| 1822 - 592 Seiten
...Brand's Popular Antiquities. < See Vol. n. page 645. " Wassail ! Wassail ! all over the town— Our toast is white and our ale it is brown, Our bowl it is made of a maplin tree We be good fellows all, — I drink to thee ! &c. &c. This shows I li.il the popular... | |
| 1822 - 600 Seiten
...nraml's Popular Antiquities. 4 See Vol. П. page 645. "Wassail! Wassail! all over the town — Our toast is white and our ale it is brown. Our bowl it is made of a maplin tree We be good fellows all, — I drink to tliee ! &c. &c. This shows that the popular sense... | |
| Percy Society - 1848 - 400 Seiten
...LXXII. WASSAIL SONG. (From Chappell's Collection, 161.) WASSAIL ! wassail ! all over the town, Our bread is white, and our ale it is brown : Our bowl it is made of the maplin tree, So here, my good fellow, I'll drink to thee. The wassailing bowl, with a toast within,... | |
| Edwin Waugh - 1881 - 334 Seiten
...order ! . . . Goo on, Snip ! " And Snip began : — Wassail ! wassail ! all over the town ; Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown ; Our bowl it is made of a maplin tree ; And we are all good fellows — I drink to thee ! Here's to our horse, and to his right... | |
| Arthur Henry Bullen - 1885 - 362 Seiten
...is given in Hone's Table Book, ii. 14. Massail, wassail, all over tbe Uown. "\ 17" ASS AIL, wassail, all over the town, Our bread it is white, and our ale it is brown ; Our bowl it is made of the maplin tree, So here, my good fellow, I'll drink it to thee. The wassailing bowl, with a toast within,... | |
| Harrison Smith Morris - 1891 - 276 Seiten
...Christmas, and a good fat pig in the sty. God send you happy, etc. WANDERING WASSAILBRS. Wassail, wassail, all over the town, Our bread it is white, and our ale it is brown ; Our bowl it is made of the maplin tree, So here, my good fellow, I'll drink it to thee. The wassailing bowl, with a toast within,... | |
| George Frederick Abbott - 1903 - 392 Seiten
...them, a Gloucestershire composition, began : Wassail ! wassail ! over the town, Our toast it is white, our ale it is brown : Our bowl it is made of the maplin tree, We be good fellows all ; I drink to thee. A still closer parallel is offered by an old... | |
| Joseph Strutt - 1801 - 474 Seiten
...carolling " in the west of England : " Wassail, wassail, all o'er the town, Our toast it is white, our ale it is brown ; Our bowl it is made of the mapling tree, With the wassailing bowl we will drink unto thee." *Wassailing the orchards may possibly... | |
| Frederick William Hackwood - 1909 - 392 Seiten
...celebrating them. Thus in Gloucestershire they sing — " Wassail ! wassail ! all over the town, Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown ; Our bowl it is of the good maplin [maple] tree, So here's, good fellow, I'll drink to thee," — while in the North... | |
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