Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern LiteratureMacmillan and Company, 1907 - 1158 pages |
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... doth gentil dedis.2 This flour of wifly patience . The Clerkes Tale . Part v . Line 8797 . They demen gladly to the badder end . The Squieres Tale . Line 10538 . Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone , That shall eat with a fend.3 Fie ...
... doth gentil dedis.2 This flour of wifly patience . The Clerkes Tale . Part v . Line 8797 . They demen gladly to the badder end . The Squieres Tale . Line 10538 . Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone , That shall eat with a fend.3 Fie ...
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... doth grow , oft sterves the seely steede . Promos and Cassandra . 1578 . While the grass grows The proverb is something musty . - - WHETSTONE : SHAKESPEARE : Hamlet , act iii . sc . 4 . Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.1 14 ...
... doth grow , oft sterves the seely steede . Promos and Cassandra . 1578 . While the grass grows The proverb is something musty . - - WHETSTONE : SHAKESPEARE : Hamlet , act iii . sc . 4 . Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.1 14 ...
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... doth take ; For soule is forme , and doth the bodie make . An Hymne in Honour of Beautie . Line 132 . 3 For all that faire is , is by nature good ; That is a signe to know the gentle blood . To kerke the narre from God more farre ...
... doth take ; For soule is forme , and doth the bodie make . An Hymne in Honour of Beautie . Line 132 . 3 For all that faire is , is by nature good ; That is a signe to know the gentle blood . To kerke the narre from God more farre ...
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... doth his life in so long tendance spend ! 1 Mother Hubberds Tale . Line 895 What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie , And to be lord of all the workes of Nature , To raine in th ' aire from earth to ...
... doth his life in so long tendance spend ! 1 Mother Hubberds Tale . Line 895 What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie , And to be lord of all the workes of Nature , To raine in th ' aire from earth to ...
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... doth drive out another , One passion doth expel another still.2 Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel ; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words . Act v . Sc . 1 . The Gentleman Usher . Act ...
... doth drive out another , One passion doth expel another still.2 Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel ; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words . Act v . Sc . 1 . The Gentleman Usher . Act ...
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