The proverb "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb" is in Sterne's "Sentimental Journey" (1768), but it was evidently well known before. "Outlandish Proverbs," selected by George Herbert in 1639, gives: "To a close shorn sjieep God gives wind to measure"; and at the end of the sixteenth century it appears in French as "Dicu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue."'
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)
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