 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 trang
...making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite, Call'd Robin-Goodfellow : Are you not he, That frights the maidens of the villag'ry ; Skim...labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless huswife churn ; And sometime make the drink to bear no barm ; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 trang
...house at midnight — this " white bread, and bread and milk, was his standing fee." STEEVENS. Line 37. Skim milk ; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless houswife churn.] The sense of these lines is confused. Are not ymt he, says the fairy, that fright... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 trang
...ought to have written— ^frights, skims, labours, makes, and misleads. The other, however, being the Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;6 And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;7 Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 trang
...ought to have written— frights, skinu, labours, makes, and misleads. The other, however, being the Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;8 And sometime make the drink to bear no barm ;7 Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 384 trang
...harm ? more common usage, and that which he has preferred, I have corrected the former word. Malone. 6 Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the bj'eathless housewife churn ;] The sense of these lines is confused. Are not you he, (says the fairy,)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 trang
...else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite, Call'd Robin Good-fellow 13 ; are you not he, That fright the maidens of the villag'ry ; Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern14, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn; And sometimes make the drink to bear no... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 trang
...shape and' making Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite, Call'd Robin Good-fellow: are you not he, That frights the maidens of the villag'ry ; Skim milk; and sometimes labourinthequem', And bootless make thebreathless huswife churn ; And sometime make the drink to bear... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 trang
...sprite, Call'd Robin Саоа^/еПатч : are you not he, That fright the maidens of the vilUuçery ; Skim milk ; and sometimes labour in the quern. And bootless make the bnathksî housewife chum ; Ami sometime make the drink to bear no bann ; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 trang
...knavish sprite, Call'd Robin Good-fellow 4 : are you not he, That fright 5 the maidens of the villagery ; Skim milk ; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn6; It is somewhat whimsical, that the glasiers use the words square and quarrel as synonymous... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 296 trang
...Su.-Got. quern. Teut. querne. See KERN. Wheras they made him at the querne grind. Cliaueer, Mo»kes Tale. Skim milk ; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn. Shak. Mid. Night's Dream. QUISEY, confounded, dejected. QUORN, QUOAKN, corn. " The quorn's now gettsn... | |
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Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife chum ; And sometime make the drink to bear no barm ; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm? 
