 | Augustus Toplady - Theology - 1794 - 500 pages
...much acrimony, zeal, and want of argument, as ever.—This behaviour reminds me of an old proverb : " When the devil was fick, The devil a monk would be; But, when the devil grew well, The devil a monk was he." A fhort time before the demife of queen Anne, as bifhop Bun\et... | |
 | College students' writings, Irish (English) - 1873 - 466 pages
...with a youthful fire; I fell in awe Upon my knees before him. TALFOURD. 'HEN the Devil was sick in bed The Devil a monk would be ; But when the Devil was well again The devi a monk was he. INCERT. io6 107 Eifrep Karel&ov deofj,vcrfj Trpa^iv Trapiav Keivriv,... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office, Allen C. Beach - New York (State) - 1879 - 520 pages
...determined that the old compact should be kept. It is an oft quoted proverb: " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, But when the devil was well, the devil a monk was he!" So when the kings were sick, the kings very kind would be ; but when the kings got well — there was... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office, Allen C. Beach - New York (State) - 1879 - 522 pages
...determined that the old compact should be kept. It is an oft quoted proverb : " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, But when the devil was well, the devil a monk was het" So when the kings were sick, the kings very kind would be; but when the kings got well — there... | |
 | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - English poetry - 1890 - 534 pages
...resign, For Sylvia, charming Sylvia, shall be thine. GOOD RESOLUTIONS. WHEN the Devil was sick in bed The Devil a monk would be ; But when the Devil was well again The devil a monk was he. STREPHON. dic quae sit tellus tam laeta ut, Daphni, timendos mira ferat... | |
 | Norris Clarion Sprigg - American poetry - 1907 - 152 pages
...happier, souls will be whiter Some of these days." DAMNATION TO GROVER. " When the devil was sick, The devil a monk would be, But when the devil was well, The devil of a monk was he." Old Adam ate the apple, First admired the tree, And then he ate another, One or... | |
 | 1908 - 82 pages
...time to teach him religion. You know the old rhyme story about the devil: "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, but when the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." That is very apt to be true in the case of religion acquired when you are sick. But many sick people... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - Railroads - 1926 - 336 pages
...you fairly, and we will still continue to give you traffic." But when — When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; But when the devil was well, the devil a monk was he. The railroad got in there and then demanded of the steel plant that it give it its traffic; that it... | |
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Sick, the Devil a Monk would be, But when the Devil was well, the Devil a Monk was he. 
