And then he drew a dial from his poke,

And looking on it with lack-lustre eye,

Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:

Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

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