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I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek. That hath but one hole for to sterte to. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (l. 572), a paraphrase of the prologue, The Wife of Bath's Tale The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care. - John Heywood, Proverbs (pt. II, ch. V) "Once on a time there was a mouse," quoth she, "Who sick of worldly tears and laughter, grew Enamoured of a sainted privacy; To all terrestrial things he bade adieu, And entered, far from mouse, or cat, or man, A thick-walled cheese, the best of Parmesan." - Lorenzo Pignotti, The Mouse Turned Hermit When a building is about to fall down all the mice desert it. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus), Natural History (bk. VIII, sec. CIII) The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole, Can never be a mouse of any soul. - Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath--Her Prologue (l. 298) The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Marcius at I, vi)
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