Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
“The grey mare is the better horse.”
Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What mare's nest hast thou found?”
Act IV, scene 2.
The Tragedy of Bonduca (1611–14; published 1647)
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.”
Second Week, Third Day, Part i. Compare: "As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Section 2, Membrane 2, Subsection 2.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“I love the girl with golden hair
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare.”
"Tennessee Stud" (1958)
Context: Pretty little baby on the cabin floor
Little hoss colt playin' 'round the door
I love the girl with golden hair
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare.
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.”
"The Amber Bead" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100.
Hesperides (1648)
“Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
