“Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.”

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Second Week, Second Day, Part ii. Compare: "Never thrust your own sickle into another’s corn", Publius Syrus, Maxim 593.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)

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