 | 1815 - 200 páginas
...whereof, the Welsh to this day wear a leek on the first of March." " I tike the Leeke above all herties and flowers. When first we wore the same, the field...The leeke is white and greene, whereby is ment That Britainesare both stout and eminent: Next to the lion and the unicorn The leeke the fairest emblyn... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 682 páginas
...wore the game, the field was our's. The lecke is white and green, whereby is meant, That Britons arc both stout and eminent : Next to the lion and the unicorne, The leek 's the fairest emblem that is worne." Another version of this tradition refers the custom to a... | |
 | 1822 - 440 páginas
...Cadwallo, near a field thai was replenished with that vegetable, I like the Leeke above all herbes and flowers; When first we wore the same, the field was ours. The Leeke is white and greene, wherby is raent That Britaines are both stout and eminent; Next to the Lion and the Unicorn, ' The... | |
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 páginas
...Pedigrees made bv one of the Randall Holmes. Harl. MS. 1977, fol. 9. " I like the Leeke above all herhes and flowers. When first we wore the same the field was ours. The Leeke is white and greene, wherhy is ment That Britaines are both stout and eminent ; Next to the Lion and the Unicorn, The Leeke... | |
 | 1823 - 494 páginas
...Pedigrees made by one of the Randall Holmes. Harl. MS. 1077, fol. 9. " I like the Leeke above all herbes and flowers. When first we wore the same the field was ours. The Leeke is while and greene, wherby is ment That Britaines are both stout and eminent ; Next to the Lion and the... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 páginas
...found in an old MS. in the British Museum : — Lines on the Leak. I like the Leeke above all herbes and flowers. When first we wore the same the field was ours. The Leeke is white and greene, wberby is merit That Britaines are both stout and eminent; Next to the Lion and the Unicorn, The Leeke... | |
 | J. R - 1824 - 350 páginas
...friends and foes. The patriotic Welshman may therefore justly say r " I like the leeke above all herbes and flowers ; When first we wore the same, the field was ours." Ma. CONSTANCE. Notwithstanding the absurd and superstitious account of St. David, it appears, from... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 868 páginas
...and flowers. When first we wore the same the feild was ours. The leeke is white and greene, wherby is ment That Britaines are both stout and eminent ; Next to the lion and the unicom, The leeke's the fairest emblyn that is worne. Marl. MS. 1977. The bishop's " Last Good Night,"... | |
 | William Howells - 1831 - 220 páginas
...In the Haerlaem MS 1977, Fol. 9, are th« following lines: — " I like the Leeke abore all herbcs and flowers, When first we wore the same, the field was ours : The Leeke is white and green, whereby is meant, That Bruaines are both stout and eminent : Next to the Lion and the Unicorn,... | |
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I like the leeke above all herbes and flowers. When first we wore the same the feild was ours. The leeke is white and greene, wherby is ment That Britaines are both stout and eminent ; Next to the lion and the unicorn. The leeke's the fairest emblyn that... 
