 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pagina’s
...knights-errant do. It was a serviceable dudgeon, 375 Either for fighting or for drudging: When it had stabbed, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread; Toast cheese or bacon; though it were To bait a mouse-trap, 'twould not care: 380 'T would make clean shoes, and in the earth... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston - 1846 - 540 pagina’s
...of poetical prophecy — in the following charming portrait of the dagger of his " Sir Knight" : — "It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting...trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon, though it were To bait a mouse-trap, 'twould not care." To the best of my knowledge, this instrument... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pagina’s
...upon knights-errant do. It was a serviceable dudgeon, Kither for fighting or for drudging. When ¡t had stabb'd. or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers,...tho' it were To bait a mouse-trap 'twould not care. Twould make clean shoes, and in the earth Set leeks and onions, and so forth. It had been 'prentice... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 656 pagina’s
...dwarfs upon knights errant do. It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging. 380 When it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape...trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon, though it were To bait a mouse trap, 'twould not care. 'Twould make clean shoes, and in the earth Set... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 pagina’s
...knight-errants do. It was я serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging. When it had stabbed or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers or chip bread, Toast cheese or bacon, though it were To bait a mouse-trap 't would not care ; 'Twould make clean shoes, and in the earth... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1684 - 352 pagina’s
...But was but little for his age : And therefore waited on him so, As Dwarfs upon Knights Errant do. It was a serviceable Dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging ; When it had stab'd or broke a head, It would scrape Trenchers, or chip Bread, Toast Cheese or Bacon, though it... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1843 - 838 pagina’s
...spirit of poetical prophecy, in the following charming portrait of the dagger of his " Sir Knight :" — It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging. When it had stabbed, or broke a bead, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon, though... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 462 pagina’s
...That was but little for his age : And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon knights-errant do. It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging: When it had stabbed, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread, Toast cheese or bacon, though it... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pagina’s
...page, That was but little for his age, And therefore waited on him so As dwarfs unto knight-errants do. f summer, Left blooming stabbed or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers or chip bread, Toast cheese or bacon, though it... | |
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As dwarfs upon knights-errant do : It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging : When it had stabb'd or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon, though it were To bait a mousetrap, 'twould not... 
