Thomas Tusser (1524 – 3 May 1580) was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, published in 1557. It contains the lines
- A foole and his monie be soone at debate,
- which after with sorrow repents him too late.
That is an early version of the proverb A fool and his money are soon parted.
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