 | Charles Fleet - 1878 - 314 pages
...the trees with their sticks. 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 wassailing.' This practice is not confined to Sussex;... | |
 | Hilderic Friend - 1884 - 378 pages
...origin to the superstition to which Herrick refers in the following lines from his Hcsperides — " Wassaile the trees that they may beare You many a...Peare ; For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you do give them wassailing." There are many versions of the toast sung to the trees on this occasion,... | |
 | Richard Valpy French - 1884 - 446 pages
...the trees will make them bear, is included among the Christmas Eve ceremonies in his Hesperides : — Wassaile the trees, that they may beare You many a...peare ; For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you do give them wassailing. The day of this ceremony varies in different localities. In Devonshire... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 100 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 thein wassailing." Our poets have as yet a better right... | |
 | William Howitt - 1888 - 412 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... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1891 - 478 pages
...will recollect, or can refer to, these lines, which refer to the ' howling of the apple trees ' : — 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 do give them wassailing. The old custom still exists, not only in... | |
 | 1891 - 508 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 - 1893 - 338 pages
...teend 1 to your desire ; Unwasht hands, ye Maidens, know, Dead the Fire, though ye blow. 788. 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. 789. POWER AND PEACE. 'Tis never, or but seldome Jcnowne, Power and... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 492 pages
...thought by some to be "a relic of the heathen sacrifice to, Pomona." Herrick sings, — " Wassail c> 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... | |
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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. 
