1. f. 5
A proverbial saying employed by John Ball in the Wat Tyler insurrection (1381);
also found in German, Dutch, etc. Cf. 1596, lines 98-99; 3921, lines 1-4; also many
early chronicles. For further references, cf.
Meech (1940)
XMeech, Sanford Brown.
“A Collection of Proverbs in Rawlinson MS D 328.”
Modern Philology
38 (1940-41): 113-32
,
130.