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

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[71:1] Too much of a good thing.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book i. chap. vi.

[71:2] "Cud" in Dyce and Staunton.

[72:1] You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 968.

[72:2] See Heywood, page [9]. Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit without Money.

[72:3] Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.—Congreve: The Old Bachelor, act v. sc. 1.

[73:1] See Heywood, page [18].

[74:1] How noiseless falls the foot of time!—W. R. Spencer: Lines to Lady A. Hamilton.

[74:2] "Like the sweet south" in Dyce and Singer. This change was made at the suggestion of Pope.

[74:3] See Heywood, page [12].

[76:1] Act iii. Sc. 5 in Dyce.