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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

201 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:201
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
 
Note 1.
For buying or selling of pig in a poke.—Thomas Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. September Abstract. [back]