...tempted to quote a few stanzas from the witty Sir John Suckling's excellent ballad " On a wedding." " 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 fine a sight. " Her cheeks so rare...

...a poet. His Ballad upon a Wedding contains some descriptive passages of unapproached excellence— Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; And oh, she dances such a way ! No sun upon an eaiter day Is half so fine a sight. • • • •...

...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 fine a...

...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 fine a sight....

...notion is alluded to in an old ballad quoted by lilt лм>. Popular Antiquities, Vol. ip 13?. But, Dick, she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. On the next page, of the same work, is quoted, from the " British Apollo," Old wives, Phoebus, say,...

...once more to restore mankind to a practical knowledge of that most delicate simile of Suckling — " Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." To be sure tlio carriage and step of your city dame is not very remarkable for timidity; Imt how was...

...to say truth, for out it must, It looked 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 fine a sight. He would have kissed...

...And, to say truth, for out it must, it looked 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 fine a sight. He would have kissed her...

...heat, approached him with her tread. How prettily her feet, as that saucy fellow Suckling has it, " Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." Nothing in the wide world, Matemon, arrests my attention quicker than Cinderella's slipper when it...

...approached him with her tread. How prettily her feet, as that saucy fellow Suckling has it, '' lake little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light.'' first swells to the wave, and her neck is worthy of it, and delicately fair. As the southern sun has...