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

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With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news.

King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Another lean unwashed artificer.

King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds

Make deeds ill done!

King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Mocking the air with colours idly spread.

King John. Act v. Sc. 1.

'T is strange that death should sing.