Careful Words

swine (n.)

  Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

New Testament: Matthew vii. 6.

Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 852.

For truth is precious and divine,—

Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 257.