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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Attributed; based on his circular letter to regimental commanders, 30 April 1777<br />

11.24 Ned Washington<br />

Hi diddle dee dee (an actor’s life for me).<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> song (1940)<br />

When you wish upon a star.<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> song (1940)<br />

11.25 Rowland Watkyns fl.1662<br />

I love him not, but shew no reason can<br />

Wherefore, but this,I do not love the man.<br />

‘Antipathy’.<br />

For every marriage then is best in tune,<br />

When that the wife is May, the husband June.<br />

‘To the most Courteous and Fair Gentlewoman, Mrs Elinor Williams’<br />

11.26 William Watson c.1559-1603<br />

Fiat justitia et ruant coeli.<br />

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.<br />

‘A Decacordon <strong>of</strong> Ten Quodlibeticall Questions Concerning Religion and State’ (1602) (first citation in an<br />

English work <strong>of</strong> a famous maxim).<br />

11.27 Sir William Watson 1858-1935<br />

April, April,<br />

Laugh thy girlish laughter;<br />

<strong>The</strong>n, the moment after,<br />

Weep thy girlish tears!<br />

‘Song’<br />

<strong>The</strong>se and a thousand tricks and ways and traits<br />

I noted as <strong>of</strong> Demos at their root,<br />

And foreign to the staid, conservative<br />

Came-over-with-the Conqueror type <strong>of</strong> mind.<br />

‘A Study in Contrasts’<br />

11.28 Isaac Watts 1674-1748<br />

One sickly sheep infects the flock,<br />

And poisons all the rest.<br />

‘Against Evil Company’ from ‘Divine Songs for Children’ (1715)<br />

How doth the little busy bee<br />

Improve each shining hour,<br />

And gather honey all the day

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