 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pages
...100 This penknife keen my windpipe shall divide : — What, shall I fall as squeaking pigs have died! No — To some tree this carcass I'll suspend: —...end! I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool 105 On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of every scolding quean : —... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...woe. This penknife keen my windpipe shall divide :— What, shall I fall as squeaking pigs have died! No— To some tree this carcass I'll suspend:— But...hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of every scolding quean ; — Yet sure a lover should not die so mean! There plac'd aloft* I'll rave and... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...died! No — To some tree this carcass I'll suspend :-- But worrying curs find such untimely end ! 1*11 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 ;— Yet sure a lover should not die so mean ! There plac'd aloft, I'll rave and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...squeaking pigs have dy'd î No — To s'Ome tree this carcase I'll suspend. But worrying curs find «uch untimely end ! I'll speed me to the pond, where the...hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of every scolding quean ; Vet, sure a lover should not die so mean ! There plac'd aloft, I'll rave and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...tree this carcase I'll suspend. But worrying curs find such untfmely end ! I'll speed me to the pood, 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 ! There plac'd aloft, I'll rave and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...100 This penknife keen my windpipe shall divide. What ! shall I fall as squeaking pigs have djr'd ? secret foe, and every scolding quean ; Yet, sure a lover should not die so mean ! There plac'd aloft, I'll rave and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 364 pages
...quoque mater. Viau. Ver. 99. — vivite sylvae : Preceps aerii specula de mentis in undas Deferar. VIBO. 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 ; Yet, sure a lover should not die so mean ! There plac'd aloft, I'll rave and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...woe. hM This penknife keen my windpipe shall dividt. What ! shall I fall as squeaking pigs have dy'd? pod; I na stool, the dread of every scolding quean ; Yet, sure a lover should not die so mean ! There... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1826 - 376 pages
...windpipe shall divide— What, shall I fall as squeaking pigs have died! No — to some tree this carcase I'll suspend, But worrying curs find such untimely...hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of every scolding quean. Yet, sure a lover should not die so mean! There plac'd aloft, I'll rave and rail... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Anecdotes - 1836 - 340 pages
...folke." Gay mentions the ducking-stool, in his Pastorals, as a punishment in use in his time. " I '11 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." The Shepherd's Week. Pastoral iii. IV. MONUMENT OF THE LAST OP THE PALEOLOGI.... | |
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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. 
