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" It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new. "
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 330
1871
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The court and times of James the first, illustrated by authentic and ...

Thomas Birch, Robert Folkestone Williams - 1848 - 526 pages
...the impression that Somerset had made upon him2. James knew well the value of the old proverb, " Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." Therefore, when it was clearly proved to him, on the 1 Halliwell. " Letters of Kings of England," vol....
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THE MIRROR MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

PERCY B. ST. JOHN - 1848 - 460 pages
...but the public is proverbially fickle, and too often reverses the old Scotch aphorism — " 'Tis well be off with the old love before you are on with the new." Miss Poole, though not an absolute Swedish nightingale, warbles as sweetly as any singing bird in the...
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Notes and Queries

1867 - 696 pages
...was then the custom for boys and young men, he played female characters.] QUOTATION-.— " It's good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Are these lines, commonly given in the above form, a modification of the old song — " It's gude to...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 54

1849 - 508 pages
...particular bore ! Not that I have the remotest expectancy of such a coup de bouheur. NB Remember, " Its well to be off with the old love before you are on with die new. " I think I hear la be U Blanche er claiming, indignantly, — " Olinto,* " E la fede degli...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 52

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1903 - 606 pages
...before they are certain that they have something better to offer. The old proverb, "Be sure you are off with the old love before you are on with the new," is one all too apt to be forgotten by the enthusiasts who are unable to distinguish the difference...
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Longbeard: Or, the Revolt of the Saxons ; A Romance

Charles Mackay - 1850 - 648 pages
...to London Bridge, where they dismounted at the house of Jordan the Tanner. CHAPTEE VIII. " It's good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old Song. BETAS FITZOSBEET was bom to be a hunter, his heart was ever in the wild woods " a chasing...
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The Old Oak Chest: A Tale of Domestic Life, Volume 3

George Payne Rainsford James - 1850 - 416 pages
...heart even now if you are quite, quite sure of its feelings. As the old Scotch song says, Martindale, ' It is well to be off with the old love Before you be on with the new.' " " That is unkind, Alice," said Martindale. " I never felt anything for Kate...
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The English republic, ed. by W.J. Linton, Volume 1

William James Linton - 1851 - 806 pages
...loser. Will the old Irish love still be paramount ? Then he is doubly Traitor. The song says sooth, * It is well to be off with the old love ' Before you are on with the new.' Twenty-one years ago a young man passed, like Meagher, from college to prison for his country's sake....
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The Ecclesiologist, Volume 9; Volume 12

1851 - 466 pages
...;' but I believe the modern reading of another proverb is now the most received — ' It's best not be off with the old love before you are on with the new,' and with the certainty we may now feel that we shall never be without many churches on our hands to...
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The Florist, Fruitist, and Garden Miscellany, Volume 2

1852 - 354 pages
...cannot perhaps be said that Florists do not conform to the advice conveyed in the song, that " 'Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new ;" but they certainly are very fickle in their loves, and can scarcely be said to even have an old...
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