 | William Harris - 1772 - 292 Seiten
...homely lines, which were every where pofted. *' They beg our lands, our goods, our lives, " Theyfwitch our nobles, and lie with their wives ; " They pinch our gentry, and fend for our benchers j " Theyjlab ourferjeants, and piftol our fencers." Mr. OJborn has explained... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 498 Seiten
...for its owne exercise, then the instruction of an ignorant and ingratefull state, to be punctuall : They beg our lands, our goods, our lives, They switch our nobles, and lye with their wives ; They pinch our gentry, and send for our benchers. They stab our sargeants, and... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 458 Seiten
...rudeness and jnsolency.] This is attested by the following homely lines, which were every where posted, " They beg our lands, our goods, our lives, They switch...lie with their wives ; They pinch our gentry, and send for our benchers ; They stab our sergeants, and pistol our fencers." " King James's Works, p.... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 470 Seiten
...insolency.] ' This is attested by the following homely lines, which were every where posted," They beg onr lands, our goods, our lives, They switch our nobles,...lie with their wives ; They pinch our gentry, and send for our benchers ; They stab our sergeants, and pistol our fencers." However the English were... | |
 | 1822 - 362 Seiten
...discontented, who shouted aloud these homely verees in derision and contempt of their Caledonian intruders ; They beg our lands, our goods, our lives, They switch our nobles, and lie with their wives. But James, who foresaw the consequence of trifling with this irritable disposition shewn by both nations,... | |
 | 1822 - 424 Seiten
...Scots overtickled with the trappings of pride and honour: They bog our lands, our goods, our livos; They switch our nobles, and lie with their wives; They pinch our gentry, and send for our benchors, They stab our Serjeants, and pistol our fencers." " Teste, again," saidCoppinger,"... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 434 Seiten
...these homely verses do attest, which were every where posted, and do contain as many stories as lines. They beg our lands, our goods, our lives, They switch our nobles They pinch our gentry, and send for our benchers, They stab our sergeants, and pistoll our fencers."... | |
 | George Payne R. James - 1844 - 956 Seiten
...It 's all the folly of Murray and Sanquhar, as you will see, for the verses upon a Scotchman run — They beg our lands, our goods, our lives, They switch our nobles, make love to their wives, They pinch our gentry, and send for our Benchers, They stab our sergeants,... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1860 - 376 Seiten
...partiality, by committing outrages, which an indignant poet of the time has thus particularized : — " They beg our lands, our goods, our lives ; They switch our nobles — He with our wives ; They pinch our gentry, and send for OUT benchers ; They stab our Serjeants,... | |
 | 1909 - 532 Seiten
...homely verses do attest, which were everywhere posted, and do containe as many stories as lines . . .' 'They beg our lands, our goods, our lives, They switch our nobles, and lye with their wives ; They pinch our gentry, and send for our benchers, They stab our sargeants and... | |
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They Beg our Lands, our Goods, our Lives, They Switch our Nobles, and lie with their wives; They Pinch our Gentry and send for our Benchers, They Stab our Sergeants, and pistol our Fencers.* To picture the Jacobean court as being in constant tension because... 
