 For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more.  Punch - Page 316edited by - 1892Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...wheels, Were never folk so glad; The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin at his horse's side Seized fast the flowing mane,...But soon came down again ; For saddle-tree scarce reach'd had he, His journey to begin, When turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...wheels, Were never folks so glad, The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad. Jobn Gilpin at his horse's side Seized fast the flowing mane,...But soon came down again ; For saddle-tree scarce reach'd had he, His journey to begin, When turning round his head he saw Three customers come in. So... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...wheels, were never folk so glad ; The stones did rattle underneath, as if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin at his horse's side seized fast the flowing mane,...saddle-tree scarce reached had he, his journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, although... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers (Elementary) - 1844 - 184 pages
...Were never folks so glad; The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin, at his horse's side, Seized fast the flowing mane...saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came ; for loss of time, Although... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...were never folks so 10 glad; The stones did rattle underneath, as if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin, at his horse's side, seized fast the flowing mane,...saddle-tree scarce reached had he, his journey to begin, 15 When, turning round his face, he saw three customers come in. So down he came ; for loss of time,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...Were never folk so glad, The stones did rattle underneath As if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin at hig horse's side Seized fast the flowing mane, And up...But soon came down again : For saddle-tree scarce reach'd had he, His journey to begin, When turning round his head he saw Three customers come in. So... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 44 pages
...The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin at his horse's side Seiz'd fast the flowing mane ; And up he got in haste to...ride, But soon came down again. For saddle-tree scarce reach'd had he, His journey to begin, When turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1850 - 502 pages
...wheels, Were never folk so glad ; The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin at his horse's side, Seized fast the flowing mane,...he got in haste to ride, But soon came down again. During more than three centuries, — from the day when the old Benedictine monk, John Lydgate, penned... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...wheels, Were ever folks so glad, The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin at his horse's side Seized fast the flowing mane,...he got in haste to ride, But soon came down again : When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came ; for loss of time,... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 624 pages
...having merely a bridle, and no saddle ; of the first it might be said, as of John Gilpin, that — " Up he got in haste to ride, But soon came down again." For he was thrown in the very outset, having taken rather more wine than suited the pace he set off at.... | |
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