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" Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted... "
The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved Text of ... - Page 333
by William Shakespeare - 1844
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Songs from the Dramatists

Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1854 - 282 pages
...for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! -2When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note,...
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The drawing-room sibyl (poetical extracts).

Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...with A sober gladness, the old year takes up His bright inheritance of golden fruits. Longfelluir. 7 When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When all around the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the...
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The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty ...

Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...left solitary, shut out from the consolatory faces of your species, in some lonely manor-house ! " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick, the shepherd,...home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, And nightly sings the staring owl, When all around the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspere, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! III. as the last man in our mouths. Ant. Shylock, albeit I neit befoul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; To-whit, to-who, a merry note, ; While greasy Joan...
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The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo ; — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! WINTER....And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who j Tu-whit, to- who, a merry note,...
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Songs of England. The book of English songs, ed. by C. Mackay

Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...! Here shall he see WINTER. WILLIAM SHAKSPEAEE ; from " Love's Labour Lost." The music by Dr. AENE. WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in the pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! Tu-whit...
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The Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. Midsummer night's ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 374 pages
...O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! Witter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick tlie shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the...frozen home in pail : When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foui, Then nightly sings the staring owl :— To-who : Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy...
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A Book for the Winter-evening Fireside

Wirt Sikes - American wit and humor - 1858 - 132 pages
...\TFRnfflM Y. .Y •-•' • v **? 4 A BOOK FOR THE WINTER-EVENING FIRESIDE. BY WILLIAM WIRT SIKES. " When icicles hang by the wall, And DICK, the shepherd,...blows his nail, And TOM bears logs into the hall, And inilk comes frozen home in pail.'' SlIiKSriiHK. INGALLS & HADDOCK : FROM THE BEQUEST OF EVERT JANSEN...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 67

Liberalism (Religion) - 1859 - 540 pages
..." the year (is) growing ancient, not yet on Summer's death, nor on the birth of trembling Winter "; Winter, " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, And nightly sings the staring owl, To-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy...
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Poetry of the Year: Passages from the Poets Descriptive of the Seasons ...

American poetry - 1859 - 148 pages
...He brandishes his pliant length of whip, Resounding oft, and never heard in vain. COTVPER. WINTER, v WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...And milk comes frozen home in pail. When blood is nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-whoo, a merry note, While greasy...
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