 Tis still my delight With my wages to run home the faster ; But if Frenchmen rule here, I may look far and near, But I never shall find a paymaster. I've a dear little wife Whom I love as my life ; To lose her I should not much like, Sir ; And 'twould...  The Works of Hannah More - Page 75de Hannah More - 1830Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Loyalist - 1803 - 344 pages
...garden so sweet, And my orchard so neat, Be the prize of a foreign oppressor 3 On Saturday night 'T is still my delight With my wages to run home the faster...far and near, But I never shall find a paymaster. I 've a dear little wife, Whom I love as my life ; To lose her I should not much like, Sir : And 'twould... | |
 | 1904 - 518 pages
...my garden so sweit, And my orchard so neat, Be the prize of a foreign oppressor? On Saturday night Tis still my delight, . With my wages to run home the faster; But it Frenchmen rule here, I may look far and near, But 1 never shall hud a pay-mailer. I've a dear little... | |
 | Cheap repository tracts - 1819 - 176 pages
...Shall my garden so sweet, And my orchard so neat, Be the prize of a jacobin Faction ? On Saturday night *Tis still my delight, . With my wages to run home the faster : But if riot rule here, I may look far and near, But I never shall' find a paymaster. I've a dear little wife,... | |
 | Fanny Caroline Lefroy - 1856 - 342 pages
...applauded than any of the rest, and which commenced with the words : — ' I've a dear little wife, Who I love as my life, To lose her I should not much like,...run wild To see my sweet child With its head on the top of a pike, Sir.' At last, when songs and toasts seemed pretty well exhausted, and confusion to... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 pages
...my garden so sweet, And my orchard so neat, Be the prize of a foreign oppressor ? On Saturday night, 'Tis still my delight, With my wages to run home the faster ; But if War should come here, I may look far and near, But I never shall find a paymaster. I've a dear little... | |
 | Harold Felix Baker Wheeler, Alexander Meyrick Broadley - 1908 - 580 pages
...garden so sweet, And my orchard so neat, Be the prize of a foreign oppressor ? On Saturday night — 'Tis still my delight — With my wages to run home...I've a dear little wife, Whom I love as my life, To leave her I should not much like, Sir ; And 'twould make me run wild, — To see my sweet child —... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 426 pages
...charity work. She uses the return at eve of the father, together with an "atrocity" accompaniment: On Saturday-night Tis still my delight, With my wages...little wife. Whom I love as my life; To lose her I shouldn't much like, Sir; And 'twou'd make me run wild To see my sweet child With its head on the point... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 424 pages
...the return at eve of the father, together with an "atrocity" accompaniment: On Saturday-night "Fis still my delight, With my wages to run home the faster;...little wife, Whom I love as my life; To lose her I shouldn't much like, Sir; And 'twou'd make me run wild To see my sweet child With its head on the point... | |
 | Mary V. Jackson - 1989 - 324 pages
...ballad "The Ploughman's Ditty," which pictures England overun by barbarous Jacobins: On Saturday night 'Tis still my delight, With my wages to run home the...I may look far and near, But I never shall find a pay master. My cot is my throne, What I have is my own, And what is my own I will keep, Sir; Should... | |
 | Ian Dyck - 1992 - 340 pages
...the crimes and calamities of France',53 broke into some frightful verse in her 'Ploughman's Ditty': I've a dear little wife, Whom I love as my life, To...sweet child, With its head on the point of a pike, Sir.54 The best-known tract that sought to exploit the labourer's passions was entitled Important Considerations... | |
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