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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:201
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
For buying or selling of pig in a poke.—Thomas Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. September Abstract. [back]
 

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