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

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PROVERBS English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, &c.

A Fools bolt is soon shot. —
As good lost as found.
A Candle lights others, and consumes it self.
An ill wound may be cured, not an ill Name.
A barren Woman can never be satis∣fied.
A Poet in adversity can hardly make Verses.
A huge Building, a low Foundation.
All who come into a Church, say not their Prayers.

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A Fool and wealth, cannot possesse each other.
A clear bargain, a dear Friend.
Affections are the wings of the soul.
A good Winter brings a good Som∣mer.
A Cat may look on a King.
A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsell.
An unhappy Boy makes a good man.
A carrion Kite will never be a good Hauk.
A bow long bent, at last waxeth weak.
A close mouth catcheth no flies.
A good beginning, a good ending.
A hungery belly hath no ears.
At length the Fox turns Monk.
A Cur will bite, before he bark.
As lecherous as a cock-sparrow.
A dog hath a day.
Agree, for the Law is costly.
A Friend will help at a dead lift.
A Place, or Office discovers a man, what he is.
As tender as a Priests Lemmon.

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A broken sleeve, holdeth the arm back.
A full Purse, and a fat Bribe, com∣mand contention.
An old Drunkard is hardly reclaimed.
A fool and his money is soon parted.
After meat mustard.
At Court every one for himself.
A Friend is not so soon gotten, as lost.
An idle man seldom virtuous.
After black cloudes, clear weather.
A House and a Woman suit excel∣lently.
A coole mouth and warm feet live∣long.
A fool may throw a stone in a Well, which a hundred wise men cannot get out.
A Friend in Court is worth a penny in Purse.
After a storm comes a calm.
A heart content hath the world at command.
A Physician hath three faces.
A Friend is never known, till a man hath need.

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All covet, all loose.
A diligent Scholar, and the Masters paid.
A good man can no more harm, then a Sheep.
A Ship and a Woman are ever re∣pairing.
As fit as a Pudding for a Fryars mouth.
A calm pretends a storm.
A living Dog is better then a dead Lyon.
A good tale ill told, in the telling is mar'd.
A vapourer in words, but not in deeds.
A low hedge is easily leapt over.
A short Grace, and a long Thanksgi∣ving.
A good Jack maketh a good Gill.
A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.
After Dinner sit a while, after Supper walk a mile.
A scold, a whore, and a slut, makes a mans life uncomfortable.

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A good Neighbour, a good-morrow.
An ill Bird layes a naughty Egge.
An idle head is a box for the wind.
A grunting Horse, and a groaning Wife, never fail their Masters.
A Friend in a corner, is better then money in a mans Purse.
A wonder lasteth but nine daies.
A man is praised by his Land.
Almes never makes poor.
Age and Wedlock, tames man and Beast.
A good Name is sufficient Wealth.
A swine over-fat is cause of his own bane.
As good sleep together, as do nothing.
All is well, that ends well.
A ragged Colt may make a good Horse.
All the proof a Pudding is in the eat∣ing.
As good sit still, as rise up and fall.
A man knowes not the worth of a thing, till he wants it.
As good sit still, as be idle.

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An ill weed grows apace.
A bad man hath ever bad conditions.
A sleeping man is no better then a dead man.
A good Poet, an evil Person.
As soon goes the young Lambs skin to the Market, as the old one.
An Ox is bound by his hornes, a man by his word.
A Rat may very ill plead Law.
A sweet tree yeeldeth savoury fruit.
An old Cat laps as much, as a young Kitlin.
A Guest and a fish at three daies end, grow musty.
A bad Judge hath bad conditions.
A white wall, is a fools paper.
An old man, unfit for a young wo∣man.
A dull Servant was never good for his Master, nor himself.
A Mouse, in time, may bite in two a Cable.
As I brew, so must I needs drink.
An interprizing fool, needs little wit.

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A piece of a Kid is worth two of a Cat.
At a round Table there is no dispute of place.
A learned Wife seldome proves good.
Ask my companion, whether I am a Thief.
A man may bring a Horse to the wa∣ter, but he cannot make him drink without he will.
A hard beginning hath a good ending.
A young Saint, an old Devil.
As good to play for nought, as work for nought.
A gadding Hen, and a Housewife, are soon lost.
All that the Clerk gets, his punck de∣voures.
A penny-worth of ease is worth two in a mans Purse.
A man of straw, is worth a woman of gold.
A son of a whore never did well.
A hard fought Field, where no man scapeth unkil'd.

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A desperate debt takes any satisfacti∣on.
A words enough to the wise.
As deep drinketh the Goosse, as the Gander.
A poor dog, that is not worth the whistling.
A hasty man never wants woe.
A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
A man far from his good is nigh his harm.
All is not gold, that glisters.
As proud comes behind, as before.
A little pot is soon hot.
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
A proud horse, that will not bear his own provinder.
A scald head is soon broken.
A leg of a Lark, is worth the body of a Kite.
As long liveth a merry man, as a sad.
A long Harvest, of a little Corn.

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A shrew profitable may serve a man reasonable.
All is well with him, that is beloved of his neighbours.
A full belly neither fights nor flyes well.
A false knave needs no broker.
An unhappy boy makes a good man.
A short Horse is soon curried.
As the old Cock croweth so the young followeth.
A scald horse is good enough for a scabd Squire.
A man is not so soon heal'd as hurt.
A man may buy gold to dear.
A curst dog must be tied short.
A right fool forgets himself.
All shall be well when Jack shall have a Gill.
An inch breaketh no Squares.
As the bell tinks, the fool thinks.
As cold as charity.

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An unbidden guest knows not where to sit.
All is fish, that come to net.
All fools are sots, but all sots are not fools.
A fool begins strife, a wise man ends businesse.
A bungler seldome fits himself with good tools.
A good pay-master starts not at assu∣rances.
An ill Cook, that cannot lick his own finger.
A fool oft finds himself short of his reckoning.
An inch in a miss, is as good as an ell.
As a man is friended, so the Law is ended.
An old Dog biteth sore.
A heavy Purse makes a light heart.
A man may hold his peace in an ill time.
A babler wearieth all the company.
An idle Husband, and empty walls, makes a light Housewife.

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A maid that giveth, yeeldeth.
A hook well lost to get a Salmon.
A hot Winter makes a full Church∣yard.
A Bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
An honest woman is much worth.
A fool brooks any disgrace.
A false tongue can hardly speak truth.
An evening red, and a morning gray, are hopefull signes of a fair day.
A word hurts more then a wound.
A fly hath a spleen.
A woman that hath lost her shame, hath lost her respect, and her good Name.
A handfull of good life, is better then a bushell of learning.
All came from, and will go to others.
A Lyons skin is never cheap.
A crooked lye, makes a straight fy.
A Merchant that gaineth not, looseth.
A bad Dog never sees the Wolf.
An old sack asketh much patching.
A woman and a glasse are ever in danger.

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A woman conceales what she knows not.
As good be merry as sad.
A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.
All truths are not to be told.
A pure beauty finds more Lovers then Husbands.
A house pul'd down is half built up.
An after wit is every bodies wit.
A virtuous Wife is worth a Dia∣dem.
As blind as a mole.
An ill Wife that grows not worse, is not of the Wives the worst.
Anger and hearts ease are utter ene∣mies.
A man must fish with a silver hook.
A good stomack is the best sauce.
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, too much for three.
A gentle housewife marres the House∣hold.

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A broken sack will hold no corn.
A faithfull friend what good may he do us?
A traveller may lye by authority.
A man will not loose a Hog for a half penny worth of a tarre.
A man must creep before he go.
All Joy hath sad effects in a troubled heart.
A musled Cat was never good mouser.
A man will be a man though he have but a hose on his head.
A good Winter brings a good Sum∣mer.
A bribe entereth every where without knocking.
A dwarf on a Giants shoulders sees further of the two.
An Asse, though slow, if provok't, will kick.
A Wolf casts his hair, but not his malice.
A frog cannot out of her bog.
A tongue hath no bone in it, yet it breaks ones back.

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As welcome as water into a Ship.
A fair Wife, and a fronteir Castle, breed quarrels.
All Carriers are not Knaves, some have souls to be saved.
A fair death honours the life.
A knife that cuts not, and a friend that is worth nought, value not.
A light burden carried far, proves heavy.
As fit as a saddle for a Sow.
A thing done by force is not worth a rush.
A good bargain is a pick-purse.
Autumnall agues are long or mortall.
A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his Master.
Ambition looseth many a man.
An honest heart cannot dissemble.
A cheerfull look makes a dish a Feast.
All manner of vices are in a Game∣ster.
A good meale, a bad meale, and a midling meale, preserves a man in health.

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A proud mind, and a beggers purse, goes together.
A body is esteemed, according as he values himself.
A chip of the old block.
A rouling stone gathers no Mosse.
An empty bag cannot stand upright.
A virtuous mind, and an honest hand, carries a man all over the world.
All that's given to a fool, is cast away.
A small rain allayes a great wind.
A cask, and an ill custom, must be broken.
At length the Fox is brought to the Furrier.
A guilty conscience is evermore suspicious, and full of fear.
A man had better have a Knave, then a fool, to his Servant.
A young Serving-man, and old begger.
A fat House-keeper makes a lean Ex∣ecutor.
A silent tongue, and a true heart, did never any hurt to a Servant.
A man is known by his Wine, by

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his anger, and by his money.
A young man idle, and old man needy.
A gazing and gadding maid, seldome proves good House-wife.
A Gentlemans Grayhound, and a Salt∣box, seek them at the fire.
A disarmed Peace, is weak.
Astrology is true, but the Astrologers cannot find it.
At the Gmes end we shall see who wins.
A holy habit cleareth not a foul soul.
A little labour, much health.
A seasonable gathering, and a reason∣able spending, makes a good House∣keeping.
A flatterers throat, is an open Sepul∣chre.
A good renoun is better then a golden girdle.
A maid often seen is a garment often worn.
An old wise mans shaddow, is better then a young buzzards sword.
A mans House is his Castle.

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A hat is not made for one shower.
A covetous man is never rich.
Assail who will the valiant attends.
An idle youth makes a needy old age.
A sad house where the hen crows louder then the cock.
A poor mans life is secure from harm.
A man may be deceived when he thinks himself most sure.
A gift much expected, is paid not given.
An old Physician and a young Law∣yer.
A little wind kindles much, puts out a fire.
A scepter is one thing and a ladle ano∣ther.
A great dowry is a bed full of bram∣bles.
A sleepy Master makes his Servant a lout.
Afflictions are sent us by God for our good.
Adversity makes men wise.
A man without money is a body with∣out life.

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A snow year a rich year.
A penny spared is twice got.
A small heart hath small desires.
A pleasure long expected is deer e∣nough sold.
A tyrant is most tyrant to himself.
A Trade is better then Service.
All beasts of prey are strong or trea∣cherous.
An ill agreement is better then a good judgment.
A piece of a Church-yard fits many a mans body.
A Jade eats as much as a good Horse.
An ill deed cannot bring honour.
A little given seasonable excuseth a great gift.
An old mans staff is the rapper at deaths door.
An Ox is taken by the hornes a man by his tongue.
All that shakes falls not.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
After death the Doctor.
All the arms in England will not arm fear.

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A fair day in Winter is Mother of a Storm.
A man is known to be mortal by sleep and lust.
A mans destiny is alwaies dark.
A great Ship askes deep waters.
A wise man need not blush for chang∣ing his purpose.
An examined enterprize goes on boldly.
A good Sallet the beginning of a bad Supper.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A Garden should be drest and look't to as the body.
A dog scalded with hot water is after∣ward afraid of cold.
A pittifull Mother makes a scab'd daughter.
A disorder begets another.
An old sin a new pennance.
A wall without a cross, a Knight with∣out money, is abused by every one.

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BEware the Geese when the Fox preaches.
Before you make a friend, eat a bushell of Salt with him.
Blind men can judge no colours.
Better fed then taught.
Between the hand and the lip the mor∣sell is lost.
Bastards by chance are good, by nature bad.
Birds of a feather will flock together.
Bad words finds bad acceptance.
Better a snoty child then his nose wipt off.
Black will take no other hew.
Brag's a good dog.
Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton.
Burnt child dreads the fire.
By Peace plenty.
Batchelers Wives, and Maides Chil∣dren are well taught.
By scratching and biting cats and dogs comes together.
By shaving a fool many learn to sheare.
By wisdome Peace.

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Black Ox hath not trod on his foot.
Be it better be it worse, be rul'd by him that beares the purse.
Beat the dog before the Lyon.
Bare walls makes giddy housewifes.
Believe well and have well.
Beggers should be no choosers.
By Suppers more have been kil'd then Galen ever cur'd.
Build castles in the ayre.
Better fill a gluttons belly then his eye.
Better a bare foot then none.
Better be envyed then pittied.
Better eye out then half awake.
Better children weep then old men.
Building and marrying of children are great wasters.
Beauty draws more then Oxen.
Be as it may is no banning.
Better spare to have of thine own then ask others.
Better fed then taught.
Better late then never.
Building is chargeable.

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Bread with holes, cheese without holes, and wine that sparkles into the eyes, are the best.
Better speak truth rudely then lye co∣vertly.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
Better leave then lack.
Better suffer ill then do ill.
Bear with evil and expect good.
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
Better half a loaf then no bread.
Beware of had-I-wist.
Bad Husbands are as necessary in a Common-wealth as good.
Between two stooles the tayl comes to the ground.
Better be an old mans darling, then a young mans warling.
Better a bad excuse then none at all.
Buy a horse ready man'd but a Wife unmand.
Brabling curs never want soar ears.
Better unborn then untaught.
Better the feet slip then the tongue.

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Benefits please like flowers when they are fresh.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
Be what thou wouldst seem to be.
Better to rule then be ruled by the rout.
Better to bow then break.
Better come to the latter end of a Feast then the beginning of a fray.
Better be half hang'd then ill wed.
Better to be happy then wise.
Better spare at brim then bottom.
Bashfulnesse is a sign of grace.
Before thou marry have thy dwelling house.
Beauty is no heritage.
Better is an egge in peace then an Ox in war.
Better a louse in the Pot then no flesh at all.
Better sit still then rise and fall.
Better one bird in the hand then ten in the wood.
By biting and scratching the Cat is with Kitlin.

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Better good afar off then ill near at hand.
Buy at a Fair but sell at home.

CHildren and fools tell the truth.
Custome is a second nature.
Can Jackanapes be merry when his dog is at his heels?
Children learn to creep before they go.
Criticks are like brushers of noble mens cloathes.
Castles are Fortresses of stone.
Counsell without a cure, is a body without a soul.
Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing.
Curst cows have short hornes.
Cunning is no burthen.
Covetousness breaks the bag.
Cut your coat according to your cloath.
Cat after kind.

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Cities seldom change Religion only.
Courtesie on one only side lasts not long.
Cloudy mornings turn to clear even∣ings.
Civil Wars of France made a million of Atheists and 30000 Witches.
Cruelty is more cruel if we defer the pain.
Children when little, makes Parents fools, when great mad.
Comparisons are odious.
Close sits my shirt but closer my skin.
Christmas comes but once a year.
Cloathes adorn Poules.
Change of pasture makes fat calves.
Children and chickens are alwaies a feeding.
Care brings gray hairs.
Change of Women make bald knaves.
Conscience is hanged up long ago.
Claw a churl by the arse, and he will shite in thy face.
Cloath thee in War, arm thee in Peace.

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Counsell breaks not the head.
Craft against craft makes no li∣ving.
Civility gains more then strength of armes.
Coyne moves men to rage.
Conversation makes one what he is.
Corn is cleaned with wind the soul with chastenings.
Cover your self with your Shield and care not for cryes.
Chuse none for thy servant who hath serv'd thy betters.
Change of Countrey, change of Fortune.
Conditions breaks Laws.

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DO well and have well.
Dally not with money nor wo∣men.
Disgraces are like cherries one draws another.
Deadly heavy and full of sinne.
Dancing follows a full belly.
Desires torments us and hope com∣for us.
Dear bought and far fetcht is good for Ladyes.
Danger it self is the best remedy for danger.
Dogs barking a loof bite not at hand.
Dinner cannot be long where dainties are wanting.
Divine ashes are better then earthly meat.
Desires are nourisht by delay.
Drink after grief goes merrily down.
Death and the Grave make no distin∣ction of persons.
Dogs begin in jest and end in earnest.
Deceive not thy Physician, Confessor or Lawyer.

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Dry bread is better at home then roast-meat abroad.
Divine grace was never flow.
Drought never brought a dearth.
Do what thou ought and come what can.
Discreet Women have neither keys nor ears.
Do well for others yet look to your self.
Debtors are lyers.
Diseases of the eyes are to be tured with the elbow.
Dearths foreseen come not.
Dayes are fine in the field.
Death keeps no Callender.
Deeds are▪ Males words are Fe∣males.

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EVery one that is in black is not▪ not a Scholar.
Evening words are not like to morn∣ning.
Every house in Malagon hath a thief of his own.
Every mile is two in Winter.
Enough is as good as a Feast.
Every one fastens where there is gain.
Every dog is a Lyon at home.
Even reckonings make long friends.
Every Ape. thinks his Puppy the fairest.
Every mans conscience is first moulded in his own nature.
Every one puts his fault on the times.
Expectation torments.
Ever since we wear cloathes, we know not one another.
Every cock is proud on his own dung hill.
Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.

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Every man cannot hit the nail on the head.
Ever spare and ever bare.
Ever drunk ever dry.
Every fool will be medling.
Early-pricks that will be a thorne.
Essex stiles, Kentish miles, Norfolk wiles, many men beguiles.
Eaten bread is forgot.
Every one is not merry that dances.
Every one is King in his own house.
Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.
Every thing is of use to a House∣keeper.
Every thing new is fine.
Every man is bound to have a good conscience.
Every one is witty for his own pur∣pose.
Every Bees Honey is sweet.
Every one as she liketh, quoth the good woman when she kist her Cow.
Every man basteth the fat hog.
Every one after his own fashion.

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Empty vessels sound most.
Every man cannot be honest that would.
Every one can rule a shrew save he that hath her.
Evil gotten goods never prove well.
Every man for himself and God for us all.
Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.
Every thing helps, quoth the Wren when she pist in the Sea.
Every day brings its bread with it.
Evil will never said well.
Empty Chambers makes foolish maides.
Every man hath his ill day.
Every labour will have its reward.
Even some old Foxes are taken in the snare.
Every Fox loves a Hen-rust.
Every meddall hath its right side and its wrong.

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FIne words dresse ill deeds.
For one pleasure a thousand sor∣rows.
For washing his hands none sells his Lands.
Fair words makes me look to my Purse.
From good men comes goodnesse.
Fear nothing but sin.
Fools live poor to die rich.
Fortune to one is a mother, another a step-mother.
Favour will as surely perish as life.
Few words and many deeds is best.
Fools bite one another but wise men agree together.
Foolish tongues talk by the douzen.
Fair is not fair but that which pleas∣eth.
Fair language grates not the tongue.
Fair feathers makes fair fowles.
Far fetcht and dear bought is good for Ladyes.
For a desperate debt take any satis∣faction.

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From a foolish Judge a quick sen∣tence.
Fish without wine is poyson.
Far shooting never kil'd bird.
Fools have Fortune.
Fools are wise as long as silent.
For poor men to keep places for their pleasure is their ruine.
Few words to the wise suffice.
Flies are busiest about lean Horses.
First come first served.
Fair words and large promises pacifie anger.
From a cholerick man withdraw a little, from him that sayes nothing for ever.
First diserve and then desire.
Foul in the Cradle proveth fair in the saddle.
Fooles lade the water and wise men catch the fish.
Faint heart never woon fair Lady.
Fears are divided in the midst.
Fare and softly goes farre.

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Fools set stooles for wise folks to stumble at.
Few Lawyers die well.
Fast bind fast find.
Fair without foul within.
First creep then go.
Frost and fraud have alwaies foul ends.
From three things God keep us, from Powder'd-beef without mustard, from a servant that vieweth himself, a wife that is painted.
France is a medow that cuts thrice a year.
Fools with fair words are pleased.
Few Physicians live well.
Full of courtesie full of craft.
Fair words hurts not the mouth.
Foul water will quench fire as well as fair.
Fish must ever swimme twice.
Folly it is to spurn against a prick.
From women light and liquorish, good fortune still deliver us.
Forsake not the Market for the tolle.

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Forbear not fowing because of Birds.
Folly grows without watering.
Four good Mothers beget four bad Daughters, Great familiarity con∣tempt, Truth hatred, Virtue envy, Riches ignorance.
For the same man to be a heretique and a good Subject is impossible.
Fair dressing is a foul house swept be∣fore the door.
Fools give to please all but their own.
Frenzy, heresie, and jealousie seldom cured.
From my friends God defend me, from my enemies I can keep my self.
First come to the Mill first grinde.

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GOod to be merry and wise.
God sends meat the Devil sends cooks.
Give a dog roast and beat him with the spit.
Good words are worth much and cost little.
Good words quench more then a bucket of water.
Gaming Women and Wine, whilest they laugh make men pine.
Give a Woman what she should have, and what she would have, and she will be quiet.
Great rie and little wool.
Give an inch and you will take an ell.
Good cloathes put a man in heart.
God sendeth cold after cloathes.
Great strokes makes not sweet mu∣sick.
Good workmen are seldome rich.
Govern the mouth by the estate.
Gifts enter every where without a Wimble.

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God sends coole according to cloathes.
God sendeth fortune to fools.
Great fortune brings with it great mis∣fortune.
Good words cost nought.
Great boast small roast.
God never sendeth mouthes but he sendeth meat.
Gamesters drink and Fidlers Wives are free for all commers.
Good Wine needs no bush.
Good cheap commodities are notable pick-purses.
God gives his wrath by weight and without weight his mercy.
God sends curst Cows short hornes.
Good riding at two Anchors if one fail the other will hold.
God sends corn the Devil makes the sack.
Great is the Harvest the abundant gather.
Gods secrets are concealed from men
Gamesters and Race-horses never last long.

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Great allowing lessens no mans living.
Good stomack needs no sauce.
Good news may be told at any time, but ill in the morning.
Green wood makes a hot fire.
Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
Gods Mill grindes slow but sure.
Give a clown your finger and he will take your hand.
Good service is a great enchantment.
Good is to be sought out and evil at∣tended.
God is at the end when we think he is furthest of.
Good and quickly seldom meet.
Good fortune still delivers any.
Good restorers make good lenders.
God heals and the Physician hath the thankes.
God rewardeth the obedient.
God, our Parents, and our Masters can never be requited.
God favoureth and defendeth the wronged.
Great paines quickly finds ease.

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God comes to see without a Bell.
God complains not but doth what is fitting.
Give loosers leave to talk.
Great deformers grow intollerable pre∣sumers.
God oft hath a great share in a little house.
God keep me from four Houses, a Usurers, a Tavern, a Spittle, and a Prison.
God provides for him that trusteth.
Giving much to the poor, doth increase a mans store.
God in the tongue, and the Devil in the heart.
Gluttony kils more then the Sword.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
Giving is dead restoring very sick.

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HOney is sweet but the Bee sting∣eth.
He that strikes with his tongue must ward with his head.
He that marries for wealth sells his Liberty.
He that tels his wife news is but newly married.
He that hath a Fox for his mate had need have a net at his girdle.
He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at fourty, nor wise at fifty, will never be hand∣some, strong, rich or wise.
He sits not sure, that sits too high.
He who will know what he is worth, let him not be surety.
He that marries late marries ill.
Hearken to Reason or she will be heard.
He truly begins to dye that quits his chief desire.
He hath great need of a fool that will play the fool himself.
Half a loaf is better then no bread.

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He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
He that bewailes his want hath beg'd sufficiently.
He that stumbles and fals not mends his pace.
He that will live in Peace and rest, must hear, and see, and say the best.
He that gainsayes not gives his full consent.
He hath enough that's pleas∣ed.
He that doth fight with silver is sure to overcome.
He that cannot paye let him pray.
He is least worthy of honour that seeks it.
Hazard little to gain much.
He that corrects not small faults, cannot controle great ones.
He that hath one eye is a King a∣mong the blind.

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He will play at small game before he will stand out.
He that lies down with dogs must rise with fleas.
He playes well that winnes.
He speaks me fair but wishes my throat cut.
He dotes more then a fool on his bable.
He that is man'd by Boyes, and horst with Colts, shall have his meat eaten, and his work undone.
He that lives well is learn'd e∣nough.
He that hath not wherewithall to eat hath store of sorrows.
He that will take the Bird let him not scare it.
He is an Asse that hurts him∣self.
He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.
He that will learn to pray let

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him go to Sea.
Hold with the Hare and run with the Hound.
He that wants money wants all things.
He is doubly fond that satisfies his fondnesse.
He that sees what's good, and takes what is bad, is a wilfull fool.
He deserveth not to give Laws, who cannot endure to receive them.
Hungry dogs will eat durty Pud∣dings.
He may weep till his heart ake that hath no body comfort him.
He that sends a Sea, is sure to loose his Venture.
He hears with one ear that is deaf with the other.
He that eats Cherries with his Love picks not the best.
He that contemplates hath a day

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without a night.
He that dares not trust to his hand had best to trust to his feet.
He is a very Asse that thinks to live ever.
He must needs go that the Devil drives.
He that is warm thinks all so.
He who hath but one daies felicity is unhappy all the year.
He thinks not well that thinks not again.
He barks at the Moon that endea∣vours to disparage truth.
Half warn'd half arm'd.
He that hopes for dead mens shooes may go long bare-foot.
He that studies his contentment o∣vermuch ever wants it.
He casts a mist before a mans eyes that puts money in his hand.
Hunger will break through stone walls.
He that hath spice may season as he list.

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He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
He spent Michaelmas Rent in Mid∣sommer Quarter.
He hath an oare in every mans boate.
He hath many Irons in the fire.
He shall be call'd a Fool to his face, That doing well will quit his place.
He is an Asse that cannot make use of his own.
He that will have a Hare to break∣fast must hunt over night.
He that is at ease seeks vanities.
He knows on which side his bread is buttered on.
He is a good marksman that aims at the heel and hits the head.
He that mounteth higher then he ought shall descend lower then he would.
He that mischief hatcheth mis∣chief catcheth.

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He loseth nothing that loseth not God.
He that gives a Capon give him him the leg and the wing.
He that doth that he ought not, that happens to him that he thinks not.
How can the Fole amble when the Horse and Mare trot?
Honour is troublesome.
He that playes his money ought to value it.
He beginneth to build to soon that hath not money to finish it.
He that is angry at a Feast is rude.
He shall never have a thing good cheap that is afraid to ask the price.
He that is angry is not at ease.
Hast makes waste.
He mends as four Ale mends in Summer.
He that hath times and looks for

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time loseth time.
He that hath hornes in his bosome let him not put them on his head.
He is an ill Husband that is not mist.
He can ill pipe that lacks his upper∣lip.
He that is afraid of every grasse, must not pisse in a Medow.
He throughly punishes that loves throughly.
He never loved well that hated for a trifle.
He that loves another better then himself starves in a Cooks Shop.
He is a fool that throws at his heel what he hath in his hand.
Half a word is enough to an un∣derstanding Reader.
He that hath a fame of rising early may sleep till dinner.
He that will eat the kernell let him crack the nur.

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He looseth the Market for the tolle.
He goes far that never returns.
He that lives ill fear follows him.
Hunger and shame are mortal ene∣mies.
He that sends a fool means to follow him.
He is as blind as a beetle.
He hath a leaden head and a wooden wit.
He that winketh with one eye, and seeth with the other, I will not trust him though he were my Bro∣ther.
He stands not surely that never slipt.
Health is a Jewell.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
He that sees his neighbours house a fire must look to his own.
He that soweth good seed shall reap good Corn.

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He holds his Nose to the Grind∣stone.
He that is born to be hang'd shall never be drown'd.
Hot love soon cold.
He is handsome that hansdome doth.
Happy is he that Chastens himself.
He that stayes does the businesse.
Hold fast when you have it.
Hope well and have well.
He had need have a long spoon that eat with the Devil.
Happy is he that owes nothing.
He leaves a place well that leaves a Friend in it.
He that hath much shall have more.
Hauger pierces stone-walls.
Health without money is half a sicknesse.
Honour is unseemly for a fool.
His body is better cloathed then his soul.
He would make you believe the

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Moon is made of green Cheese.
He is mad that quarrels with wo∣men or Beasts.
He hath a conscience as large as a Fransiscans sleeve.
He may ill run that cannot go.
He that reckons without his host must reckon twice.
He is happy that can be warn'd by others harms.
Hunger hath alwaies a good Cook.
He makes a mountain of a mole∣hill.
He that goes far gains much.
He maketh a long harvest of a little Corn.
He is fool-hardy.
He that looseth his wife and six pence hath lost a Teaster. Fr.
He that hath an ill Name is half Hang'd.
He that kils a man when he is drunk, shall be hang'd when he is sober.

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Home is home when all is done, or be it never so poor.
Honours should change manners.
He doth little that doth not afford his hand as well as his head.
He that lies long abed his Estate feels it.
Handsome women without Porti∣ons, finds more sweet-hearts then Husbands.
Hunger is the best sauce.
He that lives in hope danceth with∣out musick.
He that will live long, must keep his mouth coole, his feet warm and dry.
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
He that never drank was never adry.
He that is angry without a cause, must be pleased without amends.
He that will meddle with all things, may go shooe the Goose.

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He sweares like an Abbot.
He that buyes a house ready built hath many a pin and nayl for nought.
He that leaves God, God will leave him.
He that will not do ill must look well to himself.
He that Riseth first is first drest.
He is proper that hath proper con∣ditions.
He that looks not before finds him∣self behind.
He that playes more then he sees, forfeits his eyes to the King.
Husty counsell seldom profitable.
He that loves the tree loves the branch.
He is to hasty to be a Parish Clerk.
He is as sharp as a thorn.
He is more busie then he hath thankes for his labour.
He that hath not enough hath no∣thing.

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He gets enough that looseth no∣thing
He that hath told good news need tell no more.
He is an asse that gives flesh for bones.
He that striketh with the sword, shall be beaten with the scab∣bard.
Humble hearts have humble de∣sires.
He that goes bare-foot must not plant thornes.
He that hath right hath courage.
He that makes himself asleep the Wolf shall catch him.
He pulls with a long Rope that waits for anothers death.
He that will revenge all wrongs shall sooner end himself then them.
He begins to die that quits his de∣sire.

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He that gets out of debt grows rich.
He that is truly hungry, will not stick to eat any thing.
He that is faulty turns coward.
He laugheth that winneth.
He that eates the hard shall eat the ripe.
Haste makes wast.
Here's a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then ei∣ther.
He that comes last makes all fast.
He that worst payes shall hold the Candle.
He is no body.
He stands for a Cipher.
He that deceives me once, it is his faul; if twice, it is mine.
He scornes the motion.
He that will not berul'd by his own dame, must be rul'd by his step∣dame,

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He over-looks him as the Devil look't over Lincoln.
He that cannot dissemble knows not how to live.
Hatred with Friends is succour to foes.
He gets in the hundred but looseth in the shire.
He gives others good counsell but takes none himself.
He that hath plenty of goods shall have more.
He puls an old House on his head.
He is in a peck of troubles.
Honour without profit is a Ring on the finger.
He that will be serv'd must be pa∣tient.
He that doth what he will doth not what he ought.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.

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He that takes not up a pin slights his his Wife.
He that looseth his due gets not thanks.
He that demands misseth not unlesse his demands be foolish.
He that blames would buy.
He that once deceives is ever su∣spected.
He is a fool that brags of four things; Good wine, a handsome Wife, a handsome Horse, and good store of money.
He that makes a good War makes a good Peace.
He that hath love on his breast hath Spurres on his sides.
He that respects not is not respe∣cted.
He that speaks sowes, and he that holds his Peace gathers.
He that hath one hog makes him fat, and he that hath but one Son makes him a fool.

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Hope is the poor mans bread
He that's long a giving knows not how to give.
He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
Help thy self and God will help thee.
He that commits a fault thinks eve∣ry one speaks of it.
He that lives well one year sorrows seven year after.
He that trusts in a lye shall perish in truth.
He that riseth betimes hath some∣thing in his head.
He is a fool that thinks not that a∣ther thinks.
Hunger drawes a Wolf out of the Forrest.
He that burns his house warms him∣self once.
He spends ill that spends a whole years rent at one meal.
He is not poor that hath little

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but he that desires much.
He wrongs not an old man that steales his Supper from him.
He that labours and thrives spins gold.
He that soweth trusteth in God.
He that is foolish in the thought let him be wise in the punishment.
He that hath no good Trade it is to his losse.
Happier are the hands compast with iron then the heart with thoughts.
He that lends gives.
Hast comes not alone.
He looks not well to himself that looks not ever.
He can give little to his Servant that locks his knife.
He that can stay obtains.
He that gives all before he dies pro∣vides to suffer.
He that hath not his Craft let him shut up shop.
He that mocks a Cripple ought to be whole.

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He that goes far hath many encoun∣ters.
He that cockers his child provides for his enemy.
He is not free that draws his chain.
He that keeps his own makes War.
He that endures is not over∣come.
He that talkes much of happinesse summons grief.
He that knows nothing doubts no∣thing.
He that passeth a Winters day e∣scapes an enemy.
He that is his own Counsellor knows nothing sure but what he hath laid out.
He hath not liv'd that lives not after death.
He that learns a Trade, hat a purchase made.
He that is at ease seeks dainties.
He that sowes intends to reap.

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He that is in a Tavern thinks he is in a Vine Garden.
He that is surprized with the first Frost feels it all the Winter after.
He that followes the Lord hopes to go before.
He that gives me small gifts would have me live.
He that hath Laws hath quarrels.
He that steales an egge will steal an Oxe.
Half the world knows not how the other half lyes.
He that is a Master must serve ano∣ther.
He is a fool that goes afoot for the ease of his horse.
He a beast must die that hath done no good to his Countrey.
He that is not in the Wars is not out of danger.
He that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.

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Heaven is not to be got with wish∣ing.
He that will do thee a good turn, either he will be gone or die.
He that is once born, once must die.
He that makes himself asleep must be eat by the Wolves.
He that's afraid of leaves goes not to the wood.
Happinesse cannot be attain'd in this world.
Health and wealth makes mens lives comfortable.

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IT is better to give one Shilling a∣way way then lend twenty.
In a womans Garment is her va∣nity.
It is a shame to steal but a worse to carry home.
Ill gotten ill spent.
In love is no lack.
Ill gotten goods never thrive.
If the Wise erred not it would go hard with the fool.
Ill putting a naked sword in a mad mans hand.
It is not good to hold a Candle be∣fore the duell.
In trust is Treason.
In a good house all is quickly rea∣dy.

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Ill weeds grow apace.
It's better to see a clout then a hole out.
If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
Jack would be a Gentleman if he could speak French.
It is better to be envyed then pitti∣ed.
It's absurd to warm one in his Ar∣mour.
In spending lies the advantage.
In a hundred ells of contention there is not one inch of love.
If every man would mend one all would mend.
It's a great trouble to ride and death to foot it.
It's batter to buy then borrow.
It's as good to be in the dark as without light.
It is ill to set spurs to a flying horse.
It is a foul Bird that fouls his own nest

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Ill egging makes ill begging.
It is easie to think a thing but hard to bring it about.
It is better to be spited then pit∣tied.
It is better to stand idle then to perform a thing idly. Ital.
It's better to strike a man on the back then on the belly.
It's no sporting with edg's tooles.
In space cometh grace.
It's good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
In time comes she whom God sends.
It chanceth in an hour that comes not in seven years.
It's an ill wind blows no man good.
It's a good horse never stumbles.
Ill news comes to soon.
It is not good jesting with edg'd tooles.
Ill gotten goods soon waste.

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In the Husband wisdom, in the Wife gentlenesse.
It's better to bow then break.
If you would know secrets, look them in grief or pleasure.
If the Mother had never been in the Oven she had never look't for her daughter there.
It's the best part of a fool to say, I had not thought.
In life you love me not, in death you bewail me.
If every man had is own he would be as rich as a new shorn sheep.
It staineth lik the durt of Paris.
It's bad cloth will take no colour.
It's easier to come into debt then pay a debt.
It's an ill counsell hath no miscape.
It cometh by kind, it cost them nothing.
It's better to kisse a knave then be troubled with him.
Ill ware is never cheap.
It's better to be unborn then un∣taught.

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It's better to be a shrew then a sheep.
It's an ill dog not worth the whistling.
Ill vessels seldom miscarry.
I scratch where it itcheth not.
It's easier to descend then ascend.
If it were a Bear it would bite you.
It's ill waking of a sleeping dog.
It is true that all men say.
It's hard striving against a stream.
It's ill healing of an old sore.
It must needs be true that every man saith.
Ill gotten goods what becomes of them?
If the staff be crooked the shadow cannot be straight.
It's good sleeping in a whole skin.
It's to late to grieve when the chance is past.
It is ill shaving against the wool.
Ill luck is good for something.
If the Lyons skin can't do it the Foxes shall.
Ill comes in by ells and goes out by inches.

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It's ill halting before a Cripple.
It's merry in hall when beards wag all.
It's an ill bird defiles his own nest.
If wishes were Thrushes then begger s would eat Birds.
I had rather ride on a horse that car∣ries me then an Asse that throws me.
It's good fishing in troubled waters.
In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn.
It's good to beware by other mens harmes.
It's better late then never.
If you would know a knave give him a staff.
It's good to have a hatch before the door.
It's a long journey from the tongue to the hand.
It's an easie matter to find a staff to beat a dog.
Ill company is the authour of all mis∣chief.

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It's hard to wive and thrive both in a year.
It's merry when Knaves meet.
If you loose your time you cannot get money.
It is not all butter that the cow shites.
I wept when I was born, and every day shews why.
It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.
It is better to give the fleece then the wool.
In vain does the mill clack if the Mil∣ler his hearing lack.
It is hard to keep that which is desired by many.
In choosing a Wife and buying a a sword, we ought not trust ano∣ther.
It's a good horse never stumbles.
I may speak for what I paid for.
If the blind lead the blind both will fall into the ditch.
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish.
If thou mindest to be Pope, thou must have him to write in thy forehead.

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It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
Ill natures, the more you ask them the more they stick.
It's impossible to avoid destiny.
I will not buy a Pig in a poake.
In every Art it is good to have a master.
It's too much to find salve and lint.
Ill never spake well.
If fools went not to market all wares would be kept.
In love there is both dotage and di∣scretion.
In time men get experience.
It is worse to be bad then to be thought so.
If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.
It is not alwaies fair wheather.
I give my mouse a hole and she will become my heir.
It is not good to have an oare in every ones boat.
It is better to be the head of Pike

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then the tail of a Sturgeon.
In a hundred pound of Law there is not a half-penny weight of love.
Infants manners are moulded more by the Parents example then by the stars of their nativity.
It's god to strike while the iron is hot.
In the morning mountains in the evening fountains.
If you could run as you drink you might catch a hare.
It's not good fishing before the net.
In a long journey straw wares.
It's more pain to do nothing then something.
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones Gardner.
If the brain sows not corn it plant thistles.

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KNowledge makes one laugh but wealth makes one dance.
Kissing goes by favour.
King Henry Loud a man.
Kisse my arse is but a poor comple∣ment.
Kick not against a prick.
Ka me and I'le ka thee.
Kindnesse will creep where it cannot go.
Knaves and fools are the composition of the whole world.
Kill two Birds with one stone.
Knowledge is no burthen.
Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
Keep the Wolf from the door.
Keep your eye off writings and your hand out of other mens pockets.
Kind words are currant money at sometimes.

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LEt him laugh that wins.
Look not too high lest a chip fall in thine eye.
Love is potent but money is omnipo∣tent.
Lesson after lesson makes good Scho∣lars.
Love is not without bitternesse.
Love cometh in at the window and goeth out at the door.
Long Jestings are never good.
Little pot soon hot.
Love overcomes nothing but a spight∣full heart.
Lightly come lightly go.
Losse imbraces shame.
Like the Flounder, out of the frying-pan into the fire.
Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge.
Love is blind.
Let the world say what they will if I find all well at home.
Little wealth little care.

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Little knoweth the fat sow what the lean doth mean.
Love makes all hard things gentle.
Little good soon spent.
Leaves enough but few Grapes.
Let a hen live though she hath the pip.
Leave jeasting whilest it pleaseth, lest it come to earnest.
Love me little love me long.
Little dogs start the hare, the great one get lier.
Love doth much but money doth all.
Look ere you leap.
Love me, love my dog.
Love rules his Kingdom without a sword.
Love askes faith and faith firmnesse.
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fools.
Lovers live by love as Larks by leeks.
Look not for musk in a dogs Kennel.
Let every man meddle with his own.
Like master like man.

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Love is the true price of love.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Lean not to a broken staff.
Love makes one fit for any work.
Little said soon amended.
Love and businesse find eloquence.
Love is not found in the Market.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Longs more to marrage the four bare legs in a bed.
Learn weeping and thou shalt laugh gaming.
Let all live as they would die.
Like a chip in pottage doth neither good nor harm.
Like will to like.
Life without a friend is death without witnesse.
Long absent soon forgotten.
Love and Lordship abides no fellow∣ship,
Let every one his own burden bear.
Leave a fool alone and he will bethink what he hath to do.

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Love warms more then a thousand fiers.
Liberty is a Jewel.
Look not a given horse in the mouth.
Let not him that fears feathers come. among wild-fowels.
Light a Candle before the devill.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
Leave is light.
Let an ill man lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir.
Light gaines makes a heavy Purse.
Light burthens long born grow hea∣vy.
Lay no Pearl before swine.

MUch water goes by the Mill the Miller knows not of.
Many Lords many Laws.
Money breeds rage love marriage.
Measure is a merry mean.
Modesty is the mother of good man∣ners.
Money answers all things.

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Many things are lost for want of asking.
More afraid then hurt.
Money begets money.
Much cry and little wool.
Man purposeth God disposeth.
Might overcometh right.
My house, my house, though thou art small thou art to me Escuriall.
Much would have more.
Many speak much that cannot speak well.
Much babling is not without offence.
Much travelling makes bad wayes.
Many a good cow hath an ill calf.
Make hast in an ill way to get out of it.
Many Kinsfolk few friends.
Men speak of the fare as things went with them there.
Many hands makes light work.
My Kill of Malt is on fire.
M••sfortunes seldom come alone.
Misreckoning is no payment.
Man will strive hard for profit.

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Many a little makes a mickle.
Money refused looseth his brightnesse.
Make hay while the Sun shines.
Marry your Son when you will, your daughter when you can.
Money cheereth mans heart.
More hast worst speed.
Marry a Widow before she leaves mourning.
Many cannot see wood for trees.
Mend your cloathes and you may hold out this year.
Man hath nothing that is his, not him∣self.
Many kisse the child for the nurses sake.
Misfortunes are burthens hard to be born.
Many a man talkes of little John that never did him know.
More sauce than meat.
Many small make a great.
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hang'd.
Much profit cannot be made in poor towns.

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Make a page of your own age.
Many speak of Robbin Hood that ne∣ver shot in his bow.
Married to day sad to morrow.
Make a pipe of a pigges tayl.
Money wants no followers.
Men are not measured by the yard or ell.
Many things are lost for want of asking.
Marriage and hanging goes by desti∣ny.
Many kisse the hand they wish cut off.
Most men salure the wronged man.
Make not a balk of good ground.
Most master wear the breeches.
Mills and Wives ever want.
Men must make there market as the time serves.
Man ought to be humble not proud.
Milk sayes to Wine, Welcome Friend.
Many stumble ar a straw and leape o∣ver a block.

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Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselves.
Malice never speaks well.

NO Alchimy to saving.
Never pleasure without Re∣pentance.
No love to a Fathers.
No cheat like the religious cheat.
No longer pipe no longer dance.
No fence for ill fortune.
Nothing so certain as death.
New Objects breed new thoughts.
Not length of daies but strength of heart rids the work.
Need hath no Law.
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
Need makes the old Wife trot.
Never had ill workman good rooles.
New Lords new Laws.
Nothing but money is moneys worth.
No dearth but breeds in the Horse∣manger.

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Neither bribe nor lose thy right.
No man loves his fetters though they be of gold.
None knowes the weight of anothers burthen.
Nothing venture, nothing have.
No Writer can please all.
None so great an enemy as he of ones own trade.
No man ought to look a guift Horse in the mouth.
Night is the Mother of Counsels.
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
No pride like an inricht begger.
No butter will stick on his Bread.
No envy like a Monkes.
Near is my petticoat but nearer is my smock.
Novelties please women.
No smoak but there is some fire.
None is a fool alwaies, every one sometimes.
Nothing hath no savour.
No body deceived but he that con∣fides.

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None saies his Garner is full.
No sooner is a Temple built to God, but the Devil hath his Chappell hard by.
Nature draws more then ten teemes.
Never yet that man that every one spake well of.
Nothing is to be presumed of nor de∣spaired of.
No Church-yard so handsome as a man would desire straight to be bu∣ried there.
Necessity is the best Schoolmistrisse.
Nothing dries sooner then teares.
Nothing lasts but the Church.
No Barber shaves so close but another finds work.

ONe may think what he dares not speak.
One shrewd turn follows another.
Ones gettings orders ones spend∣ings.
Of an ill pay-master never refuse money.

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One acre of possession is worth a whole land of promise.
On a good bargain think twice.
One foot is better then two crutches.
Of sufferance cometh ease.
One flower makes no Garland.
One beggers wo that another by the door should go.
One sound blow will serve to undo all.
One ill word asketh another.
One fore-warn'd as good as two.
Out of Gods blessing into the warm Sun.
Once a whore and alwaies a whore.
One must be a Servant before he can be a Master.
Once a Knave and ever a Knave.
One stroke fells not an Oake.
Of all smels bread of all tastes salt.
One pair of heels worth two pair of hands.
One fool makes a hundred.
One regards more the will then the deed.

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One Wolf will not bite another.
Of a good beginning comes a good ending.
One good turn askes another.
One journey and two errands. Ital.
One swallow makes no Summer.
Of young men there dies many of old men scapes not any.
One day Cash-keeper the next ca∣sheir'd.
Of little medling cometh great ease.
Out of debt out of danger.
One may easily find a staff to beat a dog.
Out of sight out of mind.
One slumber finds another.
One ill weed marres a whole pot of pottage.
One mouth doth nothing without a∣nother.
Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.
On painting and fighting look afar of.
Opportunity is whoredomes baud.

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One may visit a friend sometimes, but if he intends to be welcome he must not stay long.
One may see day at a little hole.
One tongue is enough for a woman.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Our own actions are our security, not others Judgments.
One beateth the bush and another catcheth the Bird.
One pair of ears is enough to dry up an hundred tongues.
Often and little eating makes a man fat.
Old men go to death, death comes to young men.
Out nettle in dock.
Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
One enemy is too much.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
One swallow makes not a Summer, nor one Woodcock a Winter.
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Old men and far travellers may lye by authority.
One hou•••• sleep before midnight is worth three after.
Old Birds are not caught with chaff.
One fair day in Winter makes not birds merry.
Often under a mean habit is hid a fine Treasure.
One seldom loses by dealing with honest men.
One scab'd sheep will marre a whole flock.
One hair of benevolence draws more then a hundred yoak of Oxen.
Of fair things the autume is fair.
Once at ease and ever a custom.
Old men when they seem young make much of death.
Once a year a man may say on his conscience.

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PLeasure long expected is dear e∣nough bought
Play, a Whore, and brisk Wine, make a man poor laughing.
Promising is the eye of giving.
Play with a fool at home and he will play with you abroad.
Preferment choaks.
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.
Poor and proud, fy fy.
Prettinesse dies first.
Pain is forgotten where gain follows.
Perversnesse makes one squint-ey'd.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Poverty is the Mother of health.
Pride goes before shame cometh after.
Praise a hill but keep low.
Pride will have a fall.
Pleasure and profit draws all the world.
Proffered service stinks.
Pains to get, care to keep, fear to loose.

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Punishment is lame but it comes.
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
Prove thy friend ere thou have need.
Poor and liberall rich and covetous.
Puff not against the wind.
Pensions never enricht young man.
Poverty is no sinne.
Prejudicial friendship let it go with a vengeance.
Peevish pity marres a City.
Physician cure thy self.
Praise none too much for all are fickle.
Pillow Counsell proves vain.
Praise a fair day at night.
Princes are Venison in Heaven.
Pretended holinesse is double iniqui∣ty.
Providence is better then a rent.
Pouring oyl into the fire is not the way to quench it.
Prayers and provender hinder no jour∣ney.
Parsons are fools Waggoners.

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Pleasing ware is half sold.

QUick at Victuals quick at work.
Quick believers need broad shoulders.

REady money is a ready medicine.
Rich Land must not be left for a greedy Landlore.
Rivers need a spring.
Rivers swell not with clear water.
Revenge is sweet.
Riches have wings.
Rouling stones gather no mosse.
Rome was not built in one day.
Rob Peter to pay Paul.
Reckoners without their host must reckon twice.
Remove an old tree and it will die.
Rich men are like Whales, for they grow great by the ruine of others.
Raw leather will stretch.

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SHe spins well that breeds her Chil∣dren.
Sorrow is alwaies dry.
Set a Knave to catch a Knave.
Save a thief from the Gallows and he will cut your throat.
Sep after step the Ladder's ascended.
Seldome comes a better.
So many men in Court so many strangers.
Saying and doing are two things.
So many Countries so many customs.
Self do self have.
Shew me a lyer and I'le shew thee a thief.
Seldome seen is soon forgotten.
Say no ill of the year till it be past.
Shame in a kindred cannot be avoid∣ed.
Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church yet rob the Altar.
So long goes the pot to the water that at last it comes home broken.
Service is no Inheritance.

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Shamefull craving must have shame∣full nay.
Skill and confidence are an unconque∣red Army.
Small pitchers have wide ears.
Such a Saint such an offering.
Set a begger on Horseback and he will gallop.
Soft fire makes sweet malt.
Soon gotten soon spent.
Such Carpenters such Ships.
Sad is he that stands between the An∣vill and the hammer.
Spit in your hands and take better hold.
Short shooting loseth the game.
Short masse and long dinner.
So many heads so many wits.
Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.
Somewhat is better then nothing.
Soon hot soon cold.
Sweet meat will have sour sauce.
Sleep without Supper wake without owing.

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Stumble at a straw and leap over a block.
Speak fitly or be silent wisely.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
Sound love is not soon forgotten.
See for love and buy for money.
Soon ripe soon rotten.
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
Souldiers in Peace are like chimneys in Summer.
Speak fair and think what you will.
Such a Father such a Son.
Science is nought worth without con∣science.
Spend and God will send.
Such lips such lettice.
Silkes and sattins put ont the fire in the chimney.
Such welcome such farewell.
Spare and ever bare.
Sins are not known till they are act∣ed.
Stop two gaps with one bush.
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mean to pay them.
States have their Periods as well as bodies.
Send a wise man on an errand and say nothing to him.
Spare to speak and spare to speed.
Store is no sore.
Such a one hath a good wit if a wise man had the keeping of it.
Ships fear fire more then water.
Struggle not against the stream.
Stay a while that we may make an end the sooner.
Such beginning such end.
Small invitation will serve a begger.
Still sow eates all the draff.
Serve a noble man though poor the time comes that he will repay thee.
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
Shame take him that shame thinks.
Service without reward is punish∣ment.
Some had rather loose their friend then their jeast.

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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry tem∣pest.
Some men plant an opinion they seem to eradicate.

THe Citizen at his businesse before he rise.
The eyes have a language every where.
To speak of a Userer at the Table marres the Wine.
To review ones store is to mow twice.
Two false Knaves need no broker.
The eye is bigger then the belly.
The world is now adaies God save the Conqueror.
The death of Wolves is the safety of sheep.
Those that God loves don't live long.
Two heads are better then one.
The devil divides the world between Atheism and Superstition.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

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There's a Remedy for every thing could men find it.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life could he find it.
The effect speaks the tongue need not.
To a child all weather is cold.
To him that will waies are not want∣ing.
The Market is the best Garden.
Time undermines us.
The cholarick drinks, the melancho∣ly eats, the phlegmatick sleeps.
The deaf gaines the injury.
The dainties of the great are teares of the poor.
The Master absent and the house dead.
The great put the little on the ten∣ters.
The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germans in the deed, the French after the deed.
The best bread have the best Portions.

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Too much familiarity breeds con∣tempt.
The Spring for the eye but the fall for the mouth.
That which is bred in the bone will never out of the flesh.
Truth may be blamed but it cannot be shamed.
To be too busie gets contempt.
There is no fire without some smoak.
The good wan is the last that knows whats amisse at home.
To day in a posture or shape to mor∣row in ones grave.
The Court hath no Almanack.
The worlds well amended with him.
There's not so great a flood but there's as low an ebbe.
The eye and Religion can bear no jeasting.
There's no accord where every man would be a Lord.
The sluggard loves alife things done to his hand.
There is no earthly gate, that an Asse

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laden with money cannot enter.
The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing.
There's no hill without it's valley.
The greatest state the lesse sure.
They that are bound must obey.
The Pox is a gentlemans companion.
The Woman had never lookt for her daughter in the Oven if she had not been there her self.
The first and the last frost is the worst.
The hearts letter is read in the eye.
Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
The defects are the mens not the arts.
The table robs more then a thief.
The new broom sweeps clean.
The Wolf knows what the ill beast thinks.
The fearfull man never makes good Surgeon.
The snow for eight daies is a mother after a step-mother.
The virtue of a coward is suspition.
The Germans wit is in his fingers.

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The devil never assails a man unlesse he find him void of knowledge or the fear of God.
Take heed of still water the quick passe away.
The nearer the Church the further from God.
The Corn hides it self in snow as an old man in furs.
There's no body will go to hell for company.
The Jews spend at Easter, the Moors at marriage the Christians in sutes.
The love of money and the love of learning readily meet.
The wise hand doth not all the foolish mouth speaks.
The horse that is next the mill car∣ries all the grist.
The more women look in the glasse the lesse they look to their house.
The worst of Law is that one sute breeds twenty.
There are more men threatned then striken.

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The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
The fool askes much but more he that grants it.
Three may keep counsell if two be a∣way.
The beast that goes alwaies never wants blows.
There is no fool to the old fool.
There is more talk then trouble.
There is difference betwixt staring and stark mad.
The Fox knows much but more he that catcheth him.
Time and tyde stayes for no man.
There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.
The best mirrour is an old friend.
The tongue talkes at the heads cast.
Tha•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 not good language which all understands not.
The Child sayes nothing but what it learn'd by the fire.
The absent party is still faulty.
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comes at his time and not till then.
There is falshood in fellowship.
The fault is as great as he that is faul∣ty.
Time is the Rider that breaks youth.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes the seller one.
The dog that licks ashes trust not with meale.
The horse thinks one thing and he that saddles him another.
The rought net is not the best catcher of fish.
There are three waies, the Universi∣ty, the Sea, the Court.
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
Thou hast death in thy house and dost bewail anothers.
The Priest hath forgotten that he was a Clark.
The morning Sun never lasts a day.
The comforters head never akes.
To a crazy Ship all winds are contra∣ry.

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Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
The resolved mind hath no ears.
The bite of a sheep never pierceth the skin.
The back door robs the house.
The Gown is his that wears it, and the world his that enjoys it.
Time stayeth for no man.
Things well fitted abide.
The Masters eye fattens the horse and his foot the ground.
Talk paies no tolle.
Touch a gall'd horse on the back and and he will winch.
The tree that God plants no wind rents it.
Time past we can't recall.
The best workmen are commonly the worst Husbands.
The toothach is more ease then to deal with ill people.
'Tis hard to be wretched but worse to be known so.

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The charges of building and making of Gardens are unknown.
There's more maides then maukins.
Trust not one nights ice.
Though you see a Churchman ill yet continue in the Church still.
To gain teacheth how to spend.
There's more wayes to the wood then one.
The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it.
The Sea hath fish for every man.
The good Mother sayes not will you but gives.
Two eyes can see more then one.
The eye will have his part.
The first degree of folly is to hold ones self wise, the second to pro∣fesse it, the third to despise counsell.
Truth shameth the Devil.
To weep for joy is a kind of Manna.
The Crow bewailes the sheep, and eats it.
Tread on a worm and it will turn.
The first service a child doth a Father is to make him foolish.

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The command of custom is great.
Two ill meales makes the third a glut∣ton.
True praise rootes and sprouts.
The Cat sees not the mouse ever.
The fish adores the bait.
The Royal Crown cures not the headach.
There is great force hidden in a sweet command.
The more thy years the nigher the grave.
The thread breaks where it is weak∣est.
The fat man knows not what the lean thinketh.
The slothfull is the Servant of a Prison.
The more you stirre the more you stink.
Time is the Rider that breaks youth.
Two anons and a by and by is an hour and a half.
The perswasions of fortune swayes the doubtfull.

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Talk much and erre much, saies the Spaniard.
The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.
Time and straw makes medlers ripe.
The ballance distinguisheth not be∣tween gold and silver.
There is no Colt but will break some halter.
The soul needs few things the body many.
The Reasons of the poor weigh not.
To be beloved is above all bargains.
The evening praises the day.
To deceive ones self is very easie.
The fair lasteth the whole year.
The escaped mouse ever feels the tast of the bait.
The back door makes the thief and whore.
The covetous spends more then the liberall.
The off-spring of the very old or very young lasts not.
There's no weather ill when the wind is still.

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Too much taking heed is losse.
The reverend are ever before.
The first dish pleaseth all.
'Tis easier to build two Chimneys then to main tain one.
That groat is ill sav'd that shames the Master.
Take heed of an Ox before, an horse behind, of a Parson on all sides.
The greatest crabs be not the best.
There are more Physicians in health then drunkards.
There's a craft in daubing.
The Wife is the key of the house.
The greatest Clarks be not the wisest men.
The least foolish is wise.
The singing man keeps his shop in his throat.
The first blow is as much as two.
The life of a man is a Winter way.
The Physician ows all to the Patient, but the Patient ows him nothing but a little money.
There's not enough if nothing be lost.

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To the counsell of fools a word is best.
To a fair day open your window.
The ignorant hath an Eagles wing and an Owles eye.
To a gratefull man give money when he askes.
The greatest talkers are the least doers
There's none so deaf as he that will not hear.
The higher the Ape goes the more he shews his tayl.
The Fox fares best when he is curst.
The Dutch have there wits in their hands.
The best may amend.
The chief disease that reignes this year is folly.
The scal'd head fears cold water.
Three things alwaies bring cost, the fawning of a dog, the love of a whore, and the invitation of an host.
There is no jeasting either with ones eye or ones Religion.
The Horse to the saddle, the Asse to the pack, the Ox to the plow, the

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Dog to the chace, but man to that art which nature cals him to.
The year doth nothing else but open and shut.
The greedy fool that all would presse
The head of a woman, the body of a Serjant, the leggs of a Lackey, make a Devil perfect.
True honour is the Daughter of truth.
Trust is the Mother of deceit.
The world is round, and he that can∣not swim sinks to the bottom.
The outside of a woman is common∣ly the best.
The curious searcher finds himself unfortunate.
The honester man the worser luck.
Two wits discern better then one.
Thoughts be free from tolle.
Troubles sent from God are Jewels, but drawn on by our selves are tor∣ments.
The greatest Calf is not the sweetest Veal.

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Though the Sun shine leave not thy cloak at home.
Two pots well fill'd are signs of a Feast.
The end makes all equall.
The offender never pardons.
The higher I climb the greater my fall.
Travell whether thou canst but die where thou oughtest.
That which one learns in youth will continue till old age.
There is no ill which doth not turn to our good.
The mill gets by going.
The Cuckold is the last that knows it.
The Hoarding of money is both sin∣full and casual.
The skilfullest, wanting money, are but scorned.
Too crafty a Cur to be taken with this bone.
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.

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The Wife that bites her lips and treads askew is to her husband and her self untrue.
The Sun that shineth early in the morning, a Woman that speaketh lattin, and a Child that drinketh Wine, seldom make good end.
The wife and the sword are to be shew'd not lent.
Teares in the eyes have sorrow in the heart.
To day a merchant to morrow a mis∣creant.
The weakest goes to the walls.
The Chicken is the Countries but the City eats it.
The more rich the more honour.
Takes pepper in the nose.
The wearer knows where the shooe wrings.
Too much scratching smarts, too much speaking hurts.
The more knave the better luck.
To speak well belongs to few, to live well belongs to all.

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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The gray mare is the better horse.
That is not handsome which is hand∣some, but that is handsome which takes.
Things well fitted abide.
They that know one another salute afar of.
The rising of one man is the fall of another.
The good Wife of a wilfull man hath many a wofull day.
Think of ease but work on.
There's as many fashions as folks.
The King of good-fellows is appoint∣ed for the Queen of beggers.
Truth and Oyl are ever above.
The Market-place the Rogues house.
There longs more to a wedding then four bare legs in a bed.
The tongue Walkes where the teeth speed not.
The early Bird catcheth the worm.
The lame tongue gets nothing.

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There are many waies to fame.
The shortest anger is doing.
The toothach is more easie then love.
Three Women make a Market.
The wisest man doth sometimes play the fool.
The Pope comes by voices, the King by natue, the Emperour by force.
There are some that would be droun'd in a glasse of water.
The Goat must brouse where she is tied.
The house shews the owner.
The fool is most fusty when he is least foolish.
The rich devoure the poor, the strong the weak.
The Smith and his penny both are black.
The dead are not to be mentioned at Board.
The Razer may boldly grase on a fools beard.
The lean man is Wolves meat.
The worst step is that over the thre∣shold.

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The best play on the board is not to play at all.
The Huntsmans breakfast the Law∣yers dinner.
The miserable man makes a penny of a farthing, the liberall of a penny six pence.
There is no equity in keeping an un∣just promise.
The wisest man saies least.
The hole cals the thief.
The first love is the fastest.
The gentle Hawk half mans her self.
The envious man shall never want wo.
The pompkin dies with the seed in its belly.
Thieves falling out true men come by their goods.
The Devilis not alwaies at one door.
Two hands in a dish one in Purse.
Those that promise most perform least.
There is no scourge of wit or learning that will lash a wanton lover out of his lust.

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The Mill cannot gride with the water that's past.
Time stayes not the fools leasure.
The fools tears are not to be trusted.
The fairest women in the Stews the handsomest mate at the Gallows.
The good usage of a Master is a spur to an ingenious servant.
The sluggard must be clad in rags.
The fault of the Horse is put on the saddle.
The richer the Cobler the blacker his thumb.
The best remedy against an ill man is to keep at a distance.
The head of a fish is first tamed.
The begger may sing before the thief.
True content is only in Heaven.
Though a lie be well drest it is ever over-ripe.
The eye of the Master makes the horse fat.
True good is that which is eternal.
The best Cart may overthrow.

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There is no Knave like an Abbot that was a Monk.
The best is best cheap.
The Cat knows whose lips she licks.
There are more threatned then striken.
The belly thinks the throat is cut.
The highest tree hath the greatest fall.
The ambitious man is never satisfied.
The blind eats many a fly.
The Fox when he cannot reach the Grapes saies they are not ripe.
The more the merrier the fewer the better cheer.
The fairest Rose in the end is wither∣ed.
Though the Mastiff be gentle yet bite him not by the lip.
The Cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet.
Three helping one another bear the burden of six.
The more hast the lesse speed.
The young Cock croweth as the old heareth.

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The Son full, and tattard the daugh∣ter empty and fine.
The low stake standeth long.
The longest day hath his end.
The faulty man stands on his Guard.
The Keys hang not all at one Girdle.
The ill that comes out of our mouth falls into our bosome.
That the eye seeth not the heart rueth not.
The lame gos as far as your staggerer.
The tongue is not steel yet it cures.
Though the Fox run yet the Chickens have wings.
That penny is well spent that saveth a groat.
That is gold which is worth gold.
The first shour is that which wets most
The wolf must die in his own skin.
The rich knows not who is his friend.
They talk of Christmas so long that it comes.
To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure.
That which suffereth is not little.

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There needs a long time to know the worlds Pulse.
To him that hath lost his tast sweet is soure.
They that hold the greatest farmes pay the least rent: applied to rich men that are unthankfull to God.
There is no wo to want.
Two heads are better then one.
Tales of Robbin Hood are good for fools.
The command of Custom is great.
That one will not another will.
The leg doth what the knee would have it.
To deceive the deceiver is no deceit.
Tith and be rich.
The lame Post brings the true news.
The burnt Child dreads the fire.
Threatned folks live long.
Take heed is a good need.
Take time when time cometh left time stealeth away.
The eye is a shrew.
Thursday come and the week gone.

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VIrtue never grows old.
Virtue and a Trade are the best portions for Children.
Under a threadbare cloak lies many times much learning.
Vallour that Parlies is near yeelding.
Unsound minds like unsound bodies if you feed you poyson.
Unwonted Objects breed unwonted thoughts.

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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YOu must lose a fly to catch a gnat.
You shall know what a man is worth when he is dead.
You come with your five egges and four of them addled.
You may know what a man is by his company.
You had as live go to Mill as to masse.
Years know more then Books.
Your thoughts close and your counte∣nance lose.
Young men may die but old men must die.
You need not sow weeds.
You cannot see wood for trees.
You cannot hide an ell in a sack.
You are as seasonable as snow in winter.
You cannot know Wine by the Bar∣rell.
You cannot flea a stone.
You must lose a fly to catch a Trout.

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Young Saint old Devil.
You cannot make a fire so low but it will go out.
Ynough is as good as a Feast.

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Wise SPEECHES, AND Golden SENTENCES.

1. GIve me the heart of a man, and out of that all other deeds shall be acceptable.

2. When thou hast taken unlaw∣fully, restore it speedily; for the sin in taking, is repeated every minute thou keepest it: if thou canst, restore it in kind, if not, in value; if it may be, restore it to the party, if not, to God: The poor is Gods receiver.

3. It was said of Nero, that though he could tune his Harp well, yet in his Government he did alwaies wind up the strings to high, or let them down to low.

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4. Severus the Emperour being but meanly born, and having raised himself to that high honour, was wont to say, I have been all, and am never the better.

5. Cato had this saying, That the best way to keep good acts in memory, was to refresh them with new.

6. A private Souldier (seeing Philip King of Macedon vainly pufft up with a great Victory over the A∣thenians) took courage and told him, That if he measured his own shadow, be should find it no longer then it was before his victory.

7. Dost thou want things necessa∣ry, grumble not? perchance it was a necessary thus thou shouldst want; en∣deavour lawfully to supply it, if God bless not thy endeavour, bless him, that knoweth what is fittest for thee; thou art Gods Patient, prescribe not thy Physician.

8. It's no shame to be poor, pro∣vided thou keep thy self honest in thy poverty.

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9. It's the greatest folly in youth, either not to endeavour good advice, or not to believe it till their perill comes upon them, and makes them see it to their shtme.

10. Rich Croesus shewing Solon the Philosopher a great heap of gold that he had gathered together, askt him what he thought of it, who confi∣dently replied, If another come that hath better iron then you, he will be Master of all this gold.

11. He that professeth himself thy open enemy, arm thee against the e∣vil he means thee; but he that dis∣sembles himself thy secret friend, strikes beyond caution, and wounds above cure: From the first thou maist deliver thy self, from the last good Lord deliver thee.

12. Errours by mistakes should not be too vigourously censured, but errours that be wilfull should not be spared.

13. It was a wise saying of a

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Senatour of Rome (during the Go∣vernment of Galba who being aged, the people took liberty and had al∣most brought all into confusion) That it were better to live where nothing is lawfull, then where all things are lawfull.

14. It's a certain Rule in all dark Prophesies, That they are never clearly understood, till they are ac∣complished.

15. Correction without Instructi∣on, is but meer tyranny.

16. All qualities, without directi∣on of virtue profit not but overthrow their possessor.

17. Gold is tryed with the Touch∣stone, but men by gold.

18. As the Servants of God are known by humility and charity, so the servants of the Devil are known by pride and cruelty.

19. No man gains by war, but he that hath not wherewith to live in Peace.

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20. Pray often because thou sin∣nest alwaies, repent quickly lest thou die suddainly.

21. He is said truly to serve his Countrey, whose body executeth what is wisdom plotteth.

22. The honour of a King stands in the multitude of the people, but his safety in the love of his Subjects.

23. Be alwaies lesse willing to speak then to hear; when thou hearest thou receivest, when thou speakest thou givest; it is more glorious to give, more profitable to re∣ceive.

24. Prayer is one of the worthi∣est actions we do, for we speak with God as it were, reasoning with him; it brings down God from Heaven, and makes him grant our will, and dwell with us and we with him eter∣nally.

25. Syward Earl of Northumber∣land, lying on his sick-bed, and feel∣ing death approaching suddainly

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started out of his bed and put on his Armour, saying, It became not a va∣liant man to die lying like a beast.

26. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience and ex∣amine thy heart; if thou be guilty it's a just correction, if not guilty, it's a fair Instruction; make use of both, so shalt thou distill honey out of gall, and of an open enemy cre∣ate a secret friend.

27. Religious Alms-deeds makes God become our debtour.

28. He is not worthy to command others, that cannot bridle his own af∣fections and unresonable appetite.

29. Sir Walter Rawleigh in his im∣prisonment, was wont to comfort himself with this, saying, That the world was but a wide Prison, and every day one or other was call'd out to exe∣cution.

30. VVe complain of the times, and justly, for never more wicked; but let us take heed that we be not a

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part of the misery of the times, and they made worse by our sinnes.

31. Time the Mother, will bring forth Virtue the Daughter in due season.

32. King Charles of ever blessed memory used this Speech to his se∣cond Parliament, That it is more ho∣nourable for a King to be invaded, and almost destroyed by a forraign enemy, then to be despised at home.

33. Beware of drunkenesse, lest all good men beware of thee: where drunkenesse reigns, there reason is an exile, Virtue a stranger, God an ene∣my, blasphemy is wit, oathes are rhetorick, and secrets are proclamati∣ons. Noah discovered that in one hour drunk, which sober he kept se∣cret six hundred years.

34. Antoninus the Emperour ha∣ving laid a double Tax upon the peo∣ple, one of his under Officers told him, If he would have the people pay two Taxes in one year, be should give

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them two seed-times and two Harvests.

35. My Lord Bacon was wont to say, That Laws were like cobwebs, where the small flyes are caught, and the great flyes break through.

36. If thou desirest rest to thy soul, be just: for he that doth no in∣jury fears not to suffer injury: The unjust mind is alwaies in labour, it ei∣ther practises the evil it hath pro∣jected, or projects to avoid the evil, it hath deserved.

37. False Miracles and lying News, are the food of superstition, which by credulity deludes ignorant people.

38. William the Conquerour was wont to say, That an unlearned King was a crowned asse.

39. A rich Merchant using con∣stantly to drink out of a wodden dish, and being reproved for it by a friend, answered, I had rather drink out of Wood, and make golden payments, then drink out of gold, and make wooden payments.

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40. In all thy actions, think God sees thee, and in all his actions, la∣bour to see him; that will make thee fear him, this will move thee to love him.

41. Continual experience shews, That idlenesse is the greatest spur to lechery.

42. The Birds of the ayre die to sustain thee, the beasts of the field die to nourish thee, the fishes of the Sea die to feed thee: Our stomacks are their common Sepulchre. Good God, with how many deaths are our poor lives patcht up of? How full of death is the miserable life of mortal man?

43. Suggestions are needless from abroad, when the mischief is felt at home.

44. It is a hard thing to be rich and honoured in this world, and not struk with the dart of pride and vain glo∣ry.

45. A heart not exercised in some honest calling, works trouble out of it self.

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46. The Devil never assaults a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or the fear of God.

47. Rebuke thy Servants fault in private, publique Reproofs hardens his shame: if he be past a youth, strike him not; he is not fit for thy Service, that after wise reproofs will either deserve thy strokes, or digest them.

48. God hath left three Books in the world, in each of which he may easily be found; The Book of the Creatures, the Book of Conscience, and his written Word. The first shews his Omnipotency, the second his Justice, the third his Mercy and Goodnesse.

49. Nothing inslaveth a gratefull Nature like a free benefit; he that conferrs it on me, steals me from my self, and in one and the same art, makes me a vassell, and himself my King.

50. A prating Barber coming to

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trim King Archelaus, askt him, Sir, How will you please to have me cut your hair? The King silently answered; Though a man hath no∣thing to do but to hear and answer, yet a limitless tongue is a strange unbitted beast to worry one with.

51. They that speak much, seldom speak well: for they that know how to speak right, know not how to dwell in discourse.

52. He that hath a Wife and Children, hath given Hostages to For∣tune; for they are Impediments to great enterprises.

53. Men in great places are thrice Servants; Servants of the Soveraign or State, Servants of Fame, or Ser∣vants of Businesse: So that they may be truly said, to have no free∣dom neither in their Persons nor in their Actions.

54. Riches may truly be cal'd the baggage of Virtue, for of great Ri∣ches there is no reall use, except it be

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in distribution, therest is but conceited.

55. Kings and Emperours are in a miserable condition, for they have few things to desire, and many things to fear.

56. Plato observed, That all know∣ledge was but remembrance. And So∣lomon saith, That all novelty is but Ob∣livion. There is nothing in this world that may be said to be perma∣nent, but the two great winding∣sheets that bury all things in oblivion, Deluges and Earthquakes.

57. Musick is more for pleasure then profit to man-kind, which caused Diogenes to say to one that brag'd in his skill, That wisdome govern'd Ci∣ties, but with Songs and Musick he could not expect to order a House well.

58. After a long sense of Peace War enters the stage, and indeed it is the worlds Physick, it's both a a Purge and a Blood-letting: Peace, Fullness, Pride, and War, are the

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four fellies that being let into one a∣nother, makes the wheel that the times turn on.

59. One asking Diogenes what was the saddest creature in the world, he answered, An old man in poverty.

60. It argues a base disposition, ei∣ther for favour or frowns, to desert a good cause in evil times.

61. Wouldst thou multiply thy Riches, diminish them wisely, or wouldst thou make thy estate entire, divide it charitably: Seeds that are scattered, encrease, but hoarded up, they perish.

62. No man shall do ill that thinks ere he undertakes what the end will be, not what his passion will have it to be.

63. In an age of plottings (as these are in which we live) the deepest plot is to be saved, and the best poli∣cy is to get assurance of Heaven.

64. Revenge is sweet to mans na∣ture, it may fitly be compared to

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the arrow that flyes in the dark. Cesmus Duke of Florence had a desperate saying against perfidious Friends, (We read that we are comman∣ded to forgive our enemies, but we never read that we are commanded to forgive our Friends.) That man which studies Revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal.

65. He was a wise man, that be∣ing askt what was the best time to marry in, made this answer; For a young man not yet, for an elder man not at all.

66. Charles King of Sweden, a great enemy to the Jesuites, who when he had taken away their Col∣ledges, caused the old Jesuites to be hang'd, and sent the young to the Mines, saying, That since they wrought so hard above ground he would try how they could work under ground.

67. To bestow benefits on the bad, makes them worse, and villi∣fyeth the reward of the virtuous.

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68. This wise saying of of Sir Hen∣ry Wotton, That the itch of Disputa∣tion will at last prove the scab of the Church, will eternize his Name more then all the monuments, that Art can possibly devise.

69. Be not unstable in thy Reso∣lutions, nor various in thy Actions, nor inconstant in thy Affections; so deliberate, that thou maist resolve, so resolve, that thou maist perform: Mutability is the badge of Infirmi∣ty.

70. As the natural body is delight∣ed in change, so also is the politique body greedy of alterations.

71. He said truly, That buying of Church Lands, would be a mouth to eat up the rest of the Purchasers E∣state.

72. There is no trust in the multi∣tude, (as we have lately seen by wo∣full experience,) one day they adore, the next rebell; to day cry Hail, Hail; to morrow Crucify.

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73. There is nothing the nature of man can less brook then Reproach, for there is no man so mean but thinks himself worthy of some regard.

74. Cicero said, That perfect glo∣ry consists in three things; If the mul∣titude lov'd a man, if they will trust him, if they hold him worthy of ad∣miration, praise, and honour.

75. The Stoicks affirm'd, That to live agreeable to nature, was to live virtuously and valiantly.

76. The Lord Burleigh, Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth, was wont to say, That he overcame envy and ill will, more by patience then pertinacy. And Mr. Camden said of him, That he was amongst those few that lived and died with glory.

77. At the Battell of Newport, the Prince of Orange having the Spanish Army before him, and the Sea behind him, spake thus to his Souldiers; If you will live, you must either eat up these Spaniards, or drink up this Sea.

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78. Alexander having a Souldier of his Name under him, that was a coward, bid him either leave off his Name, or cease being a Souldier.

79. A confident woman came cla∣mouring to Gratian the Emperour a∣gainst her Husband, to whom the Em∣perour mildly answered, What is that to me? she presently told him, That he had spoken Treason against him: He again replied, What is that to thee? Which caused the woman to go away ashamed.

80. It was the usual saying of a French Poet, That he was not happy that had the things that he desired, but he which did not desire the things he had not.

81. A Bashaw of Turky, perswading the Emperour not to make war upon the Germanes by reason of their mul∣titudes, who answered; That his fingers would sooner be all of a length, then their Princes be all of one mind.

82. Cato speaking of the authority

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that the Women of Rome had over their Husbands, said, Other men com∣mand their Wives; we command men, and our Wives command us.

83. Do well while thou maist, lest thou do evil when thou wouldst not: He that takes not advantage of a good power, shall lose the benefit of a good will.

84. Mans happinesse rests in the managing of his own time; so that every man may be blest, and rich in perfection, if his own dssiolutenesse and unthriftinesse incurres not the con∣trary.

85. Cato was wont to say, that in all his life time, it repented him of three things: 1. That ever he had told a se∣cret to a woman. 2. That he went by water when he might have gone by Land. 3. That he had been idle a whole day and done nothing.

86. In all Nations two things are Causes of a common prosperity; Good Government, and Good Obedience:

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A good Magistrate over a perverse people, is a sound head on a surfeited body; a good Commonalty and a bad Ruler, is a sound body with a head-ach.

87. The wisdome of Simonides was very commendable, who being askt by Hiero what he thought of God, desired a seven nights space to consi∣der of it; at the seven nights end, he askt a fortnights; at the fortnights end, a moneth; at which Hiero mar∣velling, Simonides answered, That the longer he thought of it, the more difficult he found it.

88. The way whereby Faith qui∣eteth the soul, is by raising it above all discontentments and stormes here be∣low, and pitching it on God.

89. Alexander was not commend∣ed for conquering the world, but for doing it before he was thirty years of age.

90. A full swinge in pleasure, is the way to make men senslesse; a confi∣dent perswasion of unavoidably mise∣ry,

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is a ready path to despair.

91. Three things necessary for a Christian to know; His own misery, Gods love, his own thankfull obedience.

92. It was good counsell the Phi∣losopher gave the young men of A∣thens; That they should often view themselves in a glass; if they were fair and well featur'd, that they should do those things that were beseeming their amiable shape; but if foul and ill-fa∣vour'd, that then they should labour to salve the bodies blemishes by the beauties of a mind accountred with the ornaments of virtue and good literature: All which is fitly applicable to a Christian.

93. It was King James his advise, That we should not be like the Puritan in our Prayers, who speak to God as to there fellows, and sit at Christs Table as with their companions, but to joyn re∣verence with the sweet confidence we have in Gods love.

74. It is better to follow the per∣fections of them whom we love not,

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then in defects, resemble them whom we love.

95. In choosing a friend, besure to avoid two sorts of men: 1. Drunkard: 2. A passionate man. For, the first, he speaks what he knows not, nor af∣ter can he remember what that was he spake; for the other, in his fit he is perfectly mad, and speaks not a word by reason, but by bruitish pas∣sion: for anger is the feaver of the soul.

96. Peace from the mouth of a Ty∣rant is oftner promised then perfor∣med.

97. Love breaks the brain, but ne∣ver bruiseth the brow; it consumeth the heart, but never toucheth the skin, and makes a deep scar be seen, before any wound be felt.

98. Envy never casts her eye low, nor ambition never points but alwaies upward.

99. That man that hath married a virtuous Wife, may truly be said to

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be happy; for being on earth, he hath attain'd Heaven; being in want, hath attain'd wealth; being in wo, hath attain'd comfort.

100. The holiest man in shew, proves commonly the hollowest man in heart.

101. It is better to have an open enemy then a dissembling Friend.

102. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

103. Mistrust no man without cause, neither be thou credulous with∣out proof.

104. Words wittily spoken awake and revive the judgment, but exam∣ples perswade the heart.

105. Wisdom was begot by na∣ture, nourisht by experience, and brought forth by learning.

106. Of all the Treasures in a Common-wealth, the innocent man is most to be esteemed.

107. Happy is that Countrey

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whose Captaines are Gentlemen, and whose Gentlemen are Captaines.

108. Honour is brittle, and Riches are blossoms, which every frost of fortune causeth to wither.

109. He that through custom makes little account of his promise, may swear often, but shall seldom be believed.

110. A man having honour and wanting wisdom, is like a fair tree without fruit.

111. The evenings hope may com∣fort the mornings misery.

112. A poor man being in charity is rich, but a rich man without cha∣rity is poor.

113. Time and Patience teach all men to be content.

114. A foolish man beginneth ma∣ny things, and endeth nothing.

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