 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 502 pages
...for his interest ? MAT. Show me a gang of courtiers that can say as much. 1 So too in the songs— When you censure the age Be cautious and sage, Lest...courtiers offended should be : If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries, That was levelled at me 2 — Walpole, above all,... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - Scotland - 1905 - 342 pages
...canker from the year's decay. TO SIR JOHN FIELDING. ON HIS ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS "THE BEGGARS1 OPERA.'' When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended should he ; When you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries, " It was levell'd at... | |
 | John Fyvie - Actresses - 1906 - 496 pages
...Lockit are represented as squaring up the accounts of their illicit gains, when the latter sang — ' When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest...courtiers offended should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelled at me,' the whole audience instinctively... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1913 - 522 pages
...excuse Sir William Wyndham the trouble of a letter. When ambassadors came from Troy to condole 1 " When you censure the age Be cautious and sage, Lest...courtiers offended should be, If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to the tribe, Each cries : That was levell'd at me." with Tiberius upon the death... | |
 | Charles E. Pearce - Beggar's opera - 1913 - 492 pages
...knight errant never serv'd half the Ladies in distress that he hath done." Dr. Johnson came in for : " When you censure the age Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended should be." The compiler was unkind, but not wholly inaccurate, when he placed under the name of saucy Anne Catley... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - English drama - 1914 - 482 pages
...might turn to your prejudice. Learn to be more guarded, I beg you. AIR xxx — How happy are vie, etc. When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest...courtiers offended should be. If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the »ribe; Each cries— That was levell'd at me. Peach. Here's poor Ned... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - English drama - 1914 - 480 pages
...might turn to your prejudice. Learn to be more guarded, I beg you. AIR xxx — How happy are we, etc. When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest...courtiers offended should be. If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the *ribe; Each cries — That was levell'd at me. Peach. Here's poor Ned... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - English drama - 1914 - 488 pages
...might turn to your prejudice. Learn to he more guarded, I heg you. AIR xxx — Hoot happy are we, etc. When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage. Lest the courtiers offended should he. If you mention vice or hrihe, 'Tis so pat to all the 'rihe; Each cries — That was levell'd at... | |
 | David Harrison Stevens - English drama - 1923 - 938 pages
...might turn to your prejudice. Learn to be more guarded, I beg you. AIR [XII] — How happy are we, etc. When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended should be. 30 If you mention vice or bribe, Tis so pat to all the tribe Each cries— That was levell'd at me.... | |
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When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me. 
