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

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Between two horses, which doth bear him best;

Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,—

I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment;

But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,

Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

King Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

Delays have dangerous ends.[93:1]

King Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.

She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;

She is a woman, therefore to be won.