“Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
Must be a spoon.”
Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.
1830s
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