Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto II, line 501
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“In ancient times all things were cheape
'Tis good to look before you leape
When come is ripe 'tis time to reape.”
The Roxburghe Ballads (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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