John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Miscellaneous. (continued) |
| 8371 |
| Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask’d; mercy I found. 1 |
| William Camden: Remains. |
| 8372 |
| Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me! Begone, dull Care! thou and I shall never agree. |
| Playford: Musical Companion. (1687.) |
| 8373 |
| Much of a muchness. |
| Vanbrugh: The Provoked Husband, Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 8374 |
| Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, The bed be blest that I lye on. |
| Thomas Ady: A Candle in the Dark, p. 58. (London 1656.) |
| 8375 |
| Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos, Vnum plus reliqui, Februs tenet octo vicenos, At si bissextus fuerit superadditur vnus. |
| William Harrison: Description of Britain (prefixed to Holinshed’s “Chronicle,” 1577). |
| 8376 |
| Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have xxxi. |
| Richard Grafton: Chronicles of England. (1590.) |
| 8377 |
| Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February has twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year,—that ’s the time When February’s days are twenty-nine. |
| The Return from Parnassus. (London, 1606.) |
| 8378 |
| Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. |
| Common in the New England States. |
| Note 1. Altered by Johnson (1783),— Between the stirrup and the ground, I mercy ask’d; I mercy found. [back] |