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Notes
1. Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, ed. William George Smith, rev. F. P. Wilson (Oxford 1970) 67.
2. Ward, cited by Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs (see n. 1) 67. Lyly, Euphues, 265 (cf. 52), cited by Morris Palmer Tilley, Elizabethan Proverb Lore in Lyly's Euphues and in Pettie's Petite Pallace, University of Michigan Publications: Language and Literature, vol. 2 (New York-London 1926) 79-80, no. 42. Cf. Morris Palmer Tilley, A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ann Arbor 1950) 54.
3. Archer Taylor, The Proverb (Cambridge MA 1931, repr. Hatboro PA 1961) 77.
4. Xavier F. M. G. Wolter, Notes on Antique Folklore on the Basis of Pliny's Natural History L. xxviii. 22-29 (Amsterdam 1935) 135. All subsequent citations are from this same page.
5. On the survival of folk remedies in proverbs, see Russell A. Elmquist, “English Medical Proverbs,” Modern Philology 32 (1934/1935) 75-84, though his examples are all of a more explicit nature than the example of this note.