Proverbs English, French, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish. All Englished and alphabetically digested.: By N.R. Gent.

• VVOrds ar womens deeds.
• When the Fox preaches beware the Geese.
• Winter thunder makes Summers wonder.
• Who repents chastizeth himself.
• Who takes bond for money trusts his Estate not his Person.
• Wit is never good till bought.
• Who hath no memory let him have legs.
• What your glasse tells you will not

• be tould by counsell.
• Where Coyn is not, commons must be scant.
• When the Cat is away the mice play.
• Wine and women have consumed ma∣ny a Lordship.
• Who that may not as they will must as they may.
• Well bred spirits seldome degenerate.
• Wares dear bought are seldom re∣turn without losse.
• While the discreet advise, the fool hath his businesse.
• Who goes willingly goes twice.
• Win gold and wear gold.
• When all sins grow old covetousnesse grows young.
• Who doth his own businesse fouls not his hands.
• Who wed ere he be wise shall dye be∣fore he thrive.
• Who drives another mans Trade make a sop in a panier.
• Weight justly and sell dearly.

• Who so that knew what would be dear should need be a Marchant but one year.
• Were there not fools bad ware would not passe.
• When there is a plague in Castile the infection is generall.
• Where no fault is there needs no par∣don.
• Who so blind as they that will not see?
• Will you? is spoken to sick Folkes.
• We Batchellers shew our teeth, but you married-men laugh till your heart ake.
• Who will borrow when he hath not let him borrow when he hath.
• Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?
• Women, Money, and Wine, have there good and there evil.
• Who will do ill never wants occasion.
• Would you know what money is? go borrow some.
• Who goes to bed Supperlesse all

• night tumbles and tosses.
• Wealth is like Rhume it fals on the weakest part.
• Water afar of quencheth not fire.
• Wisdome hath one foot on the land, another on the sea.
• Where many words are the truth of∣ten goeth by.
• Who can sing a merrier Note then he that cannot change a Groat?
• Wine in bottels doth not quench the thirst.
• We can have no more of a Cat then her skin.
• Whether shall the Ox go where he shall not labour?
• Who invites bears the danger.
• Who gives to all denyes all.
• What's a workman without tools?
• Whose house is of glasse must not throw stones at another.
• When the belly is full the bones would be at rest.
• Who hath no more bread then need must not keep a dog.

• Who bestows a bow on thee wishes thee not dead.
• When the Iron is hot strike.
• Who tels his secrets makes himself a slave.
• Wine is a turncoat, first a friend then an enemy.
• Who lets his wife go to every Feast, and his horse to every water, shall neither have good wife, nor a good horse.
• Willows are weak yet they bind o∣others.
• Women laught when they can weep when they will.
• Who so bold as blind bayard.
• What's a fool without a bable?
• Well may he smell fire whose gown burns.
• Whores affect your purse not you.
• Who more busie then he that hath least to do.
• Wisdome is better then riches.
• When Prayers are done my Lady is ready.

• We must not judge of men by their birth but by their breeding.
• What the heart thinketh the tongue speaketh.
• Who means to have the egge must endure the cackling of the Hen.
• What some win in the hundred they loose in the shire.
• When a friend askes there's no to morrow.
• Who labours is tempted by one De∣vil, but who stands idle by a thou∣sand.
• When Italy shall be without poyson, France without treason, England without war, the world shall be without earth.
• Who means to be lean must keep his eyes open and his mouth shut.
• When the sky falls we shall have Larks.
• Who hath no mind to his businesse valleys seem mountains.
• What needs words where there are works?

• When the Sun shines make Hay.
• Who buyes hath need of a hundred eyes, who sells hath enough of one.
• We learn for to understand, not for to dispute.
• Where nothing is a little doth ease.
• When a Lackey comes to hels door the devil locks the gate.
• Women love to be ey'd and to be lookt upon.
• Who makes a Cart knows also how to take it in pieces.
• Water, fire, and Souldiers, quickly make room.
• Women are young mens Mistresses, middle-ag'd mens Companions, and old mens Nurses.
• When the danger is past the fact is forgotten.
• What need a contentious man marry?
• When a dog is drowned every one offers him help.
• Where shall a man have a worse friend then he brings from home?
• Who removes stones bruise their fingers.

• Without businesse debauchery.
• Where nothing is the King must lose his right.
• Who hath a wolf for his mate needs a dog for his man.
• Who readeth to others readeth also to himself.
• Whatsoever was the Father of a di∣sease an ill dyet was the mother.
• We know not who lives or dies.
• Words are not Links.
• Whores and dogs fawn upon a man no longer then they are fed.
• VVere there no hearers there would be no backbyters.
• VVere there no receivers there would be no thieves.
• VVhether you boyl Snow or pound it you can have but water of it.
• VVine makes all sorts of creatures at Table.
• VVho covets all dies a mad man.
• VVhile the grasse grows the steed starves.
• VVho is worse shod then the Shooe∣makers wife.

• VVhen age is jocond it makes sport for death.
• VVar is deaths Feast.
• VVhere there is no honour there is no grief.
• VVine that cost nothing is digested before it be drank.
• VVhere the drink goes in the wit goes out.
• VVhere you will is ready your feet is light.
• VVithout hope the heart would break.
• VVhen God will no wind but brings rain.
• VVood half burnt is easily kindled.
• VVeight and measure take away strife.
• VVho hunts two Hares loseth the one and deserts the other.
• VVhen the Horse is stollen shut the Stable door.
• VVhen my house burnes it's not good playing at Chesse.
• VVho lacketh a stock his gain is not worth a chip.

• VVar makes thieves and Peace hangs them.
• VVho hastens a glutton choaks him.
• VVho receives forgets not.
• VVho praiseth St. Peter doth not blame St. Paul.
• VVho so fears a dog ensures himself from being bitten.
• VVho payes the Physician does the cure.
• VVhen one is on horsback he knows all things.
• VVish not for a Horse that is bridled at the tayl.
• VVhen you enter into a house leave the anger at door.
• VVhom weale pricks sorrow comes after and licks.
• VVar and Physick are governed by the eye.
• VVine ever payes for for his lodg∣ing.
• VVith Customes we live well but Laws undoe us.
• VVhen all men have what belongs to

• them it cannot be much.
• VVho hath eaten the Candles void the weekes.
• VVe leave more to do when we die then we have done.
• VVho gives well sells dear.
• VVho attempts not errs not.
• VVhen a man sleeps his head is in his stomack.
• VVho hath money and Capers is well furnisht for Lent.
• VVhen God is made the Master of a Family he disorders the disorderly.
• VVhere gold speaks every tongue is silent.
• VVords and feathers the wind car∣ries away.
• VVho embraces all nothing graspes.
• VVe do it soon enough if that we do be well.
• VVo be to him that reads but one Book.
• VVho gives good words feeds with an empty spoon.
• VVho lives in hopes dies a Fool.