John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Heywood. (1497?–1580?) (continued) |
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| An ill winde that bloweth no man to good. 1 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix. |
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| For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell. 2 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix. |
| 199 |
| Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake? 3 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix. |
| 200 |
| Every man for himselfe and God for us all. 4 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix. |
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| Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke. 5 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix. |
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| This hitteth the naile on the hed. 6 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi. |
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| Enough is as good as a feast. 7 |
| Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi. |
| Thomas Tusser. (c. 1515–1580) |
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| God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. 8 |
| Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. |
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| Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good. |
| A Description of the Properties of Wind. |
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| At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. |
| The Farmer’s Daily Diet. |
| Note 1. Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol? Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good. William Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act v. sc. 3. [back] |
| Note 2. Give an inch, he ’ll take an ell.—John Webster: Sir Thomas Wyatt. [back] |
| Note 3. Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?—George Herbert: The Size. [back] |
| Note 4. Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.—Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. i. mem. iii. [back] |
| Note 5. For buying or selling of pig in a poke.—Thomas Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. September Abstract. [back] |
| Note 6. You have there hit the nail on the head.—Francis Rabelais: bk. iii. ch. xxxi. [back] |
| Note 7. Dives and Pauper, 1493. Gascoigne: Poesies, 1575. Alexander Pope: Horace, book i. Ep. vii. line 24. Henry Fielding: Covent Garden Tragedy, act v. sc. 1. Isaac Bickerstaff: Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1. [back] |
| Note 8. God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.—John Taylor: Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630). Ray: Proverbs. David Garrick: Epigram on Goldsmith’s Retaliation. [back] |