This
familiar
proverb
first appears in Aristides 2.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
' Under _Asne_ he explains the
same proverb as meaning 'to worke impossibilities.' This explains
the passage in _Staple of News_ 3. 1., _Wks._ 5. 226. The proverb
is quoted again in _Eastward Ho_, Marston, _Wks._ 3. 90, and in
Wm. Lilly's Observations,' _Hist._, pp. 269-70. 'Making ropes of
sand' was Iniquity's occupation in 1. 1. 119.
This
familiar
proverb
first appears in Aristides 2.
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