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

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[32:9] Jupiter himself was turned into a satyr, a shepherd, a bull, a swan, a golden shower, and what not for love.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. ii. mem. i. subs. 1.

[33:1] The main chance.—Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1. Butler: Hudibras, part ii. canto ii. Dryden: Persius, satire vi.

[33:2] See Heywood, page [12].

[33:3] 'T is a world to see.—Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, act ii. sc. 1.

[33:4] See Heywood, page [17].

[33:5] This is a sure card.—Thersytes, circa 1550.

[33:6] To rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.—Breton: Court and Country, 1618 (reprint, page 182).

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.—Hurdis: The Village Curate.

[33:7] See Raleigh, page [25].

[33:8] The rose is fairest when 't is budding new.—Scott: Lady of the Lake, canto iii. st. 1.