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:

“And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels,

Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels.”

⁂ See Castle of Bungay.

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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.

Bar-sur-Aube (Prévot)

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