 | Sussex Archaeological Society - 1854 - 338 pages
...seventeenth century, describes this punishment as " assez plaisante !" In Gay's Pastorals we read — " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On...hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of every scolding quean." 32 The earliest instance of this species II, 147, as having occurred in 1299,... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - 1854 - 324 pages
...seventeenth century, describes this punishment as " assez plaisante !" In Gay's Pastorals we read — " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On...hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of every scolding quean." 32 The earliest instance of this species II, 147, as having occurred in 1299,... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...pure folke." Gay mentions the ducking-stool, in his Pastorals, as a punishment in use in his time : " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On...hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of every scolding quean." (The Shepherd's Week. Pastoral iii.) BOTANICAL SATIRE. Some of the systematic... | |
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...committed to the Liverpool house of correction. Gay alludes to this punishment in his " Shepherd's Week :" I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool, On...hangs o'er the muddy pool ; That stool the dread of every scolding quean. West's Poems, published in 1780, also give a description of its application :... | |
 | Alexander Andrews - 1856 - 372 pages
...committed to the Liverpool house of correction. Gay alludes to this punishment in his " Shepherd's Week:" I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool, On...hangs o'er the muddy pool ; That stool the dread of every scolding quean. West's Poems, published in 1780, also give a description of its application :... | |
 | ALEXANDRA ANDTEWS - 1856 - 370 pages
...to the Liverpool house of correction. Gay alludes to this punishment in his u Shepherd's Week :" 111 speed me to the pond, where the high stool, On the...hangs o'er the muddy pool ; That stool the dread of every scolding quean. West's Poems, published in 1780, also give a description of its application:... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pages
...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...hangs o'er the muddy pool : That stool, the dread of every scolding ifuean.' IH1 WAT 8HBEWS WEEK TAMED. THE WAT 8HKEWS WEHE TAMED. The term Cucking-stool... | |
 | George Fyler Townesend - 1863 - 394 pages
...poet Gay, in his pastoral of " The Duress," makes his heroine say : — " I'll speed me to the pool where the high stool On the long plank, hangs o'er the muddy pool : That stool, the dread of every scolding quean — Yet sure a lover should not die so mean." The spirited lines of Vincent Bourne,... | |
 | John Harland, Thomas Turner Wilkinson - 1873 - 344 pages
...which was evidently in use in his time, in the following terms (Pastorals, iii. v. 105) : — " I 'll speed me to the pond where the high stool On the long...hangs o'er the muddy pool — That stool the dread of every scolding quean." DUCKING-PITS, &c., AT BURNLEY. THIS mode of punishing female offenders has long... | |
 | John Harland - 1873 - 332 pages
...which was evidently in use in his time, in the following terms (Pastorals, iii. v. 105) : — " I 'll speed me to the pond where the high stool On the long...hangs o'er the muddy pool — That stool the dread of every scolding quean." DUCKING-PITS, &c., AT BURNLEY. THIS mode of punishing female offenders has long... | |
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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 every scolding quean. 
