Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Hear
Hear me, for I will speak.
Must I give way and room to your rash choler?
Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?
Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 3. (Brutus to Cassius.)
Had I three ears I’d hear thee.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 1. (Macbeth to the Apparition.)
Pray hear what he says.
Swift.—Letter to Pope, August 30, 1716.