John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Heywood. (1497?–1580?) (continued) |
| 72 |
| Let the world slide, 1 let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can’t pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low. |
| Be Merry Friends. |
| 73 |
| All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland. |
| The Green Willow. |
| 74 |
| Haste maketh waste. |
| Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii. |
| 75 |
| Beware of, Had I wist. 2 |
| Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii. |
| 76 |
| Good to be merie and wise. 3 |
| Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii. |
| 77 |
| Beaten with his owne rod. 4 |
| Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii. |
| 78 |
| Look ere ye leape. 5 |
| Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii. |
| 79 |
| He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay. 6 |
| Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii. |
| 80 |
| The fat is in the fire. 7 |
| Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii. |
| Note 1. Let the world slide.—Towneley Mysteries, p. 101 (1420). William Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, induc. 1. Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit without Money, act v. sc. 2. [back] |
| Note 2. A common exclamation of regret occurring in Spenser, Harrington, and the older writers. An earlier instance of the phrase occurs in the Towneley Mysteries. [back] |
| Note 3. ’T is good to be merry and wise.—Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act i. sc. 1. Robert Burns: Here ’s a health to them that ’s awa’. [back] |
| Note 4. don fust C’on kint souvent est-on batu. (By his own stick the prudent one is often beaten.) Roman du Renart, circa 1300. [back] |
| Note 5. Look ere thou leap.—In Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557; and in Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Of Wiving and Thriving. 1573. Thou shouldst have looked before thou hadst leapt.—Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act v. sc 1. Look before you ere you leap.—Samuel Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. c. ii. l. 502. [back] |
| Note 6. 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] |
| Note 7. All the fatt ’s in the fire.—Marston: What You Will. 1607. [back] |