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

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A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.[58:1]

I 'll put a girdle round about the earth

In forty minutes.[58:2]

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.

My heart

Is true as steel.[58:3]

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.[58:4]

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,