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

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Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 490.

And force them, though it was in spite

Of Nature and their stars, to write.

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 647.

Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat![211:2]

Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 821.

Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.[211:3]

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 852.

And bid the devil take the hin'most.[211:4]