Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

To robbe Peter and pay Poule.[14:5]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

A man may well bring a horse to the water,

But he cannot make him drinke without he will.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.[14:6]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.[14:7]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.