/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Dole
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a portion allotted, is the Anglo-Saxon dál, a portion.
“Heaven has in store a precious dole.”
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Keble: Christian Year (4th Sunday after Trinity).
Happy man be his dole. May his share or lot be that of a happy or fortunate man.
“Wherein, happy man be his dole, 1 trust that I
Shall not speed worst, and that very quickly.”
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Damon and Pythias, i. 177.
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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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