John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
79 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 79 |
| AUTHOR: | John Heywood (1497?–1580?) |
| QUOTATION: | He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii. |
| Note 1. He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. iii. sec. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5. He that wold not when he might, He shall not when he wolda. The Baffled Knight. Thomas Percy: Reliques. [back] |