Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, act ii. sc. 7.

[18:9] An earlier instance of this proverb occurs in Heywood's Johan the Husbande. 1533.

He must needs go whom the devil drives.—Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 3. Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iv. chap. iv. Gosson: Ephemerides of Phialo. Peele: Edward I.

[18:10] Others set carts before the horses.—Rabelais: book v. chap. xxii.

[19:1] Gascoigne: Roses, 1575. Title of a Book of Epigrams, 1608. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Scornful Lady, act i. sc. 1; The Sea Voyage, act i. sc. 2.

[19:2] To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast.—Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act iv. sc. 2.

[19:3]

Be the day short or never so long,

At length it ringeth to even song.

Quoted at the Stake by George Tankerfield (1555).