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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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to speak some languages that is not their native...their parents take more care <strong>of</strong> their feet than<br />

their head, more <strong>of</strong> their words than their reason.<br />

‘Sociable Letters’ (1664) p. 50<br />

3.58 Count Cavour (Camillo Benso di Cavour) 1810-61<br />

Noi siamo pronti a proclamare nell’ Italia questo gran principio: Libera Chiesa in libero Stato.<br />

We are ready to proclaim throughout Italy this great principle: a free church in a free state.<br />

Speech, 27 March 1861, in William de la Rive ‘Reminiscences <strong>of</strong> the Life and Character <strong>of</strong> Count<br />

Cavour’ (1862) ch. 13<br />

3.59 William Caxton c.1421-91<br />

<strong>The</strong> worshipful father and first founder and embellisher <strong>of</strong> ornate eloquence in our English, I<br />

mean Master Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Chaucer.<br />

Caxton’s edition (c.1478) <strong>of</strong> Chaucer’s translation <strong>of</strong> Boethius ‘De Consolacione Philosophie’ epilogue<br />

It is notoriously known through the universal world that there be nine worthy and the best that<br />

ever were. That is to wit three paynims, three Jews, and three Christian men. As for the paynims<br />

they were...the first Hector <strong>of</strong> Troy...the second Alexander the Great; and the third Julius Caesar...<br />

As for the three Jews...the first was Duke Joshua...the second David, King <strong>of</strong> Jerusalem; and the<br />

third Judas Maccabaeus...And sith the said Incarnation...was first the noble Arthur...<strong>The</strong> second<br />

was Charlemagne or Charles the Great...and the third and last was Godfrey <strong>of</strong> Bouillon.<br />

Sir Thomas Malory ‘Le Morte D’Arthur’ (1485) prologue<br />

I, according to my copy, have done set it in imprint, to the intent that noble men may see and<br />

learn the noble acts <strong>of</strong> chivalry, the gentle and virtuous deeds that some knights used in those<br />

days.<br />

Sir Thomas Malory ‘Le Morte D’Arthur’ (1485) prologue<br />

3.60 William Cecil (Lord Burghley) 1520-98)<br />

What! all this for a song?<br />

To Queen Elizabeth, on being ordered to make a gratuity <strong>of</strong> £100 to Spenser in return for some poems, in<br />

Edmund Spenser ‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queene’ (1751) ‘<strong>The</strong> Life <strong>of</strong> Mr Edmund Spenser’ by Thomas Birch<br />

3.61 Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1547-1616<br />

El Caballero de la Triste Figura.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Knight <strong>of</strong> the Doleful Countenance.<br />

‘Don Quixote’ (1605) pt. 1, ch. 19<br />

La mejor salsa del mundo es el hambre.<br />

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.<br />

‘Don Quixote’ (1605) pt. 2, ch. 5<br />

El pan comido y la compañía deshecha.<br />

With the bread eaten up, up breaks the company.

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