"Rew" Quotes from Famous Books
... the miseries of his poetical life, are alluded to by Spenser. He is old Palemon in "Colin Clout's come Home again." Spenser is supposed to describe this laborious writer for half a century, whose melancholy pipe, in his old age, may make the reader "rew:" ... — Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... wonder, Gill Morice, My lady loed thee weel, The fairest part of my bodie Is blacker than thy heel. Zet neir the less now, Gill Morice, For a' thy great beautie, Ze's rew the day ze eir was born; That head sall gae ... — Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols |