Spare the rod
Posted by Natura1ist on March 28, 2001
I have read that the first time the exact phrase "spare the rod and spoil the child" was used was in a poem where the lines were:
"Love is a boy, by poets styl'd,
Then spare the rod and spoil the child"
The problem is I can't place the poem either to title or author.
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