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

181 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:181
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Time trieth troth in every doubt. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
 
Note 1.
Time trieth truth.—Tottel’s Miscellany, reprint 1867, p. 221.

Time tries the troth in everything.—Thomas Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Author’s Epistle, chap. i. [back]