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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:274
AUTHOR:Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
QUOTATION:Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid,
Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Amoretti, lxx.
 
Note 1.
Take Time by the forelock.—Thales (of Miletus). 636–546 B. C. [back]
 

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