“T is a very fine thing to be father-in-law
To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!”

— George Colman the Younger

Blue Beard, Act ii, Scene 5, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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English dramatist and writer 1762–1836

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Context: p>The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting,
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