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" Now, ever alake ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm. "
The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last ... - Page 46
by Walter Scott - 1833
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The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Roxburgh, Peebles, Selkirk

Scotland - 1845 - 790 pages
...from the old ballad of Sir Patrick Spens, supposed to refer to an early period of Scottish history. " I saw the new moon late yestreen, wi' the auld moon in her ami, And ever alack, my master dear, I fear we suffer harm." Haloes are seen only when the cirro-strati...
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Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction ..., Volume 1

William Motherwell - Ballads - 1846 - 300 pages
...o' gude red gowd Out owre the sea wi' me. " Make ready, make ready, my merrymen a' ! Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake ! my master dear,...in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we '11 come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league, but barely three, When the lift...
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Poetry for Home and School ...

1846 - 436 pages
...of Noroway, 'T is we must fetch her hame. " Make ready, make ready, my merry men all ! Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear, I fear a deadly storm. " Late, late yestreen, I saw the new moon Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And I fear, I fear, my dear...
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The Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil: With Notes, Excursus, Terms of ...

Virgil, Thomas Keightley - 1847 - 524 pages
...just described, is thus graphically depicted in the old Scottish ballad of Sir Patrick Spence : — " I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm." Niger, we may observe, is merely dark. — 430. At si virgineum, etc. ' but if she pours a virgin blush...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...o' gude red gowd Out owre the sea wi' me. ' Make ready, make ready, my merry men a' ! Our gude ship sails the morn.' ' Now, ever alake ! my master dear,...moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; i Broad, large. 3 Gold. 3 Suffice. < The eighth part of a peck. And if we gang to sea, master, I fear...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...half-fou^i1 gude red gowd Out owre the sea wi' me. 'Make ready, make ready, my merry men a'! Our gude ship sails the morn.' ' Now, ever alake ! my master dear,...moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; i Broad, large. * Gold. • Suffice. 4 The eighth part of a peck. i280A.D.] SIR PATRICK SPENS. And...
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 7

1858 - 422 pages
...SCOTLAND. " Be't wind or weet, be't snaw or sleet, Our ship shall sail the morn," " Now ever alack, my master dear, I fear a deadly storm. " I saw the...late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And I fear, I fear, my master dear, That we shall come to harm ! " They hadna sail'da league, a league,...
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Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side

Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...o' gude red gowd, Out o'er the sea wi' me. ' Make ready, make ready, my merry men a' ! Our gude ship sails the morn,' ' Now ever alake, my master dear,...we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.' They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark and the wind...
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Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side

Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...o' gude red gowd, Out o'er the sea wi' me. ' Make ready, make ready, my merry men a' ! Our gude ship sails the morn,' ' Now ever alake, my master dear,...we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.' They hadna sailed a league, a league, A leagde but barely three, When the lift grew dark and the wind...
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The Illustrated Magazine, Volumes 25-26

Literature - 1868 - 756 pages
...and rain. Hear the old ballad of Sir Patrick S,-enB : " I saw the old moon late yestreen With the new moon in her arm, And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.*" Sailors of all nations will second the truth of these presages. A halo round the moon is accounted...
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