 | 1823 - 872 str.
...straight ensue : He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretold the gath'ring rain. When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Let Cloddipole then hear as twain rehearse, And praise his sweetheart in alternate verse. I'll wager... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 str.
...straight ensue: He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretold the gathering rain. When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that die welkin would lie clear. SO Let Cloddipole then hear us twain rehearse, And praise his sweetheart... | |
 | John Gay - 1826 - 376 str.
...strait ensue; He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretold the gathering rain. When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us tint the welkin would be clear. Let Cloddipole then hear us twain rehearse, And praise his sweetheart... | |
 | John Bellenden Ker - 1837 - 334 str.
...inhabitants in regard to concomitant filth and abjectness. t All meaning bawdy-house-keepers. '• When SWALLOWS fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." GAY. LEFT-HAND. As the old Dutch luft-hand ; qe the relieving/ hand, the lightening hand, the assisting... | |
 | John Bellenden Ker - 1837 - 334 str.
...and its inhahitants in regard to concomitant filth and abjectnesst All meaning bawdy-house-keepers. " When SWALLOWS fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." GAY. LEFT-HAND. As the old Dutch luft-hand ; qe the relieving hand, the lightening hand, the assisting... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 str.
...ensne : lie first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretold the gathering rain. |-|.| p { 4 30 Let Cloddipole then hear us twain rehearse, And praise his sweetheart in alternate verse. I'll wager... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 str.
...straight ensue : He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretold the gathering rain. , Divine Similitude, In whose conspicuous countenancc, bo clear. 30 Let Cloddipole then hear us twain rehearse, And praise his sweetheart in alternate verse.... | |
 | 1844 - 620 str.
...straight ensue. He first that useful secret did explain, Why pricking corns foretold the gathering rain ; When Swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air, He told us that the Welkin would be clear. The weather-wisdom of our ancestors, like every other species of knowledge they possessed, was handed... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 str.
...straight ensue. He first that useful secret did explain, Why pricking corns foretold the gathering rain; When Swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air, He told us that the Welkin would be clear. The weather-wisdom of our ancestors, like every other species of knowledge they possessed, was handed... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 str.
...straight ensue ; He first that useful secret did explain, Wby pricking corns foretold the gath'ring rain ; When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would he clear." Thus also in the Trivia of the same poet, similar omens occur for those who live in towns... | |
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Cloddipole we learnt to read the skies, To know when hail will fall, or winds arise. He taught us erst the heifer's tail to view, When... 
