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

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Fear not to touch the best,

The truth shall be thy warrant:

Go, since I needs must die,

And give the world the lie.

The Lie.

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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.[26:1]

Verses to Edmund Spenser.

Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout,

Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.