“Villain, a horse--
Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly,
To swim the river, villain, and to fly.”

—  George Peele

Battle of Alcazar (acted 1588-1589, printed 1594), act V, l:104, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Published anonymously, but attributed with much probability to Peele.

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