book iv. line 623_; also _Towneley Mysteries_.

At six and seven.--SHAKESPEARE: _Richard II. act ii. sc. 2._

[15-7] All 's fish they get that cometh to net.--TUSSER: _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. February Abstract._

Where all is fish that cometh to net.--GASCOIGNE: _Steele Glas. 1575._

[15-8] Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.--BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._

[15-9] This phrase derives its origin from the custom of certain manors where tenants are authorized to take fire-bote _by hook or by crook_; that is, so much of the underwood as many be cut with a crook, and so much of the loose timber as may be collected from the boughs by means of a hook. One of the earliest citations of this proverb occurs in John Wycliffe's _Controversial Tracts, circa 1370_.--See Skelton, page 8. RABELAIS: _book v. chap. xiii._ DU BARTAS: _The Map of Man._ SPENSER: _Faerie Queene, book iii.