Citations:Westward Ho!

English citations of Westward Ho!

1593 c. 1601—1602, 1605
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Queene. Woman what noise is this I hear?
Potters wife. It is the Watermen that cals for passengers to goe Westward now.
  • The phrases "westward ho!" and "eastward ho!" [used in Chapman, Jonson, and Marston's 1605 play Eastward Hoe] were the cries of the watermen who provided taxi service by boat on the River Thames.

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Andrew Leach (2014 May 16) “Origin of 'Homeward ho!'”, in English Language & Usage Stack Exchange[1], retrieved October 22, 2020
  2. ^ Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2009) The Jamestown Project[2], Belknap Press, →ISBN, retrieved October 22, 2020, page 339