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

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A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em,

To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.[34:6]

The Revenger's Tragedy. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Footnotes

[34:6] Distilled damnation.—Robert Hall (in Gregory's "Life of Hall").

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LORD BROOKE.  1554-1628.

O wearisome condition of humanity!

Mustapha. Act v. Sc. 4.