 was, that wine and ale were so scarce, and the people such misers of it, that every night before I went to bed, if any man had asked me a civil question, all the wit in my head could not have made him a sober answer.  Traditions of Edinburgh - Page 237by Robert Chambers - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Nashe (pseud) - 1871 - 326 pages
...call it superfluity, or satiety. The worst was, that wine and ale was so scarce, and the people there such misers of it, that every night before I went...in my head could not have made him a sober answer. ing to so sacred a place, or so royal an owner. In the inner court I saw the King's arms cunningly... | |
 | John Taylor - 1618 - 82 pages
...call it superfluity, or satiety. The worst was, that wine and ale was so scarce, and the people there such misers of it, that every night before I went...in my head could not have made him a sober answer. I was at his Majesty's Palace, a stately and princely seat, wherein I saw a sumptuous chapel, most... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1833 - 416 pages
...call it superfluity and satietie. The worst was, that wine and ale was so scarce, and the people then such misers of it, that every night before I went...in my head could not have made him a sober answer. I was at his Majestie's palace, a stately and princely seat, wherein I saw a sumptuous chapell, most... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1858 - 570 pages
...superfluity. The worst was,' he adds waggishly, ' that wine and ale were so scarce, and the people there such misers of it, that every night before I went...in my head could not have made him a sober answer.' At Leith, he met a bountiful friend in Bernard Lindsay, one of the grooms of his majesty's bed-chamber,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1858 - 568 pages
...superfluity. The worst was,' he adds waggishly, ' that wine and ale were so scarce, and the people there such misers of it, that every night before I went...in my head could not have made him a sober answer.' At Leith, he met a bountiful friend in Bernard Lindsay, one of the grooms of his majesty's bed-chamber,... | |
 | Thomas Bedford - 1872 - 798 pages
...call it superfluity, or satiety. The worst was, that wine and ale was so scarce, and the people there such misers of it, that every night before I went...in my head could not have made him a sober answer. ing to so sacred a place, or so royal an owner. In the inner court I saw the King's arms cunningly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1874 - 576 pages
...superfluity. The worst was,' he adds waggishly, ' that wine and ale were so scarce, and the people there such misers of it, that every night before I went...in my head could not have made him a sober answer.' At Leith, he met a bountiful friend in Bernard Lindsay, one of the grooms of his majesty's bed-chamber,... | |
 | John Taylor - 1888 - 340 pages
...call it superfluity, or satiety. The worst was, that wine and ale was so scarce, and the people there such misers of it, that every night before I went...in my head could not have made him a sober answer. 1 was at his Majesty's Palace, a stately and princely seat, wherein I saw a sumptuous chapel, most... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - Scotland - 1891 - 360 pages
...superfluity, or saciety. The worst was, that wine and ale was so scarce, and the people were such mizers of it, that every night before I went to bed, if any man had asked me a civill question, all the wit in my head could not have made him a sober answer. I was at his Majesties... | |
 | Alfred H. Hyatt - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1913 - 492 pages
...call it superfluity, or satiety. The worst was, that wine and ale was so scarce, and the people there such misers of it, that every night before I went...in my head could not have made him a sober answer. . . . But once more, a word or two of Edinburgh, although I have scarcely given it that due which belongs... | |
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