 | 1866 - 338 pages
...to your desire. Unwasht hands, ye maidens, know, Dead the fire, though ye blow. ANOTHER. WASSAILK * the trees, that they may beare You many a plum and...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... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1866 - 840 pages
...verse. In Devon they still bless the orchards of Christmas-eve, according to the old verses : Wusail the trees, that they may beare You many a plum, and many a peare : For more dr leas fruiix they will bring A3 you do give them wassailing. In some places they walk in procession... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1869 - 282 pages
...not teend to your desire ; Unwasht hands, ye maidens, know, Dead the fire, though ye blow. ANOTHER. WASSAILE the trees, that they may beare You many a...peare : For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you doe give them wassailing. T POWER AND PEACE. IS riever, or but seldome knowne, Power and peace... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1869 - 760 pages
...not teend to your desire ; Unwasht hands, ye maidens, know, Dead the fire, though ye blow. ANOTHER. WASSAILE the trees, that they may beare You many a...peare : For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you doe give them wassailing. T POWER AND PEACE. IS never, or but seldome knoicne, Power and peace... | |
 | Elias Tozer - 1873 - 104 pages
...toast from the wassail bowl to tho apple trees in order to have a fruitful year. Herrick says : — Wassaile 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. In other parts the ceremony was held... | |
 | 1874 - 820 pages
...custom in England on Christmas-eve to wassail, or wish health to the apple-tree. Herrick enjoins to ' ' Wassaile the trees, that they may beare You many a plum, and many a peare ; For more or less fruits they will bring, And you do give them wassailing." In illustration of this belief, it was... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1876 - 344 pages
...desire; Unwasht hands, ye Maidens, know, Dead 9 the Fire, though ye blow. Another. VyASSAILE the Trees, 1 that they may beare You many a Plum, and many a Peare : For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you doe give them Wassailing. k = kindle, or burn, as before. 9 A verb = deaden. See Glossarial... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1876 - 340 pages
...Unwasht hands, ye Maidens, know, Dead 9 the Fire, though ye blow. Another. AA/"ASSAILE the Trees,1 that they may beare You many a Plum, and many a Peare : For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you doe give them Wassailing. * = kindle, or burn, as before. 9 A verb = deaden. See Glossarial... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 934 pages
...Kenton." 1st S. v. 148. 1852. (c) " This custom is alluded to in Herrick's Hesperides, p. 311. ' 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 watsatling.' Ji. \VB" 1st 8. v. 293. 1852. 13. ARCHPRIEST.... | |
 | Charles Fleet - 1878 - 318 pages
...the trees with their sticks. This custom is alluded to in Herrick's 4 Hesperides,' p. 311 : ' 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.' This practice is not confined to Sussex... | |
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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. 
