 | 1797 - 420 pages
...have dy'd? No — To some tree this carcass I'll suspend; But worrying curs find such untimely end ! I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, Ver. 89.] To ken, Sc re Cbautero, to ken, and kende taint A. A', cunnan. Goth, kunnan. Cirnanis, kennen.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...have dy'd? No — To some tree this carcass I'll suspend But worrying curs find such untimely end ! I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pod; I na stool, the dread of every scolding quean ; Yet, sure a lover should not die so mean ! There... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...been in common use when Gay wrote his "Pastorals:'' they are thus described in the Dumps, 1. 105 : " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the mnddy pool, That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean," &c. In his xlviiith. vol. (MS. Brit. Mus.)... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...died? No— To some tree this carcass I '11 suspend. But worrying curs find such untimely end ! I '11 ain From l Ihe muddy pool ; That stool, the dread of every scolding quean; Yet, sure a lover should not die so... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 208 pages
...to have been obtained from varied sources. One is taken from an early edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and another a portrait of Queen Elizabeth...suspended. Gay thus alludes to it in his Pastorals, ed. 1742, p. 27 : " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 210 pages
...to have been obtained from varied sources. One is taken from an early edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and another a portrait of Queen Elizabeth...particularly curious, as affording a representation of the mariner in which the ducking-stool was suspended. Gay thus alludes to it in his Pastorals, ed. 1 742,... | |
 | Percy Society - 1851 - 454 pages
...to have been obtained from varied sources. One is taken from an early edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and another a portrait of Queen Elizabeth..." I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool Ou the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean ; Yet sure... | |
 | George Willis - 1853 - 322 pages
...immoderate heat.t Gay in his third Pastoral, entitled ' The Dumps,' thus describes the Cucking-stool — I'll speed me to the Pond, where the high Stool On the long plank, himgs o'er the muddy pool ; That Stool, the dread of ev'ry scoldiug (jueun. But the graphic illustration,... | |
 | Edward Peacock - 1877 - 808 pages
...first Edit, of Gay's Sln-¡>hertfi lí'eeA-, 1714, as an illustration of the lines : — • I '11 speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er tho muddy pool. That stool the dread of evry scolding quean.' — Bk. iij. 1. 10o. Cuddle, v. to fondle,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 pages
...as well as prosaists. John Gay, in his Pastorals, expresses himself very decisively on this point: ' I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On...long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool : That stool, me dread of every scolding tfuean.' THE WAY SHREWS WEBE TAMED. FEBKUABY 1. THE WAT 8HBEWS WEEE TAMED.... | |
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I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean ; Yet sure a lover should not die so mean! 
