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Dole

,

a portion allotted, is the Anglo-Saxon dál, a portion.        

Heaven has in store a precious dole.”

1


Keble: Christian Year (4th Sunday after Trinity).

Happy man be his dole. May his share or lot be that of a happy or fortunate man.        

“Wherein, happy man be his dole, 1 trust that I

Shall not speed worst, and that very quickly.”

2


Damon and Pythias, i. 177.

 

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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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