Measure cxxviii.
Measure is a mery meane.
Which fylde with noppy drynke.
Two hundred epigrammes, vpon two hundred prouerbes with a thyrde hundred newely added and made by Iohn Heywood.
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- Two hundred epigrammes, vpon two hundred prouerbes with a thyrde hundred newely added and made by Iohn Heywood.
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- Heywood, John, 1497?-1580?
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- [London :: [In the house of T. Berthelet]],
- Anno Christi. M.D.L.V. [1555]
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- Proverbs, English.
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When mery drynkers drynke of cleane:
Then merely they wynke.
Othervvyse.
Measure is a mery meane.
But I meane measures gret:
Where lyppes to lytell pytchers leane:
Those lyppes they scantly wet.
Othervvyse.
Measure is a mery meane.
But ynche, foote, yerde, or ell:
Those measures are not worth a beane:
They measure no drynke well.
Othervvyse.
Measure is a mery meane.
Be drynke deare or good cheape:
From measure no wyght, may the weane:
Thou measurst drynke by heape.
Othervvyse.
Measure is a mery meane.
Good lycker may not shrynke:
Thou takste no tryacle of Geane
So holsome as good drynke.
Othervvyse.
Measure is a mery meane.
Shewynge indyffrency:
Wolde thale wyfe, play the poulyng queane:
Yet measure wyll not lye.
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Othervvyse.
Measure is a mery meane.
That doth dylygently:
Attend the tappes of stande and steane:
To moyst thy lyppes full dry.
Othervvyse.
Measure is a mery meane.
And measure is thy ma••e:
To be a deacon, or a deane:
Thou woldst not chaunge thestate.
Othervvyse.
Measure is a mery meane.
Who that shall enterpryse,
This measure from the, for to gleane,
Ryght erly must he ryse.
Othervvyse.
Measure is a mery meane.
In volewmes full or f••at,
There is no chapter, nor no seane,
That hou applyest lyke that.