Show Not Scriptural Quotation The phrase lIe He tempers the wind to the lamb Is s not not as some have supposed a Scriptural quota quota- quotation quotation tion It Is a variation of ot the line from Maria Marla by Laurence Stern Sterne God the wind windI I tempers to the shorn lamb iamb This may be traced back to n u passage In Jacula by George Herbert To lo a shorn close-shorn sheep God gives gl wind by measure About H 1594 I however Henri wrote wroten In Premises etc Dieu Ie he frold froid a n la brebis God Gott measures the cold to the shorn Exchange lamb Exchange |