 | Powys-land Club - 1893 - 446 sider
...had been outwitted. He lamented his failure in these words : — " After the wedding I hurried away, And left my wife in the porch, But i' faith, she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." The waters of another well, St. Elian's, once... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1894 - 338 sider
...Cornish-man said : But the Cornish-man smiled as the Stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to Church." R. SOUTHEY. WESTBURY, 1798. -*- Alonzo the Brave... | |
 | Mabel Quiller-Couch, Lilian M. Quiller-Couch - 1894 - 258 sider
...Cornishman said, But the Cornishman smiled as the stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " ' I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my Wife in the porch; But, i' faith, she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to Church.' " " These verses are erroneously said to have... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1894 - 586 sider
...Cornish-man said : But the Cornish-man smiled as the stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch, But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church." ONLY SEVEN! A PASTORAL STORY, AITER WORDSWORTH.... | |
 | James Edward Vaux - 1894 - 376 sider
...church. On one occasion the husband determined to be the first to reach the well, so : — " ' I hastened as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch, But in faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church.' " In Wendron, on the farm of... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 sider
...Cornish-man said : But the Cornish-man smiled as the Stranger spake. And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my Wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church." THE CATARACT OF LODORE. (Described in Rhymes... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1895 - 264 sider
...Cornish-man said : But the Cornish-man smiled as the Stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my Wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to Church." IVeslhiry, 1798. jFrom "Efyala&a tty Uostroger"... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 614 sider
...Cornish-man said : But the Cornish-man smiled as the Stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done. And left my Wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church." THE CATARACT OF LODORE. (Described in Rhymes... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 sider
...said ; But the countryman smiled as the stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head : " I hastened as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch. But, i' faith, she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church." ROBERT SOUTHET THE UPAS IN MARYBONE LANE. A TREE... | |
 | 1897 - 648 sider
...that drank its water. Hence the following incident is related by a Welsh benedict: — "I hastened as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch, 190 But i' faith she had been more clever than me, For she took a bottle to church." It seems that... | |
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You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes?" He to the Cornishman said: But the Cornishman smiled as the stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch; But i' faith she had been... 
