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

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The Careless Husband. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,

And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.[297:2]

Footnotes

[296:1] See Sir Thomas Browne, page [219].

[296:2] See Shakespeare, page [92].

[296:3] See Shakespeare, page [98].

[296:4] See Congreve, page [294].

[297:1] See Swift, page [292].

[297:2] A parody on Pope's lines:—