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

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So slippery that

The fear 's as bad as falling.

Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 3.

The game is up.

Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 3.

No, 't is slander,

Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue

Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath

Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie