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Woe to Thee, O Land

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when thy king is a child. This famous sentence is from Ecclesiastes x. 6. Often quoted in Latin, Væ terris ubi rex est puer.

 

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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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Within the Pale
Witney (Oxfordshire)
Wittington
Witwold
Wives of Literary Men
Wo
Woo or Wooe
Woosh
Woo-tee Dynasty
Woden
Woe to Thee, O Land
Woful
Wokey
Wolf (in music)
Wolf
Wolf
Wolf Men
Wolf-month or Wolf-monath
Wolf’s-bane
Wolves
Wonder