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A44738	Paroimiographia Proverbs, or, Old sayed savves & adages in English (or the Saxon toung), Italian, French, and Spanish, whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added ... / collected by J.H., Esqr.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3098; ESTC R5378	300,163	349

windy maketh a full Barn and a findy A pox on that quoth Gill to her hole There you lett slip a Whiting viz. An oportunity When hath the Goose most feathers on her back when the Gander is a topp of her The Fox had a wound he knew not where He look'd in his arse and found it there Of all the fishes in the Sea give me a naked woman Fly brass the Coblers nose in the Tinkers arse That 's even a goodly dish of Birds Dabb quoth Dawkins when he hit his wife in the arse with a pound of butter Good fish but all the craft is in the catching Nippence no pence half a groat wanting two pench You cannot fare well but you must cry roast-meat You are as welcome as water in ones shooes As lazy as he who laid down his wallet to lett a fart He brings meat in his mouth April snowers bring forth May flowers Ianivir freez the pott by the fire February fill dike Either with black or white He will fill it ere he go If it be but with a fould of straw Fair and soft goes farr Children and fools tell truth Pease-Pottage and tawny Never made good medley The proof of a pudding is in the eating A Gentleman without money is like a Pudding without suet An old serving-man a young beggar Who is born under a three-peny Planett will never be worth a groat 'T is ill gaping before an Oven Out of the frying-pan into the fire viz. From bad to worse Out of Gods blessing into the warm Sun Butter's good for any thing but to stopp an Oven or seal a Letter He will not give his head for the washing Ther 's difference twixt staring and stark madd You come a day after the Fair. Manners make a man quoth William of Wickham Any tooth good Barber I love it as an Ape loves a whipp He will shave a whetstone He will not loose the droppings of his nose Give a child while he 'l crave And a dogg while his tail will wave You shall have a fair dogg and a foul child I have a Goose to pluck with you You measure every one by your own yard Women in State-affairs are like Munkies in Glasshopps For one good turn another will itch Claw my elbow and I le scratch your brich Let not the Shooe-maker go beyond his Last You putt the saddle on the wrong horse All is is not gold that glisters Ther 's not a turd to choose That will be when the Devil is blind Ther 's reason in ros●ing of Eggs. I le not creep in her arse to bake in her oven Catt to her kind It 's a sory dogg that is not worth the whisling after You put the cart before the horse This is to sell a pigg in a poke One tale is good till the other be told My elbow itches I must change my bedfellow 'T is an evil battle where the Devil carrieth the colours They that love most are least set by A light Christmass a heavy sheaf I would it were in again with the hedg-hogg after it viz. A fart Give a man Fortune and throw him into the Sea All work and no play makes Iack a dull boy A red beard and a black head Catch him with a good trick and take him dead I have other Eggs to fry The King and Pope the Lion and the Wolf A Proverb used in King Johns time in regard of the great exactions The Ratt the Catt and Lovell the dogg Do rule all England under a hogg A Proverb used in Richard the Third's time If you are angry turn the buckle of your girdle behind you Make hay while the Sun shines Hinckeson-Down welly wrought Is worth London Town dearly bought A Cornish Proverb because of rich tinne Mines there You are like to come by weeping cross O Master Vier we cannot pay you your rent for we had no grace of God this year No shipwrack upon our coast A saying of the Cornish Well fare nothing once a year He builds Castles in the Air. 'T is good to be merry and wise Forewarnd half armd Like to like quoth the Devil to the Collier The Father to the Bough The Son to the Plow A Kentish Proverb meant of Gavelkind In Rain and Sun-shine Cuckolds go to Heaven He that can gett a quart of milk for a peny need not keep a Cow A cunning Knave needs no Broker Strand on the Green thirteen Houses fourteen Cuckolds and never a house between For the father and the son lay in one house Who goeth to Law with your Ladiship taketh a wrong Sow by the ear Fly brass thy father 's a Tinker He that wrastleth with a turd shall be beshitt fall he over or under What 's that It is a layer for my Ladies arse lick you the tother thing Norfolk Grass and hay we are all mortal Where fell the Parson betwixt the whore your mothers leggs A jeere to those below London bridge He must have a long spoon that eats with the Devil In the dark Ioan is as good as my Lady Little said and soon amended He is a wise child that knows his own father Better a clout then the arse out When the Sky falls we shall catch Larks Look high and fall into a Cow-turd Who follows Truth too close at the heels she may chance dash out his teeth To swallow an Ox and be choaked with the tail The Devil shites upon a great heap viz. Of money Wide quoth Walley when he thrust his pintle into the bedstraw As good steal the horse as look over the hedge Without herb Iohn no good pottage Let the dogg worry the hogg Fight dog fight Bear the Devil part them Every one is not born a Poet. He that groaps in the dark finds that which he would not He that kisseth his wife in the market-place shall have many teachers Farr fetcht and dear bought is meat for Ladies A young Saint an old Devil The old Catt slapps more then the Kittling Drink after an Egg as after an Ox. Too much money makes one madd When thieves fall out true men come to their own A good candle-holder proves a good gamester 'T is ill halting before a cripple I can look into a Mil-stone as farr as another He is like the Devil alwayes in mischief When might overcomes right the weakest goes to the wall Ther 's never a promise made but it s either broken or kept He who dies of threats must be rung to Church by farts Ther 's more wayes to the wood then one A fatt commodity hath no fellow No cutt to unkindness Once a Knave and ever a knave A pox on these true jests Ask my brother whether I am a thief The Lion not so fierce as he is painted VVords cutt more then swords 'T is good to help a lame dogg over the stile VVords are wind but blows are unkind You will never make a Sattin purse of a Sowes ear He is all hony or all turd Every light is

Function as the aged who have gained experience and studied men To go gather Mulberries without a crook The Mulberry is a tree which stretcheth her branches far from the trunke and they are easie to be broken wherefore they who goe to gather the fruit thereof carry with them a kind of crook to drawe the branches This teacheth us not to goe about any businesse without being provided with that which is necessary to expedite it He hath made a hole in the night If any get away from a place by stealth without any bodies privity specially when he is least suspected they use this Proverb He hath made a hole in the night A sleeping Fox hath nothing falls into his mouth This Proverb teacheth us that to entertain our selves in this world 't is not enough to be wise and learned but we must employ our care and diligence in having a hand upon the work the Proverb is taken from the Fox 〈◊〉 although he be held the cunningest of creatures if he should keep● still sleeping in his earth hole or terrier he should never have any meat enter into his belly As resolute as Pihourt in his heteroclits The meaning of this is when an ignorant buzzard is too ready to speak in a learned assembly this Pihourt was a Mason of the Citie of Renes in Britany whence sprung the Proverb I have paid all my English viz. all my Creditors This Proverb had its beginning in the reign of John the French King when he was prisoner in England at which time for his ransome there were divers tallies and other general Impositions laid upon the people which lasted a long time to satisfie the English Insomuch that English and Creditor came to be synonymas Now the Pope is become French and Jesus Christ English These words were used as a Proverb when the Pope came to keep his See in Auignon and that the English prospered so much in France that they possessed more then half the Kingdome PROVERBI Gli più scelti nella LINGUA ITALIANA De I quali alicuni andano GLOSSATI CON LETTRE COMPOSTE TUTTE DE PROVERBI ITALIAN PROVERBS OF THE CHOISEST SORT Whereof divers are Gloss'd and comented upon Which PROVERBS are Partly MORAL relating to good life Partly PHYSICAL relating to Diet and Health Partly TOPICAL relating to particular places Partly TEMPORAL relating to seasons Partly IRONICAL relating to Drollery and Mirth c. AL MOLTO ILLUSTRE GENEROSISSIMO PERSONAGGIO Don GUILHELMO PASTON CAVAGLIERE DORATO BARONETTO Il quale Havendo traghettato il Nilo al gran Cayro d' Egitto trascorso la maggior ' parte dell ' Imperio Turchesco oltra Le Regioni piu nobili de L'EUROPA Frà altre isquisitissime perfettioni che rapportava seco Si rese Padrone assoluto della Lingua Italiana c. TO THE HONORABLE MOST GENEROUS PERSONAGE Sir VVILLIAM PASTON KNIGHT BARONET Who Having travers'd most of the Noble Regions of Europe and gone up the Nile to the Gran Cayro and invaded most of the Dominions of the Ottoman EMPIRE Besides other most exquisit perfections which returned with him He made himself Great Master of the Italian Toung c. LETTERA composta de PROVERBI i quali Vanno tutti incatinati a far ' un sentimento intiero Congruo Mandata A vn Gentilhuomo ch'era su'l punto de viaggiare andarsi a Italia Signore mio affectionatissimo DIcono communemente che l'acqua corrente è piu chiara che la cheta che quella del stagno è assai piu torbida che la passagiera quella del ruscello cosi gli spiriti di loro che andano per il mondo s'applicano allo studio degli huomini divengono piu sottili chiari ed acuti Parimente frà gli vegetabili s'osserva chegli migliori porri sono quelli che si traspiantano Per tanto io lodo grandemente il pensiere che voi hauete di voler ' trappassare gli Alpi è scender poi l'Apennino la schiena d'Italia Mà siate auverito che per andar ' saluo per il mondo principalmente in Italia doue vi sono tante teste tempeste feste bisogna auer ' l'occhio di falcone per veder ' lontano orecchie d'asino viso di simia per compiacer ' tutti lingua de montinbanco spalle di camelo da portar ' qualunche cosa bocca di porco da mangiar ' tutto gambe di ceruo per schifar ' il pericolo In Italia voi trouarete assai Marioli più doppij che la cepolla per tanto guardate vi ben bene del gioco nel quale gli Italiani si dilattano troppo per che il gioco è un tarlo che rode fin ' a losso Havendo passato piemonte traghettarete quel delicatissimo fiume del Pò perche gli pioppi del Pò ligriman ' ābra tuttavia Il pà non sarebbe pò se l'Adda Tesin non vi metesseroco ' Essendo intruto la Lombardia voi vederete Milan ' la Grande tanto per la sua forza quanto per la sua ampiezza donde nacque quel Proverbio Milan può far Milan può dire mà non può far ' dell ' acqua vino Guardate ui ben in quei contorni de boccon lombardo ciò è d'un fico Italiano Di l● intrarete nell Dominio Veneto frà l'altre nobili Citta Vicenza è degna d'esser ' salutata perche dicono che Venetia non hà tanti Gondolieri quanti Vicenza ha conti Cavalieri Dilà v'incaminarete a Padoua la sede principal ' d' Hippocrat di là a Venetia doue si può vedere l'impossibile nell ' Impossibile là potrete salutare la Sposa di Nettuno anchor ch'alcuni gli anni a dietro la chiamino la concubina del Turco gli Veneti nonsono cosi facili a compiacere perche dicono che ui sono quatro difficili cose cuocer ' un vuouo far ' al can'vn letto insegna● ' un Florentino servir ' un Venetiano Farete ben di visitare l'Arsenale una delle Grandezze del mondo per la sua forza donde nacque il detto commune che tutto l'Arsenale de Venetia non basta armar la paura In Venetia guardate ui ben delle donne perche Il sesso donnesco è dannoso Le Cortesane di quel lago si stimano le piu belle del mondo secondo il detto pan Padouan vin Visintin tripe Trevisane puttane Venetiane de donde nacque un altro Venetia Venetia chi non te vede non te preggia chi t' ha t●oppo veduto te dispreggia Essendo sotollato dalla Virgine Città per che fra tutte l'altre città d' Italia la Venetia si chiama la Virgine citta per non aver mai stato rapita dal nemico v'ene una profetia che continuorà Vergine fin a tanto ch'il suo marito l'abandoni cio

He hath many whimses in his head A dull fellow a kinsman to Gillor the dreamer Stout and valiant of his hands Taken napping twixt the hedge and the corn By the Devils flanks and bowels To spit out a collop or a Iacobin To give one a trip or prevent and hinder him By hook or by crook by right or wrong More merry then rats in straw or mice in malt To take a Lion by his jawe viz. to attempt a dangerous taske He is wel bred or he hath sucked good milk 'T is the Language of Uterpendragon He is a very wrangler he hath a tripe-womans tongue You will make me believe that bladders are lanterns He is a poor sordid miser or snudge You are Conqueror the field is yours He is run away he hath taken Campos He was put quite out of countenance She hath her Cardinal viz. her monthly flowers One beheaded or made a Cardinal on Tower hill I will beat thee like a stock-fish The morpheyes in the face Iudas bran You may do what you please I give a blank He is cousened or he hath swallowed a gudgeon He is become a bankrupt he hath given up his girdle You hunt after flies you trifle away time You build Castles in the aire or in Castile To lay the fault on another to throw the cat at anothers legs Twilight when one cannot discern a dog from a wolf Frivolous tales of a cock and a bull He is very learned or devout I know well what aileth him upon what foot he halteth As fat as a pig or a dormouse He is born with his head coiff'd viz. rich To throw the helve after the hatchet A Monks collation viz. good cheer He is furnished with needle and threed viz. he hath all things fit for the business Howsoever matters go or stand Swagbellied gorbellied or bigbellied A mans yard called Adams club I come newly freshly thence You must steer your course some other way He beats the tabor with his teeth for cold A wolf in a sheep skin viz. an hypocrite He is in a quandare he knoweth not of what wood to make his shaft Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood In the times of yore when men wiped their noses on the sleeve insteed of a handkercher A Bourbon tart or a quagmire or Irish tart He is at the end of his prayers Let us begin again let us take again the goat by the beard I will not take your way He thinks to bruise iron `with his teeth Kept as close as the Iewish Cabal He hath a good brain he is no fool He is buried he is laid in his hutch He battens with this good newes Between Baucair and Tarascon feed neither sheep nor mutton Three Spaniards are four Devils in France If I am missing never seek me in Scotland He is rash in judgement he is of Chasteaudun One of King Arthurs knights or a knight errant French blood cannot be false to his Prince To take a Mountain for a Mole-hil to take Paris for a Corbeil The Germane hath his spirit at his fingers ends because he is a good Artificer The Norman vintageth with a pole viz. by beating down apples to make syder of He is ashamed of nothing for he hath passed Gournay bridge To be beheaded or made a Cardinal at Tower hill viz. beheaded To be hanged to be centinel at Montfaulcon An Italian fig a Lombard bit or poyson The patience of a Lombard or a Milanois When the Frenchman sleeps the Devil rocks him A Proverb the Flemmins have of the French who is alwayes plotting some ill against him Who made a Norman made a truant A Pot-quarrel or Dutch fray The pistols of Sancerre viz. sling to hurl stones Untimely or unseasonable help three dayes after the battel A Cornish Knight viz. a Cuckold Anger 's a low town and high steeple Rich Whores and poor Scholars When a Picard is without drive●ing and a Norman without flattering the world will mend Arma●son a bad river but good fish Paris without a parallel Rouan beyond a name He is as full fed as an Englishman At Montmartre there be more whores then kine but if there were not there so many Nuns there would be more kine then whores There is no Car-man so good in Beauce but he is sometime overthrown Nere horse or man did mend That unto Rome did wend. England's a good Countrey but ill people There is more of Montmartre in Paris then of Paris in Montmartre Alluding to the playster of Paris whereof the bes● is had from Montmartre There is no Village so poore but it hath a feast once a year They of Liege do brag to have three things to have bread better then bre●d to have iron harder then iron to have fire hotter then fire He is like the Suisse who are his who gives most It is the castle of Montargis fair afar off and nothing neer As dull as a Dutchman or a pie of petitoes To Gasconize viz. to play the thief I have payed all my English viz. all my creditors This Proverb t●ok its rise when John the French King was prisoner in England for whose ransome a long lasting contribution was laid upon the people The rigor of Tholouse the humanitie of Bourdeaux the mercy of Rouen the justice of Paris He is of Chasteaudun he understandeth at halfe a word England the Paradice of women the Purgatory of servants and the Hell of horses The French neither speaks as he thinks nor acts as he speaks nor sings as he pricks They agree like London clocks viz not at all Resolu●e as Pihourt in his heteroclites viz. when an ignorant person speaks among learned men You put me to my dumps or my wits end The ill year comes in swimming viz. with too much rain If winter did beyond Sea pass yet would it come to find Saint Nicholas That person may boldly swim who is holden up by the chin At saint Martin we drink the good wine When it thunders in March we may cry alas A dry year never beggars the Master An evening red and morning gray makes the Pilgrime to sing wellady A snowie year a fruitful year At Christmas to the Sun at Easter to the fire When the cabage grows above the stock the Vineyard-man dies of thirst In harvest time Ladies are Chamber-maids At Saint Peters Winter departeth or groweth stronger If the weather be sharp at Saint Vincenrs day looke for more Winter Ianuary and February do fill or empty the granary Who hath an ague in May lives all the year after both healthy and gay December was of old a moneth but now it is a year because it ends it A dry March a snowy February a moist April and a dry May presage a good year Temporal Proverbes relating to the Seasons A Month afore and after Christmas winter shews it self the most cruel To the Fire in Winter to the Fields and Woods in Sommer A cold Ianuary a feverish February a dusty March a weeping April a windy