Chapter 6

[18-3] See Chaucer, page 4.

[18-4] A hardy mouse that is bold to breede In cattis eeris.

_Order of Foles. MS. circa 1450._

[18-5] The same in _Don Quixote_ (Lockhart's ed.), _part i. book iii. chap. iv._ BUNYAN: _Pilgrim's Progress._ FLETCHER: _The Wild-Goose Chase, act iv. sc. 3._

[18-6] Time trieth truth.--_Tottel's Miscellany, reprint 1867, p. 221._

Time tries the troth in everything.--TUSSER: _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Author's Epistle, chap. i._

[18-7] I saye, thou madde March hare.--SKELTON: _Replycation against certayne yong scolers._

[18-8] More water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of.

SHAKESPEARE: _Titus Andronicus, act ii. sc. 7._

[18-9] An earlier instance of this proverb occurs in Heywood's _Johan the Husbande. 1533._

He must needs go whom the devil drives.--SHAKESPEARE: _All's Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 3._ CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, part i.