 | Goldfinch - 1805 - 276 pages
...I'm lin'd within : A chirping cup is my mattin song, And the vespers' bell is my bowl, ding doiig, What baron or 'squire, Or knight of the shire, Lives half so well as a holy friar? ISATL'D from the Downs itithe Nancy, My jib, how she smack'd thro' the breeze T She'* a vessel... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - English ballads and songs - 1803 - 228 pages
...wine I'm lin'd within : A chirping cup is my matin song, And the vesper's bell is my bowl, diug dong, What baron or squire, Or knight of the shire, Lives half so well as a holy friar. — <?>i§t^?*— , WHEN WAR'S ALARMS. WHEN war's alarms entic'd my Willy from me, My poor heart... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...cannot tell, Thou lead'st a life of living well ? " What baron, or squire, or knight of the slu're Lives half so well as a holy Fry-er ? " In doing well...Mrs. Fry the second ; And twice a Job, — for in thy fev'rish toils Thou wast all over roasts — as well as boils. Thou wast indeed no dunce, To treat... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 378 pages
...clapp'd my tewah-diddle * on my head. Who is there cannot tell, Thou lead'st a life of living well ? " What baron, or squire, or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy Fry-er ?" 334 FLOWERS OF LITERATURE; In doing well thou must be reckou'd The first, and Mrs. Fry the second... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 382 pages
...clapp'd my tewah-diddle* on my head. Who is there cannot tell, Thou lead'st a life of living well ? " What baron, or squire, or knight of the shire, Lives...Mrs: Fry the second ; And twice a Job, — for in thy fev'rish toils Thou wast all over roasts — as well as boils. * The doctor's composition for a nightcap.... | |
 | Thomas Sheahan - Ireland - 1825 - 130 pages
...passengers, in whose face there certainly was much of the gravity of the Sanhedrim, he surig as he asked, What Baron or Squire, or Knight of the Shire, Lives half so well as a Holy Friar, Holy, HHHHHH Friar. The Sanhedrim was silent, but the interrogator was not to go without an... | |
 | Thomas Sheahan - Ireland - 1825 - 130 pages
...passengers, in whose face there certainly was much of the gravity of the Sanhedrim, he sung as he asked, What Baron or Squire, or Knight of the Shire, Lives half so well as a Holy Friar, Holy, HHHHHH Friar. . . . ....'.. *i . . j . . The Sanhedrim was silent, but the interrogator... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 692 pages
...reward, "and in this thought would he endeavour to stifle the stings of conscience. CHAPTER VIII. " No Baron, or 'Squire, or Knight of the Shire, Lives half so well as a holy Friar." " No, sire," the other answered, " I am sorry my memory serves me not thus far ; but look,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...I want ; And why I'm so plump, the reason I'll tell — Who leads a good life is sure to live well. What baron, or 'squire, Or knight of the shire, Lives half so well as a holy friar? After supper, of heaven I dream, But that is fat pullet and clotted cream ; Myself, by denial,... | |
 | 1834 - 784 pages
...you have no more left to carve, 'Twill comfort your souls, as you shiver and starve. 622 623 That no baron, or squire, or knight of the shire, Lives half so well as a holy friar." Mr. Ker is rigorously literal in his translation of passages against the Catholic clergy. For... | |
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I'm so plump the reason I tell — Who leads a good life is sure to live well. What baron or squire, Or knight of the shire, Lives half so well as a holy friar... 
