Bar-sur-Aube (Prévot)
. Je ne coudrais pas être roi, si jʹétais prévot de Bar-sur-Aube (French). I should not care to be king. if I were Provost of Bar-sur-Aube [the most lucrative and honourable of all the provostships of France]. Almost the same idea is expressed in the words
“And often to our comfort we shall find,
The sharded beetle in a safer hold
Than is the full-winged eagle.”
Almost to the same effect Pope says:
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.