“I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.”

— John Heywood

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.

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