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" ... that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 334
by George Burnett - 1807
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England's Helicon: A Collection of Pastoral and Lyric Poems, First Published ...

Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - English poetry - 1812 - 316 pages
...Walton, in his " Compleat Angler," first published i6<;3 ; in which they are called " old fashioned poetry, "but choicely good; I think much better than...lines that are now in fashion in this critical " age." f To this poem of Raleigh, the signature of Ignoto has been pasted over the initials VV. R. as it has...
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The British Bibliographer, Volume 3

Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1812 - 502 pages
...Walton, in his " Compleat Angler," first published 1653 ; in which they are called " old fashioned poetry, " but choicely good; I think much better than...strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical " a^e." -j- To this poem of Raleigh, the signature of Ignoto has been pasted over the initials WR as...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 1

Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...character of " that " smooth song, which was made by Kit. Marlow, now " at least fifty years ago ; and ... an Answer to it, which " was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days "... Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good." - It tleo passed for Marlow's in the opinion of his...
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England's Helicon: A Collection of Pastoral and Lyric Poems, First Published ...

John Bodenham - English poetry - 1812 - 318 pages
...published i6<;3 j in which they arc called " old fashioned poetry, "out choicely good; I think much belter than the " strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical " age." f To this poem of Raleigh, the signature of Ignoto has been pasted over the initials WR as it has been...
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The British Bibliographer, Volume 3

Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1812 - 502 pages
...Walton, in his " Compleat Angler," first published, 1653 ; in which they are called " old fashioned poetry, " but choicely good; I think much better than the. " strong lines tlm are now; hi fashion in this critical " age." •}- To this poem of Raleigh, the signature of Ignoto...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 14

England - 1823 - 782 pages
...voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; 'twas that smooth song, which was made by Kit. Marlow, now at least fifty years ago ; and the Milk-maid's mother...critical age. Look yonder.! on my word, yonder they both be a-milking again. 1 will give her the Chub, and persuade them to sing those two songs to us....
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 49

England - 1841 - 928 pages
...was good, and the ditty fitted for it : it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago. And the milkmaid's mother...was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days." " Call you that nothing ? " enquired I. " I have caught nothing," replied Double G. ; and, taking down...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...smooth song made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago." — "The milk-maid's mother," he adds," sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter...old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. I think much better than_£/^ strong lines that are in fashion in this critical age." — The Complete Angler, Edit. vi....
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pages
...the character of " That smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago ; and an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days Old fashioned poetry, but choicely good." See The Reliques, &c. vol. ip 218, 221, third edit. In Shakspeare's...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 6

Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it: it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago : and the milk-maid's mother...critical age. Look yonder ! on my word, yonder they both be a milking again. I will give her the chub, and persuade them to sing those two songs to us....
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