 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1828 - 346 pages
...prick out my eyes with a balladmaker's pen" — and again, in the first part of Henry IV. — " I bad rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers" Independent of the above, are many other sources from which this induction might have... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...of the king and the beggar ? The world was very guilty of euch ballade some three ages since. Id. I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew. Than one of these same metre ioUod-mongera. Id. The ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddle. • Milton. More solid things... | |
 | 1829 - 354 pages
...with fame, And to posterity consigns the glory of his name ! 1888. THETA. THE JOURNEYMAN RHYMER. " I'd rather be a kitten and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-makers : I'd rather hear a brazen candlestick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle tree,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 458 pages
...ornament ; A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I am glad of 't with all my heart ; I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers . I had rather hear a brazen canstickq turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth. ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS. A SATIRE. 1 1 had rather be a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." SHAKSPEARE ' Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...ornament ; A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart ; I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers: I had rather hear a brazen cànstick' turn'd. Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 350 pages
...is theirs, to be of use. New stcai I Abbey, 1808. ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS, A SATIRE. ' I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." SHAKSPEARB. ' Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true. There are as mad,... | |
 | William Toone - 1832 - 584 pages
...deals in ballad writing; but Shakspeare gives it in the sense of a writer or composer of ballads. I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew. Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. \ PART K. HEN. iv. BALLADRY, the stile or manner of ballads. What though the greedy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 522 pages
...ornament : A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I 'm glad of it with all my heart: I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstick 1 turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree... | |
 | 1835 - 804 pages
...importance, and met with favor from king and noble, notwithstanding the contempt of the stuttering Hotspur. I had rather be a kitten and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad mongen ; 1 had rather hear a brazen canslick turned Or a dry wheel grote on an axletrec, Etc.... | |
| |
I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers... 
