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Bar-sur-Aube
(Prévot). Je ne voudrais pas être roi, si j'étais
prévot de Bar-sur-Aube (French). I should not care to be king, if
I were Provost of Bar-sur-Aube [the most lucrative and honourable of
all the provostships of France]. Almost the same idea is expressed in
the words
And often to our comfort we shall find,
The sharded beetle in a safer hold
Than is the full-winged eagle.
Almost to the same effect Pope says:
And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels,
Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels.
See Castle of Bungay.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bar-sur-Aube from Infoplease:
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