John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Miscellaneous. (continued) |
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Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix; Every other thirty-one Except the second month alone. |
Common in Chester County, Penn., among the Friends. |
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“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley,” Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. “Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.” 1 |
Common in Chester County, Penn., among the Friends. |
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There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies show; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. There cherries hang that none may buy, Till cherry ripe themselves do cry. |
An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard Alison. Oliphant’s “La Messa Madrigalesca,” p. 229.) |
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Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row; Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow. |
An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard Alison. Oliphant’s “La Messa Madrigalesca,” p. 229.) |
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A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island’s foes his grandsire won, Whose artful colour pass’d the Tyrian dye, Obliged to triumph in this legacy. 2 |
The British Princes, p. 96. (1669.) |
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When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? |
Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler’s Rebellion. 3 |
Note 1. I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.—2 Esdras xiv. 25. [back] |
Note 2. The oft-quoted lines,— A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won, have been ascribed to Blackmore, but suppressed in the later editions of his poems. [back] |
Note 3. Hume: History of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8. [back] |