Fife Quotes 

Art, thou hast many infamies, But not an infamy like this. O snap the fife and still the drum And show the monster as she is.
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He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realize,' he said 'The bitterness of life!'


— 1889  Sylvie and Bruno, ch.5.

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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

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— Old Mortality, Chap. xxxiv.

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Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.

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— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act III, scene 3, line 349.

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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name .

walter scott

— Walter Scott, On Mortality, Chapter XXXIV. Introductory Stanza. Recently discovered in The Bee, Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791. Said to have been written by Major Mordaunt. Whole poem reproduced in Literary Digest, Sept. 11, 1920, P. 38

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The vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife.


— Shylock, scene v

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