 That lies in old wood like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a deathwatch ; Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For,...  Insect Miscellanies - Page 97by James Rennie - 1831 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 618 pages
...wood-worm, That lies in old wood like a hare in her form; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick: For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 614 pages
...wood-worm, That lies in old wood like a hare in her form; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 352 pages
...teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chamber-maids christen this worm a death watch i Because like a watch it always cries click, Then woe...are sick ; For sure as a gun they will give up the ghont, If the maggot cries click when it seratches the post." The power of superstition over the human... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 pages
...known satirist sports in the following lines : " A wood-worm With teeth or with claws, it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then «'oe be to those in the house who are sick, For sure as a gnn they will give up the ghost, If the... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...Wood-worm, That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries Click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick; For as sure as a gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries Click when it scratches... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1823 - 556 pages
...wood-worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form : With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always' cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ! For, sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click, when it... | |
 | Henry Teonge - Mediterranean Sea - 1825 - 364 pages
...wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws, it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click. Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click, when it... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 pages
...lies in old wood, like a bare in he^fozm; With teeth, or with claws, it will bite or will icratcli ; And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch...Because, like a watch, it always cries click ; Then wo be to those in the house who are sick ; For sure as a gun they will give up the ghost If the maggot... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 424 pages
...A wood worm Tbat lies in old wood, like a hare In her form, With teeth or with claws, it will bite, It will scratch ; And chambermaids christen this worm...Because, like a watch, it always cries click. Then woe he to those in the house that are sick 1 For, surs as a gun, the; will give up the ghost, If the maggot... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...teeth or with claws, it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm ж death watch : Because like a watch it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For as sure as a 'gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click, when it... | |
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