“God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.”

— Thomas Tusser

Compare: "God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks", John Taylor, Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630).
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

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English poet 1524–1580

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