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

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If he that in the field is slain

Be in the bed of honour lain,

He that is beaten may be said

To lie in honour's truckle-bed.

Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1047.

When pious frauds and holy shifts

Are dispensations and gifts.

Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1145.

Friend Ralph, thou hast

Outrun the constable[212:3] at last.