 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 372 pages
...second turn into the lake; And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose. Wo brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot but water quenches." A note to this poem informs us, that, to the honour of the fair sex in the neighbourhood of R***y,... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...friend, pray let her take A second turn into the lake ; And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose. No brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot but water quenches." A note to this poem informs us, that to the honour of the fair sex in the neighbourhood of R***y, 'this... | |
 | Rev. George Hall - Chesterfield (England) - 1839 - 566 pages
...friends, pray let her take A second turn into the lake ; And rather than your patient lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose ; No brawling wives, no...furious wenches. No fire so hot but water quenches.'' The last instance upon record of a person indicted for a scold was Mrs. Foxby, who was convicted at... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1842 - 312 pages
...and again repeat the dose. No fire so hot hut water quenches. No hrawling wives, no furious wenches, In Prior's skilful lines we see For these another...reliev'd, you'll say, By water, yet a different way; Drunkard's Cloak. VOL. IIL.PAOE55. The Brank. Pillory. A mouthful of the same she'd take, Sure not... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...friend, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose. No brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot but water quenches. 54 A mouthful of the same she'd take, Sure not to scold, if not to speak." A note informs us, " To... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...friend, pra> let her take A second turn into the lake ; And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice, and again, repeat the dose. No brawling wives, no...furious wenches, No fire so hot, but water quenches." The following anecdote, taken from a work printed in 1684, may not be out of place here : — "Some... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...friends, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patient lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose ; No brawling wives —...furious wenches— No fire so hot but water quenches. As we have already had occasion to remark, other offences which nowa-days would scarcely be noticed,... | |
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...friends, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patient lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose ; No brawling wives —...furious wenches — No fire so hot but water quenches. As we have already had occasion to remark, other offences which nowa-days would scarcely be noticed,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...friends, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patient lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose ; No brawling wives — no furious wenches — No fire so hot hut water quenches. As we have already had occasion to remark, other offences which nowa-days would... | |
 | ALEXANDRA ANDTEWS - 1856 - 370 pages
...friends, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patient lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose ; No brawling wives —...furious wenches — No fire so hot but water quenches. One of the most recent mentions of this punishment is made by Notes and Queries, as occurring in the... | |
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If so, my friend, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose. No brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot, but water quenches. 
