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

by Unknown

[54:1] For "mirth," White reads shews; Singer, shows.

[56:1] Musical as is Apollo's lute.—Milton: Comus, line 78.

[57:1] Maidens withering on the stalk.—Wordsworth: Personal Talk, stanza 1.

[57:2] "Ever I could read,"—Dyce, Knight, Singer, and White.

[57:3] Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight.

[58:1] Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight.

[58:2] See Chapman, page [36].

[58:3] Trew as steele.—Chaucer: Troilus and Cresseide, book v. line 831.

[58:4] Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight.

[58:5] Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard.—1 Corinthians, ii. 9.