Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853

C. H. (Cambridge) is referred to "N. & Q.," Vol. i., pp. 211. 236. 325. 357. 418., for the history of the proverbial saying, "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."

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