The second part of Youths behavior, or, Decency in conversation amongst women containing excellent directions for the education of young ladies, gentlewomen and other persons, and rules of advice how at the first to deport themselves and afterwards govern the affairs of a family / by the same hand that translated the last volume of Caussin's Holy court ; whereunto is added a collection of select proverbs and wise sentences out of severall languages usefull in discourse and the government of life, many of them never in print in any language, by the same author ; together with severall letters profitable and delightful according to the nature of the subject.

The Variety of many Choice and Excel∣lent Proverbs, not only English, but of all other Languages, in that Method and Order that hath not heretofore been extant.

A

• A Poet maketh but bad Verses in adversity.
• A Man is not so soon he aled as hurt.
• A Man may cause his own Dog to bite him.
• A piece of a Kid is worth two of a Cat.
• A close Mouth catcheth no Flies.
• A Mouse in time may bite in two a double Cable.
• A good Tale ill told is marred in the telling.
• A Pound of Care will not pay an Ounce of Debt.
• An unbidden Guest knoweth not where to sit.
• A young Man old maketh an old Man young.
• A scabby Horse is good enough for a scabby Squire.
• A Bow long bent waxeth weak.
• A Friend is never known untill the time of need.
• A hard fought Feild where all are killed.
• A Honey Tongue, a Heart of Gall.
• A Hook well lost to get a Salmon.
• A Ma••d that giveth yeeldeth.
• A good Lawyer, but an evil Neighbour.
• A Churle seldome careth for a Gentleman.
• A little thing forborn groweth heavy.
• All things are soon prepared in a well ordered House.
• A dry Cough is the Trumpeter of Death.
• A Maid that laughs is half taken.

• A great Dowry is a Bed full of Brabbles.
• A word to the wise if well observed is of great use.
• A rich Widow, a quiet House.
• A cool Mouth, and warm Feet, live long.
• An early riser hath care of something.
• A hundred Tailors, a hundred Millers, and a hun∣dred Weavers, make three hundred Thieves.
• A good thing is soon snatch'd up.
• A Friend in the way is better than a penny in the Purse.
• A Maid oft seen, A Gown oft worn, are disesteem'd, and held in scorn.
• A thing being once well done, what needs addi∣tion?
• A Man must praise the Sea, and keep himself on Land.
• All Keys hang not on one Girdle.
• At three words he is on the top of the House.
• All her Dishes are chasing Dishes.
• A good Winter bringeth a good Summer.
• A Man may lose his Goods for want of demanding them.
• A fool demandeth much, but he is a greater fool that giveth it.
• Anger dieth quickly with a good Man.
• A good name keeps his own lustre in the dark.
• An ingratefull Man is the worst of Men.
• A fair Woman, and a slash'd Gown, find alwayes some Nail in the way.
• An Egge is better to day than a Pullet to morrow
• A Suit in Law and an Urinall bring a Man t•• the Hospitall.
• A long nos'd Man is seldome a Cuckold.
• A good Sallet is the beginning of an ill Supper.
• An old Mans best praise is his prayer.
• A snarling Cur hath a scurvy Coat.
• A full Purse will make the mouth to speak.
• A good Custome must root out that which an evil hath brought in.

• All is not lost that is in danger.
• All are not thieves that Dogs bark at.
• A Tree is known by the Fruits, and not by the Leaves.
• A Drunkard is not Master either of his Soul or Body.
• As a Man is befriended, so the Law is ended.
• A good Horse draweth his Master and himself on of the Mire.
• A good Forecaster is better than a bad Worker.
• An evil Chance never comes alone.
• An empty Purse filleth the Face full of wrinkles.
• A Man must sell his Ware according to the rates of the Market.
• A knotty piece of Timber must have square Wedges.
• A Man must not make a Wolf a Shepherd.
• A Man never surfets with overmuch Honesty.
• A Wife is a fine thing; it is House-keeping is the Shrew.
• A little Body doth oftentimes harbour a great Heart.
• A Man must not look for a golden life in an iron Age.
• A valiant Man esteemeth every place to be his own Countrey.
• A Man may love his House although he rideth not on the Ridge of it.
• A Man is a Man though he hath but his Hose on his Head.
• An old Cat laps as much Milk as a young.
• As ••••t as a Pudding for a Friers mouth.
• A young Saint may prove an old Devil.
• A Womans counsell is often good.
• A good Heart may do well any where.
• A Scepter is one thing, and a Ladle another.
• A Bean in liberty is better than a Comfit in prison.
• A green wound is soon healed.
• A married Man must turn his Staff into a Stake,

• ... viz. he must keep at home.
• A fool and his money is soon parted.
• A Friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
• A grunting Horse and a groaning Wife never fails their Master.
• A white Wall is a fools Paper.
• A handfull of good life is better than a bushell of learning.
• A good bargain is a pick-Purse.
• A fat House-keeper makes lean Executors.
• A good paymaster starts not at assurances.
• A Woman and a Glass are ever in danger.
• A long tongue is sign of a short hand.
• A rugged Stone grows smooth from hand to hand
• Although the Sun shine, yet leave not your Cloak at home.
• All things have their place, knew we how to place them.
• An evil Workman quarrels with his tools.
• A great Ship doth ask deep waters.
• All Feet tread not in one Shooe.
• A Fool may throw a Stone into a Well, which a hundred wise Men can never pull out.

B

• BEtter the last smile than the first laughter.
• Between promising and performing a Man may marry his Daughter.
• Better be wise than strong.
• Beware of a reconciled Enemy.
• Better half a Loaf than no Bread.
• Bought Wit is best.
• Better late than never.
• Better to have a Child with a snotty Nose, than to have no Nose at all.
• By Wisdome cometh Peace, and by Peace Plenty.
• Battels cost Blows on both sides.
• Beware the Geese when the Fox preacheth.

• Black will take no other Hue.
• By scratching and biting Dogs and Cats come together.
• Better play for nothing than work for nothing.
• Better to have one Eye than to be blind altoge∣ther.
• Better to buy than to borrow.
• Better to bow than break.
• Beggars may sing before a King.
• Better my Hog dirty home than no Hog at all.
• Better sometime a scolding Wife than no Wife at all, for her Children may be quiet.
• Better an Egge to day than a Hen to morrow.
• Better to be still single than ill married.
• Better to go about than to fall in the Ditch.
• Breed up a Crow and she will peck out thy eyes.
• Before thou marry, be sure of a House wherein to tarry.
• Beauty is but a Blossome.
• Beauty is no Inheritance.
• Building and marrying of Children are great Wasters.
• Brabling Dogs never want sore ears.
• Better that the Feet slip than the Tongue.
• Better a bare Foot than no Foot at all.
• Bare-footed Men need not tread on thorns.
• Be the Mastiff gentle, yet bite him not by the lip.
• Buy at a Fair, but sell at home.
• Better to ride on an Ass that carries me, than on an Ass that throws me.
• By Suppers and Surfets more have been killed than Galen ever cured.
• Be not a Baker if your Head be of Butter.
• Being on the Sea sail, being on Land settle.
• Building is a sweet Impoverishing.
• Bear with Evil, and expect Good.
• Bells call others into the Church, but enter not themselves into it.
• Before you make a Friend, eat a Bushell of Salt with him.

• Beauty draws more than Oxen.
• Bold is the Mouse that nestleth in the Cats Ear.
• Be what thou wouldst seem to be.
• By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
• Better it is (especially as the World now goes) to build two Chimneys, than to maintain one.
• Between two Stools we fall to the Ground.
• Bashfullness is an Enemy to Poverty.
• Be not too hasty to out-bid another.
• Beauty and Folly are often match'd together.
• Bashfullness doth moderate Desires.
• Beware what, and to whom you speak.
• Better to be beaten than be in bad Company.
• Breeding, not Birth, makes a Man.
• Better be a Coward, than too desperately to be fool-hardy.
• Better to be unborn, than untaught.
• Bad Cloath it is that will take no Colour.
• Better to see a Clout, than a hole out.
• Beggars would eat Larks, if wishes were Thrushes.
• Better safely to descend, than to ascend too rashly.
• Better to have a defect in one Eye, than not to see at all.
• Better it is to pitty, than tor evenge.
• Bad is the Cause which none dares speak in.
• Better a Louse in the Pot, than no Flesh.
• Bought Wit is best.
• Better to spare at the brim, than at the bottome.
• Better an old Mans Darling, than a young Mans Wonderling.
• Bate me an Ace key Boulton.
• Better die a beggar, than live a beggar. Remember the golden Mean.

C

• CRaft bringeth nothing home.
• Charity and Industry do take all things doubtfull in the best construction.
• Crosses are Ladders that do lead to Heaven.

• Claw a Churl by the Breech, and he will foul your hand.
• Cavils will enter in at any hole, if it find none, it will make one.
• Children are their Parents Riches.
• Children are certain Cares, but uncertain Com∣forts.
• Cloudy Mornings turn to clear Evenings.
• Courting and woeing bring dallying and doing.
• Close is my Shirt, but closer my Skin.
• Cunning is no Burthen.
• Children and Fools cannot lye.
• Change of Women makes lean Knaves.
• Can a Jackanapes be merry when the Clog is at his heel.
• Corn in good years is Hay, in ill years Straw is Corn.
• Credit lost is like a Venice Glass broke.
• Change of Weather is the discourse of Fools.
• Choose Bread with eyes, and Cheese without eyes
• Christmas though long desired passeth away in one day.
• Craft is Bastard Policy.
• Corn is cleansed with Wind, and the Soul with Chastenings.
• Crooked Logs make straight Fires.
• Could all Fools be without Bables, we should want Fuell.
• Chickens are bred up in the Countrey, but the City eats them.
• Correct a Child behind, and not before.
• Call me not an Olive till you see me ripe, and ga∣thered.
• Counsell breaks not the Head.
• Cold Weather and Knaves come out of the North
• Comparisons are odious.
• Courtesie on one side only doth never last long.
• Choose a Horse made, and a Wife to make.
• Courts have no Almanacks.

• Cold, and comfortless.
• Custome is another Nature.
• Cruelty is a Tyrant that is alwayes attended with fear.
• Confession of a Fault makes half amends for it.
• Children are poor Mens Riches.
• Contentment is Treasure enough, nor needs he more who is contented with what he hath.
• Carrion Crows bewail the dead Sheep, and then they eat them.
• Common Beauties find more Lovers than Hus∣bands.
• Cholerick Men never want Woe.
• Constancy hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
• Condemned although every where it be for Falshood, yet Astrology may be true, though the Astrologers can never find it.
• Chiefest of Diseases that raigneth this year is Folly.
• Curst Kine have short Horns.
• Counsels in Wine do seldome prosper.
• Children when they are little make Parents fools, when they are great they make them mad.

D

• DEsires are nourished by Delays.
• Dinners cannot be long where Dainties are but short.
• Dogs that bark at distance, bite not at hand.
• Do what thou oughtest, and come what can.
• Defer nor till to morrow, if it may be done to day.
• Deeds are Fruits, Words are but Leaves.
• Deeds are Male, and Words are but Female.
• Do as the Friar speaks, not as he doth.
• Delays are the death of Suitors.
• Diseases are the Interests of Pleasures.
• Dogs wag their Tails not so much in love to you, as of your Bread.

• Dally not with Money, or with Women.
• Debters are liars.
• Discreet Women have neither eyes, nor ears.
• Disgraces are like Cherries, one draws in another.
• Dry bread at home is better than rost-meat abroad.
• Divine Grace was never slow.
• Death keeps no Kalender.
• Dogs are fine in the Field.
• Deaf Men go away with the injury.
• Desert and Reward do seldome keep company together.
• Beware of Impatience, for fair words do cool more than a Caldron of Water.

E

• Eaten Bread is forgot.
• Ever drunk, ever dry.
• Every Man basteth the fat Hog.
• Evil gotten, evil spent.
• Essex Stiles, Kentish Miles, Norfolk Wiles, many Men beguiles.
• Every Man cannot hit the Nail on the head.
• Every Miller draweth water to his own Mill.
• Every Man is best known to himself.
• Ever spare, and ever bare.
• Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a Man healthfull, wealthy, and wise.
• Every Mans Nose will not make a Shooing-horn.
• Every Man can rule a Shrew but he that hath her.
• Every Man after his Fashion.
• Every Ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the Kings Horses.
• Every thing is good in its season.
• Either live, or die with Honour.
• Envy never enricheth any one.
• Excusing is oftentimes accusing.

• Evil that cometh out of thy mouth, flyeth into thy bosome.
• Every Bird thinks his own Nest is the best.
• Every Path hath a puddle.
• Every thing is of use to a House-keeper.
• Every one stretcheth his Legs according Coverlet.
• Ease and Wine make many a bad Husband.
• Eschew the Pleasure that bites to morrow.
• Expect not fair Weather in Winter on one Nights Ice.
• Every first service the Child doth his Father, is to make him fondly foolish
• Every Bees Honey is sweet.
• Empty Vessels sound most.
• Every one puts his fault on the Times.
• Every one hath a Fool in his Sleeve.

F

• Fall not out with a Friend for a Trifle.
• Forgive any one sooner than thy self.
• Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.
• Fo••ecasting is as good as working.
• Fortune is willing to help those who are willing to help themselves.
• For that which thou canst do thy self, rely not on another.
• Fish are thrown away that are cast into dry Ponds
• Fools tye knots, and wise Men loosen them.
• Feasting is the Physicians Harvest.
• Fortune hateth the slothfull.
• Fly Pleasure, and it will follow thee.
• Faint Heart never won fair Lady.
• Fools lade the Water, and wise Men catch the Fish.
• Forsake not the Market for the Tole.
• Fools set Stools for wise Men to stumble at.
• Frost and Fraud have alwayes foul ends.

• Foul Water will quench Fire, as soon as fair.
• First Deserve, and then Desire.
• Few Words to the wise are sufficient.
• Fair Words hurt not the Mouth.
• Fair Words deceive Fools.
• Fields have Eyes, and Woods have Ears.
• Foxes if sleeping have nothing fall into their Mouthes.
• Foxes when they cannot reach the Grapes, say they are not ripe.
• Fine Dressing is a soul House swept before the Doors.
• Fear keeps the Garden better than the Gardener.
• Fly the Pleasure that bites soon afterwards.
• Far shooting never killed Bird.
• Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
• For want of a Nail the Shoe is lost,
• For want of a Shoe the Horse is lost,
• For want of a Horse the Rider is lost.
• Folly grows without watering.
• Foolish Tongues talk by the dozen.
• February makes a Bridge, and March breaks it.
• Fools bite one another, but wise Men do agree.

G

• GIfts blind the Eyes.
• Gifts enter without knocking.
• Good riding at two Anchors, if one fail the other will hold.
• Great Barkers are no Biters.
• GOD giveth Corn, and the Devil marres the Sack.
• Great Boast, and small Roast.
• GOD comes at last when we think he is furthest off.
• Give a scolding Wife Rope enough.
• Get thy Spindle and Distaff ready, and GOD will send thee Flax.
• Great Cry, and a little Wool, when the Hog was shear'd.

• Good Counsell will do sometimes more than a thousand Men.
• Grace and Goodness maketh a Man.
• Good is good, but Better carrieth it.
• Good to be merry at Meat.
• Good it is to have company in trouble.
• Good Ware maketh a quick Market.
• Good cheap is dear, for it tempteth a Man to buy what he wanteth not.
• Great Men are great Idols.
• Good to prevent an Evil in the beginning.
• Good Manners are durable, but Beauty is perishing
• God cometh with Woollen Feet, but striketh with Iron Hands.
• Great Care is great Merchandizing.
• Good Watch prevents misfortune.
• Good Harvests make men prodigall, bad ones, provident.
• Great Matters are not compassed in a moment.
• Give a Dog rost-Meat, and beat him with the Spit.
• GOD hath often great share in a little House.
• GOD healeth, and the Physician hath the thanks.
• Giving to the poor doth enrich a Mans store.
• Gossips and Frogs they drink and talk.
• Go not for every grief to the Physician, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to the Pint-Pot.
• GOD deprives him of Bread, who likes not of the Drink.
• Gluttony and Tipling kills more than the Sword.
• Great Trees are good for nothing but shade.
• Giving is dead now-adayes, and Restoring is very sick.
• Good and quickly seldome meet.
• Give losers leave to talk.
• GOD provideth for him that trusteth in him.
• Give not S^t Peter so much, as to leave S^t Paul no∣thing.
• GOD keep me from four Houses, an Usurers, a

• Tavern, a Spittle, and a Prison.
• GOD, our Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
• Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
• Green Wood makes a hot fire.
• Good to begin well, better to end well.

H

• HE that goeth softly, goeth safely.
• He that hath but one Eye must take heed how he loseth it.
• He picked this Sallet out of more Gardens than one.
• He liveth long that liveth well.
• He is more bold than wise.
• He hath nothing that is not contented.
• He that chastiseth one, amendeth many.
• He that deceiveth another, is often deceived him∣self.
• He loseth his thanks, that promiseth, and delay∣eth.
• He that converseth not with Men, knoweth no∣thing.
• He covereth me with his Wings, and bites me with his Bill.
• He that is suffered to do more than is fitting, will do more than is lawfull.
• He freely may receive courtesies that knows how to requite them.
• He wrongeth good Men that favoureth bad Men.
• He is not wise who knows not how to be a fool.
• He cryes Wine and sells Vinegar.
• He is as sure as March in Lent.
• He is blind enough who sees not through the holes of a Sieve.
• He who doth a serious business in hast rides post upon an Ass.
• He that speaks me fair, and loves me not, I will

• speak him fair, and trust him not.
• He that liveth in hope, danceth without a Min∣strell.
• He that runs in the night, stumbleth.
• Hastily come, hastily go.
• He harpeth on that String, which will make no good musick.
• He that hath a good Neighbour, hath a good Morrow.
• He that fills his brain with Wine, can put nothing else in it.
• He spares no words who brings good news.
• He is an ill Husband that is not missed.
• He keeps a stir, but is no Constable.
• He hath lest his Purse in his other Hose.
• He is a bad Musician can sing but one Song.
• He who sheweth his Purse, longs to be rid of it.
• He promiseth like a Merchant, but payeth like a Man of Warre.
• He will not make Fish of one, and Flesh of another.
• He is better with a Rake, than with a Fork.
• He who hath a good Harvest, may be content to have some Thistles.
• He that makes himself a Sheep, the Wolf will eat him.
• Happy Man be his Dole.
• He that will live in peace, and rest, must hear, and see, and say the best.
• He can pipe but ill who wants an upper Lip.
• He that will have a Hare to breakfast, must hunt over-night.
• He that lyes with his Wife in the Market-place, shall have many teachers.
• He needs must swim that is held up by the Chin.
• He loveth Mutton well, that soketh his bread in the Wool.
• He spent Michaelmas Rent in Midsummer Moon.
• He that is afraid of every Grass, must not piss in a fair Meadow.

• He that goes to sleep with Dogs, shall rise with Fleas.
• He is noble who hath noble conditions.
• Have a care to gain, for there will come a time to spend.
• He that falleth, and amendeth, recommendeth himself to GOD.
• He sleeps our his Eyes, and Profit.
• Honour and Ease are seldome bedfellows.
• He is liveless that is faultless.
• Husbands are in Heaven whose Wives chide not.
• He outshot him in his own Bow.
• Harm watch, harm catch.
• He is wise that is honest.
• His Belly is too strong for his Purse.
• His Will is the cause of his own Woe.
• Heresie and Frenzy go together.
• He that licks Honey from Thorns, pays too dear for it.
• He that is not circumspect wanteth no trouble.
• He that overmuch studieth his own contentment, ever wanteth it.
• He that is angry is seldome at ease.
• Hunger breaks through stone Walls.
• He doth an excellent dayes work, who ridds himself of a Fool.
• Handsome Apparrell makes Fools pass for wise Men.
• He that will not be saved needs no Preaching.
• He loseth nothing that keepeth GOD for his friend.
• He that gives discreetly, gaineth directly.
• He that gives quickly, giveth twice.
• He hath not lost all who hath one throw to cast.
• He that cannot pay, let him pray.
• He that hath a fellow-ruler, hath an over-ruler.
• He that waiteth on anothers Mans Trencher, maketh many a late Dinner.
• He that fights with silver Arms, is sure to over∣come.

• He laughs ill that laughs himself to death.
• He may bear all his Friends on his back.
• He is wise that can keep himself warm.
• He is a Cipher amongst Numbers.
• He putteth his hand betwixt two Grindstones.
• He that doth well wearieth not himself.
• He that goeth not in company knoweth nothing.
• He who liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly.
• He sheweth all his Wit at once.
• He may change his hair but not his hearr.
• He that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
• Half a Loaf is better than no bread at all.
• He that hath Time, and looks for Time, loseth Time.
• He that is man'd with Boyes, and hors'd with Colts, will have his Meat eaten, and his Work undone.
• He may ill run that cannot go.
• He runneth far that never returns again.
• He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
• How can the Foal amble, when the Horse and Mare trot.
• He hath sneezed thrice, turn him out of the Ho∣spitall.
• He may mend but not grow worse.
• He playeth best who winneth.
• He shall never buy what is good, who is afraid to ask the price.
• Honours change Manners.
• Half an Acre is good Land.
• Honest Men marry soon, wise Men not at all.
• He that will take the Bird must not skare it away.
• He that will learn to pray heartily, let him go to Sea.
• He that gives thee a Capon, give him the Leg, and the Wing.
• Happy is he who doth chasten himself.
• Hell is full of good meanings, and wishings.
• He who lyes long a bed his State feels it.

• He who looks not before finds himself behind.
• He that burns his House, doth warm himself for once.
• He wrongs not an old Man who steals his Supper from him.
• He that strikes with his Tongue, must ward with his Head.
• He that makes his Bed ill, lyes there.
• He that labours, and thrives, spins Gold.
• He that takes not up a Pin slights his Wife.
• He that hath lost his credit is dead to the World
• He that will deceive the Fox must rise betimes.
• He that falls into the Dirt, the longer he stayeth there, the fouler he is.
• He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will ne∣ver be handsome, strong, rich, nor wise.
• He that doth what he will, doth not what he ought.
• He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday.
• He that seeketh trouble never misseth it.
• He who hath a Head of Wax must not walk in the Sun.
• He that makes a good Warre, makes a good Peace.
• He that hath one Hog makes him fat, and he who hath but one Son makes him a fool.
• He that hath love in his brest hath spurs in his side.
• Health and Money go far.
• He that hath little is the less dirty.
• He that lets his Wife go to every Feast, and his Horse drink at every Water, shall neither have good Wife, nor good Horse.
• He that makes a thing too fine, doth break it.
• Health without Money is half an Ague.
• Help thy self, and GOD will help thee.
• He commands enough that obeyeth a wise Man.
• He that hopeth not for good, feareth not evil.
• He that bloweth in the dust, fills his eyes with it.

• He that liveth not well one year, sorroweth for it seven years after.
• He that hath a Wife and Children, wanteth not business.
• He that pittyeth another, remembreth himself.
• He that marryeth for Wealth doth sell his liberty.
• He that is thrown would ever wrastle.
• He that serves well needs not fear to ask his wa∣ges.
• He goes not out of his way that goes to a good Inne.
• He looks not well to himself that looks not ever to himself.
• He that endureth is not overcome.
• He that gives away all from himself before he dies, provides to suffer.
• He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good Key.
• He quitteth his place well that leaveth his friend there.
• Half the World knows not how the other half lyes.
• He that contemplates hath a day without night.
• He is not a Merchant bare, that hath Money, worth, or Ware.

I

• IDleness turneth the edge of Wit.
• Justice is the best Keeper of Kings.
• If thou hast not a Capon feed on an Onion.
• In vain he craves advice that will not follow it.
• In a hundred pound of Law, there is not a half penny weight of Love.
• It is the part of a fool to say, I had not thought on it.
• It is no medling with ones betters.
• Ill Will never speaks well.
• Ill Company brings many a Man to the Gallows.
• It is not how long we live, but how well we live.

• It is a bad Cause that none dares speak in.
• It is a sore fought Field where none escape unkil'd.
• It is better never to begin than never to make an end.
• In the deepest Water is the best Fishing.
• In fullness is forgetfulness.
• Idleness the Mother of all Evil.
• It is never a bad Day that hath a good Night.
• If a Man will have his business well done, he must do it himself.
• It is good to keep a Hatch before the Door.
• It is a hard Winter when one Wolf eateth another.
• Intemperance is a Cur-throat.
• It is a Vertue to abstain from Pleasures.
• It is too late to spare when the bottome is bare.
• In a calm Sea every Man may be a Pilot.
• Innocency bringeth a defence with it.
• It is good striving to be best.
• I will not take from my lest side to give to my right.
• It is easie to bowl down the Hill.
• It is a Vertue to hate Vice.
• It is easie to rob an Orchard when none keep it.
• It is better to kiss a Knave than to be troubled with him.
• It is better to be a Shrew than a Sheep.
• It is ill setting Spurs to a flying Horse.
• It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year,
• If thy Friend deceive thee, be no Enemy, but cease to be a Friend.
• Industry is Fortunes right hand, and Frugality her left.
• It is possible for a Ram to kill a Butcher.
• Ignorant Modesty is better than a learned Curio∣sity.
• It is not the Cats fault if the Mistress of the house be a fool.
• Idleness is the Key of Beggary.
• In the labourers house Hunger looks in, but dares not enter.

• If thou wilt know the value of an Angel, go and borrow one.
• It is not the gay Coat that makes the Gentleman.
• It is not good waking of Care when it is asleep.
• If fools went not to the Market, bad Ware would never be sold.
• It is a strange Beast without Head, or Tayl.
• I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.
• Jest not with the Eye, or with Religion.
• If the old Dog barks, he gives counsell.
• Into a Mouth shut Flyes do never fly.
• If you would know secrets, look them in grief, or pleasure.
• If Folly were grief every house would weep.
• If you could run as you drink, you might catch a Hare.
• In time comes he whom GOD doth send.
• In choosing a Wife, and buying a Sword, we ought not to trust another.
• If all fools did wear white Caps, the whole World would seem a flock of Geese.
• It is a poor Stake that cannot stand one year in the ground.
• In every Art it is good to have a Master.
• If the Mother had not been in the Oven, she had never sought the Daughter there.
• If things were to be done twice, all would be wise
• It is a poor Sport that is not worth a Candle.
• If thou thy self canst do it, attend no others helping hand.
• In a Retreat the lame are foremost.
• It is a wicked thing to make a dearth ones Garner.
• It is taken for a disgrace to call the ordinary Ci∣tizens now adayes Goodman or Goodwife, but if they had any cause for it, they need not so to be offended at it.
• In our Childhood we were Fools, in our Man∣hood we are Servants to Care, and in our old

• Age we are but Porters to Diseases.
• It is a rank courtesie when a Man is forced to give thanks for his own again.
• It is a running plague to a Horse when a hasty Ass rides him.
• If every one would mend but one, we should have the Golden Age again.

K

• Know when to spend and when to spare is great wisdome.
• Keep thy Feet dry, thy Mouth moist.
• Kindness will creep where it cannot go.
• Keep counsell first thy self.
• Keep the Wolf from the door.
• Kindle not a fire that cannot be extinguished.
• King Harry lov'd a Man.
• Kill a Man with a Cushion.
• Keep good Men company and you shall be of the number.
• Knowledge is folly except grace guide it.
• Knotty pieces of Timber must have sharp Wedges.

L

• Lightly got, and quickly spent.
• Leave is light.
• Like the Flounder out of the frying Pan into the fire.
• Long absent, and soon forgotten.
• Let Charity measure all your actions.
• Let the Letter stay for the Post, not the Post for the Letter.
• Like to like, and Nan for Nicholas.
• Let us be merry, the Devil is dead, I, but his Son is still living.
• Little Pitchers have great ears.
• Lack is an hell.

• Learning is the Eye of the Mind.
• Let Patience grow in your Garden.
• Lessen Charge, and save Cost.
• Like Question, like Answer.
• Let not thy hand write, nor thy tongue speak, what thy head shall smart for.
• Liberty hatcheth all Vice.
• Like ill Weather, Sorrow comes unsent for.
• London-Bridge was made for wise Men to go over, and for fools to go under.
• Lick Honey with your little Finger.
• Let him that is cold blow the Fire.
• Like Author, like Book.
• Love and Knowledge live not alwayes together.
• Let no Womans painting breed thy Stomacks fainting.
• Love doth much, but Money doth more.
• Love cometh in at the Window, but goeth out at the Door.
• Love me little, and love me long.
• Like Carpenter, like Chips.
• Look not too high lest a Chip fall in thy Eye.
• Learned Men carry their best treasures about them.
• Love lives in Cottages as well as in Courts.
• Love is potent, but Money is omnipotent.
• Let him speak fairly that cannot spend freely.
• Let not him that fears Feathers come amongst wild Fowl.
• Love and a Cough cannot be hid.
• Love your Neighbour, but pull not down your Hedge.
• Live so well that you may not be ashamed to die.
• Little sticks kindle the Fire, but great ones put it out.
• Life without a Friend, is Death with a witness.
• Little Wealth, little Care.
• Love rules his Kingdome without a Sword.
• Love being jealous makes a good Eye look asquint.

• Love asks Faith, and Faith asks Firmness.
• Little Dogs start the Hare, but the great ones catch it.
• Life is half spent before we know what it is.

M

• Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow.
• Married Men need not many Eyes.
• Many Kinsfolk, few Friends.
• Many things grow in the Garden which were never sowed.
• Many do kiss Hands which they would wish to see cut off.
• Measure thrice what thou buyest, and cut it but once.
• Mettall is dangerous in a blind Horse.
• My Son put Money in thy Purse, and then keep it.
• Mercy is a Salve for every Sore.
• Memory, Judgement, and Action, work great things.
• Misery must be the Mother when one Beggar be∣gets another.
• Much would still have more.
• Mind that which you must live by.
• Many a good Cow hath an ill Calf.
• Men will strain hard for profit.
• Malice hurts it self most of all.
• Meer Affection is blind Reason.
• Many Ventures make a full Fraught.
• Many without punishment, but none without fault.
• Money is often lost for want of Money.
• My old Mare should have a new Crupper.
• Men know where they were born, but not where they shall die.
• Marriage and want of Sleep tame both Man, and Beast.

• Many speak much that cannot speak well.
• Much Meat, much Malady.
• Many strokes fell down an Oak.
• Money doth either serve as a Slave, or command as a Master.
• Miseries come by Pounds, but go away by Ounces.
• Men who are weak in Body had need be witty.
• Manners make often Fortunes.
• Marry your Son when you will, but your Daugh∣ter when you can.
• Mills and Wives are ever wanting.
• Musick helps not the Tooth-ach.
• More have repented of Speech than Silence.
• Mend your Cloathes, and you may hold out this Year.

N

• Neither be daunted with poverty, nor lifted up with riches.
• No Penny, no Pater noster.
• No Man loves his Fetters though made of Gold.
• No Butter will stick on his Bread.
• Need hath no Law.
• No Dearth but what is bred in the Horses Man∣ger.
• Nothing is unpossible to a willing mind.
• None know so well where the Shooe wringeth, but he that weareth it.
• No Men know better what is good, but they who have endured evil.
• No Silver, no Servant.
• No Day passeth without some grief.
• No altogether Jack out of doors, although no Gentleman.
• No Man can be learned without Industry.
• No Man ever lost his Credit but he that had it not.
• Need maketh the old Wife trot.
• No Man can follow a Business so well as he to

• whom it doth belong.
• New Meat begetteth a new Appetite.
• New Kings, new Laws.
• Never too late to be good.
• Never had an ill Workman good Tools.
• Noble Housekeepers need no Doors.
• None is a fool alwayes, every one sometimes.
• No Lock will hold against the power of Gold.
• Noble Plants suit not with a stubborn Soyl.
• Nothing drieth sooner than a Tear.
• None is born a Master.
• No sooner is a Temple built to God, but the De∣vil builds a Chappell hard by.
• None is so wise but the fool overtakes him.
• No Profit to Honour, no Honour to Religion.
• No Man can flea a Stone.
• Neither praise, nor dispraise thy self, thy Actions serve the turn.
• Nature draws more than ten Teems.
• None know the weight of anothers burthen.
• No Alchimy to saving.

O.

• Old sinnes breed new shame.
• Of honey and gall in Love there is store.
• Opportunity makes a Thief.
• Old friends, and old wine are best.
• One hand washeth another, and both wash the face.
• One good forewit is worth two afterwits.
• One may sooner fall than rise.
• One never loseth by doing good turns.
• One poor Ass cannot carry two burdens.
• One eye of the Masters seeth more than ten of the servants.
• Old Age attended with Virtue is a Crown of Glory.
• Once a use, and ever a custome.

• Of a good beginning comes a good ending.
• Of evil grain, no good seed can come.
• One, and none, is all one.
• One shrewd turn followeth another.
• One can never make a strait Arrow of a Sows tayl.
• Of a Mole-hill he maketh a Mountain.
• Old men and Travailers may lye by authority.
• Old sinnes, new repentance.
• Out of debt, and our of danger.
• One pair of heels is worth two pair of hands.
• One of the four and twenty parts of a Knave, is to stay long in an arrant.
• One evil weed marreth a whole pot of pottage.
• Old fish, and young flesh.
• One Swallow makes no summer.
• One beats the bush, and another catcheth the Bird.
• One sound blow will serve to undoe us all.
• One stroake fells not an Oake.
• Our own actions are our best security, not other mens judgement.
• On painting and fighting look aloof.
• One Flower makes no Garland.
• One Enemy is too much.
• One Fool makes a hundred.
• One slumber invites another.
• On a good bargain think twice.
• Of fair things the Moneth of May is fair.
• Old men when they scorn young make much of death.
• One Barber shaveth not so close but another finds work.
• One Father is more than one hundred School-masters.

P.

• Patience is a remedy for every grief.
• Paper and Ink cost money.
• Pain is forgotten when gain followeth.

• Penny wise, and Pound foolish.
• Proffered service stinketh.
• Prove thy Friend before thou needest him.
• Praise a fair Day at night.
• Pride will catch a fall.
• Pride goeth before and shame followeth after.
• Peevish pitty spoils a City.
• Prayer and Provinder never hinder a journey.
• Plain dealing is a Jewel
• Policy with her long nails hath almost scratcht out the eyes of Religion.
• Poverty parteth good fellowship.
• Proud is the Horse that will not carry his own provinder.
• Pleasure the rarer used the more commendable.
• Painfullness is something eased by hoping for rest.
• Patience in poverty is all a poor mans remedy.
• Patience by force, is a medicine for a mad Dogge.
• Plain dealing is more praised than practised.
• Providence is better than rent.
• Pull down your hat on the winds side.
• Prettiness dies quickly.
• Poverty is the mother of health.
• Pardon all but thy self.
• Poverty is no sin.
• Promising is the Eve of giving.
• Patch and long slit, build and soon flit.
• Poverty causeth base things.
• Put God before thee, and thou needest not care who cometh behind thee.

Q

• Quietness is a great treasure.
• Quench not the Spirit.
• Quit all to follow truth.

R

• Reason cannot shew it self more reasonable, than

• to leave reasoning in things above Reason.
• Religion, Reputation, and the Eye, are three things that ought not to be touched.
• Reckon right and February hath one and thirty dayes.
• Re••ove an old Tree, and it will wither to death.
• Running Water is better than standing.
• Raw Veal, and Chickin, make fat Churchyards.
• Repentance costeth dear.
• Repentance is the Laundress of the Conscience.
• Riches encrease by Discretion.
• Revenge is womanish.

S

• Sammon and Sermon have their season in Lent.
• Severity in a good Man is justice.
• Shew me thy Wife, and I will tell thee what a Husband ••hou art.
• Sometimes severity is better than gentleness.
• Sound love and true is never forgotten.
• Some may better steal a Horse, than another look over the hedge.
• Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
• Slander leaves a score behind it.
• Silence doth seldome harm.
• Six feet of earth make all Men equall.
• Subtilty is better than force.
• Some amiss is well enough.
• Small rain layeth great winds.
• Stretch your arms no further than your sleeve will reach.
• Safe conquest without bloudshed is the greatest.
• So we get the chink, we will bear with the stink.
• Some thinking to redeem their shame, redouble it.
• Save a thief from the gallows, and he will cut thy throat.
• Such a one hath a good wit, if a wise man had the keeping of it.

• Soft and fair goes far.
• Sift him grain by grain, and you will find him chaff.
• Shamefull craving must have shamefull denying.
• Saying and doing are two things.
• Seldome comes a better.
• Seldome seen, and soon forgotten.
• Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided.
• Sope is lost on the head of an Ass.
• Shame take him that shame thinketh.
• Spare to speak, and spare to speed.
• Speak fair, and think what you will.
• Such a welcome, such a farewell.
• Self do, self have.
• Souldiers in Peace are like Chimneys in Summer.
• She that is fair hath half her portion.
• Soon enough is well enough.
• Sloth turneth the edg of the wit.
• Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
• Say no ill of the Year till it be past.
• Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last night.
• Sit in your place, and none can make you rise.
• Step after step, the Ladder is ascended.
• Shew me a Lyar, and I will shew thee a Thief.
• Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet rob the Altar.
• Sweet discourse makes short dayes and nights.
• Service is no inheritance.
• Ships fear fire more than water.
• Silks and Sattins put out the fire in the Chimney.
• Scratching and eating wants but a beginning.

T.

• Take time while time serveth.
• Take heed of Enemies reconcil'd, and of Meat twice boyl'd.
• Take heed you find not that you do not seek.
• Threatned folks live long.

• There is no woe to want.
• The Groat is ill saved that shames the Master.
• The Wife and the Sword may be shewed, but not lent.
• The foremost Dog catcheth the Hare.
• The King of Good-fellows is appointed for the Queen of Beggars.
• The sluggard is cloathed in raggs.
• The low stake standeth the longest.
• The highest Rocks are most apt to be checked by thunder.
• The Keyes do not all hang at one mans girdle.
• They must hunger in Frost that will not labour in Heat.
• The more thy years, the nearer thy grave.
• There is falshood in fellowship.
• Three may keep counsaile if two be away.
• Three to one may put a Straw in a mans ar— or backside; or do any base thing to him.
• Time lost cannot be recovered.
• Truth shames the Devil.
• 'Tis better to sit still than rise to fall.
• The Postern door makes thief and whore.
• Two, and One, and By and By, is an Hour and a Half.
• Two false Knaves need no Broker.
• Two Hands in a Dish, but one in a Purse.
• The Horse next the Mill carryeth all the Grist.
• The Counsaile which thou wouldest have another to keep, first keep it thy self.
• 'Tis ill healing an old sore.
• Thy Cap hath more ease than thy Head.
• That which will be a sharp Thorn, pricketh be∣times.
• They agree like Bells, they want nothing but hanging up.
• To lose a Goose, and get a Feather.
• The fairer the Hostess, the fouler the reckoning.
• The envious Man shall never want woe.

• The Hare runneth well, but the Dog that catcheth her better.
• There is no weather ill, when the wind is still.
• The Man hath no more, than he hath need of.
• There is no Man but needs his Neighbour at one time, or other.
• To moderate the Appetite is a vertue, to let it loose is a vice.
• The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor.
• To promise, and give nothing, is to comfort a fool.
• That which cannot be cured, must with patience be endured.
• The Bee often spoils her own Honey.
• There are many witty Men, yet their brain can∣not fill their belly.
• The worst Feaver is that of the Tongue.
• The Chamber of sickness is the Chappell of devo∣tion.
• The sweetest Wine maketh the sowerest Vinegar.
• True pitty is tryed in time of misery.
• The Speech is the picture of the Mind.
• Time cureth every Disease.
• Trade is the mother of Money.
• Think not better of thy self, than the whole Pa∣rish besides.
• The Sheep without the Shepherd is in danger of the Wolf.
• They win by wearing out their enemies.
• The Law must rule us, not we the Law.
• To live sparingly bringeth a Man to be rich.
• The workmanship is better than the stuff.
• To kill a Man with a Cushion.
• Things hardly attained are long retained.
• To every Bird his own nest is best.
• The Nightingale and the Cuckow sing both in a Moneth.
• The high way is never about.
• Though he is bitten, he is not eaten.

• The worst part is within.
• The day discovers what harm the night hath done.
• Time is Tom tell troth.
• Truth finds foes where it maketh none.
• To deceive the deceiver is no deceit.
• The best Ground is the dirtiest.
• The Lion is not so furious as he is painted.
• The Gull is alwayes seen against a tempest.
• The hoarse Crow croaketh before rain.
• The evil that cometh out of thy bowels falleth in∣to thy bosome.
• Take time while time serveth.
• The sins of offenders are the strength of tyrants.
• Think of ease, but work on.
• 'Tis more painfull to do nothing, than something.
• The Tongue breaketh bone, though it self hath none.
• The greatest Clarks are not the wisest Men.
• 'Tis better to be spoken of ill by one before all, than by all before one.
• The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
• Truth and Oyl are ever above.
• The absent Party is ever faulty.
• Thou art wise enough if thou canst keep thee warm.
• The shooe will hold with the soal.
• The envious Man for the most part drinketh his own poyson.
• To leap over the hedge before you come at the stile.
• Too much breaks the bag.
• There is not so great a floud, but there is as low an ebb.
• That which doth blossome in the Spring, will bring fruit in the Autumn.
• The beggar will sing before a thief.
• The taste of the Kitchin is better than the smell of it.

• The evening red, and morning grey, is the sign of a fair day.
• The young Cock crows as he hears the old.
• The Ape so long clippeth her young, till at the last she killeth them.
• Tell me with whom thou goest, and I will tell thee what thou dost.
• The confession of a fault is half amends.
• There is no curing a grief concealed.
• There is no Lock but a golden Key will open it.
• The light is naught for sore eyes.
• To him that hath lost his taste, sweet is sower.
• The blind Mans Wife needs no pain••ing.
• The cunning Wife makes her Husband her Apron
• The Cross is the ladder of Heaven.
• Two hungry meals make the third a glutton.
• The Dog hath barked at me, but not bit me.
• The best Horse needs breathing.
• The aptest youth needs teaching.
• The good will is all.
• That which is evil is soon learned.
• The way to Heaven is not spread with rushes, but set with thorns.
• The smoak of a Mans own house is better than the fire of anothers.
• There is a great deal saved, where little is to be sp••nt.
• The Merchant that loseth, cannot laugh.
• The ill impression either by nature, or by cu∣stome, is seldome worn out.
• The greatest burdens are not the gainfullest.
• The hungry belly wanteth ears.
• The hungry poor Man is half a Beads-man.
• The last Suitor wins the Maid.
• They love too much that die for love.
• Though he be little, he can tipple.
• To no purpose he undertakes a business, that knows not the substance of it.
• The truest jests sound worth in guilty ears.

• The Cat is hungry when a Crust contents her.
• The liquorish Cat hath many a rap.
• Two Dogs never agree about one bone.
• The slothfull Knave will thrive no where.
• The shadow of an advised Grandsire, is better than the sword of an adventurous fool.
• The first blow doth not fell the tree.
• That which is easily done, is soon believed.
• Too much scratching pains, too much talking plagues.
• The Feet, and Head kept warm, no matter for the rest.
• The Devil is not alwayes at ones door.
• That mourning is well bestowed which helps the mourner.
• The stillest waters, and humours, are alwayes the worst.
• The tide will fetch away what the ebb brings.
• To him who is hungry any bread is pleasant.
• The abundance of money ruines youth.
• The skillfullest wanting money is but scorned.
• The Ass that brayeth most, eateth least.
• The rusty sword, and the empty purse, do plead performance of Covenants.
• The Foxes tail will serve to piece out the Lions skin.
• The Ape sometimes makes use of the Cats foot, to get the Chestnut out of the fire.
• There belong more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
• The Pot that goes often to the Well comes broken home at last.
• That penny is well spent which saves a groat.
• The Priest forgets that ever he was Clark.
• There is craft in dawbing.
• 'Tis hard to make a silk purse of a Sows ear.
• They had need of a blessing that kneel to a Thistle
• The words that be fair hurt not the mouth.
• Tme lost can never be recovered.

• 'Tis good striving to be best.
• 'Tis better never to begin, than never to make an end.
• The more noble, the more humble.
• They pull with long ropes, who wait for the deaths of others.
• The Wolf knows what the ill Beast thinks.
• They who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
• The gentle Hawk half mans her self.
• The greatest stroak makes not the sweetest mu∣sick.
• The Lions skin is never cheap.
• The foot on the Cradle, and the hand on the Di∣staff, is the sign of a good Housewife.
• The full belly never fights, nor flyes well.
• To a gratefull Man give money when he asketh.
• Though the Mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip.
• Though a lye be well drest, 'tis easily overcome.
• Though old, and wise, yet still advise.
• The wrongs of a Husband, or Master, are not re∣proached.
• The best remedy against an ill Man, is much ground betwixt both.
• The Mill cannot g••ind with the water that is past
• To woe is a pleasure in a young Man, a fault in an old Man.
• To buy dear is not bounty.
• The Smith and his penny both are black.
• They that know one another, salute afar off.
• The danger past, and God forgotten.
• The miserable Man makes a penny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing six pence.
• The Honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
• The ill that comes out of our mouth, falls into our bosome.
• The hearts Letter is read in the eyes.
• The naughty Child is better sick than well.
• The thorn comes forth with his point forwards.

• They steal the Hog, and give away the feet ••or alms.
• The fault of the Horse is put on the ••addle.
• The Corn in winter hides it self in snow, as an old Man in furrs.
• The Body is but the socket ef the Soul.
• The Jews spend at Easter, the Moors at Marriages, and the Christians in suits of Law.
• The wise hand doth not all the foolish mouth speaketh.
• The more that Women look in their glasses, the less they look to their Houses.
• The worst of Law is that o••e Suit breeds twenty.
• The worst People have most Laws.
• The evil wound is cured but not the evil Name.
• There are more men threatned, than struck.
• The hard gives no mo••e than he that hath no∣thing.
• The Beast that goes alwayes never wants blows.
• The Fox knows much, but he that catcheth him knows more.
• The••e is more talk than trouble.
• The Fool asks much, but he is more fool that graunts it.
• There would be no Great Ones if there were no Little Ones.
• There were no ill language if it were not ill taken.
• The groundsell speakes not, save what it heard of the hinges
• The best Mirrour is an old Friend.
• That is not good Language which all understand not.
• The Child sayes nothing but what it heard by the fire.
• The Tongue talks at the Heads Cost.
• Though you rise never so early, the Sun will rise at his own time, and not till then.
• The Nurses tongue is priviledged to talk.

• The fault is as great as he that is faulty.
• The mornings Sun never lasts a day.
• To a crazy Ship all winds are contrary.
• The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another.
• Thou hast Death in thy House, and bewaylest thou anothers?
• The comforters head never aketh.
• This World is nothing, except it tend to another.
• The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
• The way to make a Woman-fool, is to commend her beauty.
• The Dog that licketh ashes, trust him not with meal.
• The charges of building, and making of Gardens are unknown.
• Trust not one nights Ice.
• To gain teacheth how to spend.
• The Dog gnaws the bone, because he cannot swallow it.
• The greatest step is that out of doors.
• The first degree of folly is to think ones self wise, the second to profess it, the third to despise counsell.
• The first service a Child doth his Father, is to make him foolish
• The resolved mind hath no cares.
• Talking pays no tole.
• The Masters eye fattens his Horse, and his foot the Ground.
• The Gown is hers that wears it, and the World his who enjoys it.
• The Presbiters Wife had rather see her Husband in his Shirt, than in his Surplice.
• Things well sitted, continue long.
• The good Mother sayes not, will you? but gives.
• The lame goes as far as the staggerer.
• That little which is good, fills the trencher.

• To a good spender, God is the treasurer.
• There are many wayes to Fame.
• There is no companion like the penny.
• The offender never pardons.
• The blind eat many a Fly.
• The tooth-ach is more ease, than to deal with ill people.
• Thursday come, and the Week's gone.
• There is great force hidden under a sweet com∣mand.
• The Cat sees not the Mouse alwayes.
• The slothfull is the companion of the Counters.
• The command of custome is great.
• The fat Man knoweth not what the lean think∣eth.
• The Fish follow the bait.
• The March Sun causeth dust, and the wind blows it about.
• Time is the rider that breaks youth.
• The sight of a Man hath the force of a Lion.
• The table robs more than the thief.
• The thought hath good legs, and the Quill a good tongue.
• The Ballance distinguisheth not betwixt gold and lead.
• True praise takes root, and spreads.
• To be beloved is above all bargains,
• The evening praiseth the day, and the morning the frost.
• The perswasion of the Fortunate swayes the doubtfull.
• To deceive ones self is very easie.
• To make all firm, let God be thy beginning and thy ending.
• Talk much, and erre much, saith the Spaniard.
• That which will not be spun, let it not come be∣tween the spindle and the distaff.
• There is no great banquet but some fare ill.
• Talk not of a halter in the house of him that was hanged.

• The escaped Mouse ever feels the taste of the baite.
• Though shooing-horns be out of date, yet horns be as plentifull as ever.
• Though you see a Churchman live an evil life, yet continue in the Church still.
• That which two will, takes effect.
• Three women make a market.
• To him that will wayes are not wanting.
• To day above ground, to morrow under.
• The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.
• They complain wrongfully on the Sea, who twice suffer shipwrack.
• The first dish pleaseth all.
• To a Child all weather is cold.
• The Friar preached against stealing, and had a Goose in his sleeve.
• That's the best Gown that goes up and down the house.
• The best smell is Bread, the best savour Salt, the best Love that of Children.
• The Market is the best Garden
• The chiefest Disease that raigns this year is folly.
• The constancy of the benefit of the Year in the four severall seasons argues a Deity.
• The faulty stands on his guard.
• To a crafty man send a crafty and a half to deal with him.
• To give and keep there is need of wit.
• The best of the sport, is to do the deed, and say nothing.
• They talk of Christmas so long, that it comes.
• The Wolfe must dye in his own skin.
• The tongue is not steel, yet it cutts.
• Though the Fox runs, the Chicken hath wings.
• The white wall is the paper of a fool.
• There came nothing out of the sack but what was in it.
• There is no House but hath something in it not to be spoken of.

• The Cow knows not what her tayl is worth till she hath lost it.
• The off-spring of those that are very young, or very old, lasteth not.
• There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
• Too much taking head is loss.
• The Court hath no Almanack.
• They who are least foolish are wis
• The Wife is the Key of the House.
• The Law is not the same at morning and at night
• The Apothecaries Mortar spoils the Lutinists Mu∣sick.
• The cholerick drinks, the melancholy eats, the flegmatick sleepeth.
• The little cannot be great, unless he devoureth many.
• Time undermines all.
• The Physician oweth all to the Patient, but the Patient oweth nothing to him but a little money
• The old Mans staff is the rapper at deaths door.
• Take heed of an Oxe before, of an Ass behind, of a Monky on all sides.
• The scabby Head loves not the Comb.
• The singing Man keeps his Shop in his throat.
• The life of Man is a wintets way, and a winters day.
• That Man may very well live contented, that needeth not to borrow, nor flatter.
• There's none desires Drink, more than he that hath too much.
• The great put the little on the Hook.
• The least hair makes a shadow.
• The deaf gains the injury.
• 'Tis better to go to bed without Supper, than to rise in Debt.
• 'Tis an ill Ayre where nothing is to be gained.
• 'Tis a foolish Sheep that makes the Wolf her Con∣fessor.

• 'Tis good making fast the sack before it be too full.
• They have need of a Blessing who pray to a Thief.

U

• Use the means, and God will give the blessing.
• Vain glory is a flower that bears no Corn
• Variety taketh away society.
• Variety is the gratitude of Nature.
• Use leggs, and have leggs.
• Vice is often cloathed in Virtues habit.
• Use the company of thy Equals.
• Unminded, unmoaned.
• Unknown, unkiss'd.
• Vice is slippery like Ice.
• Use moderation, and defie the Physitian.
• Vessels ratain the savour still, of that thing which them first did fill.
• Virtue never growes old.
• Virtue and a Trade are the best Portions for Chil∣dren.
• Vainly the Mill is said to Clack, where the Miller Ears doth lack.
• Under water famine, under snow bread.
• Valour that parlies is neer yeelding.
• Valour is little worth without Discretion.
• Valiant mens looks prevail more than cowards swords.
• Valiant men count every place their own Coun∣trey.

W

• We owe more to our Health than to p••easure.
• When the Wife commands, thunderbolts fly about the house.
• When it pleaseth not God, the Saint can do little.
• Wisedom and Hast may vary.

• Wisedom is better than Strength.
• Whose wives chide not, the husbands are in Hea∣ven.
• Work wisely lest you be prevented.
• Wolves lose their teeth but not their memory.
• Womens counsels are sometimes good.
• Women many in number, make many words.
• Winters weather, and Womens words, often change.
• Wranglers never want words.
• Womens passions are naturall, and can never heal themselves.
• Wisdome and Judgement go together.
• When Fortune smiles upon thee, take the advan∣tage of it.
• Well begun is half done.
• Who is more busie than he who hath least to do.
• What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals.
• Weak Men had need to be witty.
• Wide ears, and a short tongue.
• When I had thatched his House, he would throw me down.
• Wine is the Masters, but the goodness is the Drawers.
• When meat is in, anger is out.
• Worst part is within.
• Wine wears no Breeches.
• When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
• What the eye sees not, the heart rues not.
• Who more than he is worth doth spend, he makes a rope his life to end.
• When all is consumed, repentance comes too late.
• Whatsoever is given to a fool, is lost.
• What children hear at home, doth soon fly abroad.
• When goods encrease, the body decreaseth, for most Men grow old before they grow rich.
• Where shall a Man have a worse friend than he brings from home.

• Who weddeth before he be wise, shall dye before he thrive.
• Wise Men are bid to Feasts that Fools make.
• Wine and Women make Men runagates, and beg∣gars.
• What is better than a contented mind.
• Wise Feast-takers must be Feast-makers.
• When Bees are old, they yeeld no Honey.
• Well doth he live within doors, that is beloved without doors.
• Wise Men do the work, and fools brag of it.
• Where wrath is joyned with power, there are thunderbolts.
• Ware and Wades-Mill is worth London, meaning all Ware in Trading.
• When the Fox sleepeth, no Grapes fall in his mouth.
• We seldome prize that which is ordinary, as Limbs, and Senses.
• We must rather seem, than be naught.
• Whores affect not you, but your purse.
• What is a workman without his tools?
• What the heart thinketh, the tongue speaketh.
• When the head aketh, all the body is the worse.
• What some win in the Hundreds, they lose in the Shire.
• When the Pig is proffer'd, hold open the Poke.
• Where the Saddle doth pinch, better ride on a Pad
• Where the Hedge is low, Men soonest leap over.
• Without hope the heart would break.
• Who still takes out, and puts not in, will quickly find a bottome.
• Who lacketh a Stock, his gain is not worth a Chip.
• Who stumbles, and falls not, goes faster.
• Who medleth in all things, may shooe the Gosling.
• Who is a Cuckold, and conceals it, carrieth coals in his bosome.
• When he should work, each finger is a thumb.
• Who would please all, and himself too, underta∣keth what he cannot do.

• Water, Fire, and War, quickly make room.
• When Ale is in, wit is out.
• Who may not as they will, must will as they may.
• Want of money, want of comfort.
• We have better counsell to take, than to give.
• We shall lye all alike in our Graves.
• When we have gold, we are in fear, and when we have none, we are in trouble.
• When poverty cometh in at the door, love flyeth out at the window.
• Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good∣ness.
• Who hath Glass-windows of his own, let him take heed how he throws stones at his house.
• Who goes for his money before his day, need car∣ry a Lanthorn and a Candle with him.
• Who expects an invitation at first sight, wants good manners.
• Who spends more than he should, shall not have to spend when he would.
• Well is it with him who is beloved of his Neigh∣bours.
• When a friend asketh, there is no to morrow.
• Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes
• Who marrieth for love, and no money, hath good nights, but sorry dayes.
• When all sins grow old, covetousness grows young
• Who promiseth, putteth himself in debt.
• Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
• Who tells his Wife news, is but newly married.
• Wanton and wild Housewives marre and undo the Family.
• Who hath his Skirts of straw, needs fear the fire.
• Who hath a Wolf for his Mare, needs a Dog for his Man.
• Who hath a fair Wife, needs more than two eyes.
• When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.
• Who is so deaf as he that will not hear.
• When a Dog is drowning, every one offers him drink.

• Where you think there is Bacon, there is not so much as a Chimney.
• Whither goest thou grief? whither I am wont.
• Where shall the Oxe go, but he must labour.
• When you give a Clown your finger, he will take your whole hand.
• Well may he smell fire, whose Gown burneth.
• Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.
• When you play with a fool at home, expect that he will play with you in the Market.
• Without favour none will know you, and with it, you will not know your self.
• Whether you do boyl Snow, or do pound it, you can have but water of it.
• Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
• Where there is no honour, there is no grief.
• Welcome friend, sayes Milk to Wine.
• Who sings, doth skare away his sorrows.
• Who must account for himself, and for others, must know both.
• Who buyes and sells, feels not what he spends.
• Weight and Measure take away strife.
• Well to work and make a Fire, it doth care and skill require.
• War, hunting, and love, are as full of trouble, as of pleasure.
• Wounds that be ill are cured, but an evil name is never cured.
• What your Glass tells you, will not be told by counsell.
• When an old Man will not drink, go to see him in another World.
• When the Fox preacheth, beware the Geese.
• When God pleaseth, no wind but brings rain with it.
• When War begins, Hell opens.
• When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a Hammer, strike your fill.
• Who lives by hopes, dyes breaking of wind be∣hind.

• Who spits against Heaven, it falls in his face.
• Who will deceive the Fox, must rise betimes.
• Who eats his dinner alone, must saddle his Horse alone.
• Who gives thee but a bone, would not have thee dye.
• Who lives well, seeth afar off.
• Who demandeth, misseth not, unless his demands be foolish.
• Who loseth his due, getteth no thanks.
• Who will have a handsome Wife, let him choose her upon Saturday, and not upon Sunday, viz. when she is in her fine cloaths.
• Who sows his Corn in the field, doth trust in God
• Would you know what money is? go borrow some
• Who would be well old, must be old betimes.
• We are fools one to another.
• Wives and Mills are ever wanting.
• Who likes not the drink, God deprives him of the bread.
• Who comes of a Hen, must needs scrape.
• Water afar off quencheth not fire.
• Who hath neither Fools, nor Beggars, nor Whores amongst his kindred, was born of a stroak of thunder.
• Who hath Spice enough, may season his meat as he pleaseth.
• Who doth his own business, fouls not his hands.
• Who hath all in one place, hath all in the fire.
• Who works after his own manner, his head never aketh at the matter.
• Who commends himself, betrays himself, and be∣wrays himself.
• Women, Priests, and Poultry, have never enough.
• Who seeks trouble, is seldome without it.
• Who keepeth company with the Wolf, will learn to howl.
• Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.
• Who speaketh, doth sow, and he who holds his peace, doth reap.

• Who is fed at anothers hand, must stay the longer before he be full.
• Who hath aking teeth, hath ill tenants.
• Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
• Where the tooth pains, the tongue is commonly upon it.
• Where there are no Cats, the Mice dance.
• Where your will is ready, your feet are light.
• Who bewails himself, hath the cure in his hands.
• Who preacheth War, is the Devils Chaplain.
• War maketh thieves, and Peace hangs them.
• Wealth is like Rheum, it falleth on the weakest parts.
• When children stand quiet, they have done some ill
• Weigh justly, and sell dearly.
• When the Knave is in the Plum-tree, he hath neither friend, nor kindred.
• We shall never come to Honour under a Coverlet
• When the tree is fallen, every Man goeth to it with his Hatchet.
• Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood.
• Wood half burnt, is easily kindled.
• Wisdome hath one foot on Land, and another at Sea.
• Where it is weakest, there the thread breaketh.
• Where love fails, we spy all faults.
• Wise Men need not blush for changing their pur∣poses.
• Wine in the Bottle doth not quench thirst.
• When age is jocond, and frolick, it makes sport for death.
• Wise Men care not for that which they cannot have.
• When my House is in a fire, it is not good playing at Chess.
• When God doth punish, he first takes away the Understanding.
• When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.
• Whirling the Eyes too much, sheweth a Kites brain.

• Where there is a Spring in Winter, and a Winter in Spring, the Year is never good.
• Where there is peace, God is there.
• We learn in doing well.
• Women laugh when they can, and weep when they will.
• War is deaths feast.
• Words are Women, Deeds are Men.
• Words and Feathers are tossed by the Air.
• Who would be a Gentleman, let him storm a Town.
• Whoring and Baudery does alwayes end in beg∣gary.
• When you enter into a House, leave the anger at the door.
• War and Physick are governed by the Eye.
• Wine is a turn-Coat, first a friend, then an enemy.
• Wine makes all sorts of creatures at a table.
• Wine that costs nothing, is digested before it be drunk.
• Wronged patience often becomes furious.

Y

• Young Cocks love no Coops.
• You have leap'd a Whiting.
• You know good manners, but you use but a few.
• You may know the Man by his manners.
• You cannot call a Man worse than unthankfull.
• You have a little wit, and it doth you good some∣times.
• You fill your mouth with an empty Spoon.
• You pay more for your schooling, than your learning is worth.
• Young Men think old Men are fools, but old Men know that young Men are so.
• You cannot know Wine by the Barrell.
• You must strike in Measure, when many strike on the Anvill.

• You may bring a Horse to the River, but he will drink when and what he pleaseth.
• You cannot make a Windmill go with a pair of Bellows.
• You cannot hide an Eele in a Sack.
• You cannot flea a Stone.
• You must do your duty and endeavour, and then a blessing followeth it.
• You may not lose your Friend to keep your Jest.
• You may not lose a Hog for a halfpennyworth of Tar.
• Youth with Wealth destroies many good Estates: (and by much riot many die beggars.)
• You may lose a Fly to catch a Trout.
• You may be a wise Man though you cannot make a Watch.
• Youth is to obey and do what duty is required.
• Youth over-bold seldome good old.
• You command enough in obeying the wise.
• You may be deceived easily if you believe lightly.
• You were better to pay and have little, than to have much and be in debt.
• Youth must be kept from bad Company, as Flax from the Fire.
• You may love your House well, but not ride on the Ridge.
• You may speak with your Gold, and make other Tongues dumb.
• Your rich Man walketh to get a Stomack to his Meat, and the poor Man walks to get Meat for his Stomack.
• You were better give the Wool than the Sheep.
• You were better pass a danger once, than to be alwayes in fear.
• Your Letter had better stay for the Post, than the Post for the Letter.
• Years know more than Books, or Proverbs.

The End of the Proverbs.