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When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.
To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.
Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.]
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.
A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.
The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.
Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?
Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.
Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.
Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.
The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.
Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.
Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies.
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Health and mony goe farre. [Health and money go far.]
If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.