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 iii. Line 261.

Each window like a pill'ry appears,

With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears.

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 391.

To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,

And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd.

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 923.

There 's but the twinkling of a star

Between a man of peace and war.

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 957.