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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Quicksilver
 
is argen’tum vivum (living silver) silver that moves about like a living thing. (Anglo-Saxon, cwicseolfor.)   1
       
“Swift as quicksilver
       
It courses through the natural gates
And alleys of the body.”
       
Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 5.
 


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