Is the 1579 quote as the Yale Book of Quotations stated a translation from
old English?
> [Original Message]
> From: Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro@yale.edu>
> To: Deborah Melnick <demelnick@earthlink.net>
> Cc: <law-lib@ucdavis.edu>
> Date: 3/20/2007 4:48:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Found: General quotation source and correct form
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Deborah Melnick wrote:
>
> > Found via Google Book Search
> > Works of Rev Jonathan Swift, DD (1801)
> > "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" p357
> >
> > Thanks to all.
>
> Looking in The Yale Book of Quotations and other sources (i.e., much
> better sources than Google Book Search), I find this earlier version:
"You
> cannot make a ... silk purse of a sows ear," in S. Gosson, _Ephemerides
of
> Phialo_ (1579).
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
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