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When the goodman mends his armor

Quote byThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay · 1800–1859

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), Horatius, st. 70.

English (original)

When the goodman mends his armor, And trims his helmet's plume; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

1480

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