“Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
A friend is never known till a man have need.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
“6103. A Friend in Need
Is a Friend in Deed.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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