John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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NUMBER: | 2035 |
AUTHOR: | John Donne (15721631) |
QUOTATION: | He was the Word, that spake it: He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it. 1 |
ATTRIBUTION: | Divine Poems. On the Sacrament. |
| Note 1. Attributed by many writers to the Princess Elizabeth. It is not in the original edition of Donne, but first appears in the edition of 1654, p. 352. [back] |
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