Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England.

Quotes

• The old mayor climb’d the belfry tower,
     The ringers ran by two, by three;
  ‘Pull, if ye never pull’d before;
     Good ringers, pull your best,’ quoth he.
  ‘Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!
  Ply all your changes, all your swells,
     Play uppe “The Brides of Enderby.”’
  • Jean Ingelow, "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571", st. 1, in Poems (1863)

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 81–82

• Solid men of Boston, banish long potations!
  Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!
  • Charles Morris, "Pitt and Dundas's Return to London from Wimbledon", American song, from Lyra Urbanica.

• Solid men of Boston, make no long orations;
  Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations;
  Solid men of Boston, go to bed at sundown;
  Never lose your way like the loggerheads of London.
  • "Billy Pitt and the Farmer", printed in Asylum for Fugitive Pieces (1786), without author's name