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

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As the ancients

Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,[214:1]

And look before you ere you leap;[214:2]

For as you sow, ye are like to reap.[214:3]

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501.

Doubtless the pleasure is as great

Of being cheated as to cheat.[214:4]

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1.

He made an instrument to know

If the moon shine at full or no.