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" This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, Still walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And, leading us, makes us to stray, Long winters nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with... "
Tales of the Cymry: With Notes Illustrative and Explanatory - Page 151
by James Motley - 1848 - 186 pages
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Shakespeare's a Midsummer-night's Dream: With Introduction, and Notes ...

William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1896 - 184 pages
...walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us; And, leading us, makes us to stray Long winter nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a. filly foal : 10 And sometime lurk...
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The Antiquary, Volume 32

Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1896 - 830 pages
...out of a bush ilolh bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And lending us, makes us to stray Long winter's nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us. Then again, we read in Robin Good-Fe/h>U', as printed in Perry's Reliques : Sometimes 1 meete them...
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Comedy of A Midsummer-night's Dream: Edited, with Notes

William Shakespeare - 1896 - 218 pages
...in note on 3 above. Ct. Drayton, Nymphidia : And leading us makes us to stray Long winter's nighcs out of the way And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us." Milton seems to have had this line in mind in writing PZ ix. 6403 " Misleads the amaz'd night-wanderer...
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A Midsummer-night's Dream: With Introduction...

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 184 pages
...walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And, leading us, makes us to stray Long winter nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, >fe doth with laughter leave us. When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - English drama - 1901 - 396 pages
...walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And, leading us, makes us to stray Long winter nights out of the...in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us." 54. And ' tailor ' cries : — Dr. Johnson thought he remembered to have heard this ludicrous exclamation...
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Works ...

William Shakespeare - 1905 - 252 pages
...out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us : And leading us makes us to stray Long winter's nights out of the way And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us." Milton seems to have had this line in mind in PL ix. 64o: "Misleads the amaz'd night-wanderer from...
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Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore ..., Volume 2

John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 354 pages
...nights, which in Drayton's " Nvmphydia " is given to the Fairy ' ' Of purpose to deceive us : And leading us makes us to stray Long winter nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire or clay, He doth with laughter leave us." Hentzner, who was in England in 1598, tells us, that returning...
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Nymphidia, Or, The Court of Faery

Michael Drayton - English poetry - 1906 - 130 pages
...out of a Bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And leading us makes us to stray, Long Winters' nights, out of the way; And when we stick in mire and clay, Hob doth with laughter leave us. Puck', quoth he, 'my wife is gone: As e'er thou lov'st King Oberon,...
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A Pageant of Elizabethan Poetry

Arthur Symons - English poetry - 1906 - 426 pages
...out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us; And leading us makes us to stray, Long winter's nights, out of the way; And when we stick in mire and clay, Hob doth with laughter leave us. " Dear Puck, ' quoth he, " my wife is gone: As e'er thou lov'st King...
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A Sixteenth Century Anthology

Arthur Symons - Poetry - 1906 - 526 pages
...out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And leading us makes us to stray, Long winter's nights, out of the way; And when we stick in mire and clay, Hob doth with laughter leave us. "Dear Puck," quoth he, "my wife is gone: As e'er thou lov'st King...
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