God tempers the Wind

Le Roux de Liney, *Livre des Proverbes Français* (Paris, 1842), tom. i. p. 11., cites the following proverbs— "Dieu mesure le froid à la brebis tondue, ou, Dieu donne le froid selon la robbe," from Henri Estienne, *Prémices*, &c., p. 47., a collection of proverbs published in 1594. He also quotes from Gabriel Meurier, *Trésor des Sentences*, of the sixteenth century:— "Dieu aide les mal vestus."