 | Esq. Richard Seymour - 1754 - 388 strani
...Executors 1 ivill ha.ve none, But be that on my Side laid Scv'n to Out : And, .like a Gentleman jbat he may live, . To him, and to his Heirs, my Comb I gi.v!, Together 'with my Brains, that all may know, That oftentimes his Brains did ufe to cronu. .... | |
 | John Brand - 1841 - 356 strani
...hequeath to th' Pot, Decently to he hoil'd ; and for its Tomh, Let it he huried in some hungry womh. Item, Executors I will have none But he that on my...Gentleman that he may live, To him and to his heirs my Comh I give.'' To cry Coke is in vulgar language synonymous with crying Peccavi. Coke, says the learned... | |
 | Brand - 1849 - 544 strani
...bequeath to th' pot, Decently to be boil'd; and for its tomb, Let it be buried in some hungry womb. Item, executors I will have none But he that on my...may live, To him and to his heirs my comb I give." To cry coke is, in vulgar language, synonymous with crying peccavi. Coke, says the learned Ruddiman,... | |
 | Thomas Randolph, William Carew Hazlitt - 1875 - 318 strani
...bequeath to th' pot, Decently to be boiPd; and for its tomb, Let it be buried in some hungry womb. Item, Executors I will have none, But he that on my side laid seven to one : 1 See Hazlitt's " Proverbs," 1869, p. 453. And like a gentleman that he may live, To him and to his... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1875 - 480 strani
...pot, Decently to be boyl'd, and for its tomb, Let it be buried in some hungry womb. Item, Executors / will have none, But he that on my side laid seven to one : Q 3 And And like a Gentleman that he may live, To Mm and to his heirs my comb I give ; Together with... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 strani
...bequeath to th" Pot, Decently to be boil'd, and for it's Tomb, Let it be buried in some hungry womb. Item, Executors I will have none But he that on my side laid Seven to One, And like a Gentleman that be may live, To him and to his heirs my Comb I give." To cry Coke is in vulgar language synonymous... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 808 strani
...bequeath to th" Pot, Decently to be boil'd, and for it's Tomb, Let it be buried in some hungry womb. Item, Executors I will have none But he that on my side laid Seven to One, Ross, speaking of the schoolmaster's perquisites, says : " He has the Cockfight does, which are equal... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 360 strani
...bequeath to th' pot, Decently to be boil'd, and for it's tomb, Let me be buried in some hungry womb. Item, executors I will have none But he that on my...may live, To him and to his heirs my comb I give." Misson. in his " Travels in England," about 1698, p. 39^ says: " Cockfighting is one of the great English... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - 1907 - 470 strani
...bequeath to th' pot, Decently to be boiled, and for its tomb Let it be buried in some hungry womb. Item. — Executors I will have none, But he that...may live To him and to his heirs my comb I give." XVII THROWING AT COCKS Another Shrovetide sport — The birds trained to avoid the missile or "cock-shy"... | |
| |
Tomb, Let it be buried in some hungry womb. Item, Executors I will have none But he that on my side laid Seven to One, And like a Gentleman that he may live, To him and to his heirs my Comb I give. 