steals the old mans supper doth him no wrong An Eele in a pye and in pickle the Lamprey One Olive is gold two silver three all brass Agues or Feavers in the Fall all alwayes long or mortal A Kid of one mouth a Lamb of three An Ague in May health for a year and a day The mother reckons well but the child better Make night night and day day so thou mayst sing well-a-day A late Child quickly an Orphan In a black woman there is Turpentine Keep thy feet dry thy mouth moist Far from City far from health The morning to the mount the evening to the fount Suppers killed more then Avicen ever cured Dine with little sup with less sleep high and thou wilt live After fish milk do not wish Sammon and Sermon have their season in Lâ—nt Milk said to Wine Friend thou art come in good time 'T is good sowing where the sheep hath piss't Old wine and an old friend Who grows fat being old hath two youths Marry thy daughter and eat fresh fish betimes The young man by sleep improves his health and the old man impairs it Water upon honey tastes ill but doth well Hot bread have much in thy hand and little in thy belly That Cheese is wholesomest which comes from a Miser Let thy water have neither colour smell or savour and let it see the Sun Let thy door be towards the East and thou wilt live the better VVine over night is not worth a mite Let me piss clear and a fig for the Physician Appetite is better then surfeit A growing youth hath a wolf in his belly God give me a river and a hill for my neighbour Ye Maids of Davera who gave you bad teeth cold Water and hot Chesnuts Drink not of a Pond and eat but one Olive Bread enough and Wine by measure New bread and grapes paint Maids and take away the old womans wrinkles Yesterdayes bread and this dayes flesh wine of the year pass't brings health For a Quartan Ague the bell seldom tolls Moderate labour is much health When thy belly akes make it known to thy tail When thou hast an appetite eat of the Buttock not of the Liver The Cods or Genitories When a man bepisseth his boots he is not fit for marriage When thou eatest new bread take heed of the fountain When thy piss is of the florins colour a fig for the Physician When it rains and the Sun shines gather snails When the Patient hath the postern-door open a farâ— for the Apothecary When the Spleen swells the body grows less He who breaks not his fast in May let him recommend himself to the dead He who pisseth and doth not fart he doth not do what he should Who eats well and drinks well doth do his duty Who eats snails in April let him provide for death Who sees fennel and gathers it not he is no man but a Devil VVilt thou see thy Husband dead give him cabage in August VVho eats much eats little VVhether you eat little or much drink thrice To a Iady bit a spur of wine A rusty needle shall not come among my tools He obtains who tires not God sends meat to washed hands Let me go warm and let the world laugh at me To a collop of bacon a good rouse of wine Drink water like an Ox and wine like a King viz. Sparingly One egge is niggardliness two is gentleness three is valour the fourth is knavery If the Countrey-man knew the goodness of a Hen in Ianuary he would leave none in the roost VVilt thou have a good bit take a Medler the crown taken off VVho goes to bed without some supper hath a light brain all the night Sheeps cheese Goats milk and Cow butter is the best Leave not thy wastcoat till the Galileans come that is till Ascension day when the Gospel of the men of Galilee c. is read There 's no such broth as the juyce of flint viz. That 's made of rock-water Pour no water in my wine for there are worms that go up and down the River A Pear that cries Rodrigo is not worth a fig viz. A stony Pear Neither drink Perry thy self nor give it to any other that thou lovest Distempers of the eye are to be cured with the elbow viz. They must not be touched He must rise betimes who will cheat the Devil He who meets with no ill luck is weary of good He who did eat the flesh let him gnaw the bone He who stumbleth in the plain way what will he do on a Rock He who flies away in time comes timely home He who will live in health let him dine moderatly and sup betimes Bad dinners and great break-fasts small heads and long necks If thou wilt eat what is ill eat a roasted Hare If thou wilt live in health make thy self old betimes If the good woman knew the vertue of Rhue she would seek it by Moon-shine If thou wilt be sick wash thy head and go to sleep Under the VValnut-tree do not fall down and lie Upon new figs do not drink Upon Melon wine is a felon If thou desirest to die eat rost Mutton and sleep presently Pottage without herbs hath neither goodness nor nourishment VVho eats a pilchard in May shites out the bones in August Topical Proverbs that aime at particular Places and Persons THe Physicians of Valentia have large skirts but little knowledge To the Iudges of Galicia go with feet in hand viz. With some present of Capons c. Give the Jew an inch and he will take an ell Galliegos are beggers the Castillians are covetous Give a Jew an Egge and he will beg of you the Hen. Ganiazar and Villarejo a great bell and bad counsel From an Andaluz take heed of thy cloak Cuenca ill for sore heads and Valencia for sore legs From a Toledano take heed early and late From a Pamplona knife a shooe of Baldres and a friend of Burgos the Lord deliver me The Portugues was born of a Iews fart The custome of Aragon for good service a bad reward Rather an Ingle then a Galliego Sardinia either kills or makes thee well viz. with a disease In Acturia there are three moneths of Winter and three of Hell Let Burgos speak for Toledo I 'le speak my self said Philip the second to decide a controversie which was 'twixt these two Towns who should speak first in Parlement A Portugal prentice that will cut and yet he cannot sowe Speak not Arabick in a Moor's house Who hath a tongue goes to Rome Santiago way the lame goes as much as the sound viz. alluding to the pilgrims to be cur'd As valiant as the Gander of Cantipalos who made shew to set upon a man Like the Mules of Losa he that breeds them enjoys them not Castile hath bread enough who hath not must live in poverty Cabage of Murcia and Turnips of Bejara Deny what thou wilt thou art in Aragon Nor round stones nor the people of Girona
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
his Sow T is but a flea-biting Wine wears no breeches He that medleth with all things may shooe the Gosling The plain fashion is best Who cometh last let him make fast He will kill a man for a mess of mustard Of two ills choose the least Forberance is no quittance Misreckoning is no payment I will take it falth in the sneaf where ever it fall He is Iack out of Office Let the Cat wink and the Mouse runs Say nay and take it I will say nought but mum His toung runs before his wit Own is own and home is home She hath spun a fair threed They may laugh that win He playes best who wins Let this wind blow over I have seen as far come as nigh The keys hang not at one mans girdle A good coming in is all in all with a widdow A bow long bent at last waxeth weak A broken sleeve holdeth the arm back A Cat may look upon a King A carion kite will never be a good hawk A dogg hath his day A dogg will bark ere he bite A fools bolt is soon shot A friend is not so soon gotten as lost A friend is never known till a man have need A good man can doe no more harme then a sheep A good tale ill told in the telling is marr'd A good wife maketh a good husband A good neighbour a good good morrow A grunting horse and a groaning wife never fail their Riders A hard beginning hath a good ending A hard-fought field where no man escapeth unkilld A hasty man never wants woe A hony toung a heart of gall A legg of a Lark is better then the whole body of a Kyte A friend in Court is worth a penny in purse After meat comes mustard As long liveth a merry man as a sadd A long harvest of a little Corn. A low hedge is easily leaped over A man is not so soon healed as hurt A Man far from his good is nigh his harm A man may buy Gold too dear A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink without he will A mouse in time may bite in two a Cable A piece of a Kid is worth two of a Cat. A sorry dogg that is not worth the whistling after As proud comes behind as goes before A proud horse that will not bear his own provender A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt A scald head is soon broken A swine over-fat is the cause of his own bane A traveller may ly with authority A wonder lasteth but nine dayes After black clouds cleer weather After a storm comes a calm After dinner sit a while After supper walk a mile All is not gold that glisters All is well that ends well An ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers An inch breaketh no square An inch in a Misse is as bad as an ell An unbidden guest knoweth not where to sit As a man is friended so the Law is ended As deep drinketh the Goose as the Gander As good to play for nought as work for nought As I brew so must I drink Batchelors wives and Maydens children be well taught Be it better be it worse go you after him that bears the purse Believe well and have well Better be envied then pittied Better tooth out then alwayes ake Better fed then taught Better half a loaf then no bread Better late then never Better leave then lack Better sit still then rise and fall Better spare at brim then at bottom Better to be happy then wise Better to bow then break Better to rule then be ruled by the rout Better unborn then untaught Better a bad excuse then none at all Beware of had I wist Black will take no other hue Blind men should not judge of colours Bought wit is best By wisedom peace by peace plentie Burnt child dreads the fire Cat after kind Christmas come's but once a year and when it come's there is good cheer Close sitteth my shirt but closer my skin Clowdy mornings turn to fair evenings Cut your coat after your cloth Dear bought and farr fett are dainties for Ladies Dinners cannot be long where dainties want Do well and have well Enough is as good as a feast Ever drunk ever dry Even reckoning maketh long friends Every man basteth the fat hog Every man cannot hit the nail on the head Every man for himself and God for us all Every one after his fashion Evil gotten goods never proves well Evil gotten evil spent Fast bind fast find Fair words make fools fain Eair words hurt not the mouth Few words to the wise suffice Fish is cast away that is cast into dry pools First come first served Folly it is to spurn against a prick Foul water as soon as faire will quench hot fire Foul in the cradle fair in the saddle Fools with fair words are pleased Frost and fraud have alwayes foul ends Give an inch and you will take an ell God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat God sendeth cold after cloth God sendeth fools fortune Good words cost nought Good riding at two Ankers men have told For if the one fail the other may hold Good to be merry and wise Great boast small rost Great barkers are no biters Half warn'd half arm'd Happy man happy dole Hast makes wast He can ill pipe that lacketh his upper lip He laugheth that winneth He may ill run that cannot go He must needs swim that is held up by the chin He runneth far that never returneth again He that cometh last must make all fast He that cometh last to the pot soonest wroth He that feareth every grasse must not pisse in the meddow He that hath an ill name is half hanged He that hath plenty of good shall have more He that hath but a little he shall have lesse And he that hath right nought right nought shall possesse He that is borne to be hanged shall never be drown'd He that striketh with the sword shall be beaten with the scabbard He that will not when he may when he would he shall have nay He that winketh with the one eye and looketh with the other I will not trust him though he were my brother He that playes more then he sees forfeiteth his eyes to the King He is proper that hath proper conditions He that worst may must hold the candle He that reckoneth without his Host must reckon twice Hold fast when you have it Hope well and have well Hot Love soon cold How can the Fole amble when the horse and Mare trot Hunger maketh hard beans sweet Hunger pierceth stone-walls Hunger is the best sauce If every one mend one all shall be mended Ill gotten ill spent Ill putting a sword in a mad mans hand Ill weeds grow fast In Love no lack In trust is Treason It chanceth in an houre that happeneth not once in seven year It is a bad cloth that will take no colour It is a foul
bird that defileth his own nest It is an ill wind that bloweth no man good It is a good horse that never stumbleth It is better kisse a knave then to be troubled with him It is better to be a shrew then a sheep It is easier to descend then ascend It is good fishing in troubled water It is good to beware by other mens harms It is good to be merry and wise It is good sleeping in a whole skin It is good to have a hatch before the door It is hard halting before a cripple It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year It is hard striving against the stream It is an ill coming to the end of a feast and begining of a fray It is ill fishing before the net It is ill healing of an old sore It is merry in Hall when beards wagg all It is merry when Tinkers meet It is not all butter that the Cow shites It must needs be true what every man saith It pricketh betimes that will be a good thorn It is not good to have an Oare in every mans boat It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone It is a rare thing to doe good Is every man born to be rich In the end things will mend Knowledge is a great blessing Kindnesse will creep where it cannot go Leave is light Like will to like Little said soon amended Little do you know what I think Look ere you leap Look not too high lest a chip fall in thine eye Love cometh in at the window and goeth out at the door Love is blind Love me little and love me long Love me love my Dogg Like to like quoth the Devil to the Collier Like master like man Look not a given Horse in the mouth Many hands make light work Many cannot see wood from trees Mock not quoth Mumford when his wife call'd him Cuckold Many kisse the Child for the Nurses sake Many a little maketh a mickle More mayds then Mawkin Many small make a great Many words will not fill a bushel Many men many minds Measure is a merry mean Might overcometh right More afraid then hurt Need hath no Law Need maketh the old wife trott Never pleasure without repentance No man loveth his fetters be they made of gold No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth No woman seeks another in the Oven which hath not before been there Nothing hath no savor No man liveth without a fault Nothing is impossible to a willing heart Nothing venture nothing have Of a good beginning cometh a good end Of a ragg'd Colt cometh a good Horse Of little medling cometh great ease Of sufferance cometh ease One ill weed marreth a whole pot of pottage One ill word asketh another One shrewd turn followeth another One fool maketh many fools One thing well done is twice done Out of sight out of mind Over shooes over boots One beateth the Bush another catcheth the Birds Poor and proud fie fie Pride goes before and shame follows after Pride will have a fall Profered service stinketh Prove thy friend ere thou have need Patience is a Vertue Puff not against the wind Patience perforce is medicin for a mad dog Reckoners without their host must reckon twice Rome was not built in one day Reason rules all things Righteous things will prosper Saying and doing are two things Seldom cometh the better Seldom seen is soon forgotten Self do self have Shame take him that shame thinketh Shamefull craving must have shameful nay Set a beggar a hors-back and he will gallop Small pitchers have wide ears So many heads so many witts Soft fire maketh sweet malt Salt seasons all things Somewat is better then nothing Soon gotten soon spent Soon hot soon cold Soon ripe soon rotten So long goeth the pot to the water that at length it cometh home broken Spare to speak spare to speed Speak faire and think what you will Spend and God will send Store is no sore Struggle not against the stream Such a father such a son Such beginning such end Such lipps such lettice Such welcome such farewell Such Carpenters such chips Sweet meat will have sowre sauce Take time when time cometh lest time steal away Take heed is a good reed Tales of Robin Hood are good for fools That one will not another will That the eye seeth not the heart rueth not That peny is well spent that saveth a groat The beggar may sing before the thief The best Cart may overthrow The best is best cheap The blind lead the blind they will stumble The Cat knoweth whose lipps she licketh well enough The fewer the better fare The Fox fareth well when he is cursed The greatest talkers are the least doers The greatest Clarks be not the wisest men The more the merrier The malt-man comes on munday The greatest Crabs be not all the best The highest tree hath the greatest fall The young Cock croweth as the old heareth The keyes hang not all at one mans girdle The longer East the shorter West The longest day hath an end The low stake standeth long The eye-servant is never good for his Master The more thy years the nigher thy grave The Nightingall sings clear The Parish-Priest forgetteth that ever he hath been Holy-water Clark The Tide keeps its course There is difference between staring and starke blind There is falsehood in fellowship Think well of all men They must hunger in frost that will not worke in heat They that are bound must obey They that be in Hell weene there is no other Heaven Threatned folks live long Time lost we cannot win Time stayeth for no man Too much of one thing is good for nothing Tread a worm on the tail and she will turn again The penny in pocket is a good companion Truth shameth the Devil Two eyes can see more then one Two false knaves need no Broker Two Apples in my hand and the third in my mouth Two heads are better then one Talk not too much on State-affairs Two may keep counsel when one is away What is a workman without his tools What the heart thinketh the toung speaketh When the head aketh all the body is the worse When the pigg is proferd hold up the poke When theives fall out true folks come to their own VVelcome death quoth the Ratt when the trapp fell down When thy neighbours house doth burn be careful of thine own VVe will do any thing that we may dance all Will. the Piper hath broke his pipes VVho hath an ill name is half hang'd Vhere nothing is a little doth ease VVhere saddles lack better ride on a padd then on a horses bare back VVhere nought is to wend witt wise men flee the clogs VVhere men are well used they will frequent there VVhere wine is not common commons must be sent VVithout hope the heart would break VVho lacketh a stock his gaine is not worth a chipp VVho meddleth in all things May shooe the
Am's ace Ambling Annes and trotting Ioan. Size deux Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos Sice cinque When a Queen shites she needs must stinke Quatre tray Katherine Gray Tray deux ace Passage cometh apace Two sixes Black is my hole quoth Nan Bentley Foure and five Whom Fortune favoureth he will thrive Cinque tray Some stood and some ran away Two fives Two thiefs besides the caster Six foure We shall be all merry within this houre Six three Six Trees will make two pair of Gallowes Cinque tray Some fought and some run away Foul in the craddle clean in the saddle Serve God in thy Calling 't is better then praying viz. This is meant of foolish impertinent Zelotts The fairest Rose endeth in a hep viz. all beauties perish Honour bought is Temporal Simony What 's well done is ever done The holy man of God will be better with his bowes and arrowes about him An Irish Prverb VVave a wife with no fault and take one with two A British Proverb Topicall and Temporall PROVERBS RELATING To particular Places Seasons and Persons put together LEtt Uter Pendragon doe what he can Eden will run the same way she ran A River in Westmerland which Uter Pendragon thought to bring about Pendragon Castle but could not force nature Naturam expellas furcâ licèt Wotten under Wever where God was never A black squalid place neere Moreland in Staffordshire In April Doves-flood is worth a Kings good A River in Staffordshire You may sip up the Severn and swallow Mavern as soon meant of impossibilities Scarborough warning viz. Not till danger knock at the door as it once happened there from the French Archdeacon Pratt would eat no fatt His wife would eat no lean Twixt Archdeacon Pratt and Ioan his wife The meat was eat up clean Rain rain go to Spain Fair weather come again At Witson poke Munday when peeple shear hogs viz. Never Like Banbury Tinkers who in stopping one hole make two Meant of those that marr a business in mending it Barnaby bright the longest day and shortest night Backare quoth Mortimer to his sow There be more Mayds in the world then Malkin As old as Pendle Hill In Lancashire where the witches use to be From Hull Hell and Hallifax good Lord deliver us As wise as VValthams Calf who went nine miles to suck a Bull and came back more thirstie then when he went Ioan in the dark is as good as my Lady A man in words and not in deeds Is like a Garden full of weeds Badger-like one legg shorter then another They scold like so many butter-whores or Oyster-women at Billinsgate In time of prosperity friends will be plenty In time of adversity not one amongst twenty The Dutchman drinketh pure wine in the morning at noon wine without water in the evening as it comes from the Butt Nick would wipe his nose if he had one Some places of Kent have health and no wealth some wealth and no health some health and wealth some have neither health nor wealth A Burford bait viz. VVhen one sipps or drinks but part they still fill his cupp untill he drinketh all Drink off your drink and steal no Lambs As craftie as a Kendale Fox They thrive as New-Colledge Students who are golden Schollers silver Batchelors and leaden Masters As fierce as a Lion of Cotshwold viz. A sheep Go digg at Mavorn hill Spoken of one whose wife wears the breeches God sends meat and the Devil sends Cooks After meat comes mustard Hunger is the best sawce Cato never laughed but once and that was when he saw an Asse eat Thistles being laden with gold Go ride upon Saint Leonards saddle A speech used to be spoken to a barren woman this saddle was kept at Bromley in Essex VVebley Ale Medley Bells Lemster Ore three things in Herefordshire which are the best in that kind An Ague in the Spring is Physick for a King A bushell of March dust is worth a Kings ransome As plain as the nose of a mans face Easter so long'd for is gone in a day Winter thunder is Summers wonder After a storm cometh a calm VVide quoth Bolton when his bolt flew backward He shooteth well that hitts the mark Bait me an ace quoth Bolton Sutton wall and Kenchister are able to buy London were it to sell Two fruitfull places in Herefordshire The Devil and Iohn of Cumber Blessed be Saint Stephen ther 's no fast at his Even Because 't is Christmas night In Lincolnshire the Sow shites sope the Cow shites fire For they wash with the one and make fire with the other Every thing hath an end and a pudding hath two It would vex a Dogg to see a pudding creep The vale of Holmesdale never won nor never shall Holmesdale is near Rigat in Surrey Little England beyond VVales Pembrokeshire more then half inhabited by the English Lemster wooll and Monmouth capps Find me an honest man Trent Northward and I will find you an honest whore Solomon was a wise man and Sampson was a strong man yet neither of them could pay money before they had it Lay thy hand on thy heart and speak the truth Look behind thee and consider what thou wast Let God be true and all men liars Do as you would be done unto A cold May and a windy makes a fat barn and findy Manners make a man quoth VVilliam of Wickeham A soft fire maketh sweet malt You may know his meaning by his gaping Souldiers and travellers may lye by authority The smoak of Charren A Proverb relating to a wife who had beat her husband and he going out weeping said it was for the smoake that his eyes watered He that hath it and will not keep it He that wanteth it and will not seek it He that drinketh and is not dry Shall want money as well as I. If one knew how good it were To eat a hen in Ianivere He would not leave one in the flock For to be trodden by the Cock. Of all the Fish in the Sea Herring is the King The Nun of Sion with the Frier of Shean VVent under water to play the Quean If Skiddaw wears a capp Scruffel wots full well of that viz. If it be cloudy Skiddaw and Scruffel are in Cumberland and Anandell Skiddaw Lauellin and Casticand are the highest hills in all England All in Cumberland A Sheriff had he bin and a Contour VVas no where such a Vavasour An old said saw of that Family The jowl of a Salmon the tail of a Tench The back of a Herring the belly of a VVench VVere I near my Castle of Bungey Upon the River of VVavenley I would ne care for the King of Cockeney Hugh Bigod in Henry the seconds time these places are in Suffolk It shall be done when the King cometh to VVogan a little Village viz. An impossibility Cheshire chief of men Lancashire for fair women Iudas might have repented before he could have found a tree to have hang'd