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

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Messieurs, l'huître étoit bonne. Adieu. Vivez en paix."

Boileau: Epître ii. (à M. l' Abbé des Roches).

[334:2] See Spenser, page [29].

[335:1] See Ben Jonson, page [180].

[335:2] See page [346].

[335:3] See Dryden, page [270].

[336:1] See Chaucer, page [4]. Herbert, page [206].

[336:2]

His wit invites you by his looks to come,

But when you knock, it never is at home.