dots-menu
×

Home  »  Familiar Quotations  »  2003 Thomas Middleton 1580-1627 John Bartlett

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

2003 Thomas Middleton 1580-1627 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:2003
AUTHOR:Thomas Middleton (1580–1627)
QUOTATION:A flat case as plain as a pack-staff. 1
ATTRIBUTION:The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3.
 
Note 1.
Plain as a pike-staff.—Terence in English (1641). Buckingham: Speech in the House of Lords, 1675. Gil Blas (Smollett’s translation), book xii. chap. viii. John Byrom: Epistle to a Friend. [back]