 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...Nor ever did a wise one. SAMUEL BUTLER [1612-1680]. From 'Hudibras' [1662-1678]. Part I., Canto I. 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 446 pages
...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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 578 pages
...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 Danie Religion, as for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 pages
...When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears Set folk together by the ears, And made...like mad or drunk. For dame Religion, as for punk. — Butler: • Hudtbrai.He could raise scruples dark and nice. And after solve 'em in a trice ; As... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 468 pages
...prose " Characters " ; and an " Ode to Duval," the famous highwayman. HUDIBRAS DESCRIBED. 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,... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears Set folk together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, Por dame Religion, as for punk. — Butler: • Hudibras* He could raise scruples dark and nice, And... | |
 | Arthur John Lockhart - English essays - 1903 - 396 pages
..."When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folk together by the ears, And made...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,... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1902 - 476 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,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 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, , 5 For Dame Religion as for punk, Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them... | |
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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... 
