John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
184 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 184 |
| AUTHOR: | John Heywood (1497?–1580?) |
| QUOTATION: | He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| Note 1. An earlier instance of this proverb occurs in Heywood’s Johan the Husbande. 1533. He must needs go whom the devil drives.—William Shakespeare: All ’s Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 3. Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iv. chap. iv. Gosson: Ephemerides of Phialo. George Peele: Edward I. [back] |