Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Footnotes

[350:1] A fugitive piece, written on a window by Lady Montagu, after her marriage (1713). See Overbury, page [193].

[350:2] What say you to such a supper with such a woman?—Byron: Note to a Second Letter on Bowles.

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CHARLES MACKLIN.  1690-1797.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Love à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.[350:3]

The Man of the World. Act i. Sc. 2.