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So says Dogberry. (Much Ado About Nothing, iii. 5.)
“We own your verses are melodious,
But then comparisons are odious.”
Swift Answer to Sheridan’s “Simile.”
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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.