JOHN FORTESCUE. Circa 1395-1485.
Moche Crye and no Wull.[7:4]
De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Chap. x.
Comparisons are odious.[7:5]
De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Chap. xix.
Footnotes
[7:4] All cry and no wool.—Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 852.
[7:5] Cervantes: Don Quixote (Lockhart's ed.), part ii. chap. i. Lyly: Euphues, 1580. Marlowe: Lust's Dominion, act iii. sc. 4. Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 3. Thomas Heywood: A Woman killed with Kindness (first ed. in 1607), act i. sc. 1. Donne: Elegy, viii. Herbert: Jacula Prudentum. Grange: Golden Aphrodite.
Comparisons are odorous.—Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 5.