John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
180 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 180 |
| AUTHOR: | John Heywood (1497?–1580?) |
| QUOTATION: | Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| Note 1. The same in Don Quixote (Lockhart’s ed.), part i. book iii. chap. iv. John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress. John Fletcher: The Wild-Goose Chase, act iv. sc. 3. [back] |