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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Bag and Baggage

Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat, though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act III. Scene 2. (Touchstone to Corin.)

It will let in and out the enemy,
With bag and baggage.
Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act I. Scene 2. (Leontes to himself.)

Take her to yourselves, with pigs and with basket.
Riley’s Plautus.—Vol. II. The Mercator, Act V. Scene 4.

[Analogous to our phrases, “bag and baggage,” “stump and rump.”]