 | Benjamin Crosby - 1815 - 576 pages
...crossesHn the market place; and the remains of an antient castle formerly belonging to Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk ; who, having quarrelled with the...power and in contempt of his sovereign : — " Were ] in my castle of Bnngay. " Upon the river of Waveney, "1 would not care for the King of Cockney."... | |
 | James Ford - English literature - 1818 - 430 pages
...gallant Lord Hugh, : • But for every mile the Baily rode, The Earl he rode more than two : Says, " Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the King of Cockney." K* When the Baily had ridden to Bramfield oak, Sir Hugh was... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 860 pages
...to say, "By (iod, Sir King, I will neither po nor han;;." There was none now who could boast — " Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne fear for the King of Cooknaye." « History of Rome, it 19. LIVING AGK. VOL. XXIII. 1053... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Comparative linguistics - 1853 - 448 pages
...is tlijne and myne," &c. and the well known boast of Hugh Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, under Henry II. " Were I in my castle of Bungay, . Upon the river of Waveney, I would no care for the king of Cockeney, &c. Most of these songs, moreover, begin with the words:... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - English poetry - 1854 - 294 pages
...Who'll eat me." To this, no doubt, Hugh Bigod alluded in the lines given by Camden, Brit. 467: — * Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the King of Cockeney.' It occurs also in the .Romance o/ Merlin, 'Ea.t\,\\.,\Ti... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...as impregnable, gave out this rhyme, in scorn of Henry II., then quietly possessed of London : — " Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the king of Cockney." The country life still favours the spirit of the mediaeval... | |
 | City of London (England). Corporation - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1860 - 498 pages
...Earl of Norfolk, in reference to Henry II , the capital of whose English dominions was London ; — ' Were I in my castle of Bungay, ' Upon the river of Waveney, ' I would no care for the king of Cokentty.' See Hickes' Thesaur. I. p. 231. In'reference to this latter... | |
 | Walter White - England - 1865 - 342 pages
...bold, In Essex whereat he lay, But Lord Bigod laugh'd at his poursuivant, And stoutly thus did say : Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the King of Cokenay. * * * * " The baily he rode, and the baily he ran, To catch... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 160 pages
...luxury called the country of Cocaigne. " Camden, in his Britannia, cites the following lines — " Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the king of Cockney." So 'may-poles' are called in French 'mats de cocagne.' 137... | |
 | Joseph Yelloly Watson - Tendring Hundred, Eng - 1877 - 274 pages
...daughter of Sir Richard Walton, and This Bigod was something like his ancestor, and once exclaimed — " Were I in my Castle of Bungay, Upon the River of Waveney, I would not care for the King of Cokeney." sister and heiress of John Walton, of Wyvenhoe Hall, whose... | |
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Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the King of Cockney. 
