"Here were we fallen in a greate question of ye lawe whyther ye grey mare may be the better horse or not."
— Wives

January 1, 1970

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Thomas More, ' (wr. 1534; pub. 1553), Book III, Chapter V. The saying, "the grey mare is the better horse," is found in Camden's Remains, Proverb concerning Britain (1605, reprint of 7th ed. 1870). Also in A Treatyse shewing and declaring the Pryde and Abuse of Women Now a Dayse (1550)