Gary Thompson wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2:01 pm, d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David DeLaney) wrote:
>> Gary Thompson <quux...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> For over 60 years, there have been two "lost" citations from chapter
>>> XII of E. R. Eddison's _Fish Dinner in Memison_. He couldn't remember
>>> where he got the quotes from, and Paul Edmond Thomas apparently
>>> couldn't find them either when we was compiling the annotated version
>>> for Dell.
>>> Took me two minutes. Though without Google Books, I still wouldn't
>>> have found one of them.
>> ... so GIVE already.
>>
>> Dave "put them out here where only Google Groups will be needed, for
future
>> netgenerations" DeLaney
>
> "[T]Here ripes the rare cheer-cheek Myrobalan" - Joshua Sylvester, The
> Schisme, 697.
>
> "From Women light and lickerous" - Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of
> the French and English Tongues, 1611. [De femme volage, & friande, En
> tout temps bon heur nous defende:] [Pro.] From women light, and
> lickorous, good fortune still deliuer vs.
Tucked that away in my copy.
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