 | Henry David Thoreau - 1803 - 492 pages
...trees, and is thought by some to be "a relic of the heathen sacrifice to Pomona." Herrick sings, — " Wassaile the trees that they may beare You many a plum and many a peare ; For more or less fruits they will bring As you so give them wassailing." Our poets have as yet a better right to... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 346 pages
...know, Dead the fire, though ye blow. ANOTHER. WASSAILE the trees, that they may beare You many a plumb and many a peare ; For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you doe give them wassailing. POWER AND PEACE. 'Tis never, or but seldome knowne, Power and Peace... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1825 - 348 pages
...know, Dead the fire, though ye blow. ANOTHER. WASSAILE the trees, that they may beare You many a plumb and many a peare ; For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you doe give them wassailing. POWER AND PEACE. "Tis never, or but seldome knowne, Power and Peace... | |
 | William Howitt - 1838 - 414 pages
...In Devon they still bless the orchards on Christmas-eve, according to the old verses : — Wassail the trees, that they may beare You many a plum, and many a peare : For more or less fruits they will bring As you do give them wassailing. In some places, they walk in procession... | |
 | William Martin - 1878 - 344 pages
...Eve, and in Herrick's " Hesperides " he enumerates it among the Christmas ceremonies — AVassaile the trees that they may beare You many a plum and...a peare ; For more or lesse fruits they will bring Aa you do give them wassailing. There is an old saying that when it rains on St. Swithin's Day it is... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 514 pages
...Wassaile the trees, that they may beare You many a plum, and many a pearc ; For more or lease frnits they will bring, And you do give them wassailing."...drinking healths to the bowl, and particularly that which i'"*™ enlivened the festive board of Yule, and afterwards to a bowl of spiced ale, borne by young... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 512 pages
...bearing plentifully the ensuing year, according to the observation of Robert Herrick : — " Wassalle the trees, that they may beare You many a plum, and many a peare ; For more or lease fruits they will bring, And you do give them wassailing." The wassail, — a word transferred... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 pages
...these, was the practice of wassailing the trees, to insure their future fruitfulness, — mentioned by Herrick : — " Wassaile the trees, that they may...peare ; For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you do give them wassailing." The merry bowl which (notwithstanding that it had been so often drained)... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1846 - 344 pages
...to your defire ; Unwafht hands, ye Maidens, know, Dead the Fire, though ye blow. w Another. Aflaile the Trees, that they may beare You many a Plum, and many a Peare : For more or lefle fruits they will bring, As you doe give them Waflailing. Power and Peace. '' I v/r never, or... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...find the following among the Christmas Eve ceremonies : — " Wassaile the trees, that they may heare You many a plum and many a peare ; For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you do give them wassailing." The same is done in Herefordshire, under the name of Wassailing, as... | |
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Wassaile the trees that they may beare You many a plum and many a peare; For more or less fruits they will bring As you so give them wassailing. 
