...have knockes^ To which the clerk appended this good-humoured reply : — " Children of Cheape, hold ye all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will." The new steeple was finished in the year 1512. It was constructed of Caen stone, and was raised upon...

...ringing thy head shall have knocks.' Whereunto the Clerk replying wrote : ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung...the sound of Bow-bell." The present set of bells, ten in number, were cast and set up in 1762. All differ in weight, — the smallest weighing 8 cwt....

...ringing thy head shall have knocks. ' Whereunto the clerk replying, wrote — ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will.'* One of the finest bits of word-painting in Shakspeare occurs in the mention of a bell, where King John,...

...ringing, thy head shall have knockd." To which the Clerk replied : — " Children of Cheape, hold yon all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will." . spire of the tower were provided with lanterns, as beacons for travellers : the latter is shosvn...

...citizens of London, or persons born within the sound of Bow bell. — aSgf. Murray, London (1860) p. 124: People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually...explains it, "children born within the sound of Bow-bell" . . . Pope has confirmed the reputation of these bells in a celebrated line: — "Far as loud Bow's...

...bell. — SBgl. Murray, London (1860) p. 124: People | born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually i called cockneys. — Beaumont and Fletcher speak '...it, "children born within the sound o'f Bow-bell"... Pope has confirmed the reputation of these bulls in a celebrated line: — "Far as loud Bow's stupendous...

...citizens of London, or persons born within the sound of Bow belL — SSgl. Murray, London (1860) p. 124 : People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually...Beaumont and Fletcher speak of "Bow-bell suckers", te, as Mr. Dyce properly explains it, "children born within the sound of Bow-bell"... Pope has confirmed...

...late ringing thy head shall have knocks." To which the clerk replies :— " Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will." Allusions to the " Bow-bells " may be found in many of our old writers. Pope, for instance, has the...

...late ringing thy head shall have knocks." To which the clerk replies :— " Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your wili." Allusions to the " Bow-bells " may be found in many of our old writers. Pope, for instance,...

...ringing thy head shall have knocks.' Whereunto the Clerk replying wrote ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will.' " Stom, p. 96. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called Cockneys. Beaumont and...