It has been usual to catch a mouse or two (for form's sake) in public once a year.

On refusing the Laureateship

letter to William Mason, 19 December 1757; in H. W. Starr (ed.) Correspondence of Thomas Gray (1971) vol. 2

Thomas Gray Quotes

It has been usual to catch a mouse or two (for form's sake) in public once a year.

It has been usual to catch a mouse or two (for form's sake) in public once a year.

It has been usual to catch a mouse or two (for form's sake) in public once a year.

It has been usual to catch a mouse or two (for form's sake) in public once a year.