Outlandish PROVERBS, SELECTED By Mr. G. H.  
LONDON, Printed by T. P. for Humphrey Blunden; at the Castle in Cornhill. 1640.   

Outlandish PROVERBS.  
1. MAN Proposeth, God disposeth.  
2. He begins to die, that quits his desires.  
3. A handful of good life, is better than a bushel of learning.  
4. He that studies his content, wants it.  
5. Every day brings his bread with it.  
6. Humble Hearts, have humble desires.  
7. He that stumbles and falls not mends his pace.  
8. The House shows the owner.  
9 He that gets out of debt, grows rich.  
10. All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.  
11. Building and marrying of Children, are great wasters.  
12. A good bargain is a pick purse.  
13. The scalded dog fears cold water.  
14. Pleasing ware, is half sold.  
15. Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.  
16. The wolf knows, what the ill beast thinks.  
17 Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.  
18. When all sins grows old, covetousness is young  
19 If ye would know a knave, give him a staff.  
20. You cannot know wine by the barrel.  
21. A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.  
22 A Horse made, and a man to make.  
23 look not for musk in a dog's kennel.  
24. Not a long day, but a good heart rids work.  
25 he pulls with a long rope, that weights for another's death.  
26. Great strokes make not sweet music.  
27. A cask and an ill custom must be broken.  
28. A fat housekeeper, makes lean Executors.  
29. Empty Chambers, make foolish maids.  
30. The gentle hawk, half man's herself.  
31. The devil is not always at one door.  
32. When a friend asks, there is no, to morrow.  
33. God sends cold, according to clothes.  
34. One sound blow will serve to undo us all.  
35. He loseth nothing, that loseth not God.  
36. The Germans wit, is in his fingers.  
37. At dinner my man appears.  
38. Who gives to all, denies all.  
39 Quick believers need broad shoulders.  
40. Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.  
41. All came from, and will go to others.  
42. He that will take the bird, must not scare it.  
43. He lives unsafely, that looks too near on things.  
44. A gentle housewife, mars the household.  
45. A crooked log makes a strait fire.  
46. He hath great need of a fool, that plays the fool himself.  
47. A merchant that gains not, loseth.  
48. Let not him that fears feathers, come among wild-soul.  
49. Love, and a Cough cannot be hid.  
50. A dwarf, on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.  
51 he that sends a fool, means to follow him.  
52. Brabbling curs never want sore ears.  
53. Better the feet slip then the tongue.  
54 For washing his hands, none sells his lands  
55. A lion's skin is never cheap.  
56. The goat must browse where she is tied.  
57 Who hath a wolf for his mate, needs a Dog for his man  
58. In a good house all is quickly ready.  
59 A bad dog never sees the wolf.  
60. God oft hath a great share in a little house.  
61. Ill ware is never cheap.  
62. A cheerful look, makes a dish a feast.  
63. If all fools had babbles, we should want fuel.  
64. Virtue never grows old.  
65. Evening words are not like to morning.  
66. Were there no fools, bad ware would not pass.  
67. Never had ill workman good tools.  
68 He stands not surely, that never slips.  
69. Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.  
70. Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.  
71. When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.  
72. At Length the Fox turns Monk.  
73. Flies are busiest about lean horses.  
74. Harken to reason or she will be heard.  
75. The bird loves her nest.  
76. Every thing new, is fine.  
77. When a dog is a drowning, every one offers him drink.  
78. Better a bare foot than none.  
79. Who is so deaf, as he that will not hear.  
80. He that is warm, thinks all so.  
81. At length the Fox is brought to the Furrier.  
82. He that goes bare foot, must not plant thorns.  
83. They that are booted are not always ready.  
84. He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.  
85. In spending, lies the advantage.  
86. He that lives well is learned enough.  
87. Ill vessels seldom miscarry.  
88 A full belly neither fights nor flies well.  
89. All truths are not to be told.  
90. An old wise man's shadow, is better than a young buzzards sword.  
91. Noble houskeepers need no doors.  
92. Every ill man hath his ill day.  
93. Sleep without supping, and wake without owing.  
94. I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.  
95. Assail who will, the valiant attends.  
96. Whether goest grief? where I am wont.  
97. Praise day at night, and life at the end.  
98. Whether shall the ox go, where he shall not labour.  
99 Where you think there is bacon, there is no Chimney.  
100 Mend your clothes, and you may hold out this year.  
101. Press a stick, and it seems a youth.  
102. The tongue walks where the teeth speed not.  
103. A fair wife and a frontier Castle breed quarrels,  
104. Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turn to earnest.  
105. Deceive not thy physician, Confessor, nor Lawyer.  
106. Ill natures, the more you ask them, the more they stick.  
107. Virtue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.  
108. The Chicken is the Countries, but the city eateth it.  
109. He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.  
110. He that lives ill, fear follows him.  
111. Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.  
112. Good is to be sought out, and evil attended.  
113. A good paymaster starts not at assurances.  
114. No alchemy to saving.  
115. To a grate full man give money when he asks.  
116. Who would do ill ne'er wants occasion.  
117. To fine folks a little ill finely wrapped.  
118. A child correct behind and not before.  
119. To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foul.  
120. Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number.  
121. No love to a Fathers.  
122. The Mill gets by going.  
123. To a boiling pot flies come not.  
124. Make haste to an ill way that you may get out of it.  
125. A snow year, a rich year.  
126. Better to be blind, then to see ill.  
127. Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.  
128. Who hath no more bread than need, must not keep a dog.  
129. A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.  
130. The Fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe.  
131. Water trotted is as good as oats.  
132. Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip.  
133. Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.  
134. Though old and wise, yet still advise.  
135. Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.  
136. Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.  
137. Happy is he that chastens himself.  
138. Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.  
139. The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.  
140 Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.  
141. Love your neighbour, yet pull not down y●ur hedge.  
142. The bit that one eats, no friend makes.  
143. A drunkard's purse is a bottle.  
144. She spins well that breeds her children.  
145. Good is the mora that makes all sure.  
146. Play with a fool at home, and he will play with you in the market.  
147▪ Every one stretcheth his legs according to his coverlet.  
148. Autumnal Agues are long, or mortal.  
149 Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can.  
150. Dally not with money or women.  
151. Men speak of the fair, as things went with them there.  
152. The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between both.  
143. The mill cannot grind with the water that's past.  
154. Corn is cleaned with wind, and the soul with chastenings.  
155 Good words are worth much, and cost little.  
156. To buy dear is not bounty.  
157. Jest not with the eye or with Religion.  
158 The eye and Religion can bear no jesting.  
159. Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know yourself.  
160. Buy at a fair, but sell at home.  
161. Cover yourself with your shield, and care not for cries.  
162. A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his master.  
163. None is a fool always, every one sometimes.  
164. From a choleric man withdraw a little, from him that says nothing, for ever.  
165. Debtors are liars.  
166. Of all smells, bread: of all tastes, salt.  
167. In a great River great fish are found, but take heed, left you be drowned.  
168. Ever since we wear clothes, we know not one another.  
169. God heals, and the physician hath the thanks.  
170. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.  
171. Take heed of still waters, the quick pass away.  
172. After the house is finished, leave it.  
173. Our own actions are our security, not others' judgements.  
178. Think of ease, but work on.  
179. He that lies long a bed his estate feels it.  
180. Whether you boil snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.  
181. One stroke fells not an oak.  
182. God complains not, but doth what is fitting.  
183. A diligent scholar and the Master's paid.  
184. Milk says to wine, welcome friend.  
185. They that I now one another, salute a far off.  
186. Where there is no honour, there is no grief.  
187. Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.  
188. He that stays does the business.  
189 alms never make poor others.  
190. Great alms-giving lessens no man's living.  
191. Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man's store.  
192. It takes much from the account, to which his sin doth amount.  
193. It adds to the glory both of soul and body.  
194. Ill comes in by els, and goes out by inches.  
195. The Smith and his penny both are black.  
196. Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.  
197. If the old dog bark he gives counsel.  
198 The tree that grows slowly, keeps itself for another.  
199. I wept when I was borne, and every day shows why.  
200. He that looks not before, finds himself behind.  
201. He that plays his money ought not to value it.  
202. He that riseth first, is first dressed.  
203 Diseases of the eye are to be cured with the elbow.  
204. The hole calls the thief.  
205. A gentleman's grayhound, and a salt-box; seek them at the fire.  
206. A child's service is little, yet he is no little fool that despiseth it.  
207. The river past, and God forgotten.  
208. Evils have their comfort, good none can support (to wit) with a moderate and contented heart.  
209. Who must account for himself and others, must know both.  
210. He that eats the hard shall eat the ripe.  
211. The miserable man makes a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing six pence.  
212. The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.  
213. Waight and measure take away strife.  
214. The son full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.  
215. Every path hath a puddle.  
216. In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn.  
217. Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.  
218. In life you loved me not, in death you bewail me.  
219. Into a mouth shut, flies fly not.  
220. The heart's letter is read in the eyes  
221. The ill that comes out of our mouth falls into our bosom.  
222. In great pedigrees there are governors and Chandlers.  
223. In the house of a fiddler, all fiddle.  
224. Sometimes the best gain is to lose.  
225. Working and making a fire doth discretion require.  
226. One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellows.  
227. It is a great victory that comes without blood.  
228. In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefs prove.  
229. Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty days.  
230. Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.  
231. Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.  
232. Honour and profit lie not in one sack.  
233. A naughty child is better sick, then whole.  
234. Truth and oil are ever above.  
235. He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.  
236. Advise none to marry or to go to war.  
237. To steal the Hog, and give the feet for alms.  
238. The thorn comes forth with his point forwards.  
239. One hand washeth another, and both the face.  
240. The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.  
241. The corn hides itself in the snow, as an old man in furs.  
242. The Jews spend at Easter, the Mores at marriages, the Christians in suits.  
243. Fine dressing is a foul house swept before the doors.  
244. A woman and a glass are ever in danger.  
245. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.  
246. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.  
247. On painting and fighting look aloof.  
248. Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.  
249. Punishment is lame, but it comes.  
250. The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.  
251. A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.  
252. Marry a widow before she leave mourning.  
253 The worst of law is, that one suit breeds twenty.  
254. Providence is better than a rent.  
255. What your glass tells you, will not be told by council.  
256. There are more men threatened then stricken.  
257. A fool knows more in his house, than a wise man in another's.  
258. I had rather ride on an ass that carries me, than a horse that throws me.  
259, The hard gives more than he that hath nothing.  
260. The beast that goes always never wants blows.  
261. Good cheap is dear.  
262. It costs more to do ill then to do well.  
263. Good words quench more than a a bucket of water  
264. An ill agreement is better than a good judgement.  
265. There is more talk than trouble.  
266. Better spare to have of thine own, then ask of other men.  
267. Better good afar off, then evil at hand.  
268. Fear keeps the garden better, than the gardener▪  
269. I had rather ask of my sire brown bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.  
270. Your pot broken seems better than my whole one.  
271. Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heir.  
272. By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.  
273. While the discreet advise the fool doth his business.  
274. A mountain and a river are good neighbours.  
275. Gossips are frogs, they drink and talk.  
276. Much spends the traveller, more than the abider.  
277. Prayers and provender hinder no journey.  
278. A well-bred youth neither speaks of himself, nor being spoken to is silent.  
279. A journeying woman speaks much of all, and all of her.  
280. The Fox knows much, but more he that catcheth him.  
281. Many friends in general, one in special.  
282. The fool asks much, but he is more fool that grants it.  
283. Many kiss the hand, they wish cut off.  
284. Neither bribe nor lose thy right.  
285. In the world who knows not to swim, goes to the bottom.  
286. Choose not an house near an inn, (viz for noise) or in a corner (for filth.)  
287. He is a fool that thinks not, that another thinks.  
288. Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.  
289. The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.  
290. Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.  
291. Good service is a great enchantment.  
292. There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.  
293. It's no sure rule to fish with a crossbow.  
294. There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.  
295. The groundsel speaks not save what it heard at the hinges.  
296. The best mirror is an old friend.  
297. Say no ill of the year, till it be past.  
298. A man's discontent is his worst evil.  
299 fear nothing but sin.  
300. The child says nothing, but what it heard by the fire.  
301. Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.  
302. That is not good language which all understand not.  
303. He that burns his house warms himself for once.  
304. He will burn his house, to warm his hands.  
305. He will spend a whole years rent at one meal's meat.  
306. All is not gold that glisters.  
307. A blustering night, a fair day.  
308. Be not idle and you shall not be longing.  
309. He is not poor that hath little, but he that desireth much.  
310. Let none say, I will not drink water.  
311. He wrongs not an old-man that steals his supper from him.  
312. The tongue talks at the heads cost.  
313. He that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.  
314. Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.  
315. God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made havens, and to rivers fords.  
316. A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand.  
317. No lock will hold against the power of gold.  
318. The absent party is still faulty.  
319. Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance.  
320. If you lose your time, you cannot get money nor gain.  
321. Be not a Baker, if your head be of butter.  
322. Ask much to have a little.  
323. Little sticks kindle the fire; great ones put it out.  
324. Another's bread costs dear.  
325. Although it rain, throw not away thy watering pot.  
326. Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloak at home.  
327. A little with quiet is the only diet.  
328. In vain is the mill clack, if the M●l●er his hearing lack.  
329. By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawn on.  
330. Stay a little and news will find you.  
331. Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing.  
332. When God will, no wind, but brings rain.  
333. Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.  
334. Pull down your hat on the winds side.  
335. As the year is, your pot must seethe.  
336. Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last night.  
337. When the fox preacheth, beware geese.  
338. When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer strike your fill  
339. Poor and liberal, rich and covetous.  
340. He that makes his bed ill, lies there.  
341. He that labours and thrives spins gold.  
342. He that sows trusts in God.  
343. He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.  
344. He that repairs not a part, builds all.  
345. A discontented man knows not where to sit easy.  
346. Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.  
347. He that dines and leaves, lays the cloth twice.  
348. Who eats his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.  
349. He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50 will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise.  
350. He that doth what he will, doth not what he ought.  
351. He that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.  
352. He that lives well sees a far off.  
353. He that hath a mouth of his own, must not say to another; Blow.  
354. He that will be served must be patient.  
355. He that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.  
356. He that chastens one, chastens 20.  
357. He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.  
358. He that hath no ill fortune, is troubled with good.  
359. He that demands misseth not, unless his demands be foolish.  
360. He that hath no honey in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.  
361. He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.  
362. He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouths at us, is courteous.  
363. He that loseth his due, gets not thanks.  
364. He that believeth all, misseth, he that believeth nothing, hits not.  
365. Pardons and pleasantness are great revenges of slanders.  
366. A married man turns his staff into a stake.  
367. If you would know secrets, look them in grief or pleasure.  
368. Serve a noble disposition, though poor, the time comes that he will repa● thee.  
369. The fault is as great as he that 〈◊〉 faulty.  
370. If folly were grief every hous● would weep.  
371 he that would be well old, mu●● be old betimes.  
372. Sit in your place and none ca● make you rise.  
373. If you could run, as you drink you might catch a hare.  
374. Would you know what money i● Go borrow some.  
375. The morning sun never lasts 〈◊〉 day.  
376. Thou hast death in thy house, an● dost bew ail another's.  
377. All griefs with bread are less.  
378. All things require skill, but an appe●tite.  
379. All things have their place, kne● we, how to place them.  
380. Little pitchers have wide ears.  
381. We are fools one to another.  
382. This world is nothing except tend to another.  
383. There are three ways, the Vniver●●ties, the Sea, the Court.  
384. God comes to see without a bell.  
385. Life without a friend is death with●ut a witness.  
386. Clothe thee in war, arm thee in ●eace.  
387. The horse thinks one thing, and he ●hat saddles him another.  
388. Mills and w●ves ever want.  
389. The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meal.  
390. The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.  
391. He carries well, to whom it weighs ●ot.  
392. The comforters head never aches.  
393. Step after step the ladder is ascen●ed.  
394. Who likes not the drink, God de●rives him of bread.  
395. To a crazy ship all winds are con●rary.  
396. Justice pleaseth few in their own house.  
397. In times comes he, whom God ●ends.  
398. Water a far off quencheth no● fire.  
399. In sports and journey's men are known.  
400. An old friend is a new house.  
401. Love is not found in the market.  
402. Dry feet, warm head, bring safe to bed.  
403. He is rich enough that wants nothing.  
404. One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.  
405. Far shooting never killed bird.  
406. An upbraided morsel never choked any.  
407. Dearths foreseen come not.  
408. An ill labourer quarrels with his tools.  
409. He that falls into the dirt, the longer he stays there, the fowler he is.  
410. He that blames would buy.  
411. He that sings on friday, will weep on Sunday.  
412. The charges of building, and making of gardens are unknown.  
413. My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial.  
414. A hundred load of thought will not pay one of debts.  
415. He that comes of a hen must scrape.  
416. He that seeks trouble never misses.  
417. He that once deceives is ever suspected.  
418. Being on sea sail, being on land settle.  
419. Who doth his own business, fowls not his hands.  
420. He that makes a good war makes a good peace.  
421. He that works after his own manner, his head aches not at the matter.  
422. Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.  
423. He that hath children, all his morsels are not his own.  
424. He that hath the spice, may season as he list.  
425. He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.  
426 He that hath love in his breast, hath spurs in his sides.  
427. He that respects not, is not respected.  
428. He that hath a Fox for his mate, hath need of a net at his girdle.  
429. He that hath right, fears, he that hath wrong, hopes.  
430. He that hath patience hath fat thrushes for a farthing.  
431. Never was strumpet fair.  
432. He that measures not himself, is measured.  
433. He that hath one hog makes him fat, and he that hath one son makes him a fool.  
434. Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse dr●nke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.  
435. He that speaks sows, and he that holds his peace, gathers.  
436. He that hath little is the less dirty.  
437. He that lives most dies most.  
438. He that hath one root in the straw, hath another in the spital.  
439. He that's fed at another's hand may stay long ere he be full.  
440. He that makes a thing too fine, breaks it.  
441. He that bewails himself hath the cure in his hands.  
442. He that would be well, needs not go from his own house.  
443. Council breaks not the head.  
444. Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.  
445. He that knows what may be gained in a day never steals.  
446. Money refused loseth its brightness.  
447. Health and money go far.  
448. Where your will is ready, your feet are light.  
449. A great ship asks deep waters.  
450. Woe to the house where there is no chiding.  
451. Take heed of the vinegar of sweet wine.  
452. Fools bite one another, but wisemen agree together.  
453. Trust not one nights ice.  
454. Good is good, but better carries it.  
455. To gain teacheth how to spend.  
456. Good finds good.  
457. The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it.  
458. The crow bewails the sheep, and then eats it.  
459 Building is a sweet impoverishing.  
460. The first degree of folly is to hold one's self wise, the second to profess it, the third to dsepise counsel.  
461. The greatest step is that out of doors.  
462. To weep for joy is a kind of Manna.  
463. The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.  
464. The resolved mind hath no cares.  
465. In the kingdom of a cheater, the wallet is carried before.  
466. The eye will have his part.  
467. The good mother says not, will you? but gives.  
468. A house and a woman suit excellently.  
469. In the kingdom of blindmen the one eyed is king.  
470. A little kitchen makes a large house.  
471. War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.  
472. Poverty is the mother of health.  
473. In the morning mountains, in the evening fountains.  
474. The backdoor robs the house.  
475. Wealth is like rheum, it falls on the weakest parts.  
476. The gown is his that wears it▪ and the world his that enjoys it.  
477. Hope is the poor man's bread.  
478 Virtue now is in herbs and stones and words only.  
479. Fine words dress ill deeds.  
480. Labour as long lived, pray as even dying.  
481. A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.  
482. Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.  
483. Things well fitted abide.  
484. Prettiness dies first.  
485. Talking pays no toll.  
486. The Master's eye fattens the horse, and his foot the ground.  
487. Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.  
488. Praise a hill, but keep below.  
489. Praise the Sea, but keep on land.  
490. In choosing a wife, and buying a sword, we ought not to trust another.  
491. The wearer knows, where the shoe wrings.  
492. Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.  
493. There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.  
494. He that's long a giving, knows not how to give.  
495. The filth under the white snow, the sun discovers.  
496. Every one fastens where there is gain.  
497. All feet tread not in one shoe.  
498. Patience, time and money accommodate all things.  
499. For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.  
500 Weigh justly and sell dearly.  
501. Little wealth little care.  
502. Little journeys and good cost, bring safe home.  
503. Gluttony kills more than the sword.  
504. When childten stand quiet, they have done some ill.  
505. A little and good fills the trencher.  
506. A penny spared is twice got.  
507. When a knave is in a plum-tree he hath neither friend nor kin.  
508. Short boughs, long vintage.  
509. Health without money, is half an ague.  
510. If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.  
511. Bear with evil, and expect good.  
512. He that tells a secret, is another's servant.  
513. If all fools wore white Caps, we should seem a flock of geese.  
514. Water, fire, and soldiers, quickly make room.  
515. Pension never enriched young man.  
516. Under water, famine, under snow bread.  
517. The Lame goes as far as your staggerer.  
518. He that loseth is merchant as well as he that gains.  
519. A jade eats as much as a good horse.  
520. All things in their being are good for something.  
521. One flower makes no garland.  
522. A fair death honours the whole life.  
523. One enemy is too much.  
524. Living well is the best revenge.  
525. One fool makes a hundred.  
526. One pair of ears draws dry a hundred tongues.  
527. A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.  
528. One slumber finds another.  
529. On a good bargain think twice.  
530. To a good spender God is the Treasurer.  
531. A cursed Cow hath short horns▪  
532. Music helps not the toothache.  
533. We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.  
534. Great pains quickly find ease.  
535. To the counsel of f●●●les a wooden bell.  
536. The choleric man never wants woe.  
537. Help thyself, and God will help thee.  
538. At the games end we shall see who gains.  
539. There are many ways to fame.  
540. Love is the true price of love.  
541. Love rules his kingdom without a sword.  
542. Love makes all hard hearts gentle.  
543. Love makes a good eye squint.  
544. Love asks faith, and faith firmness.  
545. A sceptre is one thing, and a ladle another.  
546. Great trees are good for nothing but shade.  
547. He commands enough that obeys a wise man.  
548. Fair words makes me look to my purse.  
549. Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.  
750. He plays well that wins.  
551. You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one anvil.  
552. The shortest answer is doing.  
553. It's a poor stake that cannot stand one year in the ground.  
554. He that commits a fault, thinks every one speaks of it.  
555. He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.  
556. The blind eat many a fly.  
557. He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrel.  
558 The toothache is more ease, then to deal with ill people.  
559. He that should have what he hath not, should do what he doth not.  
560. He that hath no good trade, it is to his loss.  
561. The offender never pardons.  
562. He that lives not well one year, sorrows seven after.  
563. He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.  
564. He that is angry at a feast is rude.  
565. He that mocks a cripple, aught to be whole.  
566. When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.  
567. He that hath horns in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.  
568. He that burns most shines most.  
569. He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.  
570. He that blows in the dust fills his eyes with it.  
571. Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.  
572. Of fair things, the autumn is fair.  
573. Giving is dead, restoring very sick.  
574. A gift much expected is paid, not given.  
575. Two ill meals make the third a glutton.  
576. The royal crown cures not the headache.  
577. 'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be known so.  
578 A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.  
579. It's better to be head of a lizard, than the tail of a lion.  
580 Good & quickly seldom meet.  
581. Folly grows without watering.  
582. Happier are the hands compassed with iron, than a heart with thoughts.  
583 If the staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.  
584. To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.  
585. He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist.  
586. Valour that parleys, is near yielding.  
587. Thursday come, and the week's gone.  
588. A flatterer's throat is an open sepulchre.  
589. There is great force hidden in a sweet command.  
590. The command of custom is great.  
591. To have money is a fear, not to have it a grief.  
592. The cat sees not the mouse ever.  
593. Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.  
594. Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood.  
595. A good prayer is master of another's purse.  
596. The thread breaks, where it is weakest.  
597. Old men, when they scorn young make much of death.  
598. God is at the end, when we think he is furthest off it.  
599. A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.  
600. Rivers need a spring.  
601. He that contemplates, hath a day without night.  
602. Give loser's leave to talk.  
603. Loss embraceth shame.  
604. Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.  
605. The fat man knoweth not, what the lean thinketh.  
606. Wood half burnt is easily kindled.  
607. The fish adores the bait.  
608. He that goeth far hath many encounters.  
609. Every bees honey is sweet.  
610. The slothful is the servant of the counters.  
611. Wisdom hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.  
612. The thought hath good legs, and the quill a good tongue.  
613. A wise man needs not blush for changing his purpose.  
614. The March sun raises but dissolves not.  
615 Time is the Rider that breaks youth.  
616. The wine in the bottle doth not quench thirst.  
617. The sight of a man hath the force of a lion.  
618. An examined enterprise, goes on boldly.  
619. In every Art it is good to have a master.  
620. In every country dogs bite.  
621. In every country the sun rises in the morning.  
622. A noble plant suits not with a stubborn ground.  
623. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drink when and what he pleaseth.  
624. Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.  
625. Speak fitly, or be silent wisely.  
626. Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.  
627. I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.  
628. A disarmed peace is weak.  
629. The balance distinguisheth not between gold and lead.  
630. The persuasion of the fortunate sways the doubtful.  
631. To be beloved is above all bargains.  
632. To deceive one's self is very easy.  
633. The reasons of the poor weigh not.  
634. Perverseness makes one squint eyed.  
635. The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.  
636. The table robs more than a thief.  
637. When age is jocund it makes sport for death.  
638. True praise roots and spreedes.  
639. Fears are divided in the midst.  
640. The soul needs few things, the body many.  
641. Astrology is true, but the Astrologers cannot find it.  
642. Tie it well, and let it go.  
643. Empty vessels sound most.  
644. Send not a cat for Lard.  
645. Foolish tongues talk by the dozen.  
646. Love makes one fit for any work.  
647. A pitiful mother makes a scald head.  
648. An old physician, and a young Lawyer.  
649. Talk much and err much, says the Spaniard.  
650. Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet rob the Altar.  
651. An idle head is a box for the wind.  
652. Show me a liar, and i'll show thee a thief.  
653. A bean in liberty, is better than a comfit in prison.  
654. None is borne Master.  
655. Show a good man his error and he turns it to a virtue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.  
656. None is offended but by himself.  
657. None says his Garner is full.  
658. In the husband, wisdom, in the wife gentleness.  
659. Nothing dries sooner than a tear.  
660. In a Leopard the spots are not observed.  
661. Nothing lasts but the Church.  
662. A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.  
663. It's not good fishing before the net.  
664. He cannot be virtuous that is not rigorous.  
665. That which will not be spun, let it not come between the spindle and the distaff.  
666. When my house burns, it's not good playing at chess.  
667. No barber shaves so close, but another finds work.  
668. there's no great banquet, but some fares ill.  
669. A holy habit cleanseth not a foul soul.  
670. Forbear not sowing, because of birds.  
671. Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.  
672. Speak not of a dead man at the table.  
673. A hat is not made for one shower.  
674. No sooner is a Temple built to God but the devil builds a chapel hard by.  
675. Every one puts his fault on the Times.  
676. You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.  
677. Pardon all but thyself.  
678. Every one is weary, the poor in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.  
679. The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.  
680. A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.  
681. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.  
682. More have repented speech then silence.  
683. The covetous spends more than the liberal.  
684. Divine ashes are better than earthly meal.  
685. Beauty draws more than oxen.  
686. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.  
687. One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants.  
688. When God will punish, he will first take away the understanding.  
689. A little labour, much health.  
690. When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.  
691. The tree that God plants, no wind hurts it.  
692. Knowledge is no burden.  
693. It's a bold mouse that nestles in the cats ear.  
694. Long jesting was never good.  
695. If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.  
696. If the mother had not been in the oven, she had never sought her daughter there.  
697 If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.  
698. Though you see a churchman ill, yet continue in the Church still.  
699. Old praise dies, unless you feed it.  
700. If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.  
701. Had you the world on your chess-board, you could not fit all to your mind.  
702. Suffer and expect.  
703. If fools should not fool it, they should lose their season.  
704. Love and business teach eloquence.  
705. That which two will, takes effect.  
706. He complains wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwreck.  
707. He is only bright that shines by himself.  
708. A valiant man's look is more than a coward's sword.  
709. The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.  
710. Divine grace was never slow.  
711. Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.  
712. It's a proud horse that will not carry his own provender.  
713. Three women make a market.  
714. Three can hold their peace, if two be away.  
715. It's an ill council that hath no escape.  
716. All our pomp the earth covers.  
717. To whirl the eyes too much shows a Kites brain.  
718. Comparisons are odious.  
719. All keys hang not on one girdle.  
720 Great businesses turn on a little pin.  
721. The wind in ones face makes one wise.  
722. All the arms of England will not arm fear.  
723. One sword keeps another in the sheath.  
724. Be what thou wouldst seem to be.  
725. Let all live as they would die.  
726. A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.  
727 Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.  
728. God provides for him that trusteth.  
729. He that will not have peace, God gives him war.  
730. To him that will, wales are not wanting.  
731. To a great night a great lantern.  
732. To a child all weather is cold.  
733. Where there is peace, God is.  
734. None is so wise, but the fool overtakes him.  
735. Fools give, to please all, but their own.  
736. Prosperity lets go the bridle.  
737. The friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.  
738. To be too busy gets contempt.  
739. February makes a bridge and March breaks it.  
740. A horse stumbles that hath four legs.  
741. The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children.  
742. That's the best gown that goes up and down the house.  
743. The market is the best garden.  
744. The first dish pleaseth all.  
745. The higher the Ape goes, the more he shows his tail.  
746. Night is the mother of counsels.  
747. God's Mill grinds slow, but sure.  
748. Every one thinks his sack heaviest.  
749. Drought never brought dearth.  
750. All complain.  
751. Gamesters and race-horses never last long.  
752. It's a poor sport that's nor worth the candle.  
753. He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.  
754. Every one is witty for his own purpose.  
755. A little let lets an ill workman.  
756. Good workmen are seldom rich.  
757. By doing nothing we learn to do ill.  
758. A great dowry is a bed full of brabbles.  
759 No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.  
760. Every sin brings its punishment with it.  
761. Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the words.  
762. You cannot hide an eel in a sack.  
763. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.  
764. You cannot flay a stone.  
765. The chief disease that reigns this year is folly.  
766. A sleepy master makes his servant a lout.  
767. Better speak truth rudely, then lie covertly.  
768. He that fears leaves, let him not go into the wood.  
769 One foot is better than two crutches.  
770. Better suffer ill, then do ill.  
771. Neither praise nor dispraise thyself, thy actions serve the turn.  
772. Soft and fair goes far.  
773. The constancy of the benefit of the year in their seasons, argues a Deity.  
774. Praise none to much, for all are fickle.  
775. It's absurd to warm one in his armour.  
776. Law suits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends.  
777. Nature draws more than ten teems.  
778. He that hath a wife and children wants not business.  
780. A ship and a woman are ever repairing.  
781. He that fears death lives not.  
782. He that pities another, remembers himself.  
783. He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.  
784. He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.  
785. He that once hits, is ever bending.  
786. He that serves, must serve.  
787. He that lends, gives.  
788. He that preacheth giveth alms.  
789. He that cockers his child, provides for his enemy.  
790. A pitiful look asks enough.  
791. Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.  
792. Service is no Inheritance.  
793. The faulty stands on his guard.  
794. A kinsman, a friend, or whom you entreat, take not to serve you, if you will be served neatly.  
795. At Court, every one for himself.  
796. To a crafty man, a crafty and an half.  
797. He that is thrown, would ever wrestle.  
798. He that serves well needs not ask his wages.  
799 fair language grates not the tongue.  
800 A good heart cannot lie.  
801. Good swimmers at length are drowned.  
802 Good land, evil way.  
803. In doing we learn.  
804. It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.  
805. God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.  
806. An ill deed cannot bring honour.  
807. A small heart hath small desires.  
808. All are not merry that dance lightly.  
809. Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.  
810 Wine-Counsels seldom prosper.  
811. Weening is not measure.  
812. The best of the sport is to do the deed, and say nothing.  
813. If thou thyself canst do it, attend no others help or hand.  
814. Of a little thing a little displeaseth.  
815. He warms too near that burns.  
816. God keep me from four houses, an usurers, a tavern, a spital, and a Prison.  
817. In hundred else of contention, there is not an inch of love.  
818. Do what thou oughtest, and come what come can.  
819. Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.  
820. In a long journey straw weighs.  
821. Women laugh when they can, and weep when they will.  
822. War is death's feast.  
823. Set good against evil.  
824. He that brings good news knocks hard.  
825. Beat the dog before the lion.  
826. Hast comes not alone.  
827. You must lose a fly to catch a trout.  
828. Better a snotty child, than his nose wiped off.  
829. No prison is fair, nor love foul.  
830. He is not free that draws his chain.  
831. He goes not out of his way, that goes to a good inn.  
833. There come nought out of the sack but what was there.  
834. A little given seasonably, excuses a great gift.  
835. He looks not well to himself that looks not ever.  
836. He thinks not well, that thinks not again.  
837. Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.  
838. The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.  
839. A white wall is the paper of a fool.  
840. They talk of Christmas so long, that it comes.  
841. That is gold which is worth gold.  
842. It's good tying the sack before it be full.  
843. Words are women, deeds are men.  
844. Poverty is no sin.  
845. A stone in a well is not lost.  
846. He can give little to his servant, that licks his knife.  
847. Promising is the eve of giving.  
848. He that keeps his own makes war.  
849. The wolf must die in his own skin.  
850. Goods are theirs that enjoy them.  
851. He that sends a fool expects one.  
852. He that can stay obtains.  
853. He that gains well and spends well, needs no count book.  
854. He that endures, is not overcome.  
855. He that gives all, before he dies provides to suffer.  
856. He that talks much of his happiness summons grief.  
857. He that loves the tree, loves the branch▪  
858. Who hastens a glutton chokes him.  
859. Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.  
860. He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.  
861. He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.  
862. Green wood makes a hot fire.  
863. He that marries late, marries ill.  
864. He that passeth a winter's day escapes an enemy.  
865. The Rich knows not who is his friend.  
866. A morning sun, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldom end well.  
867. To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.  
868 A pleasure long expected, is dear enough sold.  
869. A poor man's Cow dies rich man's child.  
870. The Cow knows not what her tail is worth, till she have lost it.  
871. Choose a horse made, and a wife to make.  
872. It's an ill air where we gain nothing.  
873. He hath not lived, that lives not after death.  
874. So many men in Court and so many strangers.  
875. He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.  
876. That which sufficeth is not little.  
877. Good news may be told at any time, but ill in the morning.  
878. He that would be a Gentleman, let him go to an assault.  
879. Who pays the physician, does the cure.  
880. None knows the weight of another's burden.  
881. Every one hath a fool in his sleeve.  
882. One hours' sleep before midnight, is worth three after.  
883. In a retreat the lame are foremost.  
884. It's more pain to do nothing then something.  
885. Amongst good men two men suffice.  
886. There needs a long time to know the world's pulse.  
887. The offspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.  
888. A Tyrant is most tyrant to himself.  
889. Too much taking heed is loss.  
890. Craft against craft, makes no living.  
891. The Reverend are ever before.  
892. France is a meadow that cuts thrice a year.  
893. 'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintain one.  
894. The Court hath no almanac.  
895. He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.  
896. When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the door.  
897. He hath no leisure who useth it not.  
898. It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's garner.  
899. He that deals in the world needs four seeves.  
900. Take heed of an ox before, of an horse behind, of a monk on all sides.  
901. The year doth nothing else but open and shut.  
902. The ignorant hath an eagle's wings, and an owls eyes.  
903. There are more physicians in health than drunkards.  
904. The wife is the key of the house.  
905. The Law is not the same at morning and at night.  
906. War and physic are governed by the eye.  
907. Half the world knows not how the other half lies.  
908. Death keeps no calendar.  
909. Ships fear fire more than water.  
910. The least foolish is wise.  
911. The chief box of health is time.  
912. Silks and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.  
913. The first blow is as much as two.  
914. The life of man is a winter way.  
915. The way is an ill neighbour.  
916. An old man's staff is the rapper of death's door.  
917. Life is half spent before we know, what it is.  
918. The singing man keeps his shop in his throat.  
919. The body is more dressed than the soul.  
920. The body is sooner dressed than the soul.  
921. The physician owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little money.  
922. The little cannot be great, unless he devour many.  
923. Time undermines us.  
924. The choleric drinks, the melancholic eats; the phlegmatic sleeps.  
925. The apothecary's mortar spoils the Luters music.  
926. Conversation makes one what he is.  
927. The deaf gains the injury.  
928. Years know more than books.  
929. Wine is a turncoat (first a friend, than an enemy.)  
930. Wine ever pays for his lodging.  
931. Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.  
932. Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunk.  
933. Trees eat but once.  
934. Armour is light at table.  
935. Good horses make short miles.  
936. Castles are forests of stones.  
937. The dainties of the great, are the tears of the poor.  
938. Parson's are souls waggoners.  
939. Children when they are little make parents' fools, when they are great they make them mad.  
940 The Mr. absent, and the house dead.  
941. Dogs are fine in the field  
942. Sins are not known till they be acted.  
943. Thorns whiten yet do nothing▪  
944. All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.  
945. The great put the little on the hook.  
946. The great would have none great and the little all little.  
947 The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germans in the deed, the French after the deed.  
949. Every mile is two in winter.  
950. Spectacles are deaths Harquebuzo.  
951. Lawyer's houses are built on the heads of fools.  
952. The house is a fine house, when good folk are within.  
953. The best bred have the best portion.  
954. The first and last frosts are the worst.  
955. Gifts enter everywhere without a wimble.  
956. Princes have no way.  
957. Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.  
958. The Citizen is at his business before he rise.  
959. The eyes have one language everywhere.  
960. It is better to have wings than horns.  
961. Better be a fool then a knave.  
962. Count not four except you have them in a wallet.  
963. To live peaceably with all breeds good blood.  
964. You may be on land, yet not in a garden.  
965. You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.  
966. We know not who lives or dies.  
967. An ox is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.  
968. Many things are lost for want of asking.  
969. No churchyard is so handsome, that a man would desire straight to be buried there.  
970. City's are taken by the ears.  
971. Once a year a man may say▪ on his conscience.  
972. We leave more to do when we die, than we have done.  
973. With customs we live well, but laws undo us.  
674. To speak of an Vsurrer at the table mars the wine.  
975. Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose.  
976. For a morning rain leave not your journey.  
977. One fair day in winter makes not birds merry.  
278. He that learns a trade hath a purchase made.  
979. When all men have, what belongs to them, it cannot be much.  
980. Though God take the sun out of the Heaven yet we must have patience.  
981. When a man sleeps, his head is in his stomach.  
982. When one is on horseback he knows all things.  
983. When God is made master of a family, he orders the disorderly.  
984. When a Lackey comes to hell's door the devils lock the gates.  
985. He that is at ease, seeks dainties.  
986. He that hath charge of souls, transports them not in bundles.  
987. He that tells his wife news is but newly married.  
988. He that is in a town in May, loseth his spring.  
989. He that is in a tavern, thinks he is in a vine-garden.  
990. He that praiseth himself, spartereth himself.  
991. He that is a master must serve (another.)  
992. He that is surprised with the first frost, feels it all the winter after.  
993. He a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.  
994. He that follows the Lord hopes to go before.  
995. He that dies without the company of good men, puts not himself into a good way.  
996 Who hath no head, needs no hat.  
997. Who hath no haste in his business, mountains to him seem valleys.  
998. Speak not of my debts, unless you mean to pay them.  
999. He that is not in the wars is not out of danger.  
1000 He that gives me small gifts, would have me live.  
1001. He that is his own Counsellor, knows nothing sure but what he hath laid out.  
1002. He that hath lands hath quarrels.  
1003. He that goes to bed thirsty, riseth healthy.  
1004. Who will make a door of gold must knock a nail every day.  
1005. A trade is better than service.  
1006. He that lives in hope danceth without music.  
1007. To review one's store is to mow twice.  
1008. Saint Luke was a Saint and a physician, yet is dead.  
1009. Without business debauchery.  
1010. Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.  
1011. Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.  
1012. If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.  
1013. Little losses amaze, great, tame.  
1014 choose none for thy servant, who have served thy betters.  
1015. Service without reward is punishment.  
1016. If the husband be not at home, there is nobody.  
1017. An oath that is not to be made, is not to be kept.  
1018. The eye is bigger than the belly.  
1019. If you would be at ease, all the world is not.  
1020. Were it not for the bone in the leg, all the world would turn Carpenters (to make them crutches.)  
1021. If you must fly, fly well.  
1022. All that shakes falls not.  
1023. All beasts of prey, are strong or treacherous.  
1024. If the brain sows not corn, it plants thistles.  
1025. A man well mounted, is ever choleric.  
1026. Every one is a master and servant.  
1027. A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.  
1028. One month doth nothing without another.  
1029. A master of straw eats a servant of steel.  
1030. An old cat sports not with 〈◊〉 prey  
1031. A woman conceals what she knows not.  
1032. He that wipes the child's nose, kisseth the mother's cheek.  
FINIS.