hope-on-high

Updated: June 17, 2025

But oh, but oh, the hobby-horse is forgot! There is a very comic scene in Beaumont and Fletcher's play of "Woman Pleased," where Hope-on-high Bombye, a puritan cobbler, refuses to dance with the hobby-horse. There was much difficulty and great variety in the motions which the hobby-horse was expected to exhibit. The learned Mr.

Sir Walter Scott - The Abbot