Mere jingles or rhymes. Knives had, at one time, a distich inscribed on the blade by means of aqua fortis.
“Whose posy was
For all the world like cutler’s poetry
Upon a knife.”
Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, v 1.
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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.
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