By robbing Peter he paid Paul, he kept the moon from the wolves, and was ready to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.

Works, Book I, Chapter XI. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Westminster Abbey was called St. Peter's! St. Paul's funds were low and sufficient was taken from St. Peter's to settle the account. Expression found in Collier's Reprint of Thomas Nash, Have with you to Saffron-Walden, p. 9. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 216.