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

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Prohibited degrees of kin;

And therefore no true saint allows

They shall be suffer'd to espouse.

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1293.

Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick,

Though he gave his name to our Old Nick.

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1313.

With crosses, relics, crucifixes,

Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,—

The tools of working our salvation