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

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Life of Alexander, 1312.

This has been wrongly attributed to Adam Davie. There the line runs,—

Swithe mury hit is in halle,

When burdes waiven alle.

[21:3] See Heywood, page [15].

[21:4] See Heywood, page [10]. Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5.

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RICHARD EDWARDS.  Circa 1523-1566.

The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.[21:5]

The Paradise of Dainty Devices.