"O tempora, O mores."
3. "Michæl Skinner Senex centum et trium annorum sepultus fuit die
sancti Johannis, viz. Dec. 27, 1673."
EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun.
Bottesford Moors, Kirton Lindsey.
"_All my Eye._"--"_Over the Left._"
"What benefit a Popish successor can reap from lives and fortunes spent
in defence of the Protestant religion, he may put in his eye: and what
the Protestant religion gets by lives and fortunes spent in the service
of a Popish successor, will be over the left shoulder."--Preface to
_Julian the Apostate_: London, printed for Langley Curtis, on Ludgate
Hill. 1682.
Is this passage the origin of the above cant phrases?