A mode that is held honourable, As well as French and fashionable: For when it falls out for the best, Where both are incommoded least, In soul and body two unite... Hudibras: A Poem - Page 170by Samuel Butler - 1822 - 494 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1866 - 390 pages
...either sex dare marry, But rather trust on tick t' amours, The cross and pile for bett'r or worse ; sso A mode that is held honourable As well as French and...both are incommoded least, In soul and body two unite «89 To make up one hermaphrodite ; Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a... | |
| Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 544 pages
...marry, But rather trust, on tick, t' amours, The cross and pile 'for better or worse; 680 A mode that TS held honourable As well as French and fashionable...out for the best, Where both are incommoded least, la soul and body to unite To make up one hermaphrodite, Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like... | |
| English fiction - 1882 - 724 pages
...may believe — that honest warrant will always exist for bipeds of every grade and feather to be f Still amorous and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.* 522 MRS. MATHEWS CHARMING WAITER. BvJ. SALE LLOYD, AUTHOR OF ' THE SILENT SHADOW,' 'SHADOWS OP THE... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Christians to be had In this, the nineteenth, just as mad ! Moore, Twop. Post Bag. BILLING— sr Kissing. Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. Butler, Hud. in. i. 687. BILLS. Dreading that climax of all human ills, The inflammation of his weekly... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 pages
...either sex dare marry, But rather trust on tick t' amours, The cross and pile for bett'r or worse ; A mode that is held honourable, As well as French...Where both are incommoded least, In soul and body to unite, To make up one Hermaphrodite ; Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 pages
...either sex dare marry, But rather trust on tick t' amours, The cross and pile for bett'r or worse ; A mode that is held honourable, As well as French...Where both are incommoded least, In soul and body to unite, To make up one Hermaphrodite ;a Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...1067. As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't. part iii. Canto i. Line 4Si. Still amorous and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. Fart iii. Cai:ta i. Line 6£j. * Be careful still of the main chance. — DRYDEN. Persins. Satire vi.... | |
| Conduct of life - 1871 - 784 pages
...she could be called his wife — with faces wreathed in smiles, and looking, as Hudibras has it, " Amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling."* Thus did this wicked king unblushingly blazon the shame of his incestuous marriage for the execration... | |
| 1889 - 352 pages
...scant repose." CH s F. T Y.— "I nothing spend, but often sponge upon a friend." J s G. T — P N.— "Still amorous and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling." J s H. WH E.— "It's excellent to have a giant's strength." P— L — p L. W — v — B. — "The... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...1067. As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon 't. Part iii. Canto i. Line 481. Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. Part iii. Canto i. Line 687. What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year.... | |
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