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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:189
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Be the day never so long,
Evermore at last they ring to evensong. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Be the day short or never so long,
At length it ringeth to even song.
Quoted at the Stake by George Tankerfield (1555).
Fox: Book of Martyrs, chap. vii. p. 346. [back]
 

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