One man's meate is another man's poyson 1618

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Rachel Shuttlesworth wrote:

>  From The colde spring of Kinghorne Craig his admirable and new tryed
> properties, so far foorth as yet are found by experience. Written by
> Patrik Anderson D. of Physick.   1618
>
> ...yea & to some also, one man's meate is another man's...
> ...also, one man's meate is another man's poyson, a proverb co~moun...

The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs has this exact form back to 1604, and
variants going back to Lucretius.

Fred Shapiro


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