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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:136
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:While the grasse groweth the horse starveth. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Whylst grass doth grow, oft sterves the seely steede.—Whetstone: Promos and Cassandra. 1578.

While the grass grows—
The proverb is something musty.
William Shakespeare: Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. [back]
 

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