Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Shirt

Close sits my shirt but closer my skin.

He that has more smocks than shirts in a bucking,
Had need be a man of good forelooking.Chaucer.

He that has no shirt wishes every day for ten yards of cloth.Turkish.

My shirt is nearer than my cloak.Dutch.

Near is my shirt but nearer is my skin.

The shirt is nearer than the doublet.Italian, Spanish, Danish.