Works in the secret deep; shoots, steaming, thence
The fair profusion that o'erspreads the spring," &c.
Can any of your readers oblige by saying whether the word steaming, in the fourth line of the quotation, is the correct reading? If so, in what sense it can be understood? if not, whether teeming is not probably the correct word?
W. M. P.
"For God will be your King to-day."—
"For God will be your King to-day,
And I'll be general under."
My grandmother, who was a native of Somersetshire, and born in 1750, used to recite a ballad to my mother, when a child, of which the above lines are the only ones remembered.
Do they refer to the rising under the Duke of Monmouth? And where can the whole of the ballad be found?
M. A. S.