“Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“4851. The worst Spoke in a Cart breaks first.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Part II, chapter 7.
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“4440. The Cart before the Horse.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Part I, ch. IX
The Mysterious Island (1874)
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