Man taketh paine, God giueth gaine, / Man doth his best, God doth the rest, / Man well intendes, God foizon sendes, / else want he shall.
1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, “The Authors life.”, in A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, stanza 37, page 214