Good and quickly seldom meet.

Happier are the hands compassed with iron, than a heart Folly grows without watering. [with thoughts.

If the staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.

He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist.
Valour that parleys, is near yielding.
Thursday come, and the week is gone.
A flatterer's throat is an open sepulchre..
There is great force hidden in a sweet command.
The command of custom is great.

To have money is a fear, not to have it a grief.
The Cat sees not the mouse ever.

Little dogs start the hare, the great get her.
Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood.
A good payer is master of another's purse.
The thread breaks where it is weakest.

Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.
God is at the end, when we think he is furthest off it.
A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.

Rivers need a spring.

He that contemplates, hath a day without night.
Give losers leave to talk.

Gaming, Women, and Wine, while they laugh, they make

Loss embraceth shame.

The fat man knoweth not what the lean thinketh.

Wood half burnt is easily kindled.

The fish adores the bait.

[men pine.

He that goeth far hath many encounters.

Every bee's honey is sweet.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

Wisdom hath one foot on land, and another on Sea.
The thought hath good legs, and the quill a good tongue.
A wise man needs not blush for changing his purpose.

The March sun raises, but dissolves not.
Time is the Rider that breaks youth.

The wine in the bottle doth not quench thirst.
The sight of a Man hath the force of a Lion.
An examined enterprise goes on boldly.
In every art it is good to have a master.
In every Country dogs bite.

In every Country the sun rises in the morning.

A noble plant suits not with a stubborn ground.

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drink when and what he pleaseth.

Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.

Speak fitly, or be silent wisely.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.

A disarmed peace is weak.

The balance distinguisheth not between gold and lead.
The persuasion of the fortunate sways the doubtful.
To be beloved is above all bargains.

To deceive one's self is very easy.

The reasons of the poor weigh not.

Perverseness makes one squint-eyed.

The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.

The table robs more than a thief.

When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.

True praise roots and spreads.

Fears are divided in the midst.

The soul needs few things, the body many.

Astrology is true, but the Astrologers cannot find it.

Tie it well, and let it go.
Empty vessels sound most.
Send not a Cat for Lard.

Foolish tongues talk by the dozen.

Love makes one fit for any work.

A pitiful mother makes a scald head.

An old Physician, and a young Lawyer.
Talk much, and err much, says the Spaniard.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet rob

An idle head is a box for the wind.

Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief.

[the Altar.

A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.

Show a good man his error, and he turns it to a virtue;

None is born Master.

[but an ill, it doubles his fault.

None is offended but by himself.

None says his Garner is full.

In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

In a leopard the spots are not observed.

Nothing lasts but the Church.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

It is not good fishing before the net.

He cannot be virtuous that is not rigorous.

That which will not be spun, let it not come between the spindle and the distaff.

When my house burns, it is not good playing at Chess.

No barber shaves so close but another finds work.

There is no great banquet, but some fares ill.

A holy habit cleanseth not a foul soul.

Forbear not sowing because of birds.

Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. Speak not of a dead man at the table.

A hat is not made for one shower.

No sooner is a Temple built to God, but the Devil builds
Every one puts his fault on the Times. [a Chapel hard by.
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.
Every one is weary, the poor in seeking, the rich in keeping,
Pardon all but thyself.
[the good in learning.
The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.

Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
More have repented speech than silence.

The covetous spends more than the liberal.

Divine ashes are better than earthly meal.
Beauty draws more than oxen.

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.

One eye of the master's sees more than ten of the servant's.
When God will punish, he will first take away the under-
A little labour, much health.

When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.
The tree that God plants, no wind hurts it.
Knowledge is no burthen.

It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear.

If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.

[standing.

If the mother had not been in the oven, she had never sought her daughter there.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last Long jesting was never good.

[long.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church Old praise dies, unless you feed it.

[still.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
Had you the world on your Chess-board, you could not fill

Suffer and expect.

[all to your mind.

If fools should not fool it, they shall lose their season.
Love and business teach eloquence.

That which two will, takes effect.

He complains wrongfully on the sea, that twice suffers ship

He is only bright that shines by himself.

A valiant man's look is more than a coward's sword.

The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.

Divine grace was never slow.

Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.

[wreck.

It is a proud horse that will not carry his own provender.

Three women make a market.

Three can hold their peace if two be away.
It is an ill counsel that hath no escape.
All our pomp the earth covers.

To whirl the eyes too much, shows a kite's brain.
Comparisons are odious.

All keys hang not on one girdle.

Great businesses turn on a little pin.
The wind in one's face makes one wise.
All the arms of England will not arm fear.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
Be what thou wouldst seem to be.

Let all live as they would die.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.
God provides for him that trusteth.

He that will not have peace, God gives him war.
To him that will, ways are not wanting.

To a great night, a great Lanthorn.

To a child all weather is cold.

Where there is peace, God is.

None is so wise, but the fool overtakes him.

Fools give to please all but their own.

Prosperity lets go the bridle.

The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his To be too busy gets contempt.

February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.

[sleeve.

The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love A horse stumbles that hath four legs. [that of children. That is the best gown that goes up and down the house. The Market is the best Garden.

The first dish pleaseth all.

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
Night is the mother of Councils.