A character in Crabbe’s Borough, who died playing cards.
“‘A vole! a vole!ʹ she cried, ‘ʹtis fairly won.
This said she, gently, with a single sigh,
Died as one taught and practised how to die.”
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Crabbe: Borough.
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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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