Mass, and well-remembered: here's my neighbour Plod-all hard by has but one only son; and let me seeI take it, his lands are better than five thousand pounds.

I'll be hanged, if e'er Mistress Lelia will ha' Peter Plod-all; I swear by this button-cap (do you mark?), and by the round, sound, and profound contents (do you understand?) of this costly codpiece (being a good proper man, as you see), that I could get her as soon as he myself.

Now, sir, I'll fit myself to the old crummy churls' humours, and make them believe I'll persuade Lelia to marry Peter Plod-all, and so get free access to the wench at my pleasure.

Enter ROBIN GOODFELLOW and PETER PLOD-ALL. ROBIN GOODFELLOW.

PETER PLOD-ALL.

PETER PLOD-ALL.

PETER PLOD-ALL.

PETER PLOD-ALL.

Persuade him to keep her in still: and before she'll have Peter Plod-all, she'll have anybody; and so I shall be sure that Sophos shall never come at her.

I swore to Gripe I would persuade Lelia to love Peter Plod-all; but, God forgive me, 'twas the furthest end of my thought.

Enter GRIPE, old PLOD-ALL and his son PETER, and CHURMS the lawyer.

Master Churms, I pray you, bear witness, I here give Lelia to Peter Plod-all.

Yes, only one; and him your father backs: 'Tis Peter Plod-all, rich Plod-all's son and heir, One whose base, rustic, rude desert Unworthy far to win so fair a prize; Yet means your father for to make a match For golden lucre with this Coridon, And scorns at virtue's lore: hence grows my grief.

Yes, only one; and him your father backs: 'Tis Peter Plod-all, rich Plod-all's son and heir, One whose base, rustic, rude desert Unworthy far to win so fair a prize; Yet means your father for to make a match For golden lucre with this Coridon, And scorns at virtue's lore: hence grows my grief.

Master Churms, Methinks 'tis strange you should make such a motion: Say, I should yield and grant you love, When most you did expect a sunshine day, My father's will would mar your hop'd-for hay; And when you thought to reap the fruits of love, His hard constraint would blast it in the bloom: For he so doats on Peter Plod-all's pelf,

Popular opinion of his nature has not been favorable; and he has had to plod and work through life against the prejudices of the ignorant.

They plod along in a humdrum manner; there is no poetry in their soul,none of those ambitious stirrings which lead the man who has in him the true spark of genius to try for grand things and incur severe and ignominious tumbles.

The plains, however, were five feet deep in snow, so there was nothing for it but to plod upon our way.

Yet still no praise belongs to me I do not sympathize with thee; I never can be proud and vain, And imitate thy boasting strain; But humbly on my way I'll plod, For I receive my strength from God.

Similarly Dr. Basil Manly, president of the University of Alabama, spoke in 1841 of the inveterate habit of Southern farmers to buy more land and slaves and plod on captive to the customs of their ancestors; and C.C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, said in 1855 of his native county of Madison, which lay on the Tennessee border: "I can show you ... the sad memorials of the artless and exhausting culture of cotton.

With his hands behind his back, and his eyes upon the ground, he would plod across the field, perfectly unconscious that any one was following him.

So they flaunt past with an odour of perfume, and leave the 'old lady' to plod unrecognised.

"I stole a march of twenty-four hours good on Prince Lobkowitz, who was only five leagues from me," wrote Belle-Isle, on accomplishing his retreat; "I pierced his quarters, and I traversed ten leagues of plain, having to plod along with eleven thousand foot and three thousand two hundred and fifty worn-out horses, M. de Lobkowitz having eight thousand good horses and twelve thousand infantry.

The ponies plodded slowly upward, to turn and plod up the next angle of the trail, without loitering and without haste.

Until reaching what is facetiously termed "the shell area"as if any spot in this benighted district were not a shell areathe troops plod along in fours at the right of the road.