 Now does jolly Janus greet your merriment; For since the world's creation, I never changed my fashion; 'Tis good enough to fence the cold: My hatchet serves to cut my firing yearly, My bowl preserves the juice of grape and barley: Fire, wine, and strong...  The Thracian wonder - Page 30by Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1815 - 470 pages
...white Beard and Hair ; a Hatchet in one Hand, and a Bowl in the other He sings. Now does jolly Jantis greet your merriment; For since the world's creation,...wine, and strong beer, makes me live so long here, AH the potent powers of plenty wait upon You that intend to be frolic to-day : To Bacchus I commend... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 324 pages
...coat girt to him, a white beard and hair : a hatchet in one hand and a bowl in the other. He sings. Now does jolly Janus greet your merriment ; For since...wine, and strong beer, makes me live so long here, To give the merry new year a welcome in. To Bacchus I commend ye, and Ceres eke attend ye. To keep... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 340 pages
...coat girt to him, a white beard and hair : a hatchet in one hand and a bowl in the other. He sings. Now does jolly Janus greet your merriment ; For since...wine, and strong beer, makes me live so long here, To give the merry new year a welcome in. To Bacchus I commend ye, and Ceres eke attend ye, To keep... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 326 pages
...coat girt to him, a white beard and hair : a hatchet in one hand and a bowl in the other. He sings. Now does jolly Janus greet your merriment ; For since the world's creation, I never changed my fashion ; "fis good enough to fence the cold : My hatchet serves to cut my firing yearly, My bowl preserves... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1830 - 326 pages
...coat girt to him, a white beard and hair : a hatchet in one hand and a bowl in the other. He sings. Now does jolly Janus greet your merriment ; For since the world's creation, I never changed my fashion ; "Pis good enough to fence the cold : My hatchet serves to cut my firing yearly, My bowl preserves... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 360 pages
...coat girt to him, a white beard and hair : a hatchet in one hand and a bowl in the other. He sings. Now does jolly Janus greet your merriment ; For since the world's creation, I never changed my fashion ; "Pis good enough to fence the cold : My hatchet serves to cut my firing yearly, My howl preserves... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1848 - 414 pages
...Janus, with a coat girt to him, a white beard and hair, a hatchet in one hand, a bowl in the other. Now does jolly Janus greet your merriment ; For since...wine, and strong beer, makes me live so long here, To give the merry new year a welcome in. All the potent powers of plenty wait upon You that intend... | |
 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1854 - 282 pages
...follow, And the floods to the woods, Carry my holla, holla! Ce! la! ho! ho! hu! THE BONG OF JANUARY. NOW does jolly Janus greet your merriment; For since...of grape and barley : Fire, wine, and strong beer, make me live so long here To give the merry new year a welcome in. All the potent powers of plenty... | |
 | Robert Bell - English drama - 1854 - 290 pages
...holla, holla! Ce! la! ho! ho! hu! THE SONG OF JANUARY. "VTOW does jolly Janus greet your merriment; -L ' For since the world's creation, I never changed my...of grape and barley : Fire, wine, and strong beer, make me live so long here To give the merry new year a welcome in. All the potent powers of plenty... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - American literature - 1856 - 348 pages
...something ; a boar's head for instance, and a lemon; snap-dragon, and some chirping old songs — ' Now does jolly Janus greet your merriment ; For since...of grape and barley : Fire, wine, and strong beer, make me live so long here, To give the merry New-Year a welcome in.' "A Christmas tree we must have,... | |
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