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

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Xerxes, Xantippus, Xavier, Xenophon?

Yield, ye young Yaghier yeomen, yield your yell!

Zimmerman's, Zoroaster's, Zeno's zeal

Again attract; arts against arms appeal.

All, all ambitious aims, avaunt, away!

Et cætera, et cætera, et cæter[=a].

Alliteration, or the Siege of Belgrade: a Rondeau.[690:1]

But were it to my fancy given

To rate her charms, I 'd call them heaven;

For though a mortal made of clay,