when every tooth took her a knock Mint offer or ye strike Measure is treasure Mony men does lack that yat wald fain have in their pack Misterfull folk mon not be mensfull Many smals makes a great Maisterie mawes the meadows down Mony speaks of Robin Hood that never shot in his bow Mister makes men of craft Meikle water runs where the miller sleeps Meikle mon a good heart endure Mony cares for meal that hes baking bread enough Meikle spoken part mon spill Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged Men are blind in their own cause Mony words wald have meikle drink Man propons but God dispons Mony man serves a thankless master Mony words fills not the furlot Mony kinsfolk but few friends Men goes over the dyke at the ebbest Might oftentimes overcomes right Mends is worth misdeeds Meikle head little wit Mustard after meat Millers takes ay the best toll with their own hand Mony man speirs the gate he knows full well Mussel not the oxens mouth Meikle hes wald ay have mair Money tynes the half mark whinger for the half-penny thong Make not meikle of little Mony man makes an errand to the hall to bid the Lady good-day Mony brings the raike but few the shovell Make no balkes of good bear land March whisquer was never a good fisher Meat and masse never hindred no man N. NAture passes norture Na man can baith sup and blaw at once Nothing enters in a close hand Need makes vertue Need hes na law Neirest the Kirk farrest fra God Neirest the King neirest the widdie New lords new laws Na man may puind for unkindness Neirest the heart neirest the mouth Never rode never fell Need gars naked men run and sorrow gars websters spin Neir is the kirtle but neirer is the sark Nothing is difficile to a well willit man Na man makes his awn hap Na reply is best Nothing comes sooner to light then that which is long hid Na man can play the fool sa weill as the wise man Na penny na pardon Na man can seek his marrow in the churne sa weill as he that hes been in it himself O. OVer fast over louse Of anuch men leaves Over great familiarity genders despite Oft compting makes good friends Over narrow compting culzies na kindness Out of sight out of langer Of twa ills choose the least Of other mens lether men takes large whanges Over jolly dow not Of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks Of all war peace is the final end Of ill debtours men takes oats Of need make vertue Of the earth mon the dyke be builded Of ane ill comes many Over hote over cold Over heigh over low Over meikle of ane thing is good for nathing P. PEnny wise pound fool Priest and doves makes foul houses Pride and laziness wald have meikle uphald Put your hand na farder nor your sleive may reach Poor men are fain of little thing Play with your peirs Pith is good in all plays Put twa half-pennies in a purse and they will draw together Painters and Poets have leave to lie Possession is worth an ill chartour Pride will have a fall Poverty parts good company and is an enemy to vertue Put not your hand betwixt the rind and the tree Poor men they say hes na souls Patience perforce Provision in season makes a rich house Put that in the next parcel Peter in and Paul out Plenty is na dainty Puddings and paramours wald be hotelie handlit Q. QUhair where the Deer is slain some bloud will lie Quhen the eye sees it saw not the heart will think it thought not Quhen wine is in wit is out Quhen the steed is stowen shut the stable door Quhen the Tod preaches beware of the hens Quhen the cup is fullest bear it evinest Quhat better is the house that the da rises in the morning Quhen theeves reckons leall men comes to their geir Quhen I am dead make me a cawdle Quhiles the hawk hes and whiles he hunger hes Quhen the craw flees her tail follows Quhen the play is best it is best to leave Quha may wooe without cost Quhiles thou whiles I so goes the bailleri Quhen a man is full of lust his womb is full of leesings Quha may hold that will away Quhen taylours are true there little good to shew Quhen thy neighbours house is on fire take heed to thy awn Quhen the iron is hot it is time to strike Quhen the belly is full the bones wald have rest Quhom God will help na man can hinder Quhen all men speaks na man hears Quhen the good man is fra hame the tablecloths tint Quhair stands your great horse Quhair the pig breaks let the shells lie Quhen friends meets hearts warmes Quhen the well is full it will run over R. REason bound the man Ruse praise the foord as ye find it Ruse the fair day at evin Rackless youth makes a goustie age Ryme spares na man Reavers should not be rewers Rule youth weill and eild will rule the sell Rome was not biggit on the first day S. SIke man sike master Seldom rides tynes the spurs Shod in the cradle bairfoot in the stubble Sike lippes sike latace Sike a man as thou wald be draw thee to sike company Soothe bourd is na bourd Seldome lies the Devil dead by the dyke side Saying goes good cheap Spit on the stane it will be wet at the last Soft fire makes sweet malt Sorrows gars websters spin Sturt pays na debt Sillie bairns are eith to lear Saw thin and maw thin Soon rype soon rotten Send and fetch Self deed self ha Shame shall fall them that shame thinks to do themselves a good turn Sike father sike son c. Seill comes not while sorrow be gone Shee s a foule bird that fyles her own nest Speir at Jock thief my marrow if I be a leal man Soon gotten soon spendit Sike priest sike offering She is a sairie mouse that hes but ane hole Surfet slays mae nor the sword Seik your sauce where you get your ail Sokand seall is best Sike answer as a man gives sike will he get Small winning makes a heavy purse Shame is past the shedd of your hair Send him to the sea and he will not get water Saine bless you weill fra the Devil and the Lairds bairns She that takes gifts her self she sels and she that gives does not ells Shroe the ghast that the house is the war of Shew me the man and I shall shew you the law Swear by your burnt shines Sairie be your meâ—l poke and ay your fist in the nook of it T. THe mair haste the war speid Tyde bydes na man Twa daughters and a back door are three stark theeves There was never a cake but it had a make There came never a large fart forth of a Wrans arse Toome empty bagges rattles The thing that is trusted is not forgiven Take part of
sheath He 'll swearthe devil out of hell T. TO thrust his feet under another mans ' table Alienâ vivere quadrâ To take from ones right side to give to ones left To take one up before he is down Tell you a tale and find you ears A tale of a tub To tell tales out of school To talk like an Apothecary Tenterden steeple's the cause of Goodwins sands This Proverb is used when an absurd and ridiculous reason is given of any thing in question an account of the original whereof I find in one of Bishop Latimers sermons in these words M r Moore was once sent with commission into Kent to try out if it might be what was the cause of Goodwins sands and the shelf which stopped up Sandwich haven Thither cometh M r Moore and calleth all the Countrey before him such as were thought to be men of experience and men that could of likelihood best satisfie him of the matter concerning the stopping of Sandwich haven Among the rest came in before him an old man with a white head and one that was thought to be little less then an hundred years old When M r Moore saw this aged man he thought it expedient to hear him say his mind in this matter for being so old a man it was likely that he knew most in that presence or company So M r Moore called this old aged man unto him and said Father said he tell me if you can what is the cause of the great arising of the sands and shelves here about this haven which stop it up so that no ships can arrive here You are the oldest man I can espie in all this company so that if any man can tell any cause of it you of all likelyhood can say most to it or at leastwise more then any man here assembled Yea forsooth good M r Moore quoth this old man for I am well nigh an hundred years old and no man here in this company any thing near my age Well then quoth M r Moore how say you to this matter What think you to be the cause of these shelves and sands which stop up Sandwich haven Forsooth sir quoth he I am an old man I think that Tenterton-steeple is the cause of Goodwin's sands For I am an old man sir quoth he I may remember the building of Tenterton-steeple and I may remember when there was no steeple at all there And before that Tenterton-steeple was in building there was no manner of talking of any flats or sands that stop't up the haven and therefore I think that Tenterton-steeple is the cause of the decay and destroying of Sandwich haven Thus far the Bishop I 'll thank you for the next for this I am sure of There 's a thing in 't quoth the fellow when he drank the dish-clout I 'll not pull the thorn out of your foot and put it into my own To stand upon thorns Thrift and he are at a fray When thrift's in the field he 's in town He strook at Tib but down fell Tom. His tongue 's no slander Your tongue runs before your wit This is an ancient form of speech I find it in Isocrates his oration to Demonicus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His tongue runs on wheels or at random To have a thing at ones tongues end or at the tip of ones tongue Tooth and nail Manibus pedibúsque Remis velisque To have an aking tooth at one From top to toe Topsie turvie I 'de not touch him with a pair of tongs To it again no body comes Nemo nos infequitur aut impellit Erasmus è Platone who tells us that this Proverb continues to this day in common use among the Dutch I suppose to signifie that it is free for us to stay upon any business immorari in re aliqua To drive a subtill trade To put one to his trumps I 'll trust him no further then I can fling him or then I can throw a millstone You may trust him with untold gold To turn with the wind or tide To turn over a new leaf To turn cat in pan In the twinkling of an eye To stop two gaps with on bush To stop two mouths with one morsel Duas linit parietes eâdem sideliâ Unicâsiliâ duos parare generos This is a modern Proverb but deserves saith Erasmus to be numbred amongst the ancient ones I find it among the French D'une fille deux gendres To get himself two sons in law with one daughter To kill two flies with one flap To kill two birds with one shaft or stone D'une pierre faire deux coups Gall. Di un'dono far duoi amici Ital. To make two friends with one gift Pigliar due colombe con una fava Ital. To take two pigeons with one bean To carry two faces under one hood Il a une face à deux visages Gall. Due visi sotto una beretta Ital. To have two strings to ones bow Il fait bien avoir deux chordes en son are Gall. This may be made a sentence by adding to it It is good or such like words Duabus ancoris fultus Two hands in a dish and one in a purse To have thwitten a mill-post to a pudding prick She 's cured of a tympany with two heels U. TO nourish a viper in ones bosom Tu ti allevi la biscia in seno Ital. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theocr. in hodoep Colubrum in sinu fovere Est apud Aesopum Apologus de rustico quodam in hanc rem Nothing but up and ride To be up the Queen apple-tree No sooner up but the head in the Aumbrey and nose in the cup. W. A warrant seal'd with butter To look to ones water To cast water into the Thames Lumen soli mutuari c. You cant't see green cheese but your teeth must water I 'll not wear the wooden daggar i. e. lose my winnings Wear a horn and blow it not To come home by weeping cross This weeping cross which gave occasion to this phrase is about two miles distant from the town of Stafford You may make as good musick on a wheel-barrow Without welt or guard All shall be well and Jack shall have Jyll With a wet finger Levi brachio molli trachio But when quoth Kettle to his mare Chesh Whist whist I smell a birds nest You 'll make an end of your whistle though the cart overthrow Whist and catch a mouse To let leap a whiting i. e. To let slip an opportunity Shee 's neither wife widow nor maid Your windmill dwindles into a nut-crack All this wind shakes no corn Either win the horse or lose the saddle Aut ter sex aut tres tesserae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The ancients used to play with three dice so that thrice six must needs be the best and three aces the worst chance They called three aces simply three dice because they made no more then the number of the dice. The ace side was left empty
nag is worth the span of an aver B. BEtter sit idle then work for nought Better learn by your neighbours skaith nor by your own Better half egg nor an empty shell Better apple given nor eaten Better a dog fan nor bark on you Bodin offered geir stinks Bourd jest neither with me nor with my honour Buy when I bid you Better late thrive then never Better hand louse nor bound to an ill baikine Better lang little nor soon right nought Better give nor take Better bide the cookes nor the mediciners Better saucht with little aucht nor care with many kow Bring a kow to the hall and she will to the byre again Bear wealth poverty will bear it self Better good sale nor good ale Better wooe over midding nor over moss Blaw the wind never so fast it will lower at the last Bind fast find fast Better auld debts nor auld saires Better a fowl in hand nor two flying Better spaire at the breird nor at the bottom Bind the seck before it be full Better be well loved nor ill won geir Better finger off nor ay warking Better rew sit nor rew flit Bourd not with bawty fear lest he bite you Better say Here it is nor here it was Better plays a full weamb nor a new coat Better be happy nor wise Better happy to court nor good service Better a wit bought nor twa for nought Better bow nor break Better two seils nor ane sorrow Better bairnes greit nor bearded men Betwixt twa stools the arse falls down Better na ring nor the ring of a rush Better hold out nor put out Better sit still nor rise and get a fall Better leave nor want Better unborn nor untaught Better be envied nor pitied Better a little fire that warms nor a meikle that burns Be the same thing that thou wald be cald Black will be no other hew Beauty but bounty avails nought Beware of had I wist Better be alone nor in ill company Better a thigging mother nor a ryding father Before I wein and now I wat. Bonie silver is soon spendit Better never begun nor never endit Biting and scratching is Scotsfolks woing Breads house skiald never Bairns mother burst never Bannoks a tharfecake oat bread is better nor na kin bread Better a laying hen nor a lyin crown Better be dead as out of the fashion Better buy as borrow Better have a mouse in the pot as no flesh C. COurt to the town and whore to the window Cadgers meal-men speaks of packsaddles Changing of words is lighting of hearts Charge your friend or you need Cats eats that hussies spares Cast not forth the old water while the new come in Crabbit was and cause had Comparisons are odious Come not to the counsel uncalled Condition makes and condition breaks Cut duelles in every town Cold cools the love that kindles over hot Cease your snowballs casting Come it aire come it late in May comes the cow-quake Courtesie is cumbersom to them that kens it not Chalke is na sheares D. DO in hill as ye wald do in hall Do as ye wald be done to Do weill and have weill Dame deem warily Dead and marriage makes tearm-day Draff is good enough for swine Do the likliest and God will do the best Drive out the inch as thou hast done the span Dead men bites not Daffling jesting good for nothing Dogs will red swine Dirt parts company Drink and drouth comes sindle together Daft talk dow not Do well and doubt na man and do weill and doubt all men Dead at the one door and heirship at the other Dummie a dumb man cannot lie E. EArly maister lang knave Eaten meat is good to pay Eild old age wald have honour Evening orts is good morning fodder Every land hes the lauch and every corn hes the caffe Every man wishes the water to his own mylne Every many can rule an ill wife but he that hes her Eat measurelie and defie the mediciners Every man for himself quoth the Merteine Every man flames the fat sows arse Experience may teach a fool Every man wates best where his own shoe binds him Efter lang mint never dint Efter word comes weird Efter delay comes a lette F. FAir fowles hes fair feathers Fair hights makes fools fain Fools are fain of flitting Falshood made never a fair hinder end Freedom is a fair thing For a lost thing care not Fool haste is no speed Fools let for trust For love of the nurse mony kisses the bairne Folly is a bonny dog Fair words break never bone foul words breaks many ane Foul water slokens fire Far fought and dear bought is good for Ladies For fault of wise men fools sit on binks Fools makes feasts and wise men eats them Fools are fain of right nought Forbid a thing and that we will do Follow love and it will flee thee flee love and it will follow thee Fegges after peace Fools should have no chappin sticks Frindship stands not in one side Few words sufficeth to a wise-man Fire is good for the farcie Fidlers dogs and flies comes to feasts uncalled Fill fow and had fow makes a stark man G. GRace is best for the man Giff gaff one gift for another makes good friends Good wine needs not a wispe Good cheir and good cheap garres many haunt the house God sends men cold as they have clothes to Gods help is neirer nor the fair evin Give never the wolf the wether to keep Good will should be tane in part of payment God sends never the mouth but the meat with it Girn when ye tie and laugh when ye louse Go to the Devil and bishop you Go shoe the geese God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks H. HUnger is good kitchine meat He that is far from his geir is neir his skaith Had I fish was never good with garlick He mon have leave to speak that cannot had his tongue He that lippens to lent plows his land will ly ley He rides sicker that fell never He that will not hear motherhead shall hear stepmotherhead He that crabs without cause should mease without mends He that may not as he would mon do as he may He that spares to speak spares to speed He is weil easit that hes ought of his own when others goes to the meat He that is welcome faires weil He that does ill hates the light He that speaks the thing he should not hears the things he would not He that is evil deemd is half hanged Help thy self and God will help thee He that spends his geir on a whore hes both shame and skaith He that forsakes missour missour forsakes him Half a tale is enough to a wise man He that hewes over hie the spail will fall into his eye He that eats while he lasts will be the war while he die He is a weak horse that may not bear the saidle He that borrows and bigs makes feasts and thigs drinks and is not
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
countenance His Cow hath calved or sow pig'd He hath got what he sought for or expected With Cost one may make pottage of a stool-foot D. THe Dasnel dawcock sits among the Doctours Corchorus inter olera Corchorus is a small herb of little account Some take it to be the Male Pimpernel beside which there is another herb so called which resembles Mallowes and is much eaten by the Egyptians When the Devil is blind Heigh ho the Devil is dead Strike Dawkin the Devil is i' th' hemp The Devil is good to some It 's good sometimes to hold a candle to the Devil Holding a candle to the devil is assisting in a bad cause an evil matter The Devil is i' th' dice. When the Devil is a hog you shall eat bacon To give one the Dog to hold i. e. To serve one a dog-trick It 's a good Dog can catch any thing He looks like a Dog under a door Make a-do and have a-do I know what I do when I drink Drink off your drink and steal no lambs Drift is as bad as unthrift He was hang'd that left his drink behind him Good fellows have a story of a certain malefactour who came to be suspected upon leaving his drink behind him in an Alehouse at the News of an Hue and cry A good day will not mend him nor a bad day impair him I 'll make him dance without a pipe i. e. I 'll do him an injury and he shall not know how E. I 'll warrant you for an Egg at Easter F. YOu two are finger and thumb My wife cryes five loaves a penny i. e. She is in travel It 's good fish if it were but caught It 's spoken of any considerable good that one hath not but talks much of sues for or endeavours after A future good which is to be catched if a man can is but little worth To morrow morning I found an horse-shoe The Fox was sick and he knew not where He clap't his hand on his tail and swore it was there That which one most forehets soonest comes to pass Quod quisque vitet nunquam homini satis cautum est in horas Horat. Look to him Jaylour there 's a frog i' th' stocks G. THe way to be gone is not to stay here Good goose do not bite It 's a sorry goose will not baste her self I care no more for it then a goose-t .... for the Thames Let him set up shop on Goodwins sands This is a piece of Countrey wit there being an aequivoque in the word Good-win which is a surname and also signifies gaining wealth He would live in a gravel-pit Spoken of a wary sparing niggardly person This grow'd by night Spoken of a crooked stick or tree it could not see to grow Great doings at Gregories heat the oven twice for a custard He hath swallowed a Gudgeon He hath swore desperately viz. to that which there is a great presumption is false Swallowed a false oath The Devils guts i. e. The surveyours chain A good fellow lights his candle at both ends God help the fool quoth Pedly This Pedley was a naturall fool himself and yet had usually this expression in his mouth Indeed none are more ready to pity the folly of others then those who have but a small measure of wit themselves H. HIs hair growes through his hood He is very poor his hood is full of holes You have a handsome head of hair pray give me a tester When Spendthrifts come to borrow money they commonly usher in their errand with some frivolous discourse in commendation of the person they would borrow of or some of his parts or qualities The same be said of beggers A handsome bodied man i' th' face Hang your self for a pastime If I be hang'd I 'll chuse my gallowes A King Harry's face Better have it then hear of it To take heart of grace To be hide-bound This was a Hill in King Harry's dayes To be loosei'th ' Hilts. Hit or misse for a cow-heel A hober de hoy half a man and half a boy Hold or cut Codpiece point Hold him to 't buckle and thong She 's an holy-day dame You 'll make honey of a dogst ... That horse is troubled with corns i. e. foundred He hath eaten a horse and the tail hangs out at his mouth He had better put his horns in his pocket then wind them There 's but an hour in a day between a good housewife and a bad With a little more pains she that slatters might do things neatly He came in hos'd and shod He was born to a good estate He came into the world as a Bee into the hive or into an house or into a trade or employment I. I Am not the first and shall not be the last To be Jack in an office An inch an hour a foot a day A basket Justice a Jyll Justice a good forenoon Justice He 'll do Iustice right or wrong K. THere I caught a Knave in a purse net Knock under the board He must do so that will not drink his cup. As good a knave I know as a knave I know not An horse kiss A rude kiss able to beat ones teeth out L. HIs house stands on my Ladyes ground A long lane and a fair wind and always thy heels here away Lasses are lads leavings Chesh In the East part of England where they use the word Mothther for a girl they have a fond old saw of this nature viz. Wenches are tinkers bitches girles are pedlers trulls and modhdhers are honest mens daughters He 'll laugh at the wagging of a straw Neither lead nor drive An unto ward unmanageable person To play least in sight To go as if dead lice dropt out of him He is so poor and lean and weak that he cannot maintain his lice Thou 'lt lie all manner of colours but blew and that is gone to the litting i. e. dying Tell a lie and find the troth Listners ne'er hear good of themselves To lye in bed and forecast Sick o' th' Lombard feaver or of the idles She hath been at London to call a strea a straw and a waw a wall Chesh This the common people use in scorn of those who having been at London are ashamed to speak their-own Countrey dialect She lives by love and lumps in corners Every one that can lick a dish as much to say as every one simpliciter tag rag and bobtail It 's a lightning before death This is generally observed of sick persons that a little before they dye their pains leave them and their understanding and memory return to them as a candle just before it goes out gives a great blaze The best dog leap the stile first i. e. Let the worthiest person take place M. Maxfield measure heap and thrutch i. e. thrust Chesh To find a mares nest He 's a man every inch of him A match quoth Hatch when he got his wife by the breech A match quoth Iack when he
one heave a pound Som. As fond as an Ape of a whip Som. You make the better side the worse Som. Northern Proverbs communicated by Mr Fr. Brokesby of Rowley in Yorkshire AS blake i. e. yellow as a paigle Hee 'll never dow i. e. be good egg nor bird As flat as a flaun i. e. a custard I 'll foreheet i. e. predetermine nothing but building Churches and louping over them Meeterly indifferently as maids are in fairness Weal and women cannot pan i. e. close together But woe and women can SCOTTISH PROVERBS A. ALl things hath a beginning God excepted A good beginning makes a good ending A slothful man is a beggers brother A vaunter and a liar is both one thing All is not tint that is in peril All is not in hand that helps A toom purse makes a bleat merchant As long runs the fox as he feet hath A hasty man never wanted wo. A wight man wanted never a weapon A fools bolt is soon shot A given horse should not be lookt in the teeth A good asker should have a good naysay A dear ship stands long in the haven An oleit mother makes a sweir daughter A carless hussie makes mony thieves A liar should have a good memory A black shooe makes a blithe heart A hungry man sees far A silly bairn is eith to lear A half-penny cat may look to the King A greedy man God hates A proud heart in a poor breast hes meikle dollour to dree A scald mans head is soon broken A skabbit sheep fyles all the flock A burnt bairne fire dreads Auld men are twice bairnes A tratler is worse then a thief A borrowed len should come laughing hame A blithe heart makes a blomand visage A year a nurish seven years a daw An unhappy mans cairt is eith to tumble An old hound bites fair A fair bride is soon buskt and a short horse soon wispt As good haud as draw A man that is warned is half armed An ill win penny will cast down a pound All the corn in the countrey is not shorn by pratlers Ane begger is wae that another be the gate gae A travelled man hath leave to lie Ane ill word meets another and it were at the bridg of London A hungry louse bites fair A gentle horse would not be over fair spurred A friends dinner is soon dight An ill cook wald have a good claver A good fellow tint never but at an ill fellows hand At open doors dogs comes in A word before is worth two behind A still sow eats all the draff A dumb man holds all All fails that fools thinks A wooll seller kens a wooll buyer All fellows Jock and the Laird As the sow fills the draff soures A full heart lied never As good merchant tynes as wins All the speid is in the spurs As fair greits the bairne that is dung afternoon as he that is dung before noon An ill life an ill end Anes wood never wise ay the worse Anes pay it never cravit A good rufer was never a good rider All the keys in the countrey hangs not at ane belt A dumb man wan never land As soon comes the lambs skin to the market as the old sheeps As many heads as many wits A blind man should not judge of colours As the old cock craws the young cock leares A skabbed horse is good enough for a skald squire A mirk mirrour is a mans mind As meikle up with as meikle down with An ill shearer gat never a good book A tarrowing bairn was never fat A good cow may have an ill cals A cock is crouse in his own midding A new bissome soupes clean As fair fights wranes as cranes A yelt sow was never good to gryses As the carle riches he wretches A fool when he hes spoken hes all done An old seck eraves meikle clouting An old seck is ay skailing A fair fire makes a room flet An old knave is na bairne A good yeaman makes a good woman A man hath no more good then he hath good of A fool may give a wise man a counsel A man may speir the gate to Rome As long lives the merry man as the wretch for all the craft he can All wald have all all wald forgive Ane may lead a horse to the water put four and twenty cannot gar him drink A bleat cat makes a proud mouse An ill willy kow should have short horns A good piece steil is worth a penny A shored tree stands lang A gloved cat was never a good hunter A gangand foot is ay getting an it were but a thorn All is not gold that glitters A swallow makes not summer or spring-time A man may spit on his hand and do full ill An ill servant will never be a good maister An hyred horse tyred never All the winning is in the first buying Anuch enough is a feast of bread and cheise A horse may stumble on four feet All thing wytes that well not faires All things thrives but thrice Absence is a shroe Auld sin new shame A man cannot thrive except his wife let him A bairne mon creep or he gang As long as ye serve the tod ye man bear up his tail All overs are ill but over the water A man may wooe where he will but he will wed where he is weard A mean pot where several share in it plaid never evin Among twenty four fools not ane wise man Ane mans meat is another mans poison A fool will not give his bable for the tower of Lon. A foul foot makes a full weamb A man is a lion in his own cause A hearty hand to give a hungry meltith A cumbersome cur in company is hated for his miscarriage A poor man is fain of little An answer in a word A beltless bairn cannot lie A yule feast may be quat at Pasche A good dog never barket bout a bone A full-seek will take a clout on the side An ill hound comes halting home All things help quod the Wran when she pished in the sea All cracks all beares A houndless man comes to the best hunting All things hes an end and a pudding hes twa All is well that ends well As good hads the stirrep as he that loups on A begun work is half ended A Scottish man is ay wise behind the hand A new sound per onomatop in an old horn As broken a ship hes come to land As the fool thinks ay the bell clinks A man may see his friend need but he will not see him bleed A friend is not known but in need A friend in court is better nor a penny in the purse All things is good unseyed A good goose indeed but she hes an ill gander All are not maidens that wears bair hair A mache and a horse-shoe are both alike Airlie crooks the tree that good cammok should be An ounce of mothers wit is worth a pound of Clergy An inch of a