 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 pages
...knights-errant do. It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging: When it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread; Toast cheese or bacon ; though it were To bate a mouse-trap, 'twould not care: 'Twould make clean shoes, and in the earth Set leeks and onions,... | |
 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 346 pages
...reformers. It was a serviceable dudgeon Either for fighting or for drudging ; When it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon ; tho' it were To bait a mouse-trap, 'twould not care. All will allow the valiant champion, Guy of... | |
 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 196 pages
...reformers. It was a serviceable dudgeon Either for fighting or for drudging ; When it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon ; tho* it were To bait a mouse-trap, 'twould not care. All will allow the valiant champion, Guy of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 pages
...do. It was a serviceable dndgeon, Either for fighting or for drndging. • 380 When it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bre-ad ; Toast cheese or haeon ; tho' it were .To hait a mouse-trap, 'twould not cafre. 'Twunld make clean shoes; and in thfe... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 pages
...Knights-errant do ; It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting, or for drudging : Where it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip...though it were To bait a mouse-trap, 'twould not care ; 'Twould make clean shoes, and in the earth Set leeks and onions, and so forth." So useful an instrument... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...discernible opposition of meanness and dignity. We are told of the dagger of Hudibras, that It could scrape trenchers, or chip bread, Toast cheese or bacon, though it were To bait a mouse trap, 'twould not care; 'Twould make clean shoes, or in the earth Set leeks and onions, and so... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...drudging. When it had stabb'd or broke a head, ' lUwould scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; ' 1 oast cheese or bacon, though it were ' To bait a mousetrap, 'twould not care. 'Twoulcl make clean shoes, or in the eartti ' Set leeks, and onions, and so forth. It had been 'prentice... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging: When it had stabb'd or broke a head, It woidd scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or...though it were To bait a mouse-trap, 'twould not care: 'Twould make clean shoes, and in the eartfc Set leeks and onions, and so forth : It had been 'prentice... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 pages
...errant do. It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging. 380 When it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip...; Toast cheese or bacon, though it were To bait a mouse trap, 'twould not care. 'Twould make clean shoes, and in the earth Set leeks and onions, and... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 pages
...errant do. It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging. 380 When it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip...; Toast cheese or bacon, though it were To bait a mouse trap, 'twould not care. 'Twould make clean shoes, and in the earth Set leeks and onions, and... | |
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