As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it
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As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it
Cf. late 15th-cent. Fr. comme on faict son lict, on le treuve, as one makes one's bed, so one finds it.
Lett them‥go to there bed, as themselues shall make it.
[c 1590 G. Harvey Marginalia (1913) 88]
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
[1640 G. Herbert Outlandish Proverbs no. 340]
As you make your bed, so you lye down. According to your Conditions you have your Bargain.
[1721 J. Kelly Scottish Proverbs 16]
As soon as his relatives‥heard‥they told him‥that as he had made his bed, so he must lie upon it.
[1832 S. Warren Diary of Late Physician II. vi.]
There's no doubt she was out with one of them‥and went further than she meant,‥but if you make your bed you must lie on it.
[1921 A. P. Herbert House by River v.]
Your mother says serves you right, you've made your bed and now you lie on it, I never liked him.
[1997 Spectator 29 Nov 14]
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