John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Heywood. (1497?–1580?) (continued) |
| 186 |
| The moe the merrier. 1 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| 187 |
| To th’ end of a shot and beginning of a fray. 2 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| 188 |
| It is better to be An old man’s derling than a yong man’s werling. |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| 189 |
| Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong. 3 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| 190 |
| The moone is made of a greene cheese. 4 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| 191 |
| I know on which side my bread is buttred. |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| 192 |
| It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone. 5 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii. |
| 193 |
| Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee That wilfully will neither heare nor see? 6 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix. |
| 194 |
| The wrong sow by th’ eare. 7 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix. |
| 195 |
| Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother. 8 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix. |
| 196 |
| Love me, love my dog. 9 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix. |
| Note 1. Gascoigne: Roses, 1575. Title of a Book of Epigrams, 1608. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Scornful Lady, act i. sc. 1; The Sea Voyage, act i. sc. 2. [back] |
| Note 2. To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast.—William Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act iv. sc. 2. [back] |
| Note 3. Be the day short or never so long, At length it ringeth to even song. Quoted at the Stake by George Tankerfield (1555). Fox: Book of Martyrs, chap. vii. p. 346. [back] |
| Note 4. Jack Jugler, p. 46. Francis Rabelais: book i. chap xi. Blackloch: Hatchet of Heresies, 1565. Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part ii. canto iii. line 263. [back] |
| Note 5. What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.—Pilpay: The Two Fishermen, fable xiv. It will never out of the flesh that ’s bred in the bone.—Ben Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, act i. sc. 1. [back] |
| Note 6. None so deaf as those that will not hear.—Mathew Henry: Commentaries. Psalm lviii. [back] |
| Note 7. He has the wrong sow by the ear.—Ben Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, act ii. sc. 1. [back] |
| Note 8. See Chaucer, Quotation 47. [back] |
| Note 9. George Chapman: Widow’s Tears, 1612. A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard was, Qui me amat, amet et canem meum (Who loves me will love my dog also).—Sermo Primus. [back] |