 | John Wodderspoon - 1839 - 334 psl.
...Essex whereat he lay, But lord Bigod laugh'd at his Ponrsutvant, And stoutly thus did say ; " Where I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the King of Cockney." Hugh Bigod was Lord of Bungay tower, And a merry lord was he, So away he rode on his berry-black steed,... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1839 - 678 psl.
...With us the lines cited by Camden in his Britannia, vol. i. col. 451, " Were I in my castle of Bungey Upon the river of Waveney I would ne care for the king of Cockeney," whencesoever they come, indicate that London was formerly known by this satirical name;... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1848 - 612 psl.
...and applies them directly to London and its inhabitants. He says,— " Were I in my Castle of Bungey Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the King of Cokcney." And Dugdale, in his " Origines Judiciales," gives a long and interesting account of a festival... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1851 - 604 psl.
...In-, published, J'.iii. col. 451. (upon what authority, I know not) " Were I in my castle of Bungey " Upon the river of Waveney, " I would ne care for the king of Cockcnty." The author, In calling London Cockeney, might possibly allude to that imaginary country... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1854 - 650 psl.
...Camden, has published, Brit. Col. 451 (upon what authority I know not.) " Were I in my castle of Bungey Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the King of Coclceney." The author, in calling London Cocfceney, might possibly allude to that imaginary country... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 psl.
...as impregnable, gave out this rhyme, in scorn of Henry II., then quietly possessed of London : — " Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the king of Cockney." The country life still favours the spirit of the mediaeval feudalism, which from isolated castles disdains... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - 296 psl.
...Suffolk, he gave out this rhyme, therein vaunting it for impregnable : — WeT-e I in my castle of Bungey, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the king of Cockeney : meaning thereby King Henry the Second, then peaceably possessed of London." Tyrwhitt, in... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1860 - 384 psl.
...published, (Brit. col. 451) — upon what authority, I know not: — ' Were I in my castle of Bungey Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the king of Cockeney.' The author, in calling London ' cockeney,' might possibly allude to that imaginary country... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 636 psl.
...impregnable strength of his castle of Bungey after this fashion:— " Were I in my castle of Bungey, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the king of Cockeney." THE HERE PROPHECY. What Sir Frederick Madden describes as " the prophecy said to have been... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 psl.
...impregnable strength of his castle of Bungey after this fashion : — " Were I in my castle of Bungey, Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the king of Cockeney." What Sir Frederick Madden describes as " the prophecy said to have been set up at Here in... | |
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Were I in my castle of Bungey Upon the river of Waveney I would ne care for the king of Cockeney... 
