AS NICE (PROPER, GOODLY, etc.) AS ONE CAN SEE IN A SUMMER’S-DAY, phr. (old).—As nice (proper, etc.) as may be: cf. DAY’S-MARCH.
1592. SHAKESPEARE, Midsummer Night’s Dream, i. 2. A proper man AS ONE SHALL SEE IN A SUMMER’S DAY. Ibid. (1599), Henry V., iii. 6. As prave words at the pridge AS YOU SHALL SEE IN A SUMMER’S DAY.
1594. J. LYLY, Mother Bombie (1632), § x. They say hee is as goodly a youth at the pridge AS ONE SHALL SEE IN A SUMMER’S DAY.
1742. FIELDING, Joseph Andrews, IV. xv. AS FINE a fat thriving child AS YOU SHALL SEE IN A SUMMER’S DAY.
