 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1778 - 514 pages
...vanquifhed potiure : under which jiotion a waggilh fchool-mafter once or that place thus paraphraled the above legend : Here I Thomas Wharton do lie, With...under my head, And another laid clofe on each fide!' S 3 neigh* neighbours, Heareft thou how loud this bull crunes ? If thcfc cattle mould all crune together,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1785 - 610 pages
...The following;« iT •/£>;» has been given as a tranflation of the above : Here I. Thomii Whartoa, do lie, With Lucifer under my head, And Nelly my wife hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead : O how can 1 fpeak without dread 1 Who could my fad fortune abide ! . Wilh one devil under my head,... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1806 - 284 pages
...OUKI.AMJ. ON THOMAS THE FIRST LORD WHARTOBf," Who lies buried with his two Wives, Eleanor and Anne. HERE I, Thomas Wharton, do lie, With Lucifer under...And Nelly my wife hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead : O how can 1 speak without dread ! Who could my sad fortune abide ! With one devil under my head,... | |
 | Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...WESTMORELAND. ON THOMAS THE FIRST LORD WHARTON, Who lies buried with his two Wives, Eleanor and Anne. HBRE I, Thomas Wharton, do lie, With Lucifer under my head,...And Nelly my wife hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead : O how can I speak without dread ! Who could my sad fortune abide ! With one devil under my head,... | |
 | English poetry - 1807 - 218 pages
...BVRIED, WITH HIS TWO WIVES, ELEANOR AND AXX, IN THE CHORCH. OB KIKKBY-STEFHE.N, IN WESTMOBLAND. HEBE I Thomas Wharton do lie, With Lucifer under my head,...And Nelly my wife hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead : O how can I speak without dread ! '' Who could my sad fortune abide, With one devil under my head,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...been given as a translation of the above. Here I Thomas Wharton do lie, With Lucifer under my bead, And Nelly my wife hard by, And Nancy, as cold as lead. Oh! how can I speak without dread! Who could my sad fortune abide! With one devil under my head, And another laid... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 424 pages
...Elizabeth, m. to Dr. Atkinson, physician, sp VI. CHRISTOPHER, an officer in the EICS, m. and had issue, " Here I Thomas Wharton do lie, With Lucifer under my...hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh, how can I speak without dread! Who could my sad fortune abide, With one devil under my head, And another laid... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1887 - 324 pages
...the above inscription as follows : Here I, Thomas Wharton, do lie, With Lucifer under my head ; With Nelly, my wife, hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh ! how can 1 speak without dread ! Who could my sad fortune abide У With one devil under my head, And another... | |
 | Michael Aislabie Denham - Folklore - 1892 - 388 pages
...him, and they who did not, knew well from the exploit, that it could bo no one but Robin the Devil. Here I, Thomas Wharton, do lie, With Lucifer under...hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh ! how can I speak without dread ! Who could my sad fortune abide, With one devil under my head And another laid... | |
 | William Jackson - Cumberland (England) - 1892 - 422 pages
...Wharton " — ridiculed in proposing that the following epitaph should be engraved upon it : — " Here I Thomas Wharton do lie With Lucifer under my...my wife hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh how could I speak without dread, Who could my sad fortune abide, With one devil under my head. And another... | |
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Here I, Thomas Wharton, do lie, With Lucifer under my head, And Nelly my wife hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh, how can I speak without dread, Who could my sad fortune abide? With one devil under my head And another laid close on each side. 
