 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 - Seite 7751831Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 332 Seiten
...them 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;" Botchers left old clothes in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the Church. But this new-born zeal... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 Seiten
...with his guards to seize them, but, having warning of his intention, they effected their escape. 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 ; Botcher's left old clothes... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 Seiten
...clamour in the city against the Church of England about the commencement of the civil war : — " 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 : X Botchers left old... | |
 | Surrey Archaeological Society - 1864 - 456 Seiten
...together by the ears ;" " When tinkers bawled aloud to settle Church discipline for patching kettle, And oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry ' No Bishop ! ' " A time when even the porters of London petitioned against Episcopacy, as a burden, says Fuller,... | |
 | 1874 - 344 Seiten
...join Laud in his captivity. The popular cry was fierce against them, and, to quote Hudibras,— " 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 Seiten
...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. • jHo«». Waller's ghost. Sir William Waller, a Presbyterian and a general of the Parliamentary... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 124 Seiten
...in the country. He obtained a sufficiently wide view of the country to know whereabouts he was. The oyster-women locked their fish up, and trudged away to cry, "No Bishop." The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. The churchyard hath an added stone. Something... | |
 | Ellen Webley Parry - 1879 - 530 Seiten
...seventeenth century:— " And thus all cries about the town, Join throats to cry the bishops down. The oyster-women locked their fish up, And trudged away to cry, ' No bishop.' Patchers left old clothes iu the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the Church/' BUTLER. The prelates... | |
 | Philip Henry Bagenal - 1884 - 398 Seiten
...Minister, and Lord Mayor, and all classes in a frenzy, he could not but recall to mind those days When oyster-women locked their fish up And trudged away to cry ' no bishop.' He spoke at length and with considerable bitterness. Alluding to Ireland, he declared that the real... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1885 - 300 Seiten
...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... | |
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