François Rabelais, Pantagruel, IV, 48; Adrien de Montluc, La Comedie de Proverbes, Act I, scene VII (translation by Florinde); Henri Estienne, Les Prémices, Epigramme 37; compare Attendez l'heure du berger; Tout vient à tems qui peut attendre ("Wait ye the shepherd’s hour; All comes in time to him who waits"), Bussy Babutin, Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules, Maximes d'Amour, (Ed. Cologne, 1716), p. 192); all reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (Frhttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/French_proverbs