 | Saint Thomas More - Utopias - 1808 - 334 pages
...and refuseth all her benefits. This is their sentence and opinion of virtue and pleasure.* And they his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town ! that, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed of down, or whole feathers." Prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicles,... | |
 | 482 pages
...houfe had a mattrafs or Slock bed and Sheets, a Sack of chaff to red his head upon, he thought himfelf to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were they contented, Hut that pillows (faid they) were thought meet only for w omen in childbed ; as for fervants, if they... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 422 pages
...had a mattrafs, t>r flock bed and meets, a fack of chaff to reft his bead upon, he thought himfelf to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were they contented, that pillows (faid they) were thought meet only for women ¡n childbed ; as for fervants, if they had... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 444 pages
...man of the house, " had, within seven years after his marriage, pur" chased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon,...himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the " town; who, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed " of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if " they had... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...man of the house, " had, within seven years after his marriage, pur" chased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon,..." himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the * bag. Sax. (from whence daggle or draggle), any thing pendent, a shred. The term therefore seems to... | |
 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...of the house, had, with' in seven years after his marringe, ' purchased a mattress or flock bed, ' and thereto a sack of chaff to rest ' his head upon,...himself ' to be as well lodged as the lord of ' the town ; who, peradventure, ' lay seldom in a bed of down or ' whole feathers. As for servant«, ' if they... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...bolster. If it were so that our fathers, or the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon,...thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed.... | |
 | Ely Bates - Christian ethics - 1806 - 445 pages
...bolster. If it were so that the father, or the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon,...were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed." In this last opinion they have been followed at a much later period... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...head instead of a bolster. If it were so, that the father or the good-man of the house had a mattrass or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest...were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 852 pages
....1 matrass, or a flockbed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head irpon, he thought fcjrr.self to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were ther c~o<entcd. — Pillowc, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants,... | |
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If it were so, that the father or the goodman of the house had a matrass or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, so well were they contented. 
