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

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King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew

Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.

King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.

But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,

I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.

King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.

A deal of skimble-skamble stuff.

King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.

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