[Sca-cooks] Any Port in a Storm

[Daniel And elizabeth phelps]

The question was:

anyone know how old the saying is, "any port in a storm?"  

Earliest written use of the phase of which I an aware is as follows:

I feeling pretty sensibly that it was not going by the right
door, and knocking desperately at the wrong one, I told him
of it: -"Pooh!" says he, "my dear, any port in a storm."

"Fanny Hill" John Cleland 1749