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

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[449:2] See Bickerstaff, page [427].

[450:1] These lines from an old song, entitled "The Strong Walls of Derry," Burns made a basis for his own beautiful ditty.

[450:2] See Heywood, page [9].

[450:3] See Fletcher, page [183].

[450:4] Durance vile.—W. Kenrick (1766): Falstaff's Wedding, act i. sc. 2. Burke: The Present Discontents.

[451:1] See Heywood, page [10].

[452:1] To know her was to love her.—Rogers: Jacqueline, stanza 1.

[452:2] I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better.—Wycherley: The Plaindealer, act. i. sc. 1.

[452:3] See Southerne, page [282].

[452:4] This ballad first appeared in Johnson's "Museum," 1796. Sir Walter Scott was never tired of hearing it sung.