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" It is a nest of wasps, or swarm of vermin which have overcrept the land. I mean the Monopolies and Pollers of the people : these, like the Frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our... "
The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 94
1846
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History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the ...

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1884 - 448 pages
...men,' said Culpepper, ' like the frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup,...our dish, they sit by our fire ; we find them in the 1 CJ ii. 32. * Baillie, i. 273. dye-vat, wash-bowl, and powdering-tub ; they share with the butler...
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Taxation, from the earliest times to the Civil War

Stephen Dowell - 1884 - 330 pages
...could say : ' These men, like the frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup,...our dish, they sit by our fire ; we find them in the dye- vat, the wash-bowls, and the powdering-tub ; they share with the butler in his box ; they have...
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History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak ..., Volume 9

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1884 - 458 pages
...men,' said Culpepper, ' like the frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup,...our dish, they sit by our fire ; we find them in the 1 CJ ii. 32. Q Baillie, i. 273. • 8 Notes by Sir J. Borough, Harl. MSS. cccclvii. fol. 3. 1640 THE...
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History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the ...

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1884 - 470 pages
...men,' said Culpepper, ' like the frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup,...our dish, they sit by our fire ; we find them in the 1 CJ ii. 32. * Baillie, i. 273. ' Notes by Sir J. Borough, Harl. MSS. cccclvii. fol, 3. 1 640 THE MONOPOLIES....
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History of England from the accession of James i. to the outbreak ..., Volume 9

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1884 - 448 pages
...men,' said Culpepper, ' like the frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup,...our dish, they sit by our fire ; we find them in the ' CJ ii. 32. * Baittit, i. 273. dye-vat, wash-bowl, and powdering-tub; they share with the butler in...
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History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak ..., Volume 9

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1884 - 458 pages
...under Pym's influence shared the same apprehension. ' Baillie, i. 274. . 1 640 THE MONOPOLIES. 239 dye-vat, wash-bowl, and powdering-tub ; they share...marked and sealed us from head to foot. . . . They have a vizard to hide the brand made by that good law in the last Parliament of King James ; they shelter...
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Oliver Cromwell: His Life, Times, Battlefields, and Contemporaries

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1884 - 462 pages
...Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarcely a room free from them. They sip in our cup, they dip in our dish, they sit by our fire; we find them in the dye vat, washing bowl, and powdering box; they share with the butler in the pantry, they have marked...
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Taxation, from the earliest times to the Civil War

Stephen Dowell - 1884 - 344 pages
...dish, they sit by our fire ; we find them in the dye- vat, the wash-bowls, and the powdcring-tub ; they share with the butler in his box ; they have marked and scaled us from head to foot. They have a vizard to hide the brand made by that good law in 1 The corporation...
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All the Year Round, Volume 36; Volume 56

1885 - 782 pages
...have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in oar cup, they dip in our dish, they sit by our fire, we find them in the dye-vat, the washbowls, and the powdering-tub ; they share with the butler in his box, they have marked and...
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Virginia Carolorum: The Colony Under the Rule of Charles the First and ...

Edward Duffield Neill - 1886 - 454 pages
...mean the monopolies. These like the frogs of Egypt have gotten possession of our dwellings, we have scarce a room free from them They sup in our cup....our dish, they sit by our fire. We find them in the dye vat, wash bowl, and powdering tub, etc., etc." He was subsequently Master of the Rolls and one...
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