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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).
We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.
thomas dekker— The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act i. Sc. 2.
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".
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
I shall ne’er be 'ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it.
— Touchstone, Sc. iv (Act II)
