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QUOTATION:We have watered our houses in Helicon.
ATTRIBUTION:George Chapman (c. 1559–1634), British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Comedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1914). Lodovico, in May-Day, act 3, sc. 3, l. 9-10 (1611).

refers to a mountain-range in Boeotia (central Greece), sacred to the Muses. The line has often appeared with horses printed for “houses.”
 
 
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