Soothing of proverbs: with only true forsooth. In two parts. / By B.N. Gent..
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- Soothing of proverbs: with only true forsooth. In two parts. / By B.N. Gent..
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- Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
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The second part.
Prouerbe.
WIshers and woulders are neuer good housholders.
Sooth.
True, for they feed their families with sentences.
P.
The tide tarrieth no man.
S.
True, and therefore it is good to to watch it.
P.
An old babe is no childe.
S.
True, if he be past the dugge.
P.
Error breeds idolatrie.
S.
True, else would not sooles worship babies.
P.
Patience keepes the wits in temper.
S.
True, for impatience maketh men mad.
P.
The Nightingale and the Cuckoe sing both in one moneth.
S.
True, but there is great difference in their notes.
P.
Trauellers tales are hardly beleeued.
S.
True, because they forget themselues in their dis∣courses.
P.
No man is wise at at all times.
S.
True, and he is happy that is wise at any time.
P.
Fooles
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P.
Fooles are fortunate.
S.
True, or else they would not be so rich.
P.
A curst Cow hath short hornes.
S.
True, or else she would goare the Milke-maid.
P.
A kennell is fit for a dogge.
S.
True, and yet fisting Curres lie on faire laps.
P.
Snaphaunces are most fit for Pistols.
S.
True, for if they be too quicke, they may be ill in an house.
P.
He hath need of mutton, that dips his bread in the wooll.
S.
True, for he may hap better be fasting, than take a taste of it.
P.
A maid and a virgin is not all one.
S.
True, the one is a childe, the other a woman.
P.
Euery virgin is a maid.
S.
True, but euery maid is not a virgin.
P.
Honestie is ill for thriuing.
S.
True, only among knaues.
P.
Poetrie is too full of fictions.
S.
True, and therefore the lesse esteemed.
P.
The foole is wise.
S.
True, when he makes fooles of wise men.
P.
Iacke an Apes is no Gentleman.
S.
True, and yet he will haue a gay coat.
P.
Beggery is a wonderfull cunning trade.
S.
True, for it getteth money for words.
P.
Robbery is a very cheape purchase.
S.
True, for it costeth but a peny halter.
P.
Lechers and mad men haue two great kinds of ex∣treme weaknesse.
S.
True, the one in their backs, the other in their brains.
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P.
Fighting is euery way dangerous.
S.
True, either for killing or hanging.
P.
A knaue may be an honest man.
S.
True, if it be but against his will.
P.
Money is a maruellous kinde of metall.
S.
True, for it plaies the deuill in the world.
P.
Hopes are very strong imaginations.
S.
True, but when they hit not, they make weake hearts.
P.
Lies haue strange effects.
S.
True, for they make truth mistrusted.
P.
Tabacco is like wood.
S.
True, for it consumes in smoake.
P.
Wyermen are fishes enemies.
S.
True, for they make hookes for their noses.
P.
Iuglers and lesters are cozen varmins to the knaue.
S.
True, for they commonly come from the queane.
P.
A Piper and Tinker make a bad peece of musickc.
S.
True, for they seldome agree but in drinke.
P.
Two to one is ods.
S.
True, and yet a man and his wife are one.
P.
Cozeners are the worst cousins.
S.
True, for they will deceiue their fathers.
P.
Greatnesse and goodnesse goe not euer together▪
S.
True, for then the deuill would not be so wicked.
P.
Wine and wenches empty mens purses.
S.
True, and fill the body with diseases.
P.
Care is more costly than comfortable.
S.
True, when a man is troubled with a scold.
P.
Friendship is doubtfull in time of distresse.
S.
True, for kindnesse may proue costly.
P.
Thrift is the commendation of wit.
S.
True, for beggerie is a base profession.
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P.
He is wise that can hold his peace.
S.
True, if that he be not tongue-tied.
P.
Wealth is a blessing vnto the wise.
S.
True, if it be not hurtfull to the soule.
P.
Coynesse is a foolish nicenesse.
S.
True, when a wench will say she cannot dance.
P.
He that is rich is wise.
S.
True, if he haue wisdome to gouerne it.
P.
Faire women are delightfull obiects.
S.
True, if they be not proud.
P.
Wantonnesse is the way to wickednesse.
S.
True, when lust goes for loue among the youthfull.
P.
Age claimes the reuerence of time.
S.
True, when a horse-stealer is hanged before a cut∣purse.
P.
Youth is the desperate time of nature.
S.
True, or else there would not be so many swagge∣rers.
P.
Physicke is good for the sicke.
S.
True, for it is a fore-staller of death.
P.
Quacksaluers are ingrossers of diseases.
S.
True, for they will take vpon them all cures.
P.
Great spenders are but bad lenders.
S.
True▪ for they will hardly pay that they owe.
P.
Euill natures are no good companions.
S.
True, for their conditions are infectious.
P.
Water is a cleanly element.
S.
True, till it meet with vncleannesse.
P.
Come sleepe with me, seemes to be a sweet word in a whores mouth.
S.
True, but he that awaketh with the pox, will curs•• her for her kindnesse.
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P.
Bugge-beares fright none but fooles.
S.
True, for wise men know a vizar from a face.
P.
Painters are agents for Idolatrie.
S.
True, when fooles worship Images.
P.
A witch is a fit wife for a Coniurer.
S.
True, and the deuils chapell for their Church.
P.
Three trees are the Hangmans farme.
S.
True, and his haruest is most in lowsie raggs.
P.
An hypocrite is the deuils Chaplaine.
S.
True, for his heart saith seruice in hell.
P.
He that reads that he vnderstandeth not, wrongs his wit with his tongue.
S.
True, that makes so many Latine-asses make their praiers to pictures.
P.
Patience is a plaister for all diseases.
S.
True, but it is often long a healing.
P.
All brazen worke is good but in faces.
S.
True, for it makes them as bold as beggers.
P.
Sinne is the wound of sense.
S.
True, when the soule is troubled with the flesh.
P.
Feare is the fruit of sinne.
S.
True, for it rotteth the soule of the reprobate.
P.
It is neuer long which commeth at last.
S.
True, for if hoped for, it is welcome; if feared, it then commeth too soone.
P.
A Campe is the glory of the warre.
S.
True, but peace maketh a braue Court and a bles∣sed Countrey.
P.
Out of sight out of minde.
S.
True, for a man shal be no sooner dead but forgotten.
P.
Fasting should goe before Feasting.
S.
True, for then one may the better doe it.
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P.
Rest after labour is sweet.
S.
True, for idlenesse vpon idlenesse is easelesse.
P.
Long trauels make weary voyages.
S.
True, when they get little for their labour.
P.
Farre trauellers doe know many things.
S.
True, and many that were better vnknowne.
P.
Good company is a waggon in the way.
S.
True, for its tedious to trauell alone.
P.
A baudy house is an earthly hell.
S.
True, for the house is neuer without a deuill.
P.
An Inne is the hope of guests.
S.
True, for without them the Host may pull downe his signe.
P.
A Tauerne is the bloud-letter of the grape.
S.
True, for he will draw it to the last drop.
P.
Words are but winde.
S.
True, when there is no intent of performance.
P.
An Alehouse is the beggars ruine.
S.
True, for there he spendeth the profit of his profes∣sion.
P.
A Theefe is a resolute Rascall.
S.
True, for he hath set vp his rest to be hangd.
P.
Women are necessary euils.
S.
True, and it is pitty they should be so.
P.
Pen and Inke is wits plough.
S.
True, and yet sometime it vndoeth the Plough∣man.
P.
Words are thoughts actors.
S.
True, yet sometimes they vndoe the players.
P.
Robin Goodfellow was a strange man.
S.
True, among wenches that kept not their houses cleane.
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P.
Will Sommer was a shrewd foole.
S.
True, for he made an Asse of many a faire beast.
P.
Two dayes are most dreadfull to the wicked.
S.
True, the day of death, and the day of doome.
P.
The wicked are for the most part fearfull.
S.
True, for the guilt of conscience frighteth the soule.
P.
Enough is as good as a feast.
S.
True, for what is more than enough is not good.
P.
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
S.
True, when the quantitie spoileth the qualitie.
P.
Where the hedge is low, it is easily trodden downe.
S.
True, when honestie ruleth not the will.
P.
It is easie to finde a stone to throw at a dogge.
S.
True, inferiours are easily wronged.
P.
Sleepe is the pride of ease.
S.
True, and yet too much will spoile the spirit.
P.
Contraries cannot agree.
S.
True, for an ill tongue will kill a quiet heart.
P.
The noblest life is in warres.
S.
True, where valour may shew mercy, and wisdome may gaine honour.
P.
A woman is the weaker vessell.
S.
True, for the weakest goeth to the wall.
P.
Hastie climbers haue oft sudden falls.
S.
True, when they make more haste downe than vp.
P.
Honestie is an excellent and pretious vertue.
S.
True, for what is rare is pretious.
P.
Pride is without profit.
S.
True, for it spends much to gaine scorne.
P.
Money is a great master in a market.
S.
True, for without him there is but cold trading.
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P.
A Cuckoe is a most vnkinde creature.
S.
True, for she kills the Sparrow hatcht her young.
P.
A Pelican is the kindest bird.
S.
True, for she wounds her brest to feed her young.
P.
A young Seruingman an old beggar.
S.
True, when youth forgets that age will come.
P.
Wit and learning are faire vertues.
S.
True, when humilitie is ioyned with vnderstanding
P.
The richest men haue not euer most wit.
S.
True, for wealth is no cause of wit.
P.
Honestie is better than riches.
S.
True, for honestie is honestie still.
P.
It is good to make hay while the Sunne shines.
S.
True for in rainie weather there is more paines, and yet to lesse purpose.
P.
Money is a great comfort.
S.
True, if it be well vsed.
P.
Like will to like.
S.
True, when theeues and whores meet at the gal∣lowes.
P.
Tradesmen liue vpon lacke.
S.
True, for were there no lacke, they could not liue for want of trading.
P.
A Cobler deales with All.
S.
True, for without Aule he is no body.
P.
All is not gold that glisters.
S.
True, nor euery man the same he seemes.
P.
It is hard to make mutton of a Sow.
S.
True, for Art cannot easily change what is inbred by nature.
P.
Tabacco is a great purger.
S.
True, for it purgeth both the head and the purse.
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P.
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
S.
True, for too much money will make a man mad.
P.
All is not got that is put into the purse.
S.
True, when a man sels his friend for a trifle.
P.
Kissing goes by fauour.
S.
True, and that makes desert goe a begging.
P.
A friend in the Court is better than a penny in the purse.
S.
True, but both together is best of all.
P.
The end proueth the act.
S.
True, for many large promises haue small perfor∣mances.
P.
It is good to be merry and wise.
S.
True, for mirth without measure is meere madnesse.
P.
Bought wit is best.
S.
True, for it is best remembred.
P.
Many things are best learned without experience.
S.
True, for you may chance pay more for your schoo∣ling than your learning is worth.
P.
There is a time for all things.
S.
True, for after follie comes repentance.
P.
Many a dogge is hangd for his skinne.
S.
True, and many a man killd for his purse.
P.
Delayed hope is grieuous to the heart.
S.
True, when feare oppresseth the soule.
P.
It is an ill thing that is good for nothing.
S.
True, and yet many such things there be.
P.
That is well spoken that is well taken.
S.
True, for then the hearers are pleased.
P.
The longest day will haue an end.
S.
True, and therefore we must hope and feare.
FINIS.