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

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The Mariner's Wife.[427:1]

His very foot has music in 't

As he comes up the stairs.

The Mariner's Wife.

Footnotes

[426:3] Jove, thou regent of the skies.—Pope: The Odyssey, book ii. line 42.

Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.—Gay: Trivia, book iii.

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.—Darwin: The Botanic Garden, part i. canto ii. line 90.

[427:1] "The Mariner's Wife" is now given "by common consent," says Sarah Tytler, to Jean Adam (1710-1765).

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