 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 pages
...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,...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 - 196 pages
...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...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 - English poetry - 1801 - 198 pages
...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...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
...upon Knights Errant 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
...upon 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,...; 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... | |
 | 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 forth. The humour of the passage... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...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 were To bait a mouse-trap,... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 pages
...dwarfs upon knights 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...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. 386 is assigned by the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...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,...; 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 456 pages
...waited on him so As dwarfa upon knights-errant do : , It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging : When it had stabb'd or broke a head,...; 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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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 would scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon, though it were To bait a mousetrap, 'twould not... 
