"That ‘feeld hath eyen, and the wode hath eres.’"

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:Cf. Proverb, with Latin version (MS. Trin. Coll. Cam. O. 2. 45): Veld haueð hege, and wude haueð heare. / Campus habet lumen, et habet nemus auris acumen. German (Ida von Düringsfeld, Sprichwörter, vol. i. no. 453): Das Feld hat Augen, der Wald hat Ohren. French (Cotgrave, Dictionarie, s.v. Oeillet): Bois ont oreilles, & champs oeiletts.