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Make three bites of a cherry.

Rabelais—Works. Bk. V. Ch. XXVIII.

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Many a smale maketh a grate.

Chaucer—Persones Tale.

3

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Cervantes—Don Quixote. Pt. II. Ch. XXXVII.

4

Mariana in the moated grange.

Tennyson. Motto for Mariana. Taken, from "There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana." Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc 1.

5

Mind your P's and Q's.

 Said to be due to the old custom of hanging up a slate in the tavern with P. and Q. (for pints and quarts), under which were written the names of customers and ticks for the number of "P's and Q's." Another explanation is that the expression referred to "toupees" (artificial locks of hair) and "queues" (tails).

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Moche Crye and no Wull.

Fortescue—De Laudibus Leg. Angliœ. Ch. X.

7

Much of a muchness.

Vanbrugh—The Provoked Husband. Sc. 1. Act I.

8

Needle in a bottle of hay.

Field—A Woman's a Weathercock. Reprint 1612. P. 20.

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Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Tom Browne—Æneus Sylvius. Letter. Dryden—Epilogue to Duke of Ouise. Marsden—History of Christian Churches. Vol. I. P. 267. In Sir John Mennes' (Mennis) Musarum Deliciœ. (1651) Thos. Nash—Lenten Stuff. (1599) Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany. Sir H. Sheres—Satyr on the sea officers. Rede me and be nott wrothe. I. III. (1528)

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No better than you should be.

Beaumont and Fletcher—The Coxcomb. Act IV. Sc.3.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Burton—Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt.I. Sec. II. Memb. 2. Subsect. 3.

Nought venter nought have.

Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI. Thos. Tusser—Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October's Extract. </poem>

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.

William Cobbett. Also Gilray Caricature. May 22, 1797, after the bank stopped cash payments, Feb. 26, 1797. Sheridan—Life by Walter Sichel. P. 16. Refers to the bank as an elderly lady in the city, of great credit and long standing, who had recently made a faux pas which was not altogether inexcusable.

14

On his last legs.

Thos. Middleton—The Old Law. Act V. Sc. 1.

One good turn deserves another.

Beaumont and Fletcher—Little French Lawyer. III. 2.

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Originality provokes originality.

Goethe.

Passing the Rubicon.

When he arrived at the banks of the Rubicon, which divides Cisalpine Gaul from the rest of Italy ... he stopped to deliberate. . . . At last he cried out: "The die is cast" and immediately passed the river.

Plutarch—Life of Julius Casar.

Performed to a T.

Rabelais—Works. Bk. IV. . Ch. LI. See also "Fitted, etc."

Pons Asinorum'.

The asses' bridge. Applied to Proposition 5 of the first book of , Euclid.

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Present company excepted.

O'Keeee—London Hermit. (1793) '

Push on—keep moving.

Thos. Morton—A Cure for the Heartache. • Act III. Scl. </poem>

Put himself upon his good behaviour.
Byron—Don Juan. Canto V. St. 47.
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Heywood—Dialogue of Wit and Folly. Pt. II. L. 263.
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Whither goest thou?
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Tusser—Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Washing.
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Scott—Rob Roy. Ch.XXIV.

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Set all at sixe and seven.

Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI. Chaucer—Troilus and Cresseide. L. 623. Also Tourneley Mysteries. 143. Morte Arture. MS. at Lincoln. Degeevant. (1279) Richard II. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 122.