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Thomas Tusser bol anglický básnik.

✵ 19. október 1524 – 3. máj 1580
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“Yet true it is, as cow chews cud
And trees at spring do yield forth bud,
Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind turns none to good.”

A Description of the Properties of Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.”

"June's Abstract".
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“[He] spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon.”

Thomas Fuller, describing Tusser's failure to profit from numerous ventures.
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“At Christmas be merry and thankful withal,
And feast thy poor neighbors, the great with the small.”

"December Husbandry".
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“Dry sun, dry wind;
Safe bind, safe find.”

Washing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part I, Chapter III; "Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind", William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5.

“At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.”

"The Farmer's Daily Diet".
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“Naught venture naught have.”

"October's Abstract". Compare: "Naught venture naught have", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part I, Chapter XI.
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.”

Compare: "God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks", John Taylor, Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630).
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“T is merry in hall
Where beards wag all.”

"August's Abstract". Compare: "Merry swithe it is in halle, When the beards waveth alle", Life of Alexander, 1312; (author unknown, but earlier wrongly attributed to Adam Davie, who had elsewhere written "Swithe mury hit is in halle, When burdes waiven alle").
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“Such mistress, such Nan,
Such master, such man.”

"April's Abstract". Comment: M. Cimber of the Bibliothèque Royale ascribes this proverb to Chevalier Bayard: “Tel maître, tel valet.”
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

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