| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47428 |
| QUOTATION: | Sir Eglamour, that worthy knight, He took his sword and went to fight; And as he rode both hill and dale, Armed upon his shirt of mail, A dragon came out of his den, Had slain, God knows how many men! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Samuel Rowlands (1570?1630?), British poet. The Melancholy Knight (l. 16). . .
Faber Book of Nonsense Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, ed. (1979) Faber and Faber. |
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