Familiar Quotations Part 47

Part i. Canto i. Line 852

Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.

Part i. Canto ii. Line 633

And bid the devil take the hin'most, Which at this race is like to win most.

Part i. Canto ii. Line 831

With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.

Part i. Canto iii. Line 1

Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron.

Part i. Canto iii. Line 263

Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.

Part i. Canto iii. Line 309

H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.

Part i. Canto iii. Line 877

I am not now in fortune's power; He that is down can fall no lower.

Part i. Canto iii. Line 1367

Thou hast Outrun the Constable at last.

Part ii. Canto i. Line 29

For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think's sufficient at one time.

Part ii. Canto i. Line 465

For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring.

Part ii. Canto n. Line 29

The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn.

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 79

Have always been at daggers-drawing.

And one another clapper-clawing.

Part ii. Canto ii Line 503

And look before you ere you leap; For as you sow, y' are like to reap.

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1.

Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat.

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261.

He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no....

And prove that she's not made of green cheese.[6]

[Note 6: "The moon is made of a green cheese"

_Jack Jugler_, p. 46.]

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 580

You have a wrong sow by the ear.

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 923

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched.

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1067

As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honor 's lodged, As wise philosophers have judged, Because a kick in that place more Hurts honor than deep wounds before,

Part iii. Canto i. Line 3

As he that has two strings t' his bow.