 | Alban Butler - Christian martyrs - 1857 - 950 pages
...sent scouts to the city which they had left quite empty, and, hearing that it (1) "The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil no monk was he." (2) S. Ang. Senn. de Escidio Urbis, c. 6, t, vi. p. 627, eiBcn. was still standing,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...capital is a period, so that the reader is for some time puzzled to make it out.] The devil was sick, the .devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. RARELAIS.— Vol. II. Book IV. Chap. XXIV. DEVOTION.— With devotion's visage, And pious action, we... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...taken from the old French Farce of Pierre PateKn. £lE CERVANTES. — HOBBES. 367 The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. Book iv. Ch. 24. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616. Every one is the son of his own works. Don Quixote.... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Puritans - 1867 - 460 pages
...t'<in 1-1,1,1 it daemon, monachtu tune ette nolebat:' Which is thus Englished : — The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil n monk was he.* But those who are now like to Satan in sin, may hereafter be like to him in torment.... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Puritans - 1867 - 460 pages
...volebat, Convaluit daemon, monachus tune eue nolebat:' Which is thus Englished : — The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.* But those who are now like to Satan in sin, may hereafter be like to him in torment. Such who now outlive... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...if ever the heavens should fall. ibid. I 'll go his halves. Booh it. Ch. xxiii. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Booh iv. Ck. xxiv. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616. EVERY one is the son of his own works. Don Quixote.... | |
 | A. Hoppe - English language - 1871 - 500 pages
...SBP II, p. 102. — The Gamesters (by Shirley and Jonso», altered by Garriek): The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he ( he was not, f. oben). — 8) FILL DEVIL РПЛ, BAKER. liin ttnabcnfpicl. Sic finabcn fteijrn, in... | |
 | Henry Kernot - Demonology - 1874 - 50 pages
...sommes. Convenons que le Diable est meilleur que les hommes." — Col. de Piancy. 1 HE devil was sick, the devil a monk would be : The devil was well, the devil a monk -was he." —Rabelais. "Г* VsULTURE, which renders man less like an ape. Has also licked ihe devil into shape."... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...ever the heavens should fall. Booh\. Ch. 1I. I 'll go his halves. Booh iv. Ch. 23. The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. Booh iv. Ch. 24. THOMAS TUSSER. 1523-1580. FIVE HUNDRED POINTS OF GOOD HUSBANDRY. Time tries the troth... | |
 | Ida Reinsberg-Düringsfeld (baronin von) - 1875 - 664 pages
...hij heremiet worden. Wenn der Teufel krank ist, will er Einsiedler werden. en. The devil was sick , the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he! Der Teufel war krank, der Teufel wollt' ein Mönch »ein,- 73er Teufel '.car wohl, den Teufel wollt'... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
