The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.

"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c. 1704, published 1713), lines 298-299. Compare: "I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to", Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Wif of Bathes Prologue", line 6154; "The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum