distich
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This distich is said by a boy who feels very lazy, yet wishes to exert himself.
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps
Coleridge also translated from Schiller the well-known distich describing and exemplifying the elegiac verse of Ovid: "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back."
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
It gave rise to a taunting distich similar to the one at Arlesey.
From Literary Byways by William Andrews
He is again mentioned by Meres for his distich on king James's Furies & Lepanto. fol.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Thomas Warton
FitzGerald's verse was evidently also influenced by distich 1866 of the Mantik ut-tair.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
