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" Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted... "
A poetry-book of elder poets, selected and arranged by A. B. Edwards - Page 73
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The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance: Proportion Poetical

229 pages
...married men; for thus sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipp'd, and ways be [foul] , Then nightly sings the staring owl, "Tu-whit, to-who!" — A merry note,...
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The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance: Proportion Poetical

S. K. Heninger - Poetry - 1994 - 228 pages
...he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When icicles hang bv the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And...And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipp'd, and ways be [foul], Then nightly sings the staring owl, "Tu-whit, to-whol" — A merry note....
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Thornes Classic Poetry: A Practical Guide for Key Stage 3

John Foster, Gordon Dennis - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 136 pages
...include Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. About the poem When icicles hang by the wall When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, 5 Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit! tu-who! A merry note, While...
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Approach to Shakespeare

Gilian West - Education - 2015 - 105 pages
...purchasing institution or individual only. Winter When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the sh6pherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl: 'Tu-who; Tu-whit, tu-who' - A merry note,...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! currish thanks is good enough for such a present. Tu-whit; Tu- who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow,...
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English Matters

Susan Duberley - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 138 pages
...make a tape of this, using the sound effects suggested in the script. TAKE THE WEATHER WITH YOU 5.6 Winter When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the...Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen in the pail; When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl. Tu-wit, Tu-who!...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...Shakespearean sonnet, fourteen pentameter lines rhyming ababcdcdefefyg. When Icicles Hang by the Wall When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-whit! To-who! — a merry note, While...
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The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson

Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...humanized: Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; (Cymbeline, iv. 2. 258-259) When Icicles hang by the wall And Dick the Shepherd...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl "Tu-whit, tu-who": a merry note, While...
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The Genius of Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...hung by the wall'. The allusion is to that 'most English' song at the end of Lcve's Labour's Last: 'When icicles hang by the wall / And Dick the shepherd...blows his nail / And Tom bears logs into the hall'. Shakespeare is brought into his own work, imagined conversing with Tom. He is made a poet of the people,...
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On Love/Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays

A. R. Orage - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1998 - 204 pages
...clipped and armed for fight. The wild deer, wandering here and there. The caterpillar on the leaf. Blake When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears IOQS into the hall. O And milk comes frozen home in pail. Etc. Shakespeare p. Visualise a regular series...
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