contrary of my own observation I could give divers instances of such as have received very much harm when drunk Ever drunk ever dry Parthi quo plus bibunt ed plus sitiunt What soberness conceals drunkenness reveals Quod est in corde sobrii est in ore ebrii 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Erasmus cites to this purpose a sentence out of Herodotus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when wine sinks words swim and Pliny hath an elegant saying to this purpose Vinum usque adeò mentis aâ—â—ana prodit ut mortisera etiam inter pocula loquantur homines nè per jugulum quidem reditur as voces contineant Quid non ebrietas designat operta recludit He that kills a man when he is drunk must be hang'd when he is sober The ducks fare well in the Thames Dumb folks get no lands This is parallel to that Spare to speak and spare to speed and that former A close mouth catcheth no flies E. EArly up and never the nearer Early sow early mow It early pricks that will be a thorn Soon crooks the tree that good gambrel would be The early bird catcheth the worm A penny-worth of ease is worth a penny The longer East the shorter West You can't eat your cake and have your cake Vorrebbe mangiar la forcaccia trovar la in tasca Ital. Eating and drinking takes away ones stomack En mangeant l'appetit se perd To which the French have another seemingly contrary En mangeant l'appetit vient parallel to that of ours One shoulder of mutton draws down another He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut Qui nucleum esse vult nucem srangat oportet No gains without pains Madam Parnel crack the nut and eat the kernel Eaten bread is forgotten It 's very hard to shave an egg Where nothing is nothing can be had An egg will be in 3 bellies in 24 hours Better half an egg then an empty shell Better half a loaf then no bread Ill egging makes ill begging Evil persons by enticing and flattery draw on others to be as bad as themselves All ekes or helps as the Geni-wren said when she pist in the sea Many littles make a mickle the whole Ocean is made up of drops Goutte a goutte on remplit la cuve Gall. And Goutte à goutte la mer s' egoute Drop by drop the sea is drained Empty vessels make the greatest sound The Scripture saith A fools voice is known by multitude of words None more apt to boast then those who have least real worth least whereof justly to boast The deepest streams flow with least noise Empty hands no hawks allure A right Englishman knows not when a thing is well Whoso hath but a mouth shall ne're in England suffer drought v. supra For if he doth but open it it s a chance but it will rain in True it is we seldom suffer for want of rain and if there be any fault in the temper of our air it is its over-moistness which inclines us to the scurvy and consumptions diseases the one scarce known the other but rare in hotter Countries Every thing hath an end and a pudding hath two All 's well that ends well Exitus acta probat There 's never enough where nought leaves This is an Italian Proverb Non vi è à bastanza se niente auvanza It is hard so to cut the hair as that there should be no want and nothing to spare Enough is as good as a feast Asser y a si trop n'y a. Gall. Better be envied then pitied This is a saying in most languages although it hath little of the nature of a Proverb in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Herodot in Thalia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pindar Piu tosto invidia che compassione Ital. Essex stiles Kentish miles Norfolk wiles many men beguiles For stiles Essex may well vie with any County of England it being wholly divided into small closes and not one common field that I know of in the whole County Length of miles I know not what reason Kent hath to pretend to for generally speaking the further from London the longer the miles but for cunning in the Law and wrangling Norfolk men are justly noted Where every hand fleeceth c. v. fleeceth Evening orts are good morning fodder The Evening crowns the day La vita il fine e ' l di loda la sera Ital. The end or death commends the life and the evening the day Dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo supremáque funera debet Ovid. Of two evils the least is to be chosen This reason the Philosopher rendred why he chose a little wife Exchange is no robbery A bad excuse is better then none at all Experience is the mistress of fools Experientia stultorum magistra Wise men learn by others harms fools by their own like Epimetheus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What the eye sees not the heart rues not Le coeur ne veut douloirce que l'oeil ne peut veoir Gall. Therefore it is not good to peep and pry into every corner to be two inquisitive into what our servants or relations do or say lest we create our selves unnecessary trouble Better eye out then always aking or watching He that winketh with one eye and seeth with the other I would not trust him though he were my brother This is only a Physiognomical observation He that hath but one eye sees the better for it Better then he would do without it a ridiculous saying F. A Good face c. v. band Faint heart ne're won fair Lady 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suidas ex Eupolide Timidi nunquam statuêre tropaeum Ja couard n'aura belle amie Gall. For audentes fortuna juvat Fair feathers make fair fowls Fair clothes ornaments and dresses set off persons and make them appear handsome which if stript of them would seem but plain and homely God makes and apparel shapes I panni rifanno le stanghe vesti una colonna par una donna Ital. Fair words c. v. words Fair and softly goes far in a day Pas à pas on va bien loing Gall. Chi va piano va sano è anche lontano Ital. He that goes softly goeth sure and also far He that spurs on too fast at first setting out tires before he comes to his journeys end Festinalenté Fair in the cradle and foul in the saddle A fair face is half a portion Praise a fair day at night Or else you may repent for many times clear mornings turn to cloudy evenings La vita il fine e ' l di loda la sera The end commends the life and the evening the day The fairest silk is soonest stained This may be applied to women The handsomest women are soonest corrupted because they are most tempted It may also be applied to good natures which are more easily drawn away by evil company Men speak of the Fair as things went
communicated by my worthy friend M r Richard Kidder Rector of Rayn in Essex So I have dispatcht what I thought needfull to premise either for my own excuse or the Readers satisfaction to whose favourable acceptance I recommend the work Sentences and Phrases found in the former Collections of Proverbs the most of them not now in common use for such so far as I know but borrowed of other Language A. BEtter to go about then to fall into the ditch Hispan The absent Party is still faulty In vain he craves advice that will not follow it When a thing is done advice comes too late Though old and wise yet still advise It 's an ill air where nothing is to be gain'd No Alchymy to saving Good Ale is meat drink and cloth Anger dieth quickly with a good man He that is Angry is seldome at ease For that thou canst do thy self rely not on another The wholesomest meat is at another mans cost None knows the weight of anothers burden When you are an Anvil hold you still When you are a hammer strike your fill The Ape so long clippeth her young that at last she killeth them An Ape is an Ape a varlet 's a varlet Though they be clad in silk or scarlet A broken Apothecary a new Doctour Apothecaries would not give pills in sugar unless they were bitter Better ride on an Asse that carries me then an Asse that throws me B BE not a baker if your head be of butter Hispan The ballance distinguishes not between gold and lead There 's no great banquet but some fare ill One Barber shaves not so close but another finds work On a good bargain think twice Ital. Barefooted men need not tread on thorns Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty Better to be beaten then be in bad company Beauty is a blossom Beauty draws more then oxen Beauty is no inheritance The begger is never out of his way The begger may sing before the thief No more then the English of that old Latine verse Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator Better to die a begger then live a begger Such a beginning such an end He that makes his bed ill lies there If the bed could tell all it knows it would put many to the blush He who lies long in bed his estate feels it Who looks not before finds himself behind Bells call others to the Church but enter not in themselves Be not too hasty to outbid another Who hath bitter in his mouth spits not all sweet The blind mans wife needs no painting Hispan He is blind enough who sees not through the holes of a sieve Hispan That which doth blossom in the Spring will bring forth fruit in the Autumn He that blowes in the dust fills his eyes The body is the socket of the soul It 's easie to bowl down hill Brabbling currs never want fore ears The brain that sowes not corn plants thistles The Asse that brayes most ears least Would you have better bread then is made of wheat Ital. Bread with eyes and cheese without eyes Hisp Ita. To beg breeches of a bare ars't man As I brew so I must drink There is no deceit in a brimmer Building is a sweet impoverishing It is called the Spanish plague Therefore as Cato well saith Optimum est alienâ insaniâ frui Building and marrying of children are great wasters Gall. The greatest burdens are not the gainfullest To buy dear is not bounty Buy at a market but sell at home Hispan C. THere is no cake but there is the like of the same make In a calm sea every man is a pilot A good candle-holder proves a good gamester If thou hast not a capon feed on an onyon Gall. The Cat is hungry when a crust contents her The liquorish Cat gets many a rap It 's a bad cause that none dare speak in He that chastiseth one amendeth many Though the Fox runs the chicken hath wings The chicken is the Countreys but the city eats it Wo to the house where there is no chiding The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fire To a child all weather is cold When children stand quiet they have done some harm What children hear at home doth soon fly abroad Children are poor mens riches are certain cares but uncertain comforts when they are little make parents fools when great mad A light Christmas a heavy sheaf The cholerick drinks the melancholick eats the Flegmatick sleeps Who never climb'd never fell After clouds comes clear weather Give a clown your finger and he will take your whole hand Coblers and tinkers are the best ale drinkers The Cock crowes but the hen goes When you ride a young colt see your saddle be well girt The comforters head never akes Ital. He commands enough that obeys a wise man Ital. It 's good to have company in trouble Solamen mâ—seris socios habuisse doloris Keep good men company and you shall be of the number Confession of a fault makes half amends for it He that contemplates hath a day without a night He may well be contented who needs neither borrow nor flatter He that converseth not with men knoweth nothing Corn in good years is hay in ill years straw is corn Corn is cleansed with the wind and the soul with chastning He covers me with his wings and bites me with his bill A covetous man is like a dog in a wheel that roasteth meat for others A dry cough is the trumpeter of death Keep counsel thy self first Counsels in wine seldom prosper He that will not be counsell'd cannot be help't Courtesie on one side doth never last long Courts have no Almanacks Craft bringeth nothing home To a crazy ship all winds are contrary Credit lost is like a Venice glass broke He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world No man ever lost his credit but he who had it not Crooked logs make streight fires Crosses are ladders that do lead to heaven Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them Ital. Cruelty is a tyrant that 's always attended with fear Who is a cuckold and conceals it carries coals in his bosom Hisp Let every cuckold wear his own horns In rain and Sunshine cuckolds go to heaven A cut-purse is a sure trade for he hath ready money when his work is done D. YOu dance in a net and think no body sees you When all is gone and nothing left What avails the Dagger with the Dudgeon heft The danger past and God forgotten No day passeth without some grief It is never a bad day that hath a good night Deaf men go away with the injury It 's a wicked thing to make a dearth on 's garner Death keeps no Kalender Men fear death as children to go in the dark Better to go to bed supperless then to rise in debt Hispan Deeds are fruits words are but leaves Deeds are males and words are females I fatti sono maschi le parole femine
By fits and girds as an ague takes a goose Will you snap or bite off my nose You will tell another tale when you are tryed You eat above the tongue like a calf Recipe scribe scribe solve A good rule for stewards He needs a bird that gives a groat for an owl You goe as if nine men held you Under the furze is hunger and cold Under the broom is silver and gold Nine tailours make but one man I am loath to change my mill Somerset i. e. Eat of another dish Your horse cast a shooe To hit over the thumbs Win at first and loose at last Hee 'll bear it away if it be not too hot or too heavy Spoken of a pilferer Hickledy pickledy one among another We have in our language many the like conceited rhyming words or reduplications to signifie any confusion or mixture as hurly burly hodge podge minlge mangle arsy versy kim kam hub bub crawly mauly hab nab Londoner-like ask as much more as you will take So got so gone Oysters are not good in a moneth that hath not an R. in it I love thee like pudding if thou wert pie I 'de eat thee Heer 's nor rhythm nor reason This brings to mind a story of S r Tho. More who being by the Author askt his judgment of an impertinent book wish't him by all meanes to put it into verse and bring it him again which done S r Tho. looking upon it saith yea now it is somewhat like now it is rhythm before it was neither rhythm nor reason Take all and pay all A penny saved is a penny got A lisping lass is good to kiss When the shoulder of mutton is going 't is good to take a slice Make the vine poor and it will make you rich prune off its branches Not a word of Pensants You may if you list but doe if you dare Set trees poor and they will grow rich set them rich and they will grow poor Remove them always out of a more barren into a fatter soil No cut to unkindness A good saver is a good server Somerset To slip ones neck out of the collar I will keep no more cats then will catch mice i. e. no more in family then will earn their living Somerset Blind-mans holy-day If you would a good hedge have carry the leafes to the grave As yellow as the golden noble As good be hang'd for an old sheep as a young lamb Somerset She loves the poor well but cannot abide beggers Somerset of pretenders to charity You put it together with an hot needle and burnt thread Like a loaders horse that lives among theeves the countrey man near a town Som. Apples pears hawthorn-quick oak set them at All-hollontide and command them to prosper set them at Candlemas and intreat them to grow 'T is good sheltring under an old hedge Let not a child sleep upon bones Somerset i. e. The nurses lap The more Moors the better victory No man hath a worse friend then he brings from home Defend me and spend me saith the Irish churle To fear the loss of the bell more then the loss of the steeple Nab me I 'll nab thee He hath a conscience like a Cheverels skin That will stretch A Cheverel is a wild goat Somers If you touch pot you must touch penny Somers Pay for what you have He hath a spring at his elbow spoken of a Gamester Pull not out your teeth but with a leaden instrument When Tom pitcher's broken I shall have the sheards i. e. Kindness after others have done with it or refuse A childs bird and a boys wife are well used Som. Be it weal or be it wo Beans blow before May doth goe Little mead little need Somerset A mild winter hoped for after a bad summer A good tither a good thriver Somerset Who marries between the sickle and the sithe will never thrive Shee will assoon part with the crock as the porridge Somerset You shall have the red cap. Somerset Said to a marriage-maker Let them buckle for it Somerset She is as crousty as that is hard bak'd Somerset One that is surly and loath to doe any thing Money is wise it knowes its way Somerset Sayes the poor man that must pay as soon as he receives After Lammas corn ripens as much by night as by day If you will have a good cheese and have'n old you must turn'n seven times before he is cold Som. He is able to bury an Abbey a spendthrift When elder 's white brew and bake a peck When elder 's black brew and bake a sack Som. More malice then matter Somerset He builds cages for oxen to bring up birds in Disproportionable Where there is store of oatmeal you may put enough in the crock pot Somerset He that hath more smocks then shirts in a bucking had need be a man of good fore-looking Chaueer You never speak but your mouth opens The charitable gives out at door and God puts in at the window All the leavers you can lay will not doe it Som. Hampshire ground requires every day of the week a shower of rain on Sunday twain As cunning as captain Drake Let him hang by the heels Som. Of a man that dies in debt His wife leaving all at his death crying his goods in three markets and three Parish Churches is so free of all his debts He is ready to leap over nine hedges She look't on me as a cow on a bastard calf Som. I will wash my hands and wait upon you The death of wives and the life of sheep make men rich April fools People sent on idle errands After a famine in the stall Comes a famine in the hall Somerset Wellington round-heads Proverbial in Taunton for a violent fanatick None so old that he hopes not for a year of life The young are not always with their bow bent i. e. Under rule To catch two pigeons with one bean Every honest miller hath a golden thumb They reply None but a cuckold can see it Somerset In wiving and thriving a man should take counsel of all the world 'T is good grafting on a good stock The eye is a shrew To measure the meat by the man i. e. The message by the messenger He suckt evil from the dug They are so like that they are the worse for it Out of door out of debt Somerset Of one that payes not when once gone Words may pass but blows fall heavy Som. Poverty breeds strife Somerset Every gap hath its bush A dead woman will have four to carry her forth K. Harry rob'd the church and died a beggar To take the birds by its feet The hogs to the honey-pots Their milk sod over He hath good cards to shew 'T is best to take half in hand and the rest by and by The trades-man that is for ready money To heave and theave Somers The labouring husbandman Here is Gerards Bailiff work or you must die with cold Somers Come every