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LOue is a rauishing humour.
True, or else so many Virgins would not lose their maiden-heads.
Beauty is a bewitching obiect.
True, or else men would not be so mad vpon it.
All things are common among friends.
Then wiues must be put in as well as wenches.
Nothing is hard to a willing minde.
True, if there be hope in the businesse.
Beware the witch.
True, for she is a deuill incarnate.
Euery man loues himselfe best.
True, or else he lacks vnderstanding.
Too much of any thing is good for nothing.
True, for the quantitie marres the qualitie.
A valiant minde feares no fortune.
True, for he knowes tis but a fiction.
Young wenches make old wrinches.
True, when clasping of the brest breeds the cricke in the backe.
Like will to like.
True, that makes Lads goe to Lasses.
A baudy-house is an earthly hell.
True, for the deuill stands at the doore to bring his Guests into their roome.
No Play is without a foole.
True, nor ••ithout many to looke vpon them.
Quarrelling makes the Surgeons haruest.
True, when out of a little salue he gets a great deale of money.
Physitians are costly visiters.
True, for they seldome come but for their fee.
An Apothecaries shop is ill in a mans belly.
True, for if the stomacke be not kept cleane, it will stinke of the medicines.
A Sexton is a fatall Musitian.
True, for his musicke is a message of death.
When the Cat is away, the Mouse may play.
True, if she come not in the trap.
Contraries can hardly agree together.
True, that makes May and Ianuary so farre asunder.
Sweet meat will haue sowre sauce.
True, or else it would be too lushious.
Trowling eyes make rowling wits.
True, when feminine wags make masculine wan∣tons.
Euery thing hath an end.
True, either whereto, or whereof.
A gay foole is an idle picture.
True, for it is but lost time to looke vpon it.
Airie bodies haue light braines.
Or else mad men would not be so fantasticke.
A scolding woman is a troublesome creature.
True, and especially to her husband.
Many men goe backward thorow the world.
True, or else Rope-makers and Weauers could not get their liuings.
A Iester and a Pandar are cousen varmins in villany.
True, and if both be in one, he will breed Cuckold•• out of crie.
A defeated armie is a lamentable spectacle.
True, when Iewes make hauocke of Christians.
Pouertie breeds peace.
True, for there is nothing to goe to warre withall.
Peace breeds plentie.
True, when labour brings profit.
Plentie breeds pride.
True, when money must purchase honour.
Pride breeds ambition.
True, when Beggars will be Kings.
Ambition breeds warres.
True, when principalitie will no equalitie.
Warre breeds pouertie.
True, where a long siege makes a poore Campe, and a penurious Citie.
Pouertie breeds peace.
True, when the Souldiers must rise for want of pay.
A Pirates life is in two great perils.
True, for if he scape drowning, he is in danger of hanging.
A Tinkers budget is full of necessary tooles.
True, for he can mend a kettle, and picke a locke with them.
A Tailors shreds are worth the cutting.
True, for sometimes they purchase lands.
A widow is dangerous to meet withall.
True, for commonly she is either poore, or proud.
An ill wind that blowes no man good.
True, for it may ease my belly, that offends your nose.
Age and wedlocke tames man and beast.
True, and yet they will to the businesse.
Money and a Mistresse will make a Souldier runne thorow fire.
True, and yet if he be burned, he had better haue missed them both.
Better a little in the morning, than nothing all day after.
True, supposing to be good, or else better spared.
Experience is the Mistresse of fooles.
True, when a Prodigall feeles his penurie.
Art is the Schoole-mistresse of Nature.
True, when Reason guides Iudgement.
Learning is an ornament to Nature.
True, especially where the studie is gracious.
Familiaritie breeds contempt.
True, among fooles and Beggars.
A knaue and a foole neuer take thought.
True, for if the one cannot, the other will not take thought.
Wares commonly are dearest at their first comming.
True, and yet Carriers Titts are hired at a small rate.
A Rogues Wardrobe is a harbour for a Louse.
True, but a Louse dares harbour where a Rogue dares not.
A Flea is a pretty foole, that feeds only on sweet bloud.
True, and commonly makes her diet of the daintiest creatures.
Ingratitude makes a true Machauilian.
True, and such a one as no villaine can match him.
Burnt children dread the fire.
True, and yet old fooles will be raking in the ashes.
Darksome mists are best for Theeues.
True, when the deuill hides the Gallowes while they are plotting for the Rope.
Foolish Punkes liue euer in feare.
True, for the name of a Constable frights them with Bridewell.
An vnlawfull gaines makes an vnquiet conscience.
True, and especially when the cries of the poore are in the eares of the rich.
The falling out of louers may be the renewing of loue.
True, when patience hath ouer-ruled passion.
Sleepe is the pride of ease.
True, for then both bones and senses are at rest.
Well warn'd is halfe arm'd.
True, for lacke of care may be losse of life.
A tall trencher-man had not need be a poore man.
True, lest his belly be too strong for his purse.
Tennis and Tabacco are costly exercises.
True, when sweat and smoake brings many a purse into a consumption.
Fire and water haue no mercy.
True, with mad men and drunkards.
The more the merrier.
True, for he that liues alone is like a dogge in a kennell.
One hand is enough in a purse.
True, and too many if it be of a pick-purse.
To day for thee, to morrow for me.
True, for euery day is not for euery mans humour.
Better a crust than no bread.
True, for if it be hard for the teeth, it will be soft in the pottage.
He runs farre that neuer turnes.
True, for then he will out-run the Constable.
Salt sauours all things.
True, but the better with pepper.
Soft fire makes sweet malt.
True, for a hastie fire may burne downe the furnace.
He that goes softly, goes easily.
True, for else a man would goe faster than a Snaile when he hath the gout in his feet.
He that lookes high, may haue a chip in his eye.
True, if he stand vnder a tree that is lopping.
Two faces vnder a hood.
True, Tis meere hypocrisie.
The foole marres the play.
True, when a bitter iest angers the Audience.
A Cuekold is a horned man.
True, but he hides them like a Snaile.
A Wittoll is a note of a coward.
True, for he is afraid of his wife.
Pride will haue a fall.
True, and though it be from the Gallowes.
Thought is free.
True, till it come to words.
Law is costly.
True, in delayes.
Time is pretious.
True, in his right vse.
Ill weeds grow fast.
True, and therefore need the more weeding.
Pitie spoiles a Citie.
True, if the Magistrates be fooles.
None more blinde than he that will not see.
True, for his will takes away his power.
A Drunkard is worse than a beast.
True, for a beast can stand, and he cannot.
A Lier is worse than a Theefe.
True, for he may steale away his good name.
The neerer the Church, the further from God.
True, when the Alehouse keepes the parish from praier.
Early vp and neere the neere.
True, when will wants wit in the businesse.
Faire words make fooles faine.
True, for wise men know they are but wind.
Had I wist was a foole.
True, for preuention is a proofe of wisdome.
A friend is like a Phoenix.
True, for they are more talked of than knowne.
There are more maids than Mawkin.
True, for else how should Bachelers doe for wiues?
Labour to no purpose is as ill as idlenesse.
True, if a man want his tooles to goe to worke withall.
Necessitie hath no Law.
True, for Forma pauperis troubles the Court.
Idlenesse is the root of Ignorance.
True, and commonly the tree makes the Gallowes.
Time trieth all things.
True, and most of them to be nothing.
The euening proues the day.
True, so doth a mans death his life.
One Tale is good till another be told.
True, for the last commonly puts downe the first.