A cat may looke on a King.
John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbs, Part 2, ch. 5 (1546)
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Heywood, John - Proverbs, Part 2, ch. 5 (1546) | WIST Quotations
A cat may looke on a King. Revised spelling from the 1874 edition. Original editions had it, "A cat maie looke on a kyng." This is the earliest text found with this recorded as an English proverb.Dave (WIST Quotations)