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" ... wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. "
Littell's Living Age - Page 548
1897
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Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age

Arthur Henry Bullen - 1891 - 348 pages
...sour ; Labour for me, Love rest in prince's bower. 1 Olded. " smooth'd face." WEEP NOT, MY WANTON. WEEP not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Mother's wag, pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy ; When thy father first did see Such a boy...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1891 - 408 pages
...I was woe, Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy Last his sorrow, first his joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old there's grief enough for lhee. Streaming tears that never stint, Like pearl drops from a ilint, F'ell by course from his eyes,...
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The Fate of Fenella: A Novel

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Helen Mathers - 1892 - 340 pages
...toward them arm-in-arm, and engaged in the most intimate conversation. CHAPTER V. BY MAY C ROM ME LIN. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leapt, More he crowed, more we cried, Nature could not...
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Latest Literary Essays and Addresses

James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 368 pages
...him, indeed, for the word " brightsome," and for two lines of Sephestia's song to her child, — " Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there 's grief enough forthee," — which have all the innocence of the Old Age in them. Otherwise...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9

Henry Morley - 1892 - 532 pages
...are, he wonders at the beauty of the lady. Sephestia sings a lullaby to her child with the burden— " Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, that's grief enough forthee." The old man, the lady, and the child arc lodged by Menaphon in his own...
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Latest literary essays and addresses. 1892. [v. 12] The old English ...

James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 350 pages
...him, indeed, for the word " brightsome," and for two lines of Sephestia's song to her child, — " Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there 's grief enough forthee," — which have all the innocence of the Old Age in them. Otherwise...
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The Old English Dramatists

James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 156 pages
...him, indeed, for the word " brightsome," and for two lines of Sephestia's song to her child, — " Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there » grief enough for thee," — which have all the innocence of the Old Age in them. Otherwise...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1894 - 404 pages
...part, Tears of blood fell from his heart, When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leapt ; More he crow'd, more we cried, Nature could...
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Green Pastures: Being Choice Extracts from the Works of Robert Greene, M.A ...

Robert Greene - 1894 - 208 pages
...baby blifs ;* For he left his pretty boy, Father's forrow, father's joy. Weep not, my wanton, fmile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. ('Menaphon' [1589], vi., pp. 43, 44.) CUPID. Ida. ... I heard a fhepherd fmg, That like a bee, Love...
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Green Pastures: Being Choice Extracts from the Works of Robert Greene, M.A ...

Robert Greene - 1894 - 202 pages
...of Frefmgfield. (' Friar Bacon ' [1594], xiii., pp. 9-11.) CRADLE SONG. Weep not, my wanton, fmile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Mother's wag, pretty boy, Father's forrow, father's joy ; When thy father firft did fee Such a boy...
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