Talk:Jumping from the frying pan into the fire

John Bunyan in his epic work Pilgrim's Progress also uses this expression, unlikely to have been derived without knowledge of the fable.
 * What danger is the Pilgrim in,
 * How many are his Foes,
 * How many ways there are to sin,
 * No living mortal knows.


 * Lie tumbling on the Mire;
 * Some tho’ they shun the Frying-pan,
 * Do leap into the Fire."

This is from the second part of the Pilgrims progress published in either 1684 or 1686 (there being an edition of the second part in each of these years) [unsigned, identified as 92.22.36.129]


 * This is a later reference to the idiom (first recorded 150 years earlier). There is no evidence from the text that Bunyan is referring to the fable. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 17:33, 28 June 2012 (UTC)