^* The saying was first brought to public attention in the mid-seventeenth-century anthology Jacula Prudentum, assembled by George Herbert, the saintly (and wealthy) vicar of the quaintly named church of Fugglestone St. Peter, a few miles from the cathedral city of Salisbury. The full proverb reads, “For want of a nail, the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost; for want of a rider the battle is lost; for want of a battle the kingdom is lost.” The same anthology also offered the suggestion, of a fierce man, that “his bark is worse than his bite.” Hitherto they were believed equivalent.