 Pray, get fresh , I would have these herbs grow up in his grave When I am dead and rotten. Reach the bays ; I'll tie a garland here about his head ; 'Twill keep my boy from lightning.  The Dramatic Works of John Webster - 第 126 頁John Webster 著 - 1857完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 982 頁
...antidote against the effects of thunder. In an old play, Tlie Wftite Devil, Cornelia says: " Reach the bays: I'll tie a garland here about his head, 'Twill keep my boy from lightning." According to Shakespeare, the withering of bay-trees was reckoned an omen of death Thus Richard says:... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 636 頁
...'Twill keep my boy from lightning. This sheet I have kept this twenty year, and every day Hallowed it with my prayers : I did not think He should have wore it. VOL. XXIV.— 10 Zanche. — Look you who are yonder. Cor. — Oh, reach me the flowers. Zanche. —... | |
 | Percy B. Green - 1899 - 258 頁
...against lightning was a laurel leaf. " Reach the bays" (or laurel leaves), "and wear one." " I '11 tie a garland here about his head, Twill keep my boy from lightning." Even Tiberius Caesar wore a chaplet of laurel leaves about his neck. Pliny reported that "laurel leaves... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 808 頁
...priviledged from the prejudice of Thunder." So in Webster's White Devil (1612) Cornelia says — " Reach the Bays: I'll tie a Garland here about his Head, "Twill keep my Boy from Lightning." In A Strange Metamorphosis of Man (1634) the bay-tree, it is observed, is " priviledged by Nature that... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - 1901 - 862 頁
...grow up in his grave, When I am dead and rotten. Reach the bays, I 'II tie a garland here about Ьь derwoods.' Oh, do not wanton with those eyes, Lest...Lest shame destroy their being. Oh, be not angry with Zancht. Look you, who are yonder ? Cor. O, reach me the flowers ! Zanihe. Her ladyship's foolish. Woman.... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 506 頁
...frost or hail. B. Googe, Transl. of Naogeorgus, f. 4, "Candlemas." Cornelia. Reach the Bays, I '11 tie a garland here about his head, 'Twill keep my boy from lightning. Webster, White Devil, 1612. He which weareth the bay-leafe is privileged from the prejudice of thunder.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 504 頁
...his grave When I am dead and rotten. Reach the bays; I '11 tie a garland here about his head; 'T will keep my boy from lightning. This sheet I have kept this twenty year, and every day Hallow' d it with my prayers. I did not think He should have wore it. Zanche. Look you who are yonder.... | |
 | James Charles Wall - 1904 - 222 頁
...Ne no tempest w* owtyn fayle." In the old play character says : — of The White Devil, one -Reach the bays : I'll tie a garland here about his head, 'Twill keep my boy from lightning." In a seventeenth-century treatise it says that the bay tree is so privileged by Nature that " even... | |
 | William Henry Williams - 1905 - 600 頁
...pray, get fresh. 160 I would have these herbs grow up in his grave, When I am dead and rotten. Reach the bays, I'll tie a garland here about his head; 'Twill keep my boy from lightning. This sheet 165 I have kept this twenty year, and every day Hallowed it with my prayers : I did not think He should... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1913 - 620 頁
...173: With an unskilful, yet a willing voice, To bring my girl asleep. White Devil, 45 : I have sung I'll tie a garland here about his head ; 'Twill keep my boy from lightning. Besides these, there are various words; 'dunghill' (A. and V., 171, 166, White Devil, 25),' mist' (of... | |
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