Note E66 — 13.
Reading edition
"It is an ill winde turnes none to good," i.e. turns to good for none.
"An yll wynd that blowth no man good, The blower of whych blast is she; The lyther lustes bred of her broode Can no way brede good propertye." —Song against Idleness, by John Heywood, circa 1540.
"Ah! Sirra! it is an old proverb and a true I sware by the roode! It is an il wind that bloues no man to good." —Marriage of Wit and Wisdom, 1570.
Quoted in Hazlitt's Handbook of Proverbs, p. 240.