 | Samuel Butler - 1704 - 618 pages
...With long-ear'd Rout, to Battel founded, * And Pulpit, Drum Ecclefiaftick, Was beat with Fift, inftead of a Stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a Colonelling. A Wight he was whofe very fight wou'd Entitle him Mirror of Knight-hood; That never bent his ftubborn... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1709 - 622 pages
...With long-ear'd Rout, to Battel founded, And Pulpit Drum Ecclefiaftick, Was beat with Fift, inftead of a Stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a Colonelling. A Wight he was, whofe very fight wou'd Entitle him Mirror of Knight-hood^ That never bow'dhis flubborn... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1757 - 424 pages
...Withlong-ear'd Rout , to Battle founded , And Pulpit3 Drum Ecclefîaftick , Was beatwith fift , inftead of a Stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon Dwelling, And out he rode a Colonelling. A Wight he was , whofe veryfight wou 'd Entitle hîm, MirroUr of Knighthood ; Jhat never bvw'd .hisftubborn... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1758 - 702 pages
...twice ; nor make the fame word to rhime to itfelf. Let any one in our famous burlcfque poem inftead of, Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling. And out he rode a colonelling, fubftitute yode, and then he will better fee the impropriety of the received reading, and the propriety... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1761 - 570 pages
...founded, •'., LSNOX ANfc TIL.**.* t '. "' And Pulpit, Drum ecclefiaftic, Was beat with Fift, inftead of a Stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon Dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. 15 A Wight he was, whofe very Sight wou'd Intitle him, Mirrour of Knighthood; That never bow'd his... | |
 | Edward Bysshe - 1762 - 338 pages
...Religion as for Punk ; Whofe Honefty they all durft fwear for, Tho' not a Man of ''em knew wherefore i Then did Sir Knight abandon Dwelling, And out he rode a Colonelling, Hud. In a Poem whofe Verfes confift of 7, the double Rhymes. require 8 ; as, , All ihy Verfe is fofeer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 738 pages
...rout, to battle founded ; IB And pulpit, dnim ecclefiaftick, Was beat with fift inftead of a ftick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. A wight Ver. it, 11.] Alluding to their vehement aftion in the pulpit, and their beating it with their... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...rout, to battle founded ; 1 3 And pulpit, 'drum ecclefiaftick, Was beat with fift inftead of a ftick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. ,.A wight Ver. 3.] By lard iu»ris, he probably means the cant words ufed by the4'refbi»tcruns and... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1793 - 728 pages
...fubjeft fit to try your wit When you went colonelling. Butler alfo, in the firft Canto of his Hudibras, Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. Where, the metre requiring the pronunciation of all the fyllables, the latter word of each couplet... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 774 pages
...long-car'd rout, to battle /bunded ; And pulpit, drum ecclefiafljc, Was beat with fift inftead of a ftick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling • . A wight he was, whofe very fight would Entitle him mirror of knighthood, That never bow'd his... | |
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Though not a man of them knew wherefore ; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick, Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. 
