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

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[210:3] See Skelton, page [8].

[210:4] See Bacon, page [170].

[211:1] See Heywood, page [11].

[211:2] See Middleton, page [172].

[211:3] See Fortescue, page [7].

[211:4] Bid the Devil take the slowest.—Prior: On the Taking of Namur.

Deil tak the hindmost.—Burns: To a Haggis.

[211:5] See Spenser, page [27].

[211:6] Sure as a gun.—Dryden: The Spanish Friar, act iii. sc. 2. Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iii. chap. vii.

[212:1] See Middleton, page [172].