Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Cry

The author raises mountains seeming full,
But all the cry produces little wool.
King.—Art of Cookery, Line 195; Swift, Prol. to a Play.

Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.
Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto I., Line 852.