distich
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Percy discovered in the old metrical romance of “Sir Bevis of Southampton,” the very distich which Edgar had parodied.—Warton, iii.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
FitzGerald's verse was evidently also influenced by distich 1866 of the Mantik ut-tair.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
The distich "Nostra damus," &c. was the playful composition, according to La Monnoye, of the celebrated Genevan reformer Th�odore de B�ze.
The man, who was in the midst of his pea-and-thimble process, no sooner heard the last word of the distich, than he turned an alarmed look in the direction of where I stood.
From International Short Stories English by Various
A like popular distich about this later visitation is quoted by Adam of Murimuth: C ter erant mille decies sex unus, et ille, Luce tua Maure, vehemens fuit impetus aur�.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward