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" "If thy heart fail thee, climb not at all," might be the ant's passionate outburst to the thistle, and the thistle's reply, instead of a Sir Walter and Queen Elizabeth couplet.

A small quantity of dragon’s blood is procured, wrapped in paper, and thrown on the fire whilst the following couplet or incantation is repeated:- “May he no pleasure or profit see, Till he comes back again to me”.

Of rue, which was largely used as a carminative, the following couplet has been handed down:- “Rue maketh chast, and eke preserveth sight, Infuseth wit, and Fleas doth put to flight”.

The oft-quoted couplet- "Shepherds, I have lost my waist; Have ye seen my body?

If, after the manner of a German commentator, I were to indulge in "prolegomena" about the history, statistics, and chemical analysis of Tea, I should soon overflow my limits; and I regard a painfully well-known couplet in which "tea" rhymes with "obey" as belonging to that class of quotations which no self-respecting writer can again resuscitate.

" Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.

Then Michael Angelo was by no means original in his couplet- 'Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun concetto Che un marmo solo in se non circunscriva.

" This couplet sends us back to an already famous passage in Omeros , in which women loading coal are compared to a line of ants--and so on.

If we had only that scene to go by we would never really know, and all because of a Puzzling Pronoun -or two! Oh, it can lead one to a rhymed couplet: He loves his brother and his wife, Does he live a double life?

My personal albatross is the couplet “Eight ever/Nine never” which has to do with taking a fitnesse in bridge, and how many cards my side has in the suit, to my partners' distress, I forget the finesse--against the king, or against the queen--to which the rule applies.

It is earliest recorded in 1908, in a couplet Arnold would have been proud to claim: The Manly maidens shoot the surf, Or bake their bingies on the shingly shore.

In addition to this, and by a choice that neither myself nor anyone else in Strasburg could believe was dictated by musical reasons, the German work chosen to end the evening was the final scene from Die Meistersinger, with its ringing couplet from Hans Sachs, in which he denounces foreign insincerity and foreign frivolity (Wälschen Dunst mit wälschen Tand).

" When Garrow, by a more skilful than successful cross-examination, was endeavoring to lure a witness (an unmarried lady of advanced years) into an acknowledgment that payment of certain money in dispute had been tendered, Jekyll threw him this couplet- "Garrow, forbear, that tough old jade Will never prove a tender maid.

Yeobright; and they turned towards the inn, known in the neighbourhood as the Quiet Woman, the sign of which represented the figure of a matron carrying her head under her arm, beneath which gruesome design was written the couplet so well known to frequenters of the inn:-- SINCE THE WOMAN'S QUIET LET NO MAN BREED A RIOT.

On what provocation Marsten thus censured his friend is unknown, but the practice has been too frequently pursued, so true is it, as Mr. Gay observes of the wits, that they are oft game cocks to one another, and sometimes verify the couplet.

All these are written in a stanza of six lines, four interwoven, and a couplet in base, which the Italians call Sestine Coelica, containing one hundred and nine sonnets of different measures.

They are not otherwise materially altered, than by the transposure of the rhimes in the first couplet, and the retrenchment of the measure in both.

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