Footnotes
Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.
Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act v. sc. 3.
[20:2] Give an inch, he 'll take an ell.—Webster: Sir Thomas Wyatt.
[20:3] Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?—Herbert: The Size.
[20:4] Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. i. mem. iii.
[20:5] For buying or selling of pig in a poke.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. September Abstract.
[20:6] You have there hit the nail on the head.—Rabelais: bk. iii. ch. xxxi.
[20:7] Dives and Pauper, 1493. Gascoigne: Poesies, 1575. Pope: Horace, book i. Ep. vii. line 24. Fielding: Covent Garden Tragedy, act v. sc. 1. Bickerstaff: Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1.
[20:8] God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.—John Taylor: Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630). Ray: Proverbs. Garrick: Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation.
[21:1] On the authority of M. Cimber, of the Bibliothèque Royale, we owe this proverb to Chevalier Bayard: "Tel maître, tel valet."
Merry swithe it is in halle,
When the beards waveth alle.
Life of Alexander, 1312.
This has been wrongly attributed to Adam Davie. There the line runs,—
Swithe mury hit is in halle,
When burdes waiven alle.
[21:3] See Heywood, page [15].
[21:4] See Heywood, page [10]. Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5.
RICHARD EDWARDS. Circa 1523-1566.
The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.[21:5]
The Paradise of Dainty Devices.