Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina
Title: “Jack will eat not fat, and Jull doth love no leane”
Medium: nursery rhyme
Publication date: 1639
Publisher: Felix KyngstonRoud Folk Song Index Number: 19479
2 characters in this story:
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[could eat no fat; his wife could eat no lean] | Felix Kyngston | 14 | ||||
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[could eat no lean; her husband could eat no fat] | Felix Kyngston | 3 |
The complete title of this publication is Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina: in usum scholarum concinnata. Or proverbs English, and Latine, methodically disposed according to the common-place heads, in Erasmus his adages. Very use-full and delightful for all sorts of men, on all occasions. More especially profitable for scholars for the attaining elegancie, sublimitie, and varietie of the best expressions.
The nursery rhyme "Jack Sprat" has its origins in an English proverb. The earliest known printed form of this proverb appeared in John Clarke's collection of sayings in 1639 in the form:
Jack will eat not fat, and Jull doth love no leane.
Yet betwixt them both they lick the dishes cleane.
