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

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,

But—why did you kick me down stairs?[445:4]

The Panel. Act i. Sc. 1.

[445:4] Altered from Bickerstaff's "'T is Well 't is no Worse." The lines are also found in Debrett's "Asylum for Fugitive Pieces," vol. i. p. 15.

In the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Nelson gave orders for boarding the "San Josef," exclaiming "Westminster Abbey, or victory!"

Life of Nelson (Southey). Vol. i. p. 93.