The world is now-a-days, God save the Conqueror.

Unsound minds, like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poison. Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

All covet, all lose.

Better is one Accipe, than twice to say, Dabo tibi.

An Ass endures his burden, but not more than his burden. Threatened men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

The beads in the Hand, and the Devil in Capuch; or, cape of the cloak.

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He that will do thee a good turn, either he will be gone or
I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.
A man of a great memory without learning, hath a rock and
a spindle, and no staff to spin.

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

He that is once born, once must die.

He that hath but one eye, must be afraid to lose it.

He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolf.

He that steals an egg, will steal an ox.

He that will be surety, shall pay.

He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.

In the mouth of a bad dog falls often a good bone.
Those that God loves, do not live long.

Still fisheth he that catcheth one.

All flesh is not venison.

A City that parleys is half gotten.
A dead bee maketh no honey.

An old dog barks not in vain.

They that hold the greatest farms, pay the least rent: applied to rich men that are unthankful to God.

Old Camels carry young Camels' skins to the market. He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.

Words and feathers the wind carries away.

Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.

The Bath of the Blackamoor hath sworn not to whiten.

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

The Devil divides the world between Atheism and Supersti

Such a Saint, such an offering.

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain.

What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
To seek in a Sheep five feet when there are but four.
A scabbed horse cannot abide the comb.

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God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.
God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.
Of a new Prince, new bondage.

Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he New things are fair.

[can hurt. The horse that draws after him his halter, is not altogether No love is foul, nor prison fair. [escaped.

We must recoil a little, to the end we may leap the better.

No day so clear, but hath dark clouds.

No hair so small, but hath his shadow.

A wolf will never make war against another wolf.

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.

It is very hard to shave an egg.

It is good to hold the ass by the bridle.

The healthful man can give counsel to the sick.

The death of a young wolf doth never come too soon.
The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood.
Virtue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

The wolf eats oft of the sheep that hath been warned.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
To play at Chess when the house is on fire.
The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much When war begins, then hell openeth.

[decayed. Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple. There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it. There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
Tithe, and be rich.

Take heed of

The wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the
Mad folks in a narrow place.

Credit decayed, and people that have nothing.

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A young wench, a prophetess, and a Latin-bred woman.
A person marked, and a Widow thrice married.
Foul dirty ways, and long sickness.

Wind that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.
A Step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.

Critics are like brushers of Noblemen's clothes.

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel of the Dead: i.e., books.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Princes are venison in Heaven. [Lust. Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last. Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner. Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers. To seek these things is lost labour: Geese in an oil pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net. Some men plant an opinion they seem to eradicate. The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

States have their conversions and periods as well as natural Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

[bodies. The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. Trust no friend with that you need, fear him if he were

your enemy.

Some had rather lose their friend than their Jest.

Marry your daughters betimes, less they marry themselves. Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm than either of them both. Civil Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and thirty thousand Witches.

We Bachelors laugh and show our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ache.

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

There is nobody will go to hell for company.

Much money makes a Country poor, for it sets a dearer price upon every thing.

The virtue of a coward is suspicion.

A man's destiny is always dark.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Money wants no followers.

Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

THE END.

BALLANTYNE, PRINTER, EDINBURGH,