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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	work_v	world_n	worthy_a	23	3	6.1480	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58161	A collection of English proverbs digested into a convenient method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion : with short annotations : whereunto are added local proverbs with their explications, old proverbial rhythmes, less known or exotick proverbial sentences, and Scottish proverbs / by J. Ray, M.A. and Fellow of the Royal Society.	Ray, John, 1627-1705.	1678 (1678)	Wing R387; ESTC R14323	169,995	424

without any spot at all because to count them was no more then to count the dice. Hereupon this chance was called Jactus inanis the empty chance Wind and weather doe thy worst To goe down the wind Win it and wear it To have one in the wind To have windmills in 's head Keep your wind c. v breath You may wink and chuse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thrax ad Thracem compositus He shews all his wit at once God send you more wit and me more money You were born when wit was scant Your wits are on wooll gathering You have wit enough to drown ships in You give the wolf the weather to keep Ha dato la pecora in guardia al lupo Ital. Ovem lupo commisisti To have a wolf by the ears This is also a Latine Proverb Lupum auribus tenere When a man hath a doubtful business in hand which it is equally hazardous to pursue or give over as it is to hold or let go a wolf which one hath by the ears To be in a wood You cannot see wood for trees In mari aquam quaeris To make woof or warp of any business A word and a blow When he should work every finger is a thumb If any thing stay let work stay The world is well amended with him To have the world in a string He has a worm in 's brain Not worthy to carry his books after him Not worthy to be named the same day Not worthy to wipe his shooes Indignus qui illi matellam porrigat Dispeream si tu Pyladi praestare matellam Dignus es aut porcos pascere Pirithoi Martial Not worthy to carry guts after a Bear Proverbial Similies in which the quality and subject begin with the same letter AS bare as a birds arse or as the back of my hand As blind as a beetle or bat Talpâ caecior As blind as a mole though indeed a mole be not absolutely blind but hath perfect eyes and those not covered with a membrane as some have reported but open and to be sound without side the head if one search diligently otherwise they may easily escape one being very small and lying hid in the furr So that it must be granted that a mole sees but obscurely yet so much as is sufficient for her manner of living being most part under ground Hypsaea caecior This Hypsaea was a woman famous for her blindness Tiresia caecior The fable of Tircsias and how he came to be blind is well known Leberide caecior Est autem Leberis exuviae sive spolium serpentis in quo apparent effigies duntaxat oculorum ac membranula quaedam tenuissima quâ serpentum oculi praeteguntur A Beetle is thought to be blind because in the evening it will fly with its full force against a mans face or any thing else which happens to be in its way which other insects as Bees hornets c. will not doe To blush like a black dog As bold as blind bayard As bold as Beauchamp Of this sirname there were many Earls of Warwick amongst whom saith Doctour Fuller I conceive Thomas the first of that name gave chief occasion to this Proverb who in the year 1346 with one Squire and six archers fought in hostile manner with an hundred armed men at Hogges in Normandy and overthrew them slaying sixty Normans and giving the whole fleet means to land As brisk as a body louse As busie as a bee As clear as crystal As cold as charity As common as Coleman hedge As coy as Crokers mare As cunning as Craddock c. As dead as a door nail As dull as dun in the mire To feed like a farmer or freeholder As fine as five pence As fit as a fiddle As flat as a flounder As grave as an old gate-post As hard as horn As high as three horse loaves As high as a hog all but the bristles Spoken of a dwarf in derision As hungry as a hawk or horse As kind as a kite all you cannot eat you 'll hide As lazy as Ludlams dog that lean't his head against a wall to bark As mad as a March hare Foenum habet in cornu As merry as the maids As nice as a nuns hen As pert as a Pearmongers mare As plain as a packsaddle or a pike staff As plump as a Partridge As proud as a peacock As seasonable as snow in summer As soft as silk As true as a turtle to her mate As warm as wooll As wise as Walthams calf that ran nine miles to suck a bull As wise as a wisp or woodcock As welcome as water into a ship or into ones shooes As weak as water Others AS angry as a wasp As bald as a coot As bare as the back of my hand As bitter as gall Ipsa bile amariora As black as a coal as a crow or raven as the Divell as jet as ink as soot As busie as a hen with one chicken As busie as a good wife at oven and neither meal nor dough He 's like a cat fling him which way you will he 'll light on 's legs She 's like a cat she 'll play with her own tail He claws it as Clayton claw'd the pudding when he eat bag and all As clear as a bell Spoken principally of a voice or sound without any jarring or harshness As clear as the Sun As comfortable as matrimony It becomes him as well as a sow doth a cartsaddle As crowse as a new washen louse This is a Scotch and Northern Proverb Crowse signifies brisk lively As dark as pitch Blackness is the colour of darkness As dead as a herring A Herring is said to die immediately after it is taken out of its element the water that it dies very suddainly my self can witness so likewise doe Pilchards Shads and the rest of that tribe As dear as two eggs a penny As like a dock to a daisy That is very unlike As dizzy as a goose As drunk as a begger This Proverb begins now to be disused and in stead of it people are ready to say As drunk as a Lord so much hath that vice the more is the pity prevail'd among the Nobility Gentry of late years As dry as a bone As dull as a beetle As dun as a mouse As easie as pissing a bed as to lick a dish As false as a Scot. I hope that nation generally deserves not such an imputation and could wish that we English men were less partial to our selves and censorious of our neighbours As fair as Lady Done Chesh The Dones were a great family in Cheshire living at Utkinton by the forest side Nurses use there to call their children so if girls if boyes Earls of Derby As fast as hops As fat as butter as a Fool as a hen i th' forehead To feed like a freeholder of Macklesfield who hath neither corn nor hay at Michaelmas Chesh This Macklesfield or Maxfield is a small market town and