 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pagina’s
...of The Powte's Complaint," will afford a specimen of the ' libellous ' effusions above alluded to : 'Come, brethren of the water, and let us all assemble,...and tremble ; For we shall rue it, if 't be true, that the Fens be undertaken, And where we feed in Fen and reed, they '11 feed both beef and bacon.... | |
 | John Algernon Clarke - 1852 - 284 pagina’s
...rhythmic productions of each party. Dugdale gives us a ballad, entitled— THE "POWTES COMPLAINT." " Come brethren of the water, and let us all assemble, To treat npon this matter, which makes us quake and tremble; For we shall rue it, if t be true, that Fens be... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1857 - 332 pagina’s
...may be given, as a specimen of the manner in which the contest was carried on in verse : — "Como, brethren of the water, and let us all assemble, To...and tremble ; For we shall rue it, if 't be true, that Fens be undertaken, And where we feed in Feu and Reed, they'll feed both Beef and Bacon. They'll... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 538 pagina’s
...State of King's Lynn and of Cambridge,' Ixmdon, 1725, and runs as follows : — THE POWTE'S COMPLAINT. Come, Brethren of the water, and let us all assemble,...which makes us quake and tremble ; For we shall rue, if it be true that Fens be undertaken, And where we feed in Fen and Reed, they'll feed both Beef and... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 532 pagina’s
...1725, and run: as follows : — Present State of Kind's Lynn and of THE POWTE'S COMPLAINT. f 'ome, Brethren of the water, and let us all assemble, To...makes us quake and tremble ; For we shall rue, it' it be true that Fens be undertaken, And where we. feud in Fen and Heed, they'll feed both Beef and... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1864 - 384 pagina’s
...among the most popular. * Powte— the old English word for the sea-lamprey. THE POWTE'S COMPLAINT. Come, Brethren of the water, and let us all assemble, To treat upon this Matter, which makes ua qn ike and tremble ; For we shall rue, if it be true that Fens be undertaken, And where we feed... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1864 - 388 pagina’s
...popular. * Powte—the old English word for the sea-lamprey. THE POWTE'S COMPLAINT. Come, Erethren of the water, and let us all assemble, To treat upon this Matter, which makes us qu;ike and tremble; For we shall rue, if it be true that Fens be undertaken, And where we feed in Fen... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1864 - 384 pagina’s
...was among the most popular. Powte—the old English word for the sea-lamprey. THE POWTE'S COMPLAINT, Come, Brethren of the water, and let us all assemble, To treat upon this Matter, which makos us quuke and tremble; For we shall rue, if it be true that Fens be undertaken, And where we feed... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1862 - 584 pagina’s
...Complaint,' they deplored, in such strains as the following, the injury contemplated against them : — ' Come, brethren of the water, and let us all assemble,...which makes us quake and tremble ; For we shall rue, if it be true, that fens be undertaken, And where we feed, in fen and reed, they'll feed both beef... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 866 pagina’s
...The Powte's Complaint,* will afford a specimen of the ' libellous ' effusions above alluded to : ' Come, brethren of the water, and let us all assemble,...makes us quake and tremble ; For we shall rue it, if Ч be true, that the Fens be undertaken, And where we feed in Fen and reed, they '11 feed both beef... | |
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Come, Brethren of the water, and let us all assemble, To treat upon this Matter, which makes us quake and tremble ; For we shall rue... 
