...with hideous shout. When tinkers bawl'd aloud to settle 535 9 Church-Discipline, for patching kettle ; No sow-gelder did blow his horn To geld a cat, but...'gainst Ev'l Counsellors did cry ; Botchers/ left old clothes in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the Church ; Some cry'd the Covenant, instead 545...

...possessed of the power and spirit of Laud, and we should equally dread a return of those times \Vhen oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudg'd away to cry, " No bishop." No wise man among the dissenters can be desirous of seeing a renewal of those contests between the...

...ridiculous times, when — Tinkers bawl'd aloud to settle Church discipline, for patching kettle ; The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudg'd away, to cry No Bishop. 30 Botchers left old clothes in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the church. - Some cry'd the...

...kind, so that these brokers will fall to the ground of course. • These are celebrated in Hudibras. " The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudg'd away, to cry, no Bishop." Again, to assist in the fortification of London, the female citizens, " From ladies down to oyster-wenchet,...

...kind, so that these brokers will fall to the ground of course. * These are celebrated in Hudihras. " The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudg'd away, to cry, no Bishop." Again, to assist in the fortification of London, the female citizens, " From ladies down to oyster-wenches,...

...with hideous shout. When tinkers bawl'd aloud to settle 535 Church discipline, for patching kettle : No sow-gelder did blow his horn To geld a cat, but cry'd Reform. The oyster-women lock'd their fish lip. And trudg'd away, to cry, No bishop. 540 The mousetrap-men laid save-alls by, And 'gainst ev'l...

...with hideous shout. When tinkers bawl'd aloud, to settle 535 Church discipline, fur patching kettle: No sow-gelder did blow his horn To geld a cat, but...trudg'd away, to cry. No Bishop. 540 The mouse-trap nit- n laid save-alls by. And 'gainst Evil Counsellors did cry. Botchers left old clothes in the lurch,...

...to Ken. The reader who remembers the fanatic and furious execrations of the Puritans in 1642, " When oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudg'd away to cry — No BISHOP ! " * I must refer to the excellent Life of Sancroft, by Dr. Doyley, for the most authentic account...

...I have already quoted ridiculed the bigots of his day, with much wit and no little severity : — " The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudg'd away to cry — No bishop ! Botchers left old clothes in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the church. Some cry'd the covenant,...

...palace, As once a month they do the gallows,] The executions at Tyburn were generally once a month. When tinkers bawl'd aloud, to settle 535 Church-discipline,...by, And 'gainst ev'l counsellors did cry. Botchers lefi old cloaths in the lurch, And fell to turn and patch the church. Some cry'd the covenant, instead...