the labourer is worthy of his hire
- the labourer is worthy of his hire
With allusion to LUKE x. 7 (AV) The labourer is worthy of his hire.
c 1390 CHAUCER Summoner’s Tale 1. 1973 The hye God, that al this world hath wroght, Seith that the werkman worthy is his hyre.
1580 J. BARET Alveary D697 Digna canis pabulo... A Prouerbe declaring that the laborer is worthie of his hire: it is taken as well of the labour of the mind, as of the bodie.
1824 SCOTT St. Ronan’s Well I. x. Your service will not be altogether gratuitous, my old friend—the labourer is worthy of his hire.
1980 Times 4 Mar. 7 Forget haggling... The labourer is worthy of his hire.
2001 R. HILL Dialogues of Dead ii. 11 Penn had no difficulty squaring his assertion that the labourer was worthy his hire with using Dee as his unpaid research assistant, but the librarian never complained.
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