 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Great Britain - 1887 - 504 pages
...Duke shall die like Doctor Lambe." A label was set up on a post in Coleman Street, running thus — " Who rules the kingdom ? " " The King." " Who rules...Duke." " Who rules the Duke ? " "The Devil." Charles, shocked and grieved, took his friend in his own coach through London to see the ten ships which were... | |
 | Sir John Oglander - Great Britain - 1888 - 270 pages
...and carried to the Lord Mayor, who sent it by the sheriffs to the King. Its contents were ominous — "Who rules the Kingdom? The King. Who rules the King? The Duke. Who rules the Duke? The Devil. Let the Duke look to it, for they intend shortly to use him worse than they did his doctor, and if... | |
 | 1893 - 678 pages
...supreme, and ruled her mother ; and an old couplet came into his head : " Who rules the country ? — the king. Who rules the king ? — the duke. Who rules the duke ?— the devil." Was it possible to make a parody in his own family and say : " Who rules the house ? — my aunt. Who... | |
 | Reginald Robinson Sharpe - London (England) - 1894 - 674 pages
...to levying the subsidies granted by parliament.4 The 1 The placards are said to have run thus: — "Who rules the kingdom ? The king. Who rules the king ? The duke. Who rules the duke ? The devil " — ending with threats of personal violence against the duke.— Mead to Stuteville, 29 June.—"... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1896 - 472 pages
...the end, — warned and doomed, I fear. Look at this placard taken from the walls this morning : ' Who rules the kingdom? — The King ! Who rules the...King ?— The Duke ! Who rules the Duke?— The Devil ! Let the Duke look to it, or he will be served a* Lambe his Doctor was served ! Let Charles and George... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - Isle of Wight (England) - 1896 - 730 pages
...shortly before the Duke's murder was stuck upon a post in Coleman Street, London, which ran thus : • Who rules the kingdom ? The King. Who rules the King? The Duke. Who rules the Duke? The devil. A favourite has no friends.' Even death, the great reconciler, did not quench the animosity of the... | |
 | Bithia Mary Croker - Irish fiction - 1899 - 330 pages
...supreme, and ruled her mother ; and an old couplet came into his head ! " Who rales the country ?— the king. Who rules the king ? — the duke. Who rules the duke?— the devil." Was it possible, to make a parody in his own family, and say : " Who rules the house? — my aunt Who... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 406 pages
...even according to the words by which he was placarded to the judgment of his contemporaries : — " Who rules the kingdom ? The King. Who rules the King? The Duke. Who rules the Duke ? The DeviL" Nor according to that decree by which the Houje of Commons declared him "the cause of all the national... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 374 pages
...duke's death, a pasquinade was removed from a post in Colman Street, part of which is as follows : " Who rules the kingdom ? The king. Who rules the king ? The duke. Who rules the duke ? The devil." About this period, Charles, happening to be in Spring Gardens, watching his favourite game of bowls,... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1902 - 584 pages
...mob in the streets of June 19. London. Soon afterwards a placard was affixed to the walls, in these words : " Who rules the kingdom ?— " The king. Who...?— The duke. Who " rules the duke ? — The devil. Let the duke look to "it, or he will be served as his doctor was served." He had too much spirit to... | |
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Who rules the kingdom ? The king. Who rules the king ? The duke. Who rules the duke? The devil. 
