| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 41403 |
| QUOTATION: | ‘Ye have robbed,’ said he, ‘ye have slaughtered and made an end,
Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead:
What will ye more of your guest and sometime friend?’
‘Blood for our blood,’ they said. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Henry Newbolt (1862–1938), British poet. He Fell among Thieves (l. 1–4). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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