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

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Footnotes

[851:1] With this ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.—Book of Common Prayer, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.

[851:2] This is derived from a Latin antiphon, said to have been composed by Notker, a monk of St. Gall, in 911, while watching some workmen building a bridge at Martinsbrücke, in peril of their lives. It forms the ground-work of Luther's antiphon "De Morte."

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TATE AND BRADY.[851:3]

Untimely grave.

Psalm vii.

And though he promise to his loss,

He makes his promise good.

Psalm xv. 5.

The sweet remembrance of the just

Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.

Psalm cxii. 6.