distich
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And boys of older growth may yet recall the simple distich: "It's Evacuation Day, when the British ran away, Please, dear Master, give us holiday!"
From "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale by James Riker
Somnus ut sit levis, sit tibi cœna brevis, is the ancient axiom of our distich, That your sleep may be light, Let your supper be slight.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Hence such sayings as the "Tota jacet Babylon" of the distich.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
These dates are given in the following memorial distich with a frank indifference to quantity and metre— “Vult Crux, Lucia, Cinis, Charismata dia Quod det vota pia quarta sequens feria.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
The following distich is used in this game: Higgory, diggory, digg'd, My sow has pigg'd.
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps
