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William Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well, Epilogue
EpilogueKingThe king's a beggar, now the play is done: All is well ended, if this suit be won, That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day: Ours…Brewer's: Oswald's Well
commemorates the death of Oswald, Christian king of Northumbria, who fell in battle before Penda, pagan king of Mercia, in 642. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Truth in a Well
This expression is attributed both to Cleanthes and to Democritos the derider. “Naturam accusa, quæ in profundo veritatem (ut ait Democritus) peuitus abstruserit.” —Cicero: Academics, i.…Brewer's: Sadler's Wells
(London). There was a well at this place called Holy Well, once noted for “its extraordinary cures.” The priests of Clerkenwell Priory used to boast of its virtues. At the Reformation it…Brewer's: Artesian Wells
So called from Artesium (the Latin for Artois), in France, where they were first bored. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Artful DodgerArtemus Ward A B C D…Brewer's: Mimer's Well
A well in which all wisdom lay concealed. It was at the root of the celestial ash-tree. Mimer drank thereof from the horn Gjallar. Odin gave one of his eyes to be permitted to drink of its…Brewer's: Fare Well
(To). You cannot fare well but you must cry out roast meat. Don't blazon your good fortune on the house-top. “Sorex suo perit indicio.” Terence has the same idea: “Egomet meo indicio miser…Brewer's: Well-beloved
Charles VI. of France, le Bien-aimé. (1368, 1380-1422.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Well-founded DoctorWell Begun…Brewer's: Well of Samaria
now called Nablûs, is seventy-five feet deep. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Well of WisdomWell of St. Keyne A B C…Brewer's: Well of Wisdom
This was the well under the protection of the god Mimir (q.v.). Odin, by drinking thereof, became the wisest of all beings. (Scandinavian…Trending
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