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

145 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:145
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Set all at sixe and seven. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
 
Note 1.
Set all on sex and seven.—Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Cresseide, book iv. line 623; also Towneley Mysteries.

At six and seven.—William Shakespeare: Richard II. act ii. sc. 2. [back]