Glasse, HANNAH, was the author of the famous Art of Cookery (1747): as also of The Complete Confectioner (1770), and of The Servant's Directory (1770). The proverb 'First catch your hare' does not expressly occur in her Cookery.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 248
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