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"Wha wad ha' thocht it, That noses could ha' bought it!" It is just possible that the Fullers may have taken their motto from the words employed by Juvenal in describing the father of Demosthenes, who was a blacksmith and a sword-cutler "Quem pater ardentis massae fuligine lippus, A carbone et forcipibus gladiosque parante Incude et luteo Vulcano ad rhetora misit."
The thing in use amongst us of fighting with rapier and cloak was in practice amongst the Romans also: "Sinistras sagis involvunt, gladiosque distringunt,"
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