T' entrench the city for defence in ? Rais'd rampiers with their own soft hands, To put the enemy to stands ; From ladies down to oyster-wenches Labour'd like pioneers in trenches, Fell to their pick-axes, and tools, And help'd the men to dig like moles?... Hudibras: Poëme - Página 156de Samuel Butler - 1757 - 365 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Samuel Butler - 1704 - 180 páginas
...Qyftcr-Wencbes Laboured like Pioneers in Trenches, ' Fell to their Pick-Axes and Tools, And help'd the Men to dig like Moles* Have not the Handmaids of the City Chofe of their Members a Committee t Forraifing of a Common-Purfe Out of their Wages to raife Horfe ? And do they not as Trier s fit To... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1757 - 514 páginas
...Pioneers in Irene hes t îj fell to their Pick-Axes and Tools , \ And helf'd the Men to dig like Moles t Have not the Handmaids of the City Chofe of their Members a Committee 3 for r*ifing of » Common fur ft . ' . Gut of their Wages to raife Htrfe î 'And dotheynot as Triers fit... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1757 - 496 páginas
...OyJter-Wencbes Labour'd like Pioneers in Trenches, Fain to their Pick- Axes, and Tools, And help'd the Men to dig like Moles ? Have not the Handmaids of the City 810 Chofe of their Members a Committee, For raifing of a Common Purfe Out of their Wages to raife Horfe... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1761 - 570 páginas
...Oyfter- Wenches i/abour'd like Pioneers in Trenches, Fall'n to their Pick-Axes, and Tools, And help'd the Men to dig like Moles? Have not the Handmaids of the City t) Chofe of their Members a Committee, For raifing of a Common Purfe Out 'of their Wages to raife Horfe... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 338 páginas
...oyfter-wenches 805 Labour'd like pioneers in trenches, Fall'n to their pick-axes and tools, And help'd the men to dig like moles. Have not the handmaids of the City Chofe of their Members a Committee, lie For raifing of a common purfe, Out of their wages, to raife horfe ? And do they not as Tryers fit,... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 342 páginas
...oyfter-wenches 805 Labour'd like pioneers in trenches, Fall'n to their pick-axes and tools, And help'd the men to dig like moles. Have not the hand-maids of the City Chofe of their Members a Committee, 810 Ver. 807.] Fain, in the three firft editions. Fell, edition For raifing of a common purfe, Out... | |
| Thomas Pennant - 1790 - 556 páginas
...oyfter-wenches, Labour'd like pioneers in trenches, Fal'n to their pick-axes and tools, And help'd the men to dig like moles. Have not the handmaids of the city Chos'n of their members a committee. For railing of a common purfe, Out of their wages to raife horfe... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 páginas
...to oyfterwenches Laboui'd like pioneers in trenches, Fall'n tn their pickaxes, and tools, And help'd the men to dig like moles. Have not the handmaids of the City Chofe of theit Members a Committee, For railing of a common purfe, Out of their wages, to raifc hotfe ;' And... | |
| John Bell - 1797 - 722 páginas
...like pioneers in trenches, Xiij 14* H0DIRRAS. Parl II. Fall'n to their pickaxes, and tools, And help'd the men to dig like moles. Have not the handmaids of the City Chose of their Members a Committee, 810 For raising of a common purse, Out of their wages, to raise... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1801 - 528 páginas
...On demolilhing the forts. v. 807. Falfn in the three firft editions; Fell, edit. 1684. v. 809, 810. Have not the handmaids of the city — Chofe of their members a committee .•*] To this, probably, the writer of A Letter fent to London, by a Spy at Oxford, 1643, alludes,... | |
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