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Lion-sick

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Sick of love, like the lion in the fable. (See Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3.)

 

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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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