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Of PROVERBS or ADAGES.
THe Peeples voice, the Voice of God we call, And what are Proverbs but the peeples voice? Coin'd first, and current made by common choice, Then sure they must have Weight and Truth withall. They are a publick Heritage entayld On every Nation, or like Hireloomes nayld, Which passe from Sire to Son, and so from Son Down to the Granchild till the world be done; They are Free-Denisons by long Descent, Without the grace of Prince or Parlement, The truest Commoners, and Inmate guests, We fetch them from the Nurse and Mothers brests; They can prescription plead gainst King or Crown, And need no Affidavit but their own. VVee thought it then well worth the pains, and cost, To muster up these Ancients in one Host, Which here like furbishd medalls we present To all that breath in Christendom and Kent.J. H.