SOOTHING OF PROVERBS: With only True forsooth.  
In two Parts.  
By B. N. Gent.  
LONDON, rinted for john Wright, and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate at the sign of the Bible.  
1626.   

To the Reader.  
SOothing and Crossing are two humours more troublesome than profitable, The one troubles the wise that love no flattery, and the other fools that love to be flattered. What you are I know not, and therefore as you find yourself, so fit your sense: And yet if you will not scorn a fool's counsel, be silent rather than cross, for fear of quarrels; and rather learn silence among the wise, than sooth their sayings in their hearing, for their ears are jealous over their wits. But lest I make a great entry to a little house, leaving what you read to your leisure, and the liking to your capacity, I rest.  
B. N.   

SOOTHING OF Proverbs: WITH Only True forsooth.  Proverb. 
Love is a ravishing humour.  Sooth. 
True, or else so many Virgins would not lose their maidenheads.  Prou. 
Beauty is a bewitching object.  Sooth. 
True, or else men would not be so mad upon it.  P. 
All things are common among friends.  S. 
Then wives must be put in as well as wenches.  P. 
Nothing is hard to a willing mind.  S. 
True, if there be hope in the business.  P. 
Beware the witch.  S. 
True, for she is a devil incarnate.  P. 
Every man love's himself best.  S. 
True, or else he lacks understanding.  P. 
Too much of any thing is good for nothing.  S. 
True, for the quantity mars the quality.  P. 
A valiant mind fears no fortune.  S. 
True, for he knows 'tis but a fiction.  P. 
Young wenches make old wrinches.  S. 
True, when clasping of the breast breeds the crick in the back.  P. 
Like will to like.  S. 
True, that makes Lads go to Lasses.  P. 
A bawdy-house is an earthly hell.  S. 
True, for the devil stands at the door to bring his Guests into their room.  P. 
No Play is without a fool.  S. 
True, nor without many to look upon them.  P. 
Quarrelling makes the Surgeon's harvest.  S. 
True, when out of a little salve he gets a great deal of money.  P. 
Physicians are costly visiters.  S. 
True, for they seldom come but for their fee.  P. 
An Apothecary's shop is ill in a man's belly.  S. 
True, for if the stomach be not kept clean, it will stink of the medicines.  P. 
A Sexton is a fatal Musician.  S. 
True, for his music is a message of death.  P. 
When the Cat is away, the Mouse may play.  S. 
True, if she come not in the trap.  P. 
Contraries can hardly agree together.  S. 
True, that makes May and january so fare asunder.  P. 
Sweet meat will have sour sauce.  S. 
True, or else it would be too luscious.  P. 
Trolling eyes make rolling wits.  S. 
True, when feminine wags make masculine wantoness.  P. 
Every thing hath an end.  S. 
True, either whereto, or whereof.  P. 
A gay fool is an idle picture.  S. 
True, for it is but lost time to look upon it.  P. 
Airy bodies have light brains.  S. 
Or else mad men would not be so fantastic.  P. 
A scolding woman is a troublesome creature.  S. 
True, and especially to her husband.  P. 
Many men go backward thorough the world.  S. 
True, or else Rope-makers and Weavers could not get their liuings.  P. 
A jester and a Pander are cousin varmins in villainy.  S. 
True, and if both be in one, he will breed Cuckold's out of cry.  P. 
A defeated army is a lamentable spectacle.  S. 
True, when jews make havoc of Christians.  P. 
Povertie breeds peace.  S. 
True, for there is nothing to go to war withal.  P. 
Peace breeds plenty.  S. 
True, when labour brings profit.  P. 
Plenty breeds pride.  S. 
True, when money must purchase honour.  P. 
Pride breeds ambition.  S. 
True, when Beggars will be Kings.  P. 
Ambition breeds wars.  S. 
True, when principality will no equality.  P. 
War breeds poverty.  S. 
True, where a long siege makes a poor Camp, and a penurious City.  P. 
Povertie breeds peace.  S. 
True, when the Soldiers must rise for want of pay.  P. 
A Pirates life is in two great perils.  S. 
True, for if he scape drowning, he is in danger of hanging.  P. 
A Tinker's budget is full of necessary tools.  S. 
True, for he can mend a kettle, and pick a lock with them.  P. 
A Tailor's shreds are worth the cutting.  S. 
True, for sometimes they purchase lands.  P. 
A widow is dangerous to meet withal.  S. 
True, for commonly she is either poor, or proud.  P. 
An ill wind that blows no man good.  S. 
True, for it may ease my belly, that offends your nose.  P. 
Age and wedlock tames man and beast.  S. 
True, and yet they will to the business.  P. 
Money and a Mistress will make a Soldier run thorough fire.  S. 
True, and yet if he be burned, he had better have miss them both.  P. 
Better a little in the morning, than nothing all day after.  S. 
True, supposing to be good, or else better spared.  P. 
Experience is the Mistress of fools.  S. 
True, when a Prodigal feels his penury.  P. 
Art is the Schoolmistress of Nature.  S. 
True, when Reason guides judgement.  P. 
Learning is an ornament to Nature.  S. 
True, especially where the study is gracious.  P. 
Familiarity breeds contempt.  S. 
True, among fools and Beggars.  P. 
A knave and a fool never take thought.  S. 
True, for if the one cannot, the other will not take thought.  P. 
Wares commonly are dearest at their first coming.  S. 
True, and yet Carriers Titts are hired at a small rate.  P. 
A Rogue's Wardrobe is a harbour for a Louse.  S. 
True, but a Louse dares harbour where a Rogue dares not.  P. 
A Flea is a pretty fool, that feeds only on sweet blood.  S. 
True, and commonly makes her diet of the daintiest creatures.  P. 
Ingratitude makes a true Machavilian.  S. 
True, and such a one as no villain can match him.  P. 
 children dread the fire.  S. 
True, and yet old fools will be raking in the ashes.  P. 
Darksome mists are best for Thiefs.  S. 
True, when the devil hides the Gallows while they are plotting for the Rope.  P. 
Foolish Punks live ever in fear.  S. 
True, for the name of a Constable frights them with Bridewell.  P. 
An unlawful gains makes an unquiet conscience.  S. 
True, and especially when the cries of the poor are in the ears of the rich.  P. 
The falling out of lovers may be the renewing of love.  S. 
True, when patience hath overruled passion.  P. 
Sleep is the pride of ease.  S. 
True, for then both bones and senses are at rest.  P. 
Well warned is half armed.  S. 
True, for lack of care may be loss of life.  P. 
A tall trencherman had not need be a poor man.  S. 
True, lest his belly be too strong for his purse.  P. 
Tennis and Tobacco are costly exercises.  S. 
True, when sweat and smoke brings many a purse into a consumption.  P. 
Fire and water have no mercy.  S. 
True, with mad men and drunkards.  P. 
The more the merrier.  S. 
True, for he that life's alone is like a dog in a kennel.  P. 
One hand is enough in a purse.  S. 
True, and too many if it be of a pickpurse.  P. 
To day for thee, to morrow for me.  S. 
True, for every day is not for every man's humour.  P. 
Better a crust than no bread.  S. 
True, for if it be hard for the teeth, it will be soft in the pottage.  P. 
He runs fare that never turns.  S. 
True, for than he will outrun the Constable.  P. 
Salt savours all things.  S. 
True, but the better with pepper.  P. 
Soft fire makes sweet malt.  S. 
True, for a hasty fire may burn down the furnace.  P. 
He that goes softly, goes easily.  S. 
True, for else a man would go faster than a Snail when he hath the gout in his feet.  P. 
He that looks high, may have a chip in his eye.  S. 
True, if he stand under a tree that is lopping.  P. 
Two faces under a hood.  S. 
True, 'tis mere hypocrisy.  P. 
The fool mars the play.  S. 
True, when a bitter jest anger's the Audience.  P. 
A Cuckold is a horned man.  S. 
True, but he hides them like a Snail.  P. 
A Wittol is a note of a coward.  S. 
True, for he is afraid of his wife.  P. 
Pride will have a fall.  S. 
True, and though it be from the Gallows.  P. 
Thought is free.  S. 
True, till it come to words.  P. 
Law is costly.  S. 
True, in delays.  P. 
Time is precious.  S. 
True, in his right use.  P. 
Ill weeds grow fast.  S. 
True, and therefore need the more weeding.  P. 
pity spoils a City.  S. 
True, if the Magistrates be fools.  P. 
None more blind than he that will not see.  S. 
True, for his will takes away his power.  P. 
A Drunkard is worse than a beast.  S. 
True, for a beast can stand, and he cannot.  P. 
A Liar is worse than a Thief.  S. 
True, for he may steal away his good name.  P. 
The nearer the Church, the further from God.  S. 
True, when the Alehouse keeps the parish from prayer.  P. 
Early up and near the near.  S. 
True, when will wants wit in the business.  P. 
Fair words make fools fain.  S. 
True, for wise men know they are but wind.  P. 
Had I witted was a fool.  S. 
True, for prevention is a proof of wisdom.  P. 
A friend is like a Phoenix.  S. 
True, for they are more talked of than known.  P. 
There are more maids than Malkin.  S. 
True, for else how should Bachelors do for wives?  P. 
Labour to no purpose is as ill as idleness.  S. 
True, if a man want his tools to go to work withal.  P. 
Necessity hath no Law.  S. 
True, for Forma pauperis troubles the Court.  P. 
Idleness is the root of Ignorance.  S. 
True, and commonly the tree makes the Gallows.  P. 
Time trieth all things.  S. 
True, and most of them to be nothing.  P. 
The evening proves the day.  S. 
True, so doth a man's death his life.  P. 
One Tale is good till another be told.  S. 
True, for the last commonly puts down the first.   
FINIS.  

SOOTHING OF PROVERBS: With only True forsooth.  
The second Part.  
By B. N. Gent.  
LONDON, Printed for john Wright, and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate at the sign of the Bible.  
1626.   

The second part.  Proverb. 
WIshers and woulders are never good householders.  Sooth. 
True, for they feed their families with sentences.  P. 
The tide tarrieth no man.  S. 
True, and therefore it is good to to watch it.  P. 
An old babe is no child.  S. 
True, if he be passed the dug.  P. 
Error breeds idolatry.  S. 
True, else would not fooles worship babies.  P. 
Patience keeps the wits in temper.  S. 
True, for impatience maketh men mad.  P. 
The Nightingale and the Cuckoo sing both in one month.  S. 
True, but there is great difference in their notes.  P. 
Travellers tales are hardly believed.  S. 
True, because they forget themselves in their discourses.  P. 
No man is wise at at all times.  S. 
True, and he is happy that is wise at any time.  P. 
Fool's  P. 
Fools are fortunate.  S. 
True, or else they would not be so rich.  P. 
A cursed Cow hath short horns.  S. 
True, or else she would gore the Milkmaid.  P. 
A kennel is fit for a dog.  S. 
True, and yet fisting Curs lie on fair laps.  P. 
Snaphaunces are most fit for Pistols.  S. 
True, for if they be too quick, they may be ill in an house.  P. 
He hath need of mutton, that dips his bread in the wool.  S. 
True, for he may hap better be fasting, than take a taste of it.  P. 
A maid and a virgin is not all one.  S. 
True, the one is a child, the other a woman.  P. 
Every virgin is a maid.  S. 
True, but every maid is not a virgin.  P. 
Honesty is ill for thriving.  S. 
True, only among knaves.  P. 
Poetry is too full of fictions.  S. 
True, and therefore the less esteemed.  P. 
The fool is wise.  S. 
True, when he makes fools of wise men.  P. 
jacke an Apes is no Gentleman.  S. 
True, and yet he will have a gay coat.  P. 
Beggary is a wonderful cunning trade.  S. 
True, for it getteth money for words.  P. 
Robbery is a very cheap purchase.  S. 
True, for it costeth but a penny halter.  P. 
Lechers and mad men have two great kinds of extreme weakness.  S. 
True, the one in their backs, the other in their brains.  P. 
Fight is every way dangerous.  S. 
True, either for killing or hanging.  P. 
A knave may be an honest man.  S. 
True, if it be but against his will.  P. 
Money is a marvelous kind of metal.  S. 
True, for it plays the devil in the world.  P. 
Hopes are very strong imaginations.  S. 
True, but when they hit not, they make weak hearts.  P. 
Lies have strange effects.  S. 
True, for they make truth mistrusted.  P. 
Tobacco is like wood.  S. 
True, for it consumes in smoke.  P. 
Wyermen are fishes enemies.  S. 
True, for they make hooks for their noses.  P. 
jugglers and lesters are cousin varmins to the knave.  S. 
True, for they commonly come from the quean.  P. 
A Piper and Tinker make a bad piece of musickc.  S. 
True, for they seldom agree but in drink.  P. 
Two to one is odds.  S. 
True, and yet a man and his wife are one.  P. 
Cozeners are the worst cousins.  S. 
True, for they will deceive their fathers.  P. 
Greatness and goodness go not ever together▪  S. 
True, for then the devil would not be so wicked.  P. 
Wine and wenches empty men's purses.  S. 
True, and fill the body with diseases.  P. 
Care is more costly than comfortable.  S. 
True, when a man is troubled with a scold.  P. 
Friendship is doubtful in time of distress.  S. 
True, for kindness may prove costly.  P. 
Thrift is the commendation of wit.  S. 
True, for beggary is a base profession.  P. 
He is wise that can hold his peace.  S. 
True, if that he be not tonguetied.  P. 
Wealth is a blessing unto the wise.  S. 
True, if it be not hurtful to the soul.  P. 
Coyness is a foolish niceness.  S. 
True, when a wench will say she cannot dance.  P. 
He that is rich is wise.  S. 
True, if he have wisdom to govern it.  P. 
Fair women are delightful objects.  S. 
True, if they be not proud.  P. 
Wantonness is the way to wickedness.  S. 
True, when lust goes for love among the youthful.  P. 
Age claims the reverence of time.  S. 
True, when a horse-stealer is hanged before a cutpurse.  P. 
Youth is the desperate time of nature.  S. 
True, or else there would not be so many swaggerers.  P. 
Physic is good for the sick.  S. 
True, for it is a fore-staller of death.  P. 
Quacksalver's are engrossers of diseases.  S. 
True, for they will take upon them all cures.  P. 
Great spenders are but bad lender's.  S. 
True▪ for they will hardly pay that they owe.  P. 
Evil natures are no good companions.  S. 
True, for their conditions are infectious.  P. 
Water is a cleanly element.  S. 
True, till it meet with uncleanness.  P. 
Come sleep with me, seems to be a sweet word in a whore's mouth.  S. 
True, but he that awaketh with the pox, will curs● her for her kindness.  P. 
Bugbears fright none but fools.  S. 
True, for wise men know a vizard from a face.  P. 
Painters are agents for Idolatry.  S. 
True, when fools worship Images.  P. 
A witch is a fit wife for a Conjurer.  S. 
True, and the devil's chapel for their Church.  P. 
Three trees are the Hangman's farm.  S. 
True, and his harvest is most in lousy rags.  P. 
An hypocrite is the devil's Chaplain.  S. 
True, for his heart saith service in hell.  P. 
He that reads that he understandeth not, wrongs his wit with his tongue.  S. 
True, that makes so many Latine-asses make their prayers to pictures.  P. 
Patience is a plaster for all diseases.  S. 
True, but it is often long a healing.  P. 
All brazen work is good but in faces.  S. 
True, for it makes them as bold as beggars.  P. 
Sin is the wound of sense.  S. 
True, when the soul is troubled with the flesh.  P. 
Fear is the fruit of sin.  S. 
True, for it rotteth the soul of the reprobate.  P. 
It is never long which cometh at last.  S. 
True, for if hoped for, it is welcome; if feared, it than cometh too soon.  P. 
A Camp is the glory of the war.  S. 
True, but peace maketh a brave Court and a blessed Country.  P. 
Out of sight out of mind.  S. 
True, for a man shall be no sooner dead but forgotten.  P. 
Fasting should go before Feasting.  S. 
True, for then one may the better do it.  P. 
Rest after labour is sweet.  S. 
True, for idleness upon idleness is easeless.  P. 
Long travels make weary voyages.  S. 
True, when they get little for their labour.  P. 
Fare travellers do know many things.  S. 
True, and many that were better unknown.  P. 
Good company is a waggon in the way.  S. 
True, for its tedious to travel alone.  P. 
A bawdy house is an earthly hell.  S. 
True, for the house is never without a devil.  P. 
An Inn is the hope of guests.  S. 
True, for without them the Host may pull down his sign.  P. 
A Tavern is the bloud-letter of the grape.  S. 
True, for he will draw it to the last drop.  P. 
Words are but wind.  S. 
True, when there is no intent of performance.  P. 
An Alehouse is the beggar's ruin.  S. 
True, for there he spendeth the profit of his profession.  P. 
A Thief is a resolute Rascal.  S. 
True, for he hath set up his rest to be hanged.  P. 
Women are necessary evils.  S. 
True, and it is pity they should be so.  P. 
Pen and Ink is wits plough.  S. 
True, and yet sometime it undoeth the Ploughman.  P. 
Words are thoughts actors.  S. 
True, yet sometimes they undo the players.  P. 
Robin Goodfellow was a strange man.  S. 
True, among wenches that kept not their houses clean.  P. 
Will Summer was a shrewd fool.  S. 
True, for he made an Ass of many a fair beast.  P. 
Two days are most dreadful to the wicked.  S. 
True, the day of death, and the day of doom.  P. 
The wicked are for the most part fearful.  S. 
True, for the guilt of conscience frighteth the soul.  P. 
Enough is as good as a feast.  S. 
True, for what is more than enough is not good.  P. 
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.  S. 
True, when the quantity spoileth the quality.  P. 
Where the hedge is low, it is easily trodden down.  S. 
True, when honesty ruleth not the will.  P. 
It is easy to find a stone to throw at a dog.  S. 
True, inferiors are easily wronged.  P. 
Sleep is the pride of ease.  S. 
True, and yet too much will spoil the spirit.  P. 
Contraries cannot agree.  S. 
True, for an ill tongue will kill a quiet heart.  P. 
The noblest life is in wars.  S. 
True, where valour may show mercy, and wisdom may gain honour.  P. 
A woman is the weaker vessel.  S. 
True, for the weakest goeth to the wall.  P. 
Hasty climbers have oft sudden falls.  S. 
True, when they make more haste down than up.  P. 
Honesty is an excellent and precious virtue.  S. 
True, for what is rare is precious.  P. 
Pride is without profit.  S. 
True, for it spends much to gain scorn.  P. 
Money is a great master in a market.  S. 
True, for without him there is but cold trading.  P. 
A Cuckoo is a most unkind creature.  S. 
True, for she kills the Sparrow hatched her young.  P. 
A Pelican is the kindest bird.  S. 
True, for she wounds her breast to feed her young.  P. 
A young Servingman an old beggar.  S. 
True, when youth forgets that age will come.  P. 
Wit and learning are fair virtues.  S. 
True, when humility is joined with understanding  P. 
The richest men have not ever most wit.  S. 
True, for wealth is no cause of wit.  P. 
Honesty is better than riches.  S. 
True, for honesty is honesty still.  P. 
It is good to make hay while the Sun shines.  S. 
True for in rainy weather there is more pains, and yet to less purpose.  P. 
Money is a great comfort.  S. 
True, if it be well used.  P. 
Like will to like.  S. 
True, when thiefs and whores meet at the gallows.  P. 
Tradesmen live upon lack.  S. 
True, for were there no lack, they could not live for want of trading.  P. 
A Cobbler deals with All.  S. 
True, for without Aule he is no body.  P. 
All is not gold that glisters.  S. 
True, nor every man the same he seems.  P. 
It is hard to make mutton of a Sow.  S. 
True, for Art cannot easily change what is inbred by nature.  P. 
Tobacco is a great purger.  S. 
True, for it purgeth both the head and the purse.  P. 
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.  S. 
True, for too much money will make a man mad.  P. 
All is not got that is put into the purse.  S. 
True, when a man sells his friend for a trifle.  P. 
Kissing goes by favour.  S. 
True, and that makes desert go a begging.  P. 
A friend in the Court is better than a penny in the purse.  S. 
True, but both together is best of all.  P. 
The end proveth the act.  S. 
True, for many large promises have small performances.  P. 
It is good to be merry and wise.  S. 
True, for mirth without measure is mere madness.  P. 
Bought wit is best.  S. 
True, for it is best remembered.  P. 
Many things are best learned without experience.  S. 
True, for you may chance pay more for your schooling than your learning is worth.  P. 
There is a time for all things.  S. 
True, for after folly comes repentance.  P. 
Many a dog is hanged for his skin.  S. 
True, and many a man killed for his purse.  P. 
Delayed hope is grievous to the heart.  S. 
True, when fear oppresseth the soul.  P. 
It is an ill thing that is good for nothing.  S. 
True, and yet many such things there be.  P. 
That is well spoken that is well taken.  S. 
True, for then the hearers are pleased.  P. 
The longest day will have an end.  S. 
True, and therefore we must hope and fear.  
FINIS.