John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Donne. (1572–1631) |
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| He was the Word, that spake it: He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it. 1 |
| Divine Poems. On the Sacrament. |
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| We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. |
| Funeral Elegies. On the Death of Mistress Drury. |
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| She and comparisons are odious. 2 |
| Elegy 8. The Comparison. |
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| Who are a little wise the best fools be. 3 |
| The Triple Fool. |
| Ben Jonson. (1572–1637) |
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| It was a mighty while ago. |
| Every Man in his Humour. Act i. Sc. 3. |
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| Hang sorrow! care ’ll kill a cat. 4 |
| Every Man in his Humour. Act i. Sc. 3. |
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| As he brews, so shall he drink. |
| Every Man in his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
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| Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means. 5 |
| Every Man in his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 3. |
| Note 1. Attributed by many writers to the Princess Elizabeth. It is not in the original edition of Donne, but first appears in the edition of 1654, p. 352. [back] |
| Note 2. See Fortescue, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 3. See Bacon, Quotation 18. [back] |
| Note 4. Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat.—George Wither: Poem on Christmas. [back] |
| Note 5. Get place and wealth,—if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. Alexander Pope: Horace, book i. epistle i. line 103. [back] |