 | Desiderius Erasmus - Theology - 1900 - 346 pages
...Sickness, then I Make myself to Philosophy, etc. This recalls the noted distich : ( The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.' 11. The Comedian. Terence. 12. That expression of the Satyrist, etc. The line is from Juvenal, vii.... | |
 | Municipal government - 1900 - 854 pages
...and ability. Always, however, prosperity has brought back nefarious practices. " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he." Materialistic greed has been the chief, the most reliable force for holding the organization together.... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...810. 7 See Heywood, page 20. I 'll go his halves. Works. Boot zr. Chap. xxiii. The Devil was sick, — the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, — the devil a monk was he. Chap. xxic. Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub. Chap,... | |
 | 1903 - 654 pages
...Quotations ascribes to Rabelais (Works, Book IV., Chapter 24) the familiar couplet : The devil was sick, — the devil a monk would be, The devil was well, — the devil a monk was he. Now, I do not find this couplet anywhere in the original. But I do find it in the English translation... | |
 | Nathan Elliott Wood - 1903 - 286 pages
...patients in direct inverse ratio to the lapse of time and the recovery of health. "The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he." The rights of the wealthy are sometimes urged — the right to credit until such time as best suits... | |
 | François Rabelais - Fiction - 1904 - 344 pages
...resolved to make good the Lombardic proverb, Passato el pericolo, gabbato el santo. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. CHAPTER XXV. How, after the storm, Pantagruel went on shore in the islands of the Macreons. IMMEDIATELY... | |
 | François Rabelais - 1904 - 338 pages
...resolved to make good the Lombardic proverb, Passato el pericolo, gabbato el santo. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. CHAPTER XXV. How, after the storm, Pantagruel went on shore in the islands of the Macreons. IMMEDIATELY... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - Quotations, English - 1904 - 920 pages
...LVI. Per from eze, fer from herte, Quoth Hendyng. Hendyng's Proverbs, MSS. 1320. The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. Book IV., Chap. 24. THOMAS TUSSER. 1523—1580. Time tries the troth in everything. The Author's Epistle,... | |
 | Jacob N. Beam - English drama - 1904 - 104 pages
...Menschen oder Teufel? Const. Ich bin wenigstens keine Mannsperson"; WLS 113. „The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well the devil a monk was he" = „da der Teufel krank war so wollte er ein Münch werden. Aber ward denn der Teufel ein Münch wie... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
