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

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Footnotes

[172:1] As the case stands.—Mathew Henry: Commentaries, Psalm cxix.

[172:2] See Heywood, page [11].

[172:3] I smell a rat.—Ben Jonson: Tale of a Tub, act iv. Sc. 3. Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 281.

I begin to smell a rat.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. chap. x.

[172:4] See Shakespeare, page [97].

[172:5] The better day, the worse deed.—Henry: Commentaries, Genesis iii.

[172:6] Worst comes to the worst.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iii. chap. v. Marston: The Dutch Courtezan, act iii. sc. 1.

[172:7] It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize.—Pope: The Iliad, book xxiii. line 383.

[172:8] Some undone widow sits upon mine arm.—Massinger: A New Way to pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1.