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c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxlv. 2 Ne will ȝe nouȝt affien in princes, in mennes sones, in which non helþe nys.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Psalms cxlv. 3 Wileþ not trosten in princis: ne in þe sones of men in whiche is not helþe.]

1487 Thewis Gud Women (St. John's Cambr.) 4 in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 81 Quhilk..makis pouer women princes peir.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 948 Better it is to trust in God then in Princes.

1589 R. Greene Spanish Masquerado sig. C3^v The iollie fellowes that once in England liued like Princes in their Abbeies and Frieries.

1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. 4 It is a true saying of the Philosopher, Like Prince, like people.

1649 W. Prynne Substance Speech House of Commons 76 Put not your trust in Princes... It is better to trust in the Lord, then to put confidence in men or Princes, have been my Maxims.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 1 Nov. (1970) I. 280 We came to Sir Wm. Battens, where he lives like a prince.

1714 J. Adams Ahab's Evil 25 Obscene Discourses every where abounding, which could not otherwise be expected, when we had so great a Person for our Pattern; for like Prince, like People.

1776 H. Cowley Runaway ii. iv. 23 You have set my heart at rest—I am as happy as a Prince.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 353 Your holy David, I think, advised you not to put your trust in princes.

1804 European Mag. & London Rev. Jan. 33/2 If I..would send..a pound of good tobacco, I should make her husband as happy as a Prince.

1838 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches 132 My ma used to put on her specs and say, ‘Peter, my son, put not your trust in princes’.

1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead III. iii. iii. 66 ‘Princes and women must not be contradicted’, says the proverb.

1931 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 24 Jan. 30/5 Mennen Baby Talcum..swiftly soaks up all moisture—leaving baby velvety-smooth, dry, happy as a prince.

1997 Independent (Nexis) 31 July e6 It wasn't living like a prince but I wasn't worried about money.

2004 Hist. Today (Nexis) 1 Sept. 31 For moralists it was a classic example of the fickleness of fortune. ‘Put not your trust in princes’ was the lesson.