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.

WHo hath God hath all, who hath him not hath less then nothing.

The later that Gods vengeance is, The heavier far, and sorer 'tis.

Three things are hard to be known, a man, an oke, and a day.

While through all places thou dost rome, yet have thy eyes still towards home.

Red wine, hogs flesh and smoake are three enemies to the eyes.

The tail will alwayes turn with the dog.

Greater was the fright then the fray.

An old dog will not sport with a puppy.

The lambs skin comes to the market as soon as the sheeps.

From sea, from hill, and from the flood, God sends the fortunate some good.

There is no stint upon almes.

The horse looks not on the hedge, but the corn.

Many words to a fool, half a word to the wise.

An unluckie man shall lose do what he can.

A gentle man gently cools his passion.

Wer't not for hope the heart would break▪ yet hope▪ yet hope.

The Saxon shites in his brich,

The cleanly Britain in the hedge.

Howell is as good as Heilin.

Who so complains without cause, should have cause given him to complain.

Some complain, to prevent complaint.

The bad husband's hedge is full of gaps.

The misfortune of the fool is just, because it proceeds from his own rashness.

A fair promise makes a fool merry.

Who so stealeth an egge, will steal a hen.

None bewares of him that's in his grave.

Let him that is the stronger oppress; let him that is the weaker cry out.

Let him that would have praise, be dead first.

Let him that would have h••alth be merry.

Each man would give his guess.

At the fall of the old, the young man laughs.

Faults are thick, where love is thin.

Necessity will buy and sell.

The unskilful or (simple) will tear his breech over the close stool.

You must judge at the latter end of a thing.

VVhat is not wisdom (or discretion) is danger.

VVho avoids not smoak, avoids not his enemy.

VVho so cannot endure a servant, must be his owne ser∣vant.

VVho so feeds not his cat, let him feed his mice.

Every man is a master in his own house.

Greediness breaks its own neck.

Blessing on the sow that owns the fat.

Flowers afore May, better they were not.

The more a string is stretcht, the sooner it breaks.

An old wifes dream runs according to her wish.

Scatter with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hand, gather with two.

You must not count your yearlings till May-day.

The valiant is harder then a stone.

A man hath a hundred friends, and a hundred foes,

If the Mare be lame, her Colt will be lame.

Shut the breech after farting.

The true friend is discernd in the distress.

Late leave argues a business.

A snarling dog hath a ragged coat.

The dog that hunts every beast, is not good at any.

Correct the Bear in presence of the Lion.

Scratch a clowns tail, and he will befoul thy fist.

An ague in the aged is certain death.

Though the day be long, it will have an evening.

Though nine Nights may be concealed, nine Moneths cannot.

A lazy shepherd is fellow to the wolf.

As good foot it, as bestride a staff.

Play, but hurt not; jest, but shame not.

The naked youth may play, the hungry will not.

February will blow the snake out of her nest.

The fool will laugh, when he is a drowning.

Great and frequent debate, and to bring forth a mouse.

Well doth the spit become the rasher.

Shew me the calf, shew me not the milk.

Two hungry meals will make the third a load.

Good is God, and long is Eternity.

Good is the stone with the Gospel.

The lucky man will find a thorn in his pap.

Lewd is the frog under ice.

Each bird is well pleased with his own voice.

He shall be slighted that is out of sight.

An old mans end is to keep sheep.

Every mans promise is his debt.

Lend to the naked, and you may goe whistle for it the next day.

The man is wise, while he holds his peace.

It's a sory stake, that stands not the first year.

Ill doth the devil preserve his servant.

Bad is the way, that is trod but once.

Bad is a bad servant, but wors being without him.

Bad is the thing, that is not worth the asking.

Every mans neighbour is his looking-glass.

A work ill done, must be twice done.

God will distribute the cold, as he distributeth the cloaths.

There will come ice for the frog.

It is tedious parting with a thing we love.

A sharp April kills the pig.

One scabby fellow knoweth another.

A man knoweth when he goes, not when he returns.

A good aunt is a second mother.

You will easily prevail with one that loveth you.

Hee was slaine that had warning, not hee that tooke it.

Neither for peace nor for warre, will a dead Bee gather ho∣ney.

A sorry son is active in another mans house.

The easiest work is to miss (or fail.)

Every poor man is a fool.

Fly from bad land, not from a bad landlord.

A mans wealth is his enemy.

The active man will be a Lion, till gray hairs come.

Forbear the alehouse, forbear not to pay.

Dispraise the meat and eat it.

Every mans eye is upon that he loveth.

The nimblest footman is a false tale.

Woe be to him that goeth from hip to hip, and hath nothing of his own.

Woe to him that bringeth his old servant to a Court of Iustice.

Woe to him that loves, and is not loved.

Woe to him that hath a bad name in his youth.

Woe to him that seeks his landlord dayly.

Woe to the beast, that never seeth his owner.

Worse and worse, like the son of a goat.

Woe to that one man, that makes a hundred sad.

The day will discover the work of the night.

It is an easie work to beware.

A friends frown is better then a fools smiles.

An importunate begger cannot keep.

To cut a witth with a beetle.

Naturam expellas furcâ, &c.

After long languishing death.

A lion when old may be conquered.

To fish in a sheep-coat.

Too much cunning undoes.

Fortune out-veyes cunning.

A bird in hand is better then two in the bush.

Clear conscience a sure card.

A friend in Court, &c.

Good, though long stayed for is good.

A fair face and a foul heart.

To think his grandmother a maide.

To give pay with a ladle.

No more then the he-goat to the kill▪ Antipathy.

Better one braggadocio, then two fighters.

Better one pair of feet, then two pair of hands.

Woe to the Owner of a weak bow.

Woe to the servant of a weak Lord.

Multitude conquers greatness.

It is easie to cut out thongs of another mans skin.

Howell is generous at the Countreyes charge.

The play of an old cur with a whelp.

The toung will cause beheading.

Easier to censure then do.

The bald will not believe till he sees his brains.

It is easie to draw blood out of a skabbie head.

The kinsmans ear will hear it.

A womans commodity stronger then a rope.

He that hath the daughters cunt, will have the mothers heart.

Long aiming, long shiting.

A womans hand is the pricks whe••stone.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Enough for each man what he can manage.

Compare onely with thy compeers.

Who complains without cause, may have cause to complain.

Spare the surety, spare the principal.

A small cause may produce much grief.

Cause without cause.

The besome ought still be busie.

Without a good horse, to take the field is folly.

Complain for fear of complaints.

A house dry over head is happy.

Long sorrow moulds misery.

A cat may be cram'd with crums.

Each owner his own.

A child knowes who licks, but not who loves him.

Open-mouth'd hedges speak bad husband.

Feed liberally, find labourers.

The wise and the fool have their fellows.

Get a sonne, get a sword.

Great promises, small performance.

A fairly, makes a fool laugh.

The gray is ripe for the grave.

The Hart brayes for the brook.

The Hart being fed takes the field.

The lewd and naught love long nights.

Whom death kills, none recalls.

Should not bad councel be cancelled.

He that bears the bag may fill his belly.

He that steals an egg, will steal a nagg.

Teach the child a Sunday, he will remember it a Munday.

If the Lion go to the field, God will be his shield.

He that goes to Court without errand, may bring home an arrest.

VVho at horse play would learn skill, at home should leave his skinne.

Tine before Kine.

Soon get up, soon goe down.

A heart heavy, is not healthy.

A Nurses tongue priviledged to talk.

She silent and dull, Domb.

A lary fool, hands foule.

His mouth fouly sweats that swears.

Wild and wanton.

He that hath store of bread, may beg his milk merrily.

Many boxes make empty bellies.

If much hony hap, thou mayest put it in thy pap.

A lawyer pleads all pleas, or he that sticketh at the first course on all occasions shifts to discourse.

No plea to what God pleaseth, or whom God loveth in his grave lies.

An Impudent shaver will hardly be saved.

He that scolds at sea, will do the like on land.

He that is uncertain when he goeth, will doe no good ere he goeth.

An old mans best praise is prayer.

Gallant means, gallant men.

The dead out of view we need not avoid.

He that dieth for threats with his own T. should be tain∣ted.

The nearer the Porch, the further from Paradise.

Might overcomes right.

To refuse in want, waste.

To give where there is no want.

A twisted lace is not easily loos'd▪

Once prime man, now no man.

No power, no respect.

Gods will be done.

Who would be commended, let him die first.

If thou wouldst try friends, be sick.

Be hearty, be healthy.

Have the haft, have the blade.

A cuff in the morning is remembred in the evening.

Gods word uppermost.

Who loves not his mother, will hardly love his stepmother.

That love is slender which regards not a friends slander.

Love young sparkes, love their sports. Or love the yoak tine, love what belongs thereto.

Who loves her husband most, love his mother m.

Plundred ware, never thrive.

Close and near will cleave in need.

The great crow doth cry, the young sayes I.

Out of a small complaint, groweth a greater.

Over complaint, no complaint.

Rise to plead, lose thy place.

Learn if thou can, and keep it.

Almes more valued then venison.

Offend God, offend man.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Good ale the key of cuuncel (or)

The barly corn is the hearts key.

Patience is Knowledge's life-guard.

Passion, a note of bad nature.

Every guest can guess.

Love me, love my dog.

Chide the birth for the salt bag.

The old man dies, the young man danceth, (or)

The old doth fall, the young laughs his fill.

Plenty of all a tanning.

Plenty of honny a straining.

Where love fails, we spy all faults.

B••ood soon stands on a white steed.

Bloud is not hid in a scabby head.

Unrich, unready.

Strange dishes, dainties.

Ignorance denies the conclusion.

Covenant breaketh custome.

Breach of custome contempt.

A time for meat, and a time for Mass.

A time for all things.

Ill bred, ill bruised.

Bruise in the sinewes, death in the veins.

A hollow man, an ill messenger.

Choler waves kindred.

The dull sees no more then the dark.

An angel in the field, a devil by the fire.

Want will make the old trull to trot.

Want buyes and sells also.

Want cancels commands.

Want doth rouse the old to run.

Ever lewd, never beloved.

Needy and poor, are nobile Par.

What wants in part, is imperfect.

If fool, ever foul.

Cold will never catch heat.

Death makes speed unexspected.

Grim death buyes full dear.

The more fame, the greater shame.

A fool may be shamed in shiting.

A churlish friend never free.

Unhopeful, unhappy.

No confidence in cowards.

A churle, unstaid and stubborn.

If God saith, it must be so.

VVhat a babler saith▪ is fawcy.

Set thy dog, but thou sit down.

Drive the dog to the dayry.

Rash in kind, inconstant.

Cold face calls for fire.

Whom I love, I like.

Patient and silent.

Mock and be mocked.

Soft fire maketh sweet malt.

Wise words and great seldom agree.

Give much and mildly (or) divide commons kindly.

Plow while thou art, plow ere thou art not.

Suspend till the end.

A man of power may compel.

VVhere none chuse it is the Lords escheat.

Every one is Lord of his own.

God save a weak Lords servant.

Money is said, to buy and sell.

If foul fail, use fair means.

He that avoids not smoak, may smart.

The medow is shorn with the shears.

VVhere no discretion is, there is danger.

He that cannot bear with his servant, must serve himself.

Give the cat meat, or feed mice.

He that will not give what is dear, shall not have what he desires.

VVho cannot fell trouse, will ne're fell a tree, (or) if young a cow, old a coward.

A sluggard is going stil, but stirs not.

Power weakeneth the wicked.

Power descrieth a thievish crue.

Smoke a bad sign they say.

A sign hath no Bucks side.

A bad bow, that will not bend.

An orle chip, in a cats cheek.

A clean bosome, a beesome (or) blessing.

A bone bad meat for an old man.

Every fault breeds fear.

Teach a Dogge to the Dayrie, and he will goe thither dayly.

A fighting skit, a foul scab.

A sober man, a soft answer.

In his own house each man is master.

Envy breeds back-biting.

All would gain gold.

A great bruise brings grief.

That rasor's keen that shaves clean.

Few by signs know what thou sayest.

If thou play the fool stay for a fellow.

If thou do not well, beware.

VVhat God sends, man censures.

VVhat ere is veyled, will be revealed.

He that makes the song, is the author sure.

Who does well, deserves well.

Who bad will do, swears deeply too.

Deceive and be deceived.

Each bad one, waits a bad houre.

Much drink makes drunk.

Greediness breaks Nicks neck.

Old trot, why wouldst break thy thigh?

The brave steed fails that founders.

Pride (Sir Poore) without support.

Pride far-fetchd, fie.

Bread and butter one bit is.

A lazy calf laughs coldly.

Divide and diminish.

The shallow channel chimes.

Thimb thumb say some.

If all had what they liked, then none would long.

A Lions heart boyls with heat.

Anon, anon, quoth the Kite.

The hogs grace, is the grease.

A kind heart happy.

A whore sometimes sheddeth teares, (or) a shameless lock sometimes leaks.

A rash man roves.

Anger notes bad nature.

A rash lout laughs loud.

Up start and new come, bids himself welcome.

A greedy gut would all get.

Cry and howt, the deaf cries ha.

Blood no base spot on a spear.

Green, where the army graze.

Be healthy, be hilarous.

Be jovial, be joyful.

Sick language sayes I languish.

Great ones bark boldly.

One cannot mourn, and be merry.

A thief most stout, best keep out.

The valiant chargeth wisely, not wildly.

A woman quell'd will be quiet.

Bad words make a woman worse.

Brave, though ill bred.

Lick well and look well, (or) feed well and fight well.

A mad part to be malapart.

Play the cat, even to the tail.

Blossomes e're May, not good some say.

The more wolves in shape, the worse for the sheep.

The Carres will have a second course.

Long sick, at length sink.

The elder you die, the more you dote.

The parents presence, the young mans prison.

Lineage pleads, well lin'd takes place.

The hens foreshew a morning shower.

A woman merry, a red morning.

VVhen the string is streightest it breaks with stretching.

A rich gull gathers, and the son scatters.

An old wife dreams what she dreads.

All fidlers are fellows.

Rash judgement soon spent; (or) a fools bolt is soon shot.

Victory wound••, and death a••tidates.

Spend with one, spare with both hands.

The devil take the curs'd cat.

To wake a dead corps with cold water.

Make goose pond, of ducks puddle.

Cast brine salt into the sea.

A p••t brimful and foule.

A dwarf may be a monsters mother.

Few fairie-mouth'd.

The deaf man hath his mate.

Short sweetness breeds long sorrow.

A good tale never too tedious.

Good and loved, not long lived.

Twisted thrid fears no threats.

Do well and have well.

The mill that talketh hath toll.

Look for him that bears the bell under his steeds belly.

Look for muske in the myskin.

Fair summer greets, yet it maketh winter grievous.

A man stout, firmer then stone.

Ever heavy never hearty.

The Welsh knoweth well the Saxons good will.

VVantons never keep counsel.

A hundred love, and a hundred leave me.

Aged and ached.

The dog doth toil, so doth his tail.

A hundred sweethearts in a house.

He singeth odd, without an ode.

The Romans old, Odium's.

Owen Cyfeyliogs villaines, or Odium's.

A friend bars nay, in time of need.

VVhat man hateth here, God hateth in heaven.

A sharks haunt soon hated.

A bramble tupp turbulent.

Truth not loved, where not allowed.

The mare lame, the colt the like.

The bumme hole's shut, when the fart's shot.

What ere is new is noble, (or) if new prised then praysed.

The loss being great, look the mothers recruit.

Passion wardeth inward.

Provide for thy ship, or sink.

If thou be skilful, reveal not thy skil to a fool.

The sea is the Lords cell, or cellar.

Young and tame, sharp in time.

Praise a good woman I pray.

Hard reading a dumb mans meaning.

Well girt, well goes.

Love thy sister notwithstanding disasters.

Death's capp's capacious, (or) death to all sorts pertains.

A snarling cur hath a scurvy coat.

Hunt all games have no gains.

A message too late lost.

Without penny penury.

Light knit, easily unknotted.

A horn heard soon, though hardly seen.

See to thy seed.

A leg thought a thigh.

My thought runs where my love rests.

Call God neere, when thou dost neeze.

Know a lout, by his load.

The hen flaunts on the floor.

A good cow ever, a milking runs over.

Hee looseth many a good bitt, that striveth with his bet∣ters.

Hang the poor hen.

The Beare pressed in the Lions presence, (or) strike the man before the master.

Rub a churles tail he will give thee a turd, (or) speak a churl fair, he will spit in thy face.

The dog bites hard, the bone's harder.

Pinch worse then pincers.

A fool laughs a life.

The hen's beak her mind doth speak, (or) the face without shewes what's within.

An old man is sick, Death ensueth.

Shake a row like a reed.

A short sword a fools supersedeas.

Once steal ever stayed, make much of a steer, when the rest is stolne.

Fall hard and clean, not on fowle clay.

Death falls the rich in the ridge.

Strange! a cock tied in a cowes tine.

Goods long tried, not to be trusted.

Hasty, yet wise and wary.

Though day be long night comes at last.

What is nine dayes kept close, nine moneths discloseth.

Eat with a Lords son, play not with his Lordship.

As long as the cart calls it carries.

All ought to plead for the plow.

The colt stout as the stallion.

A greedy gut would all get.

Old wives medicines, sins.

The hand finds, where it feels.

Be a friend to the free.

Contemporaries, good and gaudy.

The rich man sells, the poor man seals.

The heart and pate, in plots copartners.

Confession free.

Wranglers, brats and brawlers.

Mans years as Iron.

As easie as the mouse trips in the trap.

As soon doth the lambs skin as the sheeps skin march to the market.

A plea after judgement.

The old if not fond, offend not.

At ••ome the churle keeps the chair.

See the begger looks big.

The kil•••• sooner burns then the barn.

A wa••c••man hies to stand on high.

As good not stir as ride on a staff.

As good the penny as the penny worth.

He and she single may associate.

Contend about fare, at length fast.

Advise a lout too late.

Unlucky wags long for wars.

Youth loves to go hence, then longs to come home.

Play not such in a satchel.

Play and grieve not, jest and disgrace not.

The dog playes a while with the whelp.

So do••h the sow with the pig also.

The naked plaies now, the hungry playes not.

I plaid now a game, I had well nigh forgot.

Cold laughing lies under ice.

February ••••ging, never stints stinging.

Wine is sweet, till the ••eckoning greet.

A churles feast is sweeter, to make up the meeter.

Whe••e Lovers like they laugh.

The fool never droops, but laughs though he drowns.

Prayse innate to nature.

Never cease searching.

Good for the wealthy to want sometimes.

Good that the teeth guard the tongue.

Pleading after judgement.

The mountain fumes, a mouse comes forth.

'Tis well God sends curst kine short horns.

The spit and meat well met.

Him good man call that pleaseth all.

Good whats musty, from bad pay-masters.

Set the dog upon the hog.

Keep house while thou canst.

Give over when thou canst not.

All faults if unfortunate.

A stranger they say, blind on his way.

Every chase, chance.

Set dogs upon Doegs.

Give a churle an inch, he will take an ell.

Folly to teach Tutors.

Shew heavens seat to sinners.

Shew the calf but not the curds.

Two hungry meals belike, makes the third gorbelize.

Have great care, in works curious.

Stand to thy wayes, wave wavering.

Mans wrong remembred long.

God is good, everlasting, long patient.

Good the sword, with the word.

Mishaps in haps, happy.

Happy state loves high esteem.

The Lord is great, freely gives grace.

He is happy sure, who is loved when seen.

Rough is not easily wrought.

In capite, is love the best tenure.

Once begun, half done.

Half the way to know the way.

Faiths best hold in the heart.

Carriage carries the respect.

Beauty is clear in good clothes.

The best pedigree, school degree.

Learning bald, if not bold.

Half way rod, when ready.

Towns keep their chairs, maintain their Charter.

Lest musick erre, give ear.

No gift well, without good will.

A jealous eye doth prophecy.

Choose yoak for Ox, or Ax.

Choose foul hag, of both foul hogs.

When all's done, go dine.

Ever a churl voids his chamber.

Happy son thats void of sin.

The poor man flee's, ••he rich man fley's.

The foul frog dies under ice.

God arms the harmless.

A friend, a fiend if offended.

Never loose if sedulous.

One God, enough for one good.

Too much musick proves tedious.

Fy, enough of figs.

A little play enough to please.

Ill favour'd, ill fam'd.

Each bird 'tis said loves to hear himself sing.

Fetch the people from the piper.

Grief looks sleepy, and be slubber'd.

Care keeps the wise awake.

Good cloths and closest.

A young swaggerer, an old begger.

An old man neate newes.

A town faithless, foul and falls.

Pawse and let the water pass.

The bitter slanders his betters.

The industrious strives to stand both by sea and by land.

A knave lets pass peace.

Not espied despised.

Long without meal or meat.

A madmans stroke sad and sudden.

The end of the old is to keep sheep in the fold.

More carefull then the wolfe, for my own: (or) If thou wouldst not misse thy own message.

A mad puppy meets thorns in his pap.

All prone to promise.

Put thy hand upon thy heart.

Lend to the poor, late thou wilt be paid.

A seholler may be gulld thrice,

A souldier owl'd but once.

For wise he may pass, that can hold his peace.

On all things by all means measure.

Heart of cares hardly cured.

Long comes at last.

The deére may pay double.

Wary to set, wise to sell

Twice swear pay dear.

A bad guest admitted makes something missed.

A bad Court where none come, (or) A Court void unless invited.

Were all knowe, most are knaves.

That sin is foul that spreads fame.

Bad to care no more then for to morrow.

A ••ad one, as another.

The devil a most bad master.

Bad is bad, worse worst of all.

That path's poore, but once trod o're.

Bad servant bad, worse if none had.

Stark naught, that's not worth asking.

That office is servile, thats not worth the serving.

Thy neighbour as thy self, see.

Do it good, or do it again.

Each wild wanton.

A bawble in the hand of a booby.

Wanton pranks seldom prosper.

God will feed the simple.

Man doth say, God doth send.

Heaven's mine, if God doth say, Amen.

Gods Power, rights the poor.

Woe frog, ware frost.

Loose t••y sence that will not see.

A frantick pate, loseth his part.

All ought long for Art and learning.

God ever sends in season.

The dayes are bad, God send better.

To persecute odd, and odious.

No joy in a gaole.

Grievous to leave, whom I love.

A surety owes, and not owes.

Begg of the free, until a frey.

The old playes with the Owle.

A foul abuse long abides.

Much liquor makes eloquent.

To and fro, all out of frame.

Teach the wise with gentle strains, teach the wild with stripes.

Teach an old horse to pace home.

To speak that, he knows not what.

A cruel friend, Death's his end.

Marry ••ere home, malice far hence.

Give God the first fruits free.

If April swell, ware swine.

A churle rue's, that he was royal.

Womens vowes double and vain.

Scapes scrapes together.

The old cat knowes what to make of milk.

The secrets now seen and nois'd.

The dog shall yet see summer.

Have at the curds, be chary of the cheese.

I know when I goe, but not when I come again.

The cat knowes and licks whom she likes.

Each mans worth is praised by his works.

The cat would have fish, but not wet her feet.

Open thy bag to receive a pig.

The world is a wide parish.

The fool doth lift his hand full swift.

A good aunt, almost a mother.

Spare thy fist, spare not thy foot.

A suit, where lov'd not lost.

If not loved spare thy labour.

Without power poore.

Wary that takes warning, not wary beware.

A man dreads what he dreams.

There neeeds no battery upon an open Butterey.

A Maide crack'd, adieu credit.

The hand and foot felltws.

Where akinne there call.

One to a hundred, a hundred to one.

Great loaves empty barns.

Trot hag to the mill, if thou wouldst have meal.

Name without fam••.

The swinehaerd swayes over swine.

A bad race, drawes great disgrace.

A heart that fears, protracts the field.

To strike is bad when none do bid.

Be it peace or be it war, the dead Bee doth little care.

The busie brat sculks abroad.

The easiest thing, to do nothing.

All horn, no ear at all.

A servants friendship froath.

A lowse ne're loved.

The poore though wise a VVittall, (or) All that faile fools.

A far way for forreigners.

Saint Faglans way to heaven winds.

The Bee hath a fine way to her hive, as the other to Hea∣ven.

Fly from bad land, but not from a bad Lord.

Refuse a wife with one fault, and take one with two.

L••st, the worst night last.

A poor vertue to upbraid poverty.

Ill speak, ill speed.

A stormie wife an evill stench, (or) her crooked words doe crash winde.

A womans words though vile, must prevail.

If a woman stirs, expect a storm.

A mans word out of a Castle is strong.

Sugred kisses divulge secrets.

A mans own means his enemies.

Let go the bad to the good mans barn.

Lambs words, wolves works.

A gift not show, 'twixt hand and sleeve.

In Church appear after a peal.

A truant nere speaks truth.

A Lion once, but now ancient.

A hearth without fire ill favoured.

Hasty pranks seldome prosper.

Rash vowes known vain.

An easie civility to salute.

A hasty fool ever faulty.

The poor ever trips on troubles.

Over warnd ever forgets his errand.

Ever the gaunt nimbly goes.

The gross sometim••s goes fast.

In time the child becomes a giant.

Well goes the case, where wisdom counsels.

Wicked Peers ever perish.

The poor is sure cast in his suit.

A womans double negative, is a single affirm live.

Usual to flaunt and fly.

A wanton lass commonly laughs.

Where a cross is reard we commonly rest.

Secrecy shu••, that endeth in shame (or) ware vent••r tickles in conventicles.

Drinking over much, ever mads.

The wine in a feast, first fits the founder.

Stollen at length, comes to light.

The vile ever a villain.

None so stout but have their stains.

Fat easily sould out of a fat soil.

Too much care usually miscarries.

A wanton soul insolent.

Small blades full quick becomes a rick.

Enson comes when the bell calls.

Noble guests, nobly give.

Love too hot, turns to hate.

A lovers part, comely port.

Some of esteem, if strange simple seem.

Noble minded, modest; (or) Speak lesse, speak learned.

Dry over head happy.

After running stay and stand.

Others distress, thy destruction.

After sin long sorrow.

Fear dooms damage.

After showres Phoebus shines.

Ioind souldiers assault.

No rain no rushes.

Ware the alehouse prey, but not to pay.

Seek milk and feed the cowes mouth.

Man deliberates, God delivers.

He scorns the meat, and yet doth eat.

Where is no kill, alike scholars.

A dream by daylight lightsome.

God disposeth of the despised.

Man is appeased by men of peace.

All look on whom they like.

A lovely look liberal.

A modest look beloved.

The masters eye-bals feeds the beasts belly.

The day is long, yet ends at last.

Abuse got, best forget (or) the best abuse in battel.

Mans best candle understanding.

Of any slow, best is the plow.

The lazy deludes, best pleads delay.

The best part in man, to have good manners.

Practice of goods the best goodness.

Repent some day, thou hast sold dear.

Good none are without good name.

My mother had rather be killed, then miscalled.

The wrong side best of a furrow by far.

The best Surgeon is he of the soul.

Silver famine most ravenous.

A false report rides poast.

A small gift grea••, if discreet.

The best of clothes is a cloak.

The best play that ends pleasant.

Speak the dog fair, till thou pass the fold.

Curs to each other currish.

Frighted young, great wrong.

Trot too oft makes the steed stand.

A journey not far easily performed.

Deep lies the hearts language.

Woe to the man who dines on rotten sheep after rain.

Hop hip to hip, woe is his hap, that nothing hath in lip or lap.

That master hath small cause to sport, when his old servant calls to Court.

Inward disgrace doth grate.

Disgrace a let, be it ••re so little.

Woe him that God allowes and not believes.

Woe to him who loves, and is not beloved.

Young of bad fame, ever ill name.

Never do good to a lazy gull.

Thy bord oft see, nere the better be.

No Court favour, a case ill favour'd.

Bloudy and foule, known by his fall.

Woe nonage that longs for dotage.

Woe the Mule, sees not the master.

A bad report no scurvier part.

Woe Lurdans help in harvest,

Wars civil, most savage, (or) None worse to fight▪ then a carpet Knight.

The worst store, A maid unbestowed.

One wolf lame, worse then two lustie.

Willmots tale worse and worse told.

Wild goat, wilder doth get.

Dogs run their course, but worse and worse.

That one is bad, makes hundreds sad.

Woe man! hath bad woman.

A house without son sad.

Done what's by night, day brings to light.

Vide Cywala.

White hairs and gray are pilgrimes.

Water gives place, throw in what thou please.

Wounds and blood wanton play.

Vide Chwarae, &c.

Strive who is strongest.

Others kine ne're think they are thine.

Vide Chawreuid, &c.

A servant that doth please, nere wants a place.

A good servant is his Lords shield and should.

The easiest work and way, is to beware.

A servant, and subservant to a piper, viz. a pup∣py.

Haste to the hive, ere the Bees depart, (or) Manly and bold though a Boy.

On the nights work, the day descants.

Sip after the sound.

A trade love without largess.

Love good parts without patience.

Play Fortunes game to the last gasp.

Wounds green do grieve.

See two for one.

He sees his ear with his eye.

Better free, then Miser be.

Better courteous, then curtal.

Better in a Coach with the courteous, then in the Fire with the furious.

Better want the maine, then want the mountain.

Sooner exiles from Groves, then exits from Graves.

Better lie in grave, then live in grief.

Better borrow then beg.

Better the poor mans prayer, then the preying of the migh∣tie.

Better end of Dee, then basest of Bucks.

Better every mans good speech then spight.

Better bonny, then base.

Better beast▪ barren and few then none in fold.

Better something in purse then nothing in poak.

Better stay then stumble.

Better sit a while, then stand a while.

Better live and do, then ly dead.

Better keep now, then seek anon.

Better lose a pin, then lose a penny.

Better dy one then dy all, (or) Better dy one in a hundred, then a hundred for one.

Better a kinsman near, then I know not where.

Better a friend in court, then penny in purse.

Better penny in silver, then any brother.

A songs life, the delivery.

Better never stand then ly still.

Better rags and patches then rents and breaches.

Better Cookdom, then Kingdom.

Better trade then traffick.

Better lean whole, then fat unwholsom.

Better churl present, then charitable absent.

An aged mans counsel best kept uncancelled.

Better Art then Experience.

Better lod••e a Ranter, t••en a Robber.

Better play faire then fight.

Better a bungling ••arpenter then bad Smith.

Better God then gold.

Better hope in God then despair of good hap.

God best priz'd, when most prais'd.

Bette•• Gods Arm then Earths army.

The Cooks hand's smooth, the Laundress smarts.

Better the Artificers head, then hand.

Better a mean, then too much.

Better scourge the man, that will not mend.

Better man to see, then phantasie.

Better looke on a man shiting on a turf, then hewing of a tree.

Better a beast sold, then bought.

Better sit on straw then on the floor.

Better Lord not enter, then entertain.

A woman loves to gad, more then her own good.

Better sing late, then antedate.

Better shame avoid, then revenge.

Better patient, then passionate.

Better deaths shade then live in shame.

Better meanly rich then too much.

Better mouth spare then mouth spend.

Better woe one, then woe all.

Better a kinsmans back, then a strangers beck.

A woman guest is ever best.

Better sorrowful sparing, then shameful spending.

Better come sometimes, then never return.

Better truly, then ly.

Better one man, then many.

Better a man, then means.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

A woman commend, rather then command.

Better half seed, then half summer, or half sowen.

Better an action of debt, then of death.

Better prudence then oppression.

Better long unmarried then for ever mard.

Better Mannours, then manners.

Better the harm I know, then that I know not.

The cat and mouse love no removes.

Better go beg with a small bag.

Better a mean match then an over-match.

Better a rough stone that saveth, then a smooth stone that deceiveth me.

Better an able and rich Mother, then a noble and wretched Father.

Better sell then buy by far.

Better die once then languish long.

Better dy then waste and want.

Better shame veyld then reveald.

Better mite of man then mountain of woman.

Better hand have, then Gaffer give.

Better nay, then to betray.

Two old stronger then one younger.

Better a Finch in fist, then a Pheasant in field.

Better trust a tree, then a tel-tale.

Better wise then wealthy.

Better for fear, then for fair words.

Better bear then beat.

Better snarl, then sneak.

Better wit, then wealth.

Better silent, then sawcy.

Better muck meade, then make merry.

Better crushd, then cruel.

Better one welcome then two invitations.

Better one securer, then two persecutors.

Better one good sty, then two bad stables.

The beetle strikes once better home, then twice the hammer.

Better one word in time, then afterwards two.

Better give now, then come anon.

Better till beard, then forwards to beer.

Have much, have more.

Little and good blest, much and bad not best.

Better something hid, then nothing had.

Better fac'd then fed.

Better run in the bog, then rush into the battle.

Many faggots, good fire, one stick cold as stone.

A rope is strong, a Maid drawes stronger.

Better the rod that bends, then breaks.

Better to be plucked then flaid.

Better a horse with a full crest, then full cratch.

Rare and precious, richly prised.

Sell the sow and buy bacon.

My own mouth saith, I'me a saint.

Do good, deserve gold.

For ill do well, then fear not hell.

A liberal hand wins hearts.

Multiply mischiefs.

Some old wife will dy here, or elsewhere.

Where is no love, no liking.

Each man seen in summer.

Each Court hath its Anti-court.

Refuse a bidding, and go look for lodging.

What thou seest thou maist say.

A widows goods will soon be gone.

A heart will break e're long with longing.

Command a son, he will not be gone.

Send a Crow to look for land.

Drive the stake that goes and stands.

Love commands commends.

Down now with the wasps nest.

Courteous and curtal (or) free, but afraid.

Free and large on countries charge.

Spare no cost when all is lost.

'Till New year sweat, 'till May no heat.

A curst cat must have her nails cut.

Well fares the dog, when the other dies.

At the pissing of the Wren, the sea doth roar.

If wood appear, sure house is near.

A feasts best chear chearfulness.

Be bold and hope, God sends good hap.

If new, good and gawdy.

In Ianuary though sun appear, March and February pay home full dear.

Where lovers be, there all agree.

An old hearth soon heats.

'Twixt false and desirous soon decided.

On him thou lovest call aloud.

Easie to swim well near the willow.

Easie so make a weakling weep.

Easie so make the stout stalk.

Easie to defeat a fool.

A scabby head soon let bloud.

Boldly soak by thy beds side.

Easie to wound the weak.

Easie to fret the frantick.

Fifteen is easie told.

A short sword easily drawn.

Better treat far off, then near hand.

Better climb by a good deal, then clamber and go down.

Easier to say much, then do more.

Easier done at evening then early.

Easier to make a Faulcon of a Kite, then a Knight of a Knave.

A house easier burnt then built.

Easier to cosen a roung truant, then an old trot.

Old sin renews the shame.

Easie to bear with an old body.

Long bargains seldom gains.

The poor mans tale long a telling.

Long to dy never have done.

Still, I nere no, at length saith nay.

Long sit, do nothing but say.

An eye that longs throughly looks.

All by ease drinks all he hath.

Long thrid in Needle, Proclaims a Huswife idle. A churles tale long, Be it right or wrong.

Long grief yields no relief.

The hungries care, longs for corn.

The time slips, while man long sleeps.

A thief long holds, at length hangs.

Long a droan, at length drown.

Long ly, at length dy.

Every delay long.

Meat for a Knight, never a knife.

Heavy and stout care not to stand.

Long a widow weds with shame

Long patience, breaks into passion.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 a ••air in a wolfs tail a long toil.

Bloud and wrong lasts long.

A bad husbands Oxe, long before it be a bullock.

A bitter bit long a biting.

A little stallion will be long calld a colt.

The blind at the deafs door may die.

'Tis long I trow to stand in a tree.

His goods a man loves as long as he lives.

Mans life is fil'd by his foe.

Sweet butter from good fields.

The needy skips if he may score.

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Each thinks his own filt fair.

The clown loves his club.

The chi••ds meat soon snatched from his mouth.

A sow from each salt pot.

Late and lazy never wealthy.

Fame out-lives lands.

T••e black calf a blunt Courtier.

Fame out-lives life.

God stayes long, but strikes at last.

The poor trusts to his neighbour.

The clown a Lord on his own land.

Spare not to cry where houses are ••igh.

Every look is lovely, when thou likest.

W••ile thou live, be not lazy.

No day fails the pot on fire.

All on their wakes, wantons.

All would fight, till they come to the field.

Nere condole a cheerful cheek.

The young may prance and prate.

Every soul ought to keep it self.

Annoint grease.

Annoint a sowes tail with tallow.

Down the Road the water runs.

Hands and feet with veins filled.

Make the sole fit to the foot.

A great stone makes a huge stir.

A quarrelsome hand at last wearies the wearer.

The swineherd playes when the wind blows.

A hand quick and quaint.

The fathers share a good hold for the sons hand.

A clean hand is happy.

Many hands make light work.

Many one leads a hungry life, and yet must needs wed a wife.

Many sued, one sues.

Who covets much still wants more.

Friends onely in show, Fie for shame (or) Faire tailes fine turds.

Words, wind and away.

Many bid fair for foul.

Many have tales better untold.

Some for hunger like to die, yet keep their dogge for com∣pany.

Much water passeth by, the Miller knoweth not when nor why.

All live now, none say enough.

Fair in shew, but full of shame; poore in sight, but pure in soul.

A full earle to roast a collop.

Perjury kills Kings, (or) perjury killeth whereever it cal∣leth.

Where the pain is, the finger points.

Where love is, the place doth please.

A frantick fool kills his fellow.

The Foord in wading groweth more wide, (or) a Foord more room affords.

Kill the Ramm that doth not runt.

In winter draw a lesser draught.

No learning no blessing, (or) no care no carriage.

Where the horse tumbles to sport himself, he leavet part of himself.

The Antimonial cup a general cure.

On turd tread, the more it will spread, (or) turd stamp the more it stinks.

Who is not full, may eat his fill.

Luxury devours.

He is all faults whom none favours.

W••en floods ye see, the rain will cease.

Merry is a lout on his mistress lap.

When the ca••'s from home the mice keep house.

A coward kills his companion.

Poor and bare will still appear, till some do say thou come not here.

Poor grass where sheep cannot graze.

Wild and gray nere agree.

Ancient and grave and gray.

The market is sure where there is an old senior.

No man scorns to bear his skin.

The dog licks the spear that did him the spight.

Gods Eye is upon his own.

A curious eye in a Curres head.

Each Ache is greatest at first.

Here the field, and here the hare.

The boy being a man remembers.

A youth untaught a house until'd.

Make the Owl stand with a stone.

The finest wheat hath its refuse.

Topsie turvie.

Feed a lowse in thy bosome, it will sometimes be busie.

A blustring cold May, in the barn fills every bay.

As light of wing as Hawk or wind.

Money in thrall goeth through, (or) money beareth the charge of a journey.

A hunted hare is venison.

As a durty dog.

As stiff as a drabs distaff.

As dogs gape after Goats.

As the blind stands and casts his staff.

As two tinkers.

As a churle having a charge.

As a bird on the bough.

As a pat upon the pate.

As March snow stands on stone.

As Howell Goronwy's staff.

As work of worth.

As bulke some stands, as Ketti's stone.

As an eye in the head.

As a mill Pond d••ained dry.

As hony thaw lickd of thorns.

As a Kidd from the high hills.

As a shovel dipt in doung.

As a warrant to wemm.

As a hooke drawn through Bushels.

As an Egg slips on a sledge.

As the Cow so the Calf.

As the man said or sung.

As thou art prone to be praysed.

As the hog and hound.

As the dog when the fire burns his foot.

As the dogs to the hogs.

As the penurious for the penny.

As the Cat falls to fish.

As the hair escapes the razing razour.

As the Iury turned out.

As the hen with dung in, and Egg out.

As flax standing on stone.

As the Fox bites the be ry.

As the Frog frets under the harrow.

As the mouse clos'd in the cats clawes.

As hogs beat for beans.

As fish for wet and water.

As the ape whines for her whelp.

As the Crane likes his legs.

As the thrum about the beam.

As the Bark trusses the tree.

As the sow hackd with hatcher.

As the Deer and Wolf.

As the bolt from the bow.

As fire flies in flax.

As the fire heats the hearth.

As door on hook doth turn full oft, so sluggard turns in down bed soft.

Lusty dame, makes lazy daughter.

A Pigmey mother, her race disgraceth.

Modest grace, makes great.

The best steed stumbles.

A horse sees the hay, sees not the hedge.

A Mule for a mome, a cur for an Epicure.

Command a Castle, and be costly.

March flings, April fleyes.

Misfortunes come by forties.

Let ill will have little wealth.

The cook is disliked that his fingers cannot lick.

That mouse condole who hath but one hole.

Single long, shame at length.

Iune if sunny, brings harvest Early.

Honey staind with a sting.

The poor mans grist, is his bag.

The finger sleighted till 'tis burned.

Good words (or a fray) of my friend.

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.

Sweet and good, give again.

Sweet appears sowre when we pay.

I know my game though I cannot gain.

Though of my mother I had all, I cannot wait her fune∣rall.

The Duck•• soon learn to swim.

Every Nation us own fashion.

Praise the Fo••rd, as cause thou find.

After death Decl••mation.

A lass with a lad in lap.

A b••sh••ul du••ce, dombe.

Man and woman quaint and coy.

No more then a hand mill.

More then one cur did ba••t and bite me.

Bad is the wolf, the porredge far worse.

No more then the go••t ash••med to shew her tail.

No more be, then a tennis ball.

No more then the saddle for the sow.

No more ••hen the Quaile rests in the ridge.

Fill the sieve at the river side.

To do without need as good as neglect.

The bulls reign is the sheeps ruine.

A ba•• shepherd views oft in vain.

O••r 〈◊〉〈◊〉 oft shew our shames.

No worse for the sole, then the shoe.

For once or twice neesing, from death no escaping.

Be not so wild to lose the old way, for new pranks now I pray.

Never believe thy sister in Law.

Square not thy feast by the rule of thy guest.

Have a care thou wake not a sleeping mast if.

Wa••e cutting thy swi••e, lest they swell.

Sleight not the meanest Minister.

Make no statute of a mans stature.

Better a good dog, then a bad Doeg.

Some neighbour nigh, an enemy.

Thy wife if wise, must not partake thy privities.

Nor stir, nor strive, unless struck.

Nere betray reposed trust.

In chamber long,, at length chamberlain.

Be not too ready when thou maist be spared.

Beat a coward oft, thou wilt find he will fight.

Either a Fox, or a fern bush.

Save God, none wise.

The nature of the sow in the suckling.

The stone swims best to the bottom.

Sell with skill when scant.

Fools refuse favours.

A Rulers Errand free and currant.

Next to next annexed.

Neerer skin, then skirt.

Neerer me then my maw.

The cry I tell, comes nearer the town.

The elbow near, the wrist nearer.

Each dry place, a Palace.

Get a son, he will help thee soon.

The cal•• would fain be a cow.

Change and pick pikemen.

Change hats and habits.

A fool will not be foild.

Nor the cholerick be beloved.

No man can beyond his kenn.

Two bigs will not go in one bag.

No vessel filled beyond brimfull.

Not son in law till consummated love.

None term'd right, unless turn'd rich.

Not guilty full, till one confess.

Never make totall of a title.

Soul never fear, if not faulty.

Though a whole year thou dost woo, Thou knowst not yet what best to do.

A gift oft sought, nor thanked, nor bought.

A courtesie noi understood, Where one foresees not his own good.

Love slack, where sleighted.

A sad sigh, speaks tears nigh.

A woman bad, conveighs her bag.

Whom God will, not wealthy.

The saint will not chew cheese.

Internals say, we nere grow gray.

Iealousie not long lived.

Delay is no dismission.

No mans mind moulders.

Nought to gather, worse then wind and weather.

He means not to kill and confess.

Embassadors harms, Against the law of Arms.

Though lewd, yet lucky.

Though blest, yet bloudy.

A good friend never offends.

Blest will not serve, unless thou deserve.

An idle dame empty dayry.

Deny thy riches, be wretched.

The honycomb, bad for cock.

The wickeds race never rise.

Seldom rise unless first ruined.

To change never proffer, but for thy profit.

Lost repute, late repair'd.

Slow (O God) wil never do good.

Cowardize never scapes death.

Be ever close, yet ware a clap.

Ignoble persons imperfect.

A sigh, a sign of misery.

A cat seldom hangs in a halter.

An Ode endures but a year.

None sends the poor fare from afarr.

Not much between the apple I trow, & the apple tree.

The quick and free never delay the poor mans fee.

Fat meat sure, cannot still endure.

So proud he is, that he deigns not to piss.

Never buy a cat in a bag.

Scarse ought due to the dumb.

No more esteemed then a wodden stone.

All look on a bad leap.

A flout sticks not long on a Lord.

The black ox did not tread on thy foot.

An Egg may chance choak.

A messenger poor, and to no purpose.

Whoredome here doomd.

Debt never melts that still remains.

Submit to a Lord, not to a Lurda••e.

Never again have such a bolt in hand.

Arthur could not tame womans tongue.

Nere side without considering (or) no man shruggeth in his shrowd.

In market growes no grass nor grain.

I'le never thorn draw from others foot, and having pulld it in mine own put.

Head never weary with speaking wisely.

A vessel will not break that is not filled to the brim.

I never saw a Deer leap luckily.

The more displeased with his father at home, the more plea∣sed in ••is father in laws house.

No clean linnen, no cleanliness.

The mouse will not nestle in the cats ear.

The sea can but drench and drown.

Of the Well we see no want, till either dry, or Water skant.

The dog will not bite, for being struck with a Bone.

Hot in bloud, himself never blames.

All a man seeth is not his sustenance.

No man kens anothers case.

Keep still at home, never knowledge have.

Easie counted easie, till thought easie becometh uneasie.

Not see, not know, not learn, nor lout.

Fear not feared, nor bard, till bought.

For wit never look without the book.

The full sow regards not what the empty saith.

The hen next the cock, knows it not.

Long tarry, tane tardy.

The law frees franticks.

A Lord offers faire, none go further.

A word gone neve recalled.

What God made he never marr's.

Harm soon got, not so gone.

Nere fear curse if no cause.

A tale once told nere returns.

Achilles tried, Impenetrate.

He speaks awry and not down right, (or) 'Tis naked truth shames the youth.

Fields got, seldom forgot.

Perjurd souls, harm not saints.

The post rides not the fool, but the fool rides the post.

Not each that runs gets the race.

Nere go to sea, till thou learn what to say.

The plow never runs races.

No surety for a shilling.

Lend no man, new spick and span.

Nor bundle nor burden.

Strange dishes antick, makes men frantick.

Not shut hole fast on Fox.

The Priest forgets clean he was a Clerk.

Who fasts though rich is wretched.

Keep a huge coyle, or nothing can (or) speaketh loudest, doth least.

The Crow they say, cannot sing.

Sleep, pain and care seldom concur.

As good want breath as want brother.

Foul play to plunder.

None but fools will jest with water, fire and furious tools.

Too much is stark naught.

Not happy doomd without wisedom.

Scarce meat, where nought remains.

Lazy and lubberly.

None without fault yet ever found.

No bad Lord, but by his servants bad leading.

Good advice, abandons vice.

Wives shrowes, make husbands shrewd.

The gift if free, never censure it.

Never dance in the dark.

Man thrives not by his own device, But Fortune favours in a trice.

It is not he, feeds us think we.

It is not he, but thou thy self destroyeth thee.

He nought receives, we all do seek.

The time I miss, but 'tis not this.

Deny thy goods, deny thy God, (or) denied goods are not Gods.

The good man waves war.

Where nought at all, who can be liberal?

Taste the meat, perhaps you will eat.

Old Cyrrys bids change but to chary.

No blow right that falls awry.

Maldraeth will not own Owen.

A taske hard to serve on hire.

A strangers voice, against a Brittain voice, (or) Brittains none call new comers.

The furious fights and chafes, as well as the Champion.

No shame, but prayse to improve.

The bed cold, till the wife calld.

Never fancy beyond sufficient.

Too much and too little alike.

The thief and supporter equally parties.

The shamefast, may fast.

Not a man, but a Meacock.

Hard to let bloud with a Leek blade.

Hard to blow the fire well, with thy mouth filled with meal.

Give twice one Maid too much.

A hard thing to steal of a thief.

Hard to strain a Marrow-pie from a Poet.

Hard to make right, wrong.

Wooll is never taken from a Goats taile.

Never well do till well dy.

A dream makes not a young man.

The more perfect the less painful.

As easily disgraced, as graced.

No Ruler good, save God.

Man's not as currant as good gold.

The more thou look for, the less beloved.

Nor Ben nor Bess, The dog did eat meat and mess.

He is not bald that stayes for hair.

The Cuckoe hath nothing to do, But the same to say and sing too.

Difference 'twixt a Major and a Monk.

Not said gone, that comes again.

No speed without steed.

Not cheap said till made sure.

Not sleek till slander'd (or) not glorious till eclipsed.

It is not corporeal, makes gnats venereal.

Hell though ardent wants but order.

Nothing so awry as dividing wrong.

Misery cannot shun shame.

His need so great, hath not nails to scrape.

Almes Holy dayes Heraulds (or) let Almes be close, not proclaimd.

None found without fault.

Nought in tune, but as is taken.

All gifts plead during pleasure.

Never clear a bad Client.

No blush in a face deform'd.

A Prophet of small account in his own countrey.

No need of a bell on a mad mans belt.

You need not set dogs on Doegs.

A fortunate boor, needs but be born.

No fire without fuel.

None so neat as Neâst.

Express no anger to thy Mother.

A Lords honour not hereditary.

The black hair and white, the same weight.

To fox he Fox, no foxing.

Ill and well note two natures.

Orl and Priz••t are not like natur'd.

The fool and wise differ alwayes.

'Tis not beauty makes women amiable.

'Tis not by the bill the Woodcock must be bought.

Praise a fair day neither morn or noon, but at night.

Call not every matron, Mother.

T••e world about is but a ball.

T••e mad doth not care for the meek.

Rome was not done in one day.

Needy poor and noddy pate, never part.

Twixt fury and force no divorce.

Love in shew doth pass over shame.

Pimps and bawds hate those of their trades.

Proud men care not to meet.

The hand is the treasure of the heart.

A high Feast, the hens farewel.

Bents are known to have knots.

British Philosophicall Extracts.

Learn not, and know not.

Hear not, and learn not.

None hear well, but the studious.

None studious, but the happy.

None happy, but that is loved.

None loved by God, but the good.

None good be, but the obedient.

None obedient, but the silent.

None silent, but the patient.

None patient, but the wise.

None wise, but the Conscientious.

None Conscientious, but the Righteous.

None Righteous, but the mindful.

None mindful, but the loving.

None loving, but the melodious.

None melodious, but the fairspoken.

No speech good, but of God.

Other sayings, not unworthy the Consideration.

No advice, to the Fathers.

No Prayer, to the Mothers.

No tenderness, to the sisters. r

No strength to the brothers.

Not powerful, but in cousins.

Not gentle, but in kinsmen.

Nr Gallantry, to the sword.

No protection, to the Target.

No confidence, to the Bowe's.

No battel, to the spear-men.

No danger, to the Dagger.

No house, without a Husband.

No fire, without a block.

No bed, without a wife.

No Folly, to Love.

No poverty, to sickness.

No foolery, te falling out.

No wretchedness, to idleness.

Mo madness, to drunkenness.

No wisedom, to silence.

No sloth, to sinking.

No sinking, to sin.

No sin, to temptation.

No poverty, to obstinacy.

No riches, to sobriety.

No heat, to the Suns.

No cold, to the Moons.

No number, to the Stars.

No swiftness, to the Wind.

No Glory, to Unity.

No health, to wealth.

No plunder, to the Winds.

No sadness, to Death.

No Ioy, to Heavens.

No ugliness, to hell.

No mirth good, but with God.

No Ingeniousness, to mirth.

No misery, to sadness.

None happy, but harmless.

None harmless, but sinless.

None sinless, but Saints.

None Saints, but the simple.

None simple, but the innocent.

No jugling, to youthfulness.

No youths sport, but for a short space.

No deceit, to the worlds.

No sadness, to want.

No plenty, if not enough.

No rarity, where still plenty.

No jugling, to the Feminine gender.

No sport, to the Greyhound,

No comfort, to a Horse.

No pleasure to a Hawke.

Not feared, but abhorred, (or) hated.

Not hated, without cause.

None patient but the wise.

The wise strain, never strive.

No wanton, to a we••ch.

None lovely, but the lowly.

No villain to the churle.

No churle, to the Bumkin.

No Bumkin, to the currish.

No cur to the clown.

No clown but by custome, (or) kind.

No loveliness to the lowly.

None lowly, but the merciful.

None merciful, but the righteous.

No horseman without lance.

No footman, without bow.

No covetousness to mans.

No negligence to the Magistrates.

No fidelity, to the dogs.

No sweetnes••, to sin.

No sowreness, to penance.

No trust to a friends.

No joy, to an Heir.

No cleanliness, to a Fish.

No secrets but between two.

Not see, not know.

Not seek, not find.

Not know, not expert.

Not wise fool, if forgetful.

No wit, no learning.

No flattery, to a Maids.

None more prattle, then the idle.

No venome, to the cats.

No fierceness, to the dogs.

No tyranny to the Lions.

No tricks, to the Apes.

No fraud, to the Foxes.

No policy, to the Hares.

No sagacity, to the Hounds.

No gravity, to the Gray's.

No foulness, to the Fichocks.

No niceness, to the Martens.

No nimbleness to the Squirrils.

No slowness, to the Otters.

No sleep, to the Dormouse.

No ugliness, to the Batts.

No haughtiness, to the Hart.

No stateliness, to the Steeds.

No mildness, to the Oxe.

No ill brood, to the brute,

No innocence, to the sheep.

No herbalist to the Goat.

No durtiness, to the Buck.

No Pink, to the Peacock.

No presumption, to the Threstle.

No melody, to the Nightingale.

No pride, to the Swan.

No neatness, to the Pianet.

No jolliness, to the Wren.

No house-keeper, to the Cock.

No lavishness, to the Hens.

No fool, to the Goose.

No champion to the mountain-cock.

No kindness, to the Cuckoes.

No sculking, to the Wood-cocks.

No leachery, to the Sparrow's.

No Pecus, to the Gander.

No glutton, to the Cormorant.

No monster, to the Hern.

No violence, to Fire.

No hinderance, to water.

No lightness, to Aire.

No weight. to Earth.

None stout, but he that stands.

No valiantness to mans.

No mettle found, but in him that fights.

No fear, to him that flies.

No Coward, to him that couches.

No infinity, to nothing.

Nothing good, but God.

More of the Like.

The Eagles strength in his beak.

The Unicorns strength in his horn.

The Serpents strength in its sting.

The Rams strength in his head.

The Bears strength in his paws.

The Bulls strength in his breast.

The dogs strength in his tooth.

The Boars strength in his bristles.

The Quists strength in her wings.

The Lions strength in his tail.

A womans strength in her tongue.

For the mothers sake, kiss the son.

Confession the greatest glory.

Let the wind be where it will.

Somewhere rain, it stirreth still.

Of all heavies old Age heaviest.

Of mickle comes much.

If the shepherd sing, the whole house will ring.

Bear the worst behind, let him go and be hang'd.

No higher toe, nor heel I trow.

Love where not beloved, is love lost.

Woe men, that they had not been women.

Above too long, short below.

Few know to hold the Plow.

Many ask, few can answer.

Thy face hardly keep, be thou ever so curious.

Seldom blow without bloud.

Seldom best, unforbid.

Seldom Outlawes laborious.

An honest soul excells.

Seldom faire, but hath his fault.

Seldom promis'd performd.

Seldom good event, without venture.

Among a hundred fools scarce one good fellow.

If we come, we come.

If we come for fourteen, we will come for fifteen.

Scarce the man makes not for means.

A stranger abroad, had need of strength of brain.

Bees are catch'd with catches.

Wet is cold, need not be coold.

Blood cries and calls, although it cools.

By hair and hair, head bald and bare.

From seas, hills and strands, From Rivers, depths, sands, God sends to the fortunate riches and lands.

All sacrifice in the heart fixed.

A small berry in an old belly sowes.

A man void of harm, speaks from the heart.

Forbear debt long, forget at last.

Hair and hair culled, makes the horse cutted.

By little and little, the Pottage-pot drawn dry.

If the cat kills a mouse she makes a dainty mess.

If thou wouldst take the Roe Buck, Nimbly leap, or no good luck.

If thou be a stranger be merry, and give the first good mor∣row.

If thou be not strong set, be subtile.

If thou hast not Leeks, take what thou likest.

Not sow, not reap.

If not a horse, 'tis more, a mare.

Of both bad, the least best.

If great a Monster, if little a Mandrake.

From Sunday to Sunday, the Maid becomes a Matron.

What makes the Kite to pry? the prey.

Why doth the dog lick the pan? because he cannot eat the pie.

Where in the churn mill lies the buttermilk?

When one treads upon thee, draw thy foot to thee.

When the blind leads the blind, both are down in the ditch.

When the Bullock leads, the Oxe loiters.

When thieves squabble true men hear of their cattle.

When the season of the year is come, the Goat sleeps on the Bucks bum.

When man is down and low, God doth enlarge.

When the Oxe is lean, he is best for labour.

When the Lark's upon his seat,

The Hobby then makes bold to bait.

When the game is at best, best leave.

Have mi hi, and lose mi ha.

Revenge from heaven, heavy.

When all sleep and delay, God sleeps not, but delivers.

When the Kerne's turn'd out of doore, They feign that he was mad before.

The cat scarce climbes, when you cut her clawes.

All hunt for honour.

Presume for favours, near thy father.

All cry fie on the fool.

Each one tells a faire tale.

Each doth catch at his Cow.

Every one layes on.

If toung should tell what hovels hold, Neighbours would scarce do ought but scold.

When the cat is at home, the mouse keeps hole.

A Bucks head on a Hare's.

The head worth a pound, the tail half a penny.

The owner of the work, the Master work-man.

Each man Lords where he is belov'd.

Civil demeanour, though to the meanest.

No wizard compleat, eats stinking meat.

Pill the Egg round, ere rosted.

Whatever is strong, in the end is destroyed, (or) Sampsons eyes at length put out.

Like after like, look.

Prophesies never fail to be fulfill'd.

Proverbs approved, likely hoods l••es.

The wedge by degrees, cleaves through the trees.

Birds meet, each knows his ma••e.

Every Coast peculiar customes.

Each path in a dingle, run one way to mingle.

Every coward, a Cow.

All do and say in season.

All wrong comes to wrack.

The deeper the sea, the better for the ship.

The older the Welchman, the more mad man,

The older the Rie the sooner reapt.

The more thou longest, the more thy lets.

The greater the sight, the greater the victory.

The more the Tide flowes, the more the Ebb flinche••.

Streight string playes Rex, but soon it breaks▪

In wood a tree, whose will it be.

Buy old geere, buy again.

Buy flesh ere fleighed.

Without wife, without strife.

Wisdom bears the bell.

Fish before the net.

A candle wasts not for cold.

Let no hire go out of the house.

A hungry man waves manners.

The Hen forelooks before she layes.

The poor doth fear an after fall.

An idle dame should have somthing to do.

Patience must countermand passion.

Creep soft, ere go sure.

The third part, a poor part.

The Colt resembles the Sire.

The meanest in the house hath small share of the Hen.

Share between back and belly.

A cart dances downwards.

Stone never stayes 'till placed on plain.

Rarities makes wantonize.

The broakers fall, breeds many fello••s.

Secrets twixt three multiplie and thrive.

Give and tell a childs good turn.

More performd then promised.

I for gave away his cap.

The men of Ergings gift.

What to old men thou give, thou wil•• never regain.

Put the Cart before the horse.

Hide the beetle under a holly-bush.

A dog leaps unlookd.

A Bull mounts up the Mountain.

A nurse insults and assaults.

Between two stools the taile tumbles.

Little mischief too much.

Not hard to do easily done.

A fearfull Don, cries hold the dog.

Forewarnd happy and armd.

Offer too fair, pay for the folly.

Some desires foul and faulty.

Some sin incestuous.

Too streight breaks, though strong.

Too full ever runs over.

The higher the fool, the greater the fall.

A foe soon seen.

The covetous spies through a perspective.

Some odd ones become odious.

Little and scarce is dear and scant.

The Buck-kid leaps by kind.

Who kills discovers.

Disgrace though conceald, not safe.

The shepherd is oft the wolf.

Blindness foreseen seven years.

A long tale with a seven-lockd boy, speaks Tomboy.

VVhat is safe, is safest.

Ieffreys is the Helve, and

Ieffreys the Hatchet.

God mock with a dead Monk.

Talke of Lammas when 'tis Christmass.

Every lout lazy.

Make clean for shame the plough-share.

Fly and be gone speaks guilty.

Tables to play, taverns to talk.

A tongue bad breaks bones, (or)

A bad tongue turbulent.

A golden tongue guides a tale.

Believe no tales from an enemies tongue.

Over-loaded well rewarded.

The silent chews most mischief.

As like as a sack to a sadle.

As like as a hogs cheek to a chalice.

VVithout fault perfect and fair,

Every one well featur'd and fair.

Fire seen alwayes seasonable.

A wanton wench bids thrice farewel.

VVanton lasses many lessons.

Pay after sway and forswear.

VVho ends and wins takes the wager.

Tell now much and have no more.

The steed sterves while the grass grows.

VVhile the dog tires in the field,

The Hare takes the Fallel.

The Oxe draws and is driven ever till evening.

The oppression of orphans,

The destruction of heirs.

VVhile harrow drawn mills must not dry.

Covenant tried stronger then truth.

Nature stronger then nurture.

So God speed never despair.

A weak Lord overtops a great Lurdane.

Fortunes wiles forestall will.

VVealth takes leave, but fame doth live.

All sing or sigh are doomd to dy.

All sing, or sigh, are doom'd to dy.

Stay thy vote, till invi••ed.

Stay for glory, if not for gain.

Each mournfull soul sad.

Turn about the Bush.

Turn the Puz, in Phoebus.

Mischance hardly eschewed.

A staff firm, a third foot.

Twt la, 'tis a horse lent.

Deceive trust intrusted.

The trap to high-born, Ambition.

A bribe I know is a jugling knave.

As the boy growes, his coat doth decrease.

A Colt's height known by the hams.

A Bullock grows big from the belly.

A womans Fortune to be wanton.

The saying concurs with the song.

The womb not descried, till the child cry.

A small fire-brand flies abroad.

What God will not cannot prosper.

The wise sometimes is sad and sighs.

The old wife may hap,

Cry after her pap.

One O wonder may nurse a hundred, (or) In one lap a hundred may ly.

Neglect one step, make many a stride.

One hand maketh Fire,

But hundreds find to cull wooll faire.

A Nurse not harmd, though one armd.

Monoculus may be King in Caecus countrey.

A penny hire brings in a hundred.

The hen barr'd of Oats in Barn.

Neezing's free, closed cannot be.

Once my Lady would swim ore,

She drownd, O me! she will swim no more.

One head higher then two shoulders.

A sad countenance, a sorry Courtier.

The Foxes procession-week.

The dark vertigo.

The belly robs the back.

Gain waves Impediments.

A little milk, and that Butter-milk.

Many littles make a great.

If hanging for a dog thou wouldst shape,

Say, he killeth sheep.

The wedge that goes, drive again.

The first that brings in Grist, let him grind.

The first heard he said it, for ever conceald it.

Harrow fast, reap first.

The drop wears out the stone,

Not by force, but oft falling on.

The last that grindeth his meal in Mill, Deepest toll payes likely still.

He that selleth his house, may ly on the hills.

Hath a horn no ear to hear.

The sin be it ever so secret that thou dost commit, at length it will come out.

The Mill stands that wants water.

A Maid's praecontact, marr's her postcontract.

Were the Cat-skin pure, they would fleigh it sure.

Ride on still more, and still seekest thy mare.

The gowne was given to many an one, and yet the gowne is not gone.

The hand that gives, gathers.

The grunti••g horse bears best.

Though rarely sin, at length breeds shame.

Hide the Calf, top of the coffer.

Whatever is well hath its reward.

In each bad saying, sin.

In every choice there is chariness.

In every trade, there is want of truth.

In every wound, there is danger.

In every ground, men valiant and great.

In every self, there is a soul.

In every soul, there is sense.

In every sense or meaning, a mind.

In every mind good or bad abides.

Death shews in all shapes.

In every war, need to be wary.

In every fault, there is folly.

Wish the smith to fight in his own forge.

Strive with a wise man, thou wilt be wiser.

Strive with a fool, thou wilt be more foolish.

In winter nights, God save our Neats.

The dumb I trow, speaks truth.

One year, a mother dear,

The next a stepdame.

Seeking the green grass dry,

The Mare drownd.

He that shoots alwayes aright,

Forfeits his Arrow.

A foolish clown tears his own clothes.

One poyson expels another.

Have a horse of thy own, thou maist borrow another.

In the skin, the Wolf goes in,

The same no doubt, the Wolf goes out.

Have much, have none, and thrive therefore.

A bird hatch'd in Hell, thereout is nere well.

The Goat in hue, black and blue.

Hai and how, kill'd the Sow.

Still Sow that grunts, eats all the grains.

The Sow cries wee, till dead we see.

The Lamb in shew, doth teach the Yew.

The one bone payes.

A good Mill, that refuseth meal.

Do harm, to avoid harm.

The liberal, doth give to all.

Ten nails were made, to feed one mouth.

Light Portage, piles.

Light come, light go.

The fiery Oxe outmost.

Better play in, then play out of tune.

All have full hands.

Churls meat devour it, never thank him for it.

The fools mess had before hand.

Till death hies, no hopes, (or)

Till death cries, no Crown.

Faithful and devout, to divide.

Knight or Cobler soon descries, From what Root he hath his rise.

The Romans Odiums.

The Sea girds above the girdle.

The Sea casteth up Corps.

The coward dares not come to company.

Arthur himself had but his time.

A weak boy will not long be.

Iade nere degrade, it takes no higher degree.

Love to huge, turns to hate.

Thy hand never worse for doing thy own work.

A pool that stirs, never stinks.

Ile neither be coat, nor cap.

No up-hill without down-hill.

Sick, is beyond sickly.

No brother without another.

Little proof of little profit.

Never Bull taken out of a dogs ••ayl.

Onely the rich fool is said to speak sense.

No story, without sticklers.

It is not one poast holds up a house.

If revengeful, fearful.

If rich in purse, small reach in pate.

Ill say, and be sued.

Never reade, ever rude.

Two more then one alone.

The weakest part, hath a party.

No man I think liveth of nothing.

A drouzy one, an odious droan.

One night starves not the steed.

A bad husbands wife, still staind with weeping.

Who hears her fathers Cock crow, over crowes.

On a rowling stone no moss will stand.

Venus was choise, yet a wart on her cheek.

All pass-over on the Passover.

Frequent resorting ill resented. Pa, Con.

The Wren though small, over-colourd all.

No news with lout, that goes not out.

Contest, and be contemned.

A barren Cow, never loves Calf.

Happy hates hopeless.

Thou work not please, once entered ease.

A Lady faire, loves far.

Our b••essed Saviour, those defied, That hang'd him high and crucified.

Who loves not his mother, may step to his stepmother.

The tenderest dame, at length doth die.

A ball never greets plain ground,

The man yields to the master.

Old mother, cries more.

Good never be, till evil bear.

Try good hap, good have.

A runaway, never regains sway.

Without desert, deserted.

Wit best, that is bought.

Learn having lost, to keep at last.

Art is not bred in one mans breast.

A Pear grows not I trow on a Crab-tree.

Dine with a churle, it will be to thy charge.

Sleep and sloth undoes both.

Be faire, be famous.

From a Fox, nought scarce then the skin.

No good wooll on a Goats arse.

Sweet and sour meat, inmates.

Bad ground's free of its own fruit.

Inward pain in face appears.

A foolish man poures out his mind.

Hunger-starv'd of no esteem.

I love son, but more Grand-son.

A man of state, thinks he never stinks.

VVill▪ hear will not, what he would not.

Bald sleights bruises till he see his brains.

Patience never mourns for mother.

Never lose reckoning at the beginning.

A jealous one believes no oath.

Expert and quick never quakes.

A Maide hates a monk as a munky.

In one year a Cat grows grave.

A rich Earl riseth early.

The keeper of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.

Care still's awake, grief sleeps being weak.

His sleep's not great that minds his meat.

The dog will not bite thats struck with a bone.

The Grouse never sighes when the Hawk is sick.

Famine being gone benefactors forgets.

The hen doth never lose equal night.

Refused in war flee and beware.

Happy they say, that care not to sue.

The devil and the godly enemies deadly.

A messenger shent yet not asham'd.

Not pleased in choice though he chuse.

Others profit never prospers.

I assert, no man certain.

The glutton scarce doth mind his scabs.

The mother in law doth not remember that she hath been a daughter in law by her Lease.

Though many starve, yet some do stand.

A sawcy Iack, prateth he knows not why, nor what.

A whore takes all, no matter who nor where.

The Eagle flies not at the fly.

Counsel never out of date.

The hungry drone, cares not who drinks.

One tree though fair, maketh not a Forrest, (or) one tree maketh not three.

None lack spear, but who lacks spirit.

A womans cause never wants excuse.

Wild and stout never wants a staff.

Want not pleased, though supplied.

The mother starved, the son's not stout.

Wine and wary, ever vary.

Law barr, or else obey.

Unless quite overcome, take comfort.

Here Saint, ere sentence.

God will not be for the bad.

Not one in fourty can avoid his Fortune.

An old hag cannot shake off her head.

Unseemly things.

• A King without wisedome.
• A Knight without trial.
• A Lord without Counsel.
• A Woman without Master.
• People without Law.
• A servant without fear.
• A poor man proud.
• A rich man uncharitable.
• A Iustice without Iustice.
• A Bishop without Learning.
• An old Man without Godliness.
• A young Man without Humility.
• A Man wise in words, without good works.

VVise Odiums.

A man

• That knows not letter, and will not learn.
• That hath no servant, and will not serve himself.
• That hath much and gives nothing.
• That strives with his greaters, till he go to his grave.
• That's no son of Mars, and yet proclaims wars.
• That mocks another for faults written in his own forehead.
• That thinks himself good and fine, and is but a giddy fool.
• That borrows more pounds then he is able to pay.
• That supplies others need, and leaves himself nothing
• That promises all things and performs nothing.
• That threatens all fierce, but none fear him.
• That talks over and over, and will hear no other.
• That seeks all things, and gets nothing.
• That commits his secrets to his enemy, or women.
• That cheapens all, and buyes none.
• That perjures himself, and none believes him.
• That dishonours himself to honour another.
• That seeth good Arts and manners, and knoweth nothing o•• their meaning.
• That buyes all he sees and gains nothing.
• That hates all, and is hated of all.
• That trusts none, and is trusted of none.
• That handles every Case, without cause.
• That gives his strength to a stranger.
• That believes a knave, though unknown.
• That doth so much in one day, that he can doe nothing in the next.
• That trusts to guiles in a gift.
• ...

• That hath his choice, takes not the chief.
• That makes a price of pride.
• That shunneth his own good, lest his neighbour should gain.
• That doth no good nor suffers others.
• That fortifies himself in sin.
• That thinks he is wise, is but a wizard.
• That learns much, knows nothing.
• That leaves his fellow without fault found.
• That commits sin, and repents not soon.
• The poor that scorns pittance.
• That knows Gods Law, pleads against it though for meer re∣ward, to him be woe.
• That makes glorious shews of his own shame.
• That contemns God and man.
• What I spent was vain, saith the Soul.
• What I gave is vain, saith the Soul.
• What I kept hath faild me, saith the Soul.
• What I denied hath foild me, saith the Soul.
• Learn diligently what thou seest.
• Keep diligently what thou learnest.
• Make know what thou knowest.
• None worthy to be top of kin, but one
• That will fight with his kinsman and is feard,
• That will speak for his kinsman and is heard.
• That will be surety for his kinsman, and will be taken.
• The wholesomest of wild beasts the Roe Buck.
• Of tame beasts, the Hog.
• Of wild Fowles, the Partridges.
• Of tame Fowles, the He.
• Of Sea fish, the Crab.
• Of fresh fish the Trout.

The three Invincibles.

• A Lord, or Dominus fac totum.
• The Resolute that is self-will'd.
• The Penurious that hath nothing.

Seven qualities belonging to a Judge.

• Tongu'd, and dumb, stout, and deaf, foolish, fearfull, and de∣vout.

Additionall Proverbs.

The powerfull plucks, the poor complains.

Talk a good deal, but take onely thy due.

Little betwixt right and wrong.

The best gentility is in the predicament of Quality.

VVhat abroad we hear, at home we rehearse.

All are lewd, where God doth not lead.

Better still beg, then steal bag.

Misfortune drinks a health, and it goeth round about the house.

Earth's the best shelter, Truth the best buckler.

VVho the cold doth most fear,

Let him blow the fire.

A liar's gone, if he forget, (or)

Lie the less, or learn thy lesson.

Let none alone, at length be lam'a.

In three things a man may be deceived;

In a Man till known, in a Tree till down, in the Day till done.

Three rubs upon the way; A Squirrel, a Nut, a neate Maid and gay. VVhat thou would not have done to thee, Do not the same good man to me. Though old mens body do decay, Their soul's alive, and bears sway.

The choicest Maid, ill chooseth man.

Two things need not be spared,

Much gain'd, and little got.

A bad mans dispraise▪ praiseth.

Shut the gate when the horse is gone, (or)

Shut the door when the thief hath done.

VVhat all say, as good as seald.

Man purposeth, God disposeth.

All see my face, few know my case.

Ask the father, if he thinketh his sonne a thief.

Clutch ever so close, an even lay thou wilt ever lose.

The best cunning, self-deniall.

Thy last night, bid good night.

No painfulness, no gainfulness,

In Heaven, the churle will never be Chair-man.

Never seek belief to a ly.

Foords grow wide, Faith weak.

Hear not plain, hardly reply.

The present State, will not long stand.

Lose not the office of thy sence, by the sense of thy office.

Philosophers rise, the Earth turns round.

Lug and hale, it will not long hold.

The man that groans, God hears his moans.

Griffitk a cunning Cooke, to pull a worm out of an old wives Coop.

A Cellar before a Cow.

Hurt is sooner received then well cured.

A womans mind is swifter then the Greyhound.

Each wanton speaks with mincing speech.

The whiter the face, the blacker the arse.

The morrow after the Faire.

Fast bind, faest find.

Out of sight out of mind.

In the mouth gall, in the heart cordiall.

He deserveth no gains, who taketh no pains.

VVhat acted last, the memory retains it best.

Better a poor careful mother, then a rich careless father.

The horse may die, while the grass grows.

Cunt once got, an hundred times if thou wilt.

VVho himself doth ill, thinks another will.

Her own dam, envy devoures.

Old Grannams dream of their desire.

VVhen Gamester thrive, he will smile in his sleeve.

To deceive the deceiver is no deceit.

Be provident while chest is full laid, if once empty 'tis too late.

The gift is bad that is not worth thanks.

Forewarning will not advantage the unfortunate.

Sue a begger, and get a louse.

No nearer to death, though abroad, then at home.

Forswear to haunt no where but Hell.

What old men by experience know compleat, young men think they know in their own conceit.

Spare to speak, spare to speed.

Who serves the Devil, will be deceived at the latter day.

Empty vessels sound most.

The still Sow eats all the draft.

The cat is more ready to runne into, then out from the Day∣rie.

The nearer the Church, the further from Christ.

A cat is not used to a coller.

No weeping for shed milk.

He repented with grief, who kill'd his Greyhound.

A lazy servant a good message to fetch death, to an honest man.

No Town so strong as a Tower.

The lame returns sooner then his servant.

The kindness of Iack to his mother Ioan.

More wanton then the Maggpie.

Who in sinne committeth offence, needeth no accuser but his Conscience.

Who hath many sons shall have small share of his meat.

Who hath many daughters shall have none at all to eat.

Who regards not his mother, may step to his stepmother.

Birds of a feather will flie together.

Ask my mother if I am a thief.

To the Valley the water runs quickly.

Be not too curious (Man) in finding fault, lest you fail to amend.

Sit down and patient be, what's past thou canst not re∣medie.