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This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself.
[Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;
Quand on l'attaque il se defend.]
Topic: Animals
Source: La Menagerie, a song
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Old Rose is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear an old blue coat
All buttoned down before.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Old Rose (pt. I, ch. II), song referred to in Izaak Walton's "Compleat Angler"
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When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Old Rose (pt. I, ch. II), song referred to in Izaak Walton's "Compleat Angler"
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I'd just as soon a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why;
A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,
Nor be half so happy as I.
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Let the back and side go bare.
Topic: Beggary
Source: Old English Folk Song--Folk Songs from Somerset, by Cecil Sharpe
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The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
That all the year eats neither partridge not quail,
But sets up his rest and makes up his feast,
With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale.
Topic: Eating
Source: Old English Song, from "An Antidote Against Melancholy"
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Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all
evils.
[Lat., Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque fomes omnium
malorum.]
Topic: Eating
Source: Old English Song, from "An Antidote Against Melancholy"
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Over the hills and o'er the main,
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
Queen Anne commands and we'll obey,
Over the hills and far away.
Topic: Mountains
Source: The Merry Companion (song 173, p. 149)
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When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on,
He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.
"With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in,
'Twill be warm and convanient," said Bryan O'Lynn.
Topic: Nonsense
Source: Old Irish Song
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There's a skin without and a skin within,
A covering skin and a lining skin,
But the skin within is the skin without
Doubled and carried complete throughout.
Topic: Nonsense
Source: Old Irish Song
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Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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A bitter drug oft brings relief.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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A credulous thing is love.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man
sickens.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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An injury may prove a blessing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested
in adversity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: war song, popular in England (1919)
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St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France.
Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
Topic: Royalty
Source: Black-letter Ballad, London, 1512
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In good King Charles's golden days
When royalty no harm meant,
A zealous high-churchman was I,
And so I got preferment.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Vicar of Bray, written before 1710
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