Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Early English Proverbs: Chiefly of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries; With Illustrative Quotations
IF it be true, according to the proverb, that 'good wine needs no bush, ' there is not much necessity for a lengthy introduction to the present collection. I have Simply endeavoured to gather together such middle-english Proverbs as happen to have attracted my attention. I do not pretend that the collection is exhaustive, but it gives a fair idea of the use of proverbs in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, sufficient to Show that many of those with which we are Still familiar are met with at a rather early date. N 0 example has been admitted that is later than the year 1400.
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