And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled out a gentleman, fine and fat, With a belly as big as a brimming vat, And a nose as red as a comet. " A capital stew," the Fisherman said, Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 2491846Full view - About this book
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed - English literature - 1886 - 316 pages
...where'er the board was spread, Grace, I ween, was never said ! Pulling and tugging the Fisherman sat ; And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled...stew," the Fisherman said, " With cinnamon and sherry 1 " And the Abbot turned away his head, For his brother was lying before him dead — The Mayor of... | |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 878 pages
...was never said!— Pulling and tugging the Fisherman sat; And the Priest was ready to vomit, When ho hauled out a gentleman, fine and fat, With a belly...stew," the Fisherman said, "With cinnamon and sherry!" 248 THE BED FISHEEMAN. And the Abbot turned away his head, For his brother was lying before him dead,... | |
| 1889 - 722 pages
...not bear, like Praed's Red Fisherman, to Draw out an Alderman, jolly and fat, With a belly as broad as a brimming vat, And a nose as red as a comet. •pool and feed on the other side. But he finds that something is impeding his motion, he shakes his... | |
| Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 816 pages
...where'er the board was spread, Grace, I ween, was never said ! — Pulling and tugging the Fisherman sat ; And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled...away his head, For his brother was lying before him dead — The Mayor of St. Edmund's Bury ! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...close of day. Sounded then the noisy glee, Of a revelling company ; Sprightly story, wicked jest, Bated servant, greeted guest, Flow of wine, and flight of...away his head, For his brother was lying before him dead, The Mayor of St. Edmond's Bury ! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 406 pages
...where'er the board was spread, Grace, I ween, was never said! — Pulling and tugging the Fisherman sat; And the Priest was ready to vomit When he hauled out...away his head, For his brother was lying before him dead, The mayor of St, Edmund's Bury! There was turning of keys and creaking of locks, As he took forth... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George Henry Warner - Literature - 1896 - 398 pages
...where'er the board was spread, Grace, I ween, was never said! — Pulling and tugging the Fisherman sat; And the Priest was ready to vomit When he hauled out...capital stew," the Fisherman said, "With cinnamon and sherry!8 And the Abbot turned away his head, For his brother was lying before him dead, The mayor of... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...where'er the board was spread, Grace, I ween, was never said ! Pulling and tugging the Fisherman sat ; And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled...away his head, For his brother was lying before him dead — The Mayor of St. Edmund's Bury ! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 428 pages
...where'er the board was spread, Grace, I ween, was never said ! Pulling and tugging the Fisherman sat ; And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled...away his head, For his brother was lying before him dead — The Mayor of St. Edmund's Bury ! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...where'er the board was spread, Grace, I ween, was never said ! Pulling and tugging the Fisherman sat ; And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled...away his head, For his brother was lying before him dead — The Mayor of St. Edmund's Bury ! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took... | |
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