 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 886 pages
...I crop'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid ; — The latch moved up, when who should first come in, But, in his proper person, — Lubberkin ! " Grose tells us that " a scadding of peas " is a custom in the North of boiling the common grey... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1901 - 492 pages
...when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid ; The latch mov'd up, when who should first come in, But, in his proper...passage, which seems to have escaped the notice of all writer* on this subject, — The peascod greene oft with no little toyle Hee'd seeke for in the fattest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1901 - 612 pages
...when cropp'd, I safely home convcy'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid ; The latch mov'd up, when who should first come in But, in his proper person, Lubberkin." The following is from Browne's Brittania's Pastorals: — " The peascod greene oft with no little toyle... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 618 pages
...when cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid ; The latch mov'd up, when who should first come in But, in his proper person, Lubberkin." The following is from Browne's Brittania's Pastorals: — " The peascod greene oft with no little toyle... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 480 pages
...when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid. The lutch mov'd up, when who should first come in, But in his proper person — Lubberkin." If you walk nine times round a fairy rath at the full of the moon, the entrance into the underground... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 490 pages
...when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid. The latch mov'd up, when who should first come in, But in his proper person — Lubberkin." If you walk nine times round a fairy rath at the full of the moon, the entrance into the underground... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 466 pages
...when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid. The lutch mov'd up, when who should first come in, But in his proper person — Luhberkin." If you walk nine times round a fairy rath at the full of the moon, the entrance into... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - Proverbs - 1903 - 506 pages
...cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid : . . . The latch moved up, when who should first come in, But, in his proper person, — Lubberkin. I broke my yarn, surprised the sight to see, Sure sign that he would break his word with me, Eftsoons... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 528 pages
...wheel I turned, and sang a ballad new, While from the spindle I the fleeces drew ; The latch moved up, when who should first come in, But in his proper person — Lubberkin ? I broke my yarn, surprised the sight to see, Sure sign that he would break his word with me. Eftsoons... | |
 | Titus Maccius Plautus - Classical literature - 1913 - 112 pages
...I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er my door the spell in secret lay'd . . . The latch moved up, when who should first come in, But in his proper person, — Lubberkin. 826. abi, 'get along', usually implying dissatisfaction or incredulity; cf. Mil. 291 abi, non uerisimile... | |
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As peascods once I pluck'd, I chanced to see One that was closely fill'd with three times three, Which when I cropp'd I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid... 
