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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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SUCKLING: _On a Wedding._

Come and trip it as you go
On the light fantastic toe.
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MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 33.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined!
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet,
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
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BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 22.

You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet,
Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?
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BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto iii., St. 86. 10.


=Danger.=

He that stands upon a slippery place,
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.
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SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
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SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.
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