God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

 

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.
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Maria. Compare: "Dieu mésure le froid ? la brebis tondue" (translated: "God measures the cold to the shorn lamb"), Henri Estienne (1594), Prémices, etc, p. 47; "To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.

 

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