 | Francis Grose - English language - 1787 - 378 pages
...truth of it, has preferved it to the prefent time, A jack of Dover. A jack of Dover is mentioned by Chaucer in his Proeme to the Cook. And many a jack of t)over he had fold, . Which had been two times hot and two times cold. If by a jack is meant the fifh... | |
 | Francis Grose - English language - 1790 - 412 pages
...truth of it, has preferved it to the prefent time. A jack of Dover. A jack of Dover is mentioned by Chaucer,, in his Proeme to the Cook : And many a jack of Dover he hail fold, Which had been two times hot and two times col J. If by a jack is meant the fifh now... | |
 | English language - 1817 - 336 pages
...no ears. A jack of Dover. 1 find the first mention of this proverb in our English EHnlus,Chattcort in his Proeme to the Cook. And many a jack of Dover lie had sold, Which had been two limes hot, and two times cold, This he make'? parallel to Cratnbe... | |
 | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Authors, English - 1824 - 384 pages
...from a literal prose translation ! They were, in this state, which brings to mind Chaucer's lines, " And many a Jack of Dover had he sold, Which had been two times hot, and two times cold," to be rendered into English verse, with the preservation of all their original spirit ! What is it... | |
 | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Authors, English - 1824 - 388 pages
...from a literal prose translation ! They were, in this state, which brings to mind Chaucer's lines, " And many a Jack of Dover had he sold, Which had been two times hot, and two times cold," to be rendered into English verse, with the preservation of all their original spirit ! What is it... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 608 pages
...speaker, which is nothing but impatience in the auditors, unwilling to attend the end of the discourse. " A jack of Dover."] I find the first mention of this proverb in our English Ennius, Chaucer, in his proem to the cook : " And many a jack of Dover he had sold, Which had been two times hot, and two times... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 606 pages
...speaker, which is nothing but impatience in the auditors, unwilling to attend the end of the discourse. "A jack of Dover."] I find the first mention of this proverb in our English Ennius, Chaucer, in his proem to the cook : " And many a jack of Dover he had sold, Which had been two times hot, and two times... | |
 | John Harland - English language - 1873 - 696 pages
...Smollett's Travels through France and Italy ; Works, voL viii., p. 4 ; ed. 1872.] 37. A Jack of Dover.1 ' I find the first mention of this proverb in our English...Proeme to the Cook — " And many a Jack of Dover he had sold, Which had heen two times hot, and two times cold." ' This he (Dr Fuller) makes parallel... | |
 | Excavations (Archaeology) - 1874 - 478 pages
...of thieves," Smollett's Travels through France and Italy ; Works, vol. viii., p. 4; ed. 1872.] 38. A Jack of Dover* " I find the first mention of this proverb in our English Eunius, Chaucer, in his Proemc to the Cook — * Before this Dr. Pegge has inserted — "Dover-court,... | |
 | Granville William Gresham Leveson Gower - English language - 1876 - 488 pages
...Smollett's Travels through France and Italy ; Works, vol. viii., p. 4 ; ed. 1872.] 37. A Jack of Dover.1 ' I find the first mention of this proverb in our English...Proeme to the Cook — " And many a Jack of Dover he had Bold, Which had been two times hot, and two times cold." ' This he (Dr Fuller) makes parallel... | |
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I find the first mention of this proverb in our English Ennius, Chaucer, in his Proeme to the Cook— "And many a Jack of Dover he had sold, Which had been two times hot, and two times cold. 
