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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Black Joke

An old tune, now called The Sprig of Shillelagh. Tom Moore has adapted words to the tune, beginning, “Sublime was the warning which Liberty spoke.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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