 | Saint Thomas More - 1808 - 334 pages
...refuseth all her benefits. This is their sentence and opinion of virtue and pleasure.* And they his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town ! that, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed of down, or whole feathers." Prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicles,... | |
 | David Hume - 1775 - 400 pages
...had a mattrefs or flock-bed, and thereto a tack of chaff to refi his head upon, he thought himfelf to be as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, faid they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed : As for fervants, If they had any fheet above... | |
 | 482 pages
...houfe had a mattrafs or Slock bed and Sheets, a Sack of chaff to red his head upon, he thought himfelf to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were they contented, Hut that pillows (faid they) were thought meet only for w omen in childbed ; as for fervants, if they... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 422 pages
...had a mattrafs, t>r flock bed and meets, a fack of chaff to reft his bead upon, he thought himfelf to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were they contented, that pillows (faid they) were thought meet only for women ¡n childbed ; as for fervants, if they had... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 444 pages
...after his marriage, pur" chased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought " himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the " town; who, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed " of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if " they had... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...after his marriage, pur" chased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought " himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the * bag. Sax. (from whence daggle or draggle), any thing pendent, a shred. The term therefore seems to... | |
 | 1802 - 888 pages
...his marringe, ' purchased a mattress or flock bed, ' and thereto a sack of chaff to rest ' his head upon, he thought himself ' to be as well lodged as the lord of ' the town ; who, peradventure, ' lay seldom in a bed of down or ' whole feathers. As for servant«, ' if they... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 pages
...the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed.... | |
 | Ely Bates - 1806 - 445 pages
...the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the...they, were thought meet only for women in childbed." In this last opinion they have been followed at a much later period in the northern part of this island,... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 852 pages
....1 matrass, or a flockbed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head irpon, he thought fcjrr.self to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were ther c~o<entcd. — Pillowc, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants,... | |
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... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, that peradventure lay seldom in a bed of down or whole feathers... 
