 | 1797 - 420 pagina’s
...unknown to the vulgar. Ken, lor proipictre, is well known, and used to discover by the eye. Kay, t'.KS That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean ; Yet sure a lover should not die so mean ? There plac'd aloft, I'll rave and rail by fits, Tho5 all the parish say I've lost my wits; no And... | |
 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pagina’s
...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 I There plac'd aloft, I'll rave... | |
 | 1826 - 372 pagina’s
...Pastorals," it would appear that they were not uncommon, and are thus described in the " Dumps:" " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On...pool, That stool the dread of ev'ry scolding quean." In the " New Help to Discourse," published in 1684, there i» the following retort on the subject of... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 312 pagina’s
...heen in common use when Gay wrote his " Pastorals:" they are thus descrihed in the Dumps, 1. 105 : " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On...pool. That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean," &c. In his xlviiith. vol. (MS. Brit. Mus.) p. 172, Cole says, " In my time, when I was a hoy, and lived... | |
 | Robert Peirce Cruden - 1843 - 622 pagina’s
...represented here, from a print prefixed to one of Gay's Pastorals, illustrative of the following lines. " Til speed me to the Pond, where the high stool On the...scolding Quean, Yet, sure a lover should not die so mean !"* The manner of using these machines has been described, as follows : — " The way of punishing... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 pagina’s
...been in common use when Gay wrote his Pastorals ; they are thus described in the Dumps, 1. 105 :" " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On...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, has, by direction... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1851 - 488 pagina’s
...manner in which the ducking-stool was suspended. Gay thus alludes to it in his Pastorals, ed. 1 742, p. 27 : " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high...is given in the frontispiece to the third pastoral. highway a few nights ago. He told me he could not tell, but if I went a little further I should meet... | |
 | Percy Society - 1851 - 464 pagina’s
...manner in which the ducking-stool was suspended. Gay thus alludes to it in his Pastorals, ed. 1 742, p. 27 : " I'll speed me to the pond, where the high...muddy pool, That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding queau ; Yet sure a lover should not die so mean!" And a representation of one, more simply constructed... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 314 pagina’s
...— But worrying curs find such untimely end ! I '11 speed me to the pond, where the high stool ioa 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 plac'd aloft, I '11... | |
 | George Willis - 1855 - 112 pagina’s
...immoderate heat.t Gay in his third Pastoral, entitled ' The Dumps,' thus describes the Cucking-stool — I'll speed me to the Pond, where the high Stool On...pool ; That Stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding Quean. But the graphic illustration, drawn by DuGuernicr, represents a somewhat different adjustment : the... | |
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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 ev'ry scolding quean... 
