 | English drama - 1804 - 510 pages
...your sad songs, madam. Asp. Believe me, 'tis a very pretty one. Emd. How is it, madam ? SONG. Asp. Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear ; Say, I died true : My ?ore was false, liut I tcasfirm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 416 pages
...Sylvans, ifc.~\ This line recalls a pathetic little ballad, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy: Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew, Maidens, willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was true, From my hour of birth: Upon my buried body lie... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 pages
...Sylvans, #c.] This line recalls a pathetic little ballad, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy: Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew, Maidens, willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was true, From my hour of birth: Upon my buried body lie... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 428 pages
...Ivans, $fc.] This line recalls a pathetic little ballad, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy: Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew, Maidens, willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was true, From my hour of birth: Upon my buried body lie... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...illustrative of this mode of decorating the funerals of females who had been disappointed in love. Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew, Maidens willow branches wear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1831 - 518 pages
...illustrative of this mode of decorating the funerals of females who had been disappointed in love. Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew, Maidens willow branches wear, Say I died true. ail My lore was false, but I was firm, ld| From my hour of birth, Upon my buried... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 pages
...graves, &c. AVe conclude with an exquisite Love Lament, from Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy. Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear : Say I died true : My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth : Upon my buried body lie... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 500 pages
...graves, &c. We conclude with an exquisite Love Lament, from Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy. Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear: Say I died true : My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth : Upon my buried body lie... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1834 - 220 pages
...chance." " What wager ?" "Take you—it was DickTurpin I betted to take." " Dick Turpin ! then I'll have a snap at you, at all hazards," cried Coates, springing suddenly towards him. "/am DICK TURPIN—Jack Palmer's my alias, replied he." " And I at you," said Turp\n, AxseYrat^vs^!,... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1834 - 244 pages
...chance." "What wager ?" "Take you—it was Dick Turpin I betted to take." " Dick Turpin ! then I'll have a snap at you, at all hazards," cried Coates, springing suddenly towards him. "/am DICK TURPIN—Jack Palmer's my alias, replied he." " And I at you," said Turpin, discharging his... | |
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have a snap at you, at all hazards," cried Coates, springing suddenly towards him. " And I at you," said Turpin, discharging his pistol right in the face of the rash attorney — " there's a quittance in full." BOOK III. THE GIPSY. Lay a garland on my... 
