| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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“I had long supposed that chair-days, the beautiful name for those days of old age … was of Shakespeare’s own invention … but this is a mistake … the word is current in Lancashire still.”—Trench: English Past and Present, v. |
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| “In thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus |
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Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., act v. 2. |
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