Matthew Prior Quote

Abra was ready ere I called her name;
And though I called another, Abra came.


Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book ii, line 364; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came.

Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came.

Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came.

Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came.