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An English heroine, who has immortalised her name by her valour at the siege of Ghent, in 1584. Her name is a proverbial one for a woman of heroic spirit.
“My daughter will be valiant,
And prove a very Mary Ambry iʹ the business.”
Ben Jonson: Tale of a Tub, i. 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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