 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 392 страници
...belonged of yore to one of those jovial friars, so honorably mentioned in the old border ballad : " 0 the monks of Melrose made gude kale On Fridays, when...They wanted neither beef nor ale, As long as their neighbors lasted." This skull Scott had caused to be cleaned and varnished, and placed it on a chest... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 910 страници
...jovial friars, so honorably mentioned in the old bordei ballad : " 0 the monks of Melrose made glide kale On Fridays, when they fasted ; They wanted neither beef nor ale, As long as their neighbors lasted." This skull Scott had caused to be cleaned and varnished, and placed it on a chest... | |
 | Francis Hindes Groome - 1884 - 306 страници
...necessarily true the declaration of the old words of Galashiels : — ' The monks of Melrose mode gude kail, On Fridays when they fasted ; They wanted neither beef nor ale As long as their neighbours' lasted.' The regard in which they were held by Bruce and his successors was probably due to the fact that, although... | |
 | Alexander Maxwell (F. S. A. Scotland.) - 1884 - 624 страници
...it may be doubted whether this Act was rigorously enforced at a time when it was alleged that even " The Monks of Melrose made gude kale On Fridays, when they fasted." In 1567, restrictions were again imposed, in consequence of scarcity, by an Act "permitting the lieges... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 254 страници
...sensuality and irregularity, thrown upon the Roman churchmen. The old words of Galashids, a favorite Scottish air, ran thus: — *O the monks of Melrose...They wanted neither beef nor ale, As long as their neighbors' lasted.' " See also on ii. 16, 113 below. 336. Abbaye. The French for abbey, used for the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 562 страници
...belonged of yore to one of those jovial friars, so honorably mentioned in the old border ballad: '* 0 the monks of Melrose made gude kale On Fridays, when...They wanted neither beef nor ale, As long as their neighbors lasted." This skull he had caused to be cleaned and varnished, and placed it on a chest of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1887 - 952 страници
...of those jovial friars, so honorably mentioned in the old border ballad : " O the monks of Metros? made gude kale On Fridays, when they fasted; They wanted neither beef nor ale. As long as their neighbors lasted/ This skull he had caused to be cleaned and varnished, and placed it on a chest of... | |
 | Michael Aislabie Denham - 1892 - 388 страници
...as the old words of " Galashiels," a favourite Scottish air : — 0 the Monks of Melrose * made good kale On Fridays when they fasted ; They wanted neither...beef nor ale As long as their neighbours' lasted. See Chambers' Pop. Rhymes Scot. 3rd ed. 1847, p. 42 (edition 1870, p. 244); also Allan Ramsay's Evergreen,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 734 страници
...verses as these : — •The Friars of Fail drank berry -brown ale, The best that e'er was tasted ; The Monks of Melrose made gude kale On Fridays, when they fasted. Saint Monance' sister, The grey priest kist her — Fiend save the company! Sing bay trix, trim-go-trix,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 246 страници
...of all his moonlight reveries in St. Mary's aisle, was but, for himself and for his reader, that " The Monks of Melrose made gude kale On Fridays, when they fasted." monks of Tweeddale were altogether to be blamed, or ridiculed, for the excellence of their broth, —... | |
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O the monks of Melrose made gude kale * On Fridays when they fasted ; They wanted neither beef nor ale, As long as their neighbour's lasted. 
