| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...thin : Sow barley and dredge with a plentiful hand, Lest weed, stead of seed, ovcrgroweth thy land. locks misusing, Now seeking darkenesse, and now seeking...she had with such unquiet fits Herself there close cuds, as in harm do remain ; For driving of cattle, or roving that way, Which being prevented, ye hinder... | |
| Agriculture - 1844 - 574 pages
...cautioned to keep off crows and other vermin — " 14. No sooner a sowing, but out by and bye, With mawther or boy, that alarum can cry ; And let them be armed...bow, To scare away pigeon, the rook and the crow." Dr. Mavor has it "with mother or hoy ;" a lamentable perversion of the genuine Norfolk. No Norfolk... | |
| Thomas Tusser - 1848 - 202 pages
...bear out the hardness that winter doth bring. 8. No sooner a sowing, but out by and by, With mauther or boy, that alarum can cry; And let them be armed...bow, To scare away pigeon, the rook, and the crow. 9. The moon in the wane, gather fruit for to last, But winter fruit gather, when Michael is past.;... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...thin : Sow barley and dredge with a plentiful hand, Lest weed, stead of seed, overgrowcth thy hind. ht-skimming, stretched its oary wings; While deep the various voice of fervent toil [oak, Fro bo armed with sting or with bow, To scare away pigeon, the rook, and the crow.3 Seed sown, draw a furrow,... | |
| Cheshire (England) - 1857 - 330 pages
...crow-keeper." Tusser in his directions for September says — No sooner a sowing, but out by and bye, With mother or boy that alarum can cry ; And let them be armed with a sling or a bow, To scare away pigeon, the rook, and the crow. And again — With sling or bow, keep... | |
| Cheshire (England) - 1857 - 330 pages
...crow-keeper." Tusser in his directions for September says— No sooner a sowing, but out by and bye, With mother or boy that alarum can cry ; And let them be armed with a sling or a bow, To scare away pigeon, the rook, and the crow. And again — With sling or bow, keep... | |
| Essex Archaeological Society - Essex (England) - 1858 - 624 pages
...n., a girl or wench, a word of Danish origin. " No sooner a-sowing but out by-and-by, With mawther or boy that alarum can cry; And let them be armed...sling or with bow, To scare away pigeon, the rook or the crow." — TUSBBR. Math, n., generally used in composition with after. After-math means the... | |
| Robert Nares - English language - 1859 - 502 pages
...Practise thy quiver, and turn crov-keeptr. ]dea 48. This is one of Tusser's directions for September : No sooner a sowing, but out by and by With mother or boy tluit alarum can cry: And let them be anncd witli a sling or a bow, To scare away pigeon, the rook,... | |
| Archaeology - 1863 - 324 pages
...Danish origin. " No sooner n-sowing but out by-and-by, With matotfur or bey that alarum can cry; And lot them be armed with sling or with bow, To scare away pigeon, the rook or the crow."—TBSSEB. the second crop of a meadow. Mort, n., a great number. Math, n., generally... | |
| Robert Nares - English language - 1867 - 500 pages
...сток-keeper. Idea 48 This is one of Tusser's directions for September : Ņo sooner a sowing, but ont by and by With mother or boy that alarum can cry: And let them be armed with a sling or a bow, To scare away pigeon, the rook, or the croup. So among his harvest tools he reckons... | |
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