The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (217 page)
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, as with children, there is no taking away of what has been rightly given.
1571Sermon at Paul's Cross
29
Shal we make God to say the worde, and eate his worde? to giue a thing, and take a thing, little children say, This is the diuels goldring, not Gods gift.
1611
Dict. French & English
s.v. Retirer,
To giue a thing and take a thing; to weare the diuells gold-ring.
1721
Scottish Proverbs
120
Give a Thing, and take a Thing, Is the ill Man's Goud Ring. A Cant among Children, when they demand a Thing again, which they had bestowed.
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