James Smith. 1640
He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.[24]
[Note 24: See Butler--Hudibras, _ante_, p. 125.]
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RICHARD GRAFTON.
_Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande_. 1570. 8vo.
"A rule to knowe how many dayes euery moneth in the yeare hath."
Thirty dayes hath Nouember,
Aprill, June, and September,
February hath xxviii alone,
And all the rest have xxxi.
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_The Return from Parnassus_. 4to. London. 1606.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,
February eight-and-twenty all alone,
And all the rest have thirty-one;
Unless that leap year doth combine,
And give to February twenty-nine.
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_Lines used by Joint Hall, in encourage the
Rebels in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's
History of England_, Vol. I. Chap. 17.
Note i.
When Adam dolve, and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?
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_From the Garland, a Collection of Poems_.
1721, by Mr. Br--st, author of a Copy of
Verses called "The British Beauties."
Praise undeserved is Satire in disguise.[25]
[Note 25: This line is quoted by Pope, in the 1st Epistle of
Horace, Book ii,--"Praise undeserved is _Scandal_ in disguise.
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