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Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Nine. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Nine, five, and three are mystical numbersthe diapason, diapente, and diatrion of the Greeks. |
 | | If a servant finds nine green peas in a peascod, she lays it on the lintel of the kitchen door, and the first man that enters in is to be her cavalier. |
 | | The nine are: (1) Mercury, (2) Venus, (3) Earth, (4) Mars, (5) the Planetoids, (6) Jupiter, (7) Saturn, (8) Ur nus, (9) Neptune. |
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