Poetic versions are included in French in Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, mises en Ryme Francoise (1542)[3] and in Latin by Hieronymus Osius (1564).[4] In England the fable does not appear in collections before the 17th century, but the proverb, in the form 'One swallow does not make a summer', is recorded a century earlier.[5] Erasmus includes its Latin version in his Adagia and the proverb is common throughout Europe.[6]