John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)
“Let every man look before he leaps.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 14.
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