John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
1995 Thomas Middleton 1580-1627 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 1995 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) |
| QUOTATION: | I smell a rat. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Blurt, Master-Constable. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| Note 1. I smell a rat.—Ben Jonson: Tale of a Tub, act iv. Sc. 3. Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 281. I begin to smell a rat.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. chap. x. [back] |