 Botchers left old clothes in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the church ; Some cried the covenant, instead Of pudding-pies and ginger-bread ; And some for brooms, old boots, and shoes, Bawled out to purge the Commons...  Cobbett's Weekly Register - Page 7751831Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...Rich honesty dwells like your miser, ur, in « poor house ; as your pearl in your foul ouster. Id. The oysterwomen locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry no bishop. Hudibrai. Another mass held a kind of oyiter shell, and other bivalves. Woodward. There.may be many... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1831 - 892 pages
...by-gone events. His right bon. Fricuil had drawn a parallel between the reigns of Charles I. and William IV., but he might have rendered the picture and its...he said, that " Oyster-women locked their fish up, ( a And trudged away to cry ' No Bishop !' ' (Laughter.) In our own time their treatment had been even... | |
 | John Mason Neale - Great Britain - 1845 - 324 pages
...grew worse and worse. Mobs went about the streets: all sorts of rabble cried out against Popery. " The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry " No Bishop !" As a clever poet who lived at the time tells us. And at last twelve Bishops agreed in signing a... | |
 | Renn Dickson Hampden, Richard Jebb - Benefices, Ecclesiastical - 1849 - 650 pages
...lordships would not take a first step of a proceeding, in which the last must be of that description. " The oyster-women locked their fish up, " And trudged away to cry, No bishop. ' I do not know that similar causes may not produce, at all times, similar effects. Nor will your lordships... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 316 pages
...•••••• When tinkers called aloud to settle Church-discipline for patching kettle ; The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry ' No bishop !' Botchers left old clothes in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the Church. Some cried the Covenant... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 292 pages
...• •••>•• When tinkers called aloud to settle Church-discipline for patching kettle ; The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry ' No bishop !' Botchers left old clothes in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the Church. Some cried the Covenant... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 800 pages
...well-known passages : — Beside lie was a shrewd philosopher. And had read every text and gloss over. The oyster-women locked their fish up. And trudged away to cry ' No Bishop!' Ay me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron. Such church must surely lie a monster... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 640 pages
...this time ! — ' When tinkers bawled aloud to settle Church-discipline for patching kettle, — The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry no bishop ! Botchers left old clothes in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the Church. Some cried the Covenant,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1857 - 592 pages
...some precious load of books which it was death to possess."* For then, as in later years — " The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry ' No bishop ;' Butchers left old clothes in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the Church." But this new-born... | |
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