“What though the field be lost? all is not lost.” (Milton: Paradise Lost, i. line 105–6.)
“All is lost but honour” (Tout est perdu, madame, fors lʹhonneur) is what Francois I. is said to have written to his mother, after the Battle of Pavia in 1525.
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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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