“Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 1
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall!”
Canto 8, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
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