A Mad World, my Masters (1605), Compare: "From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, 1 he is all mirth", William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. Sc. 2.
“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”
Act II, scene 2. Compare Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
“From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.”
"The Day of the People," The Class Struggle Vol. III No. 1 (February 1919) http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1919/daypeople.htm
The Twelve (1918); translation from Jon Stallworthy and Peter France (trans.) The Twelve, and Other Poems (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970) p. 160.
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
King Henry, Act III, scene i.
Source: Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)
“Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.”
The Heart of a Goof (1926)
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 264
"The Scientific Aspect of Monte Carlo Roulette" (1894)
