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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Finger

No man’s pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.
Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act I. Scene 1. (Buckingham.)

In faith I’ll break thy little finger, Harry,
An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.
Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part I. Act II. Scene 3. (Lady Percy to Hotspur.)