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I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
Thomas Dekker
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For angling-rod he took a sturdy oake;For line, a cable that in storm ne’er broke;His hooke was such as heads the end of poleTo pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole;The hook was baited with a dragon’s tale,—And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.

william davenant

— Britannia Triumphans (1637; licensed Jan. 8, 1638; printed 1638), p. 15. Compare:"For angling rod he took a sturdy oak; / For line, a cable that in storm ne’er broke;... His hook was baited with a dragon’s tail,— / And then on rock he stood to bob for whale." From The Mock Romance, a rhapsody attached to The Loves of Hero and Leander, published in London in 1653 and 1677, republished in Chambers’s Book of Days, vol. i. p. 173; Samuel Daniel, Rural Sports, Supplement, p. 57."His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak;His line, a cable which in storms ne’er broke;His hook he baited with a dragon’s tail,—And sat upon a rock, and bobb’d for whale", William King (1663–1712), Upon a Giant’s Angling (in Chalmers’s British Poets, ascribed to King).

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We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.

thomas dekker

— The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act i. Sc. 2.

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Cleon hath a million acres,— ne’er a one have I;Cleon dwelleth in a palace, — in a cottage I.

charles mackay

— "Cleon and I".

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A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long.

thomas middleton

— Act i. Sc. 1. Compare: "So wise so young, they say, do never live long", William Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act iii. Sc. 1.

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On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne’er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

william watson

— World-Strangeness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Yet there was round thee such a dawnOf light, ne’er seen before,As fancy never could have drawn,And never can restore.

charles wolfe

— To Mary.

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Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne’er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

arthur hugh clough

— Youth and Age, st. 1.

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The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer I neer my Deer; Then stooping thence (seeming her fall to rew) Adieu (she saith) adieu, deer Deer, adieu.

guillaume de salluste du bartas

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Weekes and Workes, Fifth Day.

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I shall ne’er be 'ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it.


— Touchstone, Sc. iv (Act II)

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