← Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

Philip Massinger. 1584-1640

Sir Thomas Overbury. 1581-1613.

In part to blame is she,

Which hath without consent bin only tride:

He comes to neere that comes to be denide.[193:4]

A Wife. St. 36.

Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,

And takes away the use of it;[194:1] and my sword,

Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears,

Will not be drawn.

A New Way to pay Old Debts. Act v. Sc. 1.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.[194:2]

A Very Woman. Act v. Sc. 4.

This many-headed monster.[194:3]

The Roman Actor. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Grim death.[194:4]

The Roman Actor. Act iv. Sc. 2.