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Brewer's: Piper that Played before Moses
(By the). Per tibicinem qm coram Mose modulatus est. This oath is from Tales in Blackwood [Magazine, May, 1838]: Father Tom and the Pope (name of the tale). (Notes and Queries, April 2, 1887, p. 276.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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