“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Trouble rides behind and gallops with him.”
Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.
Épitres (1701) V, 44
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