...as white as whale his bone :— And 9 — — as pigeons peas ;~\ This expreffion is proverbial: " Children pick up words as pigeons peas, " And utter them again as God fhall pleafe." See Ray's Collctfion. STEEVENS. 3 waflels,] Waffels were meetings of ruftic mirth and...

...Theobald ends the fourth aft here. JOHNSON. * » as pigteni peas;] This expreffion is proverbial : " Children pick up words as pigeons peas, " And utter them again as God (hail pleafe." See Pay* i Colleflion. STEEVBNS. 3 waffels,J Waffels were meetings off uflic mirth and...

...Theobald ends the fourth aft here. JOHNSON. 489. as pigeons peas j] This expression is proverbial: '* Children pick up words as pigeons peas, " And utter them again as God shall please." See Ray's Collettion. STEEVENS. $92. aiatseli——] Waiith were meetings of rnstick mirth and intemperance....

...plays at tables, chides the dice 4 pecks vp wit, as pigeons peas;] This expression is proverbial : " Children pick up words as pigeons peas, " And utter them again as God shall please ." See Ray's Collection. Steevens. Pecks is the reading of the first quarto. The folio has — picks....

...P. 30,. 1. n. This fellow pecks up wit, at pigeons peas f] This expression is proverbial: ,,Childrcn pick up words as pigeons peas, ,,A.nd utter them again as God shall please." See Hay's Collection. STEEVENS. 1'ecks is the reading of the first quarto. The folio has — picks....

...plays at tables, chides the dice * pecks up wit, as pigeons peas ;] This expression is proverbial : " Children pick up words as pigeons peas, " And utter them again as God shall please." See Ray's Collection. Steevens. Pecks is the reading of the first quarto. The folio has — picks....

...nor good housewife's friend. Alum si sit stalum non est malum. Beerum si sit cleerum est syncerum. Children pick up words as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please. As a man lives, so shall he die; As a tree falls, so shall it lie. /Egrotat Daemon monachus tune esse...

...alleging as a reason that they were quite sure they should disturb the chess-players if they staid, t Sniggs was a character — in his way; he knew everything...pigeons peas. And utter them again as God shall please." SniggB collected indefatigably, but most disinterestedly retained nothing. What he picked up in one...

...quarto ; folio omits thither. 8 — PECKS up wit, AS PIGEONS PEAS ;] This expression is proverbial : " Children pick up words as pigeons peas, " And utter them again as God shall please." See Ray's Collection. STEEVENS. Pecks is the reading of the first quartO. The folio has — -picks....

...precious sight more than staying here." " He's a nice boy," said Mrs. Brandyball, " only, as I said, ' Children pick up words, as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please.' And something might be said about somebody that might as well go no further ; as I say, ' prevention...