[14-3] Þet coc is kene on his owne mixenne.--_Þe Ancren Riwle. Circa 1250._
[14-4] The stone that is rolling can gather no moss.--TUSSER: _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry._
A rolling stone gathers no moss.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 524._ GOSSON: _Ephemerides of Phialo._ MARSTON: _The Fawn._
Pierre volage ne queult mousse (A rolling stone gathers no moss).--_De l'hermite qui se désespéra pour le larron que ala en paradis avant que lui_, 13th century.
[14-5] To rob Peter and pay Paul is said to have derived its origin when, in the reign of Edward VI., the lands of St. Peter at Westminster were appropriated to raise money for the repair of St. Paul's in London.
[14-6] You know that love Will creep in service when it cannot go.
SHAKESPEARE: _Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. sc. 2._
[14-7] Shakespeare alludes to this proverb in _Macbeth_:--
Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Like the poor cat i' the adage.
Cat lufat visch, ac he nele his feth wete.--_MS. Trinity College, Cambridge, circa 1250._
[14-8] Whylst grass doth grow, oft sterves the seely steede.--WHETSTONE: _Promos and Cassandra. 1578._
While the grass grows-- The proverb is something musty.
[15-1] An earlier instance occurs in Heywood, in his "Dialogue on Wit and Folly," _circa_ 1530.
[15-2] Two strings to his bow.--HOOKER: _Polity, book v. chap. lxxx._ CHAPMAN: _D'Ambois, act ii. sc. 3._ BUTLER: _Hudibras, part iii. canto i. line 1._ CHURCHILL: _The Ghost, book iv._ FIELDING: _Love in Several Masques, sc. 13._
[15-4] Naught venture naught have.--TUSSER: _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October Abstract._
[15-5] 'T is an old saw, Children and fooles speake true.--LYLY: _Endymion._
[15-6] Set all on sex and seven.--CHAUCER: _Troilus and Cresseide, book iv. line 623_; also _Towneley Mysteries_.
At six and seven.--SHAKESPEARE: _Richard II. act ii. sc. 2._
[15-7] All 's fish they get that cometh to net.--TUSSER: _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. February Abstract._
Where all is fish that cometh to net.--GASCOIGNE: _Steele Glas. 1575._
[15-8] Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.--BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
[15-9] This phrase derives its origin from the custom of certain manors where tenants are authorized to take fire-bote _by hook or by crook_; that is, so much of the underwood as many be cut with a crook, and so much of the loose timber as may be collected from the boughs by means of a hook. One of the earliest citations of this proverb occurs in John Wycliffe's _Controversial Tracts, circa 1370_.--See Skelton, page 8. RABELAIS: _book v. chap. xiii._ DU BARTAS: _The Map of Man._ SPENSER: _Faerie Queene, book iii. canto i. st. 17._ BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Women Pleased, act. i. sc. 3._