upon thee draw thy foot to thee When the blind leads the blind both are down in the ditch When the Bullock leads the Oxe loiters When thieves squabble true men hear of their cattle When the season of the year is come the Goat sleeps on the Bucks bum When man is down and low God doth enlarge When the Oxe is lean he is best for labour When the Lark's upon his seat The Hobby then makes bold to bait When the game is at best best leave Have mi hi and lose mi ha Revenge from heaven heavy When all sleep and delay God sleeps not but delivers When the Kerne's turn'd out of doore They feign that he was mad before The cat scarce climbes when you cut her clawes All hunt for honour Presume for favours near thy father All cry fie on the fool Each one tells a faire tale Each doth catch at his Cow Every one layes on If toung should tell what hovels hold Neighbours would scarce do ought but scold When the cat is at home the mouse keeps hole A Bucks head on a Hare 's The head worth a pound the tail half a penny The owner of the work the Master work-man Each man Lords where he is belov'd Civil demeanour though to the meanest No wizard compleat eats stinking meat Pill the Egg round ere rosted Whatever is strong in the end is destroyed or Sampsons eyes at length put out Like after like look Prophesies never fail to be fulfill'd Proverbs approved likely hoods lâ—es The wedge by degrees cleaves through the trees Birds meet each knows his maâ—e Every Coast peculiar customes Each path in a dingle run one way to mingle Every coward a Cow All do and say in season All wrong comes to wrack The deeper the sea the better for the ship The older the Welchman the more mad man The older the Rie the sooner reapt The more thou longest the more thy lets The greater the sight the greater the victory The more the Tide flowes the more the Ebb flincheâ— Streight string playes Rex but soon it breaks In wood a tree whose will it be Buy old geere buy again Buy flesh ere fleighed Without wife without strife Wisdom bears the bell Fish before the net A candle wasts not for cold Let no hire go out of the house A hungry man waves manners The Hen forelooks before she layes The poor doth fear an after fall An idle dame should have somthing to do Patience must countermand passion Creep soft ere go sure The third part a poor part The Colt resembles the Sire The meanest in the house hath small share of the Hen. Share between back and belly A cart dances downwards Stone never stayes 'till placed on plain Rarities makes wantonize The broakers fall breeds many felloâ—s Secrets twixt three multiplie and thrive Give and tell a childs good turn More performd then promised I for gave away his cap. The men of Ergings gift What to old men thou give thou wilâ— never regain Put the Cart before the horse Hide the beetle under a holly-bush A dog leaps unlookd A Bull mounts up the Mountain A nurse insults and assaults Between two stools the taile tumbles Little mischief too much Not hard to do easily done A fearfull Don cries hold the dog Forewarnd happy and armd Offer too fair pay for the folly Some desires foul and faulty Some sin incestuous Too streight breaks though strong Too full ever runs over The higher the fool the greater the fall A foe soon seen The covetous spies through a perspective Some odd ones become odious Little and scarce is dear and scant The Buck-kid leaps by kind Who kills discovers Disgrace though conceald not safe The shepherd is oft the wolf Blindness foreseen seven years A long tale with a seven-lockd boy speaks Tomboy VVhat is safe is safest Ieffreys is the Helve and Ieffreys the Hatchet God mock with a dead Monk Talke of Lammas when 't is Christmass Every lout lazy Make clean for shame the plough-share Fly and be gone speaks guilty Tables to play taverns to talk A tongue bad breaks bones or A bad tongue turbulent A golden tongue guides a tale Believe no tales from an enemies tongue Over-loaded well rewarded The silent chews most mischief As like as a sack to a sadle As like as a hogs cheek to a chalice VVithout fault perfect and fair Every one well featur'd and fair Fire seen alwayes seasonable A wanton wench bids thrice farewel VVanton lasses many lessons Pay after sway and forswear VVho ends and wins takes the wager Tell now much and have no more The steed sterves while the grass grows VVhile the dog tires in the field The Hare takes the Fallel The Oxe draws and is driven ever till evening The oppression of orphans The destruction of heirs VVhile harrow drawn mills must not dry Covenant tried stronger then truth Nature stronger then nurture So God speed never despair A weak Lord overtops a great Lurdane Fortunes wiles forestall will VVealth takes leave but fame doth live All sing or sigh are doomd to dy All sing or sigh are doom'd to dy Stay thy vote till inviâ—ed Stay for glory if not for gain Each mournfull soul sad Turn about the Bush. Turn the Puz in Phoebus Mischance hardly eschewed A staff firm a third foot Twt la 't is a horse lent Deceive trust intrusted The trap to high-born Ambition A bribe I know is a jugling knave As the boy growes his coat doth decrease A Colt's height known by the hams A Bullock grows big from the belly A womans Fortune to be wanton The saying concurs with the song The womb not descried till the child cry A small fire-brand flies abroad What God will not cannot prosper The wise sometimes is sad and sighs The old wife may hap Cry after her pap One O wonder may nurse a hundred or In one lap a hundred may ly Neglect one step make many a stride One hand maketh Fire But hundreds find to cull wooll faire A Nurse not harmd though one armd Monoculus may be King in Caecus countrey A penny hire brings in a hundred The hen barr'd of Oats in Barn Neezing's free closed cannot be Once my Lady would swim ore She drownd O me she will swim no more One head higher then two shoulders A sad countenance a sorry Courtier The Foxes procession-week The dark vertigo The belly robs the back Gain waves Impediments A little milk and that Butter-milk Many littles make a great If hanging for a dog thou wouldst shape Say he killeth sheep The wedge that goes drive again The first that brings in Grist let him grind The first heard he said it for ever conceald it Harrow fast reap first The drop wears out the stone Not by force but oft falling on The last that grindeth his meal in Mill Deepest toll payes likely still He that selleth his house may ly on the hills Hath a horn no ear to hear The sin be it ever so secret that thou dost
them The foot of the Master is as dung to the ground Let 's bless God in the state we are in In the Cutlers house an ill knife I scap'd from the thunder and fell into the lightning viz. from bad to worse In the wise mans mouth what is publick is secret He is my friend who grindes in my mill 'T is good Doctrine to be wise by other mens harms The Greyhound who starts many Hares kills none Vain-Glory doth flourish but bears no grain By drop and drop the Sea lesseneth Enjoy thou the little thou hast while the fool seeks for more By one grain after another the Ant fills his barn Do for me learn for thy self I take some sport but I finish my task To scape the Bull I fell into the River Women and Wine make a man swarve from his judgement Thy bowels and chests must fly ope to thy friend The cobweb le ts go the Rat and holds fast the Mouse Salt comes from the sea and mischief from a woman By the Popes Prick which is holy flesh Since I brought forth children I never fill'd my belly Words and works eat not at one table Sometimes a fool gives good counsel From a silent person remove thy dwelling Man is the fire woman the flax the Devil the bellows To sweat at meat and freeze at work Money makes the man compleat VVho died of fear they made him a tomb of turd A melon and a woman are hard to be known A golden face silver hair and scarlet eyes Fore-warn'd fore-arm'd An early riser hath care of something Meddle not with the quarrels of brothers Men propose but God doth dispose Let the tripes be full for they carry the legs My neighbours goat gives more milk then mine Love and thou shalt be loved so thou maist do that which thou canst not do being not beloved Poverty may make a chaste woman do foul things The bacon of Paradise for the married man that never repented Marry and gossip every one with his equal An old man a new grief every day The least hair makes a shadow To sell honey to him that hath hives of his own Let good luck come and let it come whence it will Put neither Iew nor Hog into thy garden Shee 's coif'd like a Saint and nayl'd like a Cat. The wanton Sheep said to the Goat give me wooll The life pass'd makes old age heavy Truth like oyl swims always on the top The foolish woman by the list buyes the cloath The blind mans wife needs no painting A wench on the market-place hath commonly the door swep'd and the house beshit They cast the fault of the Ass upon the Panniers Too much conversation breeds contempt The cunning wife makes the husband her apron VVant makes the old wife to trot and the cripple to caper A good pay-master is never sorry for his pawn A book shut brings not forth a Lawyer The absent and the dead have no friends Money makes Masters He sadleth to day and goes to morrow VVords are in us deeds are in God Married men need many eyes VVhat thou hast to do do it and say not to morrow That which happens not in a year falls out in an instant That which is used cannot be excused Too much breaks the bag VVhat three know all the world knows The dead open the eyes of the living viz. Books The worst of Law-suits is that of one there grow a hundred What 's ordain'd in Heaven must be done on Earth What 's done at a wedding must not be done every day Every one carrieth his Soul in the palm of his hand The rotten apple spoils his companion The Locusts make thin guts The Woman and the Melon smell them at the tail Wine and women keep men from musing A gentle answer breaks choler Truth is green A lye wants feet An Egge to day is better then a Hen to morrow Good words have a good sound A lye hath short legs To start a hare for another to take The poor man like a Walnut-tree all throw stones at him Words are women deeds men Better bow then break Converse with the wise and thou shalt be one of them The desire of man never comes to the highest pitch Bind me hand and foot and throw me among my kindred Divide not Pears with thy master in jest or earnest Better to unsow then break viz. to go too hastily to work An ill word hurts more then a sharp sword A pawn in the the chest is better then a pledge in the market The smoak of my own house is better then the fire of another My Gossips wish me ill because I tell them truth Better to go about then fall into the ditch Better be still single then ill married A handful of naturall wit is better then an armful of learning To hammer on cold Iron One Ox shites more then a hundred Swallows Better late then never 'T is ill to sin 't is devillish to persevere A mild word quencheth more then a whole cauldron of water Being ill and hoping to be better I must dye I know not when If you paint and cocker them too much you will make bad daughters of good Rather a trotting wife then a gazing wife The Devil so loved his child that he pulled out one of his eyes Put her to another vessel because she may not smell of the mother Have luck enough and a little learning will serve thy turn VVho hath children 't is reason he should gather VVho hath children cannot die of a surfeit VVho will be very old let him begin betimes to be so Fortune reacheth her hand to a bold man Take a Bull by the horn and a man by his word God send thee a house of Oak a bowl of Silver and a pot of Copper A Knight without money is no Knight but a bable Gifts break through rocks Who hath daughters and sheep he can want no complaints Two shirts is better then one Correct thy Mule and thy Child behind A Woman in the straw and a Webb begun cannot want a place of refuge Breed up a Crow and she will peck out thy eye Be not partner with a man engaged A clown may be hid by good cloaths Give me her honest and I will make her hansome Give a Pye of one colour and I will give you a Maid without a fault Better keep then ask The dugs draw more then cable ropes A pitiful Mother a shitten Child Rather bleared then blind The ill of many turns to delight My knee is nearer then the calf of my leg 'T is wholsomer to go to bed without a supper then rise in debt Put thy hand into thy own bosome and never stand telling the fortune of others Envy is better then pity Mine is better then ours The more Moors viz. Slaves the more gain Oats and Mass never retard a journey While the yoak goes let the spindle wag While I am in my house I am a King Truly dame this gear goes ill
Physitian makes the Church-yard hilly viz. full of graves A hard bit must have a spur of wine Fiâ—e Beans Silver and Wood in every moneth are good Mutton is the food of a glutton One egg is as nothing two doe much good three is enough four are too many five bring death He who doth not like the Goose shall not joy long in his life viz. who drinks not well After Pears the Priest or Wine Raw Veal and Pullets make the Church-yard full of graves Who hath not health enjoyes nothing He who hath health is rich and knowes it not Who after sallet drinks not wine is in danger to be sick It is the Devils Feast where there is no salt The Gluttons dig their own graves with their teeth A drunkard is known by his snout He is like the Popes mule he drinks but at his set hours There 's no clock truer then the belly For thy drink marry the cellar with the cystern The Harbenger of the Moon hath mark'd the lodging viz. when a woman hath her flowers Of women and fish the middle is best In the morning drink white and Claret at night to make good bloud A wheaten pill a dram of the grape and the ball of a hen is good physick viz. bread wine and an egge 'T is better to fall under the hands of a lucky then a knowing Physitian A hundred crowns of melancholy will not pay a half pennyworth of debt Old Chyrurgeons and young Physitians make the Church-yards swell That which the sober man keeps in his thoughts the drunkard hath in his mouth Drink wine like a King sparingly drink water like an Oxe To drink water eat stones and lye abroad any one may doe it without leave Be more careful with whom you eat and drink then what you eat and drink Who eats all at supper may gnaw a brown crust the next morning Wine is the old mans milk Old wine an old friend and old gold are beloved in all places Let a sallet be well wash'd and salted little vinegar and well oyl'd Who will live in health let him eat little at dinner and less at supper To rise at six and dine at ten to sup at six and go to bed at ten will make a man live ten times ten Of all fish except the tench take the back and leave the belly Who goes to bed athirst riseth in health The best of Mushrumps are worth nothing Proverbs or Pleasant Sayings GO to your Lawyer with feet in hand meaning some present of poultry A long Plea is the Harvest of the Lawyer He beats but with one wing viz. his courage is abated He hath gathered the tithe of Garlick viz. he hath smarted The frisking of a Dog and love of a Punk doth not last unless you feed them The love of a quean like fire of flax He made his nose as flat as a flook viz. he couzen'd him A young Saint an old Devil A Saint in borrowing a Devil in repaying A Shoomaker Saint Crispins prentice You bridle the horse by the tail viz. you go the wrong way to work He leaps from the â—ock to the asse viz. he goes from the matter He is more besotted then a fool with his bable Who sends a fool must expect a fool As fat as a hog in a sty as fat as a dormouse He will not lose his oats for want of brawling The upper end of the table the ninny's place He went away with so much nose viz. he was mightily jeer'd To shift from one matter to another A logger-head The barn is neer the threshens viz. the Nunnery is neer the Fryers He hath eaten of the white hind viz. he is a shittle head A buls plume viz. a pair of horns He is a Clerk to the very teeth he hath eaten his Breviary Courage of sheep nose to the earth He stands muttering viz. grumbling The time was that the Bishop was gold and Crozier the wood now clean contrary A Spaniard without a Iesuit is like a Partridge without his orenge A pedling Merchant or a Merchant of Eelskins He is furnish'd with wit as a Goose is with a crest The mutinous English the bragging Scotch man the foolish French the cowardly Roman the Gascon a theef the Spaniard proud the Dutch a drunkard Peculiar French Sayings TO a councel of fools a wooden bell The first dowle upon the lip or chin He is the horse of four white feet viz. he promiseth fair but performs nothing He is a trumpet horse viz. he is a stout man He speaks on horseback viz. he hath the advantage of me He truss'd his coat or hang'd him soundly 'T is like Robins house in the Vale where there 's neither pot on the fire nor clean dish withal I le give him a Rowland for his Oliver The Rose at last becomes a hep viz. beauty fades I see not a jot nothing at all By little and little the Sea is drain'd He is a sorry cook that licks not his own fingers As merry as ants in a haggard To grease the hand or bribe the Iudge A Crackrope a slipstring a rogue To day a Banker to morrow a Bankrupt Who fears the wagging of leaves let him not go to the wood To bring leaves to the wood or glasses to Venice To spend time loosely and lazily His eyes are bigger then his belly He hath put him to his wits end I have a hard task an intricate business To keep a mighty a horrible stir I have the advantage of him He is daggled with dirt up to the tail Trembling all over to the very heart Who corrects not his son being a child 't will be too late to do it afterwards He valueth prosperity best who provides for adversity I am of a clean contrary opinion to yours He is a rank hypocrite a very dissembler He hath not yet lost who hath once to throw more To counterfeit an affected gravity To slink away cunningly to swagger He hath clinquans or money enough He is well to passe he is rich enough His head and tail go on in the business as the Crow when she would crack a nut Children and fools tell truth A woman a guest and rain are wearisome after three dayes Here you have it never ask whence it comes His father was a Mat-maker he understands well the festraw Come in come in our dogs are tyed up He hath not broke prison who drags his train after him In the countrey of the blind the one-ey'd is King The toung may fail but the letter cannot lye Who payes nothing needs not question the reckoning Parsimony is the best revenue Sommer's gone but the next yeer brings him again Such starlings do not pass every day viz. such fair occasions Who accuseth himself first excuseth himself The hunger must be great when the wolfs eat one another When a thing is done wishes are too late There needs not but a fly to passe by his nose to make him angry The lesser the fault the better A wife
have no tithes The Iron must be beaten while 't is hot Keep touch with the time When thou seest thy neighbours beard peel away wet thine own Do not speak all thou knowest do not judge all thou seest and thou shalt live in peace When the Pilot promiseth mass and wax it goes ill with the Galley Like King like people When the frog hath hair thou wilt be good Better double then break I would have my son witty but not over witty You would buy a Mule without a mouth or a tail Fly what dost thou we plough Meant of arrogant men What avails a candle without week Who riseth late must trot all the day viz. Because he is behind hand with his business Who gives all denies all Who speaks ill of the Mare buyes her Who marries for love hath good nights but sorry dayes Who hearkens well answers well If you will have the dog follow you give him bread Who can be free let him not make himself a captive Who loves well forgets late Who hath his skirts of straw fears the fire Who spares finds Who deals in wool distils gold Who dares not adventure let him not pass the Sea Who commends the Ass may he have such a son Who lends money looseth a visitor Who eats and sings riseth off foolishly Who hath a hundred and owes a hundred and one need not fear who hath a hundred and one and owes one hundred and two I recommend him to God Who lies with dogs riseth up with fleas Who goes far to marry either he goes to deceive or to be deceived He that gets out of debt grows rich A cool mouth and warm feet live long He pulls by a long rope who waits for anothers death When a friend asks there is no to morrow If all fools had bables we should want wood For washing his hands none sells his lands Hearken to reason or she will make her self to be heard VVho lives well is learned enough Iest not with the eye nor with Religion He that stayes does his business Into a mouth shut flyes do not enter One grain fills not a sack yet it helps his fellows Honour and profit lye not in one bag The more a woman looks in her glass the less she looks to her house Marry a widow before she leaves mourning Prayers and provender hinder no journey Many kiss the hand whom they wish were cut off The world runs round who cannot swim goes to the bottom The Lion is not so fierce as he is painted He is not poor who hath little but he that desires much Keep not ill company lest you encrease the number He that wipes the childs nose kisseth the mothers cheek VVho lives in hopes danceth without musick VVho tells his wife news is but newly married VVho learns a trade a purchase hath made Gifts enter every where without a winible The Musician keeps shop in his throat An old mans staff is the rapper of death's door Take heed of an Ox before a Horse behind and a Monk on all sides It 's more pains to do nothing then something Every one hath a fool in his sleeve Religion credit and the eye are tender things VVho licks his knife will give little to his servant Better a snotty nose then none at all VVho brings good news may knock boldly VVho pities another remembers himself A great Dowry is a bed full of brabbles Three women and a goose make a market If things were to be done twice all would be wise The easiest thing in the world is for one to deceive himself Who dallies with his enemy dies between his hands VVho is a Cuckold and holds his peace carrieth a hot coal in his heart VVhy is a man a Cuckold because two can do more then one A VVoman and a Cherry paint themselves for their hurt viz. the one to be tempted the other to be eaten The way to make a woman a fool is to commend her beauty You have hit the white An old Father and a broken Sleeve is no dishonour My mother told me that I should debate the business but not bet A hundred out of one womb and every one of a several mind God bring me to live there where an egge is worth six pence i. To a Country full of money There would be no Fortune were she still the same The Prodigal hath as many friends as eat at his table Fortune at last yeelds to the importunity of labour Labour gets the Laurel and takes off the rust from the soul. Adam's son cannot eat bread without labour I know what I know but I will keep it to my self A cunning Fox that lies betwixt weeds makes her self dead that she may catch the prize One needle for the purse but two for the mouth viz. To keep it close One hath the credite another washeth the wool He was but one that never err'd Vertues overcome signs viz. The influxes of the Stars The wise man is deceived but once the simple twice The old woman when she danceth raiseth much dust The wine of Pears nor drink it thy selfe nor give it thy friend Come cackling thou mayst return singing viz. Go with some present of Poultry to the Judge Sell at home and buy in a fair if thou wilt be rich Thirty Monks and an Abbot cannot make an Ass shite against his will Three to one may put a straw in ones arse All fish is flegm and all games imposthumes You have one dead in your house and you go to mourn for another i. every one hath grief enough of his own A gamester a gamester the name tells thee he is a thief A little gives contentment Soles and wine makes the body go From blowing coles there comes a flame and from ill words a quarrel If John wisheth me well his works will shew it If thou hast a mind to beat thy wife let her bring thee water to the sun-shine for there thou mayst find some mote or other that may be a ground for a quarrel If thou wilt have pleasure endure some pain If thou desirest to be sick wash thy head and go to sleep If thou desirest to be fat eat with hunger and drink leisurely If thou wilt know the value of a Crown go and borrow one If thou wilt have a good servant take him before he hath dowle on his chin If fools did not go to the market ill wares would never be sold. To pray unto the Saint till the danger is past Who goes with ill company breaks his foot or his hip-bone Who doth not appear is perished Wilt thou tell the fool what he is call him a two-footed beast Who meets not with some ill luck takes a surfeit of the good Who hath no honey in his cruce let him have it in his mouth Who promiseth puts himself in debt Who sowes thistles reaps prickles Who hath no money hath no grace Cayre an old Spanish coin Who loves well sees afar off Who eats his Cock alone let him saddle
his horse alone If this dab doth not stick to the wall 't will at least leave a mark One stroke fells not the Oak One and none is all one The same knife cuts my bread and my finger Use makes mastery I that do hold my peace do gripe stones Honour without profit like a ring on ones finger The man believes the soul doubts Before thou write receive and before thou givest write The teeth require not much neglect nor too much care There 's no woman fair on her wedding day Marriages are fill'd up with fools An Ass that gets into another mans ground comes back laden with wood viz. Knocks From a scolding man the Lord deliver me A white earth black seed and five Oxen to the plow-share A red man and bearded woman salute them three leagues off Plow deep thou wilt have bread enough Let thy son have a good name and a good trade There 's fence against all things except against death To drink to the bottom to see the arms of the Goldsmith Satyrical or Drolling Proverbs THe worse Abbot is made of him who hath been a Monk Goose Gander and Gosling have three sounds yet are but one thing By the skirts of the Vicar the Devil climes up to the Steeple Who takes an Eagle by the tail and a woman at her word holds nothing Who spoke Rodrigo spoke of noyse Shut the door for the pot boyls over Without Priest and pigeon-house thou mayst keep thy house clean We are of Galicia we do not understand one another Peter is too old to keep Goats What a pretty fellow would Peter be if he were washed As Saint Antlins Ass every day worse and worse Ironical Proverbs GOd gave me but one Egge and that was addle Two to one I will turn a Crane viz. I will fly away Beneath the Sun there 's no such man As is the Spaniard and Italian Answer Thou tell'st the truth and reason hast The first 's a Thief a Buggerer the last The Church-mans wealth comes in at the door and goes out at the chimney Let Martha die so she have her belly full He took Villadiegos Breeches and put earth in the middle viz. He fled Take heed of aâ— ill woman and do not trust a good one Drolleries or merry Proverbs OF things I never saw least then of good Aprils and good Bishops Abbot of Carcuela having eaten the porredge would have also the pot Trust not a Priest made of a Fryer The Priests wealth is given by God but taken away by the Devil The way to Rome must have neither a lame Mule or light purse God is he who heals but the Physician gets the silver Two Johns and one Peter make one whole Ass. The Abbot and the sparrow are two ill birds Like the Ass of Saint Ladorin every day from bad to worse The Abbots wealth comes singing and goes away whistling Fools makes feasts and wise men eat them That which Christ hath not the Exchequer carrieth The diet of Burguillos Radishes in the morning and Figs at night Martin growes every day from bad to worse Physicians of Valencia long coats and little knowledge My gossip Marimenga comes alwayes to beg something A Boy given to Mass an Abbot of Vallero and a Court Fryer I renounce them all three Never expect much from a Fryer or a Nun. Nor Dog or Neger nor Boy from Galicia Nor a head-strong Mule nor a Maid who hath been at Sea nor a Well at the Door or an Abbot for thy neighbour Trust not thy wife with a Fryer nor brabble with a Iudge Nor a Fryer for thy friend nor a Priest for thy neighbour Temporal Proverbs relating to the Weather APrils and Earls are traytors for the most part April and May the keyes of the year A cold April much bread and little wine Every Hog hath his Saint Martin The third of April the Cuckow is to come if he comes not the eighth day he is taken or dead March water is worse then a stain in cloath August and the Vintage is not every day August rain brings honey wine or saffron May water bread for the whole year A year of snow a year of plenty Aragon clouds are water in the night A red morning wind or rain Every thing in its season and Turnips in Autumn The circle of the Moon never fill'd pond the circle of the Sun wets the Shepherd May tells April although thou weepest I will laugh December pierceth like a Culverin Bearded frost forerunner of snow On Saint Barnabies day the Sun said here I will stand Neither the Winds nor the men of Aragon are good Ianuary makes the pot freeze by the fire and the old woman in her bed In April a thousand waters In Iune Iuly and August Lady excuse me you must The cloud is the mother of rain The Moon with a circle brings water in her beak The Moon encreasing her horns Eastward in the wane her horns before Betwixt April and May if there be rain 't is more worth then Oxen and Wâ—in A windy March and a rainy April makes May beautiful A windy April and a rainy March makes the Hive unlucky Neither give credit to a clear Winter or cloudy Spring Clouds above water below When there are clouds in Hontejas mend thy roof When the rock is coiff'd with flies the town beneath becomes a sop When there is a Spring in Winter and a Winter in Spring the year is never good When Aroca wears a hood go to Rostelo VVhen it rains in August it rains wine or honey When the Moon is in the wane do not sow any thing When the Melicoton buds the day and night are near the same When the Peach is in its flower the day and night are in one tenour When the Figtree buds find out thy Mistress When it snows it snows when it rains it rains when the wind blusters 't is ill weather When Guara hath a cloak and Moncayo a hood a good year for Castile and a better for Aragon Too early a Sun lasts not a whole day A red Sun hath water in his eye March Sun sticks like a lock of wool The Sun set the workman freed Time after time and water after wind An Eastern wind carrieth water in his hand Red clouds in the East rain the next day April buds few of them go to the barrel One month before Christmas another after is the true Winter Saint Lucy the night shorteneth and the day encreaseth Physical Proverbs conducing to Health and Dyet WHo doth not sup needs not Avicen viz. The Physician A Duck a Woman and a Goat are ill things being lean Go to the Fish-market in the morning to the Shambles in the evening Cold water and hot bread never made good belly Water after Figs and Wine after Pears VVater hath three qualities it brings neither sickness debts nor widow-hood Buy the Bolster of one in debt and thou wilt sleep soundly There sickness comes where Egges are eaten without salt VVho
Neither good shooe in Valdres nor good friend in Salamanca Neither a man of Cordova nor a knife of Pamplona nor a boy of Burges or a shooe of Baldres Camora was not got in an hour Palencia the fool who hears thee despiseth thee When thou goest by Pancorue put thy cloak on thy shoulder When thou goest by Torote carry a stone in thy cloak and it will pay thy reckoning Who goes to Andaluzia let him sleep in the day and go all night Who is an Earl and would be a Duke let him be a Fryer in Guadalupe Who goes to Rome let him carry money Who hath not seen Lisbon hath not seen a fair thing Who is naught in his own Town is also naught in Sevil. Corner for corner and Calatayud in Aragon Rome Rome who doth tame fools and pardons not the wise Salamanca cures some and spoils others If Castile were a cow Rioja would be the kidney Valley for Valley from Hita to Talavera A Vineyard in Cuenca a lusty wife and a process in Huete Bricayner the fool put a tarace between If thou wilt know a Catalan piss and he will piss for company Whom God doth bless he gives them a dwelling in Sevil. Three Spaniards two of them Christians as God and the third as holy as the Pope Three Portegueses two of them half Christians and the third a Iew. Three Italians two of them Buggerers the other an Atheist Three Dutch men two of them drunkards the other a heretick Three English men two of them theeves the third a rebel Daroca the fool a great circuit but a small town Valencia Physitians large skirts and little learning On on for Burgos is no village Duero hath the fame but Pisverga hath the water Aranda on Duero I 'le have for my self a saying of Philip the second There are two Magicians in Segura the one experience the other wisedome In Salamanca a mite is better tâ—en a blanc viz. a fair woman To be happy God send thee a Vineyard in Cuenca Ebro thou Traitor who dost spring in Castile and waterest Aragon The King went old to Toro and came back young because the water and grapes are so healthy Spain is dark so is a South-west wind by nature The Ass of Caracena the more he went the worse he was In Navadijos little bread and many children Galicia is a Garden and Ponferrada is the gate Sevile is like a chess-board she hath as many black as white men viz. Moors and Christians Castile was little enough when Amaya was her head and Hitero a Mount Locoya carrieth away the water and Xarama boars the fame Iune Iuly August and Carthagena the best Ports of Spain That which is desired by Alagon let it never come to Aragon Zorita dogs are few but ill condition'd Put a Galliego but in thy barn and he will make himself thy heir That which Escamilla doth crave let Castilla never have viz. too much drought That which Ocannia doth crave let Mancha never have That which Hinojosos desires let our eyes never see Like Buitrago colts that alwayes grow less and less Like Zorita dogs who having no other do bite one another The youths of Cuenca and colts of Carboneras The world runs round born in Granada and dead in Bustillo The world runs round to be born in Xerez and dye in Portillo Portingal Proverbs SOmetimes an ill-favoured bitch gnawes a good chord A duck a woman and a goat are ill things being lean An empty purse makes one wise but too late The end commends life and the evening the day Let 's have health and peace and we shall quickly have enough Be it he or she look well with whom you converse A long tongue is a sign of a short hand The woman and the sheep let them go home betimes Too much courtesie a kind of cheat Love Fire and Cough discover their matter The love of a Nun and the flowers of the Almond-tree soon come and soon depart A handsome wife a vineyard and fig-tree are hard to be kept The Mulberry which thou canst not reach lay up for thy soul. Give to the good and depart from the bad An old debt is better then a new sin 'T is to no purpose to seek where nothing's to be found The stone and the word returns not when once out My sleep is found my enemy being dead 'T is as hard for a fool to be silent as for a wise man to speak foolishly I had rather have one sparrow in my hand then two in the wood Fools go to weddings and pilgrimages I do not desire a pig with a bell A hot belly a sleeping foot Mine is better then ours An old womans stroke breaks no bone The man beleeves and the soul doubts The hen without teeth makes living men of the dead viz. with her Eggs. Trust not a lame dog A dog of an old dog and a colt of a young horse A Iew for Merchandise and a Friar for hypocrisie The conscience of Portulegre which sells a cat for a hare A gadding wife is met every where They spoke to him in garlick he answers them in codshead There the tongue goes where the tooth akes Iohn Gomez journey who went with a saddle and came back on a wallet Galliego Proverbs THE wealth of a Church-man God gives it and the Devil takes it away The ill neighbour gives a needle without threed Love doth much but money doth all The Countrey-man is 'twixt two Lawyers as a fish 'twixt two cats A calf of a young cow and a colt of an old mare A Sea-Voyage cannot be limited to dayes Catalunian Proverbs APpetite is better then surfet In Iuly neither woman nor snail A man dyes of the ill he fears He that hath a handsome body needs no cloke Who riseth late trots all the day because he is behind hand with business The voice of the people is the voice of God Dry bread is better with love then a fat capon with fear The Explication of some Remarkable Proverbs in Spanish GOd bring me to dwell there where an egg is worth six pence viz. to that Country which is rich and full of treasure which may incite men to labour VVhom God loves his bitch brings forth pigs viz. whom God loves all things cooperate for his good and beyond his expectation and hopes Whom God love's the Ant goes to seek him out viz. He will have plenty of corn where the Ants use to resort God deliver me from a Goose quill viz. from Lawyers Bills Suits in Law and a scrivener's shop From still waters the Lord deliver me for from rough waters I will defend my self viz. God deliver me from a glozing friend for from an enemy I shall defend my self VVhat a rich Merchant would God be Because he foreknows all things as the season of the year and when there will be tempests c. My father Munnioz desires that which God will not have This Proverb is understood of a Maid whom her father would