 | William Francis Dawson - 1902 - 402 pages
...of great antiquity. " ' The illustration is from a sketch by Mr. Colebrooke, Stockdale.' " "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." CHRISTMAS MORNING IN ENETER CATHEDRAL.... | |
 | 1904 - 716 pages
...they may bear a good crop of fruit in the coming season. The poet Herrick has a verse : " Wassailc 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 custom is thus described by a local... | |
 | Lewis Dayton Burdick - 1905 - 358 pages
...bear, pocket-fulls, hat-fulls, Peck-fulls, bushel-bag-fulls ! " Herrick sings of Christmas duties: " 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." In some parts of Norfolk libations of... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Charles William Burkett - 1906 - 424 pages
...trees, and is thought by some to be a relic of the heathen sac- 5 rifice 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 10 As you so give them wassailing. Homer: a Grecian poet, often called... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1906 - 362 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 Plum, and many a Peare : For more or less fruits they will bring, As you doe give them Wassailing. TO HIS DEARE VALENTINE, MISTRESSE MARGARET... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 664 pages
...solstice, so that they may bear a good crop of fruit in the coming season. The poet Herrick has a verse: "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 custom is thus described by a local... | |
 | 1910 - 152 pages
...indeed." January 5 "Wassailing the Orchard on Twelfth-Night Eve." — Old English Custom. TIHASSAILE the Trees, that they may beare You many a Plum, and...a Peare; For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you doe give them Wassailing. — Robert Herrick. 19 January 6 TWELFTH-NIGHT "7XHEN also every householder... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1920 - 590 pages
...a reference for applehowling to the Hesperides of the poet Herrick. The passage is as follows:—1 Wassaile the Trees, that they may beare You many a Plum, and many a Peare : For more or less fruit they will bring As you do give them Wassailing. From this verse we learn several things... | |
 | 1927 - 464 pages
...occurred on Twelfthnight eve, or "Wassail Eve,"' and continued until the end of the 18th century. "Wassail the trees, that they may beare You many a plum, and...a peare; For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you do give them wassailing." The dregs of the wassail bowl were thrown against the trunks and many... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1906 - 552 pages
...sticks, and that is called "wassailing" the trees, — probably a relic of the pagan sacrifice to Pomona. "Wassaile the trees that they may beare You many a plum and many a pear; For more or less fruits they will bring As you so give them wassailing." PEACH GROWING IN SOUTHEASTERN... | |
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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. 
