"--_Warburton_.
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"It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in
their name to eat an oyster."--_Butler's Dyet's Dry Dinner_, 1599.
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"_Hobson's Choice_."
"Tobias Hobson was the first man in England that let out hackney
horses.--When a man came for a horse he was led into the stable, where
there was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which
stood next to the stable door; so that every customer was alike well
served according to his chance, from whence it became a proverb when
what ought to be your election was forced upon you, to say 'Hobson's
Choice.'"--_Spectator_, No. 509.
ADDENDA.
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SHAKESPEARE.
_Measure for Measure_. Act v. Sc. 1.
My business in this state
Made me a looker on here in Vienna.
_King Henry VI_. Part i. Act i, Sc. 1.
Hung be the heavens with black
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MILTON.
Sonnet xi. _To Cromwell_.
Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war.
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GEORGE HERBERT.
_The Elixir_.
A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps a room as for thy laws.
Makes that and the action fine.
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