Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Last
Though last, not least in love yours.
Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 1. (Antony to the Conspirators.) Burns, Prol. to New-Year’s Day. Collins, Ode to Liberty.
Although our last and least.
Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act I. Scene 1. (Lear to his Daughter Cordelia.)
And there, though last, not least.
Spenser.—Colin Clout, Line 444.