“[ Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe. ]”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.”
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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