 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 398 pages
...Caledonia mourn Thy banish'd peace thy laurels torn l " TOBIAS SMOLLETT TEE VICAR OF BRAY. 71 Utrar of IN good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God... | |
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 240 pages
...tie up my bonny brown hair. And it's oh ! dear ! etc. — Anon. (Seorge CCXXIII. THE VICAR OF BRAY. IN good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous High Churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never miss'd, Kings were by God appointed, And... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...stoops to pat His little phantom hound! Patrick R. Chalmers [18 THE BARB OF SATIRE THE VICAR OF BRAY IN good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...am sure 1 kept true to my principle, which is to live and die the Vicar of Bray.' " — DlSRARLI.] IN good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so 1 got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God... | |
 | Edmondstoune Duncan - 1927 - 634 pages
...and Dialogues, Bk. Ill, 1658 ; reprinted in Hullah's English Songs (Augener). 287. The Ficar of Bray IN good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous High-Churchman I was, And so I got preferment ; To teach my flock I never missed — Kings are by God... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 648 pages
...Solomon's proverb concerning fickleness reminds me of the satirical poem about the turncoat vicar of Bray: In good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed: Kings were by God... | |
 | 906 pages
...Cromwell overthrew the Long Parliament 1653 The Protectorate 1653-1658 CHAPTER XXXIII: THE RESTORATION In good King Charles's golden days When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous High-churchman was I, And so I gained preferment: To teach my flock I never missed, Kings are by God... | |
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IN good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous High Churchman was I, And so I got preferment. 
