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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:1995
AUTHOR:Thomas Middleton (1580–1627)
QUOTATION:I smell a rat. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Blurt, Master-Constable. Act iii. Sc. 3.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
I smell a rat.—Ben Jonson: Tale of a Tub, act iv. Sc. 3. Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 281.

I begin to smell a rat.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. chap. x. [back]
 

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