VViddow marrying beneath her self pisseth backward As wrinkled as the face of a peny Custard Starve not thy cause for want of fees nor thy horse to save a bottle of hay The Presbyters wife had rather see her husband in his shirt then in a Surplice Refiners of Religion commonly prove Quacksalvers You may as easily snuff the Moon when she shines dimm The Venetian Christned in salt-water which makes him so wise Forgive any one sooner then thy self He bears in his face all the Festivalls of the year Preferment without profit like a feather in ones capp Though its modesty to decline Praise yet it is a Pride not to care what the world speaks of thee Redd capps and coiffs fatall to France viz. Cardinalls and Queen Mothers The fifth Century MAke not Gods House thy through-fare Unlesse thou dropp some Prayses there A Platonique Lover like one that 's still saying gâ—ace and never falls to his meat So long did the good wife pray for a boy that she had one that proved a boy all his life-time The wife knowes more then the Cuckold her husband Who hath sore teeth hath ill Tenants Who hangs one corrects a thousand Sett thy Watch by the Sun rather then by the Clock When thy ankle akes it little avails thee to anoint thy elbow He thrives as well as a VVelch Runt in Rumney Marsh. VVho giveth Almes maketh the best use of his money You may paint the Flower in all his colours but not give it the smell Counterfeit Friendshipp is worse then false Coyn. A Martyr in Prison is like a Diamond sett in a horn-ring Hear thy self oftner speaking to God Almighty then another speaking for thee VVho commends himself deserves a Garland of Hemlock If God be in the Portall all the rooms in thy house will be well furnished Magnitude is not the measure of worth More Porters then Princes go to Heaven because ther are more of them King Harry loved a Man and so did his daughter Besse A dry Cough the Trumpeter of death A Starr twinkleth most in winter so a wiseman in Adversity The great wheel of Providence doth alwaies turn though none can see the Spokes The Rufflingest VVinds are commonly found in Church-yards so the greatest clashes are about Religion Gett thy spindle and distaff ready and God will send thee Flax. So miserable a kerle that he cannot bestow brown paper enough to wipe his tayl clean The Union twixt England and Scotland like Oyle mixt with Vinegar A face that weareth patches sheweth there is a Roome to be lett by the Bill on the doore The glorious Sun is Gods great Emissary One of the best conveniences of a house is to have good neighbours The first part of wisedome is to give good Counsell the second to take it the third to follow it The body is but the sockett of the soul. They that are hang'd their souls goe out at their tayls In VVarr take all advantages but give none Never seek enemies abroad thou hast too many at home viz. Thy own passions The Presbyterian licks up that which the Jesuit disgorgeth against Kings They who buy Justice by whole sayl Must sell it by retayl VVho preacheth VVarr is the Devils Chaplain Giving begetts Love lending doth lessen it Hee who will passe a Judgement of himselfe must incline more to Rigour then Mercy There be many witty men yet their brains cannot fill their bellies The Astrologer hath this advantage that one true Prediction maketh amends for a hundred lies More easie to raise Captains in England then common souldiers The modern Zelotts go to exalt Christ's Church upon the Devils back Thou that hatest the Crosse which was the first Christian Altar dost thou hope to have benefitt of the Oblation The promise of a Gentleman should be equall to a performance In Lotteries men mourn in white and laugh in black The French so fiery-mouth'd that they must be ridd with a bitt On the Desk the Priest is the peeples Messenger to God in the Pulpitt he is Gods Messenger to the peeple History the Tribunall of Princes after death The Devill may now freely walke upp and down Cheapside for there is never a Crosse to fright him Cleer thy Conscience before thou close thy Eyes so thou may'st have golden dreams The Presbyterian though he hateth a Crosse in the Church yet he loveth it too well in his pockett The Calvinists beleeve the Salique Law is in Heaven which make them so little esteem the blessed Virgin Magnitude is not the measure of worth If I had known of your coming I would have dined with you Viz. I had provided more for you but now you must be content to dine with me Honour moveth in a higher Sphere farr then pleasure The peeple to the Politician like tools to a mechanique He seldom goes with gray hairs to his grave who disobeyeth his Parents A Pope by Voices a King by Nature an Emperour by power A King should impose severer Lawes upon himself then on his subjects An old Usurer like a Thiefe who though he be to be hanged to Morrow yet he stealeth to Day Kings should be told what they ought to do not what they are able Learning the Child of Light born first in the East next the Sun rising He is happy who endeth his journey before he be quite tyred viz. Before he be too old The English Language is Dutch Embrodered with French Poesie the greatest Light whereby to find that one hath a soul. A redd morn will commonly pisse or fart before night When thou dost read a Book do not turn the leafs only but gather the fruit A rich kerle like a Mill-horse that grindeth Corn for others The worst of Crosses is never to have had any The Passing-bell is deaths Clock and the Clock is Times Passing-bell As hard to brush off an infamy as a shaddow The poor are Gods Receivours and the Angels are his Auditors The German proud by Imitation the French by Inclination Death is the certainst of all things to come The Majesty of a King is a Ray of Divine Light Craft is bastard-Policy Necessitie hath found more Arts then Ingenuity ever invented Water Earth and Air the three staple Commodities of Nature Oportunity the best moment in the whole extension of Time Chimistry the torture of Mettalls If thy sonne be given to drinke send him to Spain if to Drabbs send him to Germany to be reclaimd False Reports like Musrumps that have no Roots The worst Feaver is that of the toung The Rich man walketh to gett a stomack to his his meat the poore man to gett meat for his stomack Lett Reson perswade Thee Before she invade Thee A Rich Citty like a fatt Cheese apt to breed Magotts viz. Mutinies and Vices Take part alwayes with Reson against thy Will England lies strong as a Tortois in her shell The Living Lord hath a dead Hand where he strikes Lett 's goe quickly to Dinner that we may have a Collation in the afternoon and goe betimes to Supper that we may have a Nuntion before we goe to bedd and so rise early in the Morning to Breakefast Viz. The humour of the French The Emperour of China the onely Prince that putteth bounds to his Ambition being ever upon the Defensive The VVise man like the Salamander can goe through the Furnace of Affliction and never burn Repentance the Laundresse of the Conscience VVho hath glasse-windowes of his own lett him take heed how he throwes stones at those of his neighbour A true King like Hercules should have his clubb alwayes lying by him The fist is stronger then the hand though it be nothing but the hand An Embleme of Union The worst peeple have most lawes Prudence applieth things past provideth for the present and preventeth what may come Though the Air of Spain be hotter yet it is not so subject to Feavers as that of France A Printed Apology is like pennance in a white sheet Rather then burn venture a fall out of the window Well fare those dayes that sweet-meats were served up in wheele-barrowes at Goring-House He that doth a serious businesse in haste rides Post upon an Asse Infantium Cerebri Quartus post Quadraginta FINIS
fool a three white-foot horse is a horse for a King and if he hath but one I le give him to none Make thy bargain more cautiously with thy friend then a stranger He can make weight of every lock of wooll To take two Pigeons with one bean Who seeketh strife shall find it at home Who lives by hope dies farting I know how many loafs make a couple That which must be 't is fitting it should come That which will be will be 'T is an ill thing to be bad but 't is worse to be known so The best oignions are those which are transplanted I am not afraid of ill faces for I was born at Shrovetide viz. when there was so many whifflers I am not used to carry double 'T is bootles to rise betimes unless one hath good fortune The honor one doth with the mouth avails much costs little Every woman is chaste unless she be hunted after To live content hear see and be silent Easter so wished for long passeth away in one day Patience time and money accommodate all things Like the men of Gotham who sowed needles hoping they would grow to bars of iron Temporall Proverbs touching the Seasons LIke March Sun which heats but doth not melt Dearth under water bread under snow April April thou shalt not make me cast off my wascot At Saint Thomas the day is lengthened a cock-stride An Evening red and a morning gray presages are of a fair day At Michaelmas hot weather goeth to heaven Young and old must go warm at Martlemas At Saint Martins drink wine and let the water run by the mill When the Cock drinkes in summer it will rain a little after The snow for eight dayes is a mother to the earth but after a stepmother As Mars hastneth all the humors feel it Few grapes and wine enough a little corn little bread In August neither ask for Olive Chesnut nor Acorns January commits the fault and May bears the blame A year of snow a year of plenty Three seasonable showres in August are worth king Salomons Chariot and horses Physicall Proverbs touching Health CHeese marrs no taste Lie along at night sit in the morning stand up at noon and walk in the Evening Old men who play with young maids embrace death Fish spoils water flesh mends it Commend a wife but keep thy self a batchelor Who gapes would either go to sleep or doe a thing which he dare's not tell When a woman doth yawn and stretch who understands not her meaning is a silly wretch Never was there great river but puddle water went into it Better give the wool then the sheep Better give a peny then lend twenty Better to pass a danger once then be alwaies in fear To the gout all Physicians are blind Bread as long as it last but wine by measure Bread of one day an egg of one hour wine of one year fish of ten a woman of fifteen and a friend of a hundred Health without money is half a sickness Piss cleer and a fig for the Physician Black new and neat is the way to go brave When the old man will not drink go to see him in the other world A hog of a moneth a goose of three are food for a King Apples pears and nuts spoil the voice Oâ—d fish old oyl and an old friend Fish in the Sun and flesh in the shade A little meat and less grief cause mirth He is twixt the bed and the couch viz. in a mending way A quartan Ague kills the old and cures the young There be more old drunkards then old Physitians A good a bad and one indifferent meal maintaineth health Sell thy coat to buy Betony Veal poultry and raw fish do fatten the Churchyard Wine within and wit without Wine in the middle oyle obove and hony beneath Who will keep himself in health let him piss like a dogg viz. often An old hen fattens the kitchin One egg is nothing two a little better then nothing three are something five are too many and six kill One cock serves ten hens but ten men not one woman An old hen makes good broth Once a year let bloud once a moneth bath once a week wash thy head i. be trimd and once a day kiss thy wife June July and August wife I know thee not Blind cheese bread with eyes wine that leaps into your eyes As sound as a fish or a bell Piss clear and shite upon the Physitians head Be not bashful at table Go betimes to the Fishmarket and late to the shambles Keep thy feet dry and thy head warm and for the rest live like a beast viz. temperately A young Barber and an old Physitian Window wind like the hit of a crossbow Who goeth supperless to bed museth most part of the night Sleep by day as much as thou wilt and at night as much as thou canst Plant thy Vine in a good soyl and take a wife of a good race 'T is better feed a fever then feebleness He doth kindness to those who are beyond the Devil and makes no account of his own kindred You read unto me my own compositions as newes Thou art the eighth wiseman and the third Cato Thou wilt have better bread then is made of wheat He hath pissed in more then in one snow He is longer then Dante He is become a Bishop from a Pope Thou wilt empty the sea with a spoon A woman who paints will do more then piss She is like a chesnut fair without and rottten within Thou beginst to slay at the tail He smels of musk viz. of a ruffian Thou hast as many doublings as a cabage You give me bread for cake You may piss a bed and say you sweated He is full of talk it being the custome in Italy to give the greatest talker the rump of the hen The wolf being sick wished to be a Frier but being well he repented of it The cock is the countrey mans clock The first year a man is married either he falleth sick or into debt An Argos abroad and a mole at home A white wall is the paper of fools Put on wood enough for the ashes will yield money Thou art a greater fool then the Crab who carrieth his brains in his pocket Where there are women and geese there wants no noise To be fouly bafled The Courtesan weeps with one eye the wife with two and the Nun with four Two Williams and one Peter make a perfect fool Good morrow Dante whence comest thou how high is the dirt Answer From Rome up to the tail a good day and a good year to you Thou art out of the furrow thou art beside the way As the Gardners dog who would not eat cabage himself nor suffer others to do it The goslings lead the geese to water The feast of Saint Nimbo three dayes before doomesday To stumble at the first step I put a flea in his ear He shall pay at three doblons I care
the fire as bad as the mother viz. the disease VVho takes not up a pin hath no care of his wife In avoiding the Fly he swallowed the Spider A large train and light purse To whom I wish well let his wife dye Speak well and seldom thou wilt be held for some body To speak without fore-thinking is to shoot without aiming Do well it matters not to whom Do what the Fryer tells thee not what he doth VVho serves well asks enough Where there is a fool and a turd they will quickly be known An early riser hath care of something Honour and profit cannot hold in one bag To fly away and run is not one thing To steal a Pig and give the Pettitoes in almes A little spindle a great help A new guest a trouble to the house The wheat is merry under the snow as an old man under a blanket I â—m a little merry but I do my business Egges are as thousands of meats I beat the bush another catcheth the birds I go where no Pope or Emperour can send their Embassador viz. To stool The Wolf and the Fox are of the same mind The fish who seeks the â—ook seeks his ruine VVho dallies with his enemy dies betwixt his hands The Masters eye fatneth the horse The Fryer who begs for God begs for two This is to make a hedge of thorns with naked hands Make thy Son thy Heir not thy Steward In a dry soyl brackish water is good In the labourers house hunger looks in but dares not enter Good fishing in troubled water He was born in an ill hour who gets an ill name In this wretched world when there is wine enough there wants bread The just man may sin in an open chest In the gamesters house joy lasts but little A straw is heavy in a long journey In a full house supper is quickly ready Bastards are very good or very bad Wo to the son whose father to Heaven is gone That must be which pleaseth God Grind good corn and never blow the horn Take heed of a Punk that leaves thy purse light Beware of the occasion and God will save thee from the sin Death takes no bribe A grain fills not the sive but it helps its companions A great pleasure to eat well and spend nothing My father MunÌ„oz desires what God doth not Who erres and mends he recommends himself to God Who preserves himself God preserves him Who lives well hath no need of any When thou hearest our Lady named ask not whether thou must fast He hath his soul in his fist After this world another will come Peter is so much Gods that God gets him not All is nothing in this world unless you direct it to the other Who goes not to sea knows not how to pray Before thou marry see what thou dost Before thou marry have a house wherein to tarry A husband of thirty for a wife of fifteen An ill night and yet a girl Who loves Beltran loves his dog She gathers ashes and scatters corn Let every pot have its cover Well or ill they have married me Marry marry sounds well and savours ill Marry and converse with your equal Marry thy daughter with a good neighbour and thou wilt sell thy wine Marry and thou wilt be tame enough Weddings have fools of all kind Smoak a dropping gutter and a scold cast the good man out of his hold Who is an enemy to the Bride how can he speak well of the Bridegroom The Stag casts his horns every year and thy husband every day From a prognosticating Maid and a Latine Wife the Lord preserve me God guard me from the wind through a hole and from a reconciled friend Beware of a young Physitian and an old Barber The name of a Step-mother is enough The Devil makes the Usurers bed The Oven is heated by the mouth To trust God upon a good pawn God keep thee from 't is done Beads about his neck and the Devil in his body A short prayer penetrates heaven Much on earth little in heaven I do for thee because thou mayst do for me for thou art not God The secrecy of two is the secrecy of God the secrecy of three is all mens secrecy When God will it raines with all winds Praying to God and driving the plow viz. prayer and labour will do well Let thy hand go to what thou art fit for Whom God doth bless his Bitch brings forth Piggs To a chast woman God is sufficient Whom God doth bless the Ant seeks him out He is rich who is well with God By right or wrong God speed our Councel I come very conveniently Give me some meat To lock up or keep safely To send a message Give me wherewith to write To give order It is to be noted that this word Recaudo is a word of the largest extent in all the Spanish tongue for it signifies a Message by word or Letter a Present a Commission or any accomodation Assurance or Security Victuall or Provision for war or any place else and all things that a man needs or is provided of for himself or his beast c. God gives Beans to him who hath no gums God betters us from hour to hour Let me have a rich Husband though he be an Ass. From a fools bolt God deliver me God send thee joy and health and a house with a Court and a Well God send me to do with him who understands me God put strife among those that maintain us viz. Clients God consents but not alwayes From smooth water God deliver me for I shall preserve my self from the rough Tripe porredge dost thou brag Against presumption Let good luck come and let it come whence it will A rich widow a quiet house A Whore and a Hare seek them near the high way Iew pay what thou owest for what I owe thee stands upon account Go when thou art sent come when thou art called I was dust there came water and made me dirt Much corn never bad year For rising early the day breaks never the sooner For newes never trouble thy selfe thou shalt know it time enough Little wealth little care Over shooes over boots By no means leave not the high-way for a by-path Take thy wifes first counsel not the second Ask MunÌ„oz for he tells more lies then two An open gate tempts a Saint They set up a Cross because he should not piss in the place When the beast groans load on and do not fear When the Devil is at his Beads he will couzen thee When the Devil comes to thy gate and shall beg thy sleeves cut them off and give them him Like bell like clapper When thou art an Anvil suffer like an Anvil when thou art a Hammer strike like a Hammer VVhen thou art with thy wife belly to belly do not tell her whatsoever comes into thy mind The Saint can do nothing when God is not pleased If the fields will not the Saints can
his youth Woe to him that seeks his landlord dayly Woe to the beast that never seeth his owner Worse and worse like the son of a goat Woe to that one man that makes a hundred sad The day will discover the work of the night It is an easie work to beware A friends frown is better then a fools smiles An importunate begger cannot keep To cut a witth with a beetle Naturam expellas furcâ c. After long languishing death A lion when old may be conquered To fish in a sheep-coat Too much cunning undoes Fortune out-veyes cunning A bird in hand is better then two in the bush Clear conscience a sure card A friend in Court c. Good though long stayed for is good A fair face and a foul heart To think his grandmother a maide To give pay with a ladle No more then the he-goat to the kill Antipathy Better one braggadocio then two fighters Better one pair of feet then two pair of hands Woe to the Owner of a weak bow Woe to the servant of a weak Lord. Multitude conquers greatness It is easie to cut out thongs of another mans skin Howell is generous at the Countreyes charge The play of an old cur with a whelp The toung will cause beheading Easier to censure then do The bald will not believe till he sees his brains It is easie to draw blood out of a skabbie head The kinsmans ear will hear it A womans commodity stronger then a rope He that hath the daughters cunt will have the mothers heart Long aiming long shiting A womans hand is the pricks wheâ—stone Enough is as good as a feast Enough for each man what he can manage Compare onely with thy compeers Who complains without cause may have cause to complain Spare the surety spare the principal A small cause may produce much grief Cause without cause The besome ought still be busie Without a good horse to take the field is folly Complain for fear of complaints A house dry over head is happy Long sorrow moulds misery A cat may be cram'd with crums Each owner his own A child knowes who licks but not who loves him Open-mouth'd hedges speak bad husband Feed liberally find labourers The wise and the fool have their fellows Get a sonne get a sword Great promises small performance A fairly makes a fool laugh The gray is ripe for the grave The Hart brayes for the brook The Hart being fed takes the field The lewd and naught love long nights Whom death kills none recalls Should not bad councel be cancelled He that bears the bag may fill his belly He that steals an egg will steal a nagg Teach the child a Sunday he will remember it a Munday If the Lion go to the field God will be his shield He that goes to Court without errand may bring home an arrest VVho at horse play would learn skill at home should leave his skinne Tine before Kine Soon get up soon goe down A heart heavy is not healthy A Nurses tongue priviledged to talk She silent and dull Domb A lary fool hands foule His mouth fouly sweats that swears Wild and wanton He that hath store of bread may beg his milk merrily Many boxes make empty bellies If much hony hap thou mayest put it in thy pap A lawyer pleads all pleas or he that sticketh at the first course on all occasions shifts to discourse No plea to what God pleaseth or whom God loveth in his grave lies An Impudent shaver will hardly be saved He that scolds at sea will do the like on land He that is uncertain when he goeth will doe no good ere he goeth An old mans best praise is prayer Gallant means gallant men The dead out of view we need not avoid He that dieth for threats with his own T. should be tainted The nearer the Porch the further from Paradise Might overcomes right To refuse in want waste To give where there is no want A twisted lace is not easily loos'd Once prime man now no man No power no respect Gods will be done Who would be commended let him die first If thou wouldst try friends be sick Be hearty be healthy Have the haft have the blade A cuff in the morning is remembred in the evening Gods word uppermost Who loves not his mother will hardly love his stepmother That love is slender which regards not a friends slander Love young sparkes love their sports Or love the yoak tine love what belongs thereto Who loves her husband most love his mother m. Plundred ware never thrive Close and near will cleave in need The great crow doth cry the young sayes I. Out of a small complaint groweth a greater Over complaint no complaint Rise to plead lose thy place Learn if thou can and keep it Almes more valued then venison Offend God offend man Out of sight out of mind Good ale the key of cuuncel or The barly corn is the hearts key Patience is Knowledge's life-guard Passion a note of bad nature Every guest can guess Love me love my dog Chide the birth for the salt bag The old man dies the young man danceth or The old doth fall the young laughs his fill Plenty of all a tanning Plenty of honny a straining Where love fails we spy all faults Bâ—ood soon stands on a white steed Bloud is not hid in a scabby head Unrich unready Strange dishes dainties Ignorance denies the conclusion Covenant breaketh custome Breach of custome contempt A time for meat and a time for Mass. A time for all things Ill bred ill bruised Bruise in the sinewes death in the veins A hollow man an ill messenger Choler waves kindred The dull sees no more then the dark An angel in the field a devil by the fire Want will make the old trull to trot Want buyes and sells also Want cancels commands Want doth rouse the old to run Ever lewd never beloved Needy and poor are nobile Par. What wants in part is imperfect If fool ever foul Cold will never catch heat Death makes speed unexspected Grim death buyes full dear The more fame the greater shame A fool may be shamed in shiting A churlish friend never free Unhopeful unhappy No confidence in cowards A churle unstaid and stubborn If God saith it must be so VVhat a babler saith is fawcy Set thy dog but thou sit down Drive the dog to the dayry Rash in kind inconstant Cold face calls for fire Whom I love I like Patient and silent Mock and be mocked Soft fire maketh sweet malt Wise words and great seldom agree Give much and mildly or divide commons kindly Plow while thou art plow ere thou art not Suspend till the end A man of power may compel VVhere none chuse it is the Lords escheat Every one is Lord of his own God save a weak Lords servant Money is said to buy and sell. If foul fail use fair means He that avoids not smoak may smart The medow is shorn with
make my humble addresse to your Lordshipp For having called my Thoughts often to Counsell who should give this Blessing they all concluded ther was none so fitt to do it as your Lordshipp And indeed ther were many resons for it First the Character I have heard applied unto you which was given of one of the Holiest Fathers of the Church That you were Coelestis Homo Terrestris Angelus A Heavenly Man and Terrestriall Angell being Pious in so intense a Degree which Exemplary Piety goes attended with a becoming Reverentiall gravity with such a meekness of spirit and so many high Morall Vertues together with a rare Equanimity in possessing your soul with so much patience and courage by making your crosses stoop unto you after so long a time of pressure Lastly your most Exquisite Learning and Vniversality of Knowledge attended with such a soundnesse of Iudgement and clearnesse of Vnderstanding The pleasing Contemplation and experimentall Knowledge of all these Particulars induced me to this just Application of desiâ—ing your Blessing accordingly Touching the Ingredients of this last Peece they cannot yet be called Proverbs for as Rome was not built in a day so a Proverb is not suddenly made but it requires a long Tract of Time and vulgarity of usage before it becomes a Proverb it is the Common-people alone that have priviledge of making Proverbs To conclude I thought it not amisse to apprehend this Oportunity to make the world know the high Reverence I bear to your Lordship and the sense I have of sundry Noble Civilities I received from time to time as also of the favourable Opinion you please to have of divers Things of mine which makes me in a due Reverenciall posture thus to crave your Benediction and to professe my self upon this publick Record Calendis Maij 1659. My Lord Your obedient and ever obliged Servant JAM HOWELL DIVERS CENTURIES OF NEVV SAYINGS VVhich may serve FOR PROVERBS TO POSTERITY The first Century MAke thou the furrowes and God will send thee seed In a sluttish house the Devill shakes his tayl As stiff as a Puritans knee who will not bend to him who made it English Merchant wilt thou gain Then have Commerce and peace with Spain As redd as Rogers nose who was christned in pump-water Robb the King thou may'st be hang'd Robb the Church thou wilt be damn'd The rich misers son quickly mewes his fathers feathers Warr begetts Peace as a ruddy Evening a fair morn Doff not thy clothes till thou goest to bed Nor part with thy Estate till thou art dead Burn not thy fingers to snuff another mans candle Who falleth to argue ere the case be stated Let ts slip his dogg before the Hare be started Repentance is good but Innocence is better Clear thy Conscience before thou close thy eyes so thou mayest have golden dreams A good name like a Maydenhead once lost irrecoverable If Spain had Bread enough and Men She of the Cock would make a Hen viz. Of Gallus the French Sea sicknesse and child-births pain Are like they both will to 't again The works of a Catholick the words of a Puritan and the Faith of a Protestant may make a perfect Christian. He is a true Author that creates a fancy Who adores gold is the worst idolater If thou wilt make a good Will do it while thou art well As hot as a punks plackett A Rebell and madd dogg knock in the head They 'l bite no more when they are dead The Devil is Gods shadow Give not a Lawyer or Physician fee Unlesse it be in pure necessity You will make me believe as soon that the Spanish Moon is as hot as the Swedish Sun As sneezing comes from a bad cause So from ill manners come good lawes As Mercury among the Planets is the French among other Nations From the Berry of the Grape and Grain of the Barly Comes many a fray and hurlyburly Be thy breath never so sweet thy own praise stinks out of it An Essex Calf will never make a Welâ— Runâ— When come's from Heaven baâ—r on thy knees what from men on thy shoulders viz. Manfully Worldly Accidents are but new Moons in the old ones shape Gett Ireland to day and England may be thine to morrow Put all in the Pater-Noster thy self only in thy Creed We come into the world without heads forward we go out with our heels I would not wiâ—â— such an opinion to the worsâ— of my enemies Rash prayer is rather a sin then a sacrifice Here is Wine indeed to be drunk in the Devills skull Who woo's with fine clothes maketh the Taylor his Broker I think this Bacon was a piece of Lottâ— wifes burtock 't is so salt Truth is the result of Reason As jealousie in Love so is superstition in Religion Rebellion the spawn of wealth and wantonnesse Heaven once named all things else are bables The Dutch in drinking charge the brain with smal shott the English with bullets viz. Whole glasses A shipp's a wooden horse who carrieth his burden in his belly and his bridle in his tayl Chameleons take all colours but the white And Schismaticks all fancies but the right Idleness the Devils couch and lust his cushion The Master who correcteth the childe kisseth the Mother The present Philosophers compar'd to the old are as Dwarfs on Giants shoulders Surely he knew well that coals would burn who first invented fire-tongs You must not expect perfumes in a Piggsty As wise as the Mayor of Banbury who would prove that Henry the Third was before Henry the Second He may knock boldly who bringeth good newes The long Parlement made God Almighty the greatest Malignant for they plundered his House most He is as fit for that place as an ambling horse is for a Coach A loyall Subject like the Marigold should open and shutt with the Sun viz. His Soveraign Prince A good hous-wife should twinkle in her house like a Starre in its Sphere God never turneth his face from us till we turn our backs to him Rlutarch gave life to many others but the longest to himself There is many that goe up Holborn and so to Heaven in a string Ther 's no book all Gospel but the holy Scripture alone The stripe of a friend better then the stroaking of aâ— enemy A true friend a great treasure Oportunity the greatest bawd The Historian who speaketh well of all speaketh well of none VVho dies by a wrong Sentence is murthered by the sword of Justice Parlement Bills without the Princes consent like matches without fire An opinion got into a Roundheads brain is like Quick-silver in a hot loaf The â—lash of Conscience a sore whipp A tâ—â—e friend chimney-like is hottest in winter vi In adversity The Floure of England fine enough the Bran very course viz. the Gentry and Cominalty As much differing as a Frenchmans speech and his writing The rich Miser like the Swan sings sweetest before death viz. When he makes his last Will. The way