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Show Some Famous Saylncs. From firyden comes "through thick and thin" and "nono but tho brave deserve the fair." Nathaniel I.eo an English dramatist of the seventeenth century, wrote "when Greeks Joined Greeks, then Wks a tug-of-war" our modern "a case of Greek meet Greek." Shakespeare, of course, has showered the moderns with household phrases. Matthew Prior of tho seventeenth century passed down to us "of two evils I bavo chosen tho least"; Byron gives us "as clear as a whistle"; Goldsmith, Gold-smith, "ask me no questions and I'll tell you no tlbs," and Cowper "not much the worso for wear." "Selling n bargain" and "fast and loose" comes from "Love's Labor Lost," and Pope's prologue to "Satires" gives "go snacks." "As good as a play" originated with King Charles when in parliament attending the discussion of a divorce bill, and Cowper exclaimed, exclaim-ed, "God made the country and man made the town." |