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The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar.
A young Saint an old De∣vil — viz. when they apostatize, as the Tur∣kish Janisaries —
The finest lawn is soonest steyned.
The fairest silk is soonest soyled.
It mends like soure ale in summer worse & worse
Margery good cow gives a good meal & then kicks it down with her heele.
To come from little good to starke naught.
Faire in the cradle, soule in the saddle.
Shew me not the meat, but shew me the man.
Soone ripe soone rotten.
He takes not after the fa∣ther.
Many a good cow hath a bad calfe.
Great mens sonnes oft are their sinnes.
The older the worse, like my old shooes.
Seldome comes the better.
He shames the house he is come of.
Neither good egge nor bird.
His work thrives not.
He that begins to steale a pin, will be hang'd for a pound one day.
As good never a whit as never the better.
'Tis in vain to complain of them that will not mend.
Let us mend. They goe far that never turn.
Angelicus juvenis seni∣bus satanizat in annis.
Corruptio optimi est pes∣sima.
Mandrabûli in morem res succedit.
Ab aula in caulam.
Ab equis ad asinos.
Acetum filius vini.
Praecocia non diuturna.
Citò maturum citò pu∣tridum.
Heroum filii noxae.
Deterior quotidie poste∣rior dies.
Nec bona tam sequitur quam bona prima —
O domus antiqua quam dispari domino domi∣naris!
Benè natis turpè est ma∣lè vivere.
Acesias medicatus est.
Taurum tollet qui vitu∣lum sustulerit.
Discum quam philoso∣phum audire malim.
Eamus Athenas.