Brewer's: Live

He lived like a knave, and died like a fool. Said by Bishop Warburton of Henry Rich, first Earl of Holland, the turncoat. He went to the scaffold dressed in white satin, trimmed with silver.

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