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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

139 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:139
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Yee have many strings to your bowe. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
 
Note 1.
Two strings to his bow.—Richard Hooker: Polity, book v. chap. lxxx. George Chapman: D’ Ambois, act ii. sc. 3. Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part iii. canto i. line 1. Churchill: The Ghost, book iv. Henry Fielding: Love in Several Masques, sc. 13. [back]