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
| John Scott Clark - English language - 1886 - 406 pages
...humorous verse; eg, " 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.' "—Butler. In triple rhymes like " motherly" and " brotherly," etc., the real rhyme, again, occurs... | |
| John Scott Clark - English language - 1891 - 332 pages
...humorous verse; eg, "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.' " — Butler. 26. In triple rhymes like "motherly" and "brotherly," etc., the real rhyme, again, occurs... | |
| Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...Church-discipline, for patching kettle, No sow-gelder did blow his horn To geld a cat, but cried Reform ; The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop ; The mouse-trap men laid save-alls by And 'gainst ev'l counsellors did cry ; Botchers left old clothes... | |
| Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 pages
...Church-discipline, for patching kettle, No sow-gelder did blow his horn To geld a cat, but cried Reform ; The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop ; The mouse-trap men laid save-alls by And 'gainst ev'l counsellors did cry ; Botchers left old clothes... | |
| Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 342 pages
...Church-discipline, for patching kettle, No sow-gelder did blow his horn To geld a cat, but cried Reform ; The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop ; The mouse-trap men laid save-alls by And 'gainst ev'l counsellors did cry ; Botchers left old clothes... | |
| Edward Dowden - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 364 pages
...profane and carnal recreation, blessed days when tinkers bawled aloud to settle Church discipline, and Oyster-women locked their fish up And trudged away to cry " No Bishop " ; days when the gospel-preaching minister invented honied tones to win the women, thereby to draw... | |
| William Holden Hutton - Great Britain - 1900 - 320 pages
...the next generation thus satirises the scenes that were to be observed daily in the streets : ' 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... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1912 - 368 pages
...in the mouth." " And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature, and their stars, to write." " The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry No Bishop." " And registered by fame eternal In deathless pages of diurnal." " For all a rhetorician's rules Teach... | |
| Keith Feiling - Great Britain - 1924 - 544 pages
...been plunged in the classics 1 No sow-gelder did blow his horn To geld a cat, but cried Reform. The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry No Bishop ; The mouse-trap men laid wave-alls by, And 'gainst ev'l counsellors did cry. * and in the Laudian... | |
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