SBSamuel Butler

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Samuel Butler

Life dates: 1600 AD — 1680 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1640 AD

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

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02c. 1640 AD

Like feather bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.

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03c. 1640 AD

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

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04c. 1640 AD

Who thought he 'd won The field as certain as a gun.

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05c. 1640 AD

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

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06c. 1640 AD

I 'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.

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07c. 1640 AD

He had got a hurt O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.

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08c. 1640 AD

These reasons made his mouth to water.

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09c. 1640 AD

While the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.

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10c. 1640 AD

With mortal crisis doth portend My days to appropinque an end.

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11c. 1640 AD

For those that run away and fly, Take place at least o' the enemy.

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12c. 1640 AD

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

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13c. 1640 AD

Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.

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14c. 1640 AD

If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed.

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15c. 1640 AD

When pious frauds and holy shifts Are dispensations and gifts.

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16c. 1640 AD

Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last.

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17c. 1640 AD

Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site; Make former times shake hands with latter, And that which was before come after. But those that write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake; For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think 's sufficient at one time.

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18c. 1640 AD

Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow; Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.

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19c. 1640 AD

No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.

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20c. 1640 AD

Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers Say fools for arguments use wagers.

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21c. 1640 AD

Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns.

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22c. 1640 AD

For what is worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?

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23c. 1640 AD

Love is a boy by poets styl'd; Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

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24c. 1640 AD

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

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