"Pheasants are fools if they invite the hawk to dinner.
And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold."
—Shakespeare.
[182:B] On the other hand, the Portuguese warn those who do not want to be taken for wolves not to wear the skin: "Quem nao quer ser loubo nao che vista a pelle."
[184:A] "That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."—Shakespeare, King Henry V.
[185:A] As, for instance, in Gascoigne's "Steele Glas," 1575, where we read:
"Where favor sways the sentence of the law,
Where al is fishe that cometh to net."
"Contrary to reason ye stamp and ye stare,
Ye fret and ye fume, as mad as a March hare."—Heywood.
"Thou madde Marche hare."—Skelton, 1520.