He might first begin at home.
Charitie begins at home fi••st.
As fit for him as a shoulder of mutton for a sick horse.
Read not before you learne to spell.
Jack sprat teacheth his grandame.
The scholler teacheth his master.
Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina in usum scholarum concinnata. Or proverbs English, and Latine, methodically disposed according to the common-place heads, in Erasmus his adages. Very use-full and delightful for all sorts of men, on all occasions. More especially profitable for scholars for the attaining elegancie, sublimitie, and varietie of the best expressions.
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- Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina in usum scholarum concinnata. Or proverbs English, and Latine, methodically disposed according to the common-place heads, in Erasmus his adages. Very use-full and delightful for all sorts of men, on all occasions. More especially profitable for scholars for the attaining elegancie, sublimitie, and varietie of the best expressions.
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- Clarke, John, d. 1658.
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- London :: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Robert Mylbourne, and are to be sold at the signe of the Vncorne [sic] neere Fleet-bridge,
- 1639.
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Page 5
Fire quoth the foxe, when he piss'd on the ice.
To lave the Sea with a nut-shell.
'Tis hard to sayle over the Sea in an egge-shell.
Make not a gauntlet of a hedging glove—
A sow to a fiddle.
You lay pe••rle before swine.
A tinker and a piper make bad musick together.
He becomes it as well as a cow doth a cart-sad∣dle.
You correct magnificat.
The best things may be a∣bused.
The farthest about, is the nearest way home.
He stumbles at a straw, and leapes over a blocke.
Wise men silent, fooles talke.
Penny w••se and pound fool••sh.
To leave the meale and
Page 6
take the branne.
The cart before the horse.
If'twere a beare 't would bite you
A wooden dagger in a pain∣ted sheath
Who so ill shod as the shoo-makers wife.
The sea complaines it wan∣teth water
A watchman must never be unprovided of a wea∣pon for feare of the worst
Teach your grandame to grope her ducke.
You are out of your ayme
Neither time nor reason
Can't you keepe the Kings high way?
To rob the spittle.
No man before his guide
Page 7
Blind men judge of colours.
You knock at a deafe man's doore— wrong doore.
A pig playes on the organs
To doe any thing unluckily — awkley — worse and worse.
You bring your hogs to a wrong market.
They agree like dog and cat
You set an old mans head on a yong mans shoul∣ders.
As fine as an ape in purple
A sowe weares a sadle.
A faire crop.
Hee's unworthy of his place
Kim kam arsie versie
—Lines not worth your reading.
Page 8
There's a thing in it (quoth the fellow when he drunk the dishclout).
The pot cals the pan burnt— arse.
Towers build masons—
Next way, round about, in at th'farr-doore.
You go the wrong way to worke.
It's a strange beast that hath neither head nor tayle.
You tell us A tale of a Tub.
Tales of Robin Hood, are good for fooles.
Fiddle faddle, tell me it snowes.
To sing the old song.
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What's a workman with∣out his tooles?
He hath but one salve for all sores.
To set the foxe to keepe the geese.
Out of his Element.
Speake not against con∣science.
Poure not water on a drowned mouse.
To streine at a gnat and swallow a camell.
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To leape over the hedge, ere he come at the style.
Every one basteth the fat hog.
To grease a fat sow i'th taile