...you, to say, Hainan's choice." Milton wrote his epitaph in some amusing lines, beginning— " Hero lies old Hobson — death hath broke his girt, And here, alas ! hath laid him in the dirt." The principal hotels are the "Bull," Truinpington Street; the " Lion," Petty Cury ; the " Hoop," Bridge...

...lived. Milton, as nearly everyone knows, perpetuated his fame in a couplet that runs thus : " Here lieth Hobson ; death hath broke his girt, And here, alas ! hath laid him in the dirt. The term " Hobson's choice " originated from him, inasmuch as he compelled his customers to take the...

...Holy State." Hobson died of the epidemic, having " sickened," as Milton says, " in the time of the vacancy, being forbid to go to London by reason of the plague." It was feared that the infection would be spread by his waggon journeys to and fro to the metropolis....

...there's no true construction in that : I have took a great deal of pains, and 1 Hobson was the Cambridge carrier, "who sickened in the time of his vacancy,...being forbid to go to London by reason of the plague." Milton has immortalised him in a couple of epitaphs. He died in January 1630-31. There are several...

...he wrote the two celebrated epitaphs " On the University Carrier, " who sickened in the time of the vacancy, being " forbid to go to London by reason of the Plague."* We are now approaching the end of the history of Milton's career at Cambridge. In 1632 he wrote his...

...conceiving; And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER. Who sickened In the time...being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague. HEBE lies old Hobson;1 Death hath broke hif girt, And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt ; Or else...

...sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. ON THE UNIVERSITY GABBIER. Who sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to Londo», by reason of the Plague. HERE lies old Hobson ;2 Death hath broke hip girt. And here, alas,...

...to all Souldiers. THE EPITAPH ON OLD Houses, the Cambridge Carrier, who sickened in the time of liis vacancy, being forbid to go to London by reason of the plague, written by Milton, is well known : — Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to one, Here's here stuck...

...of Milton's two pieces is exact to the circumstances of the case. " On the University Carrier, wiio sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London by reason of the Plague." The gist of the poems themselves, too, — in which, through all their punning facetiousness, there...

...pieces, much in tho 1843.] [Jan. style of Thomas Hood, the chief punster of this nineteenth century, "on the University carrier, who sickened in the time...forbid to go to London, by reason of the plague." The first begins, " Here lies old Hobson ; death has broke his girt," and speaks of " his weekly course...