“I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.”

—  John Lyly , book Euphues

Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 107. Compare: "To hold with the hare and run with the hound", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x.

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