Brewer's: Make a Virtue of Necessity

(To). See Chaucer's poem of the Knightes Tale, line 3,044; also The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Dryden's poem of Palamon and Arcite.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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