distich

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A like popular distich about this later visitation is quoted by Adam of Murimuth: C ter erant mille decies sex unus, et ille, Luce tua Maure, vehemens fuit impetus aur�.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

The seven sciences of the accomplished gentleman were those so well known, comprised in the scholastic distich.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Furnished with the English letters corresponding to these symbols, one may, if sufficiently curious, translate each distich as one finds it.

From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden

March winds are proverbial, and the following distich is not uncommon in Yorkshire: March winds and April showers, Bring forth May flowers.

From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)

Percy discovered in the old metrical romance of “Sir Bevis of Southampton,” the very distich which Edgar had parodied.—Warton, iii.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac