Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. We Left Our Country for Our Country’s Good.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

We Left Our Country for Our Country’s Good.

We are transported convicts. The line occurs in a prologue written by George Barrington (a notorious pickpocket) for the opening of the first playhouse at Sydney, in Australia, 16th January, 1796.

“True patriots we, for be it understood,

We left our country for our country’s good.”

We Three.

Weak as Water.

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