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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Snake
 
A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.
        Pope.—On Criticism, Line 356.		  1
We have scotch’d the snake, but not kill’d it.
        Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 2. (Macbeth to his Lady.)		  2
 
 
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