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

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Marmion. Canto iii. Stanza 11.

Where 's the coward that would not dare

To fight for such a land?

Marmion. Canto iv. Stanza 30.

Lightly from fair to fair he flew,

And loved to plead, lament, and sue;

Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain,

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Marmion. Canto v. Stanza 9.

With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye.[489:2]