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

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By mere mechanic operation.

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1495.

True as the dial to the sun,[215:1]

Although it be not shin'd upon.

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto ii. Line 175.

But still his tongue ran on, the less

Of weight it bore, with greater ease.

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto ii. Line 443.

For those that fly may fight again,

Which he can never do that 's slain.[215:2]