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Swiss mercenaries. The king in Hamlet says, “Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door” (iv. 5).
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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.