1552: Birds of a Feather Mar 14, 2019

The phrase “birds of a feather flock together” Has been around for a very long time. It can be accounted for and examples from the 16th century, but another times it would appear as this “byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together”. However, some translations of Plato include this phrase, so it could be even older in some form or another. In any case, the line relates ‘feather’ to the whole image of a bird, but rhymes better than ‘kind and color'.