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

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Pairing Time Anticipated.

Misses! the tale that I relate

This lesson seems to carry,—

Choose not alone a proper mate,

But proper time to marry.

Pairing Time Anticipated.

That though on pleasure she was bent,

She had a frugal mind.

History of John Gilpin.

A hat not much the worse for wear.