Ear. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

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

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Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3. (Polonius to Laertes.)	1
Bosom up my counsel, You’ll find it wholesome. Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act I. Scene 1. (Northumberland to Buckingham.)	2
One ear it heard, at the other out it went. Chaucer.—Troilus and Cressida, Book IV. Line 35.	3
Make not my ear a stranger to thy thoughts. Addison.—Cato, Act II.	4
For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and yet there are five years, in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. Genesis, Chap. xlv. Ver. 6.	5
The oxen likewise, and the young asses that ear the ground, shall eat clean provender. Isaiah, Chap. xxx. Ver. 24.	6
I have, God wot, a largë field to ear; And weakë be the oxen in my plough. Chaucer.—The Knight’s Tale, Line 888.	7
He that ears my land spares my team, and gives me leave to in the crop. Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act I. Scene 3. (Clown to the Countess.)	8
Let them go To ear the land that hath some hope to grow, For I have none. Shakespeare.—King Richard II., Act III. Scene 2. (The King to Aumerle.)	9