John Heywood, Proverbs, Part I, Chapter XI; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639. In a letter of Sir Richard Morysin to the Privy Council in Lodge's Illustrations &c. I. 154. Holland's Suetonius, p. 169. John Wyclif, Works. Ed. by Arnold, III. 331. Rabelais, Bk. V, Chapter XIII. Du Bartas, The Map of Man. Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto I, Stanza 17. Beaumont and Fletcher, Women Pleased, Act I, scene 3. Shelton, Duke of Clout. Compare https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_proverbs_(alphabetically_by_proverb)