stone Knowledge is no burthen Keep good men company and you shall be of the number Keep the Wolf from the door Keep your eye off writings and your hand out of other mens pockets Kind words are currant money at sometimes LEt him laugh that wins Look not too high lest a chip fall in thine eye Love is potent but money is omnipotent Lesson after lesson makes good Scholars Love is not without bitternesse Love cometh in at the window and goeth out at the door Long Jestings are never good Little pot soon hot Love overcomes nothing but a spightfull heart Lightly come lightly go Losse imbraces shame Like the Flounder out of the frying-pan into the fire Love your neighbour yet pull not down your hedge Love is blind Let the world say what they will if I find all well at home Little wealth little care Little knoweth the fat sow what the lean doth mean Love makes all hard things gentle Little good soon spent Leaves enough but few Grapes Let a hen live though she hath the pip Leave jeasting whilest it pleaseth lest it come to earnest Love me little love me long Little dogs start the hare the great one get lier Love doth much but money doth all Look ere you leap Love me love my dog Love rules his Kingdom without a sword Love askes faith and faith firmnesse Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fools Lovers live by love as Larks by leeks Look not for musk in a dogs Kennel Let every man meddle with his own Like master like man Love is the true price of love Life is half spent before we know what it is Lean not to a broken staff Love makes one fit for any work Little said soon amended Love and businesse find eloquence Love is not found in the Market Love and a cough cannot be hid Longs more to marrage the four bare legs in a bed Learn weeping and thou shalt laugh gaming Let all live as they would die Like a chip in pottage doth neither good nor harm Like will to like Life without a friend is death without witnesse Long absent soon forgotten Love and Lordship abides no fellowship Let every one his own burden bear Leave a fool alone and he will bethink what he hath to do Love warms more then a thousand fiers Liberty is a Jewel Look not a given horse in the mouth Let not him that fears feathers come among wild-fowels Light a Candle before the devill Little pitchers have wide eares Leave is light Let an ill man lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir Light gaines makes a heavy Purse Light burthens long born grow heavy Lay no Pearl before swine MUch water goes by the Mill the Miller knows not of Many Lords many Laws Money breeds rage love marriage Measure is a merry mean Modesty is the mother of good manners Money answers all things Many things are lost for want of asking More afraid then hurt Money begets money Much cry and little wool Man purposeth God disposeth Might overcometh right My house my house though thou art small thou art to me Escuriall Much would have more Many speak much that cannot speak well Much babling is not without offence Much travelling makes bad wayes Many a good cow hath an ill calf Make hast in an ill way to get out of it Many Kinsfolk few friends Men speak of the fare as things went with them there Many hands makes light work My Kill of Malt is on fire Mâ—sfortunes seldom come alone Misreckoning is no payment Man will strive hard for profit Many a little makes a mickle Money refused looseth his brightnesse Make hay while the Sun shines Marry your Son when you will your daughter when you can Money cheereth mans heart More hast worst speed Marry a Widow before she leaves mourning Many cannot see wood for trees Mend your cloathes and you may hold out this year Man hath nothing that is his not himself Many kisse the child for the nurses sake Misfortunes are burthens hard to be born Many a man talkes of little John that never did him know More sauce than meat Many small make a great Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hang'd Much profit cannot be made in poor towns Make a page of your own age Many speak of Robbin Hood that never shot in his bow Married to day sad to morrow Make a pipe of a pigges tayl Money wants no followers Men are not measured by the yard or ell Many things are lost for want of asking Marriage and hanging goes by destiny Many kisse the hand they wish cut off Most men salure the wronged man Make not a balk of good ground Most master wear the breeches Mills and Wives ever want Men must make there market as the time serves Man ought to be humble not proud Milk sayes to Wine Welcome Friend Many stumble ar a straw and leape over a block Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselves Malice never speaks well NO Alchimy to saving Never pleasure without Repentance No love to a Fathers No cheat like the religious cheat No longer pipe no longer dance No fence for ill fortune Nothing so certain as death New Objects breed new thoughts Not length of daies but strength of heart rids the work Need hath no Law No lock will hold against the power of gold Need makes the old Wife trot Never had ill workman good rooles New Lords new Laws Nothing but money is moneys worth No dearth but breeds in the Horse-manger Neither bribe nor lose thy right No man loves his fetters though they be of gold None knowes the weight of anothers burthen Nothing venture nothing have No Writer can please all None so great an enemy as he of ones own trade No man ought to look a guift Horse in the mouth Night is the Mother of Counsels Nothing is impossible to a willing mind No pride like an inricht begger No butter will stick on his Bread No envy like a Monkes Near is my petticoat but nearer is my smock Novelties please women No smoak but there is some fire None is a fool alwaies every one sometimes Nothing hath no savour No body deceived but he that confides None saies his Garner is full No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil hath his Chappell hard by Nature draws more then ten teemes Never yet that man that every one spake well of Nothing is to be presumed of nor despaired of No Church-yard so handsome as a man would desire straight to be buried there Necessity is the best Schoolmistrisse Nothing dries sooner then teares Nothing lasts but the Church No Barber shaves so close but another finds work ONe may think what he dares not speak One shrewd turn follows another Ones gettings orders ones spendings Of an ill pay-master never refuse money One acre of possession is worth a whole land of promise On a good bargain think twice One foot is better then two crutches Of
possessor 17. Gold is tryed with the Touchstone but men by gold 18. As the Servants of God are known by humility and charity so the servants of the Devil are known by pride and cruelty 19. No man gains by war but he that hath not wherewith to live in Peace 20. Pray often because thou sinnest alwaies repent quickly lest thou die suddainly 21. He is said truly to serve his Countrey whose body executeth what is wisdom plotteth 22. The honour of a King stands in the multitude of the people but his safety in the love of his Subjects 23. Be alwaies lesse willing to speak then to hear when thou hearest thou receivest when thou speakest thou givest it is more glorious to give more profitable to receive 24. Prayer is one of the worthiest actions we do for we speak with God as it were reasoning with him it brings down God from Heaven and makes him grant our will and dwell with us and we with him eternally 25. Syward Earl of Northumberland lying on his sick-bed and feeling death approaching suddainly started out of his bed and put on his Armour saying It became not a valiant man to die lying like a beast 26. If any speak ill of thee flee home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart if thou be guilty it 's a just correction if not guilty it 's a fair Instruction make use of both so shalt thou distill honey out of gall and of an open enemy create a secret friend 27. Religious Alms-deeds makes God become our debtour 28. He is not worthy to command others that cannot bridle his own affections and unresonable appetite 29. Sir Walter Rawleigh in his imprisonment was wont to comfort himself with this saying That the world was but a wide Prison and every day one or other was call'd out to execution 30. VVe complain of the times and justly for never more wicked but let us take heed that we be not a part of the misery of the times and they made worse by our sinnes 31. Time the Mother will bring forth Virtue the Daughter in due season 32. King Charles of ever blessed memory used this Speech to his second Parliament That it is more honourable for a King to be invaded and almost destroyed by a forraign enemy then to be despised at home 33. Beware of drunkenesse lest all good men beware of thee where drunkenesse reigns there reason is an exile Virtue a stranger God an enemy blasphemy is wit oathes are rhetorick and secrets are proclamations Noah discovered that in one hour drunk which sober he kept secret six hundred years 34. Antoninus the Emperour having laid a double Tax upon the people one of his under Officers told him If he would have the people pay two Taxes in one year be should give them two seed-times and two Harvests 35. My Lord Bacon was wont to say That Laws were like cobwebs where the small flyes are caught and the great flyes break through 36. If thou desirest rest to thy soul be just for he that doth no injury fears not to suffer injury The unjust mind is alwaies in labour it either practises the evil it hath projected or projects to avoid the evil it hath deserved 37. False Miracles and lying News are the food of superstition which by credulity deludes ignorant people 38. William the Conquerour was wont to say That an unlearned King was a crowned asse 39. A rich Merchant using constantly to drink out of a wodden dish and being reproved for it by a friend answered I had rather drink out of Wood and make golden payments then drink out of gold and make wooden payments 40. In all thy actions think God sees thee and in all his actions labour to see him that will make thee fear him this will move thee to love him 41. Continual experience shews That idlenesse is the greatest spur to lechery 42. The Birds of the ayre die to sustain thee the beasts of the field die to nourish thee the fishes of the Sea die to feed thee Our stomacks are their common Sepulchre Good God with how many deaths are our poor lives patcht up of How full of death is the miserable life of mortal man 43. Suggestions are needless from abroad when the mischief is felt at home 44. It is a hard thing to be rich and honoured in this world and not struk with the dart of pride and vain glory 45. A heart not exercised in some honest calling works trouble out of it self 46. The Devil never assaults a man except he find him either void of knowledge or the fear of God 47. Rebuke thy Servants fault in private publique Reproofs hardens his shame if he be past a youth strike him not he is not fit for thy Service that after wise reproofs will either deserve thy strokes or digest them 48. God hath left three Books in the world in each of which he may easily be found The Book of the Creatures the Book of Conscience and his written Word The first shews his Omnipotency the second his Justice the third his Mercy and Goodnesse 49. Nothing inslaveth a gratefull Nature like a free benefit he that conferrs it on me steals me from my self and in one and the same art makes me a vassell and himself my King 50. A prating Barber coming to trim King Archelaus askt him Sir How will you please to have me cut your hair The King silently answered Though a man hath nothing to do but to hear and answer yet a limitless tongue is a strange unbitted beast to worry one with 51. They that speak much seldom speak well for they that know how to speak right know not how to dwell in discourse 52. He that hath a Wife and Children hath given Hostages to Fortune for they are Impediments to great enterprises 53. Men in great places are thrice Servants Servants of the Soveraign or State Servants of Fame or Servants of Businesse So that they may be truly said to have no freedom neither in their Persons nor in their Actions 54. Riches may truly be cal'd the baggage of Virtue for of great Riches there is no reall use except it be in distribution therest is but conceited 55. Kings and Emperours are in a miserable condition for they have few things to desire and many things to fear 56. Plato observed That all knowledge was but remembrance And Solomon saith That all novelty is but Oblivion There is nothing in this world that may be said to be permanent but the two great winding-sheets that bury all things in oblivion Deluges and Earthquakes 57. Musick is more for pleasure then profit to man-kind which caused Diogenes to say to one that brag'd in his skill That wisdome govern'd Cities but with Songs and Musick he could not expect to order a House well 58. After a long sense of Peace War enters the stage and indeed it is the worlds Physick it 's both a a Purge and a Blood-letting Peace Fullness Pride and War
needs words where there are works When the Sun shines make Hay Who buyes hath need of a hundred eyes who sells hath enough of one We learn for to understand not for to dispute Where nothing is a little doth ease When a Lackey comes to hels door the devil locks the gate Women love to be ey'd and to be lookt upon Who makes a Cart knows also how to take it in pieces Water fire and Souldiers quickly make room Women are young mens Mistresses middle-ag'd mens Companions and old mens Nurses When the danger is past the fact is forgotten What need a contentious man marry When a dog is drowned every one offers him help Where shall a man have a worse friend then he brings from home Who removes stones bruise their fingers Without businesse debauchery Where nothing is the King must lose his right Who hath a wolf for his mate needs a dog for his man Who readeth to others readeth also to himself Whatsoever was the Father of a disease an ill dyet was the mother We know not who lives or dies Words are not Links Whores and dogs fawn upon a man no longer then they are fed VVere there no hearers there would be no backbyters VVere there no receivers there would be no thieves VVhether you boyl Snow or pound it you can have but water of it VVine makes all sorts of creatures at Table VVho covets all dies a mad man VVhile the grasse grows the steed starves VVho is worse shod then the Shooe-makers wife VVhen age is jocond it makes sport for death VVar is deaths Feast VVhere there is no honour there is no grief VVine that cost nothing is digested before it be drank VVhere the drink goes in the wit goes out VVhere you will is ready your feet is light VVithout hope the heart would break VVhen God will no wind but brings rain VVood half burnt is easily kindled VVeight and measure take away strife VVho hunts two Hares loseth the one and deserts the other VVhen the Horse is stollen shut the Stable door VVhen my house burnes it 's not good playing at Chesse VVho lacketh a stock his gain is not worth a chip VVar makes thieves and Peace hangs them VVho hastens a glutton choaks him VVho receives forgets not VVho praiseth St. Peter doth not blame St. Paul VVho so fears a dog ensures himself from being bitten VVho payes the Physician does the cure VVhen one is on horsback he knows all things VVish not for a Horse that is bridled at the tayl VVhen you enter into a house leave the anger at door VVhom weale pricks sorrow comes after and licks VVar and Physick are governed by the eye VVine ever payes for for his lodging VVith Customes we live well but Laws undoe us VVhen all men have what belongs to them it cannot be much VVho hath eaten the Candles void the weekes VVe leave more to do when we die then we have done VVho gives well sells dear VVho attempts not errs not VVhen a man sleeps his head is in his stomack VVho hath money and Capers is well furnisht for Lent VVhen God is made the Master of a Family he disorders the disorderly VVhere gold speaks every tongue is silent VVords and feathers the wind carries away VVho embraces all nothing graspes VVe do it soon enough if that we do be well VVo be to him that reads but one Book VVho gives good words feeds with an empty spoon VVho lives in hopes dies a Fool. YOu must lose a fly to catch a gnat You shall know what a man is worth when he is dead You come with your five egges and four of them addled You may know what a man is by his company You had as live go to Mill as to masse Years know more then Books Your thoughts close and your countenance lose Young men may die but old men must die You need not sow weeds You cannot see wood for trees You cannot hide an ell in a sack You are as seasonable as snow in winter You cannot know Wine by the Barrell You cannot flea a stone You must lose a fly to catch a Trout Young Saint old Devil You cannot make a fire so low but it will go out Ynough is as good as a Feast Wise SPEECHES AND Golden SENTENCES 1. GIve me the heart of a man and out of that all other deeds shall be acceptable 2. When thou hast taken unlawfully restore it speedily for the sin in taking is repeated every minute thou keepest it if thou canst restore it in kind if not in value if it may be restore it to the party if not to God The poor is Gods receiver 3. It was said of Nero that though he could tune his Harp well yet in his Government he did alwaies wind up the strings to high or let them down to low 4. Severus the Emperour being but meanly born and having raised himself to that high honour was wont to say I have been all and am never the better 5. Cato had this saying That the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new 6. A private Souldier seeing Philip King of Macedon vainly pufft up with a great Victory over the Athenians took courage and told him That if he measured his own shadow be should find it no longer then it was before his victory 7. Dost thou want things necessary grumble not perchance it was a necessary thus thou shouldst want endeavour lawfully to supply it if God bless not thy endeavour bless him that knoweth what is fittest for thee thou art Gods Patient prescribe not thy Physician 8. It 's no shame to be poor provided thou keep thy self honest in thy poverty 9. It 's the greatest folly in youth either not to endeavour good advice or not to believe it till their perill comes upon them and makes them see it to their shtme 10. Rich Croesus shewing Solon the Philosopher a great heap of gold that he had gathered together askt him what he thought of it who confidently replied If another come that hath better iron then you he will be Master of all this gold 11. He that professeth himself thy open enemy arm thee against the evil he means thee but he that dissembles himself thy secret friend strikes beyond caution and wounds above cure From the first thou maist deliver thy self from the last good Lord deliver thee 12. Errours by mistakes should not be too vigourously censured but errours that be wilfull should not be spared 13. It was a wise saying of a Senatour of Rome during the Government of Galba who being aged the people took liberty and had almost brought all into confusion That it were better to live where nothing is lawfull then where all things are lawfull 14. It 's a certain Rule in all dark Prophesies That they are never clearly understood till they are accomplished 15. Correction without Instruction is but meer tyranny 16. All qualities without direction of virtue profit not but overthrow their