Spoon
.(See Apostle-Spoons.)
He hath need of a long spoon that eateth with the devil. Shakespeare alludes to this proverb in the Comedy of Errors, iv. 3; and again in the Tempest, ii. 2, where Stephano says: “Mercy! mercy! this is a devil … I will leave him, I have no long spoon.”
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“Therefor behoveth him a ful long spoon
That schal ete with a feend.”
