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In Cloths Cheap Handsomeness, Doth Bear The Bell.

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He That Needs Five Thousand Pound To Live, Is Full As Poor As He That Needs But Five.

To A Gratefull Man Give Mony When He Askes.

The Slothful Is The Servant Of The Counters.

Hee That Looseth His Due, Gets Not Thankes.

Health Without Money Is Halfe An Ague.

On Painting And Fighting Looke Aloofe. [on Painting And Fighting Look Aloof.]

That Which Two Will, Takes Effect.

Who Hath No More Bread Then Neede, Must Not Keepe A Dog.

Where Your Will Is Ready, Your Feet Are Light.

All Our Pompe The Earth Covers.

One Paire Of Eares Drawes Dry An Hundred Tongues.

What One Day Gives Us, Another Takes Away From Us. [what One Day Gives, Another Takes Away From Us.]

The Higher The Ape Goes, The More He Shewes His Taile. [the Higher The Ape Goes, The More He Shows His Tail.]

The Yeare Doth Nothing Else But Open And Shut.

The Words Ending In Ique Do Mocke The Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).

Do Not Grudge To Pick Out Treasures From An Earthen Pot. The Worst Speaks Something Good.

The Constancy Of The Benefit Of The Yeere In Their Seasons Argues A Deity.

It's A Wicked Thing To Make A Dearth Ones Garner.

The Sundaies Of Man's Life, Thredded Together On Time's String, Make Bracelets To Adorn The Wife Of The Eternal, Glorious King. On Sunday Heaven's Gates Stand Ope; Blessings Are Plentiful And Rife. More Plentiful Than Hope.

To Fine Folkes A Little Ill Finely Wrapt.

Give Loosers Leave To Talke.

One Enemy Is Too Much.

The Bit That One Eates, No Friend Makes.

He That Hath A Head Of Waxe Must Not Walke In The Sunne. [he That Hath A Head Of Wax Must Not Walk In The Sun.]

Aske Much To Have A Little.

By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone. Salute Thyself: See What Thy Soul Doth Wear.

Men Speake Of The Faire, As Things Went With Them There.

Hee That Hath Right, Feares; He That Hath Wrong, Hopes.

A Curst Cow Hath Short Hornes. [a Curst Cow Has Short Horns.]

Weening Is Not Measure.

He That Goeth Farre Hath Many Encounters.

He Hath No Leisure Who Useth It Not.

It's A Proud Horse That Will Not Carry His Owne Provender.

Gold Thou Mayst Safely Touch; But If It Stick Unto Thy Hands, It Woundeth To The Quick.

A Dwarfe On A Gyants Shoulder Sees Further Of The Two. [a Dwarf On A Giant's Shoulder Sees Farther Of The Two.

Three Can Hold Their Peace, If Two Be Away.

Better Speake Truth Rudely, Then Lye Covertly.

Would You Know What Money Is, Go Borrow Some.

Wee Know Not Who Lives Or Dies.

He--the Country Parson--is Not Witty Or Learned Or Eloquent, But Holy.

He Pares His Apple That Will Cleanly Feed.

Talking Payes No Toll.

Who Would Have Thought My Shrivel'd Heart Could Have Recovered Greenness?

When One Is On Horsebacke Hee Knowes All Things.

States Have Their Conversions And Periods As Well As Naturall Bodies.

Yeeres Know More Then Bookes.

The Wife Is The Key Of The House.

But Who Does Hawk At Eagles With A Dove?

Great Paines Quickly Find Ease.

A Sleepy Master Makes His Servant A Lowt.

That Which Sufficeth Is Not Little.

Love And Businesse Teach Eloquence.

Withough Danger You Cannot Go Beyond Danger.

Good Workmen Are Seldom Rich.

Rivers Neede A Spring.

Pull Downe Your Hatt On The Winds Side.

He Plaies Well That Winnes. [he Plays Well That Wins.]

Though The Fox Run, The Chicken Hath Wings.

To Have Money Is A Feare, Not To Have It A Griefe.

Who Spits Against Heaven, It Falls In His Face.

One Slumber Finds Another.

Better To Be Blinde, Then To See Ill.

He That Trusts Much Obliges Much, Says The Spaniard.

In Conversation, Humor Is Worth More Than Wit And Easiness More Than Knowledge.

To The Counsel Of Fools A Wooden Bell.

Criticks Are Like Brushers Of Noblemens Cloaths.

Where There Is No Honour, There Is No Griefe.

Every Ill Man Hath His Ill Day.

Great Trees Are Good For Nothing But Shade.

The Catt Sees Not The Mouse Ever.

To Weepe For Joy Is A Kinde Of Manna.

Be What Thou Wouldst Seeme To Be.

To Buy Deare Is Not Bounty.

A Shippe And A Woman Are Ever Repairing.

You Cannot Make The Fire So Low But It Will Get Out.

Good Cable, To Enforce And Draw, And Be Thy Law, While Thou Didst Wink And Wouldst Not See.

Beate The Dog Before The Lyon.

Play Not For Gain, But Sport. Who Plays For More Than He Can Lose With Pleasure, Stakes His Heart; Perhaps His Wife's Too, And Whom She Hath Bore.

Death Keeps No Calendar.

Take Heed Of A Person Marked, And A Widdow Thrice Married. [take Heed Of A Person Marked, And A Widow Thrice Married.]

Without Businesse Debauchery.

Power Seldome Grows Old At Court.

Halfe The World Knowes Not How The Other Halfe Lies.

The Cholerick Man Never Wants Woe.

The Honey Is Sweet, But The Bee Stings.

The Apothecaries Morter Spoiles The Luters Musick.

He That Hath Love In His Brest, Hath Spurres In His Sides.

That Is Not Good Language Which All Understand Not.

Water, Fire, And Souldiers, Quickly Make Roome. [water, Fire, And Soldiers Quickly Make Room.]

Estate In Two Parishes Is Bread In Two Wallets.

He Can Give Little To His Servant, That Lickes His Knife. [he Can Give Little To His Servant That Licks His Knife.]

Covetousnesse Breaks The Bag.

That Which Will Not Be Spun, Let It Not Come Betweene The Spindle And The Distaffe.

Sorrow Was All My Soul; I Scarce Believed, Till Grief Did Tell Me Roundly, That I Lived.

The Little Cannot Bee Great, Unlesse He Devoure Many. [the Little Cannot Be Great Unless He Devour Many.]

Calmness Is Great Advantage; He That Lets Another Chafe, May Warm Him At His Fire.

Thou Hast Death In Thy House, And Dost Bewaile Anothers.

The House Shows The Owner.

Hee That Brings Good Newes Knockes Hard.

Hee That Marries For Wealth Sells His Liberty.

You Cannot Make A Windmill Go With A Pair Of Bellows.

My House, My House, Though Thou Art Small, Thou Art To Me The Escurial.

Sleepe Without Supping, And Wake Without Owing.

Hee That Would Be A Gentleman, Let Him Goe To An Assault.

They Talke Of Christmas So Long, That It Comes.

All Flesh Is Not Venison.

Love Makes One Fitt For Any Work.

By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone.

Every One Fastens Where There Is Gaine.

A Woman Conceales What Shee Knowes Not.

He That Marries Late, Marries Ill.

A Kinsman, A Friend, Or Whom You Intreate, Take Not To Serve You, If You Will Be Served Neately.

To Be Too Busie Gets Contempt.

Better A Bare Foote Then None.

He That Passeth A Winters Day Escapes An Enemy.

Trust Not One Night's Ice.

Drought Never Brought Dearth.

Sum Up At Night What Thou Hast Done By Day.

Fine Dressing Is A Foule House Swept Before The Doores.

Only The Wearer Knows Where The Shoe Pinches.

Could Have Recovered Greenness?

An Idle Youth, A Needy Age.

If Fooles Should Not Foole It, They Shall Lose Their Season.

Tis Hard To Be Wretched, But Worse To Be Knowne So.

Hee That Bewailes Himselfe Hath The Cure In His Hands.

The Wrongs Of A Husband Or Master Are Not Reproached.

We Must Love, As Looking One Day To Hate.

He That Owes Nothing, If He Makes Not Mouthes At Us, Is Courteous.

No Tye Can Oblige The Perfidious. [no Tie Can Oblige The Perfidious.]

Parsons Are Soules Waggoners.

A Handful Of Good Life Is Better Than A Bushel Of Learning.

The Love Of Money And The Love Of Learning Rarely Meet.

Love Of Learning

To A Crazy Ship, All Winds Are Contrary.

An Examin'd Enterprize Goes On Boldly.

Little Losses Amaze, Great Tame.

Spectacles Are Deaths Harquebuze. [spectacles Are Death's Arquebuse.]

He That Sowes Trusts In God.

Shall I, To Please Another Wine-sprung Minde, Lose All Mine Own? God Hath Giv'n Me A Measure Short Of His Can And Body; Must I Find A Pain In That, Wherein He Finds A Pleasure?

Waight And Measure Take Away Strife.

He That Deales In The World Needes Foure Seeves.

The Mill Gets By Going.

After The House Is Finisht, Leave It.

He Carries Well, To Whom It Waighes Not. [he Carries Well, To Whomit Weighs Not.]

Great Almes-giving Lessens No Mans Living.

Perversnes Makes One Squint Ey'd.

There Is An Hour Wherein A Man Might Be Happy All His Life, Could He Find It.

By Suppers More Have Been Killed Than Galen Ever Cured

Nothing Dries Sooner Then A Teare.

Who Shuts His Hand Has Lost His Gold, Who Opens It Hath It Twice Told.

Castles Are Forrests Of Stones.

There Is No Body Will Go To Hell For Company.

Hee That Goes Barefoot, Must Not Plant Thornes.

The Perswasion Of The Fortunate Swaies The Doubtfull.

Every One Stretcheth His Legges According To His Coverlet. [every One Stretches His Legs According To His Coverlet.]

Mend Your Clothes And You May Hold Out This Year.

He That Pitties Another, Remembers Himselfe.

You Cannot Know Wine By The Barrell.

Though Old And Wise, Yet Still Advise.

In Every Country Dogges Bite.

If The Husband Be Not At Home, There Is Nobodie.

Pardons And Pleasantnesse Are Great Revenges Of Slanders.

He Is A Great Necromancer, For He Asks Counsel Counsell Of The Dead (i.e. Books).

Hee Goes Not Out Of His Way, That Goes To A Good Inne.

Who Is So Deafe, As He That Will Not Hear?

Bee Not A Baker, If Your Head Be Of Butter.

Hee That Eats The Hard Shall Eate The Ripe.

A Sad, Wise Valor Is The Brave Complexion.

Hee That Demands Misseth Not, Unlesse His Demands Be Foolish.

Woe To The House Where There Is No Chiding.

Hee A Beast Doth Die, That Hath Done No Good To His Country.

The First And Last Frosts Are The Worst.

A Master Of Straw Eates A Servant Of Steele.

The Faulty Stands On His Guard.

He That Gives Me Small Gifts Would Have Me Live.

There Is No Heat Of Affection But Is Joyned With Some Idlenesse Of Brain, Says The Spaniard.

I Escaped The Thunder, And Fell Into The Lightning.

At Court, Every One For Himselfe. [at Court, Everyone For Himself.]

Never Had Ill Workeman Good Tooles.

Great Fortune Brings With It Great Misfortune.

A Child Correct Behind And Not Before.

We Cannot Come To Honour Under Coverlet.

The Best Remedy Against An Ill Man Is Much Ground Betweene Both. [the Best Remedy Against An Ill Man Is Much Ground Between Both.]

Give A Clown Your Finger, And He Will Take Your Hand.

You Cannot Make A Wind-mill Goe With A Paire Of Bellowes.

If The Old Dog Barke He Gives Counsell. [if The Old Dog Barks, He Gives Counsel.]

Who Paies The Physitian, Does The Cure.

God Sends Cold According To Clothes.

O What A Sight Were Man, If His Attires Did Alter With His Minde; And Like A Dolphins Skinne, His Clothes Combin'd With His Desires!

Corn Is Cleaned With Wind, And The Soul With Chastening

He That Makes A Good War Makes A Good Peace.

Honor And Profit Lie Not All In One Sack.

There Come Nought Out Of The Sacke But What Was There.

God Sends A Curst Cow Short Horns.

Knowledge Is But Folly Unless It Is Guided By Grace.

Lord, With What Care Hast Thou Begirt Us Round! Parents First Season Us; Then Schoolmasters Deliver Us To Laws; They Send Us Bound To Rules Of Reason, Holy Messengers, Pulpits And Sundays, Sorrow Dogging Sin, Afflictions Sorted, Anguish Of All Sizes, Fine Nets And Stratagems To Catch Us In, Bibles Laid Open, Millions Of Surprises, Blessings Beforehand, Ties Of Gratefulness, The Sound Of Glory Ringing In Our Ears: Without, Our Shame; Within, Our Consciences; Angels And Grace, Eternal Hopes And Fears. Yet All These Fences And Their Whole Array One Cunning Bosom-sin Blows Quite Away.

To Him That Will, Waies Are Not Wanting.

Call Me Not An Olive, Till Thou See Me Gathered.

Where You Thinke There Is Bacon, There Is No Chimney.

Whatsoever Was The Father Of A Disease, An Ill Diet Was The Mother.

Discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Eares. [discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Ears.]

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