Will you employ your conqu’ring sword,
To break a fiddle and your word.
Hudibras, canto 2.
To whom the knight with comely grace
Put off his hat to put his case.
Hudibras, Part 3. canto 3.
Here Britain’s statesmen oft the fall foredoom
Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home;
Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Does sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
Rape of the Lock, canto 3. l. 5.
O’er their quietus where fat judges dose,
And lull their cough and conscience to repose.
Dispensary, canto 1.
Speaking of Prince Eugene. “This General is a great taker of snuff as well as of towns.”
Pope, Key to the Lock.
Exul mentisque domusque.
Metamorphoses, lib. ix. 409.
A seeming inconsistency from the same cause.
Hic quiescit qui nunquam quievit.
Again,