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
without life A snow year a rich year A penny spared is twice got A small heart hath small desires A pleasure long expected is deer enough sold A tyrant is most tyrant to himself A Trade is better then Service All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous An ill agreement is better then a good judgment A piece of a Church-yard fits many a mans body A Jade eats as much as a good Horse An ill deed cannot bring honour A little given seasonable excuseth a great gift An old mans staff is the rapper at deaths door An Ox is taken by the hornes a man by his tongue All that shakes falls not An old cat sports not with her prey After death the Doctor All the arms in England will not arm fear A fair day in Winter is Mother of a Storm A man is known to be mortal by sleep and lust A mans destiny is alwaies dark A great Ship askes deep waters A wise man need not blush for changing his purpose An examined enterprize goes on boldly A good Sallet the beginning of a bad Supper A drunkards purse is a bottle A Garden should be drest and look't to as the body A dog scalded with hot water is afterward afraid of cold A pittifull Mother makes a scab'd daughter A disorder begets another An old sin a new pennance A wall without a cross a Knight without money is abused by every one BEware the Geese when the Fox preaches Before you make a friend eat a bushell of Salt with him Blind men can judge no colours Better fed then taught Between the hand and the lip the morsell is lost Bastards by chance are good by nature bad Birds of a feather will flock together Bad words finds bad acceptance Better a snoty child then his nose wipt off Black will take no other hew Brag 's a good dog Bate me an ace quoth Bolton Burnt child dreads the fire By Peace plenty Batchelers Wives and Maides Children are well taught By scratching and biting cats and dogs comes together By shaving a fool many learn to sheare By wisdome Peace Black Ox hath not trod on his foot Be it better be it worse be rul'd by him that beares the purse Beat the dog before the Lyon Bare walls makes giddy housewifes Believe well and have well Beggers should be no choosers By Suppers more have been kil'd then Galen ever cur'd Build castles in the ayre Better fill a gluttons belly then his eye Better a bare foot then none Better be envyed then pittied Better eye out then half awake Better children weep then old men Building and marrying of children are great wasters Beauty draws more then Oxen. Be as it may is no banning Better spare to have of thine own then ask others Better fed then taught Better late then never Building is chargeable Bread with holes cheese without holes and wine that sparkles into the eyes are the best Better speak truth rudely then lye covertly Bells call others but themselves enter not into the Church Better leave then lack Better suffer ill then do ill Bear with evil and expect good Building is a sweet impoverishing Better half a loaf then no bread Beware of had-I-wist Bad Husbands are as necessary in a Common-wealth as good Between two stooles the tayl comes to the ground Better be an old mans darling then a young mans warling Better a bad excuse then none at all Buy a horse ready man'd but a Wife unmand Brabling curs never want soar ears Better unborn then untaught Better the feet slip then the tongue Benefits please like flowers when they are fresh By doing nothing we learn to do ill Be what thou wouldst seem to be Better to rule then be ruled by the rout Better to bow then break Better come to the latter end of a Feast then the beginning of a fray Better be half hang'd then ill wed Better to be happy then wise Better spare at brim then bottom Bashfulnesse is a sign of grace Before thou marry have thy dwelling house Beauty is no heritage Better is an egge in peace then an Ox in war Better a louse in the Pot then no flesh at all Better sit still then rise and fall Better one bird in the hand then ten in the wood By biting and scratching the Cat is with Kitlin Better good afar off then ill near at hand Buy at a Fair but sell at home CHildren and fools tell the truth Custome is a second nature Can Jackanapes be merry when his dog is at his heels Children learn to creep before they go Criticks are like brushers of noble mens cloathes Castles are Fortresses of stone Counsell without a cure is a body without a soul Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing Curst cows have short hornes Cunning is no burthen Covetousness breaks the bag Cut your coat according to your cloath Cat after kind Cities seldom change Religion only Courtesie on one only side lasts not long Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings Civil Wars of France made a million of Atheists and 30000 Witches Cruelty is more cruel if we defer the pain Children when little makes Parents fools when great mad Comparisons are odious Close sits my shirt but closer my skin Christmas comes but once a year Cloathes adorn Poules Change of pasture makes fat calves Children and chickens are alwaies a feeding Care brings gray hairs Change of Women make bald knaves Conscience is hanged up long ago Claw a churl by the arse and he will shite in thy face Cloath thee in War arm thee in Peace Counsell breaks not the head Craft against craft makes no living Civility gains more then strength of armes Coyne moves men to rage Conversation makes one what he is Corn is cleaned with wind the soul with chastenings Cover your self with your Shield and care not for cryes Chuse none for thy servant who hath serv'd thy betters Change of Countrey change of Fortune Conditions breaks Laws DO well and have well Dally not with money nor women Disgraces are like cherries one draws another Deadly heavy and full of sinne Dancing follows a full belly Desires torments us and hope comfor us Dear bought and far fetcht is good for Ladyes Danger it self is the best remedy for danger Dogs barking a loof bite not at hand Dinner cannot be long where dainties are wanting Divine ashes are better then earthly meat Desires are nourisht by delay Drink after grief goes merrily down Death and the Grave make no distinction of persons Dogs begin in jest and end in earnest Deceive not thy Physician Confessor or Lawyer Dry bread is better at home then roast-meat abroad Divine grace was never flow Drought never brought a dearth Do what thou ought and come what can Discreet Women have neither keys nor ears Do well for others yet look to your self Debtors are lyers Diseases of the eyes are to be tured with the elbow Dearths foreseen come not Dayes are fine in the field Death keeps no Callender Deeds are Males
defects resemble them whom we love 95. In choosing a friend besure to avoid two sorts of men 1. Drunkard 2. A passionate man For the first he speaks what he knows not nor after can he remember what that was he spake for the other in his fit he is perfectly mad and speaks not a word by reason but by bruitish passion for anger is the feaver of the soul 96. Peace from the mouth of a Tyrant is oftner promised then performed 97. Love breaks the brain but never bruiseth the brow it consumeth the heart but never toucheth the skin and makes a deep scar be seen before any wound be felt 98. Envy never casts her eye low nor ambition never points but alwaies upward 99. That man that hath married a virtuous Wife may truly be said to be happy for being on earth he hath attain'd Heaven being in want hath attain'd wealth being in wo hath attain'd comfort 100. The holiest man in shew proves commonly the hollowest man in heart 101. It is better to have an open enemy then a dissembling Friend 102. The heart of a fool is in his mouth but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart 103. Mistrust no man without cause neither be thou credulous without proof 104. Words wittily spoken awake and revive the judgment but examples perswade the heart 105. Wisdom was begot by nature nourisht by experience and brought forth by learning 106. Of all the Treasures in a Common-wealth the innocent man is most to be esteemed 107. Happy is that Countrey whose Captaines are Gentlemen and whose Gentlemen are Captaines 108. Honour is brittle and Riches are blossoms which every frost of fortune causeth to wither 109. He that through custom makes little account of his promise may swear often but shall seldom be believed 110. A man having honour and wanting wisdom is like a fair tree without fruit 111. The evenings hope may comfort the mornings misery 112. A poor man being in charity is rich but a rich man without charity is poor 113. Time and Patience teach all men to be content 114. A foolish man beginneth many things and endeth nothing FINIS Curteous Reader These Books following are Printed for Simon Miller and Sold by him at the Starre in St. Pauls Church-yard Small Folio DOctor Lightfoot his Harmony on the New Testament which will shortly be re-printed with large Additions The Civil Warres of Spain in the Reign of Charles the fifth Emperour of Germany and King of that Nation wherein our late unhappy differences are paralleled in many particularss A general History of Scotland from the year 767. to the death of King James containing the principal Revolutions and Transactions of Church and State with Political Observations and reflections upon the same by David Hume of Godscroft The History of this Iron Age. Mr Paul Baine on the Ephesians The Queen of Arragon a Play In fol. In Quarto large Jo. Barklay his Argenis Translated by Sir Robert â—â—e Grise Knight by his Late Majesties special Command An Eperimental Treatise of Surgery by Felix Wortz Quarto Small Abraham's Faith or the good Old Religion proving the Doctrine of the Church of England to be the only true Faith of Gods Elect By John Nicholson Minister of the Gospel The Anatomy of Mortality By George Strood Three Treatises 1. The Conversion of Nineveh touching Frayer and Fasting 2. Gods Trumpet sounding to Repentance 3. Sovereign preservatives against distrustfull Thoughts and Cares By Will. Attersâ—ll Minister of Gods Word at Isfield in Sussex Aynsworth on the Canticles Paul Baine his Diocesans Trial. Gralle against Appolonius A Treatise of Civil policy being a clear Decision of 43 Queries concerning prerogative right and priviledge in reference to the supream Prince and people By Samuel Rutherford Professor of Divinity of St Andrews in Scotland Politick and Military Observations of Civil and Military Government containing the Birth Encrease Decay of Monarchies the carriage of Princes and Magistrates Mr Pinchin his Meritorious price of mans Redemption cleared Astrology Theologized shewing what nature and influence the Starres and Planets have over men and how the same may be diverted and avoided Wells his Souls Progress Christ tempted the Devils Conquered Being a plain Exposition on the fourth Chapter of St Mathews Gospel By John Gumbledon Minister of the Gospel The Saints Society Dr Stoughtons thirteen choice Sermons with his Body of Divinity The Reasons of the dissenting Brethren concerning the Presbyterian Government together with the answer of the Assembly of Divines Gamdens Remains The Harmonious Consent and Confession of Faith of all the Protestant Reformed Churches in Christendome The discription of the Universall Quadrant by which is perform'd with great Expedition the whole Doctrine of Triangles both plain and Sphericall Also the Resolution of such Propâ—sitions as are most usefull in Astronomy Navigation and Dialling By which is performed the proportioning of Lines for measuring of all manner of Land Board Glass Timber Stone c. by Tho. Stirrup Mathemat Large Octavo Florus Anglicus with the Lively Effigies of all the Kings and Queens since the Conquest cut in Brass The Reconciler of the Bible wherein above two thousand seeming Contradictions are fully and plainly Reconciled Evidences for Heaven containing infallible Signs and real Demonstrations for assurance of Salvation published by Edâ— Calamy Minister of Aldermanbury Loâ—d The Life and Reign of King Charles from his Birth to his Death By Lambert Wood. The Night-Search the second part By H. Mill. A view of the Jewish Religion with their Rites Customes and Ceremonies Usefull Instructions for these Evil times held forth in 22 Sermons by Nicholas Lockyer Provost of Eaton Colledge The Nullity of Church-Censures or Excommunication not of Divine Institution but a meer humane Invention Written by the famous Tho. Erastes and never before Englished Small Octavo Ed Waterhouse Esq His Discourse of Piety and Charity Panacea or the Universall Medicine being a Discourse of the Admirable Nature and Virtues of Tobacco By Dr. Everard and Others A view and Defence of the Reformation of the Church of England very usefull in these times Mr. Pet. du Moulin his Antidote against Popery published on purpose to prevent the Delusions of the Priests and Jesuites who are now very busie amongst us Herberts Devotions or a Companion for a Christian containing Meditations and prayers usefull upon all occasions Oâ—id de Pento in English The Loves of Cliâ—io and Lezio a Romance Mr. Knowâ—es his Rudiment of the Hebrew Tongue A Book of Scheams or Figures of Heaven ready set for every four Minutes of times and very usefull for all Astrologers Florus Anglicus or an exact History of England from the Reigâ— of William to the death of the Late King Lingua or the Combate of the Tongue and five Senses for Speriority a serious Comedy The Spirits Touchstone being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know whether he be truly taught by the Spirit of God or not The poor mans Physician and Chyrurgion Physicall Rarities containing the most choice Receipts in Physick and Chyrurgery for the cure of all Diseases Incident to mans body By R Wâ—lliams To which is added the physical Mathematicks By Hermes Tris Magistus The Idol of Clowns or the Relation of Wat â—iler's Rebellion The Christian Moderator in 3 parts The Golden Fleece or a Discourse of the cloathing of England Dr. Sibbs his Divine Meditations Vigerius Preceptes of Idiotismes Grotij Poemata Three Books of Mr. Mathews Minister at Swansey in Southwales 1 The Messiah Magnified by the mouthes of Babes in America or Gaius and Gamaliel a helpfull Father and his hopefull Son discoursing of the three most considerable points 1. The great want of Christ 2. The great worth that is in Christ 3. The good way that is chalkt our by Christ 2. The New Congregationall Church prov'd to be the old Christian Church by Scripture Reason and History 3. The Rending Church-member Râ—gularly cal'd back to Christ and his Church A Physical Dictionary Duodecim Doctor Smith's practice of physick The Gâ—ammar War Possellius Apothegmes Fasciculâ—â—… Florum Crashaw's Visions The Juniper Lecture Helvicus Colloquies The Christian Souldier his Combate with the three arch-enemies of man-kind the world the flesh and the devil Hensius de Crepundiis The History of Russia or the Government of the Emperour of Muscovia with the manner and fashions of the people of that Countrey Drexeliu's School of Patience Drexelius his right Intention of every ones Action Vigimi Quat The New Testament The third part of the Bible Sir Richard Baker's Med. and Prayers foâ— every day of the Week Playes The Ball. Chawbut Conspiracy Obstinate Lady The London Chanticlers a Comedy full of various and delightfull Mirth never before published