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

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Britons never shall be slaves.

Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5.

Footnotes

[356:1] See Milton, page [234].

Nam ut mulieres esse dicuntur nonnullæ inornatæ, quas id ipsum diceat, sic hæc subtilis oratio etiam incompta delectat (For as lack of adornment is said to become some women; so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight).—Cicero: Orator, 23, 78.

[356:2] O Winter, ruler of the inverted year.—Cowper: The Task, book iv. Winter Evening, line 34.

[358:1] The line was altered after the second edition to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine."

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JOHN DYER.  1700-1758.

A little rule, a little sway,