 ... 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, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,...  Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 611844Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1750 - 488 pages
...rout, to battle lounded, And And pulpit, drum ecclefiaftic, Was beat with fift, inftead of a ftick i Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. 15 A wight he was, whofe very fight wou'd Intitle him, Mirrour of knighthood ; That never bow'd his... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1757 - 424 pages
...Rout , to Battle founded , And Pulpit3 Drum Ecclefîaftick , Was beatwith fift , inftead of a Stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon Dwelling, And out he rode a Colonelling. A Wight he was , whofe veryfight wou 'd Entitle hîm, MirroUr of Knighthood ; Jhat never bvw'd .hisftubborn... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1758 - 702 pages
...twice ; nor make the fame word to rhime to itfelf. Let any one in our famous burlcfque poem inftead of, Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling. And out he rode a colonelling, fubftitute yode, and then he will better fee the impropriety of the received reading, and the propriety... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 372 pages
...rout, to battle founded; io And pulpit, drum ecclefiaftickv Was beat with fift ir.ftead of a ftick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. A wight Ver. 3.] By bardzvordt, he probably means the cant words ufed by the Prefbytu ians and feftaries... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...rout, to battle founded ; 10 And pulpit,' drum ecclefiaftick, Was beat with fift inftead of a ftick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. ..A wight Ver. 3.] By lardvierdi, he probably means the cant words ufed by the -Preibytetians and feftaries... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1793 - 728 pages
...fubjeft fit to try your wit When you went colonelling. Butler alfo, in the firft Canto of his Hudibras, Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. Where, the metre requiring the pronunciation of all the fyllables, the latter word of each couplet... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...rout, to battle sounded'; ' to And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. v. 3.] By bard words, he probably means the cant words used by the Presbyterians and sectaries of those... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1803 - 522 pages
...long-ear'd rout, to battle founded ; And pulpit, drum ceclefiaftie, Was beat with fill inllead of a flick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling *. gether to fmilh him a perfeft coxcomb. V, U. The Knight lif Sir Samuel Luke -was Mr. Butler's hero)... | |
 | William Harrod - Market Harborough (England) - 1808 - 144 pages
...long-ear'd rout to battle founded, And pulpit-drum, ecclcfiaflick, Was beat with fift infiead of a fiick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.— — HUD. The following is extracted from a Pamphlet intituled " A great Fight at Harborough, betwixt... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...rout to battle sounded ; " And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, " Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ; " Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, " And out he rode a colonelling." It is sometimes however used on more serious occasions, and seems well adapted to tender expression.... | |
| |
