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The Works of Mr. John Gay: In Four Volumes. To which is Added an Account of ... - Page 83
by John Gay - 1770
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...And canft thou, then, thy fweetheart dearforfake? With my fharp heel I three times mark the groundi And turn me thrice around, around, around. Laft May-day...find a fnail That might my fecret lover's name reveal ; Upon a goofeberry bufh a fnail I found, For, always, fnails near fweeteft fruit abound. I feiz'd...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...read ; Yet on my heart a fairer L is feen Than what the paring marks upon the green. With my fharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. This pippin fhall another tryal make ; See from the core two kernels brown I take ; This on my cheek...
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The Works of the English Poets: Gay

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 372 pages
...the nut, fo may thy paff.on grow; 65 For 'twas thy nut that did fo brightly glow. " With my fliarp heel I three times mark the ground, " And turn me thrice around, aruand, around." As peafcods once I pluck'd, I chanc'd to fee. One that was clofely fill'd with three...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison ...

1794 - 918 pages
...Lubberkin dicks firmly to the lad : Oh were his lips to mine but join'd fo fad ! . " With my ih.irj) heel I three times mark the ground, " And turn me thrice around, around, around." As Lubberkin once flept beneath a tree, I twitch'd his dangling garter from his knee. 110 He wid not...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 8

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...times a true-love's knot I tye fecure, " Firm be the knot, firm may his loVe endure!" " With my (harp heel I three times mark the" ground, " And turn me thrice around, around, around." As I was wont, I trudg'd laft market-day, To town, with new-laid eggs preferv'd in hay. 120 I made...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1797 - 420 pages
...Eftsoons I join'dit with my wonted sleight; So may bis love again with mine unite : So With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. This ladyfty I take from off the grass, Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass. Fly, ladybird,...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...my hand ; fee to the Weft he's flown, To call my true-love from the faithlefs town. " With my fharp heel I three times mark the ground, " And turn me thrice around, around, around.1 90 I pare this pippin round a nd round again, My fhepherd s name to flourifh on the plain,...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...;• Ytt on my heart a fairer /. isfeen 95 Than wh.it the paring make* upon thegrctn. " With my (harp heel I three times mark the ground, " And turn me thrice around, arour.d, around." This pippin fhall another trial make, See from the core two kernel* brown I take;...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 7

Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pages
...the nut, fo may thy paflîon grow ; 65 For 'twas thy nut that did Го brightly glow. " With my fharp heel I three times mark the ground, " And turn me thrice around, around, around." As pcaiecods once I pluck'd, 1 chanc*d to fee One that was clofely fill'd with three times three, 70...
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The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best ...

John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pages
...Eftsoons I join'd it with my wonted sleight ; So may again his love with mine unite ! 80 ' With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. ' This lady-fly I take from oft' the grass, Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass. Fly, lady...
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