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

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Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 257.

Why should not conscience have vacation

As well as other courts o' th' nation?

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 317.

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He that imposes an oath makes it,

Not he that for convenience takes it;

Then how can any man be said

To break an oath he never made?

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 377.