A collection of English proverbs digested into a convenient method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion : with short annotations : whereunto are added local proverbs with their explications, old proverbial rhythmes, less known or exotick proverbial sentences, and Scottish proverbs / by J. Ray, M.A. and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Title

A collection of English proverbs digested into a convenient method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion : with short annotations : whereunto are added local proverbs with their explications, old proverbial rhythmes, less known or exotick proverbial sentences, and Scottish proverbs / by J. Ray, M.A. and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Author

Ray, John, 1627-1705.

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] :: Printed by John Hayes ..., for W. Morden,

1678.

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Subject terms

Proverbs.

Proverbs, Hebrew.

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Contents

• title page
• The PREFACE.
• Sentences and Phrases found in the for∣mer Collections of Proverbs, the most of them not now in common use for such, so far as I know, but borrowed of other Language.
• Proverbs and Proverbial observations belonging to Health, Diet and Physick.
• Proverbs and Proverbial Observations concerning Husbandry, Weather and the seasons of the year.
• Proverbs and Proverbial observations referring to Love, Wedlock and Women.
• AN ALPHABET Of Joculatory, Nugatory And Rustick Proverbs.
• Miscellany Proverbiall Sayings.
• Proverbs that are entire Sentences.
• Proverbial Phrases and forms of Speech that are not Entire Sentences.
• Proverbial Similies, in which the quality and subject begin with the same letter.
• Proverbial Rhythmes and old saws.
• Out of Doctour Fullers Worthies of England, such as are not entred al∣ready in the Catalogues.
• Proverbs communicated by Mr Andrew Paschall of Chedsey in Somerset∣shire, which came not to hand till the copy of this second Edition was deli∣vered to the Bookseller, and so could not be referred to their proper places.
• Northern Proverbs communicated by Mr Fr. Brokesby of Rowley, in Yorkshire.
• SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
• Proverbial speeches of persons given to such vices or vertues as follows.
• Adagia Hebraica.
• Books sold by W. Morden Bookseller in Cambridge.