PROVERBS 

English,  
French,  
Dutch,  
Italian,  
and Spanish.   All Englished and Alphabetically Digested.  
By N. R. Gent.  
LONDON, Printed for Simon Mi●dar at the Star in Paul's Churchyard, 1659.   

TO THE Judicious READER.  
HAving long since, upon the Advice of my Friends, begun a Collection of Proverbs, which I had finished, had I not fell ●nto that misfortune that doth commonly attend upon the greatest Resolutions; I mean, I could not perfect what I begun, by reason of some occasions that did interpose: Wherefore I was constrained to lay it aside till a more favourable aspect would countenance my endeavours. Now having an opportunity, I have Published that which the greatest Students of our time did never set upon.  
I need not tell you how useful those Sentences are for your Knowledge, that there is nothing more Elegant or Eloquent, then to intermix in your serious Discourse, these Proverbs, to illustrate your stile in writing; and this is the greatest use. There happens many times, that a man cannot find Expressions readily for a Noble Intention, but in a way that is either too common for the manner, or too mean for the matter; now in such a pinch, to clap in an honest Proverb, the aptness of the phrase, and festivity of the Joke, contributes satisfaction to the Writer, and pleasure to the Reader. Now here you have, with much labour, Collected almost all the Proverbs spoken, whether in English, French, Dutch, Italian, or Spanish; and all suitable to the capacity of the Reader, and so methodically in Alphabet disposed, that at the first sight almost, a man may furnish himself according to his Occasion. Thus wishing you the same content in the Reading that I had in the writing, I remain  
Your Friend N. R.   

REader, be pleased to take notice, that there is now in the Press, and will be Extent about Michalmas Term, in folio, Eighteen Books of rare Secrets, Collected out of the choicest Authors, both Ancient and Modern; first designed by John Wecker Dr of Physic, augmented and much enlarged by Dr R. Read. The like never before in the English Tongue.   

PROVERBS English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, etc.  


A Fool's bolt is soon shot.—  
As good lost as found.  
A Candle lights others, and consumes itself.  
An ill wound may be cured, not an ill Name.  
A barren Woman can never be satisfied.  
A Poet in adversity can hardly make Verses.  
A huge Building, a low Foundation.  
All who come into a Church, say not their Prayers.  
A Fool and wealth, cannot possess each other.  
A clear bargain, a dear Friend.  
Affections are the wings of the soul.  
A good Winter brings a good Summer.  
A Cat may look on a King.  
A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel.  
An unhappy Boy makes a good man.  
A carrion Kite will never be a good Hawk.  
A bow long bend, at last waxeth weak.  
A close mouth catcheth no flies.  
A good beginning, a good ending.  
A hungry belly hath no ears.  
At length the Fox turns Monk.  
A Cur will by't, before he bark.  
As lecherous as a cock-sparrow.  
A dog hath a day.  
Agree, for the Law is costly.  
A Friend will help at a dead lift.  
A Place, or Office discovers a man, what he is.  
As tender as a Priests Lemmon.  
A broken sleeve, holdeth the arm back.  
A full Purse, and a fat Bribe, command contention.  
An old Drunkard is hardly reclaimed.  
A fool and his money is soon parted.  
After meat mustard.  
At Court every one for himself.  
A Friend is not so soon gotten, as lost.  
An idle man seldom virtuous.  
After black clouds, clear weather.  
A House and a Woman suit excellently.  
A cool mouth and warm feet livelong.  
A fool may throw a stone in a Well, which a hundred wise men cannot get out.  
A Friend in Court is worth a penny in Purse.  
After a storm comes a calm.  
A heart content hath the world at command.  
A Physician hath three faces.  
A Friend is never known, till a man hath need.  
All covet, all lose.  
A diligent Scholar, and the Masters paid.  
A good man can no more harm, than a Sheep.  
A Ship and a Woman are ever repairing.  
As fit as a Pudding for a Friar's mouth.  
A calm pretends a storm.  
A living Dog is better than a dead Lyon.  
A good tale ill told, in the telling is marred.  
A vapourer in words, but not in deeds.  
A low hedge is easily leapt over.  
A short Grace, and a long Thanksgiving.  
A good Jack maketh a good Gill.  
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.  
After Dinner sit a while, after Supper walk a mile.  
A scold, a whore, and a slut, makes a man's life uncomfortable.  
A good Neighbour, a good-morrow.  
An ill Bird lays a naughty Egg.  
An idle head is a box for the wind.  
A grunting Horse, and a groaning Wife, never fail their Masters.  
A Friend in a corner, is better than money in a man's Purse.  
A wonder lasteth but nine days.  
A man is praised by his Land.  
Alms never makes poor.  
Age and Wedlock, tames man and Beast.  
A good Name is sufficient Wealth.  
A swine overfat is cause of his own bane.  
As good sleep together, as do nothing.  
All is well, that ends well.  
A ragged Colt may make a good Horse.  
All the proof a Pudding is in the eating.  
As good sit still, as rise up and fall.  
A man knows not the worth of a thing, till he wants it.  
As good sit still, as be idle.  
An ill weed grows apace.  
A bad man hath ever bad conditions.  
A sleeping man is no better than a dead man.  
A good Poet, an evil Person.  
As soon goes the young Lamb's skin to the Market, as the old one.  
An Ox is bound by his horns, a man by his word.  
A Rat may very ill plead Law.  
A sweet tree yields savoury fruit.  
An old Cat laps as much, as a young Kitlin.  
A Guest and a fish at three day's end, grow musty.  
A bad Judge hath bad conditions.  
A white wall, is a fools paper.  
An old man, unfit for a young woman.  
A dull Servant was never good for his Master, nor himself.  
A Mouse, in time, may by't in two a Cable.  
As I brew, so must I needs drink.  
An interprizing fool, needs little wit.  
A piece of a Kid is worth two of a Cat.  
At a round Table there is no dispute of place.  
A learned Wife seldom proves good.  
Ask my companion, whether I am a Thief.  
A man may bring a Horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink without he will.  
A hard beginning hath a good ending.  
A young Saint, an old Devil.  
As good to play for nought, as work for nought.  
A gadding Hen, and a Housewife, are soon lost.  
All that the Clerk gets, his punk devours.  
A pennyworth of ease is worth two in a man's Purse.  
A man of straw, is worth a woman of gold.  
A son of a whore never did well.  
A hard fought Field, where no man scapeth unkiled.  
A desperate debt takes any satisfaction.  
A words enough to the wise.  
As deep drinketh the Goosse, as the Gander.  
A poor dog, that is not worth the whistling.  
A hasty man never wants woe.  
A honey tongue, a heart of gall.  
A man far from his good is nigh his harm.  
All is not gold, that glisters.  
As proud comes behind, as before.  
A little pot is soon hot.  
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.  
A proud horse, that will not bear his own provender.  
A scald head is soon broken.  
A leg of a Lark, is worth the body of a Kite.  
As long liveth a merry man, as a sad.  
A long Harvest, of a little Corn.  
A shrew profitable may serve a man reasonable.  
All is well with him, that is beloved of his neighbours.  
A full belly neither fights nor flies well.  
A false knave needs no broker.  
An unhappy boy makes a good man.  
A short Horse is soon curried.  
As the old Cock croweth so the young followeth.  
A scald horse is good enough for a scabbed Squire.  
A man is not so soon healed as hurt.  
A man may buy gold to dear.  
A cursed dog must be tied short.  
A right fool forgets himself.  
All shall be well when Jack shall have a Gill.  
An inch breaketh no Squares.  
As the bell tinks, the fool thinks.  
As cold as charity.  
An unbidden guest knows not where to sit.  
All is fish, that come to net.  
All fools are sots, but all sots are not fools.  
A fool gins strife, a wise man ends business.  
A bungler seldom fits himself with good tools.  
A good paymaster starts not at assurances.  
An ill Cook, that cannot lick his own finger.  
A fool oft finds himself short of his reckoning.  
An inch in a miss, is as good as an ell.  
As a man is friended, so the Law is ended.  
An old Dog biteth sore.  
A heavy Purse makes a light heart.  
A man may hold his peace in an ill time.  
A babbler wearieth all the company.  
An idle Husband, and empty walls, makes a light Housewife.  
A maid that giveth, yields.  
A hook well lost to get a Salmon.  
A hot Winter makes a full Churchyard.  
A Bird in hand is worth two in the bush.  
An honest woman is much worth.  
A fool brooks any disgrace.  
A false tongue can hardly speak truth.  
An evening red, and a morning grey, are hopeful signs of a fair day.  
A word hurts more than a wound.  
A fly hath a spleen.  
A woman that hath lost her shame, hath lost her respect, and her good Name.  
A handful of good life, is better than a bushel of learning.  
All came from, and will go to others.  
A Lion's skin is never cheap.  
A crooked lie, makes a strait fie.  
A Merchant that gaineth not, looseth.  
A bad Dog never sees the Wolf.  
An old sack asketh much patching.  
A woman and a glass are ever in danger.  
A woman conceals what she knows not.  
As good be merry as sad.  
A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.  
All truths are not to be told.  
A pure beauty finds more Lovers than Husbands.  
A house pulled down is half built up.  
An after wit is every bodies wit.  
A virtuous Wife is worth a Diadem.  
As blind as a mole.  
An ill Wife that grows not worse, is not of the Wives the worst.  
Anger and hearts ease are utter enemies.  
A man must fish with a silver hook.  
A good stomach is the best sauce.  
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, too much for three.  
A gentle housewife mars the Household.  
A broken sack will hold no corn.  
A faithful friend what good may he do us?  
A traveller may lie by authority.  
A man will not lose a Hog for a half penny worth of a tar.  
A man must creep before he go.  
All Joy hath sad effects in a troubled heart.  
A muzzled Cat was never good mouser.  
A man will be a man though he have but a hose on his head.  
A good Winter brings a good Summer.  
A bribe entereth every where without knocking.  
A dwarf on a Giants shoulders sees further of the two.  
An Ass, though slow, if provoked, will kick.  
A Wolf casts his hair, but not his malice.  
A frog cannot out of her bog.  
A tongue hath no bone in it, yet it breaks one's back.  
As welcome as water into a Ship.  
A fair Wife, and a fronteir Castle, breed quarrels.  
All Carriers are not Knaves, some have souls to be saved.  
A fair death honours the life.  
A knife that cuts not, and a friend that is worth nought, value not.  
A light burden carried far, proves heavy.  
As fit as a saddle for a Sow.  
A thing done by force is not worth a rush.  
A good bargain is a pickpurse.  
Autumnal agues are long or mortal.  
A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his Master.  
Ambition looseth many a man.  
An honest heart cannot dissemble.  
A cheerful look makes a dish a Feast.  
All manner of vices are in a Gamester.  
A good meal, a bad meal, and a middling meal, preserves a man in health.  
A proud mind, and a beggar's purse, goes together.  
A body is esteemed, according as he values himself.  
A chip of the old block.  
A rolling stone gathers no Moss.  
An empty bag cannot stand upright.  
A virtuous mind, and an honest hand, carries a man all over the world.  
All that's given to a fool, is cast away.  
A small rain allays a great wind.  
A cask, and an ill custom, must be broken.  
At length the Fox is brought to the Furrier.  
A guilty conscience is evermore suspicious, and full of fear.  
A man had better have a Knave, than a fool, to his Servant.  
A young Servingman, and old beggar.  
A fat Housekeeper makes a lean Executor.  
A silent tongue, and a true heart, did never any hurt to a Servant.  
A man is known by his Wine, by his anger, and by his money.  
A young man idle, and old man needy.  
A gazing and gadding maid, seldom proves good Housewife.  
A Gentleman's Grayhound, and a Salt-box, seek them at the fire.  
A disarmed Peace, is weak.  
Astrology is true, but the Astrologers cannot find it.  
At the Gmes end we shall see who wins.  
A holy habit cleareth not a foul soul.  
A little labour, much health.  
A seasonable gathering, and a reasonable spending, makes a good House-keeping.  
A flatterer's throat, is an open Sepulchre.  
A good renown is better than a golden girdle.  
A maid often seen is a garment often worn.  
An old wise man's shadow, is better than a young buzzards sword.  
A man's House is his Castle.  
A hat is not made for one shower.  
A covetous man is never rich.  
Assail who will the valiant attends.  
An idle youth makes a needy old age.  
A sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.  
A poor man's life is secure from harm.  
A man may be deceived when he thinks himself most sure.  
A gift much expected, is paid not given.  
An old Physician and a young Lawyer.  
A little wind kindles much, putteth out a fire.  
A sceptre is one thing and a ladle another.  
A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.  
A sleepy Master makes his Servant a lout.  
Afflictions are sent us by God for our good.  
Adversity makes men wise.  
A man without money is a body without life.  
A snow year a rich year.  
A penny spared is twice got.  
A small heart hath small desires.  
A pleasure long expected is dear enough sold.  
A tyrant is most tyrant to himself.  
A Trade is better than Service.  
All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.  
An ill agreement is better than a good judgement.  
A piece of a Churchyard fits many a man's body.  
A Jade eats as much as a good Horse.  
An ill deed cannot bring honour.  
A little given seasonable excuseth a great gift.  
An old man's staff is the rapper at death's door.  
An Ox is taken by the horns a man by his tongue.  
All that shakes falls not.  
An old cat sport's not with her prey.  
After death the Doctor.  
All the arms in England will not arm fear.  
A fair day in Winter is Mother of a Storm.  
A man is known to be mortal by sleep and lust.  
A man's destiny is always dark.  
A great Ship asks deep waters.  
A wise man need not blush for changing his purpose.  
An examined enterprise goes on boldly.  
A good Salad the beginning of a bad Supper.  
A drunkard's purse is a bottle.  
A Garden should be dressed and looked to as the body.  
A dog scalded with hot water is afterward afraid of cold.  
A pitiful Mother makes a scabbed daughter.  
A disorder begets another.  
An old sin a new penance.  
A wall without a cross, a Knight without money, is abused by every one.    


BEware the Geese when the Fox preaches.  
Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of Salt with him.  
Blind men can judge no colours.  
Better fed then taught.  
Between the hand and the lip the morsel is lost.  
Bastards by chance are good, by nature bad.  
Birds of a feather will flock together.  
Bad words finds bad acceptance.  
Better a snoty child then his nose wiped off.  
Black will take no other hue.  
Brag's a good dog.  
Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton.  
 child dreads the fire.  
By Peace plenty.  
Bachelors Wives, and Maid's Children are well taught.  
By scratching and biting cats and dogs comes together.  
By shaving a fool many learn to shear.  
By wisdom Peace.  
Black Ox hath not trod on his foot.  
Be it better be it worse, be ruled by him that bears the purse.  
Beat the dog before the Lyon.  
Bare walls makes giddy housewives.  
Believe well and have well.  
Beggar's should be no choosers.  
By Suppers more have been killed then Galen ever cured.  
Build castles in the air.  
Better fill a glutton's belly then his eye.  
Better a bare foot than none.  
Better be envied then pitied.  
Better eye out then half awake.  
Better children weep then old men.  
Building and marrying of children are great wasters.  
Beauty draws more than Oxen.  
Be as it may is no banning.  
Better spare to have of thine own then ask others.  
Better fed then taught.  
Better late than never.  
Building is chargeable.  
Bread with holes, cheese without holes, and wine that sparkles into the eyes, are the best.  
Better speak truth rudely then lie covertly.  
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.  
Better leave than lack.  
Better suffer ill then do ill.  
Bear with evil and expect good.  
Building is a sweet impoverishing.  
Better half a loaf than no bread.  
Beware of had-I-wist.  
Bad Husbands are as necessary in a Commonwealth as good.  
Between two stools the tail comes to the ground.  
Better be an old man's darling, than a young man's warling.  
Better a bad excuse than none at all.  
Buy a horse ready man'd but a Wife unmanned.  
Brabbling curs never want soar ears.  
Better unborn than untaught.  
Better the feet slip then the tongue.  
Benefits please like flowers when they are fresh.  
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.  
Be what thou wouldst seem to be.  
Better to rule then be ruled by the rout.  
Better to bow then break.  
Better come to the latter end of a Feast then the beginning of a fray.  
Better be half hanged then ill wed.  
Better to be happy then wise.  
Better spare at brim than bottom.  
Bashfulness is a sign of grace.  
Before thou marry have thy dwelling house.  
Beauty is no heritage.  
Better is an egg in peace then an Ox in war.  
Better a louse in the Pot than no flesh at all.  
Better sit still then rise and fall.  
Better one bird in the hand then ten in the wood.  
By biting and scratching the Cat is with Kitlin.  
Better good afar off then ill near at hand.  
Buy at a Fair but sell at home.    


CHildren and fools tell the truth.  
Custom is a second nature.  
Can Jackanapes be merry when his dog is at his heels?  
Children learn to creep before they go.  
Critics are like brushers of noble men's .  
Castles are Fortresses of stone.  
Counsel without a cure, is a body without a soul.  
Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing.  
Cursed cows have short horns.  
Cunning is no burden.  
Covetousness breaks the bag.  
Cut your coat according to your cloth.  
Cat after kind.  
City's seldom change Religion only.  
Courtesy on one only side lasts not long.  
Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings.  
Civil Wars of France made a million of Atheists and 30000 Witches.  
Cruelty is more cruel if we defer the pain.  
Children when little, makes Parents fools, when great mad.  
Comparisons are odious.  
Close sits my shirt but closer my skin.  
Christmas comes but once a year.  
 adorn Paul's.  
Change of pasture makes fat calves.  
Children and chickens are always a feeding.  
Care brings grey hairs.  
Change of Women make bald knaves.  
Conscience is hanged up long ago.  
Claw a churl by the arse, and he will shit in thy face.  
Cloth thee in War, arm thee in Peace.  
Counsel breaks not the head.  
Craft against craft makes no living.  
Civility gains more than strength of arms.  
Coin moves men to rage.  
Conversation makes one what he is.  
Corn is cleaned with wind the soul with chastenings.  
Cover yourself with your Shield and care not for cries.  
Choose none for thy servant who hath served thy betters.  
Change of Country, change of Fortune.  
Conditions breaks Laws.    


DO well and have well.  
Dally not with money nor women.  
Disgraces are like cherries one draws another.  
Deadly heavy and full of sin.  
Dancing follows a full belly.  
Desires torments us and hope comfort us.  
Dear bought and far fetched is good for Ladies.  
Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.  
Dogs barking a loof by't not at hand.  
Dinner cannot be long where dainties are wanting.  
Divine ashes are better than earthly meat.  
Desires are nourished by delay.  
Drink after grief goes merrily down.  
Death and the Grave make no distinction of persons.  
Dogs begin in jest and end in earnest.  
Deceive not thy Physician, Confessor or Lawyer.  
Dry bread is better at home then roast-meat abroad.  
Divine grace was never flow.  
Drought never brought a dearth.  
Do what thou ought and come what can.  
Discreet Women have neither keys nor ears.  
Do well for others yet look to yourself.  
Debtors are liars.  
Diseases of the eyes are to be tured with the elbow.  
Dearths foreseen come not.  
Days are fine in the field.  
Death keeps no Calendar.  
Deeds are▪ Males words are Females.    


EVery one that is in black is not▪ not a Scholar.  
Evening words are not like to mornning.  
Every house in Malagon hath a thief of his own.  
Every mile is two in Winter.  
Enough is as good as a Feast.  
Every one fastens where there is gain.  
Every dog is a Lion at home.  
Even reckon make long friends.  
Every Ape. thinks his Puppy the fairest.  
Every man's conscience is first moulded in his own nature.  
Every one puts his fault on the times.  
Expectation torments.  
Ever since we wear , we know not one another.  
Every cock is proud on his own dung hill.  
Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.  
Every man cannot hit the nail on the head.  
Ever spare and ever bare.  
Ever drunk ever dry.  
Every fool will be meddling.  
Early-pricks that will be a thorn.  
Essex styles, Kentish miles, Norfolk wiles, many men beguiles.  
Eaten bread is forgot.  
Every one is not merry that dances.  
Every one is King in his own house.  
Every one hath a fool in his sleeve.  
Every thing is of use to a Housekeeper.  
Every thing new is fine.  
Every man is bound to have a good conscience.  
Every one is witty for his own purpose.  
Every Bees Honey is sweet.  
Every one as she liketh, quoth the good woman when she kissed her Cow.  
Every man basteth the fat hog.  
Every one after his own fashion.  
Empty vessels sound most.  
Every man cannot be honest that would.  
Every one can rule a shrew save he that hath her.  
Evil gotten goods never prove well.  
Every man for himself and God for us all.  
Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.  
Every thing helps, quoth the Wren when she pissed in the Sea.  
Every day brings its bread with it.  
Evil will never said well.  
Empty Chambers makes foolish maids.  
Every man hath his ill day.  
Every labour will have its reward.  
Even some old Foxes are taken in the snare.  
Every Fox loves a Hen-rust.  
Every medal hath its right side and its wrong.    


FIne words dress ill deeds.  
For one pleasure a thousand sorrows.  
For washing his hands none sells his Lands.  
Fair words makes me look to my Purse.  
From good men comes goodness.  
Fear nothing but sin.  
Fools live poor to die rich.  
Fortune to one is a mother, another a stepmother.  
Favour will as surely perish as life.  
Few words and many deeds is best.  
Fools by't one another but wise men agree together.  
Foolish tongues talk by the dozen.  
Fair is not fair but that which pleaseth.  
Fair language grates not the tongue.  
Fair feathers makes fair fowls.  
Far fetched and dear bought is good for Ladies.  
For a desperate debt take any satisfaction.  
From a foolish Judge a quick sentence.  
Fish without wine is poison.  
Far shooting never killed bird.  
Fools have Fortune.  
Fools are wise as long as silent.  
For poor men to keep places for their pleasure is their ruin.  
Few words to the wise suffice.  
Flies are busiest about lean Horses.  
First come first served.  
Fair words and large promises pacify anger.  
From a choleric man withdraw a little, from him that says nothing for ever.  
First deserve and then desire.  
Foul in the Cradle proveth fair in the saddle.  
Fools lad the water and wise men catch the fish.  
Faint heart never won fair Lady.  
Fears are divided in the midst.  
Far and softly goes fare.  
Fools set stools for wise folks to stumble at.  
Few Lawyers die well.  
Fast bind fast find.  
Fair without foul within.  
First creep then go.  
Frost and fraud have always foul ends.  
From three things God keep us, from Powder'd-beef without mustard, from a servant that vieweth himself, a wife that is painted.  
France is a meadow that cuts thrice a year.  
Fools with fair words are pleased.  
Few Physicians live well.  
Full of courtesy full of craft.  
Fair words hurts not the mouth.  
Foul water will quench fire as well as fair.  
Fish must ever swim twice.  
Folly it is to spurn against a prick.  
From women light and liquorish, good fortune still deliver us.  
Forsake not the Market for the tolle.  
Forbear not sowing because of Birds.  
Folly grows without watering.  
Four good Mothers beget four bad Daughters, Great familiarity contempt, Truth hatred, Virtue envy, Riches ignorance.  
For the same man to be a heretic and a good Subject is impossible.  
Fair dressing is a foul house swept before the door.  
Fools give to please all but their own.  
Frenzy, heresy, and jealousy seldom cured.  
From my friends God defend me, from my enemies I can keep myself.  
First come to the Mill first grind.    


GOod to be merry and wise.  
God sends meat the Devil sends cooks.  
Give a dog roast and beat him with the spit.  
Good words are worth much and cost little.  
Good words quench more than a bucket of water.  
Gaming Women and Wine, whilst they laugh make men pine.  
Give a Woman what she should have, and what she would have, and she will be quiet.  
Great rye and little wool.  
Give an inch and you will take an ell.  
Good  put a man in heart.  
God sendeth cold after .  
Great strokes makes not sweet music.  
Good workmen are seldom rich.  
Govern the mouth by the estate.  
Gifts enter every where without a Wimble.  
God sends cool according to .  
God sendeth fortune to fools.  
Great fortune brings with it great misfortune.  
Good words cost nought.  
Great boast small roast.  
God never sendeth mouths but he sendeth meat.  
Gamesters drink and Fiddlers Wives are free for all comers.  
Good Wine needs no bush.  
Good cheap commodities are notable pick-purses.  
God gives his wrath by weight and without weight his mercy.  
God sends cursed Cows short horns.  
Good riding at two Anchors if one fail the other will hold.  
God sends corn the Devil makes the sack.  
Great is the Harvest the abundant gather.  
God's secrets are concealed from men  
Gamesters and Race-horses never last long.  
Great allowing lessens no man's living.  
Good stomach needs no sauce.  
Good news may be told at any time, but ill in the morning.  
Green wood makes a hot fire.  
Goods are theirs that enjoy them.  
God's Mill grinds slow but sure.  
Give a clown your finger and he will take your hand.  
Good service is a great enchantment.  
Good is to be sought out and evil attended.  
God is at the end when we think he is furthest of.  
Good and quickly seldom meet.  
Good fortune still delivers any.  
Good restorers make good lender's.  
God heals and the Physician hath the thanks.  
God rewardeth the obedient.  
God, our Parents, and our Masters can never be requited.  
God favoureth and defendeth the wronged.  
Great pains quickly finds ease.  
God comes to see without a Bell.  
God complains not but doth what is fitting.  
Give loser's leave to talk.  
Great deformers grow intolerable presumers.  
God oft hath a great share in a little house.  
God keep me from four Houses, a Usurers, a Tavern, a Spittle, and a Prison.  
God provides for him that trusteth.  
Giving much to the poor, doth increase a man's store.  
God in the tongue, and the Devil in the heart.  
Gluttony kills more than the Sword.  
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.  
Giving is dead restoring very sick.    


HOney is sweet but the Bee stingeth.  
He that strikes with his tongue must ward with his head.  
He that marries for wealth sells his Liberty.  
He that tells his wife news is but newly married.  
He that hath a Fox for his mate had need have a net at his girdle.  
He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.  
He sits not sure, that sits too high.  
He who will know what he is worth, let him not be surety.  
He that marries late marries ill.  
Harken to Reason or she will be heard.  
He truly gins to die that quits his chief desire.  
He hath great need of a fool that will play the fool himself.  
Half a loaf is better than no bread.  
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.  
He that bewails his want hath begged sufficiently.  
He that stumbles and falls not mends his pace.  
He that will live in Peace and rest, must hear, and see, and say the best.  
He that gainsays not gives his full consent.  
He hath enough that's pleased.  
He that doth fight with silver is sure to overcome.  
He that cannot pay let him pray.  
He is least worthy of honour that seeks it.  
Hazard little to gain much.  
He that corrects not small faults, cannot control great ones.  
He that hath one eye is a King among the blind.  
He will play at small game before he will stand out.  
He that lies down with dogs must rise with fleas.  
He plays well that wins.  
He speaks me fair but wishes my throat cut.  
He dotes more than a fool on his babble.  
He that is man'd by Boys, and horsed with Colts, shall have his meat eaten, and his work undone.  
He that lives well is learned enough.  
He that hath not wherewithal to eat hath store of sorrows.  
He that will take the Bird let him not scare it.  
He is an Ass that hurts himself.  
He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.  
He that will learn to pray let him go to Sea.  
Hold with the Hare and run with the Hound.  
He that wants money wants all things.  
He is doubly fond that satisfies his fondness.  
He that sees what's good, and takes what is bad, is a wilful fool.  
He deserveth not to give Laws, who cannot endure to receive them.  
Hungry dogs will eat dirty Puddings.  
He may weep till his heart ache that hath no body comfort him.  
He that sends a Sea, is sure to lose his Venture.  
He hears with one ear that is deaf with the other.  
He that eats Cherries with his Love picks not the best.  
He that contemplates hath a day without a night.  
He that dares not trust to his hand had best to trust to his feet.  
He is a very Ass that thinks to live ever.  
He must needs go that the Devil drives.  
He that is warm thinks all so.  
He who hath but one day's felicity is unhappy all the year.  
He thinks not well that thinks not again.  
He barks at the Moon that endeavours to disparage truth.  
Half warned half armed.  
He that hopes for dead men's shoes may go long barefoot.  
He that studies his contentment overmuch ever wants it.  
He casts a mist before a man's eyes that puts money in his hand.  
Hunger will break through stone walls.  
He that hath spice may season as he list.  
He dances well to whom fortune pipes.  
He spent Michaelmas Rend in Midsummer Quarter.  
He hath an oar in every man's boat.  
He hath many Irons in the fire.  
He shall be called a Fool to his face, That doing well will quit his place.  
He is an Ass that cannot make use of his own.  
He that will have a Hare to breakfast must hunt over night.  
He that is at ease seeks vanities.  
He knows on which side his bread is buttered on.  
He is a good marksman that aims at the heel and hits the head.  
He that mounteth higher than he aught shall descend lower than he would.  
He that mischief hatcheth mischief catcheth.  
He loseth nothing that loseth not God.  
He that gives a Capon give him him the leg and the wing.  
He that doth that he ought not, that happens to him that he thinks not.  
How can the Foal amble when the Horse and Mare troth?  
Honour is troublesome.  
He that plays his money ought to value it.  
He beginneth to build to soon that hath not money to finish it.  
He that is angry at a Feast is rude.  
He shall never have a thing good cheap that is afraid to ask the price.  
He that is angry is not at ease.  
Hast makes waste.  
He mends as four Ale mends in Summer.  
He that hath times and looks for time loseth time.  
He that hath horns in his bosom let him not put them on his head.  
He is an ill Husband that is not missed.  
He can ill pipe that lacks his upper-lip.  
He that is afraid of every grass, must not piss in a Meadow.  
He throughly punishes that loves throughly.  
He never loved well that hated for a trifle.  
He that loves another better than himself starves in a Cook's Shop.  
He is a fool that throws at his heel what he hath in his hand.  
Half a word is enough to an understanding Reader.  
He that hath a fame of rising early may sleep till dinner.  
He that will eat the kernel let him crack the nur.  
He looseth the Market for the tolle.  
He goes far that never returns.  
He that lives ill fear follows him.  
Hunger and shame are mortal enemies.  
He that sends a fool means to follow him.  
He is as blind as a beetle.  
He hath a leaden head and a wooden wit.  
He that winketh with one eye, and seethe with the other, I will not trust him though he were my Brother.  
He stands not surely that never slipped.  
Health is a Jewel.  
Hell is full of good meanings and wish.  
He that sees his neighbour's house a fire must look to his own.  
He that soweth good seed shall reap good Corn.  
He holds his Nose to the Grindstone.  
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.  
Hot love soon cold.  
He is handsome that hansdome doth.  
Happy is he that Chastens himself.  
He that stays does the business.  
Hold fast when you have it.  
Hope well and have well.  
He had need have a long spoon that eat with the Devil.  
Happy is he that owes nothing.  
He leaves a place well that leaves a Friend in it.  
He that hath much shall have more.  
Hauger pierces stonewalls.  
Health without money is half a sickness.  
Honour is unseemly for a fool.  
His body is better clothed then his soul.  
He would make you believe the Moon is made of green Cheese.  
He is mad that quarrels with women or Beasts.  
He hath a conscience as large as a Fransiscans sleeve.  
He may ill run that cannot go.  
He that reckons without his host must reckon twice.  
He is happy that can be warned by others harms.  
Hunger hath always a good Cook.  
He makes a mountain of a molehill.  
He that goes far gains much.  
He maketh a long harvest of a little Corn.  
He is foolhardy.  
He that looseth his wife and six pence hath lost a Taster. Fr.  
He that hath an ill Name is half Hanged.  
He that kills a man when he is drunk, shall be hanged when he is sober.  
Home is home when all is done, or be it never so poor.  
Honour's should change manners.  
He doth little that doth not afford his hand as well as his head.  
He that lies long a-bed his Estate feels it.  
Handsome women without Portions, finds more sweetheart's then Husbands.  
Hunger is the best sauce.  
He that lives in hope danceth without music.  
He that will live long, must keep his mouth cool, his feet warm and dry.  
He that will not when he may,  
When he will he shall have nay.  
He that never drank was never adry.  
He that is angry without a cause, must be pleased without amends.  
He that will meddle with all things, may go shoe the Goose.  
He swears like an Abbot.  
He that buys a house ready built hath many a pin and nail for nought.  
He that leaves God, God will leave him.  
He that will not do ill must look well to himself.  
He that Riseth first is first dressed.  
He is proper that hath proper conditions.  
He that looks not before finds himself behind.  
He that plays more than he sees, forfeits his eyes to the King.  
Husty counsel seldom profitable.  
He that loves the tree loves the branch.  
He is to hasty to be a Parish Clerk.  
He is as sharp as a thorn.  
He is more busy than he hath thanks for his labour.  
He that hath not enough hath nothing.  
He gets enough that looseth nothing  
He that hath told good news need tell no more.  
He is an ass that gives flesh for bones.  
He that striketh with the sword, shall be beaten with the scabbard.  
Humble hearts have humble desires.  
He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.  
He that hath right hath courage.  
He that makes himself asleep the Wolf shall catch him.  
He pulls with a long Rope that waits for another's death.  
He that will revenge all wrongs shall sooner end himself then them.  
He gins to die that quits his desire.  
He that gets out of debt grows rich.  
He that is truly hungry, will not stick to eat any thing.  
He that is faulty turns coward.  
He laugheth that winneth.  
He that eats the hard shall eat the ripe.  
Haste makes waste.  
Here's a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either.  
He that comes last makes all fast.  
He that worst pays shall hold the Candle.  
He is no body.  
He stands for a Cipher.  
He that deceives me once, it is his fault; if twice, it is mine.  
He scorns the motion.  
He that will not beruled by his own dame, must be ruled by his stepdame,  
He overlooks him as the Devil looked over Lincoln.  
He that cannot dissemble knows not how to live.  
Hatred with Friends is secure to foes.  
He gets in the hundred but looseth in the shire.  
He giveth others good counsel but takes none himself.  
He that hath plenty of goods shall have more.  
He pulls an old House on his head.  
He is in a peck of troubles.  
Honour without profit is a Ring on the finger.  
He that will be served must be patiented.  
He that doth what he will doth not what he ought.  
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.  
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.  
He that takes not up a pin slights his his Wife.  
He that looseth his due gets not thanks.  
He that demands misseth not unless his demands be foolish.  
He that blames would buy.  
He that once deceives is ever suspected.  
He is a fool that brags of four things; Good wine, a handsome Wife, a handsome Horse, and good store of money.  
He that makes a good War makes a good Peace.  
He that hath love on his breast hath Spurs on his sides.  
He that respects not is not respected.  
He that speaks sows, and he that holds his Peace gathers.  
He that hath one hog makes him fat, and he that hath but one Son makes him a fool.  
Hope is the poor man's bread  
He that's long a giving knows not how to give.  
He that tells a secret is another's servant.  
Help thyself and God will help thee.  
He that commits a fault thinks every one speaks of it.  
He that lives well one year sorrows seven year after.  
He that trusts in a lie shall perish in truth.  
He that riseth betimes hath something in his head.  
He is a fool that thinks not that ather thinks.  
Hunger draws a Wolf out of the Forest.  
He that burns his house warms himself once.  
He spends ill that spends a whole years rend at one meal.  
He is not poor that hath little but he that desires much.  
He wrongs not an old man that steals his Supper from him.  
He that labours and thrives spins gold.  
He that soweth trusteth in God.  
He that is foolish in the thought let him be wise in the punishment.  
He that hath no good Trade it is to his loss.  
Happier are the hands compassed with iron then the heart with thoughts.  
He that lends gives.  
Hast comes not alone.  
He looks not well to himself that looks not ever.  
He can give little to his Servant that locks his knife.  
He that can stay obtains.  
He that gives all before he dies provides to suffer.  
He that hath not his Craft let him shut up shop.  
He that mocks a Cripple ought to be whole.  
He that goes far hath many encounters.  
He that cockers his child provides for his enemy.  
He is not free that draws his chain.  
He that keeps his own makes War.  
He that endures is not overcome.  
He that talks much of happiness summons grief.  
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.  
He that passeth a Winter's day escapes an enemy.  
He that is his own Counsellor knows nothing sure but what he hath laid out.  
He hath not lived that lives not after death.  
He that learns a Trade, hat a purchase made.  
He that is at ease seeks dainties.  
He that sows intends to reap.  
He that is in a Tavern thinks he is in a Vine Garden.  
He that is surprised with the first Frost feels it all the Winter after.  
He that follows the Lord hopes to go before.  
He that gives me small gifts would have me live.  
He that hath Laws hath quarrels.  
He that steals an egg will steal an Ox.  
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.  
He that is a Master must serve another.  
He is a fool that goes afoot for the ease of his horse.  
He a beast must die that hath done no good to his Country.  
He that is not in the Wars is not out of danger.  
He that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.  
Heaven is not to be got with wishing.  
He that will do thee a good turn, either he will be gone or die.  
He that is once born, once must die.  
He that makes himself asleep must be eat by the Wolves.  
He that's afraid of leaves goes not to the wood.  
Happiness cannot be attained in this world.  
Health and wealth makes men's lives comfortable.    


IT is better to give one Shilling away way than lend twenty.  
In a woman's Garment is her vanity.  
It is a shame to steal but a worse to carry home.  
Ill gotten ill spent.  
In love is no lack.  
Ill gotten goods never thrive.  
If the Wise erred not it would go hard with the fool.  
Ill putting a naked sword in a mad man's hand.  
It is not good to hold a Candle before the duel.  
In trust is Treason.  
In a good house all is quickly ready.  
Ill weeds grow apace.  
It's better to see a clout then a hole out.  
If things were to be done twice all would be wise.  
Jack would be a Gentleman if he could speak French.  
It is better to be envied then pitied.  
It's absurd to warm one in his Armour.  
In spending lies the advantage.  
In a hundred els of contention there is not one inch of love.  
If every man would mend one all would mend.  
It's a great trouble to ride and death to foot it.  
It's batter to buy then borrow.  
It's as good to be in the dark as without light.  
It is ill to set spurs to a flying horse.  
It is a foul Bird that fouls his own nest  
Ill egging makes ill begging.  
It is easy to think a thing but hard to bring it about.  
It is better to be spited then pitied.  
It is better to stand idle then to perform a thing idly. Ital.  
It's better to strike a man on the back then on the belly.  
It's no sporting with edg's tools.  
In space cometh grace.  
It's good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.  
In time comes she whom God sends.  
It chanceth in an hour that comes not in seven years.  
It's an ill wind blows no man good.  
It's a good horse never stumbles.  
Ill news comes to soon.  
It is not good jesting with edged tools.  
Ill gotten goods soon waste.  
In the Husband wisdom, in the Wife gentleness.  
It's better to bow then break.  
If you would know secrets, look them in grief or pleasure.  
If the Mother had never been in the Oven she had never looked for her daughter there.  
It's the best part of a fool to say, I had not thought.  
In life you love me not, in death you bewail me.  
If every man had is own he would be as rich as a new shorn sheep.  
It staineth like the dirt of Paris.  
It's bad cloth will take no colour.  
It's easier to come into debt then pay a debt.  
It's an ill counsel hath no miscape.  
It cometh by kind, it cost them nothing.  
It's better to kiss a knave then be troubled with him.  
Ill ware is never cheap.  
It's better to be unborn then untaught.  
It's better to be a shrew then a sheep.  
It's an ill dog not worth the whistling.  
Ill vessels seldom miscarry.  
I scratch where it itcheth not.  
It's easier to descend then ascend.  
If it were a Bear it would by't you.  
It's ill waking of a sleeping dog.  
It is true that all men say.  
It's hard striving against a stream.  
It's ill healing of an old sore.  
It must needs be true that every man saith.  
Ill gotten goods what becomes of them?  
If the staff be crooked the shadow cannot be strait.  
It's good sleeping in a whole skin.  
It's to late to grieve when the chance is past.  
It is ill shaving against the wool.  
Ill luck is good for something.  
If the Lion's skin can't do it the Foxes shall.  
Ill comes in by els and goes out by inches.  
It's ill halting before a Cripple.  
It's merry in hall when beards wag all.  
It's an ill bird defiles his own nest.  
If wishes were Thrushes then beggar s would eat Birds.  
I had rather ride on a horse that carries me then an Ass that throws me.  
It's good fishing in troubled waters.  
In good years corn is hay, in ill years' straw is corn.  
It's good to beware by other men's harms.  
It's better late than never.  
If you would know a knave give him a staff.  
It's good to have a hatch before the door.  
It's a long journey from the tongue to the hand.  
It's an easy matter to find a staff to beat a dog.  
Ill company is the author of all mischief.  
It's hard to wive and thrive both in a year.  
It's merry when Knaves meet.  
If you lose your time you cannot get money.  
It is not all butter that the cow shites.  
I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.  
It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.  
It is better to give the fleece then the wool.  
In vain does the mill clack if the Miller his hearing lack.  
It is hard to keep that which is desired by many.  
In choosing a Wife and buying a a sword, we ought not trust another.  
It's a good horse never stumbles.  
I may speak for what I paid for.  
If the blind lead the blind both will fall into the ditch.  
I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.  
If thou mindest to be Pope, thou must have him to write in thy forehead.  
It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.  
Ill natures, the more you ask them the more they stick.  
It's impossible to avoid destiny.  
I will not buy a Pig in a poke.  
In every Art it is good to have a master.  
It's too much to find salve and lint.  
Ill never spoke well.  
If fools went not to market all wares would be kept.  
In love there is both dotage and discretion.  
In time men get experience.  
It is worse to be bad then to be thought so.  
If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.  
It is not always fair whether.  
I give my mouse a hole and she will become my heir.  
It is not good to have an oar in every one's boat.  
It is better to be the head of Pike than the tail of a Sturgeon.  
In a hundred pound of Law there is not a halfpenny weight of love.  
Infant's manners are moulded more by the Parent's example then by the stars of their nativity.  
It's god to strike while the iron is hot.  
In the morning mountains in the evening fountains.  
If you could run as you drink you might catch a hare.  
It's not good fishing before the net.  
In a long journey straw wares.  
It's more pain to do nothing then something.  
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's Gardener.  
If the brain sows not corn it plant thistles.    


KNowledge makes one laugh but wealth makes one dance.  
Kissing goes by favour.  
King Henry Loud a man.  
Kiss my arse is but a poor compliment.  
Kick not against a prick.  
Ka me and I'll ka thee.  
Kindness will creep where it cannot go.  
Knaves and fools are the composition of the whole world.  
Kill two Birds with one stone.  
Knowledge is no burden.  
Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.  
Keep the Wolf from the door.  
Keep your eye off writings and your hand out of other men's pockets.  
Kind words are currant money at sometimes.    


LEt him laugh that wins.  
Look not too high lest a chip fall in thine eye.  
Love is potent but money is omnipotent.  
Lesson after lesson makes good Scholars.  
Love is not without bitterness.  
Love cometh in at the window and goeth out at the door.  
Long Jesting are never good.  
Little pot soon hot.  
Love overcomes nothing but a spiteful heart.  
Lightly come lightly go.  
Loss embraces shame.  
Like the Flounder, out of the frying-pan into the fire.  
Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge.  
Love is blind.  
Let the world say what they will if I find all well at home.  
Little wealth little care.  
Little knoweth the fat sow what the lean doth mean.  
Love makes all hard things gentle.  
Little good soon spent.  
Leaves enough but few Grapes.  
Let a hen live though she hath the pip.  
Leave jesting whilst it pleaseth, lest it come to earnest.  
Love me little love me long.  
Little dogs start the hare, the great one get liar.  
Love doth much but money doth all.  
Look ere you leap.  
Love me, love my dog.  
Love rules his Kingdom without a sword.  
Love asks faith and faith firmness.  
Lawyer's houses are built on the heads of fools.  
Lovers live by love as Larks by leeks.  
Look not for musk in a dog's Kennel.  
Let every man meddle with his own.  
Like master like man.  
Love is the true price of love.  
Life is half spent before we know what it is.  
Lean not to a broken staff.  
Love makes one fit for any work.  
Little said soon amended.  
Love and business find eloquence.  
Love is not found in the Market.  
Love and a cough cannot be hid.  
Longs more to marriage the four bare legs in a bed.  
Learn weeping and thou shalt laugh gaming.  
Let all live as they would die.  
Like a chip in pottage doth neither good nor harm.  
Like will to like.  
Life without a friend is death without witness.  
Long absent soon forgotten.  
Love and Lordship abides no fellowship,  
Let every one his own burden bear.  
Leave a fool alone and he will bethink what he hath to do.  
Love warms more than a thousand fires.  
Liberty is a Jewel.  
Look not a given horse in the mouth.  
Let not him that fears feathers come. among wild-fowels.  
Light a Candle before the devil.  
Little pitchers have wide ears.  
Leave is light.  
Let an ill man lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir.  
Light gains makes a heavy Purse.  
Light burdens long born grow heavy.  
Lay no Pearl before swine.    


MUch water goes by the Mill the Miller knows not of.  
Many Lords many Laws.  
Money breeds rage love marriage.  
Measure is a merry mean.  
Modesty is the mother of good manners.  
Money answers all things.  
Many things are lost for want of ask.  
More afraid than hurt.  
Money begets money.  
Much cry and little wool.  
Man purposeth God disposeth.  
Might overcometh right.  
My house, my house, though thou art small thou art to me Escurial.  
Much would have more.  
Many speak much that cannot speak well.  
Much babbling is not without offence.  
Much travelling makes bad ways.  
Many a good cow hath an ill calf.  
Make haste in an ill way to get out of it.  
Many Kinsfolk few friends.  
Men speak of the fare as things went with them there.  
Many hands makes light work.  
My Kill of Malt is on fire.  
Misfortune's seldom come alone.  
Misreckoning is no payment.  
Man will strive hard for profit.  
Many a little makes a much.  
Money refused looseth his brightness.  
Make hay while the Sun shines.  
Marry your Son when you will, your daughter when you can.  
Money cheereth man's heart.  
More hast worst speed.  
Marry a Widow before she leaves mourning.  
Many cannot see wood for trees.  
Mend your  and you may hold out this year.  
Man hath nothing that is his, not himself.  
Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake.  
Misfortunes are burdens hard to be born.  
Many a man talks of little John that never did him know.  
More sauce than meat.  
Many small make a great.  
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.  
Much profit cannot be made in poor towns.  
Make a page of your own age.  
Many speak of Robin Hood that never shot in his bow.  
Married to day sad to morrow.  
Make a pipe of a pig's tail.  
Money wants no followers.  
Men are not measured by the yard or ell.  
Many things are lost for want of ask.  
Marriage and hanging goes by destiny.  
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.  
Most men salure the wronged man.  
Make not a balk of good ground.  
Most master wear the breeches.  
Mills and Wives ever want.  
Men must make there market as the time serves.  
Man aught to be humble not proud.  
Milk says to Wine, Welcome Friend.  
Many stumble are a straw and leap over a block.  
Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselves.  
Malice never speaks well.    


NO Alchemy to saving.  
Never pleasure without Repentance.  
No love to a Fathers.  
No cheat like the religious cheat.  
No longer pipe no longer dance.  
No fence for ill fortune.  
Nothing so certain as death.  
New Objects breed new thoughts.  
Not length of days but strength of heart rids the work.  
Need hath not Law.  
No lock will hold against the power of gold.  
Need makes the old Wife troth.  
Never had ill workman good rooles.  
New Lords new Laws.  
Nothing but money is moneys worth.  
No dearth but breeds in the Horse-manger.  
Neither bribe nor lose thy right.  
No man loves his fetters though they be of gold.  
None knows the weight of another's burden.  
Nothing venture, nothing have.  
No Writer can please all.  
None so great an enemy as he of ones own trade.  
No man ought to look a gift Horse in the mouth.  
Night is the Mother of Counsels.  
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.  
No pride like an enriched beggar.  
No butter will stick on his Bread.  
No envy like a Monks.  
Near is my petticoat but nearer is my smock.  
Novelties please women.  
No smoke but there is some fire.  
None is a fool always, every one sometimes.  
Nothing hath no savour.  
No body deceived but he that confides.  
None says his Garner is full.  
No sooner is a Temple built to God, but the Devil hath his Chapel hard by.  
Nature draws more than ten teems.  
Never yet that man that every one spoke well of.  
Nothing is to be presumed of nor despaired of.  
No Churchyard so handsome as a man would desire strait to be buried there.  
Necessity is the best Schoolmistrisse.  
Nothing dries sooner than tears.  
Nothing lasts but the Church.  
No Barber shaves so close but another finds work.    


ONe may think what he dares not speak.  
One shrewd turn follows another.  
Ones get orders ones spend.  
Of an ill paymaster never refuse money.  
One acre of possession is worth a whole land of promise.  
On a good bargain think twice.  
One foot is better than two crutches.  
Of sufferance cometh ease.  
One flower makes no Garland.  
One beggar's woe that another by the door should go.  
One sound blow will serve to undo all.  
One ill word asketh another.  
One forewarned as good as two.  
Out of God's blessing into the warm Sun.  
Once a whore and always a whore.  
One must be a Servant before he can be a Master.  
Once a Knave and ever a Knave.  
One stroke fells not an Oak.  
Of all smells bread of all tastes salt.  
One pair of heels worth two pair of hands.  
One fool makes a hundred.  
One regards more the will then the deed.  
One Wolf will not by't another.  
Of a good beginning comes a good ending.  
One good turn asks another.  
One journey and two errands. Ital.  
One swallow makes no Summer.  
Of young men there dies many of old men escapes not any.  
One day Cashkeeper the next cashiered.  
Of little meddling cometh great ease.  
Out of debt out of danger.  
One may easily find a staff to beat a dog.  
Out of sight out of mind.  
One slumber finds another.  
One ill weed mars a whole pot of pottage.  
One mouth doth nothing without another.  
Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.  
On painting and fight look afar of.  
Opportunity is whoredoms bawd.  
One may visit a friend sometimes, but if he intends to be welcome he must not stay long.  
One may see day at a little hole.  
One tongue is enough for a woman.  
Opportunity makes a thief.  
Our own actions are our security, not others Judgements.  
One beateth the bush and another catcheth the Bird.  
One pair of ears is enough to dry up an hundred tongues.  
Often and little eating makes a man fat.  
Old men go to death, death comes to young men.  
Out nettle in dock.  
Out of the frying-pan into the fire.  
One enemy is too much.  
One sword keeps another in the sheath.  
One swallow makes not a Summer, nor one Woodcock a Winter.  
Offer not to present salt or the head of any creature.  
Old men and far travellers may lie by authority.  
One hou●● sleep before midnight is worth three after.  
Old Birds are not caught with chaff.  
One fair day in Winter makes not birds merry.  
Often under a mean habit is hid a fine Treasure.  
One seldom loses by dealing with honest men.  
One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.  
One hair of benevolence draws more than a hundred yoke of Oxen.  
Of fair things the autumn is fair.  
Once at ease and ever a custom.  
Old men when they seem young make much of death.  
Once a year a man may say on his conscience.    


PLeasure long expected is dear enough bought  
Play, a Whore, and brisk Wine, make a man poor laughing.  
Promising is the eye of giving.  
Play with a fool at home and he will play with you abroad.  
Preferment chokes.  
Pardons and pleasantness are great revenges of slanders.  
Poor and proud, fie fie.  
Prettiness dies first.  
Pain is forgotten where gain follows.  
Perverseness makes one squint-eyed.  
Penny wise and pound foolish.  
Poverty is the Mother of health.  
Pride goes before shame cometh after.  
Praise a hill but keep low.  
Pride will have a fall.  
Pleasure and profit draws all the world.  
Proffered service stinks.  
Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose.  
Punishment is lame but it comes.  
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.  
Prove thy friend ere thou have need.  
Poor and liberal rich and covetous.  
Puff not against the wind.  
Pensions never enriched young man.  
Poverty is no sin.  
Prejudicial friendship let it go with a vengeance.  
Peevish pity mars a City.  
Physician cure thyself.  
Praise none too much for all are fickle.  
Pillow Counsel proves vain.  
Praise a fair day at night.  
Princes are Venison in Heaven.  
Pretended holiness is double iniquity.  
Providence is better than a rent.  
Pouring oil into the fire is not the way to quench it.  
Prayers and provender hinder no journey.  
Parson's are fools Waggoners.  
Pleasing ware is half sold.    


QUick at Victuals quick at work.  
Quick believers need broad shoulders.    


REady money is a ready medicine.  
Rich Land must not be left for a greedy Landlore.  
Rivers need a spring.  
Rivers swell not with clear water.  
Revenge is sweet.  
Riches have wings.  
Rolling stones gather no moss.  
Rome was not built in one day.  
Rob Peter to pay Paul.  
Reckoners without their host must reckon twice.  
Remove an old tree and it will die.  
Rich men are like Whales, for they grow great by the ruin of others.  
Raw leather will stretch.    


SHe spins well that breeds her Children.  
Sorrow is always dry.  
Set a Knave to catch a Knave.  
Save a thief from the Gallows and he will cut your throat.  
Sep after step the Ladder's ascended.  
Seldom comes a better.  
So many men in Court so many strangers.  
Saying and doing are two things.  
So many Countries so many customs.  
Self do self have.  
Show me a liar and I'll show thee a thief.  
Seldom seen is soon forgotten.  
Say no ill of the year till it be past.  
Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided.  
Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church yet rob the Altar.  
So long goes the pot to the water that at last it comes home broken.  
Service is no Inheritance.  
Shameful craving must have shameful nay.  
Skill and confidence are an unconquered Army.  
Small pitchers have wide ears.  
Such a Saint such an offering.  
Set a beggar on Horseback and he will gallop.  
Soft fire makes sweet malt.  
Soon gotten soon spent.  
Such Carpenters such Ships.  
Sad is he that stands between the Anvil and the hammer.  
Spit in your hands and take better hold.  
Short shooting loseth the game.  
Short mass and long dinner.  
So many heads so many wits.  
Silk doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.  
Somewhat is better than nothing.  
Soon hot soon cold.  
Sweet meat will have sour sauce.  
Sleep without Supper wake without owing.  
Stumble at a straw and leap over a block.  
Speak fitly or be silent wisely.  
Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.  
Sound love is not soon forgotten.  
See for love and buy for money.  
Soon ripe soon rotten.  
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.  
Soldiers in Peace are like chimneys in Summer.  
Speak fair and think what you will.  
Such a Father such a Son.  
Science is nought worth without conscience.  
Spend and God will send.  
Such lips such lettuce.  
Silks and satins put on't the fire in the chimney.  
Such welcome such farewell.  
Spare and ever bare.  
Sins are not known till they are acted.  
Stop two gaps with one bush.  
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.  
States have their Periods as well as bodies.  
Send a wise man on an errand and say nothing to him.  
Spare to speak and spare to speed.  
Store is no sore.  
Such a one hath a good wit if a wise man had the keeping of it.  
Ships fear fire more than water.  
Struggle not against the stream.  
Stay a while that we may make an end the sooner.  
Such beginning such end.  
Small invitation will serve a beggar.  
Still sow eats all the draff.  
Serve a noble man though poor the time comes that he will repay thee.  
Spectacles are deaths Harquebus.  
Shame take him that shame thinks.  
Service without reward is punishment.  
Some had rather lose their friend then their jest.  
Slander is a shipwreck by a dry tempest.  
Some men plant an opinion they seem to eradicate.    


THe Citizen at his business before he rise.  
The eyes have a language every where.  
To speak of a Usurer at the Table mars the Wine.  
To review one's store is to mow twice.  
Two false Knaves need no broker.  
The eye is bigger than the belly.  
The world is now adays God save the Conqueror.  
The death of Wolves is the safety of sheep.  
Those that God loves don't live long.  
Two heads are better than one.  
The devil divides the world between Atheism and Superstition.  
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.  
There's a Remedy for every thing could men find it.  
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life could he find it.  
The effect speaks the tongue need not.  
To a child all weather is cold.  
To him that will ways are not wanting.  
The Market is the best Garden.  
Time undermines us.  
The cholarick drinks, the melancholy eats, the phlegmatic sleeps.  
The deaf gains the injury.  
The dainties of the great are tears of the poor.  
The Master absent and the house dead.  
The great put the little on the tenters.  
The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germans in the deed, the French after the deed.  
The best bread have the best Portions.  
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.  
The Spring for the eye but the fall for the mouth.  
That which is bred in the bone will never out of the flesh.  
Truth may be blamed but it cannot be shamed.  
To be too busy gets contempt.  
There is no fire without some smoke.  
The good wan is the last that knows what's amiss at home.  
To day in a posture or shape to morrow in ones grave.  
The Court hath no Almanac.  
The worlds well amended with him.  
There's not so great a flood but there's as low an ebb.  
The eye and Religion can bear no jesting.  
There's no accord where every man would be a Lord.  
The sluggard loves alive things done to his hand.  
There is no earthly gate, that an Ass laden with money cannot enter.  
The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing.  
There's no hill without its valley.  
The greatest state the less sure.  
They that are bound must obey.  
The Pox is a gentleman's companion.  
The Woman had never looked for her daughter in the Oven if she had not been there herself.  
The first and the last frost is the worst.  
The heart's letter is read in the eye.  
Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.  
The defects are the men's not the arts.  
The table robs more than a thief.  
The new broom sweeps clean.  
The Wolf knows what the ill beast thinks.  
The fearful man never makes good Surgeon.  
The snow for eight days is a mother after a stepmother.  
The virtue of a coward is suspicion.  
The Germans wit is in his fingers.  
The devil never assails a man unless he find him void of knowledge or the fear of God.  
Take heed of still water the quick pass away.  
The nearer the Church the further from God.  
The Corn hides itself in snow as an old man in furs.  
There's no body will go to hell for company.  
The Jews spend at Easter, the Moors at marriage the Christians in suits.  
The love of money and the love of learning readily meet.  
The wise hand doth not all the foolish mouth speaks.  
The horse that is next the mill carries all the grist.  
The more women look in the glass the less they look to their house.  
The worst of Law is that one suit breeds twenty.  
There are more men threatened then stricken.  
The hard gives more than he that hath nothing.  
The fool asks much but more he that grants it.  
Three may keep counsel if two be away.  
The beast that goes always never wants blows.  
There is no fool to the old fool.  
There is more talk than trouble.  
There is difference betwixt staring and stark mad.  
The Fox knows much but more he that catcheth him.  
Time and tide stays for no man.  
There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.  
The best mirror is an old friend.  
The tongue talks at the heads cast.  
Tha● 〈◊〉 not good language which all understands not.  
The Child says nothing but what it learned by the fire.  
The absent party is still faulty.  
Though you rise early yet the day comes at his time and not till then.  
There is falsehood in fellowship.  
The fault is as great as he that is faulty.  
Time is the Rider that breaks youth.  
The buyer needs a hundred eyes the seller one.  
The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.  
The horse thinks one thing and he that saddles him another.  
The wrought net is not the best catcher of fish.  
There are three ways, the University, the Sea, the Court.  
This world is nothing except it tend to another.  
Thou hast death in thy house and dost bewail another's.  
The Priest hath forgotten that he was a Clark.  
The morning Sun never lasts a day.  
The comforters head never aches.  
To a crazy Ship all winds are contrary.  
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.  
The resolved mind hath no ears.  
The bite of a sheep never pierceth the skin.  
The back door robs the house.  
The Gown is his that wears it, and the world his that enjoys it.  
Time stayeth for no man.  
Things well fitted abide.  
The Master's eye fattens the horse and his foot the ground.  
Talk pays no tolle.  
Touch a galled horse on the back and and he will winch.  
The tree that God plants no wind rends it.  
Time past we can't recall.  
The best workmen are commonly the worst Husbands.  
The toothache is more ease then to deal with ill people.  
'Tis hard to be wretched but worse to be known so.  
The charges of building and making of Gardens are unknown.  
There's more maids than malkins.  
Trust not one nights ice.  
Though you see a Churchman ill yet continue in the Church still.  
To gain teacheth how to spend.  
There's more ways to the wood then one.  
The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it.  
The Sea hath fish for every man.  
The good Mother says not will you but gives.  
Two eyes can see more than one.  
The eye will have his part.  
The first degree of folly is to hold one's self wise, the second to profess it, the third to despise counsel.  
Truth shameth the Devil.  
To weep for joy is a kind of Manna.  
The Crow bewails the sheep, and eats it.  
Tread on a worm and it will turn.  
The first service a child doth a Father is to make him foolish.  
The command of custom is great.  
Two ill meals makes the third a glutton.  
True praise roots and sprouts.  
The Cat sees not the mouse ever.  
The fish adores the bait.  
The Royal Crown cures not the headache.  
There is great force hidden in a sweet command.  
The more thy years the nigher the grave.  
The thread breaks where it is weakest.  
The fat man knows not what the lean thinketh.  
The slothful is the Servant of a Prison.  
The more you stir the more you stink.  
Time is the Rider that breaks youth.  
Two anons and a by and by is an hour and a half.  
The persuasions of fortune sways the doubtful.  
Talk much and err much, says the Spaniard.  
The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.  
Time and straw makes meddlers ripe.  
The balance distinguisheth not between gold and silver.  
There is no Colt but will break some halter.  
The soul needs few things the body many.  
The Reasons of the poor weigh not.  
To be beloved is above all bargains.  
The evening praises the day.  
To deceive one's self is very easy.  
The fair lasteth the whole year.  
The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.  
The back door makes the thief and whore.  
The covetous spends more than the liberal.  
The offspring of the very old or very young lasts not.  
There's no weather ill when the wind is still.  
Too much taking heed is loss.  
The reverend are ever before.  
The first dish pleaseth all.  
'Tis easier to build two Chimneys then to main tain one.  
That groat is ill saved that shames the Master.  
Take heed of an Ox before, an horse behind, of a Parson on all sides.  
The greatest crabs be not the best.  
There are more Physicians in health than drunkards.  
There's a craft in daubing.  
The Wife is the key of the house.  
The greatest Clarks be not the wisest men.  
The least foolish is wise.  
The singing man keeps his shop in his throat.  
The first blow is as much as two.  
The life of a man is a Winter way.  
The Physician owes all to the Patient, but the Patient owes him nothing but a little money.  
There's not enough if nothing be lost.  
To the counsel of fools a word is best.  
To a fair day open your window.  
The ignorant hath an eagle's wing and an Owls eye.  
To a grateful man give money when he asks.  
The greatest talkers are the least doers  
There's none so deaf as he that will not hear.  
The higher the Ape goes the more he shows his tail.  
The Fox fares best when he is cursed.  
The Dutch have there wits in their hands.  
The best may amend.  
The chief disease that reigns this year is folly.  
The scaled head fears cold water.  
Three things always bring cost, the fawning of a dog, the love of a whore, and the invitation of an host.  
There is no jesting either with ones eye or one's Religion.  
The Horse to the saddle, the Ass to the pack, the Ox to the plough, the Dog to the chase, but man to that art which nature calls him to.  
The year doth nothing else but open and shut.  
The greedy fool that all would press  
The head of a woman, the body of a Sergeant, the legs of a Lackey, make a Devil perfect.  
True honour is the Daughter of truth.  
Trust is the Mother of deceit.  
The world is round, and he that cannot swim sinks to the bottom.  
The outside of a woman is commonly the best.  
The curious searcher finds himself unfortunate.  
The honester man the worse luck.  
Two wits discern better than one.  
Thoughts be free from tolle.  
Troubles sent from God are Jewels, but drawn on by ourselves are torments.  
The greatest Calf is not the sweetest Veal.  
Though the Sun shine leave not thy cloak at home.  
Two pots well filled are signs of a Feast.  
The end makes all equal.  
The offender never pardons.  
The higher I climb the greater my fall.  
Travel whether thou canst but die where thou oughtest.  
That which one learns in youth will continue till old age.  
There is no ill which doth not turn to our good.  
The mill gets by going.  
The Cuckold is the last that knows it.  
The Hoarding of money is both sinful and casual.  
The skilfullest, wanting money, are but scorned.  
Too crafty a Cur to be taken with this bone.  
They that are booted are not always ready.  
The Wife that bites her lips and treads askew is to her husband and herself untrue.  
The Sun that shineth early in the morning, a Woman that speaketh latin, and a Child that drinketh Wine, seldom make good end.  
The wife and the sword are to be showed not lent.  
Tears in the eyes have sorrow in the heart.  
To day a merchant to morrow a miscreant.  
The weakest goes to the walls.  
The Chicken is the Countries but the City eats it.  
The more rich the more honour.  
Takes pepper in the nose.  
The wearer knows where the shoe wrings.  
Too much scratching smarts, too much speaking hurts.  
The more knave the better luck.  
To speak well belongs to few, to live well belongs to all.  
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.  
The grey mare is the better horse.  
That is not handsome which is handsome, but that is handsome which takes.  
Things well fitted abide.  
They that know one another salute afar of.  
The rising of one man is the fall of another.  
The good Wife of a wilful man hath many a woeful day.  
Think of ease but work on.  
There's as many fashions as folks.  
The King of good-fellows is appointed for the Queen of beggars.  
Truth and Oil are ever above.  
The Marketplace the Rogue's house.  
There longs more to a wedding then four bare legs in a bed.  
The tongue Walks where the teeth speed not.  
The early Bird catcheth the worm.  
The lame tongue gets nothing.  
There are many ways to fame.  
The shortest anger is doing.  
The toothache is more easy than love.  
Three Women make a Market.  
The wisest man doth sometimes play the fool.  
The Pope comes by voices, the King by native, the Emperor by force.  
There are some that would be drowned in a glass of water.  
The Goat must browse where she is tied.  
The house shows the owner.  
The fool is most fusty when he is least foolish.  
The rich devour the poor, the strong the weak.  
The Smith and his penny both are black.  
The dead are not to be mentioned at Board.  
The Razor may boldly graze on a fools beard.  
The lean man is Wolves meat.  
The worst step is that over the threshold.  
The best play on the board is not to play at all.  
The Huntsman's breakfast the Lawyer's dinner.  
The miserable man makes a penny of a farthing, the liberal of a penny six pence.  
There is no equity in keeping an unjust promise.  
The wisest man says least.  
The hole calls the thief.  
The first love is the fastest.  
The gentle Hawk half man's herself.  
The envious man shall never want wo.  
The pompkin dies with the seed in its belly.  
Thiefs falling out true men come by their goods.  
The Devilis not always at one door.  
Two hands in a dish one in Purse.  
Those that promise most perform least.  
There is no scourge of wit or learning that will lash a wanton lover out of his lust.  
The Mill cannot gride with the water that's past.  
Time stays not the fools leisure.  
The fools tears are not to be trusted.  
The fairest women in the Stews the handsomest mate at the Gallows.  
The good usage of a Master is a spur to an ingenious servant.  
The sluggard must be clad in rags.  
The fault of the Horse is put on the saddle.  
The richer the Cobbler the blacker his thumb.  
The best remedy against an ill man is to keep at a distance.  
The head of a fish is first tamed.  
The beggar may sing before the thief.  
True content is only in Heaven.  
Though a lie be well dressed it is ever over-ripe.  
The eye of the Master makes the horse fat.  
True good is that which is eternal.  
The best Cart may overthrow.  
There is no Knave like an Abbot that was a Monk.  
The best is best cheap.  
The Cat knows whose lips she licks.  
There are more threatened then stricken.  
The belly thinks the throat is cut.  
The highest tree hath the greatest fall.  
The ambitious man is never satisfied.  
The blind eats many a fly.  
The Fox when he cannot reach the Grapes says they are not ripe.  
The more the merrier the fewer the better cheer.  
The fairest Rose in the end is withered.  
Though the Mastiff be gentle yet by't him not by the lip.  
The Cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet.  
Three helping one another bear the burden of six.  
The more hast the less speed.  
The young Cock croweth as the old heareth.  
The Son full, and tattered the daughter empty and fine.  
The low stake standeth long.  
The longest day hath his end.  
The faulty man stands on his Guard.  
The Keys hang not all at one Girdle.  
The ill that comes out of our mouth falls into our bosom.  
That the eye seethe not the heart ruth not.  
The lame goes as far as your staggerer.  
The tongue is not steel yet it cures.  
Though the Fox run yet the Chickens have wings.  
That penny is well spent that saveth a groat.  
That is gold which is worth gold.  
The first shower is that which wets most  
The wolf must die in his own skin.  
The rich knows not who is his friend.  
They talk of Christmas so long that it comes.  
To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure.  
That which suffereth is not little.  
There needs a long time to know the world's Pulse.  
To him that hath lost his taste sweet is sour.  
They that hold the greatest farms pay the least rent: applied to rich men that are unthankful to God.  
There is no woe to want.  
Two heads are better than one.  
Tales of Robin Hood are good for fools.  
The command of Custom is great.  
That one will not another will.  
The leg doth what the knee would have it.  
To deceive the deceiver is no deceit.  
tithe and be rich.  
The lame Post brings the true news.  
The  Child dreads the fire.  
Threatened folks live long.  
Take heed is a good need.  
Take time when time cometh left time stealeth away.  
The eye is a shrew.  
Thursday come and the week gone.    


VIrtue never grows old.  
Virtue and a Trade are the best portions for Children.  
Under a threadbare cloak lies many times much learning.  
Valour that Parleys is near yielding.  
Unsound minds like unsound bodies if you feed you poison.  
Unwonted Objects breed unwonted thoughts.    


Words are women's deeds.  
When the Fox preaches beware the Geese.  
Winter thunder makes Summer's wonder.  
Who reputes chastizeth himself.  
Who takes bond for money trusts his Estate not his Person.  
Wit is never good till bought.  
Who hath no memory let him have legs.  
What your glass tells you will not be told by counsel.  
Where Coin is not, commons must be scant.  
When the Cat is away the mice play.  
Wine and women have consumed many a Lordship.  
Who that may not as they will must as they may.  
Well bred spirits seldom degenerate.  
Wares dear bought are seldom return without loss.  
While the discreet advice, the fool hath his business.  
Who goes willingly goes twice.  
Win gold and wear gold.  
When all sins grow old covetousness grows young.  
Who doth his own business fouls not his hands.  
Who wed ere he be wise shall die before he thrive.  
Who drives another man's Trade make a sop in a panier.  
Weight justly and sell dearly.  
Who so that knew what would be dear should need be a Merchant but one year.  
Were there not fools bad ware would not pass.  
When there is a plague in Castille the infection is general.  
Where no fault is there needs no pardon.  
Who so blind as they that will not see?  
Will you? is spoken to sick Folks.  
We Bachelors show our teeth, but you married-men laugh till your heart ache.  
Who will borrow when he hath not let him borrow when he hath.  
Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?  
Women, Money, and Wine, have there good and there evil.  
Who will do ill never wants occasion.  
Would you know what money is? go borrow some.  
Who goes to bed Supperless all night tumbles and tosses.  
Wealth is like Rheum it falls on the weakest part.  
Water afar of quencheth not fire.  
Wisdom hath one foot on the land, another on the sea.  
Where many words are the truth often goeth by.  
Who can sing a merrier Note than he that cannot change a Groat?  
Wine in bottles doth not quench the thirst.  
We can have no more of a Cat then her skin.  
Whether shall the Ox go where he shall not labour?  
Who invites bears the danger.  
Who gives to all denies all.  
What's a workman without tools?  
Whose house is of glass must not throw stones at another.  
When the belly is full the bones would be at rest.  
Who hath no more bread than need must not keep a dog.  
Who bestows a bow on thee wishes thee not dead.  
When the Iron is hot strike.  
Who tells his secrets makes himself a slave.  
Wine is a turncoat, first a friend then an enemy.  
Who lets his wife go to every Feast, and his horse to every water, shall neither have good wife, nor a good horse.  
Willows are weak yet they bind oothers.  
Women laughed when they can weep when they will.  
Who so bold as blind bayard.  
What's a fool without a babble?  
Well may he smell fire whose gown burns.  
Whores affect your purse not you.  
Who more busy than he that hath least to do.  
Wisdom is better than riches.  
When Prayers are done my Lady is ready.  
We must not judge of men by their birth but by their breeding.  
What the heart thinketh the tongue speaketh.  
Who means to have the egg must endure the cackling of the Hen.  
What some win in the hundred they lose in the shire.  
When a friend asks there's not to morrow.  
Who labours is tempted by one Devil, but who stands idle by a thousand.  
When Italy shall be without poison, France without treason, England without war, the world shall be without earth.  
Who means to be lean must keep his eyes open and his mouth shut.  
When the sky falls we shall have Larks.  
Who hath no mind to his business valleys seem mountains.  
What needs words where there are works?  
When the Sun shines make Hay.  
Who buys hath need of a hundred eyes, who sells hath enough of one.  
We learn for to understand, not for to dispute.  
Where nothing is a little doth ease.  
When a Lackey comes to hell's door the devil locks the gate.  
Women love to be eyed and to be looked upon.  
Who makes a Cart knows also how to take it in pieces.  
Water, fire, and Soldiers, quickly make room.  
Women are young men's Mistresses, middle-aged men's Companions, and old men's Nurses.  
When the danger is passed the fact is forgotten.  
What need a contentious man marry?  
When a dog is drowned every one offers him help.  
Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home?  
Who removes stones bruise their fingers.  
Without business debauchery.  
Where nothing is the King must lose his right.  
Who hath a wolf for his mate needs a dog for his man.  
Who readeth to others readeth also to himself.  
Whatsoever was the Father of a disease an ill diet was the mother.  
We know not who lives or dies.  
Words are not Links.  
Whores and dogs fawn upon a man no longer than they are fed.  
Were there no hearers there would be no backbiters.  
Were there no receivers there would be no thiefs.  
Whether you boil Snow or pound it you can have but water of it.  
Wine makes all sorts of creatures at Table.  
Who covets all dies a mad man.  
While the grass grows the steed starves.  
Who is worse shod than the Shoemaker's wife.  
When age is jocund it makes sport for death.  
War is death's Feast.  
Where there is no honour there is no grief.  
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drank.  
Where the drink goes in the wit goes out.  
Where you will is ready your feet is light.  
Without hope the heart would break.  
When God will no wind but brings rain.  
Wood half burnt is easily kindled.  
Weight and measure take away strife.  
Who hunts two Hares loseth the one and deserts the other.  
When the Horse is stolen shut the Stable door.  
When my house burns it's not good playing at Chess.  
Who lacketh a stock his gain is not worth a chip.  
War makes thiefs and Peace hangs them.  
Who hastens a glutton chokes him.  
Who receives forgets not.  
Who praiseth St. Peter doth not blame St. Paul.  
Who so fears a dog ensures himself from being bitten.  
Who pays the Physician does the cure.  
When one is on horseback he knows all things.  
Wish not for a Horse that is bridled at the tail.  
When you enter into a house leave the anger at door.  
Whom weal pricks sorrow comes after and licks.  
War and Physic are governed by the eye.  
Wine ever pays for for his lodging.  
With Customs we live well but Laws undo us.  
When all men have what belongs to them it cannot be much.  
Who hath eaten the Candles void the weeks.  
We leave more to do when we die then we have done.  
Who gives well sells dear.  
Who attempts not errs not.  
When a man sleeps his head is in his stomach.  
Who hath money and Capers is well furnished for Lent.  
When God is made the Master of a Family he disorders the disorderly.  
Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.  
Words and feathers the wind carries away.  
Who embraces all nothing grasps.  
We do it soon enough if that we do be well.  
Woe be to him that reads but one Book.  
Who gives good words feeds with an empty spoon.  
Who lives in hopes dies a Fool.    


YOu must lose a fly to catch a gnat.  
You shall know what a man is worth when he is dead.  
You come with your five eggs and four of them addled.  
You may know what a man is by his company.  
You had as live go to Mill as to mass.  
Years know more than Books.  
Your thoughts close and your countenance lose.  
Young men may die but old men must die.  
You need not sow weeds.  
You cannot see wood for trees.  
You cannot hid an ell in a sack.  
You are as seasonable as snow in winter.  
You cannot know Wine by the Barrel.  
You cannot flay a stone.  
You must lose a fly to catch a Trout.  
Young Saint old Devil.  
You cannot make a fire so low but it will go out.  
Enough is as good as a Feast.    

Wise SPEECHES, AND Golden SENTENCES.  
1. GIve me the heart of a man, and out of that all other deeds shall be acceptable.  
2. When thou hast taken unlawfully, restore it speedily; for the sin in taking, is repeated every minute thou keepest it: if thou canst, restore it in kind, if not, in value; if it may be, restore it to the party, if not, to God: The poor is God's receiver.  
3. It was said of Nero, that though he could tune his Harp well, yet in his Government he did always wind up the strings to high, or let them down to low.  
4. Severus the Emperor being but meanly born, and having raised himself to that high honour, was wont to say, I have been all, and am never the better.  
5. Cato had this saying, That the best way to keep good acts in memory, was to refresh them with new.  
6. A private Soldier (seeing Philip King of Macedon vainly puffed up with a great Victory over the Athenians) took courage and told him, That if he measured his own shadow, be should find it no longer than it was before his victory.  
7. Dost thou want things necessary, grumble not? perchance it was a necessary thus thou shouldst want; endeavour lawfully to supply it, if God bless not thy endeavour, bless him, that knoweth what is fittest for thee; thou art God's Patient, prescribe not thy Physician.  
8. It's no shame to be poor, provided thou keep thyself honest in thy poverty.  
9 It's the greatest folly in youth, either not to endeavour good advice, or not to believe it till their peril comes upon them, and makes them see it to their shtme.  
10. Rich Croesus showing Solon the Philosopher a great heap of gold that he had gathered together, asked him what he thought of it, who confidently replied, If another come that hath better iron than you, he will be Master of all this gold.  
11. He that professeth himself thy open enemy, arm thee against the evil he means thee; but he that dissembles himself thy secret friend, strikes beyond caution, and wounds above cure: From the first thou mayst deliver thyself, from the last good Lord deliver thee.  
12. Errors by mistakes should not be too vigorously censured, but errors that be wilful should not be spared.  
13. It was a wise saying of a Senator of Rome (during the Government of Galba who being aged, the people took liberty and had almost brought all into confusion) That it were better to live where nothing is lawful, then where all things are lawful.  
14. It's a certain Rule in all dark Prophecies, That they are never clearly understood, till they are accomplished.  
15. Correction without Instruction, is but mere tyranny.  
16. All qualities, without direction of virtue profit not but overthrow their possessor.  
17. Gold is tried with the Touchstone, but men by gold.  
18. As the Servants of God are known by humility and charity, so the servants of the Devil are known by pride and cruelty.  
19 No man gains by war, but he that hath not wherewith to live in Peace.  
20. Pray often because thou sinnest always, repent quickly lest thou die suddenly.  
21. He is said truly to serve his Country, whose body executeth what is wisdom plotteth.  
22. The honour of a King stands in the multitude of the people, but his safety in the love of his Subjects.  
23. Be always less willing to speak then to hear; when thou hearest thou receivest, when thou speakest thou givest; it is more glorious to give, more profitable to receive.  
24. Prayer is one of the worthiest actions we do, for we speak with God as it were, reasoning with him; it brings down God from Heaven, and makes him grant our will, and dwell with us and we with him eternally.  
25. Syward Earl of Northumberland, lying on his sickbed, and feeling death approaching suddenly started out of his bed and put on his Armour, saying, It became not a valiant man to die lying like a beast.  
26. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart; if thou be guilty it's a just correction, if not guilty, it's a fair Instruction; make use of both, so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and of an open enemy create a secret friend.  
27. Religious Alms-deeds makes God become our debtor.  
28. He is not worthy to command others, that cannot bridle his own affections and unresonable appetite.  
29. Sir Walter Raleigh in his imprisonment, was wont to comfort himself with this, saying, That the world was but a wide Prison, and every day one or other was called out to execution.  
30. We complain of the times, and justly, for never more wicked; but let us take heed that we be not a part of the misery of the times, and they made worse by our sins.  
31. Time the Mother, will bring forth Virtue the Daughter in due season.  
32. King Charles of ever blessed memory used this Speech to his second Parliament, That it is more honourable for a King to be invaded, and almost destroyed by a foreign enemy, then to be despised at home.  
33. Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee: where drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, Virtue a stranger, God an enemy, blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations. Noah discovered that in one hour drunk, which sober he kept secret six hundred years.  
34. Antoninus the Emperor having laid a double Tax upon the people, one of his under Officers told him, If he would have the people pay two Taxes in one year, be should give them two seed-times and two Harvests.  
35. My Lord Bacon was wont to say, That Laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught, and the great flies break through.  
36. If thou desirest rest to thy soul, be just: for he that doth no injury fears not to suffer injury: The unjust mind is always in labour, it either practices the evil it hath projected, or projects to avoid the evil, it hath deserved.  
37. False Miracles and lying News, are the food of superstition, which by credulity deludes ignorant people.  
38. William the Conqueror was wont to say, That an unlearned King was a crowned ass.  
39 A rich Merchant using constantly to drink out of a wooden dish, and being reproved for it by a friend, answered, I had rather drink out of Wood, and make golden payments, then drink out of gold, and make wooden payments.  
40. In all thy actions, think God sees thee, and in all his actions, labour to see him; that will make thee fear him, this will move thee to love him.  
41. Continual experience shows, That idleness is the greatest spur to lechery.  
42. The Birds of the air die to sustain thee, the beasts of the field die to nourish thee, the fishes of the Sea die to feed thee: Our stomaches are their common Sepulchre. Good God, with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up of? How full of death is the miserable life of mortal man?  
43. Suggestions are needless from abroad, when the mischief is felt at home.  
44. It is a hard thing to be rich and honoured in this world, and not struck with the dart of pride and vain glory.  
45. A heart not exercised in some honest calling, works trouble out of itself.  
46. The Devil never assaults a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or the fear of God.  
47. Rebuke thy Servants fault in private, public Reproofs hardens his shame: if he be passed a youth, strike him not; he is not fit for thy Service, that after wise reproofs will either deserve thy strokes, or digest them.  
48. God hath left three Books in the world, in each of which he may easily be found; The Book of the Creatures, the Book of Conscience, and his written Word. The first shows his Omnipotency, the second his Justice, the third his Mercy and Goodness.  
49. Nothing inslaveth a grateful Nature like a free benefit; he that conferrs it on me, steals me from myself, and in one and the same art, makes me a vassal, and himself my King.  
50. A prating Barber coming to trim King Archelaus, asked him, Sir, How will you please to have me cut your hair? The King silently answered; Though a man hath nothing to do but to hear and answer, yet a limitless tongue is a strange unbitted beast to worry one with.  
51. They that speak much, seldom speak well: for they that know how to speak right, know not how to dwell in discourse.  
52. He that hath a Wife and Children, hath given Hostages to Fortune; for they are Impediments to great enterprises.  
53. Men in great places are thrice Servants; Servants of the Sovereign or State, Servants of Fame, or Servants of Business: So that they may be truly said, to have no freedom neither in their Persons nor in their Actions.  
54. Riches may truly be called the baggage of Virtue, for of great Riches there is no real use, except it be in distribution, therest is but conceited.  
55. Kings and Emperors are in a miserable condition, for they have few things to desire, and many things to fear.  
56. Plato observed, That all knowledge was but remembrance. And Solomon saith, That all novelty is but Oblivion. There is nothing in this world that may be said to be permanent, but the two great winding-sheets that bury all things in oblivion, Deluges and Earthquakes.  
57 Music is more for pleasure then profit to mankind, which caused Diogenes to say to one that bragged in his skill, That wisdom governed Cities, but with Songs and Music he could not expect to order a House well.  
58. After a long sense of Peace War enters the stage, and indeed it is the world's Physic, it's both a a Purge and a Blood-letting: Peace, Fullness, Pride, and War, are the four fellies that being let into one another, makes the wheel that the times turn on.  
59 One ask Diogenes what was the saddest creature in the world, he answered, An old man in poverty.  
60. It argues a base disposition, either for favour or frowns, to desert a good cause in evil times.  
61. Wouldst thou multiply thy Riches, diminish them wisely, or wouldst thou make thy estate entire, divide it charitably: Seeds that are scattered, increase, but hoarded up, they perish.  
62. No man shall do ill that thinks ere he undertakes what the end will be, not what his passion will have it to be.  
63. In an age of plottings (as these are in which we live) the deepest plot is to be saved, and the best policy is to get assurance of Heaven.  
64. Revenge is sweet to man's nature, it may fitly be compared to the arrow that flies in the dark. Cesmus Duke of Florence had a desperate saying against perfidious Friends, (We read that we are commanded to forgive our enemies, but we never read that we are commanded to forgive our Friends.) That man which studies Revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal.  
65. He was a wise man, that being asked what was the best time to marry in, made this answer; For a young man not yet, for an elder man not at all.  
66. Charles King of Sweden, a great enemy to the Jesuits, who when he had taken away their Colleges, caused the old Jesuits to be hanged, and sent the young to the Mines, saying, That since they wrought so hard above ground he would try how they could work under ground.  
67. To bestow benefits on the bad, makes them worse, and villifyeth the reward of the virtuous.  
68 This wise saying of of Sir Henry Wotton, That the itch of Disputation will at last prove the scab of the Church, will eternize his Name more than all the monuments, that Art can possibly devise.  
69. Be not unstable in thy Resolutions, nor various in thy Actions, nor inconstant in thy Affections; so deliberate, that thou mayst resolve, so resolve, that thou mayst perform: Mutability is the badge of Infirmity.  
70. As the natural body is delighted in change, so also is the politic body greedy of alterations.  
71. He said truly, That buying of Church Lands, would be a mouth to eat up the rest of the Purchasers Estate.  
72. There is no trust in the multitude, (as we have lately seen by woeful experience,) one day they adore, the next rebel; to day cry Hail, Hail; to morrow Crucify.  
73. There is nothing the nature of man can less brook then Reproach, for there is no man so mean but thinks himself worthy of some regard.  
74. Cicero said, That perfect glory consists in three things; If the multitude loved a man, if they will trust him, if they hold him worthy of admiration, praise, and honour.  
75. The Stoics affirmed, That to live agreeable to nature, was to live virtuously and valiantly.  
76. The Lord Burleigh, Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth, was wont to say, That he overcame envy and ill will, more by patience then pertinacy. And Mr. Camden said of him, That he was amongst those few that lived and died with glory.  
77. At the Battle of Newport, the Prince of Orange having the Spanish Army before him, and the Sea behind him, spoke thus to his Soldiers; If you will live, you must either eat up these Spaniards, or drink up this Sea.  
78. Alexander having a Soldier of his Name under him, that was a coward, bid him either leave off his Name, or cease being a Soldier.  
79. A confident woman came clamouring to Gratian the Emperor against her Husband, to whom the Emperor mildly answered, What is that to me? she presently told him, That he had spoken Treason against him: He again replied, What is that to thee? Which caused the woman to go away ashamed.  
80. It was the usual saying of a French Poet, That he was not happy that had the things that he desired, but he which did not desire the things he had not.  
81. A Bashaw of Turkey, persuading the Emperor not to make war upon the Germans by reason of their multitudes, who answered; That his fingers would sooner be all of a length, than their Princes be all of one mind.  
82. Cato speaking of the authority that the Women of Rome had over their Husbands, said, Other men command their Wives; we command men, and our Wives command us.  
83. Do well while thou mayst, lest thou do evil when thou wouldst not: He that takes not advantage of a good power, shall lose the benefit of a good will.  
84. Man's happiness rests in the managing of his own time; so that every man may be blest, and rich in perfection, if his own dssiolutenesse and unthriftiness incurs not the contrary.  
85. Cato was wont to say, that in all his life time, it repent him of three things: 1. That ever he had told a secret to a woman. 2. That he went by water when he might have gone by Land. 3. That he had been idle a whole day and done nothing.  
86. In all Nations two things are Causes of a common prosperity; Good Government, and Good Obedience: A good Magistrate over a perverse people, is a sound head on a surfeited body; a good Commonalty and a bad Ruler, is a sound body with a headache.  
87. The wisdom of Simonides was very commendable, who being asked by Hiero what he thought of God, desired a seven night's space to consider of it; at the seven night's end, he asked a fortnight's; at the fortnight's end, a month; at which Hiero marveling, Simonides answered, That the longer he thought of it, the more difficult he found it.  
88 The way whereby Faith quieteth the soul, is by raising it above all discontentments and storms here below, and pitching it on God.  
89. Alexander was not commended for conquering the world, but for doing it before he was thirty years of age.  
90. A full swinge in pleasure, is the way to make men senseless; a confident persuasion of avoidable misery, is a ready path to despair.  
91. Three things necessary for a Christian to know; His own misery, God's love, his own thankful obedience.  
92. It was good counsel the Philosopher gave the young men of Athens; That they should often view themselves in a glass; if they were fair and well featured, that they should do those things that were beseeming their amiable shape; but if foul and ill-favoured, that then they should labour to salve the body's blemishes by the beauties of a mind accountred with the ornaments of virtue and good literature: All which is fitly applicable to a Christian.  
93. It was King James his advice, That we should not be like the Puritan in our Prayers, who speak to God as to there fellows, and sit at Christ's Table as with their companions, but to join reverence with the sweet confidence we have in God's love.  
74. It is better to follow the perfections of them whom we love not, then in defects, resemble them whom we love.  
95. In choosing a friend, besure to avoid two sorts of men: 1. Drunkard: 2. A passionate man. For, the first, he speaks what he knows not, nor after can he remember what that was he spoke; for the other, in his fit he is perfectly mad, and speaks not a word by reason, but by brutish passion: for anger is the fever of the soul.  
96. Peace from the mouth of a Tyrant is oftener promised then performed.  
97. Love breaks the brain, but never bruiseth the brow; it consumeth the heart, but never toucheth the skin, and makes a deep scar be seen, before any wound be felt.  
98. Envy never casts her eye low, nor ambition never points but always upward.  
99 That man that hath married a virtuous Wife, may truly be said to be happy; for being on earth, he hath attained Heaven; being in want, hath attained wealth; being in woe, hath attained comfort.  
100 The holiest man in show, proves commonly the hollowest man in heart.  
101. It is better to have an open enemy then a dissembling Friend.  
102. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.  
103. Mistrust no man without cause, neither be thou credulous without proof.  
104. Words wittily spoken awake and revive the judgement, but examples persuade the heart.  
105. Wisdom was begot by nature, nourished by experience, and brought forth by learning.  
106. Of all the Treasures in a Commonwealth, the innocent man is most to be esteemed.  
107. Happy is that Country whose Captains are Gentlemen, and whose Gentlemen are Captains.  
108. Honour is brittle, and Riches are blossoms, which every frost of fortune causeth to whither.  
109. He that through custom makes little account of his promise, may swear often, but shall seldom be believed.  
110. A man having honour and wanting wisdom, is like a fair tree without fruit.  
111. The evenings hope may comfort the morning's misery.  
112. A poor man being in charity is rich, but a rich man without charity is poor.  
113. Time and Patience teach all men to be content.  
114. A foolish man beginneth many things, and endeth nothing.   
FINIS.   

Courteous Reader, These Books following, are Printed for Simon Miller, and Sold by him at the Star in St. Paul's Churchyard.  

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A general History of Scotland, from the year 767. to the death of King James, containing the principal Revolutions and Transactions of Church▪ and State, with Political Observations, and reflections upon the same: by David Hume of Godscroft.  
The History of this Iron Age.  
Mr Paul Baine on the Ephesians.  
The Queen of Arragon, a Play: In fol.   

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Jo. Barklay his Argenis, Translated by Sir Robert ●●e Grise Knight, by his Late Majesty's special Command.  
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Abraham's Faith, or the good Old Religion, proving the Doctrine of the Church of England to be the only true Faith of God's Elect: By John Nicholson Minister of the Gospel.  
The Anatomy of Mortality: By George Strood.  
Three Treatises: 1. The Conversion of Nineveh touching Frayer and Fasting. 2. God's Trumpet sounding to Repentance. 3. Sovereign preservatives against distrustful Thoughts and Cares: By Will. Atters●ll Minister of God's Word at Isfield in Sussex.  
Aynsworth on the Canticles.  
Paul Baine, his Diocesans Trial.  
Gralle against Appolonius.  
A Treatise of Civil policy, being a clear Decision of 43 Queries, concerning prerogative, right and privilege, in reference to the supreme Prince and people: By Samuel Rutherford Professor of Divinity of St Andrews in Scotland.  
Politic and Military Observations of Civil and Military Government, containing the Birth, Increase, Decay of Monarchies, the carriage of Princes and Magistrates.  
Mr Pinchin his Meritorious price of man's Redemption, cleared.  
Astrology Theologised, showing what nature and influence the Stars and Planets have over men, and how the same may be diverted and avoided.  
Wells his Soul's Progress.  
Christ tempted, the Devils Conquered; Being a plain Exposition on the fourth Chapter of St Mathews Gospel: By John Gumbledon Minister of the Gospel.  
The Saint's Society.  
Dr Stoughtons' thirteen choice Sermons, with his Body of Divinity.  
The Reasons of the dissenting Brethren concerning the Presbyterian Government, together with the answer of the Assembly of Divines.  
Gamdens' Remains.  
The Harmonious Consent and Confession of Faith, of all the Protestant Reform Churches in Christendom.  
The description of the Universal Quadrant, by which is performed with great Expedition, the whole Doctrine of Triangles, both plain and Spherical: Also the Resolution of such Propositions as are most useful in Astronomy, Navigation, and Dialling: By which is performed the proportioning of Lines for measuring of all manner of Land, Board, Glass, Timber, Stone, etc. by Tho. Stirrup Mathemat.   

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Florus Anglicus, with the Lively Effigies of all the Kings and Queens since the Conquest, cut in Brass.  
The Reconciler of the Bible, wherein above two thousand seeming Contradictions are fully and plainly Reconciled.  
Evidences for Heaven, containing infallible Signs and real Demonstrations for assurance of Salvation: published by Ed●. Calamy Minister of Aldermanburic, Lo●d.  
The Life and Reign of King Charles from his Birth to his Death, By Lambert Wood  
The Night-Search, the second part: By H. Mill.  
A view of the Jewish Religion, with their Rites, Customs and Ceremonies.  
Useful Instructions for these Evil times; held forth in 22 Sermons, by Nicholas Lockyer, Provost of Eton College  
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Ed Waterhouse Esq His Discourse of Piety and Charity.  
Panacea, or the Universal Medicine; being a Discourse of the Admirable Nature and Virtues of Tobacco: By Dr. Everard and Others.  
A view and Defence of the Reformation of the Church of England, very useful in these times.  
Mr. Pet. du Moulin, his Antidote against Popery; published on purpose to prevent the Delusions of the Priests and Jesuits who are now very busy amongst us  
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O●id de Pento, in English.  
The Loves of Cli●io and Lezio a Romance. Mr. Know●es, his Rudiment of the Hebrew Tongue.  
A Book of Schemes or Figures of Heaven, ready set for every four Minutes of times, and very useful for all Astrologers.  
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Lingua, or the Combat of the Tongue, and five Senses for Speriority: a serious Comedy.  
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The poor man's Physician and Chirurgeon.  
Physical Rarities, containing the most choice Receipts in Physic and Chirurgery, for the cure of all Diseases Incident to man's body: By R W●lliams. To which is added the physical Mathematics: By Hermes, Tris. Magistus.  
The Idol of Clowns, or the Relation of Wat ●iler's Rebellion.  
The Christian Moderator, in 3 parts.  
The Golden Fleece, or a Discourse of the clothing of England.  
Dr. Sibbs his Divine Meditations.  
Vigerius Precepts of Idiotismes.  
Grotij Poemata.  
Three Books of Mr. Mathews Minister at Swansey in Southwales. 

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3. The Rending Church-member Regularly called back to Christ and his Church.    
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Doctor Smith's practice of physic.  
The Grammar War.  
Possellius Apothegms.  
Fascicul●●… Florum.  
Crashaw's Visions.  
The Juniper Lecture.  
Helvicus Colloquies.  
The Christian Soldier, his Combat with the three arch-enemies of mankind, the world, the flesh, and the devil.  
Hensius de Crepundiis.  
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Chawbut.  
Conspiracy.  
Obstinate Lady.  
The London Chanticlers; a Comedy full of various and delightful Mirth, never before published.