 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...dead, To haunt the faithless swain. Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and broken oath 1 Y=w Why did you promise love to me, And not that promise keep ! Why did you swear my eyen were bright,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1845 - 258 pages
...When injur'd ghosts complain ; Now yawning graves give up their dead, To haunt the faithless swain. " Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and broken oath ; And give me back my maiden vow, And give me back my troth. " Why did you promise love to me, And not that promise keep... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1846 - 318 pages
...complain ; Now yawning graves give up their dead, To haunt the faithless swain. Bethink thee, WTilliam, of thy fault, Thy pledge, and broken oath : And give me back my maiden vow, And give me back my troth. Why did you promise love to me, And not that promise keep ?... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...When injured ghosts complain; When yawning graves give up their dead, To haunt the faithless swam. Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and...me back my maiden-vow, And give me back my troth. Why did you promise love to me, And not that promise keep 1 Why did you swear my eyes were bright,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...there has been a cry, To I fie Baslile /" — CARLISLE. How do you parse to the Bastile ? 7. " Be think thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and broken oath ; And give me back my maiden vow, And give me back my troth." — MALLET. 8. " With a callous heart there can be no genius... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...When injur'd ghosts complain : When yawning graves give up their dead, To haunt the faithless swain. "Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and...me back my maiden-vow, And give me back my troth. "Why did you promise love to me, And not that promise keep ? Why did you swear my eyes were bright,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...since nine there has been a cry, To the Bas~ tile!" — CARLISLE. How do you parse to the Bastile? 7. " Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and broken oath ; And give me back my maiden vow, And give me back my troth." — MALLET. 8. " With a callous heart there can be no genius... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 768 pages
...since nine there has been a cry, To the Bastile .'" — CARLISLE. How do you parse to the Bastile ? 7. "Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and broken oath ; And give me back my maiden vow, And give me back my troth." — MALLET. 8. " "With a callous heart there can be no genius... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...ghosts complain ; When yawning graves give up their dead, To haunt the faithless swain. " Bethink thce, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and broken oath ! And give me hack my maiden-vow, And give me back my troth. " Why did you promise love to me, And not that promise... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1856 - 576 pages
...When injur'd ghosts complain ; Now yawning graves give up their dead, To haunt the faithless swain. " Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and broken oath : And give me back my maiden vow, And give me back my troth. 30 " Why did you promise love to me, And not that promise keep... | |
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How could you say my face was fair, And yet that face forsake? How could you win my virgin heart, Yet leave that heart to break? 
