John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Beaumont and Fletcher. (continued) |
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| From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot. 1 |
| The Honest Man’s Fortune. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 2233 |
| One foot in the grave. 2 |
| The Little French Lawyer. Act i. Sc. 1. |
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| Go to grass. |
| The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7. |
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| There is no jesting with edge tools. 3 |
| The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7. |
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| Though I say it that should not say it. |
| Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 2237 |
| I name no parties. 4 |
| Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 3. |
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| Whistle, and she ’ll come to you. 5 |
| Wit Without Money. Act iv. Sc. 4. |
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| Let the world slide. 6 |
| Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 2. |
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| The fit ’s upon me now! Come quickly, gentle lady; The fit ’s upon me now. |
| Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 4. |
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| He comes not in my books. 7 |
| The Widow. Act i. Sc. 1. |
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| Death hath so many doors to let out life. 8 |
| The Customs of the Country. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
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| Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman’s love Pity ’s the straightest. 9 |
| The Knight of Malta. Act i. Sc. 1. |
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| Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,— To which I leave him. |
| The False One. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| Note 1. See Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Quotation 21. [back] |
| Note 2. An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.—Plutarch: On the Training of Children. [back] |
| Note 3. It is no jesting with edge tools.—The True Tragedy of Richard III. (1594.) [back] |
| Note 4. The use of “party” in the sense of “person” occurs in the Book of Common Prayer, More’s “Utopia,” Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Fuller, and other old English writers. [back] |
| Note 5. Whistle, and I ’ll come to ye.—Robert Burns: Whistle, etc. [back] |
| Note 6. See Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 7. See Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Quotation 6. [back] |
| Note 8. See Webster, Quotation 1. [back] |
| Note 9. Pity’s akin to love.—Thomas Southerne: Oroonoka, act ii. sc. 1. Pity swells the tide of love.—Edward Young: Night Thoughts, night iii, line 107. [back] |