 Why wife, quoth her husband, what would you do ? What ? By God, go forward with the best. For as my mother was wont to say (God have mercy on her soul), it is evermore better to rule than to be ruled. And therefore, by God, I would not, I warrant you,...  The Scottish Historical Review - Page 1621909Full view - About this book
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 606 pages
...goslings in the coals ? Would to God I were a man, and you should quickly see what I would do! I would not be so foolish to be ruled, where I might rule." " By my faith, wife," he replied, " I believe you speak truth, for I never yet found you willing to be ruled:"... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1818 - 544 pages
...have mercie on her soule !) it is ever better to rule, than to be ruled. Wherefore I would pot by God I warrant you, be so foolish to be ruled, where I might rule." " By my troth wife," (quoth he) " in this I dare say, you say true : for I never found you willing to be ruled... | |
 | William Camden - 1870 - 474 pages
...is evermore better to rule than to be ruled ; and therefore I warrant you, I would not be fo foolifh to be ruled where I might rule." " By my truth, Wife," quoth he, " I dare fay you fay truth, for I never found you willing to be ruled yet." He ufed, when he was... | |
 | Thomas Edward Bridgett - 1891 - 544 pages
...go forward with the best. For, as my mother was wont to say (God have mercy on her soul), it is ever better to rule than to be ruled. And, therefore, by...would not, I warrant you, be so foolish to be ruled when I might 'rule.' 'By my troth, wife,' quoth her husband, 'in this I daresay you say truth, for... | |
 | Thomas Edward Bridgett - 1904 - 544 pages
...go forward with the best. For, as my mother was wont to say (God have mercy on her soul), it is ever better to rule than to be ruled. And, therefore, by...would not, I warrant you, be so foolish to be ruled when I might rule.' 'By my troth, wife,' quoth her husband, 'in this I daresay you say truth, for I... | |
 | Henri Bremond - 1920 - 232 pages
...forward with the best. For, as my mother was wont to say (God have mercy on her soul !), it is ever better to rule than to be ruled. And, therefore, by...would not, I warrant you, be so foolish to be ruled when I might rule.' ' By my troth, wife,' quoth her husband, ' in this I daresay you say truth, for... | |
 | Saint Thomas More, Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1924 - 224 pages
...forward with the best of them. For as my mother was wont to say, God have mercy on her soul, "it is better to rule than to be ruled ". And therefore by...warrant you, be so foolish to be ruled, where I might 20 rule.' ' By my troth, wife,' quoth her husband, ' in this I dare say you say truth. For I never... | |
 | James Monti - 1997 - 508 pages
...affectionate jest at her expense; thus when she once berated him for a want of ambition, protesting that "I would not, I warrant you, be so foolish to be ruled where I might rule", More replied, "By my troth, wife, in this I dare say you say truth, for I never found you willing to... | |
 | Gerard Wegemer - 1995 - 332 pages
...forward with the best! Because, as my mother liked to say — God have mercy on her soul — it is always better to rule than to be ruled. And therefore, by God, I would never be so foolish as to be ruled when I might rule." "Here I must say that you have said the truth,... | |
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