John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
78 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 78 |
| AUTHOR: | John Heywood (1497?–1580?) |
| QUOTATION: | Look ere ye leape. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii. |
| Note 1. Look ere thou leap.—In Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557; and in Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Of Wiving and Thriving. 1573. Thou shouldst have looked before thou hadst leapt.—Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act v. sc 1. Look before you ere you leap.—Samuel Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. c. ii. l. 502. [back] |