 | John Bell - English drama - 1792 - 332 pages
...I am confident of it. Don't mind her, Mr. Hazard, but follow me. Pen. Mr. Hazard! Haz. Madam! Pen. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well ; the devil a monk was he. [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I. WILDING'* House, Enter Mrs. WILDING and... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 484 pages
...I am confident of it. Don't mind her, Mr. Hazard, but follow me. Pen. Mr. Hazard! Haz. Madam! Pen. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well ; the devil a monk was he. [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I. WILDING'* House. Enter Mrs. WILDING and... | |
 | David Garrick - English drama - 1798 - 288 pages
...success of my folly. Mr| Wild. I am confident of it don't mind her, Mr t'azard, b'it follow me. Pen. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; ' The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. . [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE, WILDING'S muse. Enter Mrs WILDING and... | |
 | 1802 - 436 pages
...ardently-desired blessing, the restoration of health, than we relapse into all our former follies. The devil was sick— the devil a monk would be. The devil was well— the devil a monk was he. As our seamen are more in the habit of repeating the names of... | |
 | François Rabelais - 1807 - 412 pages
...a half. He is resolved to make good the Italian proverb, * Passalo il pericolo, £ gabato il santo. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be : The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. CHAP. XXV. MOW, AFTER THE STORM, PAXTAGRUEL WENT OH SHORE IN THE... | |
 | English language - 1817 - 336 pages
...falls so shall it lie. 32grotat Damon monachus tune esse volebat : Daman convaluit Damon vt ante fuit. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be? The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Thither as I would go I can go late, Thither as I would not go I... | |
 | John Dunton - Booksellers and bookselling - 1818 - 824 pages
...fever, he made great protestations how good he would be if God would please to restore him ; but, " The Devil was sick, the Devil a Monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a Monk was he." After his recovery, he turned Projector, and then Pictureseller,... | |
 | John Dunton - Booksellers and bookselling - 1818 - 460 pages
...fever, he made great protestations how good he would be if God would please to restore him ; but, " The Devil was sick, the Devil a Monk would be;' The Devil was well, the Devil a Monk was he." After his recovery, he turned Projector, and then Pictureseller,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 366 pages
...1649,) nulled the proclamation for the observation of the former: all which verineth the old verses : The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he." George Fox, the father of the Quakers, observes upon their fasts... | |
 | Francis Grose, Pierce Egan - English language - 1823 - 342 pages
...heaven ; on being informed of this, a loving wife cried out, with great vehemence, 'Run, husband, run!' The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he ; a proverb signifying that we are apt to forget promises made in... | |
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The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be : The Devil grew well, the devil a monk was he... 
