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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.
If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.
Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.
If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
Evils have their comfort, good none can support.
He that gives me small gifts would have me live.
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.
Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]
He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.
There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.
In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.
The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.
All things in their beeing are good for something.
He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.