At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. The Farmer's Daily Diet.<


THOMAS TUSSER. Circa 1515-1580.<


God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.?


Ewe Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good.


A Description of the Properties of Wind.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. The Farmer's Daily Diet.


1 Falstaf. What wind blew you hither, Pistol? Pistol Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.


SHAKESPEARE: 2 Henry IV. act v. sc. 3.

2 Give an inch, he 'll take an ell. —

WEBSTER: Sir Thomas Wyatt. 3 Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? — HERBERT: The Size.


4 Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all. - BUKTor:


Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sec. i. mem. ii.

5 For buying or selling of pig in a poke. — TUssER: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. September Abstract.<



6 You have there hit the nail on the head. — RABELATs: bl. i. ch. ai.


7 Dives and Pauper, 1493. GASCOIGNE: Poesies, 1575. Porn: Horace. book i. Fp. vi. line 21. FELDING: Covent Garden Tragedy, act v. sc. I BICKERSTAFF: Love in a Village, act i. sc. 1.


8 God sends meat, and the Devil sends coolks. - JoRN TATLOR: Iorks 001. i. p. 85 (1630). RAY: Proverbs. GARRICK: Epigram on Gullsmithi