 | Edmund Spenser - 1596 - 738 pages
...beares, Of which he freely drinks an health to all his peeres 43 Then came old Ianuary, wrapped well In many weeds * to keep the cold away ; Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, 2 And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may ; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1855 - 742 pages
...he freely drinks an health to all his peeres ti Then came old Ianuary, wrapped well In many weeds 1 to keep the cold away ; Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell,1 And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may ; For they were numbd with holding all the day... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1758 - 514 pages
...maid ; And in his hand a broad deep bowl he bears ; XL. XLII. Then came old "January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away ; Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, And blow his nails to warm them if he may : For they were numb'd with holding all the day An hatchet keen,... | |
 | English poetry - 1788 - 538 pages
...be fcegl.y -drinks aaltfalii to.ajl-hispwres. XL, Then came old lanuary, wrapped well In many weed?, to keep the cold away, Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, And blows his nayles to warme them if he may, For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...wrapped well , In many weeds to keep the cold away ; Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, And hlowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet kcene, with, which he felled wood And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray : Upon an huge grout... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...beares, Of which he freely drinks an health to all his peeres. Then came old lanuary, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away ; Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, And hlowe his nayles to warme them if he may ; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...his fingers. Spenser introduces this month in nis Faerie Queene : Then came old January, wrapped well the night before, I got five bay-leaves, and pinned four of them to the queU ; And blow his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numb'd with holding all the day An... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away ; Vet did he quake and quiver like to quell ; A nd blow his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numb'd with holding all the day An hatchet kcene, with which he felled wood, And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray. Stonuarp l. f A close... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...his fingers. Spenser introduces this month in nis Faerie Queene : Then came old January, wrapped well lliam" William H blow his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numb'd with holding all the day An hatchet keene,... | |
 | William Clarke - Hotels - 1827 - 220 pages
...this day twelvemonth ; and old January made his appearance this year wrapped well, as Spenser says, In many weeds, to keep the cold away ; Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell ; And blow his nayles to warm them — Cribb, like the giants of old, hath his dwarf: " a wee tiny man,"... | |
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Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And... 
