gauntlet quotes

Every man is not a proper champion for truth, nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 6.

  God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in't.

-Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett
  Aurora Leigh, bk.2.

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