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" Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out"; and "
The National Geographic Magazine - Page 571
1926
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 14

Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...say truth (for out it must), It looked like the great collar (just) About our young colt's ucck. ' Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. But, oh ! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so...
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Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 245

Early English newspapers - 1878 - 970 pages
...to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so...
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: But oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: But oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 164

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1887 - 616 pages
...Margaret Howard, daughter of the first Earl of Suffolk, has one verse which has been often iiuoted :— ‘Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But oh! she danc¿s such a way, No sun upon an Eastern day Is half so...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 806 pages
...to say truth (for out it must) It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd tht light: Rut oh ! she daucc$ sm:ha way ! No sun upon an Kaster day Is half so fine...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 278 pages
...rather prior to Herrick, being born twenty-two years before him, and dying at an early period of life: Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: &c. CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS, FLV me not, though I be grey> Lady, this...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...rather prior to Herrick, being born twenty-two years before him, and dying at an early period of life: Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: &c. SIR J. SUCKLING'S Balladm a Wedding, CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS. FLV...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical ...

George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 474 pages
...to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: But oh ! she dances such a wayNo sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine...
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Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 380 pages
...profit by the exquisite description of the Bride, in Sir John Suckling's poem of the Wedding;—— " Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light." As for those, who, with bad shapes, make aij useless display of their...
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