Bone and Skin, two millers thin,

Would starve us all, or near it;

But be it known to Skin and Bone

That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.

John Byrom (1691-1763): Epigram on Two Monopolists.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Charles Churchill (1731-1764): The Rosciad. Line 322.

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,

With a third dog one of the two dogs meets;

With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,

And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6.

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii.

Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.

Du Bartas (1544-1590): Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.

Weakened and wasted to skin and bone.

Du Bartas (1544-1590): Second Week, Fourth Day, Book iv.