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who would not lay it on the line
Posted by: seeker (---.sify.net)
Date: November 23, 2021 12:50PM
that's all i remember..
"who would not lay it on the line
to win or lose it all.."
it's either pope or arnold, or so i think..
Re: who would not lay it on the line
Posted by: ilza (200.162.243.---)
Date: November 23, 2021 03:24PM
could it be as follows ;
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.
- Sir William Francis Patrick Napier,
Montrose and the Covenanters--Montrose's Poems
(no. 1, vol. II, p. 566),
version of part of work by Marquis of Montrose
Re: who would not lay it on the line
Posted by: Tigermonkey (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: November 23, 2021 03:39PM
Re: who would not lay it on the line
Posted by: seeker (---.sify.net)
Date: November 24, 2021 01:24AM
wow. that is probably it. thanks so much for replying, ilza and tigermonkey..
now where did i come across montrose? 
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