 | Robert Nares - English language - 1872 - 552 pages
...EU, s. A truant, one who acts by stealth. It is frequently united with the notion of a truant boy. Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries ? 1 Hen. IV, ii, 4. MIC 568 See Johnson. What, tnm mickfr, steale a «rife, «ncl not make your old... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...me. If then thou be son to me, here lies the point ! why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at ? Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher, and eat blackberries ? a question not to be asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take purses? a question to... | |
 | Charles Roach Smith - England - 1874 - 102 pages
...been known to build in them. " Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper/' occurs in Romeo and Juliet. Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher, and eat blackberries ? King Henry IV, Part 1, Act ii, Scene 4. The word micher here means a truant boy strolled away into... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Promptbooks - 1874 - 260 pages
...that is, sneaking or skulking mischief. Shakespeare used • micher ' in the sense of ' truant.' ' Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries?' 1 Henry IV, ii. 4.451. Minsheu (The Guide into Tongues) gives ' To Miche, or secretly to hide himselfe... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English language - 1874 - 324 pages
...and mich here on earth?' In Henry IV., Part I., is the passage, put into the mouth of Falstaffe : ' Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher, and eat blackberries ?' The ' Scornful Lady,' of Beaumont and Fletcher, has, Sure she has, Some meechhig rascal in the house.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 1146 pages
...If, then, thou be son to me, here lies the point ; — why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at ? s a question not to be asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take purses? a question to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 1000 pages
...If then thou be son to me, here lieth the point ; — Why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at? - - ? a question not to be asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take purses ? a question... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 584 pages
...If then thou be son to me, here lieth the point; — Why, ' being son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher, and eat blackberries? a question not to be asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take purses? a question to... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - Gardens in literature - 1878 - 316 pages
...Blackberries I would give no man a reason on compulsion. 1st Henri/ /F, act ii, sc. 4. (2) Falstaff. Shall the blessed sun of Heaven prove a micher and eat Blackberries ? Ibid. (3) Thersites. That same dog-fox Ulysses is not proved worth a Blackberry. Troilus and Cressida,... | |
 | thomas tusser - 1878 - 392 pages
...lytell thefe, laronceau."—Palsgrave. Now common as a term for a truant. Cf. Shak. I Henry IV. ii. 4: "Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries. Mickle, G8/I, adj. great, much. Mier, 107/4, s - mire, filth. AS my re. »Mier, 38, Mierie, 113/27,... | |
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A question not to be asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief and take purses? A question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry, which thou hast often heard of, and it is known to many in our land by the name of pitch. This pitch, as ancient writers... 
