Paroimiographia Proverbs, or, Old sayed savves & adages in English (or the Saxon toung), Italian, French, and Spanish, whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added ... / collected by J.H., Esqr.

Moral Proverbs, or Adages con∣ducing to Manners, and to good Life, &c.

WIth all the World have War, But with England do not jar.

The first Wife is Matrimony, the second Com∣pany, the third is Heresie.

He carrieth the Cross on his breast, and the Devil in his actions.

An Egge is better to day, then a Pullet to morrow.

A handful of Nature is better then an armful of Sci∣ence.

By little and little the old Woman spinnes the bundle of flax.

Owe money at Easter, and Lent will seeme short to thee.

A suit in Law, and an Vrinal, bring a man to the Hospital.

Who never lyes comes not of good Kinred.

There's no family but there's a Whore or a Knave of it.

From the glances of a Drab, and the turn of a Die, take heed.

Guests and Fish stink in three dayes.

Giving of Almes never lightens the Purse.

One can never make a streight Arrow of a Sowes tayl.

Be rather a Mulberry then an Almond-tree. viz. Be rather slow then hasty.

A long-nos'd man seldom a Cuckold.

A Hedge lasts three years, a Dog outlasts three Hedges, a Horse three Dogs, a Man three Horses, a Stag three Men, an Elephant outlives three Stags.

Who knows little tells it quickly.

I care not for Saints that piss.

Who hath money hath what he will.

Who shelters himself under leaves is twice wet.

Who spits at Heaven, his spettle falls on his face. Understood of blasphemers.

When thou art with thy wife belly to belly, yet do not tell her all things thou knowest.

When it pleaseth not God, the Saint can do little.

When all tell thee thou art an Ass, 'tis time for thee to bray.

When ill Fortune lies asleep, let none awake her.

Who labours can want no houshold-stuff.

Who buyes and sells feels not what he spends.

Neither for company nor for counsel lose thy own hold.

Nor weeds in thy corn, nor scruples in thy friend.

The heart bears up the body.

Let the miracle be done, though Mahomet doe it.

One finger makes no hand, nor one swallow a sommer.

Neither take too young a boy, nor kinsman, nor one that is in∣treated for thy servant.

Nor so old that she eates with a wryed mouth, nor so young as to be a wanton.

Take heed of a winching mule, and a Latine woman.

Nor a prophecying Maid, nor a learned Wife.

Nor eyes in letter, nor hands in chests.

When the mouth is shut, the flies cannot enter.

Change of weather the discourse of fools.

The Dog wags his tail not for thee, but for the bread.

Duggs draw more then Axietrees or Wheels.

A blush in the face is better then a blot in the heart.

Grief of many turns to pleasure.

A pawne in Chest is better then a pledge in the Mar∣ket.

Mother and daughter wears one smock, viz. they are of one nature.

Buttocks abed draw more then Bulls in a fallow.

Better be a fool then obstinate.

Therefore a man is a Cuckold, because two can do more then one.

There is not such an enchantment as good service.

In the mouth of the wise a publick report is a secret.

They are not all men that piss at the wall.

All is not true that the Tabour sounds.

Marriage is not made of Mushromes, but of good round Cakes.

All the fingers are not of one length, viz. all men are not equal.

There's no such Doctrine as that of the Ant.

Who hath a trade hath a benefice.

He is not poor that hath little, but he that covets much.

All the fat is fallen into the fire.

There's nothing so bad as to want money.

Wheresoere thou goest there's three leagues of ill way.

He is as sure as March in Lent.

A body alone neither sings nor weeps.

There's no house but hath something not to be spoken of.

Do good, there's no matter to whom.

VVords and feathers are tossed by the air.

Grief for others hangs by a hair.

The word of the mouth, like the stone of a sling.

VVhen the Urinal came, John Pasqual was dead.

VVho pisseth and doth not fart, goes to the Court, and sees not the King.

VVho will have a hansome wife, let him chuse her upon Satur∣day, and not upon Sunday, viz. when she is in her fine cloaths.

The wise man changeth counsel, the fool not.

He knows one point more then the Devil; spoken of a cun∣ning fellow.

The day thou dost marry, thou dost cure or kill thy self.

A man is taken by the beard, and a woman by the thred.

Let's pray to God by Saints, but not by so many.

The secret of one God knows, the secret of three the whole Countrey.

God comes to visit us without a Bell, viz. without noyse.

The foot on the Cradle, and the hand on the Distaff; a sign of a good Houswife.

Nor corn that grows in a valley, nor wood that grows in the shade.

He is blind enough who sees not through the holes of a Sive.

Men purpose, but God doth dispose.

Get once a good name, and sleep at leisure.

The words are good if the heart be so.

VVho sings scares away his sorrows.

'Tis better to leave to an enemy at ones death, then to beg of a friend in ones life.

That delay is good which makes the way the safer.

Welcome cross, if thou comest alone,

A compleat house; in the other world.

His bread fell into the honey-pot, viz. he got by the mischance.

A frown and instruction makes a good child of an ill.

That which makes Peter sick, makes Sancho well.

As the Abbot sings, the Sexton answers.

There's no fence against fortune.

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

One much and two little make men rich.

Sope is lost on the head of an Ass.

A courtesie of the mouth is worth much, and costs but little.

I will not jest with my eye nor with my faith.

That which cures the lungs, hurts the spleen.

He cries wine, and sells vinegar.

God gives wings to the Ant that she may perish the sooner; spo∣ken of ambition and honour.

From idleness business is bred, i. trouble.

He hath two looks, but one face.

A large thong of another mans leather.

To break ones head, and give him a plaister.

One Take is better then two promises.

A scabbed colt a good horse.

Let's leave Fathers and Grandsires, and be good of our selves.

Never a good work of a grumbling servant.

Think leisurely, and work speedily.

God guard me from the stroak of a Gander, viz. from a goose-quill, or Scriveners shop.

Hell is full of good intentions.

Happy is he that growes wise by other mens harms.

The Frying-pan told the Kettle, get thee hence thou black ars.

God consents, but not always.

They speak worse of him then Mahomet spoke of bacon.

God gives us whereat to laugh, but not at foolish Chil∣dren.

Tell thy friend thy secret, and he will lay his foot on thy throat.

VVheresoever thou goest do as thou seest.

VVhere old men do not haunt, crowes do not croke.

My noddle akes, and they anoint my ankle.

To hurle the Helve after the Hatchet.

The Sergeant and the Sun are every where.

Pardon is superfluous where no fault is committed.

The crumpshouldered sees not his bunch, yet he sees that of his companions.

Cure your sore eye with your elbow, viz. do not touch them.

The foot of the Master is as dung to the ground.

Let's bless God in the state we are in.

In the Cutlers house an ill knife.

I scap'd from the thunder and fell into the lightning, viz. from bad to worse.

In the wise mans mouth what is publick is secret.

He is my friend who grindes in my mill.

'Tis good Doctrine to be wise by other mens harms.

The Greyhound who starts many Hares kills none.

Vain-Glory doth flourish, but bears no grain.

By drop and drop the Sea lesseneth.

Enjoy thou the little thou hast, while the fool seeks for more.

By one grain after another the Ant fills his barn.

Do for me, learn for thy self.

I take some sport, but I finish my task.

To scape the Bull, I fell into the River.

Women and Wine make a man swarve from his judgement.

Thy bowels and chests must fly ope to thy friend.

The cobweb lets go the Rat, and holds fast the Mouse.

Salt comes from the sea, and mischief from a woman.

By the Popes Prick which is holy flesh.

Since I brought forth children I never fill'd my belly.

Words and works eat not at one table.

Sometimes a fool gives good counsel.

From a silent person remove thy dwelling.

Man is the fire, woman the flax, the Devil the bellows.

To sweat at meat, and freeze at work.

Money makes the man compleat.

VVho died of fear, they made him a tomb of turd.

A melon and a woman are hard to be known.

A golden face, silver hair, and scarlet eyes.

Fore-warn'd fore-arm'd.

An early riser hath care of something.

Meddle not with the quarrels of brothers.

Men propose, but God doth dispose.

Let the tripes be full,, for they carry the legs.

My neighbours goat gives more milk then mine.

Love, and thou shalt be loved, so thou maist do that which thou canst not do being not beloved.

Poverty may make a chaste woman do foul things.

The bacon of Paradise for the married man that never repen∣ted.

Marry and gossip every one with his equal.

An old man a new grief every day.

The least hair makes a shadow.

To sell honey to him that hath hives of his own.

Let good luck come, and let it come whence it will.

Put neither Iew nor Hog into thy garden.

Shee's coif'd like a Saint, and nayl'd like a Cat.

The wanton Sheep said to the Goat, give me wooll.

The life pass'd makes old age heavy.

Truth like oyl swims always on the top.

The foolish woman by the list buyes the cloath.

The blind mans wife needs no painting.

A wench on the market-place hath commonly the door swep'd, and the house beshit.

They cast the fault of the Ass upon the Panniers.

Too much conversation breeds contempt.

The cunning wife makes the husband her apron.

VVant makes the old wife to trot, and the cripple to caper.

A good pay-master is never sorry for his pawn.

A book shut brings not forth a Lawyer.

The absent and the dead have no friends.

Money makes Masters.

He sadleth to day, and goes to morrow.

VVords are in us, deeds are in God.

Married men need many eyes.

VVhat thou hast to do, do it, and say not to morrow.

That which happens not in a year, falls out in an instant.

That which is used, cannot be excused.

Too much breaks the bag.

VVhat three know, all the world knows.

The dead open the eyes of the living, viz. Books.

The worst of Law-suits is, that of one there grow a hundred.

Whats ordain'd in Heaven must be done on Earth.

What's done at a wedding must not be done every day.

Every one carrieth his Soul in the palm of his hand.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

The Locusts make thin guts.

The Woman and the Melon smell them at the tail.

Wine and women keep men from musing.

A gentle answer breaks choler.

Truth is green.

A lye wants feet.

An Egge to day is better then a Hen to morrow.

Good words have a good sound.

A lye hath short legs.

To start a hare for another to take.

The poor man like a Walnut-tree, all throw stones at him.

Words are women, deeds men.

Better bow then break.

Converse with the wise, and thou shalt be one of them.

The desire of man never comes to the highest pitch.

Bind me hand and foot, and throw me among my kindred.

Divide not Pears with thy master in jest or earnest.

Better to unsow, then break, viz. to go too hastily to work.

An ill word hurts more then a sharp sword.

A pawn in the the chest is better then a pledge in the market.

The smoak of my own house is better then the fire of ano∣ther.

My Gossips wish me ill because I tell them truth.

Better to go about, then fall into the ditch.

Better be still single then ill married.

A handful of naturall wit is better then an armful of lear∣ning.

To hammer on cold Iron.

One Ox shites more then a hundred Swallows.

Better late then never.

'Tis ill to sin, 'tis devillish to persevere.

A mild word quencheth more then a whole cauldron of water.

Being ill, and hoping to be better, I must dye I know not when.

If you paint and cocker them too much, you will make bad daughters of good.

Rather a trotting wife then a gazing wife.

The Devil so loved his child, that he pulled out one of his eyes.

Put her to another vessel, because she may not smell of the mother.

Have luck enough, and a little learning will serve thy turn.

VVho hath children, 'tis reason he should gather.

VVho hath children, cannot die of a surfeit.

VVho will be very old let him begin betimes to be so.

Fortune reacheth her hand to a bold man.

Take a Bull by the horn, and a man by his word.

God send thee a house of Oak, a bowl of Silver, and a pot of Copper.

A Knight without money is no Knight, but a bable.

Gifts break through rocks.

Who hath daughters and sheep, he can want no complaints.

Two shirts is better then one.

Correct thy Mule, and thy Child behind.

A Woman in the straw, and a Webb begun cannot want a place of refuge.

Breed up a Crow, and she will peck out thy eye.

Be not partner with a man engaged.

A clown may be hid by good cloaths.

Give me her honest, and I will make her hansome.

Give a Pye of one colour, and I will give you a Maid without a fault.

Better keep then ask.

The dugs draw more then cable ropes.

A pitiful Mother a shitten Child.

Rather bleared then blind.

The ill of many turns to delight.

My knee is nearer then the calf of my leg.

'Tis wholsomer to go to bed without a supper, then rise in debt.

Put thy hand into thy own bosome, and never stand telling the fortune of others.

Envy is better then pity.

Mine is better then ours.

The more Moors (viz. Slaves) the more gain.

Oats and Mass never retard a journey.

While the yoak goes, let the spindle wag.

While I am in my house I am a King.

Truly dame this gear goes ill.

Look before, thou wilt not fall backward.

A fine wench a frail gourd.

A youth well bred neither speaks of himself, nor holds his peace being asked.

The Cuckold knowes much, but he knowes more who gives him the horns.

The world goes round, who cannot swim must to the bot∣tome.

Many do kiss hands which they would see cut off.

It much avails and costs little, to give a good answer to a bad word.

Women complain, women do groan, women grow sick when they please.

The Hare runs well, but the Dog that catcheth her bet∣ter.

Fools talk of change of times.

Many things grow in the garden which were never sowed.

The door doth not like me that hath many keyes.

Buy not a horse that wags his tail.

The Ant gets wings to destroy her self the sooner.

I care not for a pig with bells about his neck.

Fools and quarrellers enrich the Lawyers.

Want makes the old woman to trot.

A foolish ship that hath no ballast.

Take heed of friends reconcil'd, and of meat twice boyl'd.

Nor the absent is without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Buy not a lame Mule, nor marry a Punk in hope to cure either.

Care not for the tears of a Whore, or the bravadoes of a Ruf∣fian.

Nor table without bread, nor army without a Captain.

Nor wedding without a tabor, nor porredge without bacon.

Nor wheat that grows in valleys, or under a shade.

I neither give nor take, like a Iew on the Sabbath.

Trust not a woman that weeps, nor a dog that pisseth.

'Tis neither my Mill nor B••rn, let who will thresh in it.

Neither eat too much cheese, nor expect wit from a boy.

Nor Hen without Bacon, nor Sermon without Saint Austin.

Neither be daunted by poverty, nor lifted up by riches.

A child, a Vineyard, and a Bean-garden are ill things to keep.

Nor mule without a race, nor woman without her blemish.

Go neither to the Physician upon every distemper, nor to the Lawyer upon every brabble, nor to the pot upon every thirst.

One finger makes no hand, nor one swallow a summer.

Above God there's no Lord, nor above black any colour.

If the will fail not, there will want no opportunity.

Leave not the skins till the Galileans come.

There's not such an enchantment as good service.

The Lion is not so fierce as he is painted.

Meddle not with what doth not belong unto thee.

The worst jest is the true jest.

There's no deaf man like him that will not hear.

'There's no stop without trouble.

Marriages are not made of Mushromes, but of round Duc∣kets.

You cannot take Trouts with dry breeches.

There is not so clear a mirror as an old friend.

There is not a better Surgeon then he who hath been slashed.

Trust not and thou shalt not be cousened.

There is no law like that of the club.

I grieve not that my son hath lost his money, but that he will have a revenge.

All is not Gold that glisters.

'Tis ill flying away on stilts.

There is not a better mistress then want and poverty.

There is no ill but time may ease the smart.

The Crow cannot be blacker then her wings.

Seek not Pears of an Elme.

A good carouse of wine is the best witness.

The stollen bit is the sweetest.

Where thou art not Lord command not.

Speak not till thou be asked, and thou shalt be esteemed.

God strikes not with two hands, for he hath made ports to the Sea, and fords to the Rivers.

There is no lock but a golden key will open it.

Be not a Baker if thy head be made of butter.

New King new Lawes.

No good is got without labour.

A work of the commons is n•• mans work.

Every one for himself, and God for all.

To offer much is a kind of denial.

There are eyes that fall in love with blearness.

A bleating sheep loseth her bit.

Words and feathers the wind whirles them about.

You were a baker before, though now you wear gloves.

Paper and Ink cost money.

Nicholas divides most for himself.

A word spoken and a stone flung have no return.

The words of a Saint, and the paws of a cat.

The Court is cumbersome.

'Tis Bread and VVine that makes the journey, and not the nim∣ble youth.

Bread with eyes, cheese without eyes.

Speak little, hear much, and thou shalt not erre.

There is not a pair of ears for every Sunday.

Sloth washeth not the head, and if it washeth, it kembs it not.

A barking dog never good biter.

Idleness is the key of beggery.

Pear, Peach, and Melon require pure wine.

Old sins new repentance.

Give just weight and sell dear.

To ask much for to get the one half.

The gray Mule hath lost her prancings.

To kill Moors on a wall.

A rouling stone gathers no moss.

The thief thinks that every one is of his gang.

An Urinal and a sute in Law in his house whom thou wishest not well.

More drunk then a sop, or spunge.

I consume my self to do others good. Spoken of the candle.

To preserve friendship let there be a wall between.

Little wealth, and a good will.

Though the Sun shines yet leave not thy cloak at home.

For wealth marry not with a lewd man.

The dog will dance for money.

Contest, but lay no wagers.

Go not behind at a hill.

Get a good name Isabel, and thou wilt marry well.

For thy Religion, for thy King, for thy Kindred, and for thine own, lay thy life.

To grease a fat Sow in the tail.

Cut off the leg of an ill custome.

He who doth ill, an excuse never failes him.

The main end of all is to serve God, and do no ill.

Love thy Husband as a friend, and fear him as an enemy.

At the years end the dead eats more then the living.

Whether here or there, look well with whom thou goest.

He overtakes at last who tires not.

There is no fence against death.

To give slowly is as much as to deny.

A friend to all, and to no body, is all one.

The love of a Punk, the fire of flax, and the wind of the tail is one and the same thnig.

God gives washed hands wherewith to eat.

Let me go warm, and let people laugh as long as they will.

Take another dog with this bone.

Be advised by the aged, and thy opinion will prevail in Coun∣cil.

Old birds are not taken with chaff.

To whom thy secret thou dost tel, to him thy freedom thou dost sel.

He who gives thee a Capon, give him a leg and a wing.

Plow deep, thou shalt have bread enough.

Though a lye may darken truth, it cannot extinguish it.

The Creditor hath a better memory then the Debtor.

A Coward yesterday, a Cavaleer to day.

'Tis good to love, 'tis better to be beloved.

Correct the good he will grow better; correct the bad he will grow worse.

A beard wetted is half raz'd.

To drink and lose the Asses.

To speak well, and do ill, is like a broken Sive.

Marta sings well when her belly is full.

A wanton wench looks illfavouredly near a gray beard.

Writing is the best memory.

This were to bridle a Calf.

A secret is good in one, better in two, ill in three, and worse in four.

The old Ox makes the streightest furrow.

Thou seekest five feet in a Cat, and she hath but four.

God give Peter a good Easter, for he never did me good or hurt.

To an hasty question a leisurely answer.

A thin pot, and fat Testament.

To keep a cackling and lay no Egge.

Every one desires wealth at his own home.

Every Potter commends his own pitchers.

The pot that goes often to the water comes home crack'd at last.

Every bird is pleased with his own nest.

Every Cock crows on his own dunghil.

The Cock crows, the Hen answers, 'tis a sad house where there is no corn.

To repent doth cost dear.

Every one with his equal.

Let every one speak in that which he knowes.

Marry thy Daughter when thou mayst, and thy Son when thou pleasest.

If thou desirest care, marry a lewd fellow.

A forward Horse needs no Spur.

A dappled gray sooner dead then tired.

He falls in the pit he digs for others.

Like to like, and Nan for Nicholas.

A house with a chimney, and a wife with a spindle.

Like to like.

The back door is that which spoiles the house.

After horns comes learning.

That is a sad house where the Hen crows, and the Cock is si∣lent.

He is fit for any thing.

The love of a Child like water in a Pannier.

I like it not well to have a dog in my house with a bell.

Go to thy Aunts house, but not every day.

Go to thy Brothers house, but not every evening.

A wise man makes every Countrey his own.

Some are Monks, some Fryers.

The love of a Son-in-law is like the winter Sun.

A gathering Father, a scattering Son.

A pinching Father, a prodigal Son.

That gate is happy through which a dead wife goes out.

The wise man changeth counsel, the fool perseveres.

Money and good manners makes Cavalleers.

It goes ill with that house, where the spindle commands the sword.

Thy Fathers house, thy Grandfathers vineyard, and thy great Grandfathers Olive-trees.

Obey thy Natural Father, but thy Spiritual more.

Thou art a Son, a Father thou wilt be, As thou doest, so shall it be done unto thee.

My Mother warned me I should lay no way-wagers in disputes.

The Asses son brayes twice a day.

Don Lope is neither vinegar nor wine.

A late Child an early Orphan.

Near is my petticoat, but nearer is my smock.

A tender Mother, a turdy Child.

He is not ugly who resembleth his kindred.

A long Child-birth, and a Girl at last.

Blind Cheese and eyed Bread is best.

Who hath a sore tooth hath an ill neighbour.

He who doth me good is my gossip.

Who breeds a Nephew breeds an ill plant.

Above father ther's no Godfather.

Poverty is no baseness, but an inconvenience.

The battlements come down, and dunghills climb up; Iacks rise up, and Gentlemen come down.

Neither go to a wedding nor christning unbid.

A foolish beast, a doltish driver.

To a good understander a short speaker.

A Sheep and a Bee, a Stone which grinds, a Iewel in his ear, the old womand wisheth her Son.

Counsel after the Cunney is gone.

A small pitcher a small handle.

At a hundred years end we shall all be saved.

Two sparrows agree but ill at one ear of corn.

Where they take out and put nothing in, they quickly go to the bottom.

The evening commends the day, and death life.

Affection is blind reason.

Against the strength of a Clown put iron between, viz. A sword.

VVho comes last laments first. Spoken of a younger brother.

VVho believes slightly takes water into a sive.

The Cage made, the Pye dead.

Now that I have a Sheep and an Ass every one bids me good morrow.

A great ascent must have a great descent.

No value can be put upon good counsel.

Ingratitude dries up the fountain of piety.

Do not misinform thy Physician, thy Councellor or Lawyer.

A new vessel retains the first scent.

The Ass dead and Barley at his tayl.

A silver bridge to a flying enemy.

Find out the good, and fear the bad.

The old man never wants stories at the fire-side or the Sun∣shine.

'Tis tried Alquimy to have rent and spend nothing.

At the end of 1000. years the Hare returns to her first form.

Never seek the Pedigree of a good man.

There's not a bad thing in Spain but that which speaks.

Cu, Cu, take heed thou beest not one.

With one much, and two small ones men grow rich.

Buy a chain thou dost turn treasure into money.

Against an ill person the onely remedy is to put earth betwixt thee and him.

With Latine, a good Nag, and Money, thou mayst travel the world.

Get a good name and go to sleep.

The company of one is the company of none, the company of two is the company of God, the company of three is company, the company of four is the Devils company.

Red and black the colours of Hell.

Why doth not thy master chide? because he is not married.

The courtesie of the mouth avails much, and costs little.

The counsel of him who loves thee, though thou likest it not, yet write it down.

Collerique Sanguin a pure drunkard.

A hundred Taylors, a hundred Millers, and a hundred Wea∣vers make three hundred Theeves.

He who hunts two Hares, he sometimes takes one, and some∣times none.

Natural vices last to the grave.

We ought to praise him who gives us bread.

There is a large distance betwixt the saying and the deed.

Gifts do burst rocks.

God gard me from whom I trust, for I shall guard my self from whom I trust not.

Depart a while from the collerick man, and all thy life from a silent man.

From a small spark a huge fire.

I saw few die of hunger, of eating much a hundred thou∣sand.

A large thong of another mans leather.

Thou mayest keep thy selfe from the fire, but not from a thief.

Among colours Scarlet, among fruits the Apple.

From long wayes, large lyes.

Panniers after vintage.

Take heed of a lewd woman, and trust not a good one.

Of a Sows tail never good Arrow.

To break ones head and give him a plaister.

The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.

A belly full, though it be of hay.

Take counsel of the aged.

From a good servant thou mayest become a master.

Of evils the least to be chosen.

When thou hast made a turd leave it.

One Take is worth two I will give thee.

When God pleases it raines in fair weather.

A foolish Iudge a short sentence.

Owe something against Easter, and Lent will seem short unto thee.

Where affection goes the eye goes.

Tell me with whom thou goest, and I will tell thee who thou art.

Wheresoever thou art, do as thou seest.

My neck akes, and they anoint my ankle.

Take the good Souldier from the plow.

He went for Wool, and he returned shorne.

Who hath a glass roof of his own, let him not throw stones at his neighbours.

Who payes his debts, what is left is his own.

To give almes never makes the purse the lighter.

Who stayes long doth his business.

Mischief comes by ells, and goes away by inches.

VVho spends more then he gaines, he must needs complain.

Who will not adventure, let him neither go to Sea nor on a Mule.

Who grasps too much, holds little.

First born first fed.

Who hears not reason doth no reason.

Who still takes out, and puts not in, will quickly find a bottom.

Who spins well hath a large smock.

Who humours his wife in every thing becomes quickly a Cuckold.

Who stumbles and falls not, goes faster.

Who hath been si••k and doth well must perform a pilgrimage.

Who hath ill customes he seldom or never forgets them.

All covet all lose.

Who parts brothers comes by the worst.

VVho gets under a good tree hath a good shelter.

VVho is a Cuckold and consents, let him be still a Cuckold for me.

VVho parts from his friends parts from God.

VVho at thirty hath no wit, and is not rich at forty, raze his name out of the book.

Who eates his Cock alone, let him saddle his horse himself.

He who out-••eers a jeerer hath a hundred years of pardon.

Who hath his foot at the Altar, eats bread without baking it.

VVho hath time and waits for time, the time will come he will repent.

VVho comes last weeps first.

VVho stumbles twice at one stone deserves to have a broken face.

VVho performs, appoints well.

VVho resolves rashly, repents leisurely.

WVho hath a good trade, hath a good office.

A thief once, a thief ever.

VVho sooths thee more then ordinary hath a purpose to couzen thee, or hath need of thee.

VVho parts with his own before his death, let him provide for patience.

VVho sowes thorns must meet with prickles.

VVho desires to thrive let him live at the foot of a hill, or in a Sea-port.

Who hath no money hath no grace.

VVho trusts or promiseth doth cast himself into debt.

VVho hath no ghelt let him sell both purse and budget.

VVho hath lost his good name, goes dead up and down.

VVho sports too much gathers little.

Who owes unto Peter and payes Andrew, let him pay another time.

Who sowes thorns let him not go barefoot.

Who wipes my sons nose kisseth me in the face.

Who knows not ill, cannot judge of the good.

VVho is thy greatest enemy? he who is of thy trade.

VVho believes slightly takes up water in a Sive.

VVho corrects one beats a hundred.

VVho asks errs not.

VVho changeth his dwelling, God helps him.

VVho goes to the Mill and riseth not early, lets others grind while he is lowsing himself.

VVho findes himself well, let him not stir.

VVho doth a pleasure to a lewd man, soweth in the Market-place.

VVho teacheth himself, encreaseth his ills.

VVho will recover money must give many turns.

VVho wants employment, let him freight a ship or marry.

VVho holds his peace consents.

King by nature, Pope by venture.

I renounce that friend who shelters with his wings, and bites with his mouth.

I renounce fetters though they be of Gold.

She fares as well as a Tripe-womans Cat.

Gossips scold, the truth is told.

The salt oreturn'd never well taken up.

To take one foot out of the mire, and put in the other.

San Lucy bright, the shortest day and longest night.

Sancha drinks wine, and cries out it staines.

To fall from the dirt into a bog.

In a Sallet little vineger and much oyl.

Saint John the green is not every day seen.

There's no ill but may turn to ones good.

Service is no inheritance.

A secret betwixt two safer then betwixt three.

If thou wilt get a good name, let not the Sun take thee in thy chamber.

An ill beast sweats behind the ear.

If thou wilt have a good servant, take him before his dowles be out.

Ca me, Ca thee.

The marks of nature are either very good or very bad.

If thou wishest me well John, thy deeds will shew it.

If thou wilt be revenged say little.

Follow reason although thou please some and displease others.

If you come not in time, you shall not eat of the fat.

If the tall were valiant, the little man patient, and the red loyal, all the world would be equal.

If the tongue erred, the heart did not.

If thou wilt thrive follow the good.

If thou wilt be well served, serve thy self.

If thou wilt enjoy the sweet, thou must taste of the sowre.

If not as we will, as well as we may.

If thou wilt know the value of a Crown, borrow one.

The blind man dream'd that he did see, & his dreā prov'd true.

There's no companion like the penny.

There may be a subtile wit under a rough cloak.

Soles and wine go the journey.

Let him have patience who suffers, for one time succeeds an∣other.

The hour and time you cannot tie with a string.

Every one hath his opportunity if one knew how to manage it.

Sancho hath met with his match.

Men meet, mountains never.

VVe are all Adams sons, silk onely distinguisheth us.

We are all fools some way or other.

Every one after the old fashion.

See whither thou goest, and do as thou seest.

The least hair hath its shadow.

You are a Cuckold husband: who told you so wife?

Cu, Cu, take heed it be not thou.

A window-gazing wife, wring off her neck if thou wilt have her good.

The good man goes not into anothers bed.

Thy hand upon the spindle, and thy foot upon the cradle, so bring up thy daughter.

The Ass and the froward Woman must have blows.

Rather have a husband with one eye, then with one son.

In the fools house the wife commands.

The fool fell in love with the lace of her Gorget.

The spindle is miserable when a beard is not above it.

She is truely fair who is so of her body.

Meat is needful, a good name more.

Give a scolding wife rope enough.

why doth the blind mans wife paint her self?

The rich widow weeps with one eye, and casts glances with the other.

Who hath a fair wife needs more then two eyes.

The good wife is made by the man.

Better to be a Cuckold and none know it, then to be none, and yet to be thought so.

An old woman with money is better then a young one with beauty.

Too many Counsellors confound the business.

Shew me thy wife, and I will tell thee what a husband thou art.

Nor so old a wife as to play the Iade, nor so young as to kick.

Nor for Cow, nor for Ox, take a mad wife, or that hath the Pox.

Neither marry with a widow, or seek help from a child.

Neither ride on a Colt, nor commend thy Wife.

Nor wedding without musick, nor burial without mourning.

Nor buy an Ass of a Mulateer, nor marry the Daughter of an Host.

For money marry not an ill man.

My husband is gone a wool gathering.

'Tis the man that makes the wife and the vineyard hansome.

Who is a Cuckold and conceals it, carries coales in his heart.

A husband behind the fire as bad as the mother, viz. the disease

VVho takes not up a pin hath no care of his wife.

In avoiding the Fly he swallowed the Spider.

A large train and light purse.

To whom I wish well let his wife dye.

Speak well and seldom, thou wilt be held for some body.

To speak without fore-thinking, is to shoot without aiming.

Do well, it matters not to whom.

Do what the Fryer tells thee, not what he doth.

VVho serves well, asks enough.

Where there is a fool and a turd, they will quickly be known.

An early riser hath care of something.

Honour and profit cannot hold in one bag.

To fly away and run is not one thing.

To steal a Pig and give the Pettitoes in almes.

A little spindle, a great help.

A new guest a trouble to the house.

The wheat is merry under the snow, as an old man under a blan∣ket.

I ••m a little merry, but I do my business.

Egges are as thousands of meats.

I beat the bush, another catcheth the birds.

I go where no Pope or Emperour can send their Embassador. viz. To stool.

The Wolf and the Fox are of the same mind.

The fish who seeks the ••ook seeks his ruine.

VVho dallies with his enemy dies betwixt his hands.

The Masters eye fatneth the horse.

The Fryer who begs for God, begs for two.

This is to make a hedge of thorns with naked hands.

Make thy Son thy Heir, not thy Steward.

In a dry soyl brackish water is good.

In the labourers house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.

Good fishing in troubled water.

He was born in an ill hour who gets an ill name.

In this wretched world when there is wine enough, there wants bread.

The just man may sin in an open chest.

In the gamesters house joy lasts but little.

A straw is heavy in a long journey.

In a full house supper is quickly ready.

Bastards are very good, or very bad.

Wo to the son, whose father to Heaven is gone.

That must be which pleaseth God.

Grind good corn, and never blow the horn.

Take heed of a Punk that leaves thy purse light.

Beware of the occasion, and God will save thee from the sin.

Death takes no bribe.

A grain fills not the sive, but it helps its companions.

A great pleasure to eat well and spend nothing.

My father Mun̄oz desires what God doth not.

Who erres and mends he recommends himself to God.

Who preserves himself, God preserves him.

Who lives well hath no need of any.

When thou hearest our Lady named, ask not whether thou must fast.

He hath his soul in his fist.

After this world another will come.

Peter is so much Gods, that God gets him not.

All is nothing in this world, unless you direct it to the other.

Who goes not to sea knows not how to pray.

Before thou marry see what thou dost.

Before thou marry have a house wherein to tarry.

A husband of thirty for a wife of fifteen.

An ill night, and yet a girl.

Who loves Beltran loves his dog.

She gathers ashes, and scatters corn.

Let every pot have its cover.

Well or ill they have married me.

Marry, marry, sounds well, and savours ill.

Marry and converse with your equal.

Marry thy daughter with a good neighbour, and thou wilt sell thy wine.

Marry, and thou wilt be tame enough.

Weddings have fools of all kind.

Smoak, a dropping gutter, and a scold, cast the good man out of his hold.

Who is an enemy to the Bride, how can he speak well of the Bridegroom?

The Stag casts his horns every year, and thy husband every day.

From a prognosticating Maid, and a Latine Wife, the Lord preserve me.

God guard me from the wind through a hole, and from a re∣conciled friend.

Beware of a young Physitian, and an old Barber.

The name of a Step-mother is enough.

The Devil makes the Usurers bed.

The Oven is heated by the mouth.

To trust God upon a good pawn.

God keep thee from 'tis done.

Beads about his neck, and the Devil in his body.

A short prayer penetrates heaven.

Much on earth, little in heaven.

I do for thee, because thou mayst do for me, for thou art not God.

The secrecy of two is the secrecy of God, the secrecy of three is all mens secrecy.

When God will, it raines with all winds.

Praying to God, and driving the plow, viz. prayer and labour will do well.

Let thy hand go to what thou art fit for.

Whom God doth bless, his Bitch brings forth Piggs.

To a chast woman God is sufficient.

Whom God doth bless, the Ant seeks him out.

He is rich who is well with God.

By right or wrong God speed our Councel.

I come very conveniently.

Give me some meat.

To lock up or keep safely.

To send a message.

Give me wherewith to write.

To give order.

It is to be noted, that this word Recaudo is a word of the largest ex∣tent in all the Spanish tongue, for it signifies a Message by word or Letter, a Present, a Commission, or any accomodati∣on, Assurance or Security, Victuall or Provision for war, or any place else, and all things that a man needs, or is pro∣vided of, for himself or his beast, &c.

God gives Beans to him who hath no gums.

God betters us from hour to hour.

Let me have a rich Husband though he be an Ass.

From a fools bolt God deliver me.

God send thee joy and health, and a house with a Court and a Well.

God send me to do with him who understands me.

God put strife among those that maintain us, viz. Clients.

God consents, but not alwayes.

From smooth water God deliver me, for I shall preserve my self from the rough.

Tripe porredge dost thou brag? Against presumption.

Let good luck come, and let it come whence it will.

A rich widow a quiet house.

A Whore and a Hare, seek them near the high way.

Iew, pay what thou owest, for what I owe thee stands upon ac∣count.

Go when thou art sent, come when thou art called.

I was dust, there came water and made me dirt.

Much corn, never bad year.

For rising early the day breaks never the sooner.

For newes never trouble thy selfe, thou shalt know it time enough.

Little wealth little care.

Over shooes over boots.

By no means leave not the high-way for a by-path.

Take thy wifes first counsel, not the second.

Ask Mun̄oz, for he tells more lies then two.

An open gate tempts a Saint.

They set up a Cross because he should not piss in the place.

When the beast groans, load on and do not fear.

When the Devil is at his Beads he will couzen thee.

When the Devil comes to thy gate and shall beg thy sleeves, cut them off and give them him.

Like bell like clapper.

When thou art an Anvil suffer like an Anvil, when thou art a Hammer strike like a Hammer.

VVhen thou art with thy wife belly to belly, do not tell her what∣soever comes into thy mind.

The Saint can do nothing when God is not pleased.

If the fields will not, the Saints can have no tithes.

The Iron must be beaten while 'tis hot.

Keep touch with the time.

When thou seest thy neighbours beard peel away, wet thine own.

Do not speak all thou knowest, do not judge all thou seest, and thou shalt live in peace.

When the Pilot promiseth mass and wax, it goes ill with the Galley.

Like King, like people.

When the frog hath hair thou wilt be good.

Better double then break.

I would have my son witty, but not over witty.

You would buy a Mule without a mouth or a tail.

Fly, what dost thou? we plough. Meant of arrogant men.

What avails a candle without week?

Who riseth late must trot all the day, viz. Because he is be∣hind hand with his business.

Who gives all, denies all.

Who speaks ill of the Mare buyes her.

Who marries for love hath good nights, but sorry dayes.

Who hearkens well, answers well.

If you will have the dog follow you, give him bread.

Who can be free, let him not make himself a captive.

Who loves well forgets late.

Who hath his skirts of straw fears the fire.

Who spares, finds.

Who deals in wool distils gold.

Who dares not adventure, let him not pass the Sea.

Who commends the Ass, may he have such a son.

Who lends money looseth a visitor.

Who eats and sings riseth off foolishly.

Who hath a hundred, and owes a hundred and one, need not fear; who hath a hundred and one, and owes one hundred and two, I recommend him to God.

Who lies with dogs riseth up with fleas.

Who goes far to marry, either he goes to deceive, or to be decei∣ved.

He that gets out of debt grows rich.

A cool mouth, and warm feet live long.

He pulls by a long rope who waits for anothers death.

When a friend asks, there is no to morrow.

If all fools had bables, we should want wood.

For washing his hands, none sells his lands.

Hearken to reason, or she will make her self to be heard.

VVho lives well is learned enough.

Iest not with the eye, nor with Religion.

He that stayes does his business.

Into a mouth shut, flyes do not enter.

One grain fills not a sack, yet it helps his fellows.

Honour and profit lye not in one bag.

The more a woman looks in her glass, the less she looks to her house.

Marry a widow before she leaves mourning.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey.

Many kiss the hand whom they wish were cut off.

The world runs round, who cannot swim goes to the bottom.

The Lion is not so fierce as he is painted.

He is not poor who hath little, but he that desires much.

Keep not ill company, lest you encrease the number.

He that wipes the childs nose kisseth the mothers cheek.

VVho lives in hopes danceth without musick.

VVho tells his wife news is but newly married.

VVho learns a trade, a purchase hath made.

Gifts enter every where without a winible.

The Musician keeps shop in his throat.

An old mans staff is the rapper of death's door.

Take heed of an Ox before, a Horse behind, and a Monk on all sides.

It's more pains to do nothing then something.

Every one hath a fool in his sleeve.

Religion, credit, and the eye, are tender things.

VVho licks his knife, will give little to his servant.

Better a snotty nose, then none at all.

VVho brings good news may knock boldly.

VVho pities another, remembers himself.

A great Dowry is a bed full of brabbles.

Three women and a goose make a market.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

The easiest thing in the world is for one to deceive himself.

Who dallies with his enemy, dies between his hands.

VVho is a Cuckold and holds his peace, carrieth a hot coal in his heart.

VVhy is a man a Cuckold? because two can do more then one.

A VVoman and a Cherry paint themselves for their hurt, viz. the one to be tempted, the other to be eaten.

The way to make a woman a fool, is to commend her beauty.

You have hit the white.

An old Father and a broken Sleeve is no dishonour.

My mother told me that I should debate the business, but not bet.

A hundred out of one womb, and every one of a several mind.

God bring me to live there where an egge is worth six pence. i. To a Country full of money.

There would be no Fortune, were she still the same.

The Prodigal hath as many friends as eat at his table.

Fortune at last yeelds to the importunity of labour.

Labour gets the Laurel, and takes off the rust from the soul.

Adam's son cannot eat bread without labour.

I know what I know, but I will keep it to my self.

A cunning Fox that lies betwixt weeds, makes her self dead, that she may catch the prize.

One needle for the purse, but two for the mouth, viz. To keep it close.

One hath the credite another washeth the wool.

He was but one that never err'd.

Vertues overcome signs, viz. The influxes of the Stars.

The wise man is deceived but once, the simple twice.

The old woman when she danceth raiseth much dust.

The wine of Pears, nor drink it thy selfe, nor give it thy friend.

Come cackling, thou mayst return singing, viz. Go with some present of Poultry to the Judge.

Sell at home, and buy in a fair, if thou wilt be rich.

Thirty Monks and an Abbot cannot make an Ass shite a∣gainst his will.

Three to one may put a straw in ones arse.

All fish is flegm, and all games imposthumes.

You have one dead in your house, and you go to mourn for ano∣ther. i. every one hath grief enough of his own.

A gamester, a gamester, the name tells thee he is a thief.

A little gives contentment.

Soles and wine makes the body go.

From blowing coles there comes a flame, and from ill words a quarrel.

If John wisheth me well, his works will shew it.

If thou hast a mind to beat thy wife, let her bring thee water to the sun-shine; for there thou mayst find some mote or o∣ther, that may be a ground for a quarrel.

If thou wilt have pleasure, endure some pain.

If thou desirest to be sick, wash thy head, and go to sleep.

If thou desirest to be fat, eat with hunger, and drink leisurely.

If thou wilt know the value of a Crown, go and borrow one.

If thou wilt have a good servant, take him before he hath dowle on his chin.

If fools did not go to the market, ill wares would never be sold.

To pray unto the Saint till the danger is past.

Who goes with ill company breaks his foot, or his hip-bone.

Who doth not appear is perished.

Wilt thou tell the fool what he is? call him a two-footed beast.

Who meets not with some ill luck, takes a surfeit of the good.

Who hath no honey in his cruce, let him have it in his mouth.

Who promiseth puts himself in debt.

Who sowes thistles, reaps prickles.

Who hath no money hath no grace. Cayre an old Spanish coin.

Who loves well sees afar off.

Who eats his Cock alone, let him saddle his horse alone.

If this dab doth not stick to the wall, 'twill at least leave a mark.

One stroke fells not the Oak.

One, and none is all one.

The same knife cuts my bread and my finger.

Use makes mastery.

I that do hold my peace do gripe stones.

Honour without profit, like a ring on ones finger.

The man believes, the soul doubts.

Before thou write receive, and before thou givest write.

The teeth require not much neglect, nor too much care.

There's no woman fair on her wedding day.

Marriages are fill'd up with fools.

An Ass that gets into another mans ground comes back laden with wood, viz. Knocks.

From a scolding man the Lord deliver me.

A white earth, black seed, and five Oxen to the plow-share.

A red man, and bearded woman salute them three leagues off.

Plow deep, thou wilt have bread enough.

Let thy son have a good name, and a good trade.

There's fence against all things except against death.

To drink to the bottom to see the arms of the Goldsmith.

Satyrical or Drolling Proverbs.

THe worse Abbot is made of him who hath been a Monk. Goose, Gander, and Gosling have three sounds, yet are but one thing.

By the skirts of the Vicar the Devil climes up to the Steeple.

Who takes an Eagle by the tail, and a woman at her word, holds nothing.

Who spoke Rodrigo, spoke of noyse.

Shut the door, for the pot boyls over.

Without Priest and pigeon-house thou mayst keep thy house clean.

We are of Galicia, we do not understand one another.

Peter is too old to keep Goats.

What a pretty fellow would Peter be if he were washed?

As Saint Antlins Ass, every day worse and worse.

Ironical Proverbs.

GOd gave me but one Egge, and that was addle.

Two to one, I will turn a Crane, viz. I will fly away.

Beneath the Sun there's no such man, As is the Spaniard and Italian. Answer. Thou tell'st the truth, and reason hast; The first's a Thief, a Buggerer the last.

The Church-mans wealth comes in at the door, and goes out at the chimney.

Let Martha die, so she have her belly full.

He took Villadiegos Breeches, and put earth in the middle, viz. He fled.

Take heed of a•• ill woman, and do not trust a good one.

Drolleries, or merry Proverbs.

OF things I never saw least, then of good Aprils, and good Bishops.

Abbot of Carcuela having eaten the porredge, would have also the pot.

Trust not a Priest made of a Fryer.

The Priests wealth is given by God, but taken away by the Devil.

The way to Rome must have neither a lame Mule, or light purse.

God is he who heals, but the Physician gets the silver.

Two Johns and one Peter make one whole Ass.

The Abbot and the sparrow are two ill birds.

Like the Ass of Saint Ladorin, every day from bad to worse.

The Abbots wealth comes singing, and goes away whistling.

Fools makes feasts, and wise men eat them.

That which Christ hath not, the Exchequer carrieth.

The diet of Burguillos, Radishes in the morning, and Figs at night.

Martin growes every day from bad to worse.

Physicians of Valencia, long coats and little knowledge.

My gossip Marimenga comes alwayes to beg something.

A Boy given to Mass, an Abbot of Vallero, and a Court Fry∣er, I renounce them all three.

Never expect much from a Fryer, or a Nun.

Nor Dog, or Neger, nor Boy from Galicia.

Nor a head-strong Mule, nor a Maid who hath been at Sea, nor a Well at the Door, or an Abbot for thy neighbour.

Trust not thy wife with a Fryer, nor brabble with a Iudge.

Nor a Fryer for thy friend, nor a Priest for thy neighbour.

Temporal Proverbs, relating to the Weather.

APrils and Earls are traytors for the most part.

April and May the keyes of the year.

A cold April, much bread, and little wine.

Every Hog hath his Saint Martin.

The third of April the Cuckow is to come, if he comes not the eighth day, he is taken or dead.

March water is worse then a stain in cloath.

August and the Vintage is not every day.

August rain brings honey, wine, or saffron.

May water bread for the whole year.

A year of snow, a year of plenty.

Aragon clouds are water in the night.

A red morning, wind or rain,

Every thing in its season, and Turnips in Autumn.

The circle of the Moon never fill'd pond, the circle of the Sun wets the Shepherd.

May tells April, although thou weepest, I will laugh.

December pierceth like a Culverin.

Bearded frost, forerunner of snow.

On Saint Barnabies day the Sun said, here I will stand.

Neither the Winds, nor the men of Aragon are good.

Ianuary makes the pot freeze by the fire, and the old woman in her bed.

In April a thousand waters.

In Iune, Iuly, and August, Lady excuse me you must—

The cloud is the mother of rain.

The Moon with a circle brings water in her beak.

The Moon encreasing, her horns Eastward, in the wane, her horns before.

Betwixt April and May, if there be rain, 'tis more worth then Oxen and W••in.

A windy March, and a rainy April makes May beautiful.

A windy April and a rainy March makes the Hive unlucky.

Neither give credit to a clear Winter, or cloudy Spring.

Clouds above, water below.

When there are clouds in Hontejas mend thy roof.

When the rock is coiff'd with flies, the town beneath becomes a sop.

When there is a Spring in Winter, and a Winter in Spring, the year is never good.

When Aroca wears a hood go to Rostelo.

VVhen it rains in August, it rains wine or honey.

When the Moon is in the wane do not sow any thing.

When the Melicoton buds, the day and night are near the same.

When the Peach is in its flower, the day and night are in one tenour.

When the Figtree buds, find out thy Mistress.

When it snows it snows, when it rains it rains, when the wind blusters 'tis ill weather.

When Guara hath a cloak, and Moncayo a hood, a good year for Castile, and a better for Aragon.

Too early a Sun lasts not a whole day.

A red Sun hath water in his eye.

March Sun sticks like a lock of wool.

The Sun set, the workman freed.

Time after time, and water after wind.

An Eastern wind carrieth water in his hand.

Red clouds in the East, rain the next day.

April buds, few of them go to the barrel.

One month before Christmas, another after, is the true Win∣ter.

Saint Lucy, the night shorteneth, and the day encreaseth.

Physical Proverbs conducing to Health and Dyet.

WHo doth not sup, needs not Avicen, viz. The Phy∣sician.

A Duck, a Woman, and a Goat are ill things being lean.

Go to the Fish-market in the morning, to the Shambles in the evening.

Cold water and hot bread never made good belly.

Water after Figs, and Wine after Pears.

VVater hath three qualities, it brings neither sickness, debts, nor widow-hood.

Buy the Bolster of one in debt, and thou wilt sleep soundly.

There sickness comes where Egges are eaten without salt.

VVho steals the old mans supper doth him no wrong.

An Eele in a pye, and in pickle the Lamprey.

One Olive is gold, two silver, three all brass.

Agues or Feavers in the Fall, all alwayes long or mortal.

A Kid of one mouth, a Lamb of three.

An Ague in May, health for a year and a day.

The mother reckons well, but the child better.

Make night night, and day day, so thou mayst sing well-a-day.

A late Child quickly an Orphan.

In a black woman there is Turpentine.

Keep thy feet dry, thy mouth moist.

Far from City, far from health.

The morning to the mount, the evening to the fount.

Suppers killed more then Avicen ever cured.

Dine with little, sup with less, sleep high, and thou wilt live.

After fish milk do not wish.

Sammon and Sermon have their season in L••nt.

Milk said to Wine, Friend, thou art come in good time.

'Tis good sowing where the sheep hath piss't.

Old wine, and an old friend.

Who grows fat being old, hath two youths.

Marry thy daughter, and eat fresh fish betimes.

The young man by sleep improves his health, and the old man impairs it.

Water upon honey tastes ill, but doth well.

Hot bread, have much in thy hand, and little in thy belly.

That Cheese is wholesomest which comes from a Miser.

Let thy water have neither colour, smell or savour, and let it see the Sun.

Let thy door be towards the East, and thou wilt live the better.

VVine over night is not worth a mite.

Let me piss clear, and a fig for the Physician.

Appetite is better then surfeit.

A growing youth hath a wolf in his belly.

God give me a river and a hill for my neighbour.

Ye Maids of Davera who gave you bad teeth? cold Water and hot Chesnuts.

Drink not of a Pond, and eat but one Olive.

Bread enough, and Wine by measure.

New bread and grapes, paint Maids, and take away the old womans wrinkles.

Yesterdayes bread, and this dayes flesh, wine of the year pass't brings health.

For a Quartan Ague the bell seldom tolls.

Moderate labour is much health.

When thy belly akes, make it known to thy tail.

When thou hast an appetite, eat of the Buttock, not of the Liver.

The Cods or Genitories.

When a man bepisseth his boots, he is not fit for marriage.

When thou eatest new bread take heed of the fountain.

When thy piss is of the florins colour, a fig for the Physician.

When it rains and the Sun shines, gather snails.

When the Patient hath the postern-door open, a far•• for the Apothecary.

When the Spleen swells, the body grows less.

He who breaks not his fast in May, let him recommend him∣self to the dead.

He who pisseth and doth not fart, he doth not do what he should.

Who eats well and drinks well doth do his duty.

Who eats snails in April, let him provide for death.

Who sees fennel, and gathers it not, he is no man, but a Devil.

VVilt thou see thy Husband dead? give him cabage in Au∣gust.

VVho eats much eats little.

VVhether you eat little or much, drink thrice.

To a Iady bit a spur of wine.

A rusty needle shall not come among my tools.

He obtains who tires not.

God sends meat to washed hands.

Let me go warm, and let the world laugh at me.

To a collop of bacon a good rouse of wine.

Drink water like an Ox, and wine like a King, viz. Sparingly.

One egge is niggardliness, two is gentleness, three is valour, the fourth is knavery.

If the Countrey-man knew the goodness of a Hen in Ianuary, he would leave none in the roost.

VVilt thou have a good bit? take a Medler the crown taken off.

VVho goes to bed without some supper, hath a light brain all the night.

Sheeps cheese, Goats milk, and Cow butter is the best.

Leave not thy wastcoat till the Galileans come, that is, till As∣cension day, when the Gospel of the men of Galilee, &c. is read.

There's no such broth as the juyce of flint, viz. That's made of rock-water.

Pour no water in my wine, for there are worms that go up and down the River.

A Pear that cries Rodrigo is not worth a fig, viz. A stony Pear.

Neither drink Perry thy self, nor give it to any other that thou lovest.

Distempers of the eye are to be cured with the elbow, viz. They must not be touched.

He must rise betimes who will cheat the Devil.

He who meets with no ill luck, is weary of good.

He who did eat the flesh, let him gnaw the bone.

He who stumbleth in the plain way, what will he do on a Rock?

He who flies away in time, comes timely home.

He who will live in health, let him dine moderatly, and sup betimes.

Bad dinners, and great break-fasts, small heads, and long necks.

If thou wilt eat what is ill, eat a roasted Hare.

If thou wilt live in health, make thy self old betimes.

If the good woman knew the vertue of Rhue, she would seek it by Moon-shine.

If thou wilt be sick, wash thy head and go to sleep.

Under the VValnut-tree do not fall down and lie.

Upon new figs do not drink.

Upon Melon wine is a felon.

If thou desirest to die eat rost Mutton, and sleep presently.

Pottage without herbs hath neither goodness nor nourishment.

VVho eats a pilchard in May, shites out the bones in August.

Topical Proverbs that aime at particu∣lar Places and Persons.

THe Physicians of Valentia have large skirts, but little knowledge.

To the Iudges of Galicia go with feet in hand, viz. With some present of Capons, &c.

Give the Jew an inch, and he will take an ell.

Galliegos are beggers, the Castillians are covetous.

Give a Jew an Egge, and he will beg of you the Hen.

Ganiazar and Villarejo, a great bell and bad counsel.

From an Andaluz take heed of thy cloak.

Cuenca ill for sore heads, and Valencia for sore legs.

From a Toledano take heed early and late.

From a Pamplona knife, a shooe of Baldres, and a friend of Burgos, the Lord deliver me.

The Portugues was born of a Iews fart.

The custome of Aragon, for good service a bad reward.

Rather an Ingle then a Galliego.

Sardinia either kills, or makes thee well, viz. with a dis∣ease.

In Acturia there are three moneths of Winter, and three of Hell.

Let Burgos speak, for Toledo I'le speak my self, said Phi∣lip the second, to decide a controversie which was 'twixt these two Towns, who should speak first in Parlement.

A Portugal prentice that will cut, and yet he cannot sowe.

Speak not Arabick in a Moor's house.

Who hath a tongue goes to Rome.

Santiago way the lame goes as much as the sound, viz. allu∣ding to the pilgrims to be cur'd.

As valiant as the Gander of Cantipalos, who made shew to set upon a man.

Like the Mules of Losa, he that breeds them enjoys them not.

Castile hath bread enough, who hath not must live in poverty.

Cabage of Murcia, and Turnips of Bejara.

Deny what thou wilt, thou art in Aragon.

Nor round stones, nor the people of Girona.

Neither good shooe in Valdres, nor good friend in Salamanca.

Neither a man of Cordova, nor a knife of Pamplona, nor a boy of Burges, or a shooe of Baldres.

Camora was not got in an hour.

Palencia the fool who hears thee despiseth thee.

When thou goest by Pancorue, put thy cloak on thy shoulder.

When thou goest by Torote, carry a stone in thy cloak, and it will pay thy reckoning.

Who goes to Andaluzia, let him sleep in the day, and go all night.

Who is an Earl, and would be a Duke, let him be a Fryer in Guadalupe.

Who goes to Rome let him carry money.

Who hath not seen Lisbon hath not seen a fair thing.

Who is naught in his own Town, is also naught in Sevil.

Corner for corner, and Calatayud in Aragon.

Rome, Rome, who doth tame fools, and pardons not the wise.

Salamanca cures some, and spoils others.

If Castile were a cow, Rioja would be the kidney.

Valley for Valley, from Hita to Talavera.

A Vineyard in Cuenca, a lusty wife, and a process in Huete.

Bricayner the fool, put a tarace between.

If thou wilt know a Catalan, piss, and he will piss for company.

Whom God doth bless, he gives them a dwelling in Sevil.

Three Spaniards, two of them Christians, as God, and the third as holy as the Pope,

Three Portegueses, two of them half Christians, and the third a Iew.

Three Italians, two of them Buggerers, the other an Atheist.

Three Dutch men, two of them drunkards, the other a heretick.

Three English men, two of them theeves, the third a rebel.

Daroca the fool, a great circuit, but a small town.

Valencia Physitians large skirts, and little learning.

On, on, for Burgos is no village.

Duero hath the fame, but Pisverga hath the water.

Aranda on Duero, I'le have for my self: a saying of Philip the second.

There are two Magicians in Segura, the one experience, the o∣ther wisedome.

In Salamanca a mite is better t••en a blanc, viz. a fair woman.

To be happy God send thee a Vineyard in Cuenca.

Ebro thou Traitor, who dost spring in Castile, and waterest A∣ragon.

The King went old to Toro, and came back young: because the water and grapes are so healthy.

Spain is dark, so is a South-west wind by nature.

The Ass of Caracena the more he went the worse he was.

In Navadijos little bread, and many children.

Galicia is a Garden, and Ponferrada is the gate.

Sevile is like a chess-board, she hath as many black as white men, viz. Moors and Christians.

Castile was little enough when Amaya was her head, and Hite∣ro a Mount.

Locoya carrieth away the water, and Xarama boars the fame.

Iune, Iuly, August, and Carthagena the best Ports of Spain.

That which is desired by Alagon, let it never come to Aragon.

Zorita dogs are few, but ill condition'd.

Put a Galliego but in thy barn, and he will make himself thy heir.

That which Escamilla doth crave let Castilla never have, viz. too much drought.

That which Ocannia doth crave let Mancha never have.

That which Hinojosos desires let our eyes never see.

Like Buitrago colts, that alwayes grow less and less.

Like Zorita dogs, who having no other do bite one another.

The youths of Cuenca, and colts of Carboneras.

The world runs round, born in Granada, and dead in Bustillo.

The world runs round, to be born in Xerez, and dye in Portillo.

Portingal Proverbs.

SOmetimes an ill-favoured bitch gnawes a good chord.

A duck, a woman, and a goat are ill things being lean.

An empty purse makes one wise, but too late.

The end commends life, and the evening the day.

Let's have health and peace, and we shall quickly have enough.

Be it he or she look well with whom you converse.

A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.

The woman and the sheep let them go home betimes.

Too much courtesie a kind of cheat.

Love, Fire and Cough discover their matter.

The love of a Nun, and the flowers of the Almond-tree soon come and soon depart.

A handsome wife, a vineyard and fig-tree are hard to be kept.

The Mulberry which thou canst not reach lay up for thy soul.

Give to the good, and depart from the bad.

An old debt is better then a new sin.

'Tis to no purpose to seek where nothing's to be found.

The stone and the word returns not when once out.

My sleep is found my enemy being dead.

'Tis as hard for a fool to be silent as for a wise man to speak foolishly.

I had rather have one sparrow in my hand then two in the wood.

Fools go to weddings and pilgrimages.

I do not desire a pig with a bell.

A hot belly, a sleeping foot.

Mine is better then ours.

An old womans stroke breaks no bone.

The man beleeves, and the soul doubts.

The hen without teeth makes living men of the dead, viz. with her Eggs.

Trust not a lame dog.

A dog of an old dog, and a colt of a young horse.

A Iew for Merchandise, and a Friar for hypocrisie.

The conscience of Portulegre, which sells a cat for a hare.

A gadding wife is met every where.

They spoke to him in garlick, & he answers them in codshead.

There the tongue goes where the tooth akes.

Iohn Gomez journey, who went with a saddle, and came back on a wallet.

Galliego Proverbs.

THE wealth of a Church-man God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.

The ill neighbour gives a needle without threed.

Love doth much, but money doth all.

The Countrey-man is 'twixt two Lawyers as a fish 'twixt two cats.

A calf of a young cow, and a colt of an old mare.

A Sea-Voyage cannot be limited to dayes.

Catalunian Proverbs.

APpetite is better then surfet.

In Iuly neither woman nor snail.

A man dyes of the ill he fears.

He that hath a handsome body needs no cloke.

Who riseth late, trots all the day, because he is behind hand with business.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Dry bread is better with love, then a fat capon with fear.