John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Heywood. (1497?–1580?) (continued) |
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| It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest. 1 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| 177 |
| Have yee him on the hip. 2 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| 178 |
| Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill. 3 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| 179 |
| It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare. 4 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| 180 |
| Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre. 5 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| 181 |
| Time trieth troth in every doubt. 6 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| 182 |
| Mad as a march hare. 7 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| 183 |
| Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of. 8 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| 184 |
| He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive. 9 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| 185 |
| Set the cart before the horse. 10 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| Note 1. See Skelton, Quotation 7. [back] |
| Note 2. I have thee on the hip.—William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1; Othello, act ii. sc. 7. [back] |
| Note 3. See Chaucer, Quotation 35. [back] |
| Note 4. A hardy mouse that is bold to breede In cattis eeris. Order of Foles. MS. circa 1450. [back] |
| Note 5. 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] |
| Note 6. 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] |
| Note 7. I saye, thou madde March hare.—John Skelton: Replycation against certayne yong scolers. [back] |
| Note 8. More water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of. William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, act ii. sc. 7. [back] |
| Note 9. An earlier instance of this proverb occurs in Heywood’s Johan the Husbande. 1533. He must needs go whom the devil drives.—William Shakespeare: All ’s Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 3. Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iv. chap. iv. Gosson: Ephemerides of Phialo. George Peele: Edward I. [back] |
| Note 10. Others set carts before the horses.—Francis Rabelais: book v. chap. xxii. [back] |