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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

109 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:109
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Cut my cote after my cloth. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
 
Note 1.
A relic of the Sumptuary Laws. One of the earliest instances occurs, 1530, in the interlude of Godly Queene Hester. [back]