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A gold sovereign.
John did not starve the cause: there wanted not yellow-boys to fee counsel.”—Arbuthnot: John Bull.
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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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