Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Degree
And though that I of auncestry
A baron’s daughter be,
Yet have you proved howe I you loved
A squyer of lowe degrè.
Anonymous.—The Nut-Browne Maid, 2 Percy Reliques, 28.
Yet was he but a squire of low degree.
Spenser.—Faerie Queen, Book IV. Canto VII. Stanza 15.
As in this world there are degrees of evils,
So in this world there are degrees of devils.
Webster.—The White Devil. (Flaminius to Brach.)