And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay

Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757): Richard III. (altered). Act v. Sc. 3.

Needle in a bottle of hay.

Field (—— -1641): A Woman's a Weathercock. (Reprint, 1612, p. 20.)

The king himself has followed her

When she has walk'd before.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize.

When the sunne shineth, make hay.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.