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"The Dean with his Dutch friend and his sermons, and his new grammar and accidence, is sowing heretics as thick as groundsel." Wherewith the two canons of the old school waddled away, arm in arm, and Bolt put out his head, leered at Ambrose, and bade him shog off, and not come sneaking after other folk's shoes. Sooth to say, Ambrose was relieved by his rejection.
"Well, we had gone about seven mile, with crowds of fresh horsetracks to guide us; and we happened to be going at a fast shog, and Bob riding a couple or three yards to the right, when he suddenly wheeled his horse round, and jumped off. "'How far is it yet to Dan's place? says he. "'Five mile, says one of the well-sinkers. 'We're just on the corner of his paddock. Got tracks?
"The Dean with his Dutch friend and his sermons, and his new grammar and accidence, is sowing heretics as thick as groundsel." Wherewith the two canons of the old school waddled away, arm in arm, and Bolt put out his head, leered at Ambrose, and bade him shog off, and not come sneaking after other folk's shoes. Sooth to say, Ambrose was relieved by his rejection.
"Pretty well begun already, friend Tomkins," said the keeper; "you are little short of being kings already upon the matter as it now stands; and for your Jerusalem I wot not, but Woodstock is a pretty nest-egg to begin with. Well, will you shog will you on will you take sasine and livery? You heard my orders." "Umph I know not," said Tomkins. "I must beware of ambuscades, and I am alone here.
If the cross old gardener happened to see us he'd come limping in our direction as fast as his lame legs could carry him, calling out angrily that if we did not 'shog off right away, he'd set his ten commandments in our faces. That's an odd expression, isn't it? It's very, very old, so old that Shakespeare was familiar with it and used it in one of his plays 'King Henry VI, I think.
The gardener meant that he would scratch us with his ten fingers but he wouldn't have, for he was too kind-hearted in spite of his threats. He was a queer man, with a brown, wrinkled old face. I can see him just as though it were yesterday." "What was that you said?" asked Betty. "'Shog off! What does it mean?" "Simply Warwickshire for 'Go away," was Mrs. Pitt's careless answer.
Yez are a mane, cold light with all yer blinkin', and no fire beneath to give 'im the good uv a cup o' tay or put a warm heart in 'im! 'Tis a good roof above! Heth, thin, had I a whisp o' straw and a bite, wid this moonlight fer company, I'd not shog from out this the night to be King!
Now, for my poor soul's interest, and as a loyal gentleman, bestir you; for I have that matter on my conscience that shall drag me deep." He groaned, and Dick heard the grating of his teeth, whether in pain or terror. Just then Sir Daniel appeared upon the threshold of the hall. He had a letter in one hand. "Lads," he said, "we have had a shog, we have had a tumble; wherefore, then, deny it?
They shog on side by side not home, but to the Doctor's house. For every hunting evening Mark's groom meets him at the Doctor's door to lead the horses home, while he, before he will take his bath and dress, brings to his blind friend the gossip of the field, and details to him every joke, fence, find, kill, hap and mishap of the last six hours.
For while it could not lightly be otherwise that the man were rocked and sung asleep by the devil's craft, and his mind occupied as it were in a delectable dream, he should never have good audience of him who would rudely and boisterously shog him and wake him, and so shake him out of it.
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