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

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Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,

Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

Common in the New England States.

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Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth,

Thirty days to each affix;

Every other thirty-one

Except the second month alone.

Common in Chester County, Penn., among the Friends.

"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."[685:1]