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

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Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut

Some cureless limb,—before in ure he put

His violent engins on the vicious member,

Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber,

And grief-less then (guided by use and art),

To save the whole, sawes off th' infested part.

First Week, Sixth Day.

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.[782:6]

First Week, Sixth Day.

Which serves for cynosure[782:7]