OIass__L Book J_ i Q- f 7 GNOMOLOGIA; Stages an& $rob*rf>s, WISE SENTENCES, WITTY SAYINGS ANCIBNT AND MODERN, FORBIGN AND BRITISH. COMPILED BY THOMAS FULLER, M. D A NEW EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. AND J ALLMAN, PRINCE'S STREET, HANOVER SQUARE; AND BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, PATERNOS- TER ROW. 1817. \p x „ 62370 TO THE READER. After my two late books of right thinking and acting, a third might naturally follow of speaking ; but this being a subject of great extent, and very numerous particulars, all I dare undertake, is to give you a collection of sucii remarkable sentences and sayings, as are usual and use- iiil in conversation and business. All of us forget more than we remember, and therefore it hath been my constant custom to note down and re- cord whatever I thought of myself, or received froin men or books, worth preserving. Among other things, I wrote out apothegms, maxims, k proverbs, acute expressions, vulgar sayings, &e. And having at length collected more than ever any Englishman has before me, I have ventured to send them forth, to try their fortune among the people. In ancient times, before methodical learning had got footing in the nations, and instructive treatises were writ- ten, the observations that wise men made from expe- rience, were used to be gathered and summed up into brief and comprehensive sentences, which being so con- trived, as to have something remarkable in their expres- sions, might be easily remembered, and brought into use on occasions— -these are called adages or maxims. A 2 IV Also the men of business, and the common people, that they might in their affairs and conversation signify and communicate their sense and meaning in short, with smartness or with pleasantness, fell into customary little forms of words and trite speeches, which are called pro- verbs and common sayings. The former of these are from judgment, and are used by men of understanding and seriousness : the other are from wit, and are accommodated to the vulgar, and men of mirth. I conceive it is not needful for me accurately to deter- mine, which are to be called adages and proverbs ; nor nicely to distinguish the one from the other : all that I take upon me here to do is, only to throw together a vast confused heap of unsorted things, old and new, which you may pick over and make use of, according to your judgment and pleasure. Many of these are only plain bare expressions, to be taken literally in their proper meaning; others have something of the obscure and surprize, which, as soon as understood, renders them pretty and notable. They used to be taken from history, fables, parables, persons of note, and places, &c. and consist of allusions, allegories, metaphors, similes, hyperboles, ironies, &c. The use of them was very old, as is manifest from that of David, 1 Sam. xxiv. As saith the proverb of the an- cients. All the eastern nations, the Tartars, Turks, Arabians, Persia , and all the people of Asia, have ever had their remarkable sentences, proverbial, significant, and plea- sant sayings, which are peculiar to each, and oftentimes express the genius, disposition, wisdom, and wit, of that people. Vll to be spoke in the presence of wise, grave, virtuous, mo- dest, well-bred people, Before I end, I think it not amiss to add the following remarks : 1. Aristotle (as one hath it) observes, that moral say- ings and proverbial speeches, are to be understood to be usually and for the most part true, and that there may be several exceptions made, and instances given, to the con- trary ; yet this does not infringe the general truth of them : but if in frequent common expressions they be found true, this is all the truth that is expected in them, because it is all that is intended by them. 2. Adagies and proverbs are to be accounted only as sauce to relish meat with, but not as substantial dishes to make a meal on ; and therefore are never good, but upon proper subjects and occasions, where they may serve to give a lively force and pleasant turn to what is said ; but to apply them wrong, or crack them off too thick, like Sancha in Don Quixote, is abominably fop- pish, ridiculous, and nauseous. 3. Because verses are easier got by heart, and stick faster in the memory than prose ; and because the ordi- nary people use to be much taken with the clinking of syllables ; many of our proverbs are so formed, and very often put into false rhymes; as, A stitch in time, may save nine; Many a little will make a mickle. This little ar- tifice, I imagine, was contrived purposely to make the sense abide the longer in the memory, by reason of its oddness and archness. 4. I use the alphabetical order of the initial woi not as any help to the reader, but to myself, that I might the better avoid repetitions, which otherwise would be ex- VIII tremely difficult to do, in the writing out of so many thou- sand sentences, at different times. And now, having premised what I thought proper and expedient, I shall close this epistle with the following Epigram, communicated to me by a friend. Quae bene senserunt, bene quae dixere priores Transmissa ad nostros obstinuere dies. Communis vitae nihil observatur in usu, De quo non veterum dicta cavere monent. Hinc ortum vulgata suum proverbia ducunt, Voceque pro Populi multa per aeva valent. Saepe sub antiquo pressum, sub simplice verbo, Quod juvet et pariter pungat, acumen habent. Saepe incompositis pedibus sententia ludit, Disparibus rhythmis, et rudiore metro. Urbano risu nunc mordet apertius, et nuno Sub ficta occulitur rusticitate lepos. Usque sibi constans ratio pronunciat omni, Quae recte sentit, tempore, gente, loco. V As to the Hebrews, the sacred Scriptures give us many proverbs ; even our Saviour himself used them, Luke iv. 23. Physician, heal thyself. As to the Grecians, Erasmus presents us with a won- derful large catalogue of them, both philosophers and poets, that were Gnomologists ; and the seven wise men of Greece were famous only for one single symbol a piece. As to our moderns, the Italians, Spanish, French, Germans, Scots, English, &c. have made collections of ihrir peculiar national adages and proverbs. Its a matter uf no small pains and diligence (whatever lazy, snarling persons may think) to pick up so many independent particulars, as I have here done. And its no trifling or useless thing neither; it being what many of the most learned and wisest men in the world have, in all ages, employed themselves upon. The son of Syrac will be had in everlasting remem- brance for his Ecclesiasticus. But, above all, that most glorious of kings, and wisest of men, Solomon, wrote, by divine appointment and in- spiration, proverbs, precepts, and counsels. Of the Greeks I have spoken before. Among the Romans, even the great Julius Czesar him- self, who by reason of the important affairs concerning government and wars, was the busiest man in the world, stole time to write a book of remarkable sayings, which is unfortunately lost. Valerius Maximus wrote ex professo, Dictorum fac- torumque memorabilium Mb. 9. Macrobius, in his Saternalia, wrote De dirersorum jocis et dicteriis. But to come nearer our own times: Erasmus fc>ok| infinite pains himself, in compiling his book of adages, I and it is augmented by the works of several other cele- 1 brated persons, in it named ; and it was, (though of use [ to none but scholars, and a large volume) so well re- ceived, that it had twelve editions in his life-time. But of late, besides foreigners, divers of our own wor- thy countrymen, have thought it richly worth their time and pains to pick up, and publish proverbs and apo- thegms* The great Lord Bacon hath left us a very small col- lection of apothegms ; and saith, certainly they arc of excellent use, they are mucrones verborum, pointed speeches : they serve to be interlaced in continued speech ; Ihey serve upon particular occasions ; if you take out the kernel of them, and make them your own. Our excellent Mr. Raj r , with the assistance of many ingenious and learned friends, which he mentions by name, published a celebrated book of proverbs. And about ten years ago James Kelly, M. A. published a curious collection of Scotish proverbs, explained and made iutelligible. These things being undeniably so, no man ought to despise, ridicule, or any ways discourage the diligence and kindness of those, that take pains to bring home to others without price, those things of profit and pleasure. I picked up these sentences and sayings at severai times, according as they casually occurred, and most of them so long ago, that I cannot remember the particulars, and am now (by reason of great age and ill sight) utterly unable to review them ; otherwise I would have struck out all such as are not fit for the company, or are indecent FULLERS PROVERBS. -*^*- 1 A HAD Jack may have as bad a .lilt "2 A bad padlock invites a picklock \3 A bad thing never dies 4 A bad shift is better than no shift 5 A bad workman never gets a good tool 6 A barber learneth to shfcve by shaving of fools 7 A barley-corn is better Chan a diamond to acock -8 A basket-jnstice, will do justice right or wrong 9 A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison 10 A beggar payeth a benefit with a louse 11 A bellyful I is a bellyfull, whether it be meat or drink V2 A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk 13 A bird may be caught with a snare, that will not be shot 14 A bit and a knock, as men feed npes 15 A black hen will lay a white c^s: V6 A black man is a jewel in a fair woman's eye 17 A blind man will be glad to see it 18 A blind man will not thank you for a looking glass 19 A blunt wedge will do it, where sometimes a axe will not 20 A blow with a reed makes a noise, but hurts not 21 A boaster and a liar are eousiu-germans 22 A bold fellow is the jefct of wise men, and the idol ci 1 tools 23 A book that is shut, is but a block 24 A brave retreat is a brave exploit .25 A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of fur- niture 26 A broad bat docs not always cover a venerable head 27 A broken friendship may be solder'd, but will never be sound 28 A broken glass can't be hurt 29 A Burston horse and a Cambridge-m aster of arts will give the way to nobody 30 A bushel of March dust, on the leaves, is worth a king's ransom 31 A calm is most welcome after a storm 32 A careless watch invites the vigilant foe 33 A carper can cavil at any thing 34 A cat has nine lives, and a woman has nine cats lives 35 A cat may look upon a king 36 A charitable man is the true lover of God 37 A child's birds and a boy's wife are well used 38 A civil denial is better than a rude grant 39 A clean hand wants no washing 40 A clear conscience can bear any trouble 41 A clear conscience is a sure card 42 A clear conscience laughs at false accusations 43 A close mouth catchetli no flies 44 A college of whit-crackers 45 A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can 46 A common blot is held no stain 47 A common jeerer may have wit but not wisdom 48 A constant guest is never welcome 49 A constrained will seeketh every opportunity to slip its head out of the collar 50 A cook is known by his knife 51 A covetous man does notbing that be should do till he dies 52 A covetous man is a dog in a wheel that roasteih meat for others 53 A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself 54 A cough will stick longer by a horse than a peck of oats 55 A countryman may be as warm in kersey as a king in velvet 56 A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend 57 A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed 58 A coward's fear can make a coward valiant 59 A crafty fellow never has any peace 60 A cripple may possibly catch a hare 61 A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow 62 A crowd is not company 63 A crown in pocket doth you more credit than an an- gel spent 64 A curs'd cow has short horns 65 A curs'd cur should be short tyM 66 A customary railer is the devil's bagpipe, which the world danceth after 67 A danger foreseen is half avoided 68 A day to come shews longer than a year that's gone 69 A day will come when fair dealing will be found a jewel 70 A debauched son of a noble family is a foul stream from a clear spring 71 A deformed body may have a beautiful soul 72 A deluge of words and a drop of sense 73 A detractor is his own foe, and the world's enemy 74 A diamond is valuable, though it lie on a dunghill 75 A disease know r n is half cured 76 A dishonest woman cannot be kept in, and an honest one will not 77 A dogmatical tone, a pragmatical pate 78 A dog's life, hunger and ease 79 A dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone 80 A drowning man will catch at a rush 81 A drunken night makes a cloudy morning 82 A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter 83 A dull ass near home needs no spur 84 A dumb man never gets land So A dwarf threatens Hercules 86 A fair booty makes many a thief 87 A fair face and a foul bargain 88 A fair face and a foul heart 89 A fair face is half a portion 90 A fair gamester among rooks must be beat 91 A fair wife without a fortune, is a fine house without furniture 92 A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort, but a friend is both 93 A fault, once denied, is twice committed 94 A fault, wilfully committed, deserveth no pardon 95 A favour ill-placed is profusion 96 A feast is not made of mushrooms only 97 A fine diamond may be ill-set 98 A fool and his money are soon parted 99 A fool can dance without a fiddle B 2 100 A fool demands much, but he's a greater that gives if 10 1 A fool is better than an obstinate man 102 A fool is happier in thinking well of himself than a wise man in others thinking well of him 103 A fool knows more in his own house, than a wise man in another's 104 A fool loseth his estate, before he finds his folly 105 A fool may chance to put something into a wise man's head 106 A fool's bolt is soon shot 107 A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the white 108 A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat 109 A fool's speech is a bubble of air 1 10 A fool wants his cloak in a rainy day 111 A fool when he hath spoke hath done all 112 A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailors fool, and his own foe 113 A forced kindness deserves no thanks 1 14 A fortunate man may be any where 115 A foul morn may turn to a fair day 116 A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial 1 17 A friend in court is as good as a penny in pocket 118 A friend is never known till needed 1 19 A friend in the market is better than money in the chest 120 A friend to all, is a friend to none 121 A friend that you buy with presents, will be bought from you 122 A full cup must be carried steadily 123 A full purse makes the mouth run over 124 A gallant man needs no trumpets and drums to rouse him 125 A gallant man rather despises death than hates life 126 A generous confession disarms slander 127 A gentleman ought to travel abroad, but dwell at home 128 A gentleman should have more in his pocket than on his back 129 A gentleman without an estate, is a pudding with- out suet 130 A gift long waited for is sold, not given 131 A gift with a kind countenance, is a double present 132 A golden dart kills where it pleases 133 A golden shield is of great defence 1.34 A gold ring does not cure a felon !;io A good archer is not known by his arrow*, but his aim 136 A good beast will get himself a heat with eating 137 A good beginning makes a good ending 133 A good candle- snuffer may come to Le a good player 139 A good cause and a good tongue ; and }<-t mooei must carry it 140 A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong ami 141 A good conscience is the best divinity 142 A good conscience needs never sneak 143 A good day will not mend him, nor a had da\ im- pair him 144 A good dog deserves a good bone 145 A good edge is good for nothing, if it has nothing to cut 146 A good example is the best sen* 147 A good face needs no band, and a bad ojie (Jeserrcs none 148 A good face needs no p*int 141) A good faculty in lying, :s, now-a days, a fair step to preferment 150 A good fame is better than a good fa^e 151 A good friend is my nearest relation 152 A good garden may have some weeds 153 A good honest man, uow-a days, is but a h word for a fool 151 A good hope is better than a bad possession -155 A good horseman wants a good spur }56 A good horse should be seldom spurred 157, A good life fears not life nor death 158 A good life is the only religion 169 A good man has more hope in his death, tha wicked man in Ins life 160 A good man is no more to be feared than a sheep 101 A good man will as soon run into a fire as a quarrel 16*2 A good man will requite a gift ; an ill man will ask more 163 A good marksman may miss 164 A good merchant may meet with a misfortune 165 A good neighbour, a good morrow A good orator irmst be Cicero and Roscius in one nrcto b3 6 107 A good paymaster may build Paul's 168 A good paymaster never wants workmen 169 A good pinch, and a rap with a stick, is a clown's compliment 170 A good presence is letters of recommendation 171 A good present need not knock long for admittance 172 A good reputation is a fair estate 173 A good sailor may mistake in a dark night 174 A good salad may be the prologue to a bad supper 175 A good season for courtship is, when the widow returns from the funeral 176 A good servant must have good wages 177 A good shift may serve long, but cannot serve for ever 178 A good tale ill told is a bad one 179 A good tongue has seldom need to beg attention 180 A good tongue is a good weapon 181 A good thing is soon caught up 1 82 A good tree is a good shelter 183 A good winter brings a good summer 184 A goose-({uill is more dangerous than a lion's claw 185 A goss-hawk beats not at a bunting 186 A gossip speaks ill of all, and all of her 187 A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft 188 A great blockhead hath not stuff enough to make u man of sense 189 A great bustle, and no business done 190 A great ceremony for a small saint 191 A great city, a great solitude 192 A great cry and little wool 193 A great dowry is a bed full of brambles 194 A great fortune, in the hands of a fool, is a great misfortune 195 A great fortune is a great slavery 196 A great head and a little wit 197 A great load of gold is more burthensome than a light load of gravel 198 A great man and a great river are often ill neigh- bours 199 A great man's foolish sayings pass for sentences 200 A great man will not trample upon a worm, nor sneak to an emperor 201 A great mark is soonest hit 202 A great reputation is a great charge 203 A great ship must have deep water 204 A great tree hath a great fall 205 A green winter makes a fat church-yard 206 A green wound is soon healed 207 A grunting horse, and a groaning* wife, seldom fail 208 A guilty eonscienee never thinketh itself sale 209 A giant will starve with what will forfeit a dwarf 210 A handsaw is a good thing, but not to shave with 211 A hare may draw a lion, if she have but a golden cord 212 A heady man and a fool, may wear the same cap 213 A hog in armour is still but a hog 214 A hog that's bemired, endeavours to bemire others 215 A hog upon trust, grunts till he's paid for 216 A hook's well lost to catch a salmon 217 A horse is neither better nor worse for his trapping 218 A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats 219 A hot May tills the church-yard 220 A house built by the way-side, is either too high or too low 221 A house ready built never sells for so much as it cost 222 A house ready made, but a wife to make 223 A house well furnished makes a good housewife 224 A hungry man smells meat afar otf 225 A jealous head is soon broken 226 A jealous man's horns hong in his eves 227 A jest driven too far, brings home hate or scorn 228 A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loseth a friend 229 A journey were better too long than dangerous 230 A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning 231 A Kentish jury ; hang half and save half 232 A knave discovered is a great fool 233 A knavish confession should have a cane for abso- lution 234 A lamb is as dear to a poor man, as an ox to the rich 235 A lame traveller should ^et out betimes 236 A lazy ox is little belter for the goad 237 A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy 238 A leaden sw ord in an ivory scabbard 239 A libertine lite is not a life of liberty 240 A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things B4 8 241 A light purse makes a heavy he ait 242 A linsey-wolsey gown does not become June 243 A little barrel can give but a little meal 244 A little bird is content with a little nest 245 A little debt makes a debtor, but a great one an enemy 246 A little evil contributes more to our misery 247 A little of every thing is nothing in the main 248 A little « hip needs not but a little sail 249 A little stream may quench tinrst, as well as a great river 250 A little stream will drive a light mill 251 A little string will tie up a little bird 252 A little time may be enough to hatch a great deal of mischief 253 A little wind kindleth a great fire ; a great one bloweth it out 254 A little wood will heat a little oven 255 A long harvest and a little corn 256 A long life hath long miseries 257 A long ox and a short horse 258 A lord without riches is a soldier without arms 259 A low hedge is easily leaped over 250 A loyal heart may be landed under Traitor's Bridge 261 A liar is a bravo towards God, and a coward to- wards men 262 A lie begets a lie till they come to generations 263 A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings 264 A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse 265 A mad beast must have a sober driver 266 A mad bull is not to be tied up with a packthread 267 A madman and a fool are no witnesses 268 A mad parish must have a mad priest 269 A maid that laughs is half taken 270 A man among children will be long a child, a child ajtnong men will be soon a man 271 A man apt to promise is apt to forget 272 A man, as he manages himself, may die old at thirty, and a child at eighty 273 A man at sixteen, will prove a child at sixty 271 A man gains nothing by being vain-glorious but contempt and hatred 275 A man gets no thanks for what he loseth at play 276 A man has no more goods than he gets good by "277 A man is a man, though he have but a hose upon his head 278 A man is a man, though he have never a cap to his crown 279 A man is a stark fool all the while he's angry 280 A man is not good or bad, for one action 281 A man is not so soon healed as hurt 282 A man in distress or despair does as much as ten 283 A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him 284 A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn 285 A man like a watch, is to be valued for his goings 286 A man loseth his time, that comes early to a bad bargain i 287 A man may as well expect to be well, and at ease without wealth, as happy without virtue 288 A man may be an artist, though he have not his tools about him 289 A man may be good in the camp, and yet bad in the church 290 A man may be happy here and hereafter, without much fame or wealth 291 A man may be strong, and yet not mow well 292 A man may buy even gold too dear 293 A man may come to market though he don't buy oysters 294 A man may lead his horse to water, but c&mioi make him drink 295 A man may love his house, and yet not ride on the ridge 296 A man may be young in years, and yet old in hours 297 A man may have a just esteem of himself, withouf being proud 298 A man may provoke his own dog to bite him 299 A man may say even his Pater-noster out of time 300 A man may say too much even upon the be^t of subjects 301 A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive 302 A man of courage never wants weapons 303 A man of cruelty is God's enemy 304 A man of many trades begs his bread on Sundays 305 A man of parts may be hid all his life, unless for- tune call him out 10 306 A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife 307 A man's folly ought to be his greatest secret 308 A man's gift makes room for him 309 A man is little the better for liking himself, if no body else like him 310 A mau surprised is half beaten 31 1 A man that breaks his word, bids others be false to him 312 A man that keeps riches, and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. 313 A man under no restraint, is a bear without a ring 314 A man with a running head never wants where- with to trouble himself 315 A man without ceremony had need of great merit in its place 316 A man without money, is a bow without an arrow 317 A man without money, is no man at all 318 A mare's shoe and a horse's shoe are both alike 819 A mariner must have his eye upon rocks and sands, as well as upon the north star 320 A mastive groweth the fiercer, for being tied up 321 A match, quoth John, when he kissed his dame 322 A mere scholar at court is an ass among apes 323 A merchant's happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves 324 A merry companion is music in a journey 325 A merry old fool, and a gay apish matron, are domestic monsters 326 A mischievous plot may produce a good end 327 A misty morning may have a fine day 328 A modest man at court is the silliest wight breathing 329 A mole wants no lanthorn 330 A moneyless man goes fast through the market 331 A mouse in time may shear a cable asunder 332 A mouse roust not think to cast a shadow like an elephant 333 A myrtle among thorns is a myrtle still 334 A natural propension will have its course ; especially a bad one 335 A nightingale cannot sing in a cage 336 A nod of an honest man is enough 337 A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool 338 A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool 339 A paradisical temper is not to be expected from postdiluvian mortals 11 340 A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man 341 A penny more bays the whistle 342 A penny saved is two pence got -~343 A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law 344 A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny 346 A pensive soul feeds upon nothing but bitters 346 A person that is beautiful and vicious, is a fine picture set in a scurvy frame 347 A petitioner at court that spares his purse, angles without a bait 348 A piece of a kid is worth two of a cat 349 A pilot is not chosen for his riches, but his knowledge 350 A pin a day is a groat a year 351 A place at court is a continual bribe 352 A plaster is a small amends for a broken head 353 A poor man gets a poor marriage 354 A poor man has not many marks for fortune to shoot at 355 A poor man's debt makes a great noise 356 A poor man wants some things, a covetous man all things 357 A poor pleader may do in a plain cause 358 A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse 359 A poor wedding is a prologue to misery 360 A pot that belongs to many, is ill stirred and worse boiled 361 A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt 362 A pretty fellow to make an axle tree for an oven 363 A pretty pig makes an ugly old sow 364 A princely mind will undo a private family 365 A prince wants a million, a beggar but a groat 366 A promise against law or duty, is void in its own nature * 367 A proud look makes foul work in a fine face 368 A proud man hath many crosses 369 A proud mind and a poor purse are ill met 370 A puff of wind and the praise of the people, weigh alike 371 A purse without money, is but a piece of leather 372 A quiet calf sucks its dam, and another cow also 373 A quick baker, and a slow brewer 374 A quiet conscience causes a quiet sleep 375 A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder 376 A race horse is an open sepulchre 12 377 A rascal grown rich has lost all his kindred 378 A ready way to lose your friend, is to lend him money 379 A reconciled friend is a double enemy 380 A rich friend is a treasure 381 A rich rogue ; two shirts and a rag 382 A right Englishman knows not when a tiling is well 383 A rogue's wardrobe is harbour for a louse 384 A rope and butter ; if one slip, t'other will hold 385 A scabbed horse is good enough for a scabbed knight 386 A sceptre is one thing, a ladle another * 387 A scoff is the reward of bashfulness 388 A Scotish mist may wet an Englishman to the skin 389 A servant and a cock should be kept but a year 390 A servant is known by his master's absence 391 A servant never yet miscarried through excess of respect 392 A shameless beggar must have a short denial 303 A sheepskin shoe lasts not long 394 A ship, a mill, and a woman, are always repairing 395 A short horse is soon curried 396 A short man needs no stool to give a long lubber a box on the ear 397 A short prayer may reach up to the heaven of heavens 398 A shrew profitable may serve a man reasonable 399 A shroved tree may stand long 400 A silver key can open an ircn lock 401 A slight from an inferior is highly provoking 402 A slight gift, small thanks 403 A slip of the foot may be soon recovered ; but that of the tongue perhaps never 404 A small demerit extinguishes a long service 405 A small family is soon provided for 406 A small hurt in the eye is a great one 407 A small leak will sink a great ship 408 A small matter hurts one that is sore 409 A small pack becomes a small pedlar 410 A small rain may allay a great storm 411 A small shop may have a good trade 412 A small sore wants not a great plaster 413 A small sum may serve for a small reckoning 414 A small wound may be mortal 13 415 A sraoaking chimney in a great house is a goo*! sign 416 A snow year, a rich year 417 A soft answer bids a furioso put up his sword 418 A solitary man is either a brute or an angel 419 A soui in a fat body lieth soft, and is loath to rise 420 A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that flieth by 421 A spot is most seen upon the finest cloth 422 A spur in the head is worth two in the heels . 423 A stout heart crushes ill luck 424 A stumble may prevent a fall 425 A straight stick is crooked in the water 426 A successful man loses no reputation 427 A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement of love 428 A swine fatted hath eat its own bane 429 A tale twice told, is cabbage twice sod 430 A thief knows a thief, as a wolf knows a wolf 431 A thief passes for a gentleman, when stealing has made him rich 432 A thin bush is better than no shelter 433 A thin meadow is soon mowed 434 A thinking man is always striking out something new 435 A thistle is a fat sallad for an ass's mouth 436 A thousand years hence, the river will run as it did 437 A thread-bare coat is armour proof against high- waymen 438 A thread too fine spun will easily break 439 A thrush paid for, is better than a turkey owing for 440 A tired traveller must be glad of an ass, if he have not a horse 441 A toiling dog comes halting home 442 A too quick return of an obligation is a sort of in- gratitude 443 A tragical plot may produce a comical conclusion 444 A tree is known better by its fruit, than its leaves 445 A true friend does sometimes venture to be offen- sive 446 A true reformation must begin at the upper end 447 A virtuous woman, though ugly, is the ornament of the house 448 A very good or very bad poet is remarkable; but a middling one, who can bear? 14 449 A very proud man is always wilful 450 A vicious man has a blot in his 'scutcheon 451 A vicious man's son has a good title to vice 452 A wager is a fool's argument 453 A wet hand will hold a dead herring 454 A whet is not let, said the mower 455 A whetstone can't itself cut, but yet it makes tools cut 456 A whole bushel of wheat is made up of single grains 457 A wicked book is the wickeder, because it cannot repent 458 A wicked companion invites us all to hell 459 A wicked man is afraid of his own memory 460 A wicked man is his own hell ; and his passions and lusts the fiends that torment him 461 A v icked man is the worst thing in the world 462 A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only 463 A wild colt may become a sober horse 464 A wilful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon 465 A wilful man had need be very wise 466 A wiiful man never wants woe 467 A willing mind makes a light foot 468 A windy March and a rainy April, make a beautiful May 469 A wise head hath a close mouth to it 470 A wise look may secure a fool, if he talk not 471 A wise man begins in the end ; a fool ends in the beginning 472 A wise man is a great wonder 473 A wise man may be kind without cost 474 A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools 475 A wise man turns chance into good fortune 476 A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand 477 A wise man's loss is his secret 478 A wise man's thoughts walk within him, but a fool's without him 479 A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds 480 A woman is to be from her house three times ; when she is christened, married, and buried. 481 A woman that paints, puts up a bill, that she is to be let . 15 482 A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open 483 A wooden leg is better than no leg 484 A wool-seller knows a wool-buyer 485 A word and a stone let go cannot be called back 486 A word spoken, is an arrow let fly 487 A word to the wise 488 A yeoman upon his legs, is higher than a prince upon his knees 489 A young man negligent, an old man necessitous 490 A young prodigal, an old mumper 491 A } oung saint, an old devil 492 A young serving-man, an old beggar 493 A young trooper should have an old horse 494 A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree 495 A young whore, an old saint 496 A young woman married to an old man, must be- have like an old woman 497 All are desirous to win the prize 498 All are fellows at football 499 All are good maids, but whence come the bad wives ? 500 All are not friends that speak one fair 501 All are not hanged that are condemned 502 All are not thieves that dogs bark at 503 All are not turners that are dish throwers 504 All between the cradle and the coflin is uncertain 505 All blood is alike ancient 506 All brings grits to your mill 507 All cats are alike grey in the night 508 All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer 509 All complain of want of memory, but none of want of judgment 510 All covet, all lose 511 All death is sudden to the unprepared 512 All doors open to courtesy 513 All fame is dangerous: good bringeth envy ; bad, shame 514 All fish are not caught with flies 515 All flesh is not venison 516 All flowers are not in one garland 517 All fool, or all philosopher 518 All good is the better for being diffusive 16 519 All her dishes are chafing dishes 620 All human power is hut comparative 521 All ill workmen quarrel with their tools 622 All is but lip-wisdom, that wanteth experience 623 All is fine that is fit 624 All is fish that comes to net 626 All is soon ready in an orderly house 526 All is not at hand that helps % 627 All is not butter that comes from the cow 628 AH is not gold that glitters 529 All is not gospel that comes out of his mouth 530 All is not lost that is in peril 631 All is not won, that is put in the purse 532 All lay load on the willing horse 533 All liquors are not for every one's liking 534 All mankind is beholden to him that is kind to the* good 535 All meat is not the same in every man's mouth 536 All men can't be first 537 All men can't be masters 538 All men naturally have some love and liking for truth 539 All men think their enemies ill men 540 AH of heaven and hell is not known till hereafter 541 All rivers do what they can for the sea 542 All saint without, all devil within 543 All sorts of sweets are not wholesome 544 All strive to give to the rich man 545 All's good in a famine 546 All's lost that is poured into a cracked dish 547 All temptations are found either in hope or fear 648 All that are black, dig not for coals 549 All that breed in the mud are not eels 550 All that is said in the parlour, should not be heard in the hall 651 All the fat is in the fire 552 All the joys in the world cannot take one grey hair out ot our heads 553 All the ke^s hang not at one man's girdle 564 All the leavers you can bring will not heave it up 565 All the praise of inward' virtue consists in outward. action 556 All the speed is in the spurs 567 All the water in the sea cannot wash out this stain 17 658 All the world is not wise conduct and stratagem 559 All the world will beat the man whom fortune bullets 660 All things are difficult, before they are easy 561 All things are easy, that are done willingly 662 All things are not to be granted at all times 563 All things help, quoth the wren, when she piss'd in the sea 664 All things that great men do are well done 665 All tilings thrive with him : be eats silk, and voids velvet 666 All tongues are not made of the same flesh 567 AH truth is not to be told at all times 668 All unwarrantable delights have an ill farewell 569 All women are good; viz. good for something, or good for nothing 570 All worldly happiness consists in opinion 671 All worldly profit, all pleasure is correspondent to a like measure of anxiety or wearisomeness 672 All you will get by it, you may put into your eyes, and not see the worse 573 All your eggs have two yolks apiece, I w r arrant j ou 574 All your geese are swans 576 An acute word cuts deeper than a sharp weapon 676 An advantageous religion never wanted proseiit:< 577 An affected superiority spoils company 578 An alewite's sow is always w ell fed 579 An angler eats more than he gets 580 An ape may chance to sit amongst the dectors 681 An apple may happen to be better given than eaten 582 An Argus at bone, and a mole abroad 683 Au artful fellow is a devil in a doublet 684 An ass covered with gold is more respected, than a good horse with a pack-saddle 585 An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold 586 An ass is the gravest beasi, au owl the gravest bird 587 An ass laden with gold overtakes every thing 588 An ass loaded with gold, climbs to the top of a castle 589 An ass must be tied, where the master will have him 590 An ass that carries a load, is better than a lion that devours men 591 An ass that kicketh against the wall, receives the blow himself 18 592 An ass was never cut out for a lap-dog 593 An atheist is got one point beyond the devil 594 An egg, and to bed 595 An emmet may work its heart out, but can never make honey 596 An empty belly hears nobody 597 An empty purse frights away friends 598 An empty sack cannot stand upright 599 An enemy is a perpetual spy 600 An enemy may chance to give good counsel 601 An envious man is a squint-ey'd fool 602 An evil conscience breaks many a man's neck 603 An handful of trade is an handful of gold 604 An handsome-bodied man in the face 605 An happy man shall have more cousins than his father had kinsfolks 606 An head with a good tongue in it is worth dou- ble the price 607 An high station hath great hazards 608 An honest and diligent servant is an humble friend 609 An honest good look covereth many faults 610 An honey tongue, a heart of gall 611 An horse kiss like to beat one's teeth out 612 An host's invitation is expensive 613 An hour may destroy what an age was building 614 An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure 615 An hundred traitors, 100 weavers, and 100 mil- lers, make 300 thieves 616 An hungry kite sees a dead horse afar off 617 An hungry louse bites sore 618 An hypocrite never thoroughly repents 619 An hypocrite pays tribute to God, only that he may impose upon men 620 An idle person is the devil's playfellow 621 An ill conscience can never hope well 622 An ill cook should have a good cleaver 623 An ill cow may have a good calf 624 An ill father desireth not an ill son 625 An ill man in office is a mischief to the public 626 An ill man is worst when he appeareth good 627 An ill paymaster never wants excuse 628 An ill receiver makes an ill paymaster 19 629 A n ill style is better than a lewd story 930 An ill-tim'd jest hath ruined many 631 An ill turn is soon done 632 An inch breaketh no square 633 An inch in an hour, is a foot in a day's work 634 An inch in a man's nose is much 635 An inch in missing, is as bad as an ell 636 An inch of a horse is worth the span of a colt 637 An indifferent agreement, is better than earning' a cause at law 638 An insolent lord is not a gentleman 639 An oak is not fell'd at one chop 640 An obedient wife commands her husband 641 An old ape hath an old eye 642 An old courtier, a young beggar 643 An old dog can't alter his way of barking 644 An old fox needs not to be taught tricks 645 An old fox understands a trap 646 An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard 647 An old man, if he be a trifler, is every one's scorn 648 An old man is a bed full of bones 649 An old man never wants a tale to tell 650 An old ox makes a straight furrow 651 An old ox will find a shelter for himself 652 An old physician, and a young lawyer 653 An old whore's curse is a blessing 654 An old wrinkle never wears out 655 An open door may tempt a saint 656 An open knave is a great fool 657 An ounce of fortune is worth a pound of forecast 658 An ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of wit 659 An ox, when he is loose, licks himself at pleasure 660 An unbounded liberty will undo us 661 An unfortunate man's cart is apt to overthrow 662 An unpeaceable man hath no neighbour 663 As a cat loves mustard 664 As a wise child maketh a happy father, so a wise father makeih a happy child 665 As a wolf is like a dog, so is a flatterer like a friend 666 As brisk as a bee in a tar-pot 667 As brisk as a body louse 668 As broken a ship as this has come to land 20 669 As busy as a hen with one chick 670 As crooked as Crawley brook 671 As deep drinketh the goose as the gander 672 As demure as an old whore at a christening 673 As demure as if butter would not melt in his mouth 674 As drunk as a tinker 675 As drunk as David's sow 676 As far from the heart, as from the eyes 677 As fire kindled by bellows, so is anger by words 678 As fit as a fritter for a friar's mouth 679 As fit as a thump with a stone in an apothecary* eye 680 As fond of it, as an ape is of a whip and a bell 681 As good be an addled egg, as an idle bird 682 As good beg of a naked man as of a miser 683 As good be hanged for a sheep as a lamb 684 As good do nothing, as to no purpose 685 As good eat the devil as the broth he is boiled in 686 As good have no time, as make no good use of it 687 As good never a whit, as never the better 688 As good out of the world, as out of the fashion 689 As good play for nothing as work for nothing 690 As good twenty as nineteen 691 As good water goes by the mill as drives it 692 As grave as an old gate post 693 As grey as grannum's cat 694 As great pity to see a woman cry, as to see a goose go barefoot 695 As hasty as Hopkins, that came to jail over night and was hanged the next morning 696 As high as a hog, all but the bristles 697 As honest a man as any in the cards, when the kings are out 698 As innocent as a devil of two years old 699 As irrecoverable as a lump of butter in a grey- hound's mouth 700 As is the gander, so is the goose 701 As is the gardener, so is the garden 702 As is the workman, so is the work 703 A s kind as a kite ; all you can't eat, you hide 704 As lame as St. Giles, Cripplegate * 705 As lazy as Jjudlanis dog, that leaned his head against the wail to bark 706 As lawless as a town bull 21 707 As like as an apple is to a lobstef 708 As like as two peas 709 As long; as Meg of Westminster 710 As Ion g as I live I'll spit in my parlour 711 As long lives the merry heart as the sad 712 As love thinks no cul, so envy speaks no good 713 As mad as a March hare 714 As mad as the baited bull at Stamford 715 As much as York excels foul Sutton 716 As much wit as three folks, two fools and a mad* man 717 As necessary as an old sow among young children 718 As nimble as a cow in a cage 719 As nimble as an eel in a sand-bag 720 As often as thou doest wrong, justice has thee oil the score 721 As often as we do good, we sacrifice 722 As old as the itch 723 As pert as a frog upon a washing block 724 As proud come behind as go before 725 As rich as a new-shorn sheep 726 As safe as a thief in a mill 727 As slender in the middle, as a cow in the waist 728 As soon as you have drank, you turn your back upon the spring 729 As soon goes Ihe lamb's skin to the market as the ewe's 730 As spiteful as an old maid 731 As stout as a miller's waistcoat, that takes a thief by the neck every day 732 As sure as exchequer pay 733 As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred 734 As the market goes, wives must sell 735 As the old cock crows, so crows the young 736 As the touchstone trieth gold, so gold trieth men 737 As the wind blows, seek your shelter 1 738 As the wind blows, you must set your sail 739 As they brew, so let them bake 740 As troublesome as a wasp in one's ear 741 As true as the dial to the sun 742 As true steel as Rippon spurs 743 As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own punishment 22 744 As useless as monkey's grease 745 As wary as a blind horse 746 As welcome as a storm 747 As welcome as flowers in May 748 As welcome as w r ater in one's shoes 749 As welcome as water in a leaking ship 750 As wilful as a pig, that will neither lead nor drive 751 As wise as Waltham's calf, that run nine miles to suck a bull 752 As you brew, so drink 753 As you make your bed, so lie down 754 Absence cools moderate passions, but inflames violent ones 755 Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it 756 Abuse does not hinder the use of a thing that is in itself lawful 757 Abused patience turns to fury 758 Accusing is proving, where malice and force sit judges 759 Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves 760 Action is the proper fruit of knowledge 761 Admiration is the daughter of ignorance 762 Adversity flattereth no man 763 Adversity is easier borne, than prosperity forgot 764 Adversity makes wise, though not rich 765 Adversity oftentimes leads to prosperity 766 Affairs that are done by due degrees, are soon ended 767 Affinity in hearts is the nearest kindred 768 Affirmations are apter to be believed than negations 769 After cheese comes nothing 770 After Christmas comes Lent 771 After clouds, calm weather 772 After death, the doctor 773 After meat, mustard t74 After the greatest danger is the greatest pleasure 775 Against God's wrath no castle is thunder proof 776 Against the wild-fire of the mob there is no defence 777 After this leaf another grows 778 Age and wedlock brings a man to his night-cap 779 Age and wedlock tame man and beast 780 Age and wedlock we all desire and repent of 781 Agree, for the law is costly 23 782 Air coming in at a window, is as bad as a cross- bow-shot T83 A lexander himself was once a crying babe 784 Alexander was below a man, when he affected to be a god 785 Alike ever}' day makes a clout on Sunday 786 Alms are the golden key, that opens the gate of heaven 787 Always you are to be rich next year 788 Ambition plagues her proselites 789 Amendment is repentance 790 Among the people, Scoggi?i's a doctor 791 Among the perils and dangers of life solitude is none of the least 792 Anger begins with folly, and ends with repeutance 793 Anger is a sworn enemy 794 Anger is many times more hurtful than the injury that caused it. 795 Anger is the fever and frenzy of the soul 796 Anger is short-lived in a good man 797 Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned 798 Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools 799 Anger punishes itself 800 Angry men and drunken men, during the fit, arc distracted 801 Angry men seldom want woe 802 Another threshed what I reaped 803 Antiquity cannot privilege an error, nor novelty prejudice a truth 804 Antiquity is not always a mark of verity 805 Any thing for a quiet life 806 Apelles was not a master painter the first day 807 Apes are never more beasts, than when they wear men's clothes 808 Application makes the ass 809 April and May are the key of all the year 810 Are you afraid of him that died last year? 8tl Are you there with your bears? 812 Argument seldom convinces any one contrary to his inclination 813 Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly in a dunghill 814 Art helps nature, and experience art 815 Art must be deluded by art 816 Ask a kite for a feather, and she'll say, she has but just enough to fly with 817 Ask my companion if I'm a thief 818 Ask the mother, if the child be like his father 819 Ask the seller, if his ware be bad 820 Ask thy purse what thou shouldest buy 821 Asses die, and wolves bury them 822 Asses that bray most, eat least 823 At a good table we may go to school 824 At a round table the herald's useless 825 At a court, every one for himself 826 At the end of the game you'll see who's the Winner 827 At the end of the work, you may judge of the Workman 828 At the gate which suspicion enters, love goes out 829 At weddings and funerals, friends are discerned from kinsfolks 830 Bacchus hath drown'd more men than Neptune 831 Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice 832 Bad customs are better broke than kept up 833 Bad excuses are worse than none 834 Bad luck often brings good luck 835 Bad priests bring the devil into the church 836 Bald heads are soon shaven 837 Barbarous asses ride on Barhary horses 838 Bare words buy no barley 839 Bare walls make gadding housewives 840 Barefoot must not go among thorns 841 Base natures, if they find themselves suspected, will never be true 842 Base terms are bellows to a slackening fire 843 Bashfulnesss is boyish 844 Batchelor's wives and maid's children are well taught 845, Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton 846 Be a father to virtue, but a father-in-law to vice 847 Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too 848 Be aware of a fine tongue ; 'twill sting mortally 849 Be as you would seem to be 860 Be content; the sea hath fish enough 851 Be merry and wise 852 Be not choleric ; it will make you look old 853 Be not hasty to outbid another 25 854 Be old betimes, that thou inay'st long be so 855 Be silent before a great man ; or speak what may please him 856 Be silent, or speak something worth hearing 857 Be the business never so painful, you may hare it done for money 858 Better a barn filled than a bed 859 Better a blush in the face than a spot in the heart 860 Better abridge petty charges than stoop to petty gettings 861 Better a fair pair of heels than a halter 862 Better a good word than a battle 863 Better a lean jade than an empty halter 864 Better a lean peace than a fat victory 865 Better a little lire to warm us, than a great one to burn us 866 Better a master be feared than despised 867 Better a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all 868 Better a portion in a wife than with a wife 869 Better a tooth out, than always aching 870 Better an empty house than an ill tenant 871 Better be a cuckold and not know it than be none and every boo^y say so 872 Better be alone than in bad company 873 Better be a shrew than a sheep 874 Better be denied than/deceived 875 Better be poor and live safe at land than be rich and perish in the sea 876 Better be poor than wicked 877 Better be spited than pitied 878 Better be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose 879 Better be up to the ancles than quite over head and ears 880 Better be unmannerly than troublesome 881 Better belly burst, than good drink lost 882 Better bow than break 883 Better break your word than do worse in keeping it 884 Better buy than borrow 885 Better come at the latter end of a feast than the beginning of a fray 866 Better cry phy salt than phy stink 887 Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot 888 Better die a beggar than live a beggar 889 Better direct well than work hard 26 890 Better do it, than wish it done 891 Better dwell with a dragon than with a wicked woman 892 Better eat salt with pilosophers of Greece, than eat sugar with courtezans of Italy 893 Better fare hard with good men than feast it with had 894 Better fed than taught, said the churl to the parson 895 Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown 896 Better give the wool than the whole sheep 897 Better go hack than lose yourself 898 Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in em- broidery 899 Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt 900 Better half a loaf than no bread 901 Better half an e^g than an empty shell 902 Better have a dog fawn upon you than bite you 903 Better have an old man to humour than a yoang rake to break your heart 904 Better have no children than sottish and mad ones i)05 Better have one plough going than two cradles 906 Better hazard once than be always in fear 907 Better keep the devii at the door than turn him out of the house 908 Better kiss a knave than' be troubled with him 909 Better known than trusted 910 Better late ripe and bear,than early blossom and blast 911 Better late than ne\er 912 Better leave than lack 913 Better live in a poor hovel than be buried in a rich sepulchre 914 Better live within compass than have large comings in 915 Better lose a jest than a friend 916 Better master one than engage with ten 917 Better never have been handsome when young, than ugly when old 918 Better no ring than a ring of a rush 919 Better one's house be too little one day than too big all the year after 920 Better ride an ass that carries us than a horse that throws us 921 Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose &22 Better shelter under an old hedge, than a young furzebush 923 Better sit up all night than go to bed to a dragon 924 Better some of a pudding than none of a pie 925 Better so than worse 926 Better spent than spared 92/^Better's a dirty hog than no hog at all 928 Better's the head of an ass than the tail of a horse 929 Better's the last smile than the first laughter 930 Better strive with an ill ass than carry the wood one's self 931 Better to say here it is than here it was 932 Better the foot slip than the tongue 933 Better the head of the yeomen than the tail of the gentry 934 Better thou perish than truth 935 Better two drones be preserved than one good bee perish 936 Better two losses than one sorrow 937 Better unborn than unbred 938 Better untaught than ill taught 939 Better walk leisurely than lie abroad all night 940 Better wear out shoes than sheets 941 Better sell than live poorly 942 BctteY go away longing than loathing 943 Be you never so high the law is above you 944 Beads about the neck and the devil in the heart 945 Bear with evil, and expect good 946 Bear garden breeding 947 Beauty is a blossom 948 Beauty draws more than oxen 949 Beauty in women is like the flowers in the spring ; but virtue is like the stars of heaven 950 Beauty is but skin deep ; within is filth and putre- faction 951 Beauty is no inheritance 952 Beauty is potent-; but money is more potent 953 Beauty is soon blasted 954 Beauty is the subject of a blemish 955 Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit 956 Beauty will buy no beef 957 Beauty without virtue is a curse 958 Beauties without fortunes have sweethearts plenty, but husbands none at all 'C2 28 959 Bees that have honey in their mouths hare stings in their tails 960 Before the cat can lick her ear 961 Beggars and borrowers must be no chusers 962 Beggars fear no rebellion 963 Beggars can never be bankrupts 964 Beggars may sing before a thief 966 Beggars never are out of their way 966 Begging of a courtesy is selling of liberty 967 Begin with Argus' eyes, and finish with Briarieus 7 hands 968 Believe well, and have well 969 Bells call others to church, but go not themselves 970 Best dealing with an enemy when you take him at his weakest 971 Best to bend it while a twig 972 Bestow on me what you will, so it be none of your secrets 973 Between hawk and buzzard 974 Between promising and performing a man may mar- ry his daughter 975 Between two stools the breech cometh to the ground 976 Beware of had I wist 977 Beware of no man more than thyself 978 Beware of the lore part of a woman, the hind-part of a mule, and all sides of a priest 979 Beware of the stone thou stumblest at before 980 Bind so as you may unbind 981 Birds are entangled by their feet, and men by their tongues 982 Birds pay equal honours to all men 983 Birth is much, but breeding is more 984 Biting and scratching gets the cat with kitten 985 Bitter pills may have wholesome effects 986 Black plums may eat as sweet as white 987 Blaek will take no other hue 988 Blessed is the peace-maker, not the conqueror 989 Blessings are not valued till they are gone 990 Blind men must not run 991 Blind men should not judge of colours 992 Blind mens wives need no paint 993 Blots are no blots till hit 994 Bloody and deceitful men dig their own graves 995 Blow first, and sip afterwards 29 t)96 Blow not against the hurricane 997 Blow, smith, and you'll get money 998 Blow thy own pottage, and not mine 999 Blushing is virtue's colour 1000 Blush like a black dog 1001 Bodily labour earns not much * 1002 Boil not the pap before the child be bom 1003 Boil stones in butter, and you may sip the broth 1004 Bold resolution is the favourite of Providence 1005 Boldness is blind 1006 Boldness in business is the first, second, and thi;d thing 1007 Borrow not too much upon time to come 1008 Borrowed garments never sit well 1009 Both folly and wisdom come upon us with years 1010 Bought friends are not friends indeed 1011 Bought wit is best, but may cost too much 1012 Bounty may be bounty, and yet not go a begging for admittance 1013 Bows too long bent grow weak 1014 Boys will be men 1015 Brag's a good dog, but dares not bite 1016 Brave actions never want a trumpet 1017 Bread with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps up to the eyes 1018 Bribes throw dust into cunning men's eyes 1019 Bribes will enter without knocking 1020 Bring not a bagpipe 1o a man in trouble 1021 Bring your line to the wall, not the wail to the iine 1022 Broken sacks will hold no corn 1023 Buffoonery and scurrilitj are the corruption of wit, as knavery is of wisdom 1024 Burn not your house to fright away the mice 1025 Bush natural ; more hairs than wit 1026 Business is the salt of life 1027 Business may be troublesome, but idleness is per- nicious e.1028 Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it 1029 Busy-bodies never want a bad day 1030 But help me to money, and I'll help myself to, friends 1031 But one e^, and that addled too - c 3 30 1032 Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night 1033 Buy and sell, and live by the loss 1034 Buy at a market, and sell at home ♦ 1035 Buyers want an hundred eyes, sellers none 1036 Buying and selling is but winning aud losing 1037 By art and deceit men live half a year; and by deceit and art the other half 1038 By doing nothing we learn to do ill 1039 By fits and girts, as an ague takes a goose 1040 By hook or by crook 1041 By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn 1042 By land or water the wind is ever in my face 1043 By requiting one friend we invite many 1044 By the husk you may guess at the nut 1045 Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind 1046 Call me cousin, but cozen me not 1047 Cafl not a surgeon before you are wounded 1048 Call your husband cuckold in jest, and he'll ne'er suspect you 1049 Calumny and conjecture may injure innocency it- self 1050 Can a mill go with the water that's past 1051 Can a mouse fall in love with a cat 1052 Can a jackanapes be merry when a clog is at his heels 1053 Can you make a pipe of a pig's tail 1054 Can't I be your friend, but I must be your fool too 1055 Canterbury's the higher rack, but Winchester's the better manger 1056 Capons were at first but chickens ' 1057 Care aud diligence bring luck 1058 Careless men let their end steal upon them una- wares and unprovided 1059 Careless shepherds make many a feast for the wolf 1060 Care's no cure i 1061 Care not, and that will prevent horns 1062 Care will kill a cat ; yet there's no living without it 1063 Carrion kites will never make good hawks 1064 Carry coals to Newcastle 1065 Carry your knife even between the paring and the apple 31 1066 Cast a bone in the de'il's teeth, and it will save YOU 1067 Cast no dirt into the well that hath given you water 1068 Cast not out thy foul water till thou hast clean 1069 Cast not the helve after the hatchet 1070 Cat after kind 1071 Cats are hungry when a crust will content them 1072 Cats hide their claws 1073 Catholic charity makes us members of the catholic church 1074 Cause not thine own dog to bite thee 1075 Censure and scandal are not the same 1076 Censure's the tax a man pays the public for being eminent 1077 Cent, per cent, do we pay for every vicious plea- sure 1078 Ceremonious friends are so, as far as a compliment will go 1079 Chains of gold arc stronger than chains of iron 1080 Chance is a dicer 1081 Change of pasture makes fat calves 1082 Change of weather is the discourse of fools 1083 Chair-folks are never paid enough 1084 Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor 1085 Charity begins at home, but should not end there 1086 Charity excuseth not cheating 1087 Charity may be mistaken, but shall never be re- warded 10,88 Charity will rather wipe out the score than in- flame the reckoning 1089 Charon waits for all 1090 Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods 1091 Chickens now-a-davs cram the cock 1092 Children and fools tell truth 1093 Children and fools have merry lives 1094 Children are poor men's riches 1095 Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts 1096 Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for gold and silver 1097 Children have wide ears and long tongues 1098 Children increase the cares of life, but mitigate the remembrance ofjieath c4 32 1099 Children suck the mother, when they are young, and the father when grown up 1 100 Children, when little, make parents fools ; when great, mad 1101 Child's pig, but father's hog 1102 Choak up child, the church-yard's nigh 1 103 Choler hates a counseller 1104 Choler is the oirlv unruly passion that justifies it- self 1105 Choleric men are blind and mad 1106 Church-work goes on slowly 1107 Chuse a wife rather by your ear than your eye 1108 City gates stand open to the bad as well as the good 1109 Civil carriage is the best sign of affection to a wo- man 1110 Claw me, and I'll claw thee 1 1 11 Clean hands want no washball 1112 Cleaning a blot with blotted fingers makeih a greater blur 1113 Clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature 11 14 Close mouth 1115 Clouds, that the sun builds up, darken him 1116 Cioudy mornings may turn to clear evenings 1117 Clowns are best in their own company, but gentle- men are best every where 1118 Coarse bread at home is better than roast meat abroad 1119 Cold of complexion, good of condition 1120 Come and welcome; go by, and no quarrel 1121 Come, crack me this nut, quoth Bumstead 1122 Come, slit me this hair 1123 Come, uncalled; sit, unserved 1124 Command your man, and do it yourself 1125 Command your wealth, else that will command you 1126 Commend not your wife, wine, nor house 1127 Common fame hath a blister on its tongue 1128 Common people hang more after praise than profit 1 129 Common sense is the growth of ail countries 1130 Commonly he is not stricken again who laughs when he strikes 1131 Company in misery makes it li&ht S3 1132 Company makes cuckolds 1133 Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched 1 134 Comparisons are odious 1135 Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them 1136 Concealed goodness is a sort of \ice 1137 Concealed grudges are gangrenes in friendship 1138 Conceited half-witted fellows think nothing can be done without them 1139 Confess debt, and beg days 1140 Confession of a fault makes half amends 1141 Confidence goeth farther in company than good sense 1142 Conform to common custom, and not to common folly 1143 Congruity is the mother of love 1144 Conscience can't be compelled 1145 Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses 1146 Consideration is half conversion 1147 Consideration is the parent of wisdom 1148 Constant complaints never get pity 1149 Contempt is usually worse borne than real injuries 1150 Contempt will cause spite to drink of her own poison 1 151 Contend not about a goat's beard 1152 Content is happiness 1153 Content is more than a kingdom 1154 Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold 1155 Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces 1156 Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom 1157 Contradiction should awaken attention, not passion 1158 Conversation teaches more than meditation 1159 Cook ruffian able to scald the devil out of his fea- thers 1160 Cooks are not to be taught in their own kitchen 1161 Cool words scald not the tongue 1 162 Corn in good years is hay ; in ill years straw is corn 1163 Corn is not to be gather'd in the blade, but the ear 1164 Coi*nelius ought to be Tacitus 1165 Correction should not respect so much what is past as what is to come . c 5 34 1166 Corruption of the best becomes the worst 1167 Cover yourself with honey, and the flies will heave you 1168 Covetous men are condemned to dig in the mines for they know not who 1169 Covetous men are shamefully rich 1170 Covetous men's chests are rich, not they 1171 Covetous men live drudges to die wretches 1172 Covetous men are not so well fed, clothed, or re- spected, as other men 1173 Covetousness, as well as prodigality, brings a man to a morsel of bread 1174 Covetousness breaks the sack 1 175 Covetousness brings nothing home 1176 Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel 1 177 Covetousness is generally incurable 1 178 Covetousness often starves other vices 1 179 Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mut- ton to a sick horse 1180 Counsel is happiness 1181 Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy 1182 Counsel is no command 1183 Counsel must be followed, not praised 1184 Counsel over cups is crazy 1185 Count not your chickens before they be hatch'd 1186 Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue 1187 Courage, conduct, and perseverance conquer all before them J 188 Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms 1 189 Courage without fortune destro}s a man 1 190 Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue 1191 Courtesy on one side can never last long 1192 Courts keep no almanacks 1193 Cousin-germans quite removed 1 194 Cowards are cruel 1 J 95 Cowards are made to be trampled on, unless their wit cover them 1196 Cowards run the greatest danger of any men in a battle 1 197 Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen 1198 Craft borders upon knavery; wisdom never uses nor wants it ) 199 Craft counting all things brings nothing home 35 1200 Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go na- ked 1201 Crafty evasions save not veracity 1202 Crafty men deal in generals 1203 Credit lost is a Femce-glass broken, which cannot be soider'd 1204 Credulity tells people we are short sighted 1205 Crimes may be secret, but yet not secure 1206 Cringing is a gainful accomplishment 1207 Crooked by nature, is never made straight by edu- cation 1208 Crosses are ladders to heaven 1209 Crosses, though they be not pleasant, yet are whole- some 1210 Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves 121 1 Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them 1212 Cruelty deserves no mercy 1213 Cruelty is a tyrant that is always attended with fear 1214 Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil 1215 Cuckolds are Christians all the world over 1216 Cuckolds themselves are the very last that know it 1217 Cunning borders upon ill craft 1218 Cunning craft is but the ape of wisdom 1219 Curiosity is endless, restless, and useless 1220 Curiosity is ill manners in another's house 1221 Custom is another nature 1222 Custom is generally too hard for conscience 1223 Custom is the guide of the ignorant 1224 Custom is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools 1225 Custom makes ail things easy 1226 Custom without reason is but an ancient error 1227 Cut off the head and tail, and throw the rest away 1228 Cut, or give me the bill 1229 Cut your coat according to your cloth 1230 Cutting out well is better than sewing up well 1231 Danger and delight grow both upon one stock 1232 Dangers are overcome with dangers 1233 Danger is next neighbour to security 1234 Danger past, God is forgotten 1235 Daughters and dead fish, are no keeping wares 1236 Daws love one another prattle 86 1237 Day and night, sun and moon, air and light, every one must have, and none can buy 1238 Dead folks are past fooling 1239 Dead folks can't bite 1240 Dead men are of no family, and are akin to none 1241 Dead mice feel no cold 1242 Deaf men are quick-ey'd and distrustful 1243 Deaf men go away with the blame 1244 Death and the sun are two things not to be looked on with a steady eye 1245 Death devours lambs as well as sheep 1246 Death has nothing terrible in it, but what life hath made so 1247 Death hath not so ghastly a face at a distance as it hath at hand 1248 Death is a certain remedy for the injuries of for- tune and vexations of life 1249 Death is bitter to a man in prosperity, or in much business 1250 Death is the grand leveller 1251 Death keeps no calender 1252 Death meets us every where 1253 Death rather frees us from ills than robs us of our goods 1254 Death surprises us in the midst of our hopes 1255 Death's day is doom's day 1256 Debt is a heavy burthen to an honest mind, but thievish borrowers make light of it 1257 Debt is an evil conscience 1258 Debt is the worst poverty 1259 Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure 1260 Deceiving those that trust us is more than a sin 1261 Deceiving of a deceiver is no knavery 1262 Decency and decorum are not pride 1263 Deeds are fruits, words are leaves 1264 Defiance provokes an enemy 1265 Delays increase desires, and sometimes extinguish them 1266 Deliberating is not delaying 1267 Denying a fault doubles it 1268 Dependance is a poor trade 1269 Desert and rewards very often go not together 1270 Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off 37 1271 Desire to forsake the world 1272 Despair gives courage to a coward 1273 Despair hath damn'd some ; but presumption mul- titudes 1274 Desperate cases must have desperate cures 1275 Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling 1276 Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp 1277 Detraction is a weed that grows only on dunghills 1278 Detractors are their own foes, and the world's enemies 1270 Dexterity comes by experience 1280 Diamonds cut diamonds 1281 Dick's as dapper as a cock- wren 1282 Did you ever before hear an ass play upon a lute 1283 Different sores must have different salves 1284 Difficulty makes desire 1285 Difficulties give way to diligence 1286 Diffidence is the right eye of prudence 1287 Dignities and honours set off merit, as good dress does handsome persons 1288 Diligence alone is a good patrimony, but negli- gence will waste a fair estate 1289 Diligence is the mother of good fortune 1290 Dine with Duke Humfrey 1291 Dirt is dirtiest upon clean white linen 1292 Dirty troughs will serve dirty sows 1293 Discontents generally arise from our desires more than our wants 1294 Discreet stops make speedy journeys 1295 Discreet wives have sometimes neither eyes nor ears 1296 Discretion in speech is more than eloquence 1297 Diseases are the price of ill pleasures 1298 Disputations leave truth in the middle, and party at both ends 1299 Dissembled sin is double wickedness 1300 Distrust is the mother of safety, but must keep out of sight 1301 Do all you can to be good, and you'll be so 1302 Do as little as you can to repent of 1303 Do as most men do, and men will speak well of thee 1304 Do business, but be not a slave to it 1305 Do evil, and look for the like 1306 Do good, if you expect to receive it 1307 Do in the hole as thou would'st do in the hall 1308 Do it well that thou may'st not do it twice 1309 Do nothing hastily hut catching of flees 1310 Do the likeliest, and hope the best 1311 Do well, and have well 1312 Dogs are hard drove when they eat dogs 1313 Dogs bark as they are bred 1314 Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies 1315 Dogs once scalded are afraid even of cold water 1316 Dogs ought to bark before they bite 1317 Dogs that bark at a distance never bite 1318 Dogs, that hunt foulest, hit off most faults 1319 Dogs, that put up many hares, kill none 1320 Dogs wag their tails, not so much in love to you as your bread 1321 Don't turn baker if your head be made of butter 1322 Double charging will break even a cannon 1323 Dower-court, all speakers and no hearers 1324 Draff is g< od enough for swine 1325 Draff was his errand, but drink be would have 1326 Draw not thy bow before thy arrow be fixed 1327 Drawn wells are seldom dry 1328 Dress up even a little toad, and it will look pretty 1329 Drink and drought come not always together 1330 Drink w ashes off' the daub, and discovers the man 1331 Drink wine, and have the gout ; drink none, and have it too 1332 Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat 1333 Drinking kindness is drunken friendship 1334 Drive not a second nail till the first be clinched 1335 Drive not too many ploughs at once ; some will make foul work 1336 Drive that nail that will go 1337 Drop by drop the sea is drained 1338 Drought never bred dearth in England 1339 Drowning men will catch at a rush 1340 Drown not thyself to save a drowning man 1341 Drumming is not the way to catch an hare 1342 Drunkards have a fool's tongue and a knave's heart 1343 Drunkenness is a pair of spectacles to see the devil and all his works 1344 Drunkenness makes men fools, some beasts, some. devils 1345 Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room 39 1346 Ducks fare well in the Thames 1347 Dumb folks get no land 1348 Dying is as natural as living 1349 Early ripe, early rotten 1350 Early sow, early mow 1351 Early up, and never the nearer 1352 Easy it is to bowl down hill 1353 Easier it is to fall than rise 1354 Easier it is to pull down than build 1355 Eat, and welcome ; fast, and heartily welcome 1356 Eat peas with the king, and cherries with the beg- gar 1357 Eat-well is drink-well's brother 1358 Eaten bread is forgotten 1359 Education begins a gentleman, conversation com- pletes him 1360 Education polishes good natures, and correcteth bad ones 1361 Eggs will be in three bellies in four and twenty hours 1362 Either the hearer or relater of fopperies must be a fool 1363 Emulation layeth up a grudge 1364 Emulation is lively and generous, envy base and malicious 1365 Empty hands allure no hawks 1366 Empty vessels give the greatest sound 1367 E'en venture on, as Johnson did on his wife 1368 Enemies may serve for witnesses as well as friends may 1369 England's the paradise of women and hell of horses 1370 Enough's as good as a feast 1371 Enough is a feast, too much a vanity 1372 Enough to keep the wolf from the door 1373 Enquire not what boils in another's pot 1374 Enter upon love when you will, but give over when you can 1375 Envy and covetousness are never satisfy'd 1376 Env\ and idleness married together begot cu- riosity 1377 Envy hath a leer of her father, the devil, but cruelty his very face 1378 Envy is ashamed and afraid to be seen 40 1379 Envy is so shameful and cowardly a passion that nobody ever had the confidence to own it 1380 Envy never yet enrich'd any man 1381 Envy shooteth at others and woundeth herself 1382 Error is always in haste 1383 Error is endless 1384 Error, though blind herself, yet sometimes bringeth forth seeing childen 1385 Errors, in the first concoction, are hardly mended in the second 1386 Eternity has no grey hairs 1387 Even a child may beat a man that's bound 1388 Even a fly hath its spleen 1389 Even a piu is good for something, and that's more than you are 1390 Even a Venice-glass, if well kept, will last long 1391 Even an ass will not fail twice in the same quick- sand 1392 Even an emmet may seek revenge 1303 Even as the blind man shot the crow 1394 Even covetous men have sometimes their intervals of generosity 1395 Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them 1396 Even fools sometimes speak shrewdly 1397 Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish 1398 Even ill luck itself is good for something in a wise man's hand 1399 Even reckonings keep long friends 1400 Even too much praise is a burthen 1401 Evening oats are good morning fodder 1402 Ever drink, ever dry 1403 Every age confutes old errors, and begets new 1404 Every ass loves to hear himself bray 1405 Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king's horses 1406 Every bean hath its black 1407 Every bird is known by its feathers 1408 Every bird likes its own nest best 1409 Every bird must hatch its own eggs 1410 Every block will not make a Mercury 1411 Every body's business is nobody's business 1412 Every cock is proud on his own dunghill 1413 Every day brings a new light 41 1414 Every dog is stout at bis own door 1415 Every dog lias its day, and every man his hour 1416 Every fool can find faults, that a great many wist men can't remedy 1417 Every good scholar is not a good schoolmaster 1418 Every heart hath its own ache 1419 Every herring must hang by his own gills 1420 Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest 1421 Every man a little beyond himself is a fool 1422 Every man doth his own business best 1423 Every man for himself, and God for us all 1424 Every man hath a fool in his sleeve 1425 Every man hath his lot 1426 Every man hath his own planet 1427 Every man hath his weak side 1428 Every man is a fool or a physician at forty 1429 Every man is best known to himself 1430 Every man is not born with a silver spoon in his mouth 1431 Every man is the son of his own works 1432 Every man living hath something to do 1433 Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies 1434 Every man's nose will not make a shooting-horn 1435 Every man to his trade, quoth the boy to the bi- shop 1436 Every man will shoot at the enemy, but few will gatber the shafts 1437 Every may-be hath a may be not 1438 Every miller draws the water to his own mill 1439 Every monkey will have his gambols 1440 Every monster bath its multitudes 1441 Every mote doth not blind a man 1442 Every one as they like, as the woman said when she kiss'd the cow 1443 Every one can keep house better than her mother till she trieth 1444 Every one can tame a shrew but he that has her 1445 Every one hath a penny for a new alehouse 1446 Every one is glad to see a knave caught in his own trap 1447 Every one know's how to find fault 1448 Every one lays his faults upon the times 1449 Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads 1450 Every one talks of what he loves 42 1451 Every one thinks he knows much 1452 Every one thinks himself able to advise another 1453 Everj path hath a puddle 1454 Every penny that is taken is not clear gains 1455 Every plummet is not for every sound 1456 Every potter praises his own pot 1457 Every reed will not make a pipe 1458 Every scale hath its counterpoise 1459 Every scrap of a wise man's time is worth saving 1460 Ever} shoe fits not every foot 1461 Every slip is not a fall 1462 Every sow deserves not a sack posset 1463 Ever}^ sparrow to its ear of wheat 1464 Every sport now-a-days calls itself a herring 1465 Ever} thing hath an end, and a pudding hath two 1466 Every thing hath its time, and that time must be watched 1467 Every thing is good in its season 1468 Every thing is the worse for wearing 1469 Every thing would live 1470 Every tide will have an ebb 1471 Every time the sheep bleats it loseth a mouthful 1472 Every tub must stand upon its own bottom 1473 Every tub smells of the wine it holds 1474 Evil is soon believed 1475 Examples are the best lessons for youth 1476 Examples teach more than precepts 1477 Excess of obligations may lose a friend 1478 Exchange is no robbery 1479 Experience is good if not bought too dear 1480 Experience is the father of wisdom, and memory the mother 1481 Experience is the great baffler of speculation 1482 Experience is the mistress of fools 1483 Experience perfects speculations 1484 Experience teacheth fools ; and he is a great one, that will not learn by it 1485 Eace to face, the truth comes out 1486 Faint heart ne'er won fair lady 1487 Faint praise is disparagement 1488 Fair and foolish 1489 Fair and softly goes far in a day 1490 Fair faces need no paint 43 1491 Fair words fill not the belly, nor mind always 1492 Fair words please fools 1493 Faith sees bv the ears 1494 Fail back, fall edge 1495 Fame is a magnifying glass 1496 Fame is a thin shadow of eternity 1497 Fame is but the breath of the peopie, and that often unwholesome 1498 Fame is in the keeping of the mob 1499 Fancy may bolt bran, and think it flour 1 500 F a n c y m ay kill or c a re 1501 Fancy surpasses beauty 1502 Far-fetched and dear-bought is good for ladies ' 1503 Far from court, far from care 1504 Farewell and be hanged; friends must part 1505 Fat housekeepers make lean executors 1506 Fat paunches make lean pates 1507 Fat sorrow is better than lean sorrow 1508 Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn .1509 Fathers, in reclaiming of a child, should outwit him. and seldom beat him 1510 Faults of ignorance are excuseable only where the ignorance itself is so 1511 Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it 1512 Fear is one part of prudence 1513 Fear is stronger than love 1514 Feather by feather the goose is plucked 1515 Feasting makes no friendship 1516 February makes a bridge, and March breaks it 1517 Feed a pig, and you'll have a hog 1518 Feeling hath no fellow 1519 Felicity lies much in fancy 1520 Felicity eats up nreum.spection 1521 letters even of gold are heavy 1522 Fetters of gold are still tetters, and silken cords pinch 1523 lew are fit to be entrusted with themselves 1524 Few dare write the true news of their chamber 1525 Few hearts that are not double, few tongues that are not cloven 1526 Few leaves, and bad fruit 1527 Few men will be better than their interest bids them 44 1528 Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair looks 1529 Few there are that will endure a true friend 1530 Few things in the world will bear too much refining 1531 Fie, fie! horse-play is not for gentlemen 1532 Fields have eyes, and hedges ears 1533 Fight dog, fight bear 1534 Fine a poor man sixpence, and not a bottle of wine 1535 Fine clothes oftentimes hide a base descent 1536 Fine clothes wear soonest out of fashion 1537 Fine cloth is never out of fashion 1538 Fine dressing is usually a foul house swept before the door 1539 Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters 1540 Fire and water are not more necessary than friends are 1541 Fire in flax will smoke 1542 Fire, quoth the fox, when he pissed on the ic« 1543 First come, first served 1544 Fish and guests smell at three days old 1545 Fish are not to be caught with a bird-call 1546 1 ish make no broth 1547 Fish ought to swim thrice 1548 Fishes follow the bait 1549 Flattery displays a braver flag than humility 1550 Flatterers haunt not cottages 1551 Flattery gets favour 1552 Flattery sits in the parlour, when plain dealing is kicked out of doors 1553 Flesh never stands so high but a dog will venture his legs 1554 Flight towards preferment will be but slow without some golden feathers 1555 Fling down the nests, and the rooks will be gone 1556 Follow the river and you will get to sea 1557 Folly and learning (such as it is) often dwell in the same person 1558 Folly, as well as wisdom, is justified by its children 1559 Folly is often sick of itself 1560 Folly is never long pleased with itself 1561 Folly is the product of all countries and ages 1562 Folly is the queen regent of the world 1563 Foolish fear doubleth danger 1&64 Fools and madmen ought not to be left in their own company 45 1556 Fools and obstinate men make the lawyers rich 1566 Fools and philosophers were made out of the same metal 1567 Fools are all the world over, as he said that shod the goose 1668 Fools are always resolute to make good their owu- folly 1569 Fools are not to be convinced 1570 Fools are pleased with their own blunders 1571 Fools are wise men in Ihe affairs of women 1572 Fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark 1573 Fools build houses, and wise men enjoy them 1574 Fools grow without watering 1575 Fool's haste is no speed 1576 Fools have fortune 1577 Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them 1578 Fools may ask more in an hour than wise men can answer in seven 1579 Fools may invent fashions that wise men will wear 1580 Fools may sometimes give wise men counsel 1581 Fools lade out all the water, and wise men take the fish 1582 Fools set stools for wise men to stumble at 1583 Fools tie knots, and wise men loose them 1584 Fools will be meddling 1585 Fools will not part with their bauble for all Lorn' bard Street 1586 Foppish dressing tells the world the outside is the best of the puppet 1587 Forbearance is no acquittance 1583 Fore-cast is better than work-hard 1589 Force without fore-cast is of little avail 1590 For fashion's sake, as dogs go to church 1591 Forget other's faults by remembering your own 1592 Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge 1593 For mad words deaf ears 1594 For my own pleasure, as the man struck his wife 1595 For one rich man that is content there are an hundred that are not 1596 For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost ; for want of a horse the man is lost 1507 For whom does the blind man's wife paint her- self? 46 1598 Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave us 1599 Fortune favours fools ^ 1600 Fortune gives her hand to a bold man 1601 Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you stay a little, the price will fall 1602 Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always ^ 1603 Fortune often lends her smiles as churls do money, to undo the debtor 1604 Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her 1605 Fortune rarely brings good or evil singly 1606 Four eyes see more than two 1607 Foul water will quench fire 1608 Foxes dig not their own holes 1609 Foxes never fare better than when they are curst 1610 Foxes prey farthest from their earths 1611 Fraud and deceit are always in haste 1612 Friends are not so seon got or recovered as lost 1613 Friends are the nearest relations 1614 Friends got without desert will be lost without cause 1615 Friendship and company are a bad excuse for ill actions 1616 Friendship and importunate begging feed not at the same dish 1617 Friendship consists not in saying, What's the best news? 1618 Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visit- ing them seldom 1619 Friendship is not to be bought at a fair 1620 Friendship is the most sacred of all moral bonds 1621 Friendship is the perfection of Jove 1622 Friendships multiply joys, and divide griefs 1623 Friendship that flames goes out in a flash 1624 Friendship, the older it grows, the stronger it is 1625 Friends may meet, but mountains never 1626 Friends need no formal invitation 1627 Frightening of a bird is not the way to catch it 1628 From fame to infamy is a beaten road 1629 From our ancestors come our names ; but from our virtues our honours 3 630 Frost and fraud have foul ends 47 1631 Frugality is an estate alone 1632 Fruit ripens not well in the shade 1633 Full bellies make empty skulls 1634 Full guts neither run away, nor fight well 1635 Fall ol i . i a iU full of craft 1636 Furniture and mane make the horse sell 1637 Gadding gossips shall dine on the pot-lid 1638 Gain got by a lie will horn brie's fii gers 1639 Galled hors s can't endnn omb 1640 Gall in mirth is an ill mixture, and sometimes truth is bitter 1641 Game is cheaper in the market than in the fields and woods 1642 Garlands are not for every brow 1643 Gaudy slothful people are wasps, that eat up the bees honey 1644 Gay cl( thing is the happiness of children and the weakest women 1645 Geese with geese, and women with women 1646 Generally we love ourselves more than we hate others 1647 Gentry by blood is bodily gentry 1648 Getting out well is a quarter of the journey 1649 Gifts break a rock 1650 Gifts from enemies are dangerous 1651 Gifts make beggars bold 1652 Give a dog an ill name, and his work is done 1653 Give a man luck, and throw him into the sea 1654 Give a poor man sixpence, and not a bottle of wine 1655 Give even the devil his due 1656 Give him an inch, and he'll take an ell 1657 Give him but rope enough, and he'll hang himself 1658 Give losers leave to speak, and winners to laugh 1659 Give not pearls to the hogs 1660 Give the piper a penny to play, and two-pence to leave off' 1661 Giving is dead, and restoring is deadly sick 1662 Glowing coals will be sparkling 1663 Go farther, and fare worse 1664 Go into the country to hear what news in town 1665 Go steal an horse, and then you'll dfe without be- ing sick 1666 Go to another door, for this will not be opened 48 1667 Goats are not sold at every fair 1668 God defend me from the still water, and I'll keep myself from the rough 1669 God gave him no children ; but the devil furnished him with abundance of bastards 1670 God give me a rich husband, though he be an ass 1671 God gives whole days to the fortunate, and but some hours to the unhappy 1672 God giveth his wrath by weight, but his mercy without measure 1673 God grant me to contend with those that under- stand me 1674 God help the fool, quoth Pedley 1675 God help the rich, the poor can beg 1376 God is always at leisure to do good to those that ask it 1677 God keep me from the man that hath but one thing to mind 1678 God knows who are the best pilgrims 1679 God made no body to forsake him 1680 God makes, and apparel shapes, but its money that finishes the man 1681 God never sends mouths but he sends meat 1682 God permits the wicked ; but not for ever 1683 God reaches us good things by our own hands 1684 God save thee, and give thee a cloke 1685 God's help is better than early rising 1686 God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults 1687 God sends cold after clothes 1688 God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks 1689 God send you more wit, and me more money 1690 God who made the world so wisely, as wisely go- verns it 1691 Gold and silver were mingled with dirt, till avarice parted them 1692 Gold causeth strange disorders when it falls into a fool's hand 1693 Gold is no balm to a wounded spirit 1694 Gold, when present, causeth fear ; when absent, grief 1695 Golden dreams make men awake hungry 1696 Gone is the goose that the great e%g did lay 1C97 Good actions are the best sacrifice we can offer t$ God. 49 1698 Good actions carry their warrant with them 1699 Good and evil are chiefly in the imagination 1700 Good at a distance, is better than evil at hand - 1701 Good bargains are pick-pockets 1702 Good bees never turn to drones 1703 Good blood makes poor pudding without suet 1704 Good cheap, is dear at long run ~ 1705 Good clothes open all doors 1706 Good coral needs no colouring -1707 Good counsel makes a proud man and a fool angry 1708 Good counsel never comes amiss 1709 Good dancers have mostly better heels than heads 1710 Good deeds remain, all things else perish 1711 Good for the liver may be bad for the spleen 1712 Good goose, don't bite 1713 Good horses can't be of a bad colour J 714 Good jests bite like lambs, not like dogs 1715 Good kings never make war, but for the sake of peace -1716 Good language cures great sores 1717 Good luck reaches farther than long arms 1718 Good men are a public good 1719 Good men must die, but death cannot kill them quite 1720 Good men want the laws for nothing but to defend themselves 1721 Good nature is a great misfortune if it want pru- dence 1722 Good nature is the proper soil upon which virtue grows 1723 Good nature without prudence, is foolishness 1724 Good neighbours and true friends are two things 1725 Good offices are the cement of society J 726 Good paymasters need no security 1727 Good paymasters need not bring a pawn 1728 Good purposes should be the directors of good actions, not the apology for bad 1729 Good swimmers are oftenest drowned 1730 Good that comes too late, is as good as nothing 1731 Good ware makes a quick market 1732 Good wine needs no bush 1733 Good wits jump 1734 Good words cool more than cold water 1735 Good words cost no more than bad 1736 Good words cost nothing, but are worth much - D 50 1737 Good words fill not a sack 1738 Good works will never save you ; but you can never be saved without them 1739 Goods are iheirs only, who enjoy them 1740 Goslins lead the geese to water 1741 Gossiping and lying go together 1742 Gossips and tale-bearers set afire all the houses they come into 1743 Government of the will, is better than increase of knowledge 1744 Grain by grain and the hen fills her belly 1745 Grandfathers servants are never good 1746 Grantham- giue\, nine grats in a gallon of water 1747 Grasp no more than thy hand will hold 1748 Gratefulness is the poor man's payment 1749 Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices 1750 Gratitude preserves old friendship and procures new 1751 Graves are of all sizes 1752 Great and good are seldom the same man 1753 Great braggers little doers 1754 Great designs require great considerations 1755 Great doings at Gregory's; heat the oven twice for a custard 1756 Great gain makes work easy 1757 Great guts, and small hopes 1758 Great honours and avarice ilyone another 1759 Great hopes make great men 1760 Great marks arc soonest hit 1761 Great men have more adorers than friends 1762 Great mens vices are accounted sacred 1763 Great minds and great fortunes don't always go to- gether 1764 Great persons seldom see their face in a true glass 1765 Great riches are of no real and substantial use 1766 Great ships ask deep waters 1767 Great solitude is a sort of madness 1768 Great spirits are easy in prosperity and quiet in ad- versity 1769 Great trees keep under the little ones 1770 Great vices, as well as great virtues, make men fa- mous 1771 Great wealth and content, seldom live together 51 1772 Great wealth makes us neither more wise nor more healthy 1773 Great weight may hang on small -wires 1774 Green wood makes hot fires 1775 Grief pent up will burst the heart 1776 Grief that gives way to verses is not very lamenta- ble 1777 Grieving for misfortunes, is adding gall to worm- wood 1778 Guests that come by day-light are best receiv'd 1779 Guilt is always jealous 1780 Hackney mistress hackney maid 1781 Haifa loaf is better than no bread 1782 Half an acre is good land 1783 Half- witted fellows speak much and say little 1784 Halt not before a cripple 1785 Hang him that has no shifts, and hang him that has one too many 1786 Hang not all your bells upon one horse 1787 Happy is he that is happy in his children 1788 Happy is lie that serveth the happy 1789 Happy is he who hath sow'd his wild oats betimes 1790 Happy in lie, whose friends were born before him 1791 Happy is the child whose father went to the de\il 1792 Happy is the man, who sees his faults in his youth 1793 Happy is the man whose enemies have been in small matters 1794 Happy men shall have many friends 1795 Happiness generally depends more on the opinion we have of things, than on the things themselves 1796 Hard fare makes hungry bellies 1797 Hard with hard makes not the stone wall 1798 Harrow hell, and rake up the devil 1799 Harvest comes not every day, though it come every year 1800 Harvest will come, and then every farmer's rich 1801 Haste trips up its own heels 1802 Hasty climbers have sudden falls 18(J3 Hasty gamesters oversee themselves 1804 Hasty glory goes out in a snuff 1805 Hatred is blind as well as love 1806 Have a care of a silent dog, and a still water 1807 Have but few friends, though much acquaintance . d 2 52 1808 Have not thy cloke to make, when it begins to rata 1809 He a soldier, and knows not onion-seed from gun- powder 1810 He bears misery best, that hides it most 181 1 He bears poverty very ill who is ashamed of it 1812 He begs a blessing of a wooden god 1813 He benefits himself that doth good to others 1814 He bought the fox-skiu for three-pence, and sold the tail for a shilling 1815 He builds cages fit for oxen to keep birds iu 1816 He calls for a shoeing horn, to help on his gloves 1817 He came safe from the East- Indies and was drown- ed in the Thames 1818 He can never be God's martyr, that is the devil's servant 1819 He cannot be good, that knows not why he is good 1820 He cannot speak well, that cannot hold his tongue 1821 He can swim without bladders 1822 He can't demand a flitch of bacon at Dunmow 1823 He cares not whose child cries, so his laugh 1824 He carries too big a gun for me, I must not engage him 1825 He changes his flag to conceal his being a pirate 1826 He claws it as Clayton claw'd the pudding when he eat bag and all 1827 He commands enough that obcyeth a wise man 1828 He confesseth himself guilty, who refuseth to come to a trial 1829 He covers me with his wings, and bites me with his bill 1830 He could e'en cat my heart without salt 1831 He cries wine, and sells vinegar 1832 He dances merrily, whom fortune pipes to 1833 He declares himself guilty, who justifies himself be- fore accusation 1834 He deserves not sweet, that will not taste of sour 1835 He deserves not good, that can away with bad 1836 He did me as much good as if he had piss'd in my pottage 1837 He does bounty an injury, who shews her so much as to be laughed at 1838 He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief 1S39 He doth much, that doth a thing well 53 1840 He drags his chain, and yet says 'tis others that are mad 1841 He dwells far from neighbours, who is fain to praise himself 1842 He eats in plate, but will die in irons 1843 He eats the calf in the cow's belly 1844 He lasts enough that has a bad meal 1845 He fasts enough whose wife scolds all dinner-time 1840 He frets like gum'd taffety 1847 He gave him a thing of nothing, to hang upon his sleeve 1848 He gets a double victory, who overcomes himself when he doth his enemy 1849 He gives one knock on the iron and two on the an- vil 1850 He goes a great voyage, that goes to the bottom of the sea 1851 He goes not out of his way, that goes to a goodinn 1852 He had better put his horns in his pocket than blow them 1853 fie had need of a long spoon that sups with the devil 1854 He had need rise betimes, who would please every body 1855 He has a fair forehead to graff on 1856 He has a great fancy to marry that goes to the de- vil f r a wife 1857 He has a head as big as a horse, and brains as much as an ass 1858 He has a hole under his cose that all his money runs into 1859 He has a mouth for every matter 1860 Me has an even hand to throw a louse into the fire 1861 He has an ill look among iambs 1862 He has as many tricks as a dancing bear 1863 He has been out a hawki:ig lor bu terflies 1864 He has brought up a bird to pick out his own eyes 1865 He has but a short Lent that must pay money at Easter 1866 He has but bad food that feeds upon the faults of others 1867 He has drank more than lie has bled to-day 3868 He has eat up the pot and asks for the pipkin 1869 He has found a last for his shoe D 3 54 1870 He has good blood in him, but wants grotes to it 1871 He has got the fiddle, but not the stick 1872 He has great need of a wife that marries mamma's darling 1873 He has more guts than brains 1 874 He has more wit in his head than Sampson had in both his shoulders 1875 He has most share in the wedding that lies with the bride 1876 He has not lost all who has one cast left 1877 He has nothing to eat, and yet invites guests 1878 He has one face to God, and another to the devil 1879 He has the Bible in his hand, and the Alcoran in his heart 1 880 He has the greatest blind-side, who thinks he has none 1881 He hath a colt's tooth yet in his old head 1882 He hath a good judgment, that reliethnot wholly on his own 1883 He hath been in the sun to-day, his face looks roasted 1884 He hath conquer'd well that hath made his enemies fly 1885 He hath cut both his legs, and cannot go nor stand 1886 He hath fed too freely on a Neapolitan biscuit 1887 He hath good cards to shew for it 1888 He hath impudence to shew himself a fool 1889 He hath left his purse in his other breeches 1890 He hath liv'd ill that knows not how to die well 1891 He hath made a good progress in a business, that hath thought well of it before-hand 1892 He hath more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults 1893 He hath never a cross to bless himself withal 1894 He hath no mean portion of virtue that loveth it in another 1 895 He hath play'd a wily trick, and beguil'd himself 1896 He hath profited well, that likes Cicero well 1897 He hath slept well that remembers not that he hath slept ill 1898 He hath slip'd a whiting 1899 He hath some wit, but a fool hath the guidance of it DO 1900 He hath stole a roll out of the brewer's basket 1901 He hath swallow'd a stake, he cannot bow 1902 He hath swallow'd a gudgeon 1903 He hath ty'd a knot with his tongue, that he cannot untie with all his teeth 1904 He injures a fair lady that beholds her not 1905 He invites future injuries who rewards past ones 1906 He is above his enemies that despises their injuries 1907 He is a lion in a good cause 1908 He is a more impudent thief that vobbeth openly than he that stealeth privately 1909 He is a slave of the greatest slave, who serveth no- thing but himself 1910 He is a very ill man, who retaineth not a secret re- verence for a good man 1911 He is as hot as if he had a beilyfull of wasps and sa- lamanders 1912 He is as much out of his element as an eel in a sand bag 1913 He is desperate that thinks himself so 1914 He is either a God or a painter; for he makes faces 1915 He is false by nature that has a black head and a red beard 1916 He is good as long as he's pleas'd, and so is the de- vil 1917 He is handsome that handsome doth 1918 He is happy that knoweth not himself to be other- wise 1919 He is idle that might be better employed 1920 He is ignoble, that disgraces his brave ancestors by a vicious life 1921 He is in great danger, who being sick thinks him- self well 1922 He is lifeless that is faultless 1923 He is like a bell, that will go for every one that pulls it 1924 He is miserable that dieth not before he desires to die 1925 He is more noble that deserves, than he that confers benefits ' 1926 He is my friend that succoureth me, not he that pi- tieth me 1927 He is never alone who is accompanied with noble thoughts D 4 56 1928 He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor* virtue 1929 He is no wise man that cannot play the fool upon occasion 1930 He is not a virtuous man that loveth it not even in an enemy 1931 He is not born yet, and does he sneeze already 1932 He is not charitable, that will not be so privately 1933 He is not drunk gratis, who pays his reason for his* shot 1934 He is not fit for riches, who is afraid to use them 1935 He is not good himself, who speaks well of every body alike 1936 He is not laughed at, that laughs at himself first 1937 He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much 1938 He is not so much worth as his ears full of water 1939 He is not wise that is not wise for himself 1940 He is one that will not lose his cap in a crowd 1941 He is poor indeed that can promise nothing 1942 He is rich enough that needeth neither flatter nor borrow r 1943 He is rich that is satisfied 1944 He is sillier than a crab that has all his brains in his belly 1945 He is so poor that he has not salt to his porridge 1946 He is so suspicious that he can't be got at without a stalking horse 1947 He is so wary that he sleeps like a hare with his eyes open 1948 He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts 1949 He is the sou of a batchelor 1950 He is the wretch that does the injury, not he that endures it 1951 He is timorous indeed that's afraid of a dead bee 1952 He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself 1953 He is well onward in the way of wisdom, who can bear a reproof and mend by it 1954 He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs 1955 He is wiser than most men are, who is honest 1956 He is worth gold that carries it J 957 He kiUs a man that saves not his life when he can 1958 He kiss'd and stabb'd at the same time 57 1059 He knows not a hawk from a hand-saw ] 960 He knows not a pig from a dog 1961 He knows which side of his hread is butter'd 1962 He laughs ill that laughs himself to death 1963 He leaps into a deep river to avoid a shallow brook 1964 He lighted upon a lime twig 1965 He lights his candle at both ends 1966 He lives long that lives till all are weary of him 1967 He lives longest that is awake most hours 1968 He liveth long that liveth well 1969 He loaths the spring head and drinks the foul stream 1970 He looks as big as if he had eaten bull beef 1971 He looks as though he had suck'd his dam through a hurdie 1972 He looks like a sow saddled 1973 He looks like a wild cat out of a bush 1974 He looks like the devil over Lincoln 1975 He loseth indeed that loseth at last 1976 He loseth nothing that keepeth God for his friend 1977 He loseth thanks that promiseih and delayeth 1978 He loves bacon well that licks the sow's breech 1979 He loves mutton well that eats the wool 1980 He loves roast meat well that licks the spit 1981 He loves you as a ferret does a rabbit, to make a meal of you 1982 He makes a feint at the lungs, but lays his stroke on the head 1983 He makes arrows of all sorts of wood 1984 He may be trusted with a house full of mill stone* 1985 He may find fault, but let him mend it if he can 1986 He may make a wiii upon his nail for any thing he has to give 1987 He may very well be contented that need not buy nor flatter 1988 He mends like sour ale in summer 1989 He merits no thanks that does a kindness for his own end 1990 He must be a most sad fellow that nobody can please 1991 He must have iron nails that scratcheth with a bear 1992 He must have leave to speak, who cannot hold his tongue 1993 He must needs go, whom the devil drives 1904 He must not talk of running that cannot go 58 1995 He must stoop that hath a low door 1996 He needs little adviee that is lucky 1997 He neither ties nor unties 1998 He never was good, neither egg nor bird 1999 He never wrought a good day's work that went grumbling about it 2000 He may hope for the best that's prepared for the Worst 2001 He opens an oyster with a dagger 2002 He passes sentence before he hears the evidence 2003 He pins his faith upon another man's sleeve 2004 He pitieth not the poor, who relieveth them not when he well may 2005 He plays well that wins 2006 He preaches well that lives well 2007 He promises like a merchant-man, and pays like a man of war 2008 He put a fine feather in his cap 2009 He refuseth the bribe, but putteth forth his hand 2010 He remembers his ancestors, but forgets to feed his children 2011 He rode sure indeed, that never caught a fall in his life 2012 He runneth far indeed that never returneth 2013 He sail'd into Cornwall without a bark 2014 He says any thing but his prayers, and them he whistles 2015 He scap'd hemp, but deserv'd a wooden halter 2016 He seemeth wise, with whom all things thrive 2017 He sendcth to the East Indies for Kentish pippins 2018 He set my house afire only to roast his eggs 2019 He shall have enough to do, who studies to please fools 2020 He signifies uo more than a blind cat in a barn 2021 He sits up by moon-shine, and lies a bed in sun- shine 2022 He skips like hail on a pack saddle 2023 He sneaks as if he would creep into his mouth 2024 He speaks as if every word would lift a dish 2025 He speaks one word nonsense, and two that have. nothing in them 20?6 He spent Michcelmas rent in Midsummer moon 2027 He spits out secrets like hot custard 2028 He steals a hog and gives away the feet in alms 2029 He struck at Tib, but down fell Tim 59 2030 He sups ill, who eats up all at dinner 2031 He takes in good counsel like cold porridge 2032 He takes pepper in his nose 2033 He talks in the bear garden tongue 2034 He teaches me to be good that does me good 2035 He teacheth ill that teacheth all 2036 He tells me my way and don't know it himself 2037 He that after sinning mends, recommends himself to God 2038 He that always complains is never pitied 2039 He that always fears dangers always feels it 2040 He that always makes God's will his is never crossed 2041 He that asketh a courtesy promiseth a kindness 2042 He that asketh faintly beggeth a denial 2043 He that banquets every day never makes a good meal 2044 He that beareth a torch shadoweth himself to give light to others 2045 He that bestoweth but a bone on thee would not have thee die 2046 He that bites on every weed may light on poison 2047 He that blows a trumpet at his alms is a Pharisee 2048 He that blows in the dust fills his own eyes 2049 He that boasteth of himself affronteth his company 2050 He that boasteth of his ancestors, confesseth he hath no virtue of his own 2051 He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance 2052 He that bringeth a present findeth the door open 2053 He that brings up his son to nothing breeds a thief 2054 He that builds castles in the air will soon have no land 2055 He that buycth magistracy must sell justice 2056 He that buys and lies shall feel it in his purse 2057 He that can abide a curst wife need not fear what company he liveth m 2058 He that canuot abide a bad market deserves not a good one 2059 He that cannot conceal his own shame will not con- ceal another's 2060 He that can read and meditate, need not think the evenings long, or life tedious 2061 He that can reply calmly to an angry man is too hard for him 60 2062 He that can't ride a gentle horse, must not attempt to back a mad colt 2063 He that casteth all doubts shall never be resolved 2064 He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one 2065 He that chastiseth one amendeth many 2066 He that cheateth in small things is a fool, but in great things is a rogue 2067 He that comes after, sees with more eyes than his own 2068 He that commandeth well shall be obeyed well 2069 He that contemplates on his bed hath a day with- out a night 2070 He that converses not, knows nothing 2071 He that considers in prosperity, will be less afflicted in adversity 2072 He that cuts himself wilfully deserves no balsam 2073 He that dallies with his enemy gives him leave to kill him 2074 He that dares not venture must not complain of ill luck 2075 He that deals with a senseless man had need of a good deal of sense 2076 He that defends an injury is next to him that com- mits it 2077 He that desires but little has no need of much 2078 He that despises shame wants a bridle 2079 He that died half a year ago is as dead as Adam 2080 He that dies troubles his parents but once, but he that lives ill torments them perpetually 2081 He that dies young has made a quick voyage of it 2082 He that does any thing for the public is accounted to do it for nobody 2083 He that does not love a woman, sucked a sow 2084 He that does not speak truth to me does not believe me when I speak truth 2085 He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive you 2086 He that docth his own business, hurteth not his hand 2087 He that doth a good turn looketh for a good turn 2088 He that doth good for praise only, meriteth bnt a pulf of \wi:d 2089 He that doth not as he ought, must not look to be , done to as he would 61 2090 He that doth well wearieth not himself 2091 He that doth what he will, oft doth not what he ought 2092 He that eats most porridge shall have most meat 2093 He that eats the king's geese shall be choak'd with the feathers 2094 He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well 2095 He that eats well and drinks well, should do his duty well 2096 He that falls in the dirt, the longer he lies the dirtier he is 2097 He that falls to day may be up again to-morrow 2098 He that feareth every bush must never go a birding 2099 He that tears danger in time seldom feels it 2100 He that fears not the future may enjoy the present 2101 He that fears you present will hate you absent 2102 He that feastoth a flatterer and a slanderer, dineth with two devils 2103 He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper 2104 He that finds a thing steals it if he endeavours not to restore it 2105 He that first came is not sure to be first serv'd 2106 He that flatters himself in sciences, and grows worse in morals, makes no improvement 2107 He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most 2108 He that follows nature is never out of his way 2109 He that gets an estate will probably never spend it 2110 He that gives himself kave to | lay with his neigh- bour's fame, may soon plaj it away 2111 He that gives his heart will not deny his money 2112 He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent 2113 He that gives to a grateful man puts out to usury 2114 He that gives to a worthy persou bestows a benefit upon himself 2115 He that gives to be seen would never relieve a man in the dark 2116 He that giveth customarily to the vulgar buyeth trouble 2117 He that giveth to a good man selleth well 2118 He that goes a great way for a wife is either cheat- ed or means to cheat 62 2119 He that goes continually abroad a borrowing, shews he has little at home of his own 2120 He that goes the contrary way must go it over twice 2121 He that goes to church with an ill intention goes to God's house on the devil's errand 2122 He that goes to church with brothers-in-law, comes back without kindred 2123 He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast 2124 He that gropes in the dark finds what he would not 2125 He that groweth worse was never good 2126 He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung 2127 He that handles pitch shall foul his fingers 2128 He that handles thorns shall smart for it 2129 He that has a great nose thinks every body is speaking of it 2130 He that hath a mouth of his own should not say to another, blow r 2131 He that has a sword, and goes home to fetch a bet- ter, never comes again 2132 He that has an hundred and one, and owes an hun- dred and two, the Lord have mercy upon him 2133 He that has an ill name is half hang'd. 2134 He that has but four, and spends five, has no need of a purse 2135 He that has but one coat cannot lend it 2136 He that has but one eye had need look well to that 2137 He that has but one eye is a prince among those that have none 2138 He that has but one hog, makes him fat, and he that has but one son, makes him a fool 2139 He that lias feather'd his nest may fly when he will 2140 He that has led a wicked life is afraid of his own me- mory 2141 He that has most time has none to lose 2142 He that has lost his credit is dead to the world 2143 He that has no charity merits no mercy 2144 He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his fa- mily, was begot by a flash of lightning 2145 He that has no head deserves not a laced hat 2146 He that has no heart ought to have heels 2147 He that has no modesty has all the town for his own 2148 He that has no shame has no conscience 2149 He that has no silver in his purse, should have silver on his tongue 63 2150 He that has nothing is frighted at nothing 2151 He that has nothing to spare must not keep a dog 2152 He that has purchas'd the devil mus 4 make the most of him 2153 He that has the worst cause makes the most noise 2154 He that has too little, wants wings to fly, he that has too much, is incumbred with his large tail 2155 He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun 2156 He that hath a white horse and a fair wife, never wants trouble 2157 He that hath a wife and children wants no busi- ness 2158 He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth 2159 He that hath good corn may be content with some thistles 2160 He that hath love in his breast hath spurs at his heels * 2161 He that hath some land must have some labour 2162 He that hath time, and looketh for a better time, loseth time 2163 He that helpeth the evil hurteth the good 2164 He that hews above his height may have chips in his eyes 2165 He that hoardeth up money taketh pains for other men 2166 He that hopes no good fears no ill 2167 He that hinders not a mischief when it is in his power is guilty of it 2168 He that hunts after vanity shall take vexation 2169 He that is a cuckold, and allows it, may be so for ever 2170 He that imagines he hath knowledge enough hath none 2171 He that is busy is tempted but by one devil ; he that is idle, by a legion 2172 He that is carried down the torrent catcheth at every thing 2173 He that is dispos'd for mischief will never want oc- casion 2174 He that is drunk is gone from home 2175 He that is every where is no where 2176 He that is grateful would recompence if he could 64 2177 He that is heady is ruled by a fool 2178 He that is innocent may well be confident 2179 He that is kinder than he was wont, hath a design upon thee 2180 He that is known to have no money has no friends nor credit 2181 He that is master of himself will soon be master of others 2182 He that is needy when he is married, shall scarce be rich when he is buried 2183 He that repents here, shall rejoice hereafter 2184 He that is not above an injury is below himself 2185 He that is not company proof will be ensnar'd in company 2186 He that is not sensible of his loss has lost nothing 2187 He that is only his own pupil shall have a fool to his tutor 2188 He that is open to flattery is fenc'd against admonition 2189 He that is poor all his kindred scorn him, he that is rich all are kin to him 2190 He that is presently deny'd is least deceiv'd 2191 He that is proud of his fine clothes fetches his repu- tation from his tailor 2192 He that is shameless is graceless 2193 He that is too busy in mending and judging of others will never be good himself 2194 He that is too proud to ask is too good to receive 2195 He that is too secure is not safe 2196 He that is thrown would ever wrestle 2197 He that is uneasy at every little pain is never with- out some ache 2198 He that is well and ventures to be ill, deserves no pity when it happens 2199 He that is well shelter'd is a fool if he stir out into the rain 2200 He that is without money is a bird without wings 2201 He that is won with a nut may be lost with an apple 2202 He that keeps malice harbours a viper in his breast 2203 He that keeps up his riches and li\es poorly, is like an ass that carries gold, and eats thistles 2204 He that kills a man when he's chunk must be hang'd when he's sober 2205 He that kisseth bis wife in the market-place, shall have enough to teach him 65 2206 He that knoweth useful things, not he that know* man} 7 things, is the wise man 2207 He that knows how to waste finds every thing to his purpose 2208 He that knows least commonly presumes most 2209 He that knows little often repeats it 2210 He that knows not how to hold his tongue know* not how to talk 2211 He that labours and thrives spins gold 2212 He that laughs when he's alone will make sport in company 2233 He that leaves the highway to cut short commonly goes about 2214 He that lets his fish escape into the water, may cast his net often, yet never catch it again 2215 He that licks honey from a nettle pays too dear for it 2216 He that lies down with the dogs must rise with the fleas 2217 He that lieth upon the ground can fall no lower 2218 He that listens after what people say of him shall never have peace 2219 He that lives a knave will hardly die an honest man 2220 He that lives long suffers much 2221 He that lives not well one year, sorrows for it seven 2222 He that lives on hope has hut a slender diet 2223 He that lives with the muses shall die in the straw 2224 He that liveth in hope danceth without a riddle 2225 He that looks for a requital, serves himself", not me 2226 He that looks too nicely into things never ii^ es easy 2227 He thatloseth his wealth is wanted to have lost bis wits 2228 He that loseth his wife and sixpence hath lost a tes- ter 2229 He that loves himself too much loves an ill man 2230 He that makes a good war makes a good peace 2231 He that makes a question where there is no doubt, must make an answer where there is no reason 2231 He that makes himself an ass, must not take it ill if men ride him 2233 He that makes his bed ill must be contented to lie ill 2234 He that makes one basket may make an hundred 2235 He that makes the shoe can't tan the leather m 2236 He that maketh a fire of straw hath much smoke, and but little warmth 2237 He that marries a wife and three children marries four thieves 2238 He that marrieth for wealth sells his liberty 2239 He that mindeth not his own business shall never be trusted with mine 2240 He that never took oar in hand, must not think scorn to be taught 2241 He that nothing questioneth nothing learneth 2242 He that overcomes his passions overcomes his great- est enemies 2243 He that overfeeds his senses feasteth his enemies 2244 He that passeth a judgment as he runs overtaketh repentance 2245 He that payeth beforehand shall have his work ill done 2246 He that pays last never pays twice 2247 He that payeth another remembereth himself 2248 He that plants trees loves others besides himself 2249 He that praiseth bestows a favour, he that detracts commits a robbery 2250 He that praiseth publicly will slander privately 2251 He that preacheth up war, when it might well be avoided, is the devil's chaplain 2252 He that prepares for ill, gives the blow a meeting, and breaks its stroke 2253 He that promises too much means nothing 2254 He that protects an ill man may live to repent of it 2255 He that pryeth into the clouds may be struck with a thunderbolt 2256 He that punishes another in anger shall feel it him- self when the fit is over 2257 He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person 2258 He that reckoneth before his host, must reckon again 2259 He that regardeth not his reputation despiseth vir- tue 2260 He that regards not a penny will lavish a pound 2261 He that refuses praise the first time does it because he would have it the second 2262 He that remembers his virtues too much, bids others hink of his vices 67 2263 He That repents of a fault upon right grounds, is almost innocent 2264 He that repents of his own act, either is, or was a fool, by his own confession 2265 He that requites a benefit pays a great debt 2266 He that resisteth his own evil inclinations, obevs God 2267 He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave oft' dealing 2268 He that returns a good for evil obtains the victory 2269 He that rewards flattery, begs it 2270 He that rides behind another, must not think to guide 2271 He that runs in the dark may well stumble 2272 He that runs may rally 2273 He that runs out by extravagancy, must retrieve by parsimony 2274 He that's afraid of every nettle must not piss in the grass 2275 He that's afraid to do good would be ill if he durst 2276 He that's always shooting, must sometimes hit 2277 He that's angry without a cause must be pleased without amends 2278 He that's a wise man by day is no fool by night 2279 He that's born to be hanged shall never be drowned 2280 He that's carried down the stream needs not row 2281 He that's cheated twice by the same man is an ac- complice with the cheater 2282 He that's down, down with him, cries the world 2283 He that's full, takes no care for him that's fasting 2284 He that's ill to himself will be good to nobody 2285 He that's killed by a cannon, was cm s'd in his mo- ther's boil v 2286 He that's maimed with boys, and horsed with colts, shall have his meat eaten, and his work undone 2287 He that's not handsome at 20, strong at 30, wise at 40, rich at 50, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich 2288 He that saveth his dinner will have the more for supper 2289 He that seattereth thorns must not go barefoot 2290 He that, scoffs at the crooked had need go very ap* right himself 68 2291 He that seeketh trouble never misseth ofit 2292 He that seeks danger perisheth therein unpitied 2293 He that serveth the devil hath an hard service of it 2294 He that serves at the altar ought to live by the altar 2295 He that serves every body is paid by no body 2296 He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages 2297 He that sets his net betimes, may expect a fuller draught than he that fishes later 2298 He that sharply chides is the most ready to pardon 2299 He that shewed] his wealth to a thief is the cause of his own pillage 2300 He that shews a passion, tells his enemy where he may hit him 2301 He that shews his purse, longs to be rid ofit 2302 He that sins that he may repent, surfeits that he may take a vomit 2303 He that sits to work in the market-place shall have many teachers 2304 He that slights his enemy, dies by his hand 2305 He that sows in the highway tires his oxen, and loseth his corn 2306 He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow 2307 He that sows thistles shall reap prickles 2308 He that spares the bad injures the good 23(9 He that speaks iil of his wife dishonoured] himself 2310 He that speaks, sows ; he that hears, reaps 2311 He that speaks without care, shall remember with sorrow 2312 He that spends to his proportion is as brave as a prince, and a prince exceeding that is a prodigal 2313 He that spends without regard shall want without P'ty 2314 He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill 2315 He that steals can hide 2316 He that stumbles, and falls not quite, gains a step 2317 He that stumbles twice at the same stone, deserves to have his shins broke 2318 He that strikes my dog, would strike me if ho durst 2319 He that strikes with his tongue must ward with his head 69 2320 He that sweareth falsely denieth God 2321 He that swells in prosperity will shrink in ad- versity 2322 He that sups upon salad goes not to bed fasting 2323 He that takes a wife at Shrewsbury, must carry her to Staffordshire, or else she'll drive him to Cuw- berland 2324 He that takes not up a pin slights his wife 2325 He that takes pet at a feast loses it all 2326 He that takes the devil into his boat must carry him over the sound 2327 He that takes too great a leap falls into the ditch 2328 He that talks to himself, talks to a fool 2329 He that tells a lie buffeteth himself 2330 He that tells his wife, is but lately married 2331 He that the devil drives feels no lead at his heels 2332 He that thinks himself a cuckold carries live coals in his heart 2333 He that thinks his business below him, will always be above his business 2334 He that ties up another man's dog shall have no- thing left but the line 2335 He that travels much knows much 2336 He that trusteth to the world is sure to be de- ceived 2337 He that trusts to borrowed ploughs will have his land lie fallow 2338 He that waits for dead men's shoes may go bare- foot 2339 He that waits upon another's trencher, makes many a little dinner 2340 He that walketh with the virtuous is one of them 2341 He that wants business may fit out a ship, or take a wife 2342 He that wants hope is the poorest man alive 2343 He that wants money is accounted among those that want wit 2344 He that was born under a three-half-penny planet shall never be worth two-pence 2345 He that weighs the wind must have a steady hand 2346 He that will conquer must fight 2347 He that will enter paradise must come with a right key 2348 He that will have the kernel must crack the shell 70 2349 He that will not bear the itch mast endure the smart 2350 He that will not be counselled cannot be helped 2351 He that will not be saved needs no sermon 2352 He that will not live a saint can never die a martyr 2353 He that will not sail till all dangers are over, must never put to sea 2354 He that will not sail till he have a full fair wind will lose many a voyage 2355 He that will not stoop for a pin shall never be worth a point 2356 He that will not suffer evil must never think of pre- ferment 2357 He that will outwit the fox must rise betimes 2358 He that will sell lawn must learn to fold it 2359 He that worketh wickedness by another is wicked himself 2360 He that works journey-work with the devil, shall never want work 2361 He that worst may, still holds the candle 2362 He that would hang his dog gives out first that he is mad 2363 He that would have a bad morning may w r alk out in a fog after a frost 2364 He that would have a bad night may injure his conscience that day 2365 He that would have a hare for his breakfast must hunt over night 2366 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree 2367 He that would know what shall be, must consider what hath been 2368 He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea 2369 He that would rightly understand a man, must read his whole story 2370 He that would thrive by law must see his enemy's counsel as well as his own 2371 He thought to have turned iron into gold, and he turned gold into iron 2372 He threatens many that is injurious to one 2373 He toucheth it as warily as a cat doth a coal of fire 2374 He travelled with Mandevile 2375 He useth the rake more than the fork 2376 He wants nothing now, but the itch, to scratch 2377 He was born within the sound of Boiir bell . 71 2378 He was scarce of news, who told that his father was hanged 2379 He who beggeth for others is contriving for himself 2380 He who cannot counterfeit a friend, can never be a very bad enemy 2381 He who cometh in late has an ill lodging 2382 He who fasteth and doeth no good, saveth his bread, but loseth his soul 2383 He who findeth fault meaneth to buy 2384 He who greases his wheels helps his oxen 2385 He who has but one eye is always wiping it 2386 He who hath a trade hath a share every where 2387 He who hath bitter in his breast spits not all sweet 2388 He who hath money and capers, is provided for Lent 2389 He who imparts wisdom to another purifies and exalts his own mind 2390 He, who is ashamed of his calling, ever liveth shamefully in it 2391 He who is born a fool is never cured 2392 He, who is not lucky, let him not go a fishing 2393 He, who is the offender, is never the forgiver 2394 He, who is wanting but to one friend, loseth a great many by it 2395 He, who killeth a lion when absent, feareth a mouse when present 2396 He, who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool ; he that laugheth not at all hath tiie nature of an old cat 2397 He, who owes an hundred, and has an hundred and one, fears nobody 2398 He who oweth is in all the wrong 2399 He, whose belly is full, believes not him whose is empty 2400 He, whose father is judge, goes safe to his trial 2401 He, who plants a walnut-tree, expects not to eat of the fruit 2402 He, who sets one foot in a bawdy-house, claps t'other in an hospital 2403 He, who shareth honey with the bear, hath the least part of it 2404 He, who sleepeth all the morning, may go a beg- ging all the day after 2405 He, who threateneth, hunteth after a revenge 72 2406 He who trustcth not is not deceived 2407 He, who trusts all things to chance, makes a lottery of his life 2408 He. who wants content, can't find an easy chair 2409 He, who was never sick, dies the first fit 2410 He will ill catch a bird flying, that cannot keep his own in a cage 2411 He will never get to heaven that desires to go thither alone 2412 He will not give the way, even to a blind man 2413 He will shoot higher, that shoots at the moon, than he that shoots at a dunghill, though he miss the mark 2414 He would be quarter-master at home if his wife would let him 2415 He would fain fly, but wants feathers 2416 He would find waters with the first stroke of his spade - 2417 He would live, even in a gravel pit 2418 He would not leud his knife, no not to the devil, to stab himself 2419 He wounded a dead man to the heart 2420 He wrongs not an old man who steals his supper from him 2421 He'll as soon eat sand as do a good turn 2422 He'll bring buckle and thong together 2423 He'll dance to nothing but his own pipe 2424 He'll eat till he sweats, and work till he freezes 2425 He'll find money for mischief, when he can find none for corn 2426 He'll ne'er do right nor suffer wrong 2427 He'll ne'er get a pennyworth that is afraid to ask a price 2428 He'll never have enough till his mouth is full of mould 2429 He'll rather die with thirst, than take the pains te draw water 2430 He'll soon be a beggar that can't say nay 2431 He'll swear the devil out of hell 2432 He'll turn rather than burn 2433 He's a blockhead that can't make two verses, and he's a fool that makes four 2434 He's a fool that is not melancholy once a day 2435 He's a fool that is wiser Abroad than at home 73 2436 He's a friend at a sneeze, the most you can get of him is a God bless you 2437 He's a friend to none that is a friend to all 2438 He's a good man whom fortune makes better 2439 He's a hawk of the right nest 2440 He's a hot shot in a mustard-pot with his heels up- right 2441 He's a little fellow, but every bit of that little is bad 2442 He's a pretty fellow of an orator that makes pane- gyrick of himself 2443 He's a proud fox that will not dig his own hole 2444 He's a puddled stream from a pure spring 2445 He's a slave, that cannot command himself 2446 He's a thief, for he has took a cup too much 2447 He's a wise man that leads passion by the bridle 2448 He's an excellent man that can wear poverty de- cently 2449 He's an ill boy that goes like a top, no longer than 'tis wipt 2450 He's an ill cook that can't lick his own fingers 2451 He's an ill man that takes by force w hen he can have freely 2452 He's as brisk as bottled ale 2453 He's as sharp asifheliv'd upon TewJi$bu?*y-mus- tard 2454 He's at a great loss for jests that is fore'd to rake hell for them 2455 He's born in a good hour who gets a good name 2456 He's drinking at the harrow when he should be driving his plough 2457 He's dwindled down from a pot to a pipkin 2458 He's in great want of a bird that w ill give a groat for an owl 2459 He's like a bagpipe ; vou never hear him till his bel- ly is full 2460 He's like a fox, grey before he is good 2461 He's like Garby, whose soul neither God nor the de- vil would have 2462 'tie's madder than mad, who selleth heaven for earth 2463 He's miserable indeed that must lock up his mise- ries x 2464 He's my frieud that grindeth at my mill 2405 He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back - E 74 2466 He's not honest whom the lock only makes honest 2467 He's not the best carpenter that makes the most chips 2468 He's not ungrateful that cannot; but he that will not repay 2469 He's overshot in his own bow 2470 He's poor indeed whom God hates 2471 He's so covetous, that he'll not give even a cup of cold water 2472 He's so full of himself that he is quite empty 2173 He's so great a thief, that he stole even a piece of a halter from the gallows 2474 He's so much a thief that he'll steal away even the commandments 2475 He's wise that knows when he's well enough 2476 He's won with a feather and lost with a straw 2477 Health is great riches 2478 Health is not valued till sickness comes 2479 Health without wealth is half a sickness 2480 Hearts may agree, though heads differ 2481 Heaven is a cheap purchase whatever it cost 2482 Heaven is worth the whole world 2483 Heaven will make amends for all 2484 Heaven without good society cannot be heaven 2485 Hedgehogs lodge among thorns,because themselves are prickly 2486 Hell and chancery are always open 2487 Hell is full of good meanings and wishes, but hea- ven is full of good works 2488 Hell is full of the ungrateful 2489 Hell is wherever heaven is not 2490 Help the lame dog over the style 2491 Her hands are on the wheel, but her eyes are in the street 2492 Her pulse beats matrimony 2493 Her shoulder is with child 2494 Her tongue steals away all the time from her hands 2495 Here 1 left a needle, and here 1 will mid it 2496 Here if you beat a bush, its odds but you start a thief 2497 Here's talk of the Turk and Pope, but its my next neighbour that does me the harm 2498 Hertfordsh ire kindness 2499 High buildings have a low foundation 2500 High-flying hawks are fit for princes 75 2501 High places have their precipices 2502 High winds blow on high hills 2503 High ways and streets have not all the thieves, shops have ten for one 2504 His brain is not big enough for his skull 2505 His brains want no barm to make them work 2506 His cart is full 2507 His clothes are worth an hundred pounds, but his wit is dear of a groat 2508 His learning overbalanced his brain ; and so is a burthen 2509 His lungs are very sensible, for ever} 7 thing makes them laugh 2510 His milk boil'd over 2511 His mill will go with all winds 2512 His promises are lighter than the breath that utters them 2513 His purse and his palate are ill met 2514 His shoes are made of running leather 2515 His tongue goes always of errands, but never speeds 2516 His tongue isas cloven as the devil's foot 2517 His tongue is no slander 2518 Hoist vour sail when the wind is fair 2519 Hold fast an eel with a fig-leaf 2520 Hold fast is the first point in hawking 2521 Hold your tongue, husband, let me talk that have all the wit 2522 Holding an eel too fast is the way to let her escape 2523 Home is home, be it never so homely 2524 Honest is the cat when the meat is upon the hook 2525 Honest men and knaves may possibly wear the same cloth 2526 Honest men are justified by the light 2527 Honest men are soon bound, but you can never bind a knave 2528 Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark 2529 Honest men never have the love of a rogue 2530 Honest mens words are as good as their bonds 2531 Honest millers have golden thumbs 2532 Honesty and plain dealing puts knavery out of the bias 2533 Honesty is a fine jewel, but much out of fashion 2534 Honesty is the best policy E2 76 2535 Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be a dear pennyworth 2536 Honesty now-a-days wants a guard 2537 Honey is not for the ass's mouth 2538 Honey is sweet, but the bee stings 2539 Honey is too good for a bear 2540 Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows 2541 Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper 2542 Hope is as cheap as despair 2543 Hope is worth any money 2544 Hope keeps a man from hanging and drowning himself 2545 Hope well and have well quoth Hicktvell 2546 Hopes and fears chequer human life 2547 Hopes delayed hang the heart upon tenterhooks 2548 Hopes of pardon mend not, but encourage crimi- nals 2549 Hot love is soon cold 2550 Hot men harbour no malice 2551 Hot sup, hot swallow 2552 Hours of pleasure are short 2553 How can the cat help it, if the maid be a fool? 2554 How can the foal amble when the horse and mare trot 2555 How can you think yourself the wiser for pleasing fools 2556 How difficult a thing it is to persuade most men to be happy ! 2557 How happy is he, that owes nothing but to him- self! 2558 How many deaths must he die, that lives till he de- sires to die 2559 How many things hath he to repent of that lives long 2560 Human blood is all of one colour 2561 Human inventions are no essential parts of divine worship 2562 Human laws reach not thoughts 2563 Humility will exalt you, though sheepishness will not 2564 Hunger cannot bear contradiction 2565 Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods 25.66 Hunger finds no fault with the cookery 2567 Hunger is not dainty 77 2568 Hunger is riot satisfied with wise sentences 2569 Hunger is the best sauce 2570 Hunger makes raw beans relish well 2671 Hunger scarce kiils any, but gluttony and drunk- enness multitudes 2572 Hunger will break through stone walls 2573 Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings 2574 Hungry horses make a clean manger 2575 Hungry men think the cook lazy 2576 Him ting has as much pain as pleasure 2577 Husband, don't belies e what you see, but what I tell you 2578 Husband, you are a cuckold ; wife, who told you so? 2579 Husbands are in heaven, whose wives chide not 2580 Hypocrisy is a sort of homage, that vice pays to virtue 2581 Hypocrites are a sort of creatures that God never made 2582 Hypocritical honesty goes upon stilts » 2583 Hypocritical piety is double iniquity 2584 I am as full as a jade, quoth the bride 2585 I am not sorry that my son loses at play, but that he will seek his revenge 2586 I am talking of hay, and you of horse beans 2587 I ask for a fork, and you bring me a rake 2588 I cannot be at YoiU and London at the same time 2589 I cannot believe you, you speak so fair 2590 I cannot run and sit still at the same time 2591 I cannot spin and weave at the same time 2592 I can't be your friend and your flatterer too 2593 I deny that with both my hands, and all my teeth 2594 I do not hear that a bribe on both sides is out of fashion 2595 I gave you a stick to break my own head with 2596 I had no thought of catching you, when 1 fished for another 2597 1 had rather be fed with jack-boots, than with such stories 2598 I had rather my cake burn, than you should turn it 2599 1 have a crow to pluck with you 2600 I have a cold coal to blow at 2601 I have a good bow, but I can't come at it * E 3 78 2602 T have a good cloak, but 'tis in France 2603 I have a tangled skain of it to wind off 2604 I have cured her from laying in the hedge, quoth the good man, when he married his daughter 2605 I have more to do than a dish to wash 2606 I have other fish to fry 2607 I hope I may tie up my own sack when I please 2608 I hope better, quoth Benson, when his wife bid him come in, cuckold 2609 I know enough to hold my tongue, but not to speak 2610 I "know he'll come-by his long tarrying 261 J I know him as well as if I had gone through him with a lighted link 2612 I know him as well as the beggar knows his dish 26 13 1 know him not, though I should meet him in my porridge 2614 I know of nobody that has a mind to die this year 2615 I like writing with a peacock's quill, because its feathers are all eyes 2616 I live, and lords do no more 2617 I love to stand aloof from Jove and his thunder- bolts 2618 I love you well, but touch not my pocket 2619 I myself had been happy, if I had been unfortunate in time 2620 I never asked you for wood to heat my own oven with 2621 I never desired you to stumble at the stone that lieth at my door 2622 I never fared worse than when I wished for supper 2623 i now sec which leg you are lame of 2624 I shall never turn my ninepence into a noble by this bargain 2625 I sucked not this out of my finger's ends 2626 I taught you to swim, and now you'd drown me 2627 I thought I had given her rope enough, said Pet- ley, when he hanged his mare 2628 I thought to bless myself, and I beat out both my eyes 2629 I took him for a worm, but he proved a serpent 2630 T took him napping, as Moss caught his mare 2631 I wept when I was born, and now every day shews why 2632 I will be thy friend, but not thy vice's friend 79 2633 I will christen my own child first 2634 I will do my good will, as he that threshed in his cloak 2635 I will either win the horse or lose the saddle 2636 I will give you a crown a piece for your lies, if you'll let me have them all 2637 I will give you a shirt full of sore bones 2638 I will keep no cats that will not catch mice 2639 I will make him dance without a pipe 2640 I will never keep a dog to bite me 2641 I will never stoop so low, to take up just nothing at all 2642 I will not buy a pig in a poke 2643 I will not change my cottage in possession, for a palace in reversion 2644 I will not dance to every fool's pipe 2645 I will not keep a dog, and bark myself 2646 I will not make my dish-clout my table-cloth 2647 I will not play my ace of trumps yet 2648 I will not pull the thorn out of your foot, to put it into mine 2648*1 will not suffer you to pay for this in another worLd 2649 I will not touch her with a pair of tongs 2650 I will not want when I have it, and have it not too 2651 I will set a spoke in your cart for you 2652 I will send him away with a Ilea in his ear 2653 f will stick in your skirts for this 2654 I will watch your water-gate 2655 I would have a good horse for myself, not for my brother 2656 I would have the fruit, not the basket 2657 I would not do it. to have the king my cousin 2658 I would not have your cackling for your eggs 2659 I would not trust him, no, not with a bag of scor- pions 2660 If a fool have success, it ruins him 2661 If a louse miss its footing on his coat, 'twill be sure to break its neck 2662 If a man once fall, all will tread upon him 2663 If a poor man give thee ought, it is that thou should'st give him something better 2664 If a wise man should never miscarry, the fool would burst E 4 80 2665 If a word be worth a shilling, silence is worth two 2666 If afflictions refine some, they consume others 2667 If all the world were ugly, deformity would be no monster 2668 If an ass goes a travelling, he'll not come home an horse 2669 If an ass kick you, will you kick him again ; or put him into the court ? 2670 If any fool finds the cap fit him, let him wear it 2671 If any thing stay, let work stay 2672 If better were within, better would come out 2673 If death be terrible, the fault is not in death, but thee 2774 If ever I catch his cart overthrowing, I'll give it one shove 2675 If every bird take back its own feathers, you'll be naked 2676 If every fool were to wear a bauble, they would grow dear 2677 If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold 2678 If he had spewed so often as he had lied, he'd have brought up his guts long ago 2679 If her husband like it, I like it also 2680 If honesty cannot, knavery should not 2681 If Jack's in love, he's no judge of J ill's beauty 2682 If I am a fool, put you your finger in my mouth 2683 If I had a dog so good for nothing as thou art, Yd bang him 2684 If I had had no plough, you had had no ceni 2685 If I had given four-pence for that advice, I" had bought it a groat too dear 2686 If I had not lifted up the stone, you had not found 'the jewel 2687 If it should rain porridge, he'd want a dish 26S8 If it were a bear, it would bite you 2689 If it were not for hopes, the heart would break 2690 If it were not for the belly, the back might wear gold 2691 If madness were pain, you'd hear outcries in every house 2692 If marriages are made in heaven, you had few friends there 2693 If men had not slept, the tares had not been sown 81 2694 If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master 2695 If my shirt knew my design, I'd burn it 2696 If nobody take notice of our faults, we easily forget them ourselves 2697 If one, two, or three tell 3011 you are an ass, put on a tail * - 2698 If our bodies were to cost no more than our souls, we might board cheap 2699 If pains be a pleasure to you, profit will follow 2700 If strokes are good to give, they are good to re- ceive 2701 If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet 'twill leave some mark 2702 If the bed could tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush 2703 If the channel's too small, the water must break out 2704 If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it 2705 If the devil catch a man idle, he'll set him at work 2706 If the frog and mouse quarrel, the kite will see them agreed 2707 If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Maho- met must go to the mountain 2708 If the niggard should once taste the sweetness of giving, he'd give all away 2709 If the old dog barks, he gives counsel 2710 If the parson be from home, be content with the curate 2711 If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding 2712 If the sky fall, the pots will be broken 2713 If the sky fall, we shall catch larks 2714 If the walls were adamant, gold would take the town 2715 If there were no knaves and fools, all the world would be alike 2716 If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not 2717 If Hjou dealest with a fox, think of his tricks 2718 If thou dost no more than barely wish me well, thou art no brother of mine 2719 If thou sailest with a bad wind, thou hadst need to understand tacking about well 2720 If thou wouldest have a good crop, sow with thy hand, but pour not out of the sack E 5 82 2721 If thou wouldst keep money, save money 2722 If thou wouldst reap money, sow money 2723 If thy cast be bad, mend it with good play 2724 If thy hand be in a lion's mouth, get it out as fast as thou canst 2725 If to-day will not, to-morrow may 2726 If it will not be spun, bring it not to the distaff 2727 If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without 2728 If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him 2729 If we be enemies to ourselves, whither shall we fly? 2730 If we did not flatter ourselves, nobody else could 2731 If wishes were* thrushes, beggars might eat birds 2732 If you are negligent, others will be so to you 2733 If you are too fortunate you will not know your- self 2734 If you are too unfortunate no body will know you 2735 If you be a fool and I be a fool, there will be no meddling with us 273" If you be a jester keep your wit till you have use for it 2737 If you be angry you may turn the buckle of your girdle behind you 2738 If you be false to both beasts and birds, you must like the bat fly only by night 2739 If you be not content put your hand in your pocket and please yourself 2740 If yon be not so swift as he go to rights 2741 If you beat spice it will smell the sweeter 2742 If you brew well you may drink well 2743 If you bny the cow take the tail into the bargain 2744 If you can abide a curst wife you need not fear any company 2745 If you can be well without health you may be hap- py without virtue 2746 If you command wisely }ou'll be obeyed cheerfully 2747 If you cut down the woods you'll catch the wolf 2748 If yon desire to see my light, you must minister oil to my lamp 2749 If you despise King Log you shall fear King Crane 2750 If you don't open the door to the devil he goes a- way 83 2751 If you eat a pudding at home, your dog shall have the skin 2752 If you go into a labyrinth, take a clew with you 2753 If you grease a cause well, it will stretch 2754 If you had as little money as manners, you'd be the poorest of all your kin 2755 If you had had fewer friends, and more enemies, you had been a better man 2756 If you hate a man, eat his bread; and if you love him do the same 2757 If you have done no ill the six days, you may play the seventh 2758 If you have many irons in the fire, some will burn 2759 If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has for- got you 2760 If you have one true friend, you have more than your share comes to 2761 If you increase the water, you must increase the malt 2762 If you in every thing fear, you shall not do well, you'll come to do ill in all things 2763 If you let a fool play with you at home, he'll do so with you in the market 2764 If you lie upon roses, when young; you'll lie upon thorns, when old 2765 If you light the lire at both ends, the middle will shift for itself 2766 If you love me, pray make it appear 2767 If you love not the noise of the bells, why do you pull the ropes 2768 If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you at all 2769 If you make Bacchus your god, Apollo will not keep you company 2770 If you make money your god, 'twill plague you like a devil 2771 If you make not much of threepence, you'll never be worth a groat 2772 If you make your wife an ass, she will make you an ox 2773 If you make your wife a goldfinch, she may prove in time a wag-tail 2774 If you mock the lame, you will go so yourself in time 84 2775 If you must needs rake in a jakes, you may take the perfume of it for your pains 2776 If you oblige those that can never pay you, you make Providence your debtor 2777 If you pay for every lie, you will soon be a bank- rupt 2778 If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself 2779 If you play with boys, you must take boy's play 2781) If you pity rogues, you are no great friend to ho- nest men 2781 If you put nothing into your purse, you can take nothing out 2782 If you run after two hares, you will catch neither 2783 If you save a rogue from the gallows, he will rob you that same night 2784 If you scold me, I will not flatter you 2785 If you seek trouble, its pity but you should find it 2786 If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too 2787 If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will rise almost an atheist 2788 If you sleep till noon, you have no right to com- plain that the days are short 2789 If you slander a dead man, you stab him in the grave 2790 If you steal for others, you shall be hanged yourself 2791 If you squeeze a cork, yon will get but little juice 2792 If you swallow vice, 'twill rise badly in your sto- mach 2793 If you tell every step, you will make a long journey of it 2794 If you want a pretence to whip a dog, it is enough to say, he eat up the frying-pan 2795 If you leap into a well, Providence is not bound to fi you out 2796 If you will obtain, 3011 must attempt 01797 if you win at that, you will lose at nothing 2798 If you would compare two men, you must know Hi em both 2799 If you would have a hen lay, you must bear with hercackl; ng 2800 If you would have honest men, you must go out of the land for them 85 2801 If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one 2802 If you wrestle with a collier, you will get a blotch 2803 If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too 2804 If your head be glass, engage not at throwing- stones 2805 If your joys cannot be long, so neither can your sorrows 2806 If your luck goes on at this rate, you may very well hope to be hanged 2807 If your shoe pinch you, give it your man 2808 In a calm everyone can steer 2809 In a fuller's house all are dancers 2810 In a night's time springs up a mushroom 2811 In a thousand pounds worth of law, there is not a shilling's worth of pleasure 2812 In all games it is good to leave off a winner 2813 In an enemy spots are soon seen 2814 In an ermine spots are soon discovered 2815 In conversation dwell not too long on a weak side 2816 In courtesy, rather pay a penny too much than too little 2817 In doubtful matters, courage may do much; in desperate, patience 2818 In fair weather prepare for foul 2819 In love's wars, he who f.vetli is conqueror 2820 In sleep, what difference is there between Solomon and a fool ? 2821 In taking revenue, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over, he is superior 2822 In the coldest flint there is hot fire 2823 In the company of strangers, silence is safe 2824 In the deepest water is the best fishing 2825 In the fair tale is foul falsity 2826 In the grave, dnst and bones jostle not for the wall 2827 In the greatest ill the good man hath hope left 2828 In the short life of man, no time can be afforded to be lost 2829 In the time of mirth take heed 2830 In things that must be, it is good to be resolute 2831 In time comes he, whom God sends 2832 Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone 86 2833 It amounts to no more than the tail of a roasted horse 2834 It becomes her, as a pack-saddle would a sow 2835 It costs more to revenge injuries, than to bear them 2836 It happens in an hour, that comes not in an age 2837 It has been a great misfortune to many a one that he lived too long 2838 It is a bad action that success cannot justify 2839 It is a bad bargain, where both are losers 2840 It is a bad cause indeed, that none dares speak in v 2841 It is a bad cloth that will take no colour 2842 It is a bad house, where the hen crows louder than the cock 2843 It is a bad sack that will bear no mending 2844 It is a bad soil where no flowers will grow 2845 It is a bad stake, that will not stand in the hedge one year 2846 It is a base thing to tear a dead lion\s beard off 2847 It is a base thing to tread upon a man that is down 2848 It is a blind goose that knows not a fox from a fern bush 2849 It is a cunning part to play the fool well 2850 It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is neces- sary 2851 It is a foolish bird that stayeth the laying salt upon her tail 2852 It is a fortunate head that was never broke 2853 It is a good blade that bends well 2854 It is a good dog that can catch any thing 2855 It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be never so little 2856 It is a good hunting-bout that fills the belly - 2857 It is a good knife, 'twas made at Dull-edge 2858 It is a great act of life to sell air well 2859 It is a great journey to life's end 2860 It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's own folly 2861 It is a hard-fought field where none escapes 2862 It is a hard thing to have a great estate, and not fall in love with it 2863 It is a long lane that has no turning 2864 It is a mad hare that will be caught with a tabor 87 2865 It is madness for a sheep to send a challenge to # wolf 2566 It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf 2867 It is a manly act to forsake an error 2868 It is a mean ambition to he the 'squire of the com- pany 2869 It is a miserable thing for a wise man to be under the government of a fool 2870 It is a most base thing to betray a man because he trusted you 2871 It is a rank courtesy, when a man is forced to give thanks for what is his own 2872 It is a reproach, to be the first gentleman of his race ; but it is a greater to be the last 2873 It is a sad burthen for a woman to carry a dead man's child 2874 It is a sad choice, frying or (ire 2875 It is a shame to steal, but a worse to earn* home 2876 It is a sign of a good man, if he grows better for commendation 2877 It is a sign of a worthy spirit, whom honour amends 2878 It is a silly bargain, where no body gets 2879 It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait 2880 It is a silly game where nobody wins 2881 It is a silly goose that comes to a fox's sermon 2882 It is a silly horse that can neither winney, nor wag his tail 2883 It is a sin against hospitality, to open your doors, and shut up your countenance 2884 It is a sin to belie even the devil himself 2885 It is a sorry flock, where the ewe bears the bell 2886 It is a sorry goose that will not baste itself 2887 It is a sort of a favour to be denied at first 2888 It is a strange salt fish, that no water can make fresh 2889 It is a strange wood, that has never a dead bough in it 2890 It is a wicked thing to make a dearth one's gamer 2891 It is a worthier thing to deserve honour, than to possess it 2892 It is an easy tiling to find a stick to beat a dog 88 2893 It is an equal failing to trust every body, and to trust nobody 2894 It is an hard winter, when dogs eat dogs 2895 It is an ill air, where nothing is to be gained 2896 It is an ill army, where the devil carries the colours 2897 It is an ill bird, that bewrays its own nest 2898 It is an ill bred dog that will beat a bitch 2899 It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust 2900 It is an ill dog that is not worth the whistling for 2901 It is an ill guest that never drinks to his hostess 2902 It is an ill procession where the devil holds the candle 2903 It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb 2904 It is an ill thing to be deceived, but worse to de- ceive 2905 It is as great a mischief to spare all, as it is cruelty to spare none 2906 It is as hard a thing as to sail over the sea in an egg shell 2907 It is as hard a thing to please a knave as a knight 2908 It is as long a coming as Coiswold barley 2909 It is as much intemperance to weep too much, as to laugh too much 2910 It is as natural a thing for means to cure, as 'tis for fire to burn 2911 It is as natural to die as to be born 2912 It is at courts, as it is in ponds ; some fish, some frogs 2913 It is almost as necessary to know other men as our- selves 2914 It is always term-time in the court of conscience 2915 It is better to be beloved than honoured 2916 It is better to have a hen to-morrow, than an egg to-day 2917 It is better to knot than to blossom 2918 It is better to pay, and have but little left, than to have much, and be always in debt 2919 It is better to reprove privately, than to be angry secretly 2920 It is better to spin all night with PeneJope, than sing with Helen all day 2921 It is better to take half in hand, and the rest pre- sently 2922 It is cheap enough to say, God help you 89 2923 It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick 2924 It is easy to keep a castle that was never assaulted 2925 It is easy to rob an orchard, when none keep it 2926 It is easier to bear what's amiss, than go about to reform it 2927 It is easier to descend than ascend 2928 It is easier to fill a glutton's belly than his eye 2929 It is easier to prevent ill habits than to break them 2930 It is easier to pull down than build up 2931 It is easier to run from virtue to vice, than from vice to virtue 2932 It is easier to strike than defend well 2933 It is even as broad as it is long 2934 It is for want of thinking that most men are un- done? 2935 It is good beef that costs nothing 2936 It is good fish, if it were but caught 2937 It is good fishing in troubled waters 2938 It is good pride, to desire to be the best of men 2939 It is good sheltering under an old hedge 2940 It is good, to be in good time ; you know not how long it will last 2941 It is good to have a hatch before one's door 2942 It is good to have two strings to one's bow 2943 It is good to be akin to an estate 2944 It is good to sleep in a whole skin 2945 It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand 2946 It is goodness, not greatness, that will do theo good 2947 It is hard, even to the most miserable, to die 2948 It is hard to be high and humble 2949 It is hard to break an old hog of a custom 2950 It is hard to make a good web of a bottle of hay 2951 It is hard to pay and pray too 2952 It is hard to shave an e^g 2953 It is hard to sutler wrong, and pay for it too 2954 It is hard to turn tack upon a narrow bridge 2955 It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year 2956 It is harder to marry a daughter well, than to bring her up well 2957 It is hope alone that make us willing to Jive 2958 It is human to err, but diabolical to persevere 90 2959 It is ill angling after the net 2960 It is ill killing a crow with an empty sling 2961 It is ill mistaking in matters of importance 2962 It is ill playing with gunpowder 5963 It is ill to drive black hop in the dark 2964 It is ill to set spurs to a flying horse 2965 It is ill to take an unlawful oath, but worse to keep it 2966 It is in vain to cast your net where there is no fish 2967 It is in vain to learn wisdom, and yet to live fool- ishly 2968 It is in vain to mislike the current fashion 2969 It is in vain to use words when deeds are expected 2970 It is like nuts to an ape 2971 It is lost labour to play a jig to an old cat 2972 It is lost labour to sow, where there's no soil 2973 It is madness to put on gloves when you are stark naked £974 It is midsummer moon with you 2975 It is money that makes the mare to go 2976 It is more commendable to deny upon occasion than to grant upon none 2977 It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame 2978 It is more painful to do nothing than to do some- thing 2979 It is more wisdom sometimes to dissemble wrongs than to revenge them 2980 It is much like a blacksmith with a white silk apron 2981 It is much safer to reconcile an enemy to thee, than to conquer him 2982 It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice 2983 It is natural to a grey-hound to have a long tail 2984 It is no advantage for a man in a fever to change his bed 2985 It is no discredit to be a teacher of that which is cre- dible to be learnt 2986 It is no easy matter to bear prosperity decently 2987 It is no good hen, that cackles in your house and lays in another's 2988 It is no injury that is not meant an injury 2989 It is no more sin to see a woman weep, than to see a goose go barefoot 91 2990 It is no more to him than a crab in a cow's mo^tft 2991 It is no shame to yield to him that we must not oppose 2992 It is not a chargeable thing to salute civilly 2993 It is not a sin to sell dear, but it is to make ill mea- sure 2994 It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride 2995 It is not as thy mother sayeth, but as thy neigh- bours say 2996 It is not every one that can pickle well 2997 It is not good to come near the plague tho-igii to cure it 2998 It is not humility, but sordidness, to be regardless of true honour 2999 It is not lost if it comes at last 3000 It is not the beast, but the mind that is the sacri- fice S001 It is not the cowl that makes the friar 3002 It is not the fine coat that makes the fine gentle* man 3003 It is not to be called a bad day that has a good night 3004 It is not want, but rather abundance, that makes avarice 3005 It is nothing to begin, unless you proceed and end well 3006 It is often easier to make new than to cobble up the old 3007 It is one thing to speak much, and another to speak pertinently 3008 It is a pity those that taught you to talk did not also teach you to hold your tongue 3009 It is a poor play that is not worth the candle 3010 It is possible for a sheep to kill a butcher 3011 It is possible to sin against charity, when we do not against truth 3012 It is safe taking a slice off a cut loaf 3013 It is safer to commend the dead than the living 3014 It is safer to hear and take counsel than to give it 3015 It is sin not to be angry with sin 3016 It is seme relief to the unfortunate, to see there are others more miserable 3017 It is sooner said than done 3018 It is time enough to cry oh! when you are hurt 92 8019 It is time to marry when the woman woos the man 3020 It is time to set in when the oven comes to the bread 3021 It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse 3022 It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to de- ceive himself 3023 It is the finest flower in his garden 3024 It is the justice's clerk that makes the justice 3025 It is the marriage of a cat and dog together 3026 It is the ordinary way of the world, to keep folly at the helm, and wisdom under the hatches 3027 It is the property of fools to be always judging 3028 It is thou must honour the place, not the place thee 3029 It is very pretty to see a poor man give to the rich 3030 It is very seldom that a great talker hath either dis- cretion or good manners 3031 It is wit to pick a lock and steal a horse ; b*>t it is wisdom to let it alone 3032 It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to re- veal it 3033 It is wiser to run away when there's no remedy, than to stay and die in the field foolishly 3034 It is working that makes a workman 3030 It is worse to do, than to revenge an injury 3036 It is a mark of wisdom to dislike folly 3037 It looks as well as a diamond necklace about a sow's neck 3038 It matters not what religion an ill man is of 3039 It may be necessary sometimes to hold a candle to the devil 3040 It must be a wily mouse that can breed in a cat's ear 3041 It ought to be a good tale that is twice told 3042 It pitieth me to refuse him thatasketh modestly 3043 It pricketh betimes that will be a good thorn 3044 It rains in summer as well as in winter 3045 It signifies nothing to play well if you lose 3046 It will be long enough ere you wish your skin full of oilet-holes 3047 It would have been pity to have spoil'd two houses with them 3048 It would vex a dog to see a pudding creep 3049 Jack at a pinch 3050 Jack in an office is a great man 3051 Jack of all trades is of no trade 93 3052 Jack would be a gentleman, if he could but speak French 3053 Idle brains are the devil's workhouses 3054 Idle fellows are the devil's playfellows 3055 Idle men are dead all their life long 3056 Idle people take the most pains 3057 Idleness always envies industiy 3058 Idleness and chastity cannot set their horses toge- ther 3059 Idleness and lust are sworn friends 3060 Idleness is the greatest prodigality in the world 3061 Idleness makes the Avit rust 3062 Idleness must thank itself if it go barefoot 3063 Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth 3064 Jests are seldom good the first time, but the second distasteful 3065 Jests, like sweetmeats, have often sour sauce 3066 Ignorance is less hateful than conceitedness 3067 Ignorance is the mother of impudence 3068 Ignorance is the mother of Romish devotion 3069 111 doers arc iil thinkers 3070 111 gotten goods seldom prosper 3071 111 got, ill spent 3072 III kings make many good laws 3073 111 layers up make many thieves 3074 111 luck is good for something 3075 111 manners produce good laws 3076 III natures never want a tutor 3077 III news comes apace 3078 111 sowers make iil harvest 3079 111 tongues ought to be heard only by persons cf discretion 3080 111 weeds grow apace 3081 111 will never speaks well, nor doth well 3082 111 words are bellows to a slackning fire 3083 111 wounds may be cured, but not ill names 3084 Impatience does uot diminish, but always aug- ments the evil 3085 Impatience makes every ill double, but content makes it none at all 3086 Impatience never gets preferment 3087 Improve opportunities 3088 Impudence and wit are vastly different 3089 Impudence commonly makes a fortune 94 £090 Inconsiderable excuses are a sort of self-accusation 3091 Incredulity should make men advised, not irreso- lute 3092 Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left 3093 Industry will never do much unless there be natu- ral parts also 3094 Ingratitude is the daughter of pride 3095 Ingratitude makes the receiver worse, but the be- nefactor better 3096 Injuries don't use to be written on ice 3097 Injuries slighted become none at all 3098 Injurious men brook no injuries 3099 Injury is to be measured by malice 3100 Innocence is no protection 3101 Innocence itself, sometimes hath need of a mask 3102 Innocent actions cany their warrant with them 3103 Innovations are dangerous 3104 Insolence is pride when her mask is pulled off 3105 Insolence puts an end to friendship 31 06 Invite not a Jew either to pig or pork 3107 Joan reels ill, and winds worse ; the devil a sto- mach she has to spin 3108 Joan's as good as my lady in the dark 3109 Job was not so miserable in his sufferings, »ji happy in his patience 3110 Joy surfeited turns to sorrow 3111 Is it an emperor's business to catch flies? 3112 Is no coin good silver but your penny 3113 Is there no mean but fast or feast 3114 Itch is more intolerable than smart 3115 Justice needs not injury to assist it in getting its own 3116 Justice will not condemn even the devil himself wrongfully 3117 Keep counsel thyself first 3118 Keep the common road, and thou'rt safe 3119 Keep thy plough jogging, so shalt thou have com for thy horses 3120 Keep touch in small things 3121 Keep your purse and your mouth close 3122 Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you 3123 Keeping from falling, is better than helping up 59 3124 Kill a cockatrice in the egg 3125 Kill the lion's whelp; thou'lt strive in vain when he's grown 3126 Kindnesses that we cannot requite are troublesome 3127 Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with 3128 Kissing goes by favour 3129 Kings alone are no more than single men 3130 Kings have no pvwer over souls 3131 Knavery may serve a turn, but honest}- never fails 3132 Knavery, without luck, is the worst trade in the world 3133 Knaves and fools divide the world 3134 Knaves are in such repute, that honest men are ac- counted fools 3135 Knaves imagine nothing can be done without kna- very 3136 Knowledge begins a gentleman, but 'tis conversa- tion that completes him 3137 Knowledge directeth practice, but yet practice in- creaselh knowledge 3138 Knowledge in youth is sapience in age 3139 Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the kev to it 3140 Knowledge rendcreth a crime inexcusable 3141 Knowledge, without practice, makes but half an ar- tist 3142 Ladies will rather pardon want of sense than want of manners 3143 Lame hares are ill to help 3144 Lament not the dead, but the living 3145 Late repentance is seldom true 3146 Laughter is the backup of a fool 3147 Lavislmess is not generosity 3148 Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish 3149 Law governs man, and reason the law 3150 Laws catch flies, but let the hornets go free 3151 Lawyers don't love beggars 3152 Lay on more wood; the ashes will yield money 3153 Lay the saddle upon the right horse 3154 Lay things b}\ they may come to use 3155 Lay thy hand upon thy half-penny twice before thou partest with it 3156 Laziness calls for whip and spur 96 3157 Lean not on a reed 3158 Lean liberty is better than fat slavery 3159 Learning in an* ill man, is good wine in a musty bottle 3160 Learning in the hand of some is a sceptre, in that of others a fool's bauble 3161 Learning is worse lodg'd in him, than Jove was in a thatcht-house 3162 Learning makes a good man better, and an ill man worse 8163 Learning makes a man fit company for himself 3164 Learn to crawl, before yon can go 3165 Learn to say before you sing 3166 Leave boy's play and go to push-pin 3167 Leave is light 3168 Leave no dirt, you'll find no dirt 3169 Leave off play as soon as the pleasure is past 3170 Leave the spring for the stream; so you shall have mud for water 3171 Leave us in the dirt and find us in the mire 3172 Less of your courtship I pray and more of your coin 3173 Let choler be only a common soldier, not a com- mander 3174 Let every cuckhold wear his own horns 3175 Let every one praise the bridge that carries him over 3176 Let every pedlar carry his own pack 3177 Let every snail like her own shell best 3178 Let her that will not dance turn out of the wed- ding 3179 Let him fry in his own grease 3180 Let him say what he will, men have spoken well of God before now 3181 Let him set up a shop upon Goodwin's sands 3182 Let him that can play take the lute 3183 Let him that earns the bread eat it 3184 Let him that is cold blow the fire 3185 Let him that owns the cow take her by the tail 3186 Let him that receives the profit repair the inn 3187 Let me gain by you, and no matter whether you love me or not 3188 Let not another shuffle and cut the cards thou art to deal out 97 3 1 89 Let not the mouse-trap smell of blood 3190 Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains 3191 Let the best horse leap the hedge first 3192 Let the church have leave to stand in the church- yard 3193 Let the drunkard alone, and by and by he'll fall of himself 3194 Let the guts be full, for its they that carry the legs 3195 Let the hen live though it be with pip 3196 Let the people take back their praise again; I will do as much as I can without that 3197 Let the smith himself wear the fetters he forged 3198 Let them laugh that win 3199 Let women spin, and not preach 3200 Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes 3201 Letters blush not 3202 Liars and wits are cowards 3203 Liberality is not giving largely, but giving wisely 3204 Liberality draweth ilattery 3205 Lickerish tongues, treacherous tails 3206 Lidford law ; first hang and draw, then hear the cause 3207 Life and misery began together 3208 Life is half spent before we know what it is 3209 Life lieth not in living by liking 3210 Life that is too short for the happy is too long for the miserable 3211 Life without a friend, is death with a venge- ance 3212 Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it 3213 Light come, light go 3214 Light-hecl'd mothers make leaden-heel'd daugh- ters 3215 Light injuries are made none by not regarding them 3216 Light suppers make clean sheets 3217 Lightness of carriage and beauty are old compani- ons 3218 Like a barber's chair, fit for every one 3219 Like a calf, she has a sweet tooth in her head 3220 Like a cat, he'll still fall upon his legs 3221 Like a collier's sack, bad without, but worse within F 98 3222 Like a dog in a manger, you'll not eat yourself, nor • let the horse eat 3223 Like a loader's horse that lives among thieves 3224 Like a miiler ; he can set to every wind 3225 Like a mill horse, that goes much, but performs no journey 3226 Like an hog, he does no good til! he dies 3227 Like Banbury tinkers, that mend one hole and make three 3228 Like fish, that live in salt water, and yet are fresh 3229 Like Flanders-mares, fairest afar off 3230 Like lambs, you do nothing but suck and wag your tail 3231 Like lips, like lettuce 3232 Like master, like man 3233 Like priest, like people 3234 Like Teague's cocks, that fought one another, though all were of the same side 3235 Like ihe gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbage himself, nor lets any body else 3236 Like the smith's dog, that sleeps at the noise of the hammers, and wakes at the crashing of teeth 3237 Like the tailor, that sewed for nothing, and found the thread himself 3238 Like those dogs, that meeting with nobody else, bite one another 3239 Like to like, and Nan to Nicholas 3240 Like will to like, as the devil said to the collier 3241 Like Wood's dog, he'll neither go to church nor stay at home 3242 Likely lies in the mire, when unlikely gets over 3243 Likeness begets love, yet proud men hate one ano- ther 3244 Lilies are whitest in a blackmoor's hand 3245 Lip-honour costs little, yet may bring in much 3246 Lip-labour is but lost labour 3247 Listen at the hole, and you'll hear news of your- self 3248 Listeners hear no good of themselves 3249 Little and often fills the purse 3250 Little birds may pick a dead lion 3251 Little boats must keep the shore 3252 Little bodies have commonly great souls 3253 Little difference between a feast and a belly full 99 3254 Little dogs start the hare, but great ones catch it 3255 Little goods are soon spent 3256 Little goods, little care 3257 Little knows the fat sow what the lean one means 3258 Little said is soon amended 3259 Little serpents may bite mortally 3260 Little shame, little conscience, and much industry, will uiake a man rich 3261 Little sticks kindle a fire, but great ones put it out 3262 Little wealth brings little trouble 3263 Live, and let live 3264 Live not upon the opinion of other men 3265 Living upon trust is the way to pay double 3266 London-bridge was made for wise men to pass over, and for fools to pass under 3267 Long and lazy 3268 Long and slender, like a cat's elbow 3269 Long ere you cut down an oak with a penknife 3270 Long life hath long misery 3271 Long Jook'd for comes at last 3272 Look high, and fall low 3273 Look not a given horse in the mouth 32/4 Look to him, jailor, there's a frog la the stocks 3275 Loquacity is the fistula of the soul, ever mm and never cur'd 3276 Loquacity storms the car, but modesty takes tin heart 3277 Lordly vices require lordly estates 3278 Lose a leg rather than life 3279 Lose not a hog for a half-penny-worth of tar 3280 Love and envy make a man pine 3281 Love and madness judge of things much alike 3282 Love and peas-porridge will make their way 3283 Love and peas will make a man speak at both ends 3284 Love and pride stock Bedlam 3285 Love comes in at the window, and flies out at the door 32S6 Love does much, but money does more 3287 Love is as mad as Ajax, it kills sheep, so it kills me 3288 Love is the loadstone of love 3289 Love is wont rather to ascend than descend 3290 Love lives more in cottages than courts -F 2 100 3291 Love me little, and love me long 3*292 Love me, love my dog 3293 Love me move, and honour me leas 3294 Love never desires a partner 3295 Love of wit makes no man rieh 3296 Love requires boldness, and scorns bashfulness 3297 Love sees no faults 3298 Love the itch, and a cough cannot be hid 3299 Love thy neighbour, but cut not up thy hedge for him 3300 Love weeping burns 3301 Love will creep where it cannot go 3302 Lovers complain of their hearts, but the distemper is in their heads 3303 Lie thou for me, and I'll swear for thee 3304 Madam I am to the utmost of my power not yours 3305 Magistrates are to obey as well as execute laws 3306 Maidens should be seen, and not heard 3307 Maids make much of one ; good men are scarce 3308 Maids say nay, and take it 3309 Maids want nothing but husbands, and then they want every thing 3310 Make a model before thou buildest 3311 Make a pearl on your nail 3312 Make a silver bridge for your enemy to fly over 3333 Make a virtue of necessity 3314 Make hay while the sun shines 3315 Make me a sooth- sayer, and I'll make Ihee rich 3316 Make no baulks in good ground 3317 Make no oris of good hay 3318 Make not a gauntlet of a hedging glove 3319 Make not another's shoes by your foot 3320 Make not even the devil blacker than he is 3321 Make not fish of one, and flesh of another 3322 Make not thy sail too big for the ballast 3323 Make not thy tail broader than thy wings 3324 Make not your sauce before you have caught the fish 3325 Make the best of a bad bargain > Make the young one squeak, and you'll eatch the old one 3327 Malice drinketh up the greatest part of its own poison 101 3328 Malice hath a sharp sight, and a strong memory 3329 Malice is mindful 3330 Man begins to die before he is born 3331 Man had perished long ago had it not been for pub- lic-spirited persons 3332 Man punishes the action, but God the intention 3333 Manners and money make a gentleman 3334 Manners-make a man, quoth Will, of Wickham 3335 Man, woman, and devil, are the three degrees of comparison 3336 Many a dog's dead since you were a whelp 3337 Many a good cow hath but a bad calf 3338 Many a man of fame hath been beholden to fortune for his laurel 3339 Many an honest man stands in need of help, that h as not the face to beg it 3340 Many can bear adversity, but few contempt 3341 Many can pack the cards better than they can play 3342 Many come to bring their clothes to church ra- ther than themselves 3343 Many dogs soon eat up a horse 3344 Many dressers put the bride's dress out of order 3345 Many drops of water will sink a ship 3346 Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well 3347 Many hands make light work 3348 Many have come to a port after a storm 3349 Many have been ruin'd by buying good penny- worths 3350 Many humble servants, but not one true friend -3351 Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake 3352 Many kiss the hands they wish to see cut off 3353 Many make straight things crooked, but few the contrary 3354 Many masters, quoth the toad to the harrow, when every tine turn'd her over 3355 Many owe their fortunes to their envicrs 335o Many rise under their burthens more like camels than palm trees 3357 Many strokes fell the oak 58 Many talk like philosophers, and live like fools $ Many that arc wits in jest, are foois in earnest ) \id& go out foi wool come home shorn F 3 102 3361 Many there be, that buy nothing with their money but repentance 3362 Many things fall out between the eup and the lip 3363 Many things grow in the garden, that were never sowed there 3364 Many words and many lies look much alike 3365 Many words will not fill a bushel 3366 Many would be cowards if they had courage enough 3367 Many would have been worse, if their estates had been better 3368 March birds are best 3369 March grass never did good 3370 Marriage and hanging go by destiny 3371 Marriage is honourable, but housekeeping charge- able 3372 Marriage leapeth up upon the saddle, and soon alter repentance upon the crupper 3373 Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves 3374 Marry come up my dirty cousin 3375 Masters are mostly the greatest servants in the house 3376 Masters should be sometimes blind, and sometimes deaf 3377 May it please God not to make our friends so happy as to forget us 3378 May no good Christian ever see an ugly woman that affects niceness 3379 Mean men admire wealth, great men glory 3380 Measure not others corn by your own bushel m 3381 Measure thrice, and cut once 3382 Meat atid mat tins hinder not a journey 3383 Meat is much ; but malice is more 3384 Mediocrity is mean, and below an exalted spirit 3385 Meddlers are the devil's body-lice; they fetch blood from those that feed them 3386 Mere idleness can have no excuse 3387 Men, apt to promise, are apt to forget 13388 Men are less eager for what they may have, than what they cannot obtain 3389 Men are more prone to revenge injuries, than to requite kindnesses 3390 Men arc not to be measured by inches 3391 Men blush to be cured by a shameful remedy 103 3392 Men fear death, as children fear going in the dark 3393 Men generally look more upon decency than virtue 3394 Men get wealth, and women keep it 3395 Men hate those the} have hurt 3396 Men like to talk of what they love 3397 Men may bear till their backs break 3398 Men may blush to hear what they were not ashamed to act 3399 Men never play the fool more, than by endeavour- ing to be over-wise 3400 Men never think their fortune too great, nor then- wit too little 3401 Men of business must not break their word twice 3402 Men of cruelty are birds of the devil's hatching 3403 Men seek less to be instructed than applauded 3404 Men take less care of their conscience than their reputation 3405 Men, that are crafty, deal mostly in generals 3406 Men, that have much business, must have much pardon 3407 Men work but slowly that have poor wap.es 3408 Men's actions are not to be judged of at first sight 3409 Merry is the company tiil the reckoning comes 3410 Merry meet, merry part 3411 Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse 3412 Mice care not to play with kittens 3413 Millers need no noi.•. in an ill time 3775 One may know In his nose what porridge he loves 3776 One ma) know your meaning bj jour gaping 3777 One may live and learn 3778 One may point at a star, but not pull at it 3779 One may say too much even upon the best subject 3780 One may see day at a little hole 114 3781 One may surfeit with too much, as well as starve with too little 3782 One may tell lies w ithout danger of the law 3783 One may think that dares not speak 3784 One may understand like an angel, end yet be a devil 3785 One nail drives out another 3786 One never loses by doing good turns 3787 One of his hands is unwilling to wash t'other for nothing 3788 One outward civility is current pay for another 3789 One pair of heels is worth two pair of hands 3790 One pirate gets nothing of another but his cask 3791 One saddle is enough for one horse 3792 One scabby sheep is enough to infect the whole flock 3793 One shoulder of mutton drives down another 3794 One shrewd turn asks another 3795 One swallow makes no summer 3796 One suit of law breeds twenty 3797 One tale is good till another is told 3798 One that's perfectly idle, is perfectly weary too, and knows not what he would do or have 3799 One thing thinketh the horse, and another he that saddles him 3800 One tongue is enough for two women 3801 One trick needs a great many more to make it good 3802 One might as well be out of the world, as be bclov'd by nobody in it 3803 One wicked weed spoils a whole mess of porridge 3804 One wood's enough to feed many elephants 3805 One wrong step may give you a great fall 3806 One year of joy, another of comfort ; the rest of content, make the married life happy 3807 Only that, which is honestly got, is gain 3808 Open not your door when the devil knocks 3809 Openness has the mischief, though not the malice, of treachery 3810 Opportunity makes the thief 3811 Oral sanctity is mental impiety 3812 Other men's tailings accuse us of frailty 3S13 Other men's ills are slightly regarded 3814 Overdoing is doing nothing to the purpose 115 3815 Over shoes, over boots 3816 Over the greatest beauty hangs the greatest ruin 3817 Our ancestors grew not great by hawking and hunt- ing 3S18 Our birth made us mortal, our death will make us immortal 3819 Our common friends are but spies of our actions 3820 Our common conversation is but a babble about nothing 3821 Our desires may undo us 3822 Our fellow's share is always the best 3823 Our flatterers are our most dangerous enemies; and yet often lie in our bosoms 3824 Our own opinion is never wrong 3825 Our pity is often misapplied; for none can tell what another feels 3826 Our pleasures are mostly imagined, but our griefs real 3827 Our spit is not yet at the fire, and you are got a basting already 3828 Our time is very short, but the time of doing good is much shorter 3S29 Our virtues would be proud, if our vices whipp'd them not 3830 Our whole life is but a greater and longer child- hood 3831 Out nettle, in dock 3832 Out of debt, out of danger 3833 Out of God's blessing into the warm sun 3834 Out of sight, out of mind 3835 Out of the frying-pan into the fire 3836 Pain is forgotten when gain comes 3837 Pain is more affecting than pleasure 3838 Pain past is pleasure 3839 Pains are the wages of ill pleasures 3840 Pale anger is the devil's visage 3841 Parasites pitch up toils to catch deer in a platter 3842 Pardoning the bad is injuring the good 3843 Parents are patterns 3844 Parnassus has no gold mines in it 3845 Past labour is pleasant 3816 Passion and Deliberation never set their horses together 116 3847 Passion, joined with power, produceth thunder and ruin 3848 Passion maketh man a beast, but Mine maketh him worse 3849 Passionate men, like fleet hounds, are apt to over- run the scent 3850 Passionate people lay up no malice 3851 Paternoster built churches, and Our Father pulled them down 3852 Patience and application will carry us through 3853 Patience and pusillanimity are two things 3854 Patience grows not in every garden 3856 Patience is a plaister for all sores 3850 Patience is good for abundance of things besides the gout SS57 Patience is the best buckler against affronts 3358 Patience, money, and time, bring all things to pass 3d59 Patience provoked turns to fury 38€0 Patience upon force, is a medicine for a m?/l C >g oo raid's will not always stand &$6z Penitence and innocence are near relations 3863 Penny come quick soon makes two-pence 3864 Penny in pocket is a merry companion 3865 Penny in purse will make me drink, when all the friends I have will not 3866 Penny wise and pound foolish 3867 Perfect love never settled in a light head 3868 Perhaps you'd have cherries at Christmas 386^ Perhaps you may have such broth sent you as you will not like 3870 Peter is so godly, that God don't make him thrive 3871 Pheasants are fools, if they invite the hawk to dinner 3872 Pickpockets are sure traders, for they take ready money 3873 Pigeons are taken, when crows fly at pleasure 3874 Pigs love, that lie together 3875 Pigs play on the organ at Hog's Norton 3876 Pity cureth envy 3877 Pity it is that no vanity should be put into the com- position of women kind 3878 Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion 3879 Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue 117 3880 Plant the crab tree where you will, it will never bear pippins 3881 Plants too often removed will not thrive 3882 Play at small games rather than stand out 3883 Play may be good, but folly can never be of any use 3884 Play, women, and wine, undo men laughing 3885 Pleasant discourses make short day and night 3886 Pleasant hours fly fast 3887 Pleasure tasteth well after service 3888 Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome 3889 Pluck not a courtesy in the bud, before it is ripe 3890 Point not at other's spots with a foul finger 3891 Policy may he virtuous, as well as vicious 3892 Poor folks are glad of porridge 3893 Poor folks must say, Thanh ye, for a little 3894 Poor men may think well, but rich men may both think well aud do well 3895 Poor men seek meat for their stomach ; rich men stomach for their meat 3S96 Poor men's tables are soon spread 3897 Poor people are apt to think every body flouts them 3898 Poor men's reasons are rot heard 3899 Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world 3900 Positive men err most of any men 3901 Posim eness is an evidence of poor judgment 3902 Possession is eleven points in the law 3903 Possibilities are infinite 3904 Poverty break* covenants 3905 Poverty is a complication of evils 3906 Poverty is an evil counsellor 3907 Poverty is a friend to health 3908 Poverty is not a shame ; but the being ashamed of it is 3909 Poverty is shamefully borne by a sluggard 3910 Poverty is querulous 3911 Poverty makes men ridiculous 3912 Poverty makes men poor spirited 3913 Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burthen 3914 Poverty trietfa friends 3915 Pour not water on a drowning mouse 3916 Praise is always pleasant 3917 Praise is pleasing to him that thinks he deserves it 3918 Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse 3919 Praise not the day before night 118 3920 Praise not the ford, till you are safe over 3921 Praise the sea, but keep on land 3922 Praise without profit puts little into the pot 3923 Praises are admonitions well dressed o u 3924 Praises from an enemy imply real merit 3925 Praises from wieked men are reproaches g926 Prate is prate ; but its the duck that lays the egg 3927 Prayer should be the key of the day, and the lock of the night 3928 Precious things are not found in heaps 3929 Presumption first blinds a man, and then sets him a running 3930 Prettiness is short lived 3931 Prettiness makes no pottage 3932 Prevention is much preferable to cure 3933 Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often seen to- gether 3934 Pride becomes not a rich man, but is insupportable in a poor man 3935 Pride feels no frost 3936 Pride goes before, shame follows after 3937 Pride had rather go out of the way, than go be- hind 3938 Pride increaseth our enemies, but putteth our friends to flight 3939 Pride, joined with many virtues, choaks them all 3940 Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity 3941 Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy 3942 Pride is scarce ever cured 3943 Pride is the most uneasy thing in the world, and the most odious 3944 Pride is the sworn enemy to content 3945 Pride is to be feared, even in good actions 3946 Pride loves no man, and is beloved of no man 3947 Pride may lurk under a thread-bare cloak 3948 Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often bor- rows her cloak 3949 Pride scorns a director, and choler a counsellor 3950 Pride scorns the vulgar, yet lies at its mercy 3951 Pride seldom leaves its master without a fall 3952 Pride will practise any thing rather than let her port decline 3953 Pride will spit in pride's face 119 3954 Proffered service stinks 3955 Promised relief is always welcome 3956 Promises engage more effectually than presents 3957 Promises may get friends, but 'tis performances that keep them 3958 Prospect is often better than possession 3959 Prosperity and vanity are often lodged together 3960 Prosperity often best discovers vices, and adversity virtue 3961 Prosperity destroys fools, and endangers the wise 3962 Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distin- guishes them 3963 Prosperity has damned more souls than all the de- vils together 3964 Prosperity has every thing cheap 3965 Prosperity knows not the worth of patience 3966 Prosperity takes no counsel, and fears no calamity 3967 Prosperous men seldom mend their faults 3968 Proud men can't bear with pride in others 3969 Proud peacocks ; all noise and shew 3970 Providence directs the dice 3971 Providence is better than rent 3972 Providence is not purblind 3973 Providence seems to have forgot the man to whom it sends but few friends 3974 Prudence is not satisfied with May-be s 3975 Prudent cruelty is better than foolish pity 3976 Prudent pauses forward business 3977 Public reproof hardens shame 3978 Pull down thy hat on the windy side 3979 Purposing without performing is mere fooling 3980 Put a coward to his mettle, and he'll fight the devil 3981 Put a poor man's penny, and a rich man's penny, into a purse, and they'll come out alike 3982 Put another man's child into your bosom, and he'll creep out at your sleeves 3983 Put no money in the scale against virtue 3984 Put not an embroidered crupper on an ass 3985 Put off your armour, and then shew your courage 3986 Put your finger into the fire, and say, 'twas your ill fortune 3987 Pylades and Orestes died long ago, and left no suc- cessors 120 3988 Quarrelling dogs come halting home 3989 Quarrelling dogs should be kicked out of doors 3990 Quarrels could not last long, were but prudence on one side 3991 Quartan agues kill old men, and cure joung 3992 Quick and nimble ; more like a bear than a squirrel 3993 Quick at meat, quick at work 3994 Quick landlords make careful tenants 3995 Quick wits are generally conceited 3996 Quiet persons are welcome every where 3997 Quiet sleep feels no foul weather 3998 Quite out of the hooks 3999 Ragged colts may make fine horses 4000 Raise up no spirits that you cannot conjure down again 4001 Rash presumption is a ladder, which will break the mounter's neck 4002 Rashness is not valour 4003 Rashness may conquer, but its not likely it should 4004 Raw leather will stretch 4005 Reason, if we do not live by it, will serve to in- crease our shame and guilt 4006 Reason is a firm foundation to build upon 4007 H ebukes ought not to have a grain of salt more than of sugar 4008 Regulate thy own passions, and bear those of others 4009 Rejoice, Shrovetide, to-day, for to-morrow you'll be ashes 4010 Rejoicing at men's misfortunes is, - in a degree, dancing at their funerals 4011 Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak 4012 Religion, without piety, hath done more mischief in the world than all other things put together 4013 Remember the reckoning 4014 Remember, thou art but a man 4015 Remembering of old injuries invites new ones 4016 Remove an old tree, and 3011'U kill it 4017 Repentance is not to be measured by inches and hours 4018 Repentance is the whip for fools 4019 Repent of a good action, if you can m 4020 Repetition is every where unacceptable, though it were in Homer 4021 Reputation cracked, is a Venice glass broke 4022 Reputation depends less upon ourselves than u fortune 4023 Reputation is commonly measured by the acre 4024 Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime 4025 Reputation serves to virtue as light does to a picture 4026 Reproof never does a wise man any harm 4027 Resty horses must be roughly dealt with 4028 Retrench your desires, instead of increasing your substance 4029 Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed 4030 Revenge is sharp sighted 4031 Revenge never repairs an injury 4032 Revenge, the longer it is delayed, the crueller it grows 4033 Reynard is still Reynard, though he put on a cowl 4034 Rich men, and fortunate men, have need of much prudence 4035 Rich men feel misfortunes that fly over poor men's heads 4036 Rich men have no faults 4037 Rich men have often the hearts of poor men 4038 Rich men long to be richer 4039 Rich men's spots are covered with money 4040 Riches abuse them, who know not how to use them 4041 Riches alone make no man happy 4042 Riches are but the baggage of fortune 4043 Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief 4044 Riches have made more covetous men, than covet- ousness bath made rich men 4045 Riches may at any time be left, but not poverty 4046 Riches rule the roast 4047 Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool 4048 Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites 4049 Riches well got. and well used, are a great blessing 4050 Ride softly, that you may get home the sooner 4051 Right eorai calls for no colouring 4052 Right mixture makes good mortar 4053 Right reckoning makes long friends G its 4054 Right, Roger ; your sow's good mutton 4055 Rigid justice is the greatest injustice 4056 Rob Peter to pay Paul 4057 Rolling stones gather no moss 4058 Roman, virtue it was that rais'd the Roman glory 4059 Rome was not built in a day 4060 Roses have their prickles 4061 Roughness may turn one's humour, but flattery one's stomach 4062 Sacrifice not thy heart upon every altar 4063 Sadness and gladness succeed each other 4064 Sail, quoth the king; hold, saith the wind 4065 Salt spilt, is seldom clean taken qp 4066 Sampson was a strong man, yet could not pay money before he had it 4067 Satires run faster than panegyrics 4068 Save something for the man that rides on the white horse 4069 Saving is getting 4070 Sauce for a goose is sauce for a gander 4071 Say not ill of the year till it be past 4072 Scabby heads love not the comb 4073 Scabby parents will have scurfy children 4074 Scald not thy lips with another man's porridge 4075 Scalded cats fear even cold water 4076 Scandal will rub out like dirt when it is dry 4077 Scanderbeg's sword must have Scanderbeg's arm 4078 School distinctions are the impressions of the de- vil's cloven foot 4079 Sceptres and suitors hate competitors 4080 Scorners are an abomination to a sober man 4081 Scorning is catching 4082 Scratching is bad ; because it begins with pleasure, and ends with pain 4083 Seamen are the nearest to death, and the farthest from God 4084 Search not a wound too deep, lest thou make a new one 4085 Search not for a good man's pedigree 4086 Secret mines may take the town, when open bat- tery cannot 4087 Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth 4088 Seek not to reform every one's dial by your watch 123 4089 Seek, till you find ; and you'll not lose your la- bour 4090 Seek } r our salve, where you got your sore 4091 Self do, self have 4092 Self-exaltation is the fool's paradise 4093 Self-love is a mote in every man's eye 4094 Self-preservation is nature's first law 4095 Sell not the bear's skin, before you have caught him 4096 Send a fool to market, and a fool he'll return 4097 Send not for a hatchet to break open an egg with 4098 Send not to market for trouble 4099 Send your noble blood to market, and see what it will buy 4100 Serpents engender in still waters 4101 Servants should put on patience, when they put on a livery 4102 Servants will not be diligent, where the master's negligent 4103 Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery 4104 Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil 4105 Set a stool in the sun; when one knave rises, an- other comes 4106 Set a thief to catch a thief 4107 Set but this feather well to my arrow, and he'll certainly shoot the mark 4108 Set hard heart against hard hap 4109 Set the hare's head against the goose's giblets 4110 Set not your loaf in till the oven's hot 4111 Set not your house on fire, to be revenged of the moon 4112 Seven hour's sleep will make a clown forget his design 4113 Seven may be company, but nine are confusion 4114 Shake a Leicestershire man by the collar, and you shall hear the beans rattle in his belly 4115 Shall the goslins teach the goose to swim? 4116 Shallow wits censure every thing that is beyond their depth 4117 Share not pears with your master, either in jest or in earnest 4118 Sharp stomachs make short devotion 4119 She broke her elbow on her wedding-day .G2 124 4120 She can laugh and cry, both in a wind 4121 She cannot leap an inch from a slut 4122 She goes as if she cracked nuts with her U'» 4123 She had rather kiss than spin 4124 She has broke her pipkin 4125 She has less beauty than her picture hath, and truly not much more wit 4126 She hath a gad-bee in her tail 4127 She hath a tympany with two heels 4128 She hath other tow on her distaff 4129 She is as common as a barber's chair 4130 She is as quiet as a wasp in one's ear 4131 She is like a cat, she will play with her own tail 4132 She is neither maid, wife, nor widow 4133 She is not so ugly as to fright one, nor so beautiful as to kill one 4134 She looks like a cow-t — d stuck with primroses 4135 She shines like a dry cow-t — d 4136 She simpers like a frumenty-kettle 4137 She spins a good thread, that brings up her daugh- ter well 4138 She, that gazes much, spins not much 4139 She, that hath an ill husband, shews it in her dress 414;) She, that hath spice enough, may season as she likes 4141 She, that is born a beauty, is half married 4142 She, that is ashamed to eat at table, eats in private 4143 She, that loseth her modesty and honesty, hath no- thing else worth losing 4144 She, that marries ill, never wants something to say for it 4145 She was a neat dame that washed the ass's face 4146 She was so hungry, she could not stay for the par- son to say grace 4147 She, who often looks at her face in the glass, thinks of her tail 4148 She will as soon part with the cook as the porridge 4149 She will scold the devil out of a haunted house 4150 She will stay at home, perhaps, if her leg be broke 4151 Shew me a liar, and I'll shew you a thief 4152 Shew me a man without a spot, and I'll shew you a maid without a fault 4103 Ships fear fire more than water 125 415* Short and sweet 4155 Short pleasures, long pains 4156 Short reckonings are soon cleared 4157 Short shooting loses the game 4158 Sick of the mulligrubs, with eating of chopped hay 4159 Sickness is better than sadness 4160 Sickness is felt, but health not at all 4161 Sickness tells ns what we are 4162 Sickness will spoil the happiness of an emperor, as well as mine 4163 Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dan- gerous 4164 Silence catches a mouse 4165 Silence gives consent 4166 Silence is a line jewel for a woman, but its little worn 4167 Silence is a good receipt against such faults as may cause offence 4168 Silence is not the greatest vice of a woman 4169 Silence is wisdom, when speaking is lolly 4170 Silence seldom hurts 4171 Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire 417*2 Siiiy dogs are more angry with the stone, than with the hand that flung it 4173 Sim steals the horse, and carries home the bridle honestly 4174 Since he cannot be revenged on the as?, be upon the pack 4175 Since you have b -en a correcting of me, I have told a hundred and twenty holes in your grater 4176 Since you wrong'd me, you never had a good thought of me 4177 Singularity always seems to have a spice of arro- gancy in it 4178 Sin is sin, whether it be seen or no 4179 Sins and debts are always more than we think them to be 4180 Sit firm in thy place, and none ran hurt thee 4181 Sit still, rather than rise and fall down 4182 Skill is no burthen 4183 Slander flings stones at itself 4 1 84 Slander leaves a score behind 4186 Slanderers are the devil's bellows; to blow up con- tention - f *> 126 4186 Sleeping all the morning makes it night till noon 4187 Sleeping foxes have nothing falling into their mouths 4188 Slow and sure, like Pedley's mare 4189 Sluggards are never great scholars 4190 Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge 4191 Small faults indulged are little thieves, that let in greater 4192 Small pitchers have wide ears 4193 Small rain lays a great dust 4194 Small wounds, if many, may be mortal 4195 So I be warm, let the people laugh 4196 So many countries, so many customs 4197 So many men, so many minds 4198 So much is mine as I enjoy, and give away for God's sake 4199 So, now you act like yourself, and nobody will trust you 4200 So the miracle be wrought, what matter if the devil did it? 4201 So yourself be good, a fig for your grandfather 4202 Soft fire makes sweet malt 4203 Soft words are hard arguments 4204 Soft words break no bones 4205 Soft words hurt not the mouth 4206 Soldiers are martyrs to ambition 4207 Soldiers in peace are chimneys in summer 4208 Solitude dulls the thought, too much company dis- sipates it 4209 Solitude makes us love ourselves, conversation others 4210 Some are atheists only in fair weather 4211 Some are very busy, and yet do nothing 4212 Some fish, some frogs 4213 Some had rather guess at much, than take pains to hear a little 4214 Some have been thought brave, because they were afraid to run away 4215 Some injure all they fear, and hate all they injure 4216 Some men's no is better received than others yea 4217 Some save-alls do well in a house 4218 Some stomachs nauseate even sweet-meats 4219 Some, that speak no ill of any, do no good to any 127 4220 Some will lose rather their best friend, than their worst joke 4221 Some wits can digest before others can chew 4222 Some would play a tune, before you can tune your fiddle 4223 Something hath some savour 4224 Sometimes it costs a great deal to do mischief 4225 Sometimes its better to give your apple than eat it yourself 4226 Sometimes you are like the dog and cat, and some- times like the monkey and his clog 4227 Soon got, soon spent 4228 Soon hot, soon cold 4229 Soon ripe, soon rotten 4230 Sorrow comes unsent for 4231 Sorrow for a husband, is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short 4232 Sorrow is good for nothing but sin 4233 Sour grapes can ne'er make sweet wine 4234 Sow good works, and thou shalt reap gladness 4235 Sow wheat in dirt, and rye in dust 4236 Spaniels that fawn when beaten, will never forsake men SaMoicrs 4237 Spare at tiie brim, not at the bottom 4238 Spare the rod, and spoil the child 4239 Spare to speak, spare to speed 4240 Spare your breath to cool your broth 4241 Spare your rhetorick, and speak logic 4242 Sparrows fight for corn, which is none of their own 4243 Speak the truth, and shame the devil 4244 Speak when you are spoke to ; come when you are called 4245 Spears are not made of bulrushes 4246 Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune 4247 Spend :^nd be free, but make no waste 4248 Spiders that kill a man, cure an ape 4249 Split wine is worse thai? water 4250 Spin not too fine a thread les?" it break in weaving up 4251 Spit in your hand, and take faster hold 4252 Spit not against heaven, 'twill fall back into thy own face 4253 Spur not a free horse to death ~G 4 m 4:26 i Stake not thy head against another's hat 4255 Stale cole wort in a fresh dish 4250 Standers-by see more than the gamesters 4257 Standing* pools gather filth 4258 Stars are not seen by sun-shine 4259 Stay till you have sheep before you shear them 4260 Step after step the ladder is ascended 4261 Steer not after every mariner's direction 4262 Still he fisheth that catcheth one 4263 Stop a little to make an end the sooner 4264 Straight trees have crooked roots 4265 Strength of body is none of the virtues 4266 Strike while the iron is hot 4267 Striking and not making it felt, is anger lost 4268 Strive not against the stream 4260 Study sickness while you are well 4270 Stumble at a straw, and leap over a block 4271 Stumbling often, is a sign of falling quite 4272 Subtilty setup a trap, and catch'd itself 4273 Success is never blamed 4274 Such a beginning, such an ending 4275 Such a father, such a son £276 Such a pot must have such a lid 4277 Such a reason pissed my goose 4278 Such a welcome, such a farewell 4279 Such as the priest, such is the clerk 4280 Such as the tree, such is the fruit 4281 Sudden friendship, sure repentance 4282 Sudden glory soon goes out 4283 Sudden joy kills sooner than excessive grief 4284 Sudden passions are bard to be managed 4285 Sue a beggar, and catch a louse 4286 Suffering for a friend doublet!] the friendship 4287 Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad 4288 Supine facility and good nature are vastly differ- ent 4289 Sure he's a lawyer, for he makes indentures as he goes 4290 Surely she wears low-heel'd shoes, she's apt to fall backwards 4291 Sure that's a butcher's horse, he carries a calf so wel 4292 Surgeons cut that they may cure 129 4293 Surgeons must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's band 4294 Surgeons ought not to he full of sores themselves 4295 Suspicion may be no fault, but shewing it may be a great one 4296 Sweep before your own door 4297 Sweet-heart, and honey-bird, keeps no house 4298 Sweet meats must have sour sauce 4299 Swine, bees, and women, cannot be turned 4300 Sympathy of manners maketh conjunction of minds 4301 Tailors and writers must mind the fashion 4302 Tailors shreds are worth cutting 4303 Take all, and pay the baker 4304 Take an hair of the same dog that bit you 4305 Take away fuel, and you take away fire 4300 Take away my good name, and take away my life 4307 Take courage, younger than thou have been hanged 4308 Take heart of grace, younger thou shalt never be 4309 Take heed you find not what you do not seek 4310 Take hold of a good minute 4311 Take me upon your back, and you'il know what I weigh 4312 Take not a musket to kill a butterfly 4313 Take time, while time is, for time will away 4314 Take your venture, as many a good ship hath done 4315 Tale-bearers are commonly a sort of half-witted men 4316 Tales of Robin Hood are good enough for fools 4317 Talking pays no toll 4318 Talk much, and err much 4319 Talk of camps, but stay at home 4320 Tarry long brings little home 4321 Teach your grannum to spin 4322 Teach your grannum to suck eggs 4323 Teaching of others, teacheth the teacher 4324 Tell a lie, and find out the truth 4325 Tell a tale to a mare, and she'll let a fart 4326 Tell a woman she's a beauty, and the devil willtel her so ten times 4327 Tell me it snows 4328 Tell money after your own mother 4329 Tell it well, or say nothing 4330 Temperance, employment, and a cheerful spirit, are the great preservers of health 'GO ISO 4331 Temporizing is sometimes great wisdom 4332 Tcnterden steeple was the cause of Goodwill *$ sands 4333 That auger is not warrantable, that has seen two suns 4334 That bolt never came out of your quiver 4335 That cake came out of my oyen 4336 That city cannot prosper, where an ox is sold for less than a fish 4337 That dirt made this dust 4333 That dog barks more out of custom, than care of the house 4339 That falls out sometimes in a day, which never fell out before 4340 That fire, that doth not warm me, I'll never permit to scorch me 4341 That fire, which lighteth us at a distance, will burn us when near 4312 That fish will soon be caught, that nibbles at every bait 4343 That girdle will not gird me 4344 That grief is light, which is capable of counsel 4345 That groat is ill saved, that shames 1 he master 4340 That hour is coming, when we shall more earnestly wish to gain time, than ever we studied to spend it 4317 That is a prodigious plaister for so small a sore 4348 That is a weak stall' to trust to 4349 That is a woeful silly sheep, that goes to the wolf to confess 4350 That is as likely, as to see an hog fly 4361 That is as true as that the cat crew, and the cock recked the cradle 4352 That is but an empty purse, that is full of other folks money 4353 That is but a slippery happiness, that fortune can give, and fortune can take away 4354 That is good sport, that fills the belly * 1355 That is no easy pill to be swallowed 4356 That is not ours, that is got by unlawful means 4357 That is not thine, which fortune made thine 4358 That is the bird that I would catch 4359 That is the bitterness of a gift, that it deprives us of our liberty 4360 That is the old tune upon the bagpipe 436} That is the way to beggar's bush 131 4362 That is the upper end, where the chief person sits 4363 That is true, which all men say 4364 That is well spoken, which is well taken 4365 That man is well bought, who costs but a salutation 4366 That man sins charitably, who damns none but himself 4367 That mischief comes justly, that is of your own seeking 4368 That patient is not like to recover, who makes the doctor his heir 4369 That penny's well spent that saves a groat 4370 That rabbit's mad, that makes a league with the ferrit 4371 That sick man is not to be pitied, who hath his cure in his sleeve 4372 That sort of tympany, which requires nine months for cure 4373 That trial is not fair, where affection is judge 4374 That war only is just, which is necessary 4375 That was new, in last year's new almanack 4376 That, which hath its value from fancy, is not very valuable 4377 That which a man causes to be done, he does him- self 4378 That which is bred in the bone, will never be out of the flesh 4379 That, which is easily done, is soon believed 4380 That, which is one man's meat, is another man's poison 4381 That, which is well done, is twice done 4382 That, which makes wise men modest, makes fools unmannerly 4383 That, which may fall out at any time, may fall out to-day 4384 That, which proves too much, proves nothing 4385 That, which was bitter to endure, may be sweet to remember 4386 That, which we may live without, we need not much covet 4387 That, which will not be butter, must be made into cheese 4388 That, which will not make a pot, may make a pot- lid 4389 That, which you sow, you must reap 132 4390 The absent party is still faulty 4391 The absurdest tongue that is can disparage 4392 The absurd vulgar tastes all things by the ear 4393 The abuse of riches is worse than the want of them 4394 The amity, which wisdom uniteth not, folly will untie 4395 The anvil fears no blows 4396 The ape hugs her darling till she kills it 4397 The applause of the people is a blast of air 4398 The army, that comes oil* best, loses some 4399 The ass brays when he pleases 4400 The ass, that carrieth wine, drinketh water 4401 The axe goes to that wood, where it borrowed its helve 4402 The back-door robbeth the house 4403 The bait hides the hook 4404 The balance will decide the matter 4405 The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter 4406 The belief and hope of heaven, is a sufficient en- couragement to virtue, w hen all others fail 4407 The belly hates a long sermon 4408 The belly hath no cars 4409 The belly that's full may well fast 4410 The best cart may overthrow 441 1 The best cloth may have a moth in it 4412 The best fish swim deep 4413 The best is at the bottom 4414 The best is the best cheap 4415 The best metal, is iron ; the best vegetable, wheat ; but the worst animal, is man 4416 The best medals lose their lustre, unless brightened by use 4417 The best patch is off the same cloth 4418 The best remedy of afflictions, is submitting to Pro- vidence 4419 The best surgeon is he, that has been well hacked himself 4420 The best things are hard to come by 4421 The best way to see Divine light, is to put out thy own candle 4422 The better day, the better deed .4423 The better-natured, the sooner undone 4424 The better workman, the worse husband 4425 The biggest horses are not the best travellers 4426 The bitch, that I mean, is not a dog 4427 The black ox never yet trod upon your feet 4428 The blind eat many a fly 4429 The body is the workhouse of the soul 4430 The boughs that bear most, hang lowest 4431 The brains don't lie in the beard 4432 The brains of a fox will be of little service, if you play with the paw of a lion 4433 The breast-plate of innocence is not always scan- dal-proof 4434 The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots 4435 The brother had rather see his sister rich, than make her so 4436 The burnt child dreads the fire 4437 The busy brain, that sows not corn, sows thistles 4438 The butcher looked for his knife, when he had it in his mouth 4439 The camel going to get horns, lost his ears 4440 The cart before the horse 4441 The cat invites the mouse to a feast 4442 The cat knows whose lips she licks 4443 The cat sees not every mouse 4444 The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devo- tion 4445 The chapel is not so little, but the priest may say service in it 4446 The cheap buyer takes bad meat 4447 The chickens are the country's, but the city eats them 4448 The chief end of man, is not to get money 4449 The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fire-side 4450 The church is out of temper, when charity waxetli cold, and zeal hot 4451 The clock goes as it pleaseth the clerk 4452 The coin ihat is most current among us, is flattery 4453 The collier and his money are both black 4454 The comforter's head never aches 4455 The commandments have made as many good mar- tyrs as the creed 4456 The common hackney-horse is the worst shod 4457 The company-keeper has almost as many snares as companions 134 4458 The complaints of the present time* is the general complaint of all times 4459 The conquered is never called wise, nor the con- queror rash 4460 The crane suckled the ass . 4461 The credit that is got by a lie lasts no longer than liil the truth comes out 4462 The cross on the breast, and the devil in the heart 4463 The crow th:nks her own bird fairest 4464 The crutch of time does more than the club of Hercules 4465 The cuckold was very cunning, but he was more cunning that cuck oiled him 4466 The day of our birth is one day's advance towards our death 4467 The day that a man knows he commits a sin he condemns himsel! 4468 The day that you do a good thing there will be seven new moons 4469 The dead, and only they, should do nothing 4470 The dead are not quite gone away from fortune 4471 The dead are past feeling 4472 The dearer it is, the cheaper it is to me; for I shall buy the less 4473 The death of your first wife made such an impres- sion in your heart, that all the rest tly through 4474 The death of youth is a shipwreck 4475 The devil doth not lie dead in a ditch 4476 The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirt* 4477 The devil hath owed me a cake of a long time, and now hath paid me a loaf 447S The devil himself is good, when he is pleased 4479 The devil is a busy bishop in his own diocese 4480 The devil is always a buying our souls of us 4481 The devil is never nearer, than when we are talk- ing of him 4482 The devil is not always at one door 4483 The devil is the perfectest courtier 4484 The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest 4485 The devil rebukes sin 4486 The devil's behind the cross 4487 The devil's flour is half bran 4488 The discreet hand doth not do all that the tongue says 135 4480 The disobedience of the patient makes the physi- cian seem cruel 4490 The drunkard continually assaults his own life 4491 The dust, raised by the sheep, does not choak the wolf 4492 The early sower never borrows of the late 4493 The earth produces all things, and receives all again 4494 The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle 4495 The ebb will fetch off what the tide brings in 4496 The end makes all equal 4497 The end. of fishing is not angling, but catching 4498 The end of passion is the beginning of repentance 4499 The entreaty of a great man is putting of a force upon us 4500 The envious hurts others something, but himself very much 4601 The envious man's face grows sharp, and his eyes big 4502 The epicure puts his purse into his belly ; and the miser his belly into his purse 4503 The eternal talker neither hears nor learns 4604 The evening crowns the day 4505 The evil that cometh out of thy mouth flieth into thy bosom 4506 The eye is the pearl of the face 4507 The eye, that sees all things else, sees not itself 4508 The eyes, the ears, the tongue, the hands, the feet, they all fast in their way 4509 The exposition is better than the text 4510 The face should give leave to the tongue to speak 4511 The failings of other men accuse us of frailty 4512 The fairer the hostess, the fouler the reckoning 4513 The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot 4514 The fairest-looking shoe may pinch the foot 4515 The fairest rose at last is withered 4516 The fairest silk is the soonest stained 4517 The family of the public-spirited men is always ex- tinct 4518 The father sighs more at the death of one son, than he smiles at the birth of many 4519 The fault of the ass must not be laid on the pack- saddle 136 4520 The favour of great men, and praise of the world, are not much to be relied on 4521 The file grates other things, but rubs itself out too 4522 The fly, that playeth too long in the candle, singeth her wings at last 4523 The fire that burnetii taketh out the heat of a burn 4524 The first breath is the beginning of death 4525 The first chapter of fools is to esteem themselves wise 4526 The first cut, and all the loaf besides 4 >27 The first dish pleaseth all 4528 The first faults are theirs that commit them ; the second theirs that permit them 4529 The first men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, a grazier 4530 The first pig, but the last whelp of the litter, is best 4531 The first step to a good name is a good life, and the next is good behaviour 4532 The first step to virtue is to love virlue in another man 4533 The first step towards virtue is to abstain from vice 4534 The fish, by struggling in the net, hampers itself the more 4535 The fish may be caught in a net, that will not come to a hook 4536 The fork is commonly the rake's heir 4537 The tool is busy in every one's business but his own 4538 The fool runs away, while his house is burning down 4539 The fool saith, Who would have thought it? 4540 The fool wanders ; the wise man travels 4541 The foot on the cradle ; the hands on the distaff 4542 The fowler's pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught 4643 The fox fares best when he is most cursed 4544 The fox knows much, but more he that catcheth him 4545 The fox may grow grey, but never good 4546 The iox praiseth the meat out of the crow's mouth 4547 The fox's wiles w ill never enter into the lion's head 4548 The friar preached against theft when he had a goose in his sleeve 137 45 £9 The frog sing's, and yet she has neither hair no* wool to cover her 4550 The frost hurts not weeds 4651 The frying-pan said to the kettle, avail nt black brows - "i52 The further you run, the further you are behind 4553 The furthest way about, is the nearest way home 4554 The gallows groans for you 4-555 The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him 4556 The golden age never was the present age 4557 The good are joyful in the midst of poverty; but the wicked are sad in great riches 4558 The good man of the house is the last that knows what's done nt home 4559 The good you do is not lost, though you forget it 4560 The gown's her's that wears it ; and the world his that enjoys it 4561 The grandmother's correction makes no impres- sion 4562 The grey mare is the better horse 4563 The gra^e is the general meeting-place 4564 The great and the little have need of one another 45G5 Th ish the little ones 4666 The greater the man, tfa the crime 4567 The great I mot the: death 4569 The greatest calf is not the sweetest i 4570 The greatest clerks are not the wisest men 4571 The greatest expense we can be at is^Hat of our time 4572 The greatest favourites are in the most danger of falling 4573 The greatest hate springs from the greatest love 4574 The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness 4575 The greatest mischief you can do the envious, is to do well 4576 The greatest oaks have been little acorns 4577 The greatest packs are not always the richest 457S The greatest sounds are not the best music 4579 The greatest things are done by the help of ones 4580 The greatest vessel haih bnf its measure 138 4581 The greatest wealth is contentment with a little 4582 The ground of true sorrow for sin is the love of God 4583 The groundsil speaketh but what it heard of the hinges 4584 The guilty man fears the law, the innocent man fortune 4585 The guts uphold the heart, and not the heart the guts 4586 The hare starts when a man least expects it 4587 The head grey, and no brains yet 4588 The heathen's fortune is the Christian's Provi- dence 4589 The heathens, when they died, went to bed with- out a caudle 4590 The hermit thinks the sun shines no where but in his cell 4591 The higher an ape mounts, the more he shews his breech 4592 The higher a poor man is raised, the giddier he is 4593 The higher the hill, the lower the grass 4594 The higher, the lower j and the more advanced, the more hu rnbie 4595 The highest spoke in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest 4596 The highway is never about 4597 The hiudermost dog catchetfa the hare 4598 The hog is got into the honey pot 4599 The hog never looks up to him that threshes down the» acorns 4600 The holidays of joy are the vigils of sorrow 4601 The librse next the mill carries all the grist 4602 The horse, that draws his halter, is not quite escaped 4603 The hungry belly thinks the throat cut 4604 The hypocrite hurts himself, the libertine the whole society 4605 The idle mill earns nothing 4606 The jewel is not to be valued for the cabinet 4607 The informer is the worst rogue of the two 4608 The joy of Jerusalem depends upon the peace of Zion 4609 The Isle of Wight hath no monks, lawyers, o* foxes ■ 139 4610 The judge is condemned when the criminal is ab- solved 461 1 The kick of the dam hurts not the colt 46*12 The kid, that keeps above, is in no danger of the wolf 4613 The king can make a serjeant, but not a lawyer 4614 The king may bestow offices, but cannot bestow wit to manage them 4615 The king may give thee honour, but thou art to make thyself honourable 4616 The king of good-tellows is appointed for the queen of beggars 4617 The king's cheese goes half away in parings 4618 The king's favour is no inheritance 4619 The lame tongue gets nothing 4620 The lame post brings the truest news 4621 The lapwing cries most when furthest from her nest 4622 The last benefit is most remembered 46*23 The laste\il smarts most 4624 The last suitor wins the maid 4625 The last taste of things gives them the name of sweet or sour 4626 The laundress washeth her own smock first 4627 The lazy servant, to save one step, goes eight 4628 The least and weakest man can do some hurt 4629 The least boy carries the biggest fiddle 4630 The less wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it 4631 The lesser the temptation, the greater the sin 4632 The little wimble will let in the great auger 4633 The longest day must bave an end 4634 The longest life is but a parcel of moments 4635 The loquacity of fools is a lecture to the wise 4636 The love of the wicked is more dangerous than their hatred 4637 The low stakes stand long 4638 The lower mill-stone grinds as much as the upper one 4639 The lute is in the hand of him that knows how to play on it 4640 The luxurious want many things, the covetous all things 4611 The liar is sooner caught than the cripple 140 46 £2 The lion's not half so fierce as he is painted 4643 The lion's skin is never cheap 4644 The mad dog bites his master 4645 The maintaining of one vice costeth more than ten \ nines 4646 The man in the moon drinks claret 4647 The master's eye makes the horse fat 4648 The meekness of Moses is better than the strength of Sampson 4649 The memory of a benefit soon vanisheth, but the remembrance of an injury sticketh fast in the heart 4650 The memory of happiness makes misery woeful 4651 The mill cannot grind with the water that is past 4652 The mind is the man 4653 The mob has many heads, but no brains 4654 The moon is a moon still, whether it shine or not 4655 The moon is made of green cheese 4656 The more acquaintance, the more danger 4657 The more cooks, the worse broth 4658 The more danger, the more honour 4659 The more friends, the more danger 4660 The more haste, the worse speed 4661 The more haste we make in a Wrong way, the farther we are from our journey's end 4662 The more knave, the better fortune 4663 The more laws, the more offenders 4661 The more light a torch gives, the less while it lasts 4665 The more il/oo?^, the greater the victory 4656 The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is 4667 The more, the merrier ; the fewer, the better cheer 4668 The more wit, the less courage 4669 The more women look into their glass, the less they look into their hearts 4670 The more you stir, the more you stink 4671 The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun 4672 The most lamentable spectacle in the world is a dead man 4673 The most lasting monuments are doubtless the paper- monuments 4674 The most penitent anchorite has now and then. a, small flight of vanity 141 4675 The mother-in-law remembers not that she was & daughter-in-law 4676 The mother knows best, whether the child be like the father 4677 The motions of passion, and of conscience, are two things 4678 The mountains have brought forth a mouse 4679 The mouse, that hath but one hole, is easily caught 4680 The multitude of offenders is their protection 4681 The muses love the morning 4682 The nature of things will not be altered by our fan- cies of them 4683 The nearer the church, the farther from God 4684 The noblest remedy of injuries is oblivion 4685 The noisy drum hath nothing in it but mere air 4686 The noisy fowler catches no birds 4687 The number of the malefactors authorizes not the crime 4688 The nurse is valued, till the child has done sucking 4689 The old horse must die in somebody's keeping 4690 The old man's staff is the rapper at Death's door 4691 The old withy tree would have a new gate hnng at it 4692 The old woman would never have look VI for her daughter in the oven, had she not been there her- self 4693 The older a fool is, the worse he is 4694 The only way to be sure of not losing a child is never to have any 4695 The only way to know and to serve God is to be like him 4696 The orange that is too hard squeez'd yields a bit- ter juice 4697 The owl is not accounted the wiser for living re- tiredly 4698 The owl thinks all her young ones beauties 4699 The ox when he is weary treads surest 4700 The paleness of the pilot is a sign of a stonn 4701 The parings of a pippin are better than a whole crab 4702 The passions are like fire and water ; good servants, but bad masters 4703 The patient hath more need of the physician than the physician of the patient 142 4704 The people will worship even a calf, if it be a gol- den one 4705 The pine wishes herself a shrub, when the axe i* at her root 4706 The pitcher that goes often to the well, comes home broken at last 4707 The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor 4708 The pleasure of this world consists in having ne- cessaries, not superfluities 4709 The pleasures of what we enjoy is lost by covet- ing more 4710 The plough goes not well if the ploughman hold it not 4711 The poet, of all sorts of artificers, is the fondest of his works 4712 The poor keep a continual fast 4713 The poor man has his corn destroyed by hail every year 4714 The poor man turns his cake, and another come* and eats it 4715 The poor man's penny, unjustly detained, is a coal of fire in a rich man's purse 4716 The poor man's shilling is but a penny 4717 The poorest meat requires some dress 4718 The present fashion is alway handsome 4719 The prick of a pin is enough to make an empire insipid for a time 4720 The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain 4721 The priest forgets he was a clerk 4722 The prodigal robs his heir, the miser himself 4723 The proof of a pudding is in the eating 4724 The poof of obedience is found in small matter* more than in great 4725 The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own face long 4726 The purest gold is most ductile 4727 The purse-strings are the most common ties of friendship 4728 The race is got by running 4729 The raven said to the rook, stand away, black coat 4730 The revenge of an idiot is without mercy 4731 The reward of love, is jealousy 4732 The rich are trustees under God for the poor 4733 The rich follow wealth, and the poor the rich 143 4734 The rich need not beg a welcome 4735 The rich never want for kindred 4736 The rich poor man is emphatically poor 4737 The rich widow cries with one eye, and laughs with the other 4738 The righteous find peace, when the wicked feel torment 4739 The road is not bad, if I get home well 4740 The sea complains for want of water 4741 The sea refuses no river 4742 The second blow makes the fray 4743 The second vice is lying, the first being that of owing money 4744 The selvidge sheweth the cloth 4745 The shirt is nearer than the coat 4746 The sign invites you in, but your money must re- deem you out 4747 The singing man keeps his shop in his throat 4748 The slothful man is the beggar's brother 4749 The sluggard makes his night till noon 4750 The sluggard's convenient season never comes 475 1 The small cart creaks, as the heavy wain should do 4752 The smaller the drink, the cooler the blood, and the clearer the head 4753 The smallness of the kitchen makes the house the bigger 4754 The smith hath always a spark in his throat 4755 The smoke follows the fair 4756 The smoke of one's own house, is better than the fire at another's 4757 The snail slides up the tower at last, though the swallow mounteth it not 4758 The society of ladies is a school of politeness 4759 The sole holdeth with the upper leather 4760 The sooty oven mocks the black chimney 4761 The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves 4762 The soul of a choleric man sits ever by the fire-side 4763 The soul payeth soundly for house-room in the body 4764 The spaniel, that fawneth when he is beaten, will never forsake his master 4765 The sparrow builds in the martin's nest 4766 The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail 4767 The still sow eats up all the draft 144 4788 The stillest humours are always the worst 4769 The sting of a reproach is the truth of it 4770 The stone, that lieth not in your way, need not of- fend you 4771 The stream can never rise above the springhead 4772 The study of vain things is laborious idleness 4773 The subject's love is the king's best guard 4774 The sun can be seen by nothing but its own light 4775 The sun has stood still, but time never did 4776 The sun is never the worse for shining on a dung- hill 4777 The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set 4778 The sun may do its duty, though your grapes are not ripe 4779 The swan sings, when death comes 4780 The sweat of Adam's brow hath streamed down ours ever since 4781 The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar 4782 The table is a great robber 4783 The tale runs, as it pleases the teller 4784 The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell 4785 The tatter's tongue is ever dancing a silly jig 4786 The tailor, that makes not a knot, loseth a stitch 4787 The tears of a whore, and the oaths of a bully, may be put in the same bottle 4788 The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, but not that he is a thief 4789 The thief's wife laugheth not always 4790 The thought has good wings, and the quill a good tongue 4791 The thread leads to the bottom 479*2 The thrush, avoiding the trap, fell into birdlime 4793 The thunder hath but its clap 4794 The time to come is no more ours than the time past 4795 The tongue breaketh the bone though it hath none itself 4796 The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth 4797 The tongue is not still, yet it cuts sorely 4798 The tongue is the rudder of our ship 4799 The tongue of a fool carves a piece of his heart to all that sit near him 4800 The tongue oi idle persons is never idle 4801 The tongue talks at the head's cost 145 4802 The touch-stone distinguishes between gold and brass 4803 The town-bull is as much a bachelor as he 4804 The tree is no sooner down, but every one runs for his hatchet 4805 The true gentleman is God's servant, the world's master, and his own man 4806 The two principal things are wisdom and health 4807 The venom of a viperous tongue may be converted into treacle t 4808 The very best men stand in need of pardon 4809 The very falling of leaves frights hares 4810 The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray still 4811 The unfortunate are counted fools 4812 The voice of an ass will never reach heaven 4813 The usefullest truths are the plainest 4814 The usual trade and commerce, is cheating all round by consent 4815 The usurer and younker are cat and mouse 4816 The vulgar will keep no account of your hits, but of your misses 4817 The water that comes from the same spring cannot be fresh and salt both 4818 The way to avoid great faults is to beware of less 4819 The way to Babylon will never bring you to Jeru- salem 4820 The way to be safe is never to be secure 4821 The way to live much is to begin to live well be- times 4822 The weakest and most timorous are the most re- vengeful and implacable 4823 The weakest go to the wall 4824 The wearer only knows where the shoe hurts him 4825 The whole ocean is made up of single drops 4826 The wicked grow worse, and good men better for trouble 4827 The wicked heart never fears God, but when it thunders 4828 The wife is the key of the house 4829 The wind blows not always west 4830 The wind is not in your debt, though it fills not your sail 4831 The wind keeps not always in one quarter 4832 The wind that blows out candles kindles the fire ' li 146 4833 The wise man draws more advantage from his ene- mies, than a fool from his friends 4834 The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks 4835 The wise man is born to rule the fool 4836 The wit of you, and the wool of a blue dog, would make a very good medley 4837 The wolf and fox are both privateers 4838 The wolf doth something every week, that hinders him from going to church a Sunday 4839 The wolf never wants for a pretence against a lamb 4840 The wooing was a day after the wedding 4841 The world is a ladder for some to go up, and some down 4842 The world is a net ; the more we stir in it, the more we are entangled 4843 The world is so much knave, that it holds ho- nesty to be a vice and a folly 4844 The world is too narrow for two fools a quarreling 4845 The world's busy man is the grand impertinent 4846 The world would perish were all men learned 4847 The worse luck now, the better another time 4848 The worse the passage, the more welcome the port 4849 The worst of men are those who will not forgive 4850 The worst part of poverty is to bear it impatiently 4851 The worst spoke in a cart breaks first 4852 The wound that blecdeth inwardly is most dan- gerous 4853 The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish 4854 There are as well serious follies as light ones 4855 There are many rare abilities in the world, which fortune never brings to light 4856 There are more lords in the world than fine gen- tlemen 4857 There are more natural buffoons than artificial 4858 There are more old drunkards than old physicians 4859 There are more maids than Moggy, and more men than Jockey 4860 There are more threatened than struck 4861 There are more ways to the wood than one 4862 There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging 4863 There are no birds this year in last year's nest 147 4864 There are no coxcombs so troublesome as those that have some wit 4865 There can be no friendship where there can be no freedom 4866 There belongs more than whistling to a ploughman 4867 There cannot be a more intolerable thing than a fortunate fool 4868 There could be no great ones, if there were no little ones 4869 There goes the wedge, where the beetle drives it 4870 There I caught a knave in a purse-net 4871 There is abundance of money spent to be laughed at 4872 There is a bone for you to pick 4873 There is a critical minute for all things 4874 There is a deal of difference between love and gratefulness 4875 There is a different fame goes about of every man 4876 There is a fault in the house, but would you have it built without any ? 4877 There is a knack of shewing we understand the matter, when we hold our peace 4878 There is a medium betwixt all fool and all philo- sopher 4879 There is a remedy for every thing, could we but hit upon it 4880 There is a scarcity of friendship, but none of friends 4881 There is a Rowland for your Oliver 4882 There is a snako in the grass 4883 There is a sort of pleasure in indulging of grief 4884 There is something in it, quoth the fellow, when he drank dish-clout and all 4885 There is a time to wink, as well as to see 4886 There is a witness every where 4887 There is as much greatness in owning a good turn, as in the doing of it 4888 There is as much hold of his words, as of a wet eel's tail 4889 There is but bad choice, where the whole stock is bad 4890 There is chance in a cock's spur 4891 There is no companion like the penny 4892 There is craft in daubing ^H 2 148 4893 There is difference between living long and suffei- ing long 4894 There is falsehood in fellowship 4895 There is God's poor, and the devil's poor ; the first from Providence, the other from vice 4896 There is life in a muscle 4897 There is little due to pleasure, but much to health 4898 There is many a good wife that can't sing and dance well 4899 There is more money got by ill means than by good acts 4900 There is more pleasure in loving, than in being be- loved 4901 There is much more learning than knowledge in the world 4902 There is no adding to fr-iidamcntals 4903 There is no art that can make a fool wise 4904 There is no banquet, but some dislike something in it 4905 There is no better looking-glass than an old friend 4906 There is no condition, but what sits well upon a wise man 4907 There is no difference of bloods in a bason 4908 There is no disputing of tastes, appetites, and fancies 4909 There is no fence against a panic fright 4910 There is no going to heaven in a sedan 4911 There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers 4912 There is no man so bad, but has a secret respect for the good 4913 There is no more hold of a new friend, than of a new fashion 4914 There is no need of a ferret to catch an harlot 4915 There is no piety in keeping an unjust promise 4916 There is no plea for the wilful 4917 There is no put so ugly, that a cover cannot be found for it 4918 There is no relying on a starry sky 4919 There is no remedy for all evils but death 4920 There is no reputation so clear, but a slanderer may stain it 4921 There is no short cut of a way, without some ill way 149 4922 There is no such flatterer as a man's self 4923 There is no sufficient recompense for an unjust slander 4924 There is no true holiness without humility 4925 There is no usual rule without an exception 4926 There is no woe like to want 4927 There is no wool so white, but a dyer can make it black 4928 There is none deceived, but he that trusteth 4929 There is none so simple, but can give counsel 4930 There is not always good cheer where the chimney smokes 4931 There is not a hair so small but hath its shadow 4932 There is not so much comfort in the having of chil- dren, as there is sorrow in parting with them 4933 There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil 4934 There is nothing more precious than time, and no- thing more prodigally wasted 4935 There is reason in roasting of eggs 4936 There is small difference (to the eye of the world) in being nought, and being thought so 4937 There is some difference between Peter and Peter 4938 There is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens 4939 There is winter enough for the snipe and wood- cock too 4940 There maybe blue, and better blue 4941 There may be such things as old fools and young counsellors 4942 There must be two at least to a quarrel '4943 There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world's trade 4944 There never wants a ragged one for one that's ripped 4945 There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken 4946 There were such black swans formerly, as truth and honesty 4947 Therefore a man is a cuckold, because two are too hard for one 4948 They agree like bells; they want nothing but hanging 4499 They agree like dogs and cats coupled 4950 They agree like Lyndon clocks H 3 150 4951 They are clove and orange 4952 They are finger and thumb 4953 They are hand and glove 4954 They are like bells ; every one in a several note 4955 They are little to be feared, whose tongues are their swords 4956 They are not all saints that use holy water 4957 They are rich who have true friends 4958 They are scarce of horses, where two ride on a dog 4959 They are so like, that both are the worse for it 4960 They both put their hands in one glove 4961 They cannot set their horses together 4962 They complain wrongfully of Neptune, that twice suffered shipwreck 4963 They have begun a dispute, which the devil will not let them make an end of 4964 They have great need of a blessing, that kneel to a thistle 4965 They hurt themselves, that wrong others 4966 Thry love dancing well, that dance bavefoot upoii thorns 4967 They may sit in the chair, who have malt to sell 4968 They must hunger in winter, that will not work in summer 4969 They need much, whom nothing will content 4970 They say so, is half a lie 4971 They seldom live well, who think they shall live long 4972 They, that are bound, must obey 4973 They, that are full themselves, are wise only for want of thinking 4974 They, that burn you for a Witch, lose all their coals 4975 They, that buy an office, must sell something 4976 They, that command the most, enjoy themselves the least 4977 They, that desire but a few things, can be crossed but in few 4978 They, that do nothing, learn to do ill 4979 They, that fear an overthrow, are half beaten 4980 Thev, that have good store of butter, may lay it on thick 4981 They, that hide, can find 4982 They, that live longest, must go farthest for wood 151 4983 They, that live longest, must die at last 4984 They, that talk like philosophers, are often observed to act like fools 4985 They, that value not praise, will never do any thing worthy of praise 4986 They, that walk in the sun, must be content to be tanned 4987 They were both equally bad, so the devil put them together 4988 They, who cannot do as they would, must do as they can 4989 Then I'll thatch Grooly Pool with pancakes 4990 Things above thy height are to be looked at, not reached at 4991 Things hardly attained are long retained 4992 Things not understood are admired 4993 Things that are accidents to us, are providences to God 4994 Things that differ in the end will part in the way 4995 Think of thy deliverance, as well as of thy danger 499S This and better may do. but this *?* ZZZZ „\\\ never do 4997 This blustering can never untile my house 4998 This day is yours, but whose shall to-morrow be ? 4999 This day there is no trust, but come to-morrow 5000 This, or any moment, may be your last 5001 This world is ever running its round 5002 Though a coat be never so fine that a fool wears, yet 'tis but a fool's coat 5003 Though all men were made of one metal, yet they were not cast all in the same mould 5004 Though love is blind, yet 'tis not for want of eyes 5005 Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out 500G Though modesty be a virtue, yet bash fulness is a vice 5007 Though the cat winks, she is not blind 5008 Though the fox runs, the chickens have wings 5009 Though the generous man care the lea.it for wealth, yet he will be the most galled with the waiit pf it 5010 Though the heavens be glorious, yet they are not all stars 5011 Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip 'h 4 159 5012 Though the sauce be good, yet you need not for- sake the meat for it 5013 Though the sore be healed, yet a scar may remain 5014 Though the sun shines, take your cloak 5015 Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion 5010 Though thy water be never so muddy, don't say, I'll never drink of it 5017 Though you are bound to love your enemy, 3 ou are not bound to put your sword in his hand 5018 Though you stroak the nettle never so kindly, yet it will sting you 5019 Those are miserable pleasures that must end in pain 5020 Those are praised most, that are praised without any interest 5021 Those see nothing but faults, that seek for nothing else 5022 Those, that are in love, think other people's eyes out SC22 T! M,W ?, *^ n * SF6 always angry, are little regarded 5024 Those', that are stung by the scorpion, are healed by the scorpion 5025 Those, that complain of every thing, never want the head-ache 5026 Those, that eat cherries with great persons, shall have thvir eyes squirted out with the stones 5027 Those, that eat the best and drink the best, com- monly do worst 5028 Those, that have much business, must have much pardon 5029 Those, that make the best use pf their time, have none to spare 5030 Those, that too much reverence the ancients, are a scorn to the moderns 5031 Thorns make the greatest crackling 5032 Thou art as like to obtain thy wish, as the wolf is to eat the moon 5033 Thou canst not fly high with borrowed wings 5034 Thou canst not serve God, unless thy mammon serve thee 5035 Thou shalt have moonshine in thy mustard-pot for it 5036 Threatened folks live long 153 6037 Three are too many to keep a secret, and too few to be merry 5038 Three may keep counsel, if two be away 5039 Three women and a goose make a market • 5040 Thrift is the philosopher's stone 5041 Throw not stones at thine own window ' 5042 Throw the rope in after the bucket 5043 Throwing your cap at a bird is not the way to catch it 5044 Tie a dog to a crab-tree, and he'll never love ver- juice more 5045 Till death all is life 5048 Till vice gets an habit, there is a remedy for it 5047 Time and straw ripen medlars 5048 Time and thought tame the greatest grief 5049 Time and tide tarry for no man 5050 Time and words can't be recalled 505 % Time devours all things 5052 Time is the rider that breaks in youth 5053 Time past may be repented, but can never be re- called 5054 lime spent in vice or folly is doubly lost 5055 Time wrongs antiquity 5056 Timely and wise fear of danger prevents danger 5057 Timely blossom, timely fruit 5058 Tittle-tattle, give the goose more hay 5059 Tis a good ill that conies alone 5060 Tis a most sad sight to see an old man in misery 5061 Tis a sign of an ill cause to rail at your adver- sary 5062 Tis a sweet sorrow to bury an outrageous wife 5063 Tis a wicked world, and we make part of it 5064 Tis almost as easy to find a true diamond as a true friend 5065 Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom, and jet live foolishly 5066 Tis an unhappy w it that stirs up enemies against itself 5067 Tis as natural for women to pride themselves in fine clothes, as 'tis for a peacock to spread his tail 5068 Tis better to suffer wrong than do it 5069 Tis brave scrambling at the rich man's dole 5070 Tis clemency that makes the absolute conquest H 5 154 5071 'Tis comparison that makes men happy or misera- ble 5072 'Tis easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again 5073 'Tis easier to avoid a fault than acquire perfection 5074 'Tis easier to bear unkindnesses than affronts 5075 "lis easier to know how to speak, than how to be silen f 5076 'Tis easier to miss than to hit a needle's eye 5077 'Tis easier to preserve a friend, than to recover him when lost 5078 Tis easier io ridicule than commend 5079 'Tis fortune chiefly that makes heroes 5080 'Tis generous to bear an injury, but dangerous to requite it 5081 'Tis God'e blessing that makes the pot boil 5082 'Tis good grafting on a good stock 5083 'Tis good riding in a sale harbour 5084 'Tis good to go a-foot with a horse in hand 5085 'Tis harder to unlearn than learn 5086 'Tis height makes Grantham-Steele stand awry 5087 'Tis in vain to kick after you have once put on fet- ters 5088 'Tisin vain to speak reason where 'twill not be heard 5089 'Tis late e'er an old man comes to know he is old 5090 'Tis liberty that every one loves 5091 'Tis money that begets money 5092 'Tis more your goodness than my desert 6093 'Tis not clean linen only that makes the feast 5094 'Tis not every question that deserves an answer 5095 'Tis not for every one to catch a salmon 5096 'Tis not good to be happy too young 5097 'Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man 5098 'lis not liberty to live licentiously 5099 'Tis not other's apprehensions, but your own liking that should please you 5100 'Tis not prating, but working, that brings in the harvest 5101 'Tis not the action, but the intention, that is good or bad 5102 'Tis not the beard that makes the philosopher 5103 'Tis not the armour, but the right placing of it 6104 'Tis not the habit that makes the monk 155 5105 Tis not the matter, but the mind 5106 Tis not the husbandman, but the good weather that makes the corn grow 5107 'Tis not the suffering, but the cause and the pati- ence, that makes a martyr 5108 'Tis not your posterity, but your actions, that will perpetuate your memory 5109 Tis novelty that sets the people a-gaping 5110 Tis perseverance that prevails 5111 Tis pity thou art not a little more tongue-tied 51 12 Tis pride, and not nature, that craves much 5113 'Tis pride in fashion, that puts humility out of coun- tenance 5114 Tis rare to find a fish, that will not sometime or other bite 5115 'Tis self conceit, that makes opinion obstinate 5116 Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship 5117 Tis the abilities of a horse that occasions his sla- very 5118 Tis the early bird that catcheth the worm 5119 Tis the horse that stumbles, and not the saddle 5120 Tis the last feather that breaks the horse's back 5121 Tis the men, not the houses, that make the city 5122 Tis the place, that shews the man 5123 Tis the riches of the mind only, that make a man rich and happy 5124 Tis lime, conversation, and business, that discovers what a man is 5125 Tis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool 5126 To a crazy ship all winds are contrary 5127 To a good spender, God is a treasurer 5128 To a mortal man no evil is immortal 5129 To a wise man living is thinking 5130 To be a fool or knave in print, doth but bring the truth to light 5131 To be conquer'd by an hero is an honour 5132 To be daily dying is a blessed life 5133 To be deceiv'd by a promise, is worse than to be put by one's hopes 5134 To be einploy'd in useless things, is half to be idle 5135 To be virtuous, is to do good, and to do it well 5136 To be proud of an hereditary title, is to rant it in a dead man's clothes 156 5137 To beg a courtesy is to sells one's liberty 5138 To believe a business impossible, is the way to make it so 5139 To beg teeth of a roost-cock 5140 To blush at vice shews the world you are asham'd of it 5141 To bring an old house over one's head 5142 To cast oil into the fire is not the way to quench it 5143 To catch a Tartar 5144 To catch two pigeons with one pea 5145 To come in pudding time 5146 To come sailing in a sow's ear 5147 To command many will cost much 5148 To contemn a just commendation, is to kick at a kindness 5149 To contemn the poor because of his poverty is to affront God's providence 5150 To continue good amongst ill men, that's the point 5151 To cut down an oak, and plant a thistle 5152 To-day a man, to-morrow a mouse 5153 To-day is yesterday's pupil 5154 To-day me, to-morrow thee 5155 To dive deep, and bring up a potsherd 5156 To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rose-wa- ter into the sea 5157 To draw the worm out of the root 5158 To eat, and to scratch, a man need but begin 5159 To cat well is no whoredom ; and to starve is no gentility 5160 To escape the rocks, and perish in the sands 5161 To fall away from a horse-load to a cart-load 5162 To favour the ill is to injure the good 5163 To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth 5164 To feather one's own nest 5165 To fish with a herring, and catch a sprat 5166 To fly on upon plunder, and lose the battle 5167 To fly with waxed wings 5168 To get out of one mire to run into another 5169 To give a reason for fancy were to weigh the fire. and measure the wind 5170 To go a coney-catching with a dead ferrit 5171 To go a cricket-hunting 5172 To go against reason and conscience, is to rebel against God himself 157 5173 To go as fast as a friar, that is invited to dinner 5174 To go like a bear to a stake 5175 To go out a pilgrim, and come home a courtezan 5176 To go thorough-stitch with a business 5177 To go through fire and water, to serve a friend 5178 To grease a fat sow 5179 To grow old at court, and die in the hospital 5180 To have an oar in every man's boat 5181 To have the world in a string 5182 To him, that has a bad taste, sweet is bitter 5183 To him, that wills, ways are seldom wanting 5184 To him, that you tell your secret, you resign your liberty 5185 To hit the nail on the head 5186 To hold the wolf by the ears 5187 To hold one's nose to the grind-stone 5188 To hold with the hare, and run with the hounds 5189 To hug one, as the devil hugs a witch 5190 To jest is tolerable, but to do harm by jest is insuf- ferable 5191 To keep a custom, you hammer the anvil still, though you have no iron 5192 To kill two birds with one stone 5193 To lather an ass's head is but spoiling of soap 5194 To laugh in one's face, and cut one's throat 5195 To leave all at sixes and sevens 5196 To leave no stone unturned 5197 To lick honey through a cleft stick 5198 To lie at rack and manger" 5199 To live is not to spend or waste time, but to em- . pi°y »* 5200 To love the door, and leave the hatch 5201 To make a bolt or a shaft of it 5202 To make abridge of one's nose 5203 To make a man valiant, abuse him lustily 5204 To make a mountain of a mole-hill 5205 To make two friends with one gift 5206 To make white black, and black white 5207 To-morrow a new scene of things may open 5208 To-morrow morning I found a horse-shoe 5209 To no more purpose than 'twould be to knock one's heels against the ground 5210 To nourish a viper in one's bosom 5211 To nurse up and keep a vice is a vast charge 158 5212 To outshoot a man in his own bow 5213 To overcome pleasure is the greatest pleasure 5214 To pay one in one's own coin 5215 To promise, and give nothing, is a comfort for a fool 5216 To punish and not prevent, is to labour at the pump, and leave open the leak 5217 To put new handles to an old pot 5218 To put our sickle into another man's corn 5219 To ride post for a pudding 5220 To rock the cradle in spectacles 5221 To row one way, and look another 5222 To run the wild-goose chace 5223 To see a storm is better than to feel it 5224 To see may be easy ; but to foresee, that is the fine thing 5225 To seek a needle in a bottle of hay 5226 To seem, and not to be, is throwing the shuttle without weaving 6227 To serve the people is worse than to serve two masters 5228 To set up a sail to every wind 5229 To shoot at a pigeon, and kill a crow 5230 To sing like a bird called a swine 5231 To slit one's nose 5232 To spare at the spiggot, and let run out at the bung-hole 5233 To speak like a mouse in a cheese 5234 To stop two gaps with one bush 5235 To strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel 5236 To stroke with one hand, and stab with the other 5237 To succeed well one must have his lucky day 5238 To swallow an ox, and be choaked with the tail 5239 To swill and drink, is to turn tripe-wife and wash- guts 5240 To take from a soldier ambition is to take off his spurs 5241 To take from the right hand, and give to the left 5242 To take the wrong sow by the ear 5243 To talk without thinking is to shoot without aim- ing 5244 To throw the helve after the hatchet 5245 To throw the house out of the window 5246 To throw the stone, and hide the hand 5247 To thrust one's foot under another man's table 159 5248 To turn cat in pan 5249 To twist a rope of sand 525^ To wear a horn, and not know it, will do one no more harm, than to eat a fly and not see it 5251 To weep excessively for the dead, is to affront the living; 5252 To whisper proclamations is ridiculous 5253 To win the horse, or lose the saddle 5254 To woo is a pleasure in a young man, but a phrenzy in an old 5255 Too great and sudden changes, though for the bet- ter, are not easily born 5256 Too late to grieve, when the chance is past 5257 Too much and too little occasions the troubles of mankind 5258 Too much asseveration is a good ground of sus- picion 5259 Too much breaks the bag 5260 Too much care may be as bad as downright negli- gence 5261 Too much consulting confounds 5262 Too much cordial will destroy 5263 Too much familiarity breeds contempt 5264 Too much fear cuts all the nerves asunder 5265 Too much of one thing is good for nothing 5266 Too much praise is a burthen 5267 Too much scratching, pains; too much talking, plagues 5268 Too much spoileth, too little is nothing 5269 Touch a gall'd horse on the back, and he'll kick 5270 Touch pot, touch penny 5271 Trade is the mother of money . 5272 Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse 5273 Travellers should correct the vice of one country, by the virtue of another 5274 Tripe-broth is better than no porridge 5275 Trouble makes every sad accident a double evil, and contentedness makes it none at all 5276 Troubles are the only trials 5277 Troy was 5278 Troy was not taken in a day 5279 True blue will never stain 5280 True jests breed bad blood 5281 True jests do the greatest execution 160 5282 True magnanimity does not consist so much in undertaking difficult things, as enduring evils 5283 True sincerity sends for no witness 5284 True valour, is fire ; bullying, is smoke 5285 True valour knows as well how to suffer as to act 5286 Trust him no further than you can throw him 5287 Trust makes way for treachery 5288 Trust me, but look to thyself 5289 Trust not a great weight to a slender thread 5290 'Trust not to a broken staff 5291 Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee 5292 Trusting often makes fidelity 5293 Truth and honesty have no need of loud protesta- tions ■ 5294 Truth and matter of fact have no answers 5295 Truth and oil are ever above 5296 Truth fcars.no colours 5297 Truth fears no trial 5298 Truth finds foes, where it should find none 5299 Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes 5300 Tiuth hath always a sure bottom 5301 Truth is God's daughter 5302 Truth is the child of Time 5303 Truth is truth, in spite of custom's heart 5304 Truth lieth deep, and must be fetched up at leisure 5305 Truth loves to go naked 5306 Truth makes the devil blush 5307 Truth may be blamed, but cannot be shamed 5308 Truth may sometimes come out of the devil's mouth 5309 Truth needs not many words ; but a false tale, a large preamble 5310 Truth never grows old 5311 Truth seeks no corners 5312 Truth will be uppermost, one time or other 5313 Truth will sometimes break out unlooked for 5314 Truth's best ornament is nakedness 5315 Try whether the ice will bear, before thou venturest upon it 5316 Try to tame a mad horse, but knock him not at head 5317 'Twas fear that first put on arms 5318 'Twas got out of the fire 161 >8i9 Twas surely the devil, that taught women to dance, and asses to bray 5320 Twere better my enemy envy me, than I him 5321 Two anons, and a by and by, are an hour and a half 5322 Two cunning knaves need no broker 5323 Two daughters and a back door, are three arrant thieves 5324 Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it 5325 Two dry sticks will kindle a green one 5326 Two eyes may see more than one 5327 Two faces under one hood 5328 Two fools in a house are too man} by a couple 5329 Two good meals make the third a glutton 5330 Two hands in a dish, and one in a purse 5331 Two heads are better than one, quoth the woman, when she had her dog with her to the market 5332 Two of a trade seldom agree 5333 Two sir positives can scarce meet without a skir- mish 5334 Two sparrows upon one car of wheat cannot agree 5335 Two things a man should never be angry at, what he can help, and what he cannot help 5336 Two to one in all things against the angry man 5337 Two to one is olds at foot-ball 5338 Two whores in a house will never agree 5o'3i) Twonld make a dog break his halter 6340 Twonld make even a fly laugh 5341 Twonld make one scratch, where it doth not itch 5342 Vain glory blossoms, but never bears 5343 Valour is brutish without discretion 5344 Valour would tight, but discretion would run away 5345 Vanity will prove vexation 5346 Varnishing hides a crack 5347 Venture a small fish to catch a great one 5348 Venture a small fish to catch a gudgeon 5349 Venture not all in one bottom 5350 Venture thy opinion, but not thyself for thy opi- nion 5351 Vexation is rather taken than given 5352 Ugly women, finely drcss'd, are the uglier for it 5353 Vice is abominable, when it preaches up virtue 162 5354 Vice is its own punishment, and sometimes its own cure 5355 Yice lives alwa} r s displeased 5356 Vice makes virtue shine 5357 Yice must never plead prescription 5358 Yice often lides triumphant in virtue's chariot 5359 Yice ruleth, where God reigneth 5360 Yice would be frightful, if it did not wear a mask 5361 Vices are learned without a master 5362 Vicious men overvalue vanity, and undervalue vex- ation 5363 Virtue and happiness are but two names for the same tiling 5364 Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter 5365 Virtue and vice divide the world, but vice has got the greater share 5366 Virtue has never been the prevailing fashion 5367 Virtue brings honour, and honour vanity 5368 Virtue carricth a reward with it, and so doth vice, with a vengeance 5369 Virtue dwells not in the tongue, but in the heart 5370 Virtue hath few Platontck lovers 5371 Virtue hath such charms, that even the vicious in- wardly reverence it 5372 Virtue is a man's both guard and glory 5373 Virtue is built upon itself 5374 Virtue is despised, if it be seen in a threadbare cloak 5375 Virtue is more persecuted by the wicked, than en- couraged by the good 5376 Virtue is not secure against envy 5377 Virtue is of noble birth, but riches take the wall of her 5378 Virtue is of worth by itself alone, and so is not birth 5379 Virtue is prais'd by all, but practised by few 5380 Virtue is seldom followed gratis 5381 Virtue is the beauty of the soul 5382 Virtue is the only ground for friendship to be built upon 5383 Virtue is the only true nobility 5384 Virtue is tied to no degrees of men 5385 Virtue itself, without good manners, is laughed at 5386 Virtue may be overclouded a while, but ' twill shine at the last 163 5387 Virtue merits veneration, wherever she appears 6388 Virtue respects not blood and alliance 5389 Virtue scorns a lie for its defence 5390 Virtue would not go far, if a little vanity walked not with it 5391 Virtue's paths are first rugged, then pleasant 5392 Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another 5393 Ulcers cannot be cured, that are concealed 5394 Unadvised vows are an offence to God 5395 Unbidden guests know not where to sit down 5396 Under the blanket, the black one is as good as the white 5397 Under the flowers are thorns 5398 Under the hands of unlucky persons, opportunities wax old 5399 Unexpected kindnesses, or injuries, make great im- pression 5400 Unexperienced men think all things easy 5401 Unjust gains may be sweet in the mouth, but will be bitter in the belly a^ins uuKiimiicss lias no remedy at raw 5403 Unknown, unkiss'd 5404 Unmannerly a little, is better than troublesome a great deal 5405 Unpleasing errors are never so welcome as pleasing falsehoods 5406 Unreasonable silence is folly 5407 Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks 5408 Vows made in storms are forgot in calins 5409 Upbraiding turns a benefit into an injury 5410 Use legs, and have legs 5411 Use makes perfectness 5412 Use pastime, so as not to lose time 5413 Use the means, and trust to God for the bless- ing 5414 Want of care does us no more damage than want of knowledge 5415 Wanton kitlins may make sober old cats 5416 War, hunting, and love, have a thousand troubles for their pleasure 5417 War is death's feast 5418 War makes thieves, and peace hangs them 5419 War must not be waged by men asleep 16± 5420 Ware shins, quoth Grub, when he flung a louse in the fire 5421 Wary is the word 5422 Wasps haunt the honey-pot 5423 Waste makes want 5424 Water breeds frogs in the belly, but wine kills worms 5425 We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the dif- ference 5426 We are apt to believe what we wish for 5427 We are born crying, live complaining, and die dis- appointed 5428 We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich 5429 We are ever young enough to sin; never old enough to repent 5430 We are more mindful of injuries than benefits 5431 We are never so happy, or unfortunate, as we think ourselves 5432 We are not so sensible of the greatest health, as of the least sickness 5433 We bachelors grin, but you married men laugh till your hearts ache 5434 We begin not to live till we are fit to die 5435 We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours 5436 We carry our greatest enemies within us 5437 We carry our neighbour's failings in sight; we throw our own crimes over our. own shoulders 5438 We do nothing but in the presence of two great witnesses — God and our own conscience 5439 We desire but one feather out of your goose 5440 We easily forget our faults when nobody knows them 5441 We hate delay ; yet it makes us wise. 5442 We have all forgot more than we remember 5443 We hounds kill'd the hare, quoth the lap-dog 5444 We know not which stone the scorpion lurks under 5445 We'll bark ourselves, ere we'll buy dogs so dear 5446 We may be good in every condition 5447 Wc may see a prince, but not search him .5448 We must live by the quick, and not by the dead 5449 We must not lie down, and cry, God help us 5450 We must not look for a golden life in an iron age 165 5451 We never know the worth of water till the well 'm dry 5452 We perfectly know what is good, and what is evil ; and may be as certain in morals as in mathematics 5453 We see not what is in the wallet behind 5454 We seldom find out that we are flattered 5455 We shall lie all alike in our graves 5456 We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault 5457 We should play to live, not live to play 5458 We should publish our joys, and conceal our griefs 5459 Weak men and cowards are generally wilely 5460 Weak things united become strong 5461 Wealth and content do not always live together 5462 Wealth and honours can never cure a wounded conscience 5463 Wealth is best known by want 5464 Weeds are hard to eradicate 5465 Weeds are apt to grow faster than good herbs 5466 Weeds want no sowing 5467 Weigh right, and sell dear 5468 Weight, measure, and tale, take away strife 5469 Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell 5470 Welcome is the best cheer 5471 Welcome, mischief, if thou comest alone 5472 Well lathered is half shaven 5473 Well may he stumble that chooses a stony way 5474 Well might the cat wink when both her eyes were out 5475 What a day may bring a day may take away 5476 What a dust have I raised ! quoth the fly upon the coach 5477 What a great deal of good great men might do! 5478 What! are you afraid of him that died last year? 5479 What avails it me to draw one foot out of the mire, and stir k the other in ? 5480 What belongs to the public is nobody's property 5481 What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed 5482 What children hear at home soon flies abroad 5483 What comes too late is as nothing 5484 What cometh by kind costeth nothing 5485 What costs little is less esteemed 5486 What does a man think of when he thinks of no- thing 1 — Answ. A great man's promise 166 5487 Whatever is given to the poor is laid out of the reach of fortune 6488 Whatever wants, pleasure and vanity must be had 5489 Whatever we cannot help is our misfortune, not our fault 5490 What good can it do an ass to he called a lion ? 5491 What has been, may be 5492 What have I to do with Bradshaw's windmill ? 5493 What is a great estate good for, if it brings melan- choly ? 5494 What is a workman without tools ? 5495 What is done by night appears by day 5496 What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly 5497 What ! is it nothing but up and ride ? 5498 What is one pound of butter among a kennel of hounds ? 5499 What is the use of patience, if we cannot find it when we want it 5500 What may be done at any time will be done at no time 5501 What serves dirt for, if it do not stink ? 5502 What should a cow do with a nutmeg ? 5503 What pretty things men will make for money, quoth the old woman, when she saw a monkey ? 5504 What reason and endeavour cannot bring about, often time will 5505 What's a crab in a cow's mouth 1 5506 What's a gentleman but his pleasure ? 5507 What's a sun-dial in the shade good for ? 5508 What's an army without a general ? 5509 What's an estate good for, if it cannot buy con- tent? 5510 What's freer than a gift? 5511 What's good in the mouth may be bad in the maw 5512 What's mine, is my own ; what's my brother's, is his and mine 5513 What's my turn to-day may be thine to-morrow 5514 What's none of your profit need be none of your peril 5515 What's sowed in youth, will be reaped in age 5516 Whatsoever time does, it undoes 5517 What the better is the house for a sluggard's rising early 167 5518 What the eye sees need not to be guessed at 5519 What the eye sees not, the heart rues not 5520 What the good wife spares, the cat eats 5521 What the heart thinketh, the tongue speaketh 5522 What they lose in the hundred, they gain in the county 5523 What tutor shall we find for a child of sixty years old 5524 What ! would he be greater than Sir John ? 5525 What would you have ? a butter'd faggot ? 5526 What would you have ? a calf with a white face? 5527 What would you have an ass chop logic ? 5528 Wheat is not to be gather'd in the blade, but in the ear 5529 When a blind man flourisheth the antient, woe be unto those that follow him 5530 When a fool hath bethought himself, the market's over 5531 When a fox preaches, beware the geese 5532 When a goose dances, and a fool versifies, there is sport 5533 When a man grows angry his reason rides out 5534 When a man hath once done blushing, he com- menceth a hardened sinner 5535 When a man is not liked whatever he doth is amiss 5536 When a man is set upon his own ruin, 'tis in vain to reason with him 5537 When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you 5538 When a man's coat is thread-bare, it is an easy thing to pick a hole in it 5539 When a man's house is on fire, it's time to break off chess 5540 When a pig is given you, run presently for a string to lead it home 5541 When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured 5542 When a thing is done advice comes too late 5543 When a tree is once falling, every one cries down with it 5544 When all fruit fails, welcome haws 5545 When all is gone, repentance comes too late 5546 When an ass climbeth a ladder, you may find wis- dom in women 168 5547 When an ass is among a parcel of monkeys they all make faces at him 5548 When an old man will not drink, you may safely promise him a visit in the next world 5549 When Dover and Calais meet 5550 When every one gets his own, you'll get the gallows 5551 When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner 5552 When fortune fawneth, she biteth; when she is angry, she woundeth 5553 When fortune smiles, embrace her 5554 When God wills, all winds bring rain 5555 When gold speaks, you may even hold your tongue 5556 When he should work, every finger is a thumb 5557 When honour grew mercenary, money grew ho- nourable 5558 When I am dead make me a caudle 5559 When I had thatched his house, he would have hurled me from the roof 5560 When I wanted an honest man, I never thought to go to court for him 5561 When many strike on an anvil they must observe order 5562 When mastiffs fight, little curs will bark 5563 When necessity comes in, turn modesty out 5564 When passion entereth at the foregate, wisdom goeth out of the postern 5565 When poverty comes in at the door, love creeps out at the window 5566 When pride is on the saddle, shame is on the crupper 5567 When pride rides, shame lacqueys 5568 When sharpers prey upon one another, there's no game abroad 5569 When sorrow is asleep, wake it not 5570 When the barn's full, you may thresh before the door 5571 When the belly is full, the bones are at rest 5572 When the cat's gone the mice grow saucy 5573 When the christening is over, you may have god- fathers enough 5574 When the daughter is stolen, shut Pepper gate 5575 When the demand is a jest, the answer is a scoff 5576 When the devil prays, he has a booty in his eye 169 5577 When the devil of contradiction once possesses a man, he is hard to be cast out 5578 When the devil's a hog, you shall eat bacon 5579 When the devil's a vicar, then thou shalt be his clerk 5580 When the devil's dead, there's a widow for Hum- phrey 5581 When the dog is beaten out of the room, where will they lay their stink 5582 When the dog's dead, all his malice dies with him 5583 When the eye sees what it never saw, the heart will think what it never thought 5584 When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances 5585 When the fox could not reach the grapes, he cried, they are sour 5586 When the frog and mouse would take up the quar- rel, the kite decided it 5587 When the good man is abroad, the good woman's table is soon spread 5588 When the head aketh, all the body feels it 5589 When the heart is a-fire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth 5590 When the hop grows high, it must have a j o^e 5591 When the horse is starved you bring him cats 5592 When the house is burnt down, you bring water 5593 When the husband drinks to the wife, all would be well ; when the wife drinks to the husband, all is well 5594 When the husband is fire,' and the wife tow, the devil easily sets all in a flame 5595 When the maid leaves open the door, blame not the cat 5596 When the mare hath a bald face, the filley hath a blaze 5597 When the master licks the knife, its bad for the man 5598 When the mutton's going, it is good to take a slice 5599 When the next house is a-fire, it is high time to look to thy own 5600 When the old dog barks, he giveth counsel 5601 When the pig is proffered, hold up the poke 5602 When the pot boils over, it cooleth itself 5603 When the pirate preys, there is great danger I 170 5804 When the rights of hospitality are invaded, revenge is almost allowable 5605 When the soul is embittered, nothing is sweet 5606 When the steed is stole, yon shut the stable-door 5607 When the sun is highest, he casts the least shadow 5608 When the sun shines nobody minds it, but when it is eclipsed all consider him 5609 When the wares are gone, shut up the shop-win- dows 5610 When the wine is in, the wit is out 5611 W 7 hen the wine is run out, you'd stop the leak 5612 When there is but little bread, cut first, if you can 5613 When thou art at sea, sail ; when at laud, settle 5614 When thou dancest, take heed whom thou takest by the hand 5615 When two knaves deal, the devil drives the bar- gain 5616 When war beginneth, hell openeth 5617 When ware is liked it is half sold 5618 When we are pleased ourselves we begin to please others 5619 When we commend good actions, we make them in some measure our own 5620 When we do ill, the devil tempteth us ; when we do nothing, we tempt him 5021 When we first see the light we weep, and when we leave it we groan 5622 When wine sinks, words swim 5623 When you are good to others you are best to yourself 5624 When you are in the way you ask for the path 5625 When you are in vicious company you are among your enemies 5626 When you die your trumpeter will be buried 5627 When you give others ill words you rail at yourself 5628 When you have counted your cards, you'll find you have little left 5629 When you have given me roast meat you beat me with the spit 5630 When you have no observers, be afraid of yourself 5631 When you have made me shuffle the cards, then truly you'll not play 5632 When you obey your superior, you instruct your inferior 171 5633 When your name is up, you may lie a-bed till noon 5634 Where a chest lies open, a reputed honest man may sin 5635 Wlrere bad's the best, bad must be the choice 5636 Where bees are, there is honey 5637 Where content is, there is a feast 5638 Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved 5639 Where dainties are not to be had, be content with common fare 5640 Where drams speak out, laws hold their tongues 5641 Where embroidery is wanting, perhaps a patched coat may serve 5642 Wherever we meet misery, we owe pity 5643 Wherever an ass falleth, there will he never fall again 5644 Where ver you go, and business be cross, you have a league of bad way 5645 Where every one fleeceth the sheep go naked 5646 Where God hath his church, the devil hath his chapel 5647 Where its weakest, there the thread breaketh 5648 Where knaves fall out, honest men come by their own 5649 Where men are kindly used, they w ill resort 5650 Where necessity pinches, boldness is prudence 5651 Where no fault is, there needs no punishment 5652 Where none else will, the devil himself must bear the cross 5653 Where nothing is, nothing can be had 5654 Where one door is that, another is open 5655 Where passion is high, there reason is low 5656 Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home ? 5657 Where shall the ox go but he must labour ? 5658 Where something is found, there look again 5659 Wheresoever we live well, that is our country 5660 Wheresoever you see your kindred, make much of your friends 5661 Where the bee sucks honey, the spider sucks poison 5662 Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows 5663 Were the deer is slain, there will some of his blood lie I 2 172 5664 Where the great Turk's horse treads, grass never grows 5665 Where the heart is past hope, the face is past shame 5666 Where the hedge is lowest, men leap over 5667 Where the knot is loose, the string slippeth 5668 Where the river is deepest it runneth quietest 5669 Where the sea goes, there let the sands go 5670 Where the will is ready the feet are light 5671 Where there are boots ready, spurs maybe wanting 5672 Where there are many laws, there are many enor- mities 5673 Where there are pride and covetousness in a man, two devils fight 5674 Where there are reeds, there is water 5675 Where there is much love, there is much mistake 5676 Where there is no love, all are faults 5677 Where there is nothing to be had, even the king of France must lose his right 5678 Where two faithful friends meet, God makes up the third 5679 Where two fools meet, the bargain goes off 5680 Where vain-glory reigns, folly is prime counsellor 5681 Where villainy goes before, vengeance follows after 5682 Where water is shallow, no boat will ride 5683 Where we least think, there goes the hare away 5684 Where women are and geese, there wants no gag- gling 5685 Where you see a jester, a fool is not far off 5686 Wherries must not put out to sea 5687 Whether you boil or bake snow, you can have but water of it 5688 While the grass grows the steed starves 5689 While there is life there is hope 5690 While you trust to the dog, the wolf slips into the sheep-fold 5691 Whilst it thunders, the thief turns honest 5692 White walls are fool's writing-paper 5693 Who always buys and sells, feels not what he spends » 5694 Who asks after the pedigree of a swine he is to kill? 5695 Who bulls the cow must keep the calf 173 5696 Who can help sickness, quoth the drunken wife, when she fell into the gutter ? 5697 Who'd keep a cow, when he may have a quart of milk for a penny? 5698 Who draws his sword against his prince, must throw away the scabbard 5699 Who draws others into ill courses, is the devil's factor 5700 Who eats, and leaves, has another meal good 5701 Who eats his dinner alone must saddle his horse 5702 Who ever repented of a good action ? 5703 Who ever suffered for not speaking ill of others ? 5704 Who hath horns in his bosom, let him not put them on his forehead 5705 Who hath a scold, hath sorrow to his sops 5706 Who keep company with the wolf, will learn to howl 5707 W 7 ho knows but that my private watch may go truer than the town-clock? 5708 Who knows who may keep sheep another day ! 5709 Who loseth his due, getteth no thanks 5710 Who marrieth for love without money, hath merry nights and sorry days 5711 Who more busy than they that have least to do ! 5712 Who more ready to call her neighbour scold, than the arrantest scold in all the street ? 5713 Who never climbed high, never fell low 5714 Who perisheth in needless dangers, is the devil's martyr 5715 Who removeth land-mark stones, bruiseth his fin- gers 5716 Who robs a Cambridge-scholar, robs twenty 5717 Who shall bell the cat ? 5718 Who shall keep the keepers? 5719 Who so bold as blind Bctynard? 5720 Who spends before he thrives, will beg before he thinks 5721 Who thinks a woman hath no merit but her money, deserves to be made a cuckold 5722 Who would desire to spit blood, though into a golden bason ? 5723 Wholesome and poisonous herbs grow in the same garden 5724 Whom God loves, his house is savoury to him I 3 174 5725 Whom great men wrong, they hate 5726 Whores affect not you, but your money 5727 Whoso doth no evil, is apt to suspect none 5728 Whoso is apt to believe, shall frequently repent it 5729 Whoso is not dutiful to a good mother, shall be punished by an ill step-mother 5730 Whoso is wicked in the country, will be so also in town 5731 Whoso lacketh a stock, his gain is not worth a chip 5732 W hoso entertains you with the faults of others, de- serves to serve you in the same kind 5733 Whosoever engages in many pursuits, rarely suc- ceeds in one 5734 Whosoever is king, thou shalt be his man 5735 Whosoever values not his own life, may be master of another's 5736 Why should a rich man steal? 5737 Wicked men, like mad-men, have sometimes their lucid intervals 5738 Wickedness is its own punishment, and many times its own cure 5739 Wickedness with beauty is the devil's hook baited 5740 Widows are always rich 5741 Wife and children are bills of charges 5742 Wife and children are hostages given to fortune 5743 Wind and weather, do your utmost 5744 Wine hath drowned more men than the sea 5745 Wine in the hogshead quencheth no thirst 5746 Wine is a turn-coat; first a friend, and then an enemy 5747 Wine is the vintner's, but the goodness of it the drawer's 5748 Wine neither keeps secrets, nor fulfils promises 5749 Wine shews what a man is 5750 Wine that costeth nothing, is digested before it be drank 5751 Wine turns a man inside outwards 5752 Wine washeth off the daub 5753 Winter draws out what summer laid in 5754 Wilful faults have no excuse, and deserve no pardon 5755 Wilful waste brings woeful want 5756 Will any, but an Irishman, hang a wooden kettle over the fire ? 5757 Will is the cause of woe 175 5758 Will will have its will, though will woe win 5759 Will, without reason, is blind ; and against reason, is mad 5760 Willing minds take op with poor exercises 5761 Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood 5762 Wisdom don't always speak in Greek and Latin 5763 Wisdom goes not always by years 5764 Wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead 5765 Wisdom in perfection is not for mortals 5766 Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it 5767 Wisdom is more to be envied than riches 5768 Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy 5769 Wisdom itself is not ashamed to be sprightly and gay upon occasion 5770 Wisdom rises upon the ruins of folly 5771 Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes 5772 Wisdom, without innocence, is knavery ; innocence without wisdom, is folly 5773 Wise and good is better than rich and g! 5774 Wise and good men invented the laws, but fools and the wicked put them upon it 5775 Wise men care not for what they cannot hav e 5776 Wise men have but few of their society 5777 Wise men have reason ; other men, wit 5778 Wise men in the world are like timber-trees in a hedge, here and there oue 5779 Wise men learn by other men's harms ; fools by their own 5780 Wise men learn something of fools, but fools no- thing of wise men 5781 Wise men make proverbs, and fools repeat them 5782 Wise men may chance to be caught 5783 Wise men may look ridiculous in the company of fools 5784 Wise men may well be mistaken in futures 5785 Wit and wisdom are like the seven stars, seldom seen together 5786 Wit ill applied is a dangerous weapon 5787 Wit is to be met with every where, but wisdom is a rarity 5788 Wit may be bought too dear 5789 Wit sometimes -helps us to play the fool with more confidence I 4 176 5790 Wit without judgment is a weary thing to the com- pany 5791 Wit without wisdom cuts other men's meat, and its own fingers 5792 With a fool and a knave there's no conclusion 5793 With an honest and a good man, business is soon ended 5794 With as good a will, as ever I came from school 5795 With common friends, go with bridle in hand 5796 With cost, good pottage may be made out of a leg of a joint stool 5797 W r ith foxes we must play the fox 5798 Withhold not thy money, where there is need ; and waste it not, where there is none 5799 Witty coxcombs are the most troublesome of all coxcombs 5800 Wives must have their wills while they live, be- cause they make none when they die 5801 Woe to thai house where there is no chiding 5802 Wolves may lose their teeth, but not their nature 5803 Women and wine make men out of their wits 5804 Women arc better sold for sorrow, than bought for repentance 5805 Women commend a modest man, but like him not 5806 Women conceal all that they know not 5807 Women grown bad, are worse than men ; because the corruption of the best turns worst 5808 Women have tears of dissimulation, as well as sorrow 5809 Women, priests, and poultry, have never enough 5810 Women's work is never done 5811 Wonder is the daughter of ignorance 5812 Wood half-coal is easily kindled 5813 W 7 ords are but wind ; but seeing, is believing 5814 AVords are for women ; actions, for men 58 15 Words .shew the wit of a man, but action his mean- ing 5816 Work breaks an idle fellow's legs, arms, and back 5817 Worth begets in base minds, envy; but in brave souls, emulation 5818 Worth hath been under-rated, ever since wealth hath been over-valued 5819 Worth without wealth is a good servant out of place 177 5820 'Would I were in that country, where they break men's arms that talk of work 5821 ' Would, No, I thank you, had never been made 5822 Would you be thanked for feeding your own swine ? 5823 Would you cut down Falkland-wood with a pen- knife ? 5824 Would you die a raven black ? 5825 Would you draw oil out of sand ? 5826 Would you eat finer bread than is made of wheat, or wear finer cloth than is made of wool ? 5827 Would you have potatoes grow by the pot-side ? 5828 Would you know secrets? look for them in grief or pleasure 5829 Would you thatch your house with pancakes? 5830 Would you treat your horse with a peck of oysters 5831 Would you wipe with the water, and wash with the towel ? 5832 Wounds may heal, but not those that are made by ill words 5833 Wranglers are never in the wrong 5834 Wranglers never want words, though they may matter 5835 Wren's battles are as eagerly fought as crane's are 5836 Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces 5837 Write with the learned, but speak with the vulgar 6838 Yelping curs may anger mastiffs at last 5839 You and he piss both in a quill 5840 You and I draw both in the same yoke 5841 You are a fine fellow, to fetch the devil a priest 5842 You are a man among the geese, when the gander is away 5843 You are a pretty fellow to ride a goose a gallop 5844 You are a sweet nut if you were well crackt 5845 You are an honest man, and I am your uncle ; and that's two lies 5846 You are afraid of the dog you never saw 5847 You are come of good blood, and so is goose-pud- ding 5848 You are in the highway to Needham 5S49 You are in the roast-meat, while we are in the sod 5850 You are like a cuckoo, you have but one song 5851 You are like a bog, never good while living " I 5 178 5852 You are like fig-tree fuel, much smoke and little fire 5853 You are like foul weather, you come unsent for, and troublesome when come 5854 You are never pleased, full, nor fasting 5855 You are none of the Hastings nor Hotspurs 5856 You are not good, if you are so only for the sake of praise 5857 You are not yet a roasting, and yet you'd have sops in the pan 5858 You are one of those lawyers, that never heard of Littleton 5859 You are so cunning, you know not what weather it is when it rains 5860 You are so tender, you dare not he hanged for fear of galling your neck 5861 You are very free of another man's pottage 5862 You ask an elm tree for pears 5863 You begin well in nothing, except you end well 5864 You break my head, then give me a plaister 5865 You bring a bit of wire, and take away a bar 5866 You bring owls to Athens 5867 You cackle often, but never lay an egg 5868 You came a day after the fair 5869 You came as seasonably as snow in summer 5870 You came for wool, but shall return shorn your- self 5871 You can have no more of a cat than a skin 5872 You can never make a good shaft of a pig's tail 5873 You can never speak courage into a coward 5874 You cannot escape away from yourself 5875 You cannot hide an eel in a sack 5876 You cannot judge of a man till you know his whole story 3877 You cannot make a hunting horn of a fox's tail ,>878 You cannot make velvet of a sow's ear 79 You cannot say mass, but at your own altar 5880 You can't drive a windmill with a pair of bellows 5881 You can't eat your cake, and have it too 5882 You can't fare well, but you must cry roast meat i can't judge of the horse by the harness 5884 You can't know wine by the cask 5885 You can't sell the cow, and have her milk too 5886 You carry fire in one hand, and water in the other 5887 You cast your net, but nothing was caught 179 5888 You contend about a goafs beard, or lock of wool 5889 You converse daily with the devil, and pretend to be frightened with a mouse 5890 You con Id make broth, but you have no beef 5891 You could spy trouble if your eyes were out 5892 You cry hem, where there is no echo 5893 You cut large thongs out of another's hide 5894 You dare as well pull out one of the devil's teeth 5895 You dare as well take a bear by the tooth 5896 You dig your grave with your teeth 5897 You do but water a dead stake 5898 You drink out of the broad end of the funnel, and hold the little one to me 5899 You drink vinegar when you have wine at your el- bow 5900 You cat up that grass which I meant to make hay of 5901 You find a gap where the hedge is whole 5902 You find fault with a fat goose 5903 You fish fair, and catch a frog 5904 You gazed at the moon, and fell in the gutter 5905 You give me Colloquintida for Herb-John 5906 You give notable counsel ; but he's a fool that takes it 5907 You go to a goat to buy wool 5908 You gorge down wine as a swine swills whey 5909 You had rather go to mill than to mass 5910 You have a barn for all grain 5911 You have a little wit, and it does you good some- times 5912 You have a tangled skein of it to wind off 5913 You have always a ready mouth for a ripe cherry 5914 You have brought your hogs to a fair market 5915 You have done your day's work ; you may unyoke 5916 You have foul'd yourself, and now you'd have me clean you 5917 You have found a colt's nest, and laugh at the eggs 5918 \ou have found what was never lost 5919 You have good manners, but never carry them about you 5920 You have lost your own stomach, and found a dog's 5921 You have made a hand of it like a foot 5922 You have no goats, and yet you sell kids 180 5923 You have no need to borrow confidence 5924 You have not lived all your time upon nuts 5925 You have taken a bite out of your own arm 5926 You hide yourself in a net, and think nobody sees you 5927 You keep Easter when I keep Lent 5928 You know not how to sew, and yet you'd be cut- ting out 5929 You know not what ladle your dish may come under 5930 You lay on your butter as with a trowel 5931 You licked not your lips since you lied last 5932 You look as if you'd make the crow a pudding ere long 5933 You look for hot water under the ice 5934 You look like a runner, quoth the devil to the crab 5935 Y^ou look like the devil in day-light 5936 You make a muck-hill on my trencher, quoth the bride 5937 You make a great purchase when you relieve the necessitous 5938 You make as good music as a wheelbarrow 5939 You may be a wise man, and yet not know how to make a watch 5940 You may beat the de'il into your wife, but you'll never bang him out again 5941 You may be godly, but you'll never be cleanly 5942 You may believe any thing that is good of a grate- ful man 5943 You may dance on the ropes without reading Eu- clid 5944 You may follow him long ere a shilling drop from him 5945 You may gape long enough ere a bird fly into your mouth 5946 You may give him good advice, but who can give him wit to take it ? 5947 You may have a good memory, but you have a confounded judgment 5948 You may have worse offers before May-day 5949 You may know by a handful the whole sack 5950 You may keep wool till it is dirt, and flax till it is silk 181 5951 You may know by a penny how a shilling spends 5952 You may know by the market-folks how the mar- ket goes 5953 You may love your neighbour, and yet not hold his stirrup 5954 You may offer a bribe without fear of having your throat cut 5955 You may pay for your schooling more than your learning is worth 5956 You may row your heart out if the wind and tide set against you 5957 You may truss up all his wit in an egg-shell 5958 You may wink and choose 5959 You measure every man's honesty by jour own 5960 You meet a danger halt' way 5961 You must ask your neighbours if you shall live in peace 5962 You must be content sometimes with rough roads 5963 You must be content to taste your own broth 5964 You must look where it is not, as well as w here it is 5965 You must not cut and deal too 5966 You must not expect sweet from a dunghill, nor honour from a clow n 5967 You must not hope to reap wheat where you sowed none 5968 You must plough with such oxen as you have 5969 You must sell as markets go 5970 You must spoil before you spin well 5971 You need not get a golden pen to write upon dirt 5972 You need not go to the iron-nulls every time you lack a tacknr.il 5973 You need not marry ; you have troubles enough without it 5974 You never do it without overdoing it 5975 You ought to untie that knot which you knit your- self 5976 You owed me a sheep, but paid me a lamb 5977 You plead after sentence given 5978 You plough with an ox that will not miss a furrow 5979 You pour water into a sieve 5980 You pretend the public, but intend yourself 5981 You pretend to be a visitor, but are really a spy 5982 You put the clown above the gentleman 5983 You run like Teague before yonr errand 182 5984 You saddle to-day, and ride out to-morrow 5985 You saw out your tree before you cut it down 5986 You scatter meal, and gather ashes 5987 You scorn it, as a dog does tripe 5988 You seek the needle where you never stuck it 5989 You set saffron, and there came up wolfsbane 5990 You sewed it with a red-hot needle and a burning thread 5991 You shall have the whetstone 5992 You shall never beat the fly from the candle, though she burn for it 5993 You shall never clap a padlock upon my tongue 5994 You shew bread in one hand, and a stone in t'o- ther 5995 You should ask the world's leave before you com- mend yourself 5996 You shut your budget before it is full 5997 You sift night and day, and get nothing but bran 5998 You sit upon thorns 5999 You smile and bite 6000 You spoil a good dish with ill sauce 6001 You starve in a cook's shop 6002 You take every bush for a bugbear 6003 You take me up before I'm down 6004 You take more care of your shoe than your foot 6005 You talk of last year's snow 6006 You tell your money over a gridiron 6007 You to the cabbage, and I to the beef 6008 You trust a great weight to a slender thread 6009 You were begot a nutting, you speak in clusters 6010 You were born when wit was scarce 601 1 You were bred in Brazen-Nose college 6012 You were put out of the oven for nipping of pies 6013 You will neither dance nor hold the candle 6014 1 »>u will never have a friend if you must have one without failings 6015 You will never repent of being patient and sober 6016 : ou would be little for God if the devil were dead 6017 You'd find knots in a bulrush 6018 You'd wash a blackmoor white 6019 You'll be good when your goose pisseth 6020 You'll beguile none but those that trust you 6021 You'll bring a noble to nine-pence 6022 You'll dance at the end of a rope without teaching 183 6023 You'll get the cat with nine tails 6024 You'll have as much courtesy at Billingsgate 6025 You'll keep it no longer than you cau a cat in a wheelbarrow 6026 You'll know an idle fellow if you but see him at dinner 6027 You'll make an end of your whistle, though the cart overthrow for it 6028 You'll never be mad, you are of so many minds 6029 You'll never be master of gold enough to break your back 6030 You'll never get your revenge of a rich man 6031 You'll not believe a man is dead till you see his brains out 6032 You'll not believe him bald till you see his brains 6033 You'll rather be begged than hanged tor your wit 6034 You'll ride a horse that was foaled of an ass 6035 You'll scratch a beggar before you die 6036 Young cocks love no coops 6037 Young is the goose that will not eat oats 6038 Young men are made wise ; old men become so 6039 Young men may die ; old men must 6040 Young men should be learners when old men are actors 6041 Young men think old men fools, but old men know the young are so 6042 Young prodigal in a coach will be old beggar bare- foot 6043 Your belly will neve let your back be warm 6044 Your bread is buttered on both sides 6045 Your cake is dough 6046 Y'our dirty shoes are not welcome in my parlour 6047 Your e%^ is ready roastea to your hand 6048 Your father's honour is to you but a second-hand honour 6049 Your great admirers are mostly but silly fellows 6050 Your head's so hot that your brains bubble over 6051 Your horns hang in your eyes 6052 Your key fits not thai lock 6053 Your last pig is farrowed 6054 Your main fault is, you are good for nothing 6055 Your mamma's milk is scarce out of your nose yet 6056 Y our mind is upon chacing of mice 6057 Your mouth hath beguiled your hands 184 6058 Your nut is ready crackt for you 6059 Your old brass will bring you on a new pan 6060 Your purse opened not when it was paid for 6061 Your tongue has got the start of your wit 6062 Your tongue is made of very loose leather 6063 Your trumpeter's dead, and so you sound yourself 6064 Your windmill is dwindled into a nut-cracker 6065 Your wits are gone a wool-gathering 6066 Youth and white paper take any impression 6067 Zeal is by no means the same with fury and rage 6068 Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools 6069 Zeal without knowledge is fire without light 6070 Zeal without prudence is phrenzy 6071 Zeal, when it is a virtue, is a dangerous one 6072 He that goes out with often loss Comes home at last by weeping cross, 6073 If you would live for ever You must wash the milk off your liver. 6074 Who spends more than he should Hath not to spend when he would. 6075 When you are anvil hold you still ; When you are hammer strike your fill. 6076 My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. 6077 If a man knew what things would be dear, He need be merchant but only one year. 6078 Children and chicken Must ever be picking, 6979 To live ever Would be clever. 6079* Would you live an angePs days, Be honest, just, and wise always. 6080 Eat at pleasure, Drink in measure. 6081 Early to bed, and early to rise, Will make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 6081*Find you without excuse, And find a hare without a muse. 6082 Enough's as good's a feast To one that's not a beast. 185 6083 Truth may be blamed, But cannot be shamed. 6084 If you trust before yon try You may repent before you die. 6085 If youth but knew what age would eravc, 'Twould ever get and ever save. 6086 Were things done twice Then all were wise. 6087 He that will steal a pin Will steal a better thing. 6088 He must needs swim That is held by the chin. 6089 To borrow upon usance Bringeth on a nuisance. 6090 Time fleeth away Without delay. 6091 Trash and trumpery Is the way to Duke Humphrey. 6092 Give and spend, And God will send. 6093 A good take heed Will surely speed. 6094 He that would thrive Must rise by five ; He that hath thriven May lay till seven. 6095 Two cats and one mouse, Two wives in one house, Two dogs at one bone, Can never agree in one. 6096 Wars Brings scars. 6097 Wide will wear, But narrow will tear. 6098 If wishes would bide Beggars would ride. 6099 Help, hands; For I have no lands. 6100 Harm watch, Harm catch. 6101 The more you heap The worse you cheap. 6102 Of saving Cometh having, " 186 6103 A friend in need Is a friend indeed. 6104 One God — no more; But friends good store. 6105 Not God above Gets all men's love. 6106 What God will No frost can kill. 6107 Early sow, Early mow. 6108 The longer east The longer west. 6109 Want makes strife 'Tween man and wife. 61 10 In the forehead and the eye The lecture of the mind doth lie. 6111 As a man is friended, So the law is ended. 6112 There's not so bad a Jill, But there's as bad a Will. 6113 The frog Cannot out of her bog. 6114 Giving much to the poor Increaseth a man's store. 6115 A belly full of gluttony Will never study willingly. 6116 Speak what you will, A bad man will turn it ill. 6117 What soberness conceals Drunkenness reveals. 6118 Soon crooks the tree That good gambrel would be. 6119 Fair in the cradle, And foul in the saddle. 6120 Coinmcn fame Is mostly to blame. 6120*Common fame, a cunning friar, Are but both a common liar. 6121 As the bell clinks So the fool thinks. 6122 Much bruit, Little fruit. 6132 Money's better Than my lord's letter. 187 6124 What cannot be cured, Must be endured. 6125 Nothing's a man's truly, Bat what he came by duly. 6126 April showers Bring May flowers. 6127 A March wisher Is never a good fisher. 6128 They, that have no other meat, Bread and butter are glad to eat. 6129 Who buys Had need of an hundred eyes ; But one's enough, For him that sells the stuff. 6130 Fain would the cat fish eat, But she's loth her feet to wet. 6131 When the cat is away, The mice will play. 6132 Be the day ever so long, At length cometh even-song. 6133 March borrows of April Three days, and they be ill. 6134 April borrows of March again, Three days of wind and rain. 6135 The first day oi' April, You may send a tool whither vou will. 6136 The third of April Comes in the cuckoo and nighti: 6137 March wind;; and May sun ^IciivC clothes white, and maids dun. 613S A winter's thunder Is a summer's wonder. 6139 A cherry year, A merry year : A plumb year, A dumb T 6140 As the day lengthens, So the cold strengthens. 6141 If you would a good hedge have, Carrv the leaves to the s;ra\e. 6142 If St. Paul be fair and clear, Then betides a happy year ; If the wind da blow aloft Then of wars we shall hear full oft i 188 If the clouds make dark the sky, Great store of people then will die ; If there be either snow or rain, Then will be dear all sorts of grain. 6143 Sow beans in the mud, And they'll grow like wood. 6144 A kindfy good Janiveer Freezeth the pot by the feere. 6145 To rip old sores, And cast up old scores. 6146 As your wedding-ring wears, You'll wear oif your cares. 6147 If grass look green in Janiveer, 'Twill look the worser all the year. 6148 March in Janiveer, Janiveer in March I fear 6149 Who in Janiveer sows oats, Gets gold and groats ; Who sows in May, Gets little that way. 6150 February fill dike, Be it black, or be it white ; But if it be white, It's the better to sight. 6151 All the months in the year, Curse a fair Februeer. 6152 You should, upon Candlemas-day, Throw candle and candlestick away. 6153 He that will not when he may, When he will, he shall have nay. 6154 Wishers and woulders, Are never good householders. 6155 The difference is very wide, That the sheets will not decide. 6156 Farewell frost ; Nothing got, is nothing lost. 6157 That's a lie with a latchet; All the dogs in the town cannot match it. 6158 You may as soon Make a cloak for the moon. 6159 Much matter, Of a wooden platter. 6160 Annan of words, and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. 189 6161 Good weight and measure, Is heaven's treasure. 6162 The receiver Is as bad as the thiever. 6163 Before St. Chad, Every goose lays, both good and bacL 6164 To the wise, A word may suffice. 6165 Words are but wind, But blows unkind. 6166 Words are but sands ; Its money buys lands. 6167 In space Comes grace. 6168 Ever spare, And ever bare. 6169 Great spenders Are bad lenders. 6170 Tho' 1 am bitten, I am not all eaten. 6171 Novice, Like avarice. 6172 Who so blind as he, That will not see ? 6173 A little pot Is soon hot. 6174 Store, Is no sore. 61 75 Essex stiles, Kentish miles, Norfolk wiles, Many a man beguiles. 6176 The postern door Makes thief and whore, 6177 After a delay, Comes a stay. 6178 Sure bind, Sure find. 6179 Old young, And old long 6180 Fill what you will, And drink what you fill. 6181 Patch by patch is good housewifery ; But patch upon-patch plain beggary. 190 6182 He that will live in peace and rest, Must hear and see, and speak the best. 6183 Fair words never break a bone, Foul words have broke in any a one. 6184 Like blood, like goods, and like age, Make the happiest marriage. 6185 Marry in haste, and repent at leisure ; Its good to marry late, or never. 6186 When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep an hour at noon. 6187 He that lets his horse drink at every lake, And his wife go to every wake, Shall never have a good horse, Nor a good wife, which is worse. 6188 Almost, and hard by, Saves many a lie. 6189 An easy fool, Is a knave's tool. 6190 A cool May, and a windy Barn, filletli up kindly. 6192 May come early, come late, 'Twill make the cow quake. 6192 A hot May, as I've heard, Maketh a fat church-yard. 6193 Leave not a clout, Till May be out. 3194 A May flood Was never good. 6194 Shear your sheep in May And clear them all away. 6196 A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; But a swarm in July Is not worth a fly. 6197 Be sure of hay Till the end of May. 6198 When April blows his horn It's good for hay and corn. 6199 An April flood Carries away the frog and ber brood. 6200 When the cuckow comes to the bare thorn Sell your cow, and buy you corn ; But when she comes to the bit full Sell your corn and buy you sheep wool. 191 6201 Tis said from the twelfth of May To the twelfth of July, all is day. 6202 Be it weal, or be it woe, Beans should blow before May go. 6203 Look at your corn in May And you'll come weeping away ; Look at the same in June And you'll come home in another tune. 6204 If on the eighth of June it rain It foretels a wet harvest, men sain. 6205 Never rued the man, That laid in his fuel before St. John. 6206 Barnaby bright, The longest day, and the shortest night. 6207 Calm weather in June Sets corn in tune. 6208 No tempest, good July, Lest corn come off bluely. 6209 Dry August and warm Doth harvest no harm. 6210 St. Bartholomew Brings cold dew. 6211 At St. Matthee, Shut up the bee. 6212 St. Matthew Brings on the cold dew. 6213 No weather's ill, If the wind be still. 6214 September, blow soft, Till the fruit's in the loft. 6215 A Michaelmas-tot Comes ne'er in the pot. 6216 Foolish pity Ruins a city. 6217 On Lady -day the later, The cold comes on the water, 6218 Good October, a strong blast, To blow the hog acorn and mast. 6219 Often drunk, and seldom sober, Falls likes the leaves in Octobei\ 6220 On St. Luke's day The oxen may play. 6221 November, take flail, Let ships no more sail. 192 6222 Lucy Light, The shortest day, and longest night. 6223 When the wind's in the west, The weather's at the best. 6224 When the wind is in the east, It's good for neither man, nor beast. 6224* A right easterly wind Is very unkind. 6225 When the wind is in the south, It's in the rain's mouth. 6226 When the wind is in the south, It blows the bait into the fish's mouth. 6227 Though old and wise, let still advise. 6228 The liquorish cat Gets many a pat. 6229 Coblers and tinkers Are the best ale drinkers. 6230 Diversity of humours Breedeth tumours. 6231 Brabling curs Ne'er want sore ears. 6232 Hey ! ninny nanny ! One fool makes many. 6233 The fewer his years, The fewer his tears. 6234 He giveth twice, T^iat gives in a trice. 6235 A man of gladness Seldom falls into madness. 6236 No lock will hold, 'Gainst keys of gold. 6237 Itch, and ease, Can no man please. 6238 A urinal and a law bill Bring a man to his last will. 6239 The life of a man is a winter's day And a winter's way. 6240 He is not a merchant bare, That hath money-worth, and ware. 6241 He that once a good name gets May piss a-bed, and say he sweats. 6242 Nothing crave, Nothing have. 193 6243 Let no woman's painting Breed thy heart's fainting. 6244 A man without reason Is a beast in season. 6245 A good recorder sets all in order. 6246 Well to work, and make a fire, Doth good skill and care require. 6247 Goods words, and no deeds, Are rushes and reeds. 6248 The more years you have, The nearer your grave. 6249 An ague in the spring Is physic for a king. 6250 An apple, an egg, and a nut, You may eat after a slut. 6251 After dinner, sit a while : After supper, walk a mile. 6252 Good keal, is half a meal 6253 He that would be wise and gay, Must eat butter and sage in May. 6254 The father to the bough, The son to the plough. 6255 The head and feet keep warm, The rest will take no harm. 6257 The air of a window Is as a wound y a hind-blow. 6258 Seek love, and it will shun ycu, Haste away, and he'll outrun you. 6259 Whom love we best We talk to least. 6260 He that loves glass without a G, Take away L, and that is he. 6261 Wedlock's, A padlock. 6262 Bless'd is the eye Tween Severn and Wye. 6263 Many a one for land Takes a fool by the hand. 6264 First canting, then wooing, Then dallying, then doing. 6265 Happy's the wooing That's not long a doing. 6266 He that would the daughter win, Must with the mother first begin, 6267 Wives must be had, Be they good, or bad. K 194 6268 A nice wife, and back door, Often make a rich man poor. 6269 Free of her lips, Free of her hips. 6270 Beggars breed* And rich men feed. 6271 Little said, soon amended : Little money, soon spended. 6272 One wit and bought, Is worth two for nought. 6273 Pride and grace Dwell never in one place. 6274 Some have hap, And some nap. 6275 Well sees the mouse That the cat's out of the house. 6276 Up hill spare me, (an horse) Down hill forbear me ; Plain way, spare me not, Nor let me drink when I am hot. 6277 We will bear with the stie If it bring but in chink. 6278 Hell will never have its due, Till it have his hold on you. 6279 He's up too soon, Who's hang'd ere noon. 6280 Nothing is a man's truly, That he cometh not by duly. 6281 The belly full, the empty skull. 6282 Often might, Overcomes right. 6283 Two in distress, Make sorrow less. 6284 I stout, and thou stout, Who shall carry the dirt out ? 6285 Good health is above wealth. 6286 Bring something, lass, along with thee 7 If thou intend to live with me. 6287 An old cart, well used, A new one abused. 6288 All shall be well, And Jack shall have JUL 6289 By Lhan, Law, Les, By Tre, Pol, Pan, You soon may guess A Cornish man. 195 6290 Mere wishes Are silly fishes. 6291 A stitch in time May save nine. 6292 Grace will last, When beauty's past. 6293 If not by might, E'en do't by slight. 6294 Well beguu Is half done. 6295 Birds of a feather Flock together. 6296 He that's a blab Is a mere scab. Small roast. 6298 He that wears black, Must hang a brush at his back. 6299 When good cheer is lacking, Our friends will be packin 6300 Salt cooks bear blame, But fresh cooks shame. 6301 He's a wise man, who When he's well, can hold him so. 6302 He that will cheat at play Will cheat you any way. 6303 He that speaks the thing he should not. Shall often hear the thing he would not. 6304 He's a wise man, who Can make a friend of a foe. . 6305 He that would do no ill, Must do all good, or sit still. 6306 Blow the wind never so fast, It will fall at last. 6307 Be thou weal, or be thou woe. Thou shalt not be ahvays so. 6308 He that comes last, Makes all fast. 6309 While the leg warmeth, The boot harmeth. 6310 Better see a clout, Than a hole out. 6311 A friend in court, Makes the process short 6312 A man is weal or woe, As he thinks himself so. 6313 A good wife and health, Are a man's best wealth. 6314 A loan— Should come laughing home. K 2 196 6315 Take heed, Is a good read. 6316 Look not too high, Lest a chip fall in yom eye, 6317 He that lends Will lose money and friends. 6318 Many a little, Make a mickle. 6319 Little strokes, Fell great oaks. 6320 Man proposes ; God disposes. 6321 Measure's, A treasure. 6322 No joy, Without annoy. 6323 New honours, Change manners. 6324 What greater crime, Than loss of time 6325 The cow little giveth, That hardly liveth. 6326 Let Uterpendragon, do what he can, The river Eden will run as it ran. 6327 A little house well mv Are just the same at doom's day. 6400 If the patridge had the woodcock's thigh, 'Twould be the best bird that ever did fly. 6401 The love of wine, and love of a woman, Are sweet for a season — then pleasant to no man. 6402 Be always as merry as ever you can, For no one delights in a sorrowful man. 6403 He that woos a maid, must come seldom in her sight; But he that woos a w idow, must woo her day and night. 6404 A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut tree, The more they're beaten, the better they be. 6405 There is no mischief in the world done, But a woman is" always one. 200 6406 A wicked woman, and an evil, Is three half-pence worse than the devil. 6407 He that is needy, when he is married, Shall not be rich when he is buried. 6408 As the goodman saith, so say we: But as the goodwife saith, so it must be. 6409 Fair and foolish, black and proud; Long and lazy, little and loud. 6410 Maidens must be mild and meek; Swift to hear, but slow to speak. 6411 Remember man and keep in mind, A faithful friend is hard to find. 6412 The more haste, the worse speed ; Quoth the tailor to his long thread. 6413 The good, or ill hap of a good, or ill life. Is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. 6414 When I did well, I heard it never; "When I did ill, 1 heard it ever. 6415 When the fool finds a horse-shoe, He thinks always so to do. 6416 Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the wealth small, and the wants great. 6417 If men w on Id make haste when on foot, They need not put their horses to't* 6418 What raging rashly is begun, Challeugeth shame, before half done. 6419 They that worship God merely for fear, Would worship the devil too, should he appear. 6420 The higher the plumb-tree, the riper the plumb; The richer the cobler, the blacker his thumb. 6421 When Adam dclv'd, and Eve span, Pray where was then the gentleman? 6422 He that buys land, buys many stones; He that buys flesh, buys many bones : He that buys eggs, buys many shells; But he that buys ale, buys nothing else. 6423 Our fathers, who were wond'rous wise, Washed their throats before their eyes. 6424 Break coals, cut candle, set brand on end, Neither good housewife, nor good housewife's friend. 6425 No more mortar, no more brick : A crafty knave has a cunning trick. 6426 It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch, To see a man live poor to die rich. 201 6427 He that hath more smocks than shirts in a bucking- ; Hath need be a man of a good fore-looking* 6428 Money we want, and cannot borrow ; Yet drink we must, to slacken sorrow. 6429 Cold broth hot again, that lov'd T never ; Old love renew'd again, that lov'd I ever. 6430 Great wits to madness, sure, are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 6431 Like dogs that snarl about a bone ; And play together when they've none. 6432 He that gets money before he gets wit, AVill be but a short while master of it. 6433 His wit got wings, and would have flown ; But poverty still kept him down. 6434 He has wit at will, iijcil »uu an iingij neart can nold Him siill. 6435 He that spends all upon a whore, Both shame and sorrow must endure. 6436 Its God that feeds the crows, That neither tills, harrows, nor sows. 6437 Know when to spend, and when to spare, And you need not be busy ; you'll ne'er be bare. 4438 The tricks a colt gets at his first breaking, Will, whilst he lives, never be lacking. 6439 He that leaves certainty, and sticks to chance, When fools pipe, he may dance. 6440 Its a good horse that never stumbles ; And a good wife that never grumbles. 6441 The best horse needs breeching ; And the aptest child needs teaching. 6442 He that buys a house ready wrought, Has many a pin and nail for nought. 6443 He that buys lawn before he can fold it, Shall repent him before he have sold it. 6444 Look well before you leap, For snakes among the flowers creep. 6446 He that will meddle with all things May go shoe the goslings. 6447 If a woman were as little as she is good, A peascod would make her a gown and a hood. 6448 Say well, and do well, end with a letter ; Say well is good, but do well is better. 6449 Who goes more bare Than the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare I 202 6450 Who doth sing so merry a note As the cobler, that cannot change a groat 6451 Good riding at two anchors men have told, For if one break, t'other may hold. 6452 The world was never so dull still, But if one won't another will. 6453 I wrote well how the world wags ; He is most lov'd that hath most bags. 6454 When the cat winketh, Little wots the mouse what the cat thinketh. 6455 They that cobble and clout Shall have work when others go without. 6456 Who gives away goods before he be dead, You should take a beetle and knock him o'the head. 6467 Givt t t child all ho shall ciave, And a dog while his tail doth wave ; And you'll have a fair dog and foul knave. 6458 It's hard to split the hair, That nothing is wanted, and nothing to spare. 6459 He that winketh with one eye, and seeth with t'o* ther, I would not trust him, though he were my brother. 6463 He that still gapeth till he be fed, Well may he gape until he be dead. 6461 Tell me with whom thou goest, And I'll tell thee what thou doest. 6462 He that hears much, and speaks not at all, Shall be welcome both in bower and hall. 6463 Had I revenged every wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long. 6464 Many talk of Robin Hood, that never shot in his bow, And many talk of Little John, that never did him know. 6465 Better ride, when saddles do lack, On a pad, than on a bare horse's back. 6466 He that hath but little, he shall have less ; And he that hath right nought, right nought shall possess. 6467 If St, Swithin weep, that year, the proverb says, The weather will be foul for forty days. 6468 If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together. 203 6469 A shower in July, when the corn begins to fill, Is worth a plough of oxen and all belongs there till, 6470 Till St. James's day be come and gone, You may have hops, or you may have none. 6471 If the twenty-fourth of A ugust be fair and clear, Then hope for a prosperous autumn that year. 6472 When a musician has forgot his note, He makes as though a crumb stuck in his throat. 6473 Nothing more smooth than glass, yet nothing more brittle ; Nothing more fine than wit, yet nothing more fickle. 6474 March balkham Comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb. 6475 So many mists as in March you see, So many frosts in May will be. 6476 March many weathers rain'd and blow'd, But March grass never did good. 6477 A peck of March dust, and a shower in May, Makes the corn green, and the fields gay. 6478 If you will have good cheese, and have old, You must turn him seven times before he is cold. 6479 When elder is white brew and bake a peck ; When elder is black, brew and bake a sack. 6470 Winter's thunder and summer's flood Never boded Englishman good. 6481 The pigeon never knoweth woe, But when she doth a benting go. 6482 This rule in gardening never forget — To sow dry*, and set wet. 6483 When the slow-tree is as white as a sheet Sow your barley, whether it be dry or wet. '6484 If Janiveer's calends be summerly gay, 'Twill be winterly weather till the calends of May. 6485 It is an omen bad, the yeomen say, If Phoebus shew his face the second day. 6486 The shepherd would as soon see his wife on the bier As that Candlemas-day should be pleasant and clear. If on Candlemas-day it be shower and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. 6487 If Candlemas-day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. 6488 On Candlemas-day You must have half your straw and half your hay. £04 6489 On Valentine's day Will a good goose lay T If she be a good goose, her dame well to pay, She will lay two eggs before Valentine's day. 6490 Such envious things the women are, That fellow flirts they cannot bear. 6491 Every lamb Knows its dam. 6492 A Saturday's moon, If it comes once in seven years, comes too soon. 6493 No weather's ill If the wind hold still. 6494 A light purse Is a heavy curse. 6495 A knight of Cales, A gentleman of Wales, And a laird of the north country ; There's a yeoman of Kent, That with one year's rent Will buy them all three. 6496 An ounce of wit's that bought Is worth a pound that's taught, 6497 Sirrah your dog, but sirrah not me ; For I was born before you could see. 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