| John Fletcher - Athens (Greece) - 1883 - 222 pages
...for lose. 107. The Broom. A very popular old song. Weber quotes it from an old interlude thus : '* Brome, brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill, hill : Brome, brome on Hive hill," etc. 108. Bonny Robin. Cf. Ham. iv. 5. 187 : " For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy ;" and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1884 - 442 pages
...spelling for lose. 107. The Broom. A very popular old song. Weber quotes it from an old interlude thus : " Brome, brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill, hill : Brome, brome on Hive hill/' etc. 108. Bonny Robin. Cf. Ham. iv. 5. 187 : " For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy ;" and... | |
| Robert Laneham - Ballads, English - 1890 - 302 pages
..."which appears," says Mr. Chappell, " to have been written soon after Elizabeth came to the throne . . . Brome brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill, hill : Brome, brome on Hive hill, The brome stands on Hive hill-a." Mr. Chappell quotes the passage, and then observes "This... | |
| Frank Sidgwick - Ballads, English - 1904 - 272 pages
...Wager's comedy The Longer thou Livest the more Fool thou art (about 1568) Moros sings a burden : — ' Brome, brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill, hill, Brome, brome on Hive hill, The gentle brome on Hive hill, The brome stands on Hive hill a.' Before this date ' Brume,... | |
| HELEN CHILD SARGENT AND GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE - 1904 - 1194 pages
...in Wager's comedy " The Longer thou Livest, the More Fool thou art " (about 1508), as follows : — Brome, brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill, hill, Brome, brome on Hive hill, The gentle brome on Hive hill, The brome stands on Hive hill a. If " Hive Hill " in A, st.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1906 - 286 pages
...for lose. 107. The Broom. A very popular old song. Weber quotes it from an old interlude thus : — " Brome, brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill, hill : Brome, brome on Hive hill," etc. 108. Bonny Robin. Cf. Ham. iv. 5. 187: "For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy." The... | |
| Robert Laneham - Ballads, English - 1907 - 296 pages
...gesture and a foolish countenance, Synging the foote of many Songes, as fooles were wont Moros. BBome, Brome on hill, The gentle Brome on hill hill : Brome,...Hiue hill, The gentle Brome on Hiue hill, The Brome standee on Hiue hill a. Q Eobin, lende to me thy Bowe, thy Bowe, Eobin the how, Robin lende to me thy... | |
| American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
..."That's never my intent, my luve, As ye said, it shall be sae. . . ." iHold 325 THE BROOMFIELD HILL Brome, brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill, hill, Brome, brome on Hive hill, The gentle brome on Hive hill, The brome stands on Hive hill-a . . . "O WHERE were ye, my... | |
| Comparative linguistics - 1918 - 868 pages
...W. Wager's play The longer thou livest, the more foole thou art the following lines sung by Moros: "Brome, Brome on hill, The gentle Brome on hill hill:...Hiue hill, The gentle Brome on Hiue hill, The Brome Standes on Hiue hill a." In 1575 Robert Laneham in his Letter: Whearin, part of the entertainment vntoo... | |
| 544 pages
...iu the old interlude [comedy], The longer thou livest, the more fool ihou art, by W Wager [ndJ ; ' Brome, brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill hill...Hiue hill, The gentle brome on Hiue hill, The brome standes on Hiue hilla.' [Sig. A 3.] It is also mentioned by Laneham [Letter from Senilworth, 1575]... | |
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