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“And raw in fields the rude militia swarms, Mouths without hands; maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever but in times of need at hand.”
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- Source:
- Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 400.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 58cff28c2aa55f816dc923eb7336b831c67b7dbad897e368b7137632b186f8a3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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