'd, For naught must her be letting : Four nimble gnats the horses were, Their harnesses of gossamere,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...her lover Pigwiggen. The reader may compare it with Mercutio's description in Romeo and Juliet : — Her chariot ready straight is made ; Each thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be stayed, For nought must be her letting ; Four nimble guests the horses were, Their harnesses of gossamer,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1855 - 172 pages
...be content to have them so, and to believe Puck to have been Robin's fairy style. NOTE XIX. p. 24. " Her chariot ready straight is made ; Each thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be stayed, For naught must be her letting: Four nimble gnats the horses were, Their harnesses of gossamere,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Animals - 1855 - 170 pages
...be content to have them so, and to believe Puck to have been Robin's fairy style. NOTE XIX. p. 24. " Her chariot ready straight is made; Each thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be stayed, For naught must be her letting: Four nimble gnats the horses were, Their harnesses of gossamere,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...doth call, And bids them to be ready all, She would go see her summer hall, She could no longer tarry. Her chariot ready straight is made, Each thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be stay'd, For nought must her be letting : Four nimble gnats the horses were, The harnesses of gossamer,... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...his great tragedy, is revolting in its horror.] Cjje Jfiurii (£jmriat. $$i ER chariot ready strait is made, Each thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be stay'd. For nought must be her letting ; Four nimble gnats the horses were, Their harnesses of gossamere,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 624 pages
...her lover Pigwiggen. The reader may compare it with Mcrcutio's description in Romeo and Juliet:— Her chariot ready straight is made ; Each thing therein is fitting laid, That she by nothing might be stayed, For nought must be her letting ; Four nimble guests the horses were, Their harnesses of gossamer,... | |
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For naught must be her letting; Four nimble gnats the horses were, Their harnesses of gossamer, Fly Cranion her charioteer, Upon the coach-box getting. Her chariot of a snail's fine shell, Which for the colours did excel, The fair queen Mab becoming well,... 
