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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Pious

When pious frauds and holy shifts,
Are dispensations and gifts.
Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto III. Line 1145. Smith.—Phædra and Hyppolitus, Act II. Pope.—Eloisa and Abelard. Thomson.—Spring, Line 697. Churchill.—The Ghost, Book VIII. Dryden.—Baucis and Philemon. Rowe.—Lucan, Book III. Line 1141. Dryden.—Iphis and Ianthe, Book IX.; and Somerville.—Mahomet Ali Beg.