Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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References to this poem

Over the hill and over the dale

Over the hill and over the dale,
And over the bourn to Dawlish —
Where gingerbread wives have a scanty sale
And gingerbread nuts are smallish.

Rantipole Betty she ran down a hill,
And kick’d up her petticoats fairly.
Says I, I’ll be Jack if you will be Gill.
So she sat on the grass debonnairly.

Here’s somebody coming, here’s somebody coming!
Says I, ’tis the wind at a parley.
So without any fuss, any hawing and humming,
She lay on the grass debonnairly.

Here’s somebody here and here’s somebody there!
Say’s I, hold your tongue, you young gipsey.
So she held her tongue and lay plump and fair
And dead as a venus tipsy.

O who would’nt hie to Dawlish fair,
O who would’nt stop in a meadow?
O who would not rumple the daisies there,
And make the wild fern for a bed do?

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “Over the hill and over the dale.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.25 , University of Victoria, 29 May 2023. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_over_the_hill_and_over_the.html.

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John Keats, “Over the hill and over the dale,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.25 , last modified 29th May 2023. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_over_the_hill_and_over_the.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “Over the hill and over the dale.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.25 , last modified 29th May 2023. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_over_the_hill_and_over_the.html.