 Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king....  Mrs. Dymond - Page 9by Anne Thackeray Ritchie - 1886 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 626 pages
...For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark that lirra-lirra chants, — With hey I with hey!" the thrush and the jay,— Are summer songs for me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay. I have served prince Florizel, and, in my tune, wore three-pile ;a but now I am out of service : But... | |
 | Michael Cordner - Literary Collections - 1982 - 372 pages
...the verb had sexual connotations - cf. Autolycus in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, IV iii 1 1 -12: 'summer songs for me and my aunts, / While we lie tumbling in the hay'. The question of French sources for the play has often been raised, but never (apart from one brief... | |
 | Fred Sedgwick - Drama - 1999 - 168 pages
...Does set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for king. The lark, that tirra-lirra chants, With heigh, with heigh, the thrush and the...me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay. Pafford, in his edition of the play, tells us that 'doxy' means 'beggar's girl', and that 'aunt' has... | |
 | Eric Partridge - Drama - 2001 - 312 pages
...origin, nor of good social standing'. 'The lark, that tirra-lirra chants, With hey! with hey! the thrust and the jay, Are summer songs for me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay', Autolycus in The W. Tale, iv ii 9-1 2. A euphemism: an aunt, like a cousin, is a very convenient relation.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 436 pages
...dish for a king. The lark, that tirra-lyra chants, With heigh! with hey! the thrush and the jay: 10 Are summer songs for me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay. I have served Prince Florizel, and in my time wore three-pile, but now I am out of service. But shall... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...king. /The lark, that tirra-lirra chants, /With heigh! with heigh! the thrust and the jay, /Are surmner songs for me and my aunts / While we lie tumbling in the hay. [IV.iü.1-12] mejillas invernales cambiando a estival sonrojo, con una sutil transición de los pálidos... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that tirra-lyra chants, With heigh! with...me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay. But shall I go mourn for that, my dear? The pale moon shines by night: And when I wander here and there,... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...and light. Especially is the lark a spirit of dawn and song, of fire and music. It is a bird of joy: The lark, that tirra-lyra chants, With heigh ! with...me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay. (TAe Winter's Tale, iv. ii. 9) A bird of merriment and song, happy in the joy-time of spring. The lark... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that tirra-lira chants, With, heigh ! with, heigh ! the thrush and...me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 52 Madrigals I SINCE Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely Could toot and foot... | |
 | Ross W. Duffin - Art - 2004 - 536 pages
...pugging tooth an edge, For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King. The Lark, that tirra-Lyra chaunts, With heigh, the Thrush and the Jay: Are Summer songs...me and my Aunts While we lie tumbling in the hay. (F) Winter's Tale 4.3 When Daffodils Begin to Peer then comes in the sweet o' the year, for the red... | |
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