 | John Spencer, Thomas Spencer, Frederic Chapman - Leicestershire (England) - 1891 - 388 pages
...permanent ducking-stool, which, according to day, seems at all events to have had terrors for some : I'll speed me to the pond where the high stool, On...muddy pool ; That stool, the dread of every scolding quean, &c. Several old cucking-stools are yet in existence, and might, even if not used, be of great... | |
 | Wales - 1903 - 510 pages
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 | G. Coulthard Newstead - Aughton (Lancashire) - 1893 - 192 pages
...proximity to the church and village green, I should imagine there the village scold would be dragged " to the pond, where the high stool " On the long plank...muddy pool, " That stool, the dread of every scolding quGan "There plac'd aloft. I'll rave and rail by fits "Though all the parish say I've lost my wits."... | |
 | John Brand - Folklore - 1893 - 554 pages
...been in common use when Gay wrote his Pastorals ; they are thus described in the Dumps, 1. 105 : " 111 speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the...hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean," &c. ["A ducking-stool, a relic of bygone times, and dread of all scolding women,... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1893 - 384 pages
...suspend. But worrying curs find such untimely end ! I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool 105 On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool the dread of every scolding quean ; Yet, sure a lover should not die so mean ! There, placed aloft, I'll rave and rail by fits,... | |
 | Archaeology - 1903 - 312 pages
...cows when nobody knew who did it ! " " (Signed) HODGE THE PLOWMAN." Fig. 2. — The Ducking Stool. " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool, On...hangs o'er the muddy pool. That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean, Yet sure a lover should not die so mean." — Gay. And again, from the Delightful... | |
 | John Gay - 1905 - 398 pages
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 | 1866 - 584 pages
...was not far wrong who described it as " assez pkisante." Again we read in Gay's Pastorals : " 1'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the...muddy pool — That stool, the dread of every scolding quean." Amidst the loose papers in the town chest is a list of numerous " presentments ; " we select... | |
 | John Edward Field - Birds - 1913 - 244 pages
...Cucking Stool." Gay, in his Pastorals, represents Sparabilla contemplating suicide and exclaiming : " I'll speed me to the pond where the high stool On...hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean : Yet — »ure a lover should not die so mean." It was also used from a very... | |
 | John Gay - 1923 - 264 pages
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I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of every scolding quean. 
