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" Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or... "
Irish Pursuits of Literature: In A.D. 1798, and 1799 - Page 25
by William Hales - 1799 - 252 pages
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks Tom Peete 5 For Dame Religion as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew...
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English Satire: An Anthology

Norman Furlong - Satire, English - 1946 - 196 pages
...first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk — We know at once where we are ; and for the rest of this long poem we continue to have the same...
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A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the ...

Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...poems with their affected rimes feminine endings are more frequent; cp. Butler's Hudibras I, Iff.: And made them fight, like mad or drunk For Dame Religion, as for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore; When Gospel-Trumpeter,...
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Studien Zum Komischen Epos

Ulrich Broich - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 252 pages
...first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why, When hard Words, Jealousies, and Fears, Set Folks together by the Ears, And made them fight like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for Punk, Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks ould crack. She's gone forever. I know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as ear 2 For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...first grew high. And men fell out they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies and fears Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk. For dame religion, as for punk, Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Tho' not a man of them knew wherefore: When gospel trumpeter,...
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The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland ...

Stephen C. Manganiello - History - 2004 - 632 pages
...first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter,...
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The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of ...

Michael McKeon - History - 2006 - 942 pages
...first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why; When hard words, Jealousies and Fears, Set Folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for Punk, Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-trumpeter,...
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The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal ..., Volume 7

Archaeology - 1867 - 318 pages
...first grew hye, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and tears Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for Punk. All Holies' MSS. are now in the British Museum, and in those relating to Lincolnshire, under the title...
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Hudibras Written in the Time of the Late Wars

Samuel Butler - 1684 - 352 pages
...first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why, When hard Words, Jealousies, and Fears, Set Folks together by the Ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for Punk, Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore : When Gospel-Trumpeter...
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