Guards of the Pole
.The two stars β and γ in the Great Bear. Shakespeare, in Othello, ii. 1, refers to them where he says, the surge seems “to quench the guards of the ever-fixéd pole.”
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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.