“If the water come to the man …” The legal case referred to by Shakespeare occurred in the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, called Hales v. Petit, stated at length in Notes and Queries, vol. viii. p. 123 (first series).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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