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‘Roedd Bruce yn amau iddo glywed “Like
master, like man”, a dyma fo o’r Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs:
Like MASTER, like man Man here is in the sense of ‘servant’.
The female equivalent is like mistress like
maid . Cf. Petronius Satyricon lviii.
qualis dominus , talis et servus , as is the master, so is
the servant; early 14th-cent. Fr. lon dit a
tel seigneur tel varlet , it is said, for such a lord such a
manservant.
1530
J. Palsgrave L'éclaircissement de la Langue Française 120 V
Suche maystre suche man.
1538 T.
Elyot Dict.
s.v. Similes, A lewde [foolish] servaunt with an yll master. ‥Lyke master
lyke man.
1620 T. Shelton tr. Cervantes' Don Quixote ii . x.
The Prouerbe be true that sayes, ...
Ydy hyny’n ffitio’r
cyd-destun, ynteu os nad yw, beth yw’r cyd-destun?
Ann
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