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

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Still amorous and fond and billing,

Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 687.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?

About two hundred pounds a year.

And that which was prov'd true before

Prove false again? Two hundred more.

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1277.

'Cause grace and virtue are within