 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...Cambro-Britons, though of a far less sanguinary temper than the daggers of French 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... | |
 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 198 Seiten
...Cambro-Britons, though of a far less sanguinary temper than the daggers of French 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1809 - 406 Seiten
...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 - 1809 - 384 Seiten
...immediately excited without being expressed. I may quote also the description of Hudibras's dagger It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging. When it had stabb'd or broke a head, ' lUwould scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; ' 1 oast cheese or bacon, though... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...was but little for bis age, And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon knights-errant do : It was a 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 bacon, though it... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 Seiten
...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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prentice to a brewer, Where this and more it did endure, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. In th... 
