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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 250, 22 October 1935, Page 8

The expression "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb" is in the story of "Maria" in Sterne's "Sentimental Journey." It agrees nearly word for word with a sentence in the "Premices of Henri Estinne (1591): "Dieu-measure le froid a la brebis tondue." Herbert, in his "Jacula Prudentum" (1(S40), has: "To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure." In the "Memoirs of Henri de Beauregard (1757-1824) a Savoyard Abee remarks less poetically: "God cuts a man's coat according to his measure."