Little Packs become a Little Pediar.

“Little boats must keep near shore, larger ones may venture more.”

“Mainwaring is a clever justice—

In him, my lord, our only trust is—

Burdett’s a ratten meddler;

Volks shud turn round and see their backs,

And meend [mind] old proverbs: ‘Little packs,

Become a little pedlar.”

Peter Pindar: Middlesex Election, letter i.

· ·

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.