 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1899 - 600 pages
...ringing thy head shall have knockes." Whereunto the Clerk replying wrote : " Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will." What child will not remember that it was the Bow Bells which said to the poor runaway boy as he was... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 394 pages
...thy 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... | |
 | Ecclesiological Society - 1910 - 352 pages
...ringing thy head shall have knocks. Whereunto replying, the clerk wrote — Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will. Which shows that the clerk believed in a soft answer to turn away wrath To quote again from Stow: "Shortly... | |
 | Wilberforce Jenkinson - 1917 - 388 pages
...thy late ringing thy head shall have knockes. To which the Clerk replies : Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will.7 1 Chapman (1605), V, i. * 'Tis merry when Gossips meet (1609), H. 3. 2 W. Haughton, Englishmen... | |
 | Herbert Reynolds - 1922 - 270 pages
...challenge, and his surrender appears to have been absolute and complete : 'Children of Cheape, hold you still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will.' ST. MARY ALDERMARY BOW LANE ST. MARY ALDERMARY, BOW LANE ST. MARY ALDERMARY is perhaps one of the finest... | |
 | George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston - 1926 - 262 pages
...late ringing thy head shall haue knockes, whereunto the Clarke replying wrote Children of Cheape, hold you all still For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will.' Cf. London Prodigal 2. I. 49. See 306. 217. Vliffes when he counterfetted himself e madde, yoakt cattes,... | |
 | John Wittich - 1988 - 148 pages
...late ringing they head shall have knockes" to which the clerk responded :"Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will" On his death John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, c 1572-1631, left money in his will for the maintenance... | |
 | Samuel Lysons - 1860 - 120 pages
...With the yellow lockes, For thy late ringing Thy head shall have knockes." " Children of Cheape, Hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will." The sound of Bow hell was much admired by others, whatever the notions of the apprentices might have... | |
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Whereunto the Clerk replying wrote : ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will. 
