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A complete list follows the text. A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PROVERBS THE FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS SERIES OF BOOKS. Price 1s. cloth; 1s. 6d. half-bound in leather, red edges. 1. FAMILIAR LATIN QUOTATIONS & PROVERBS. 2. FAMILIAR FRENCH QUOTATIONS & PROVERBS. 3. FAMILIAR ENGLISH QUOTATIONS. 4. A HANDY CLASSICAL DICTIONARY. 5. BIBLE TRUTHS WITH SHAKESPEARIAN PARALLELS. By J. B. Selkirk. 6. A HANDY BOOK OF SYNONYMS, CONTAINING ABOUT 33,000 ENGLISH WORDS. 7. THE SECRETARY'S ASSISTANT AND CORRESPONDENT'S GUIDE. Nineteenth Edition. 8. TOURIST'S FRENCH PRONOUNCING HANDBOOK. 9. REASONS WHY WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE. By the Rev. James Copland, M.A. 10. TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE. By Charles Lamb. 11. A DICTIONARY OF DAILY BLUNDERS CORRECTING THEM. 12. RASSELAS. By Dr. Johnson. 13. ELIZABETH, OR THE EXILES OF SIBERIA. 14. REJECTED ADDRESSES. 15. A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PROVERBS. 16. PLUTARCH'S LIVES OF ILLUSTRIOUS MEN. 17. DE QUINCEY'S OPIUM-EATER. 18. THE STORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By the Rev. A. Carter, M.A. 19. A DICTIONARY OF MYTHOLOGY. 20. MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES. 21. MOORE'S LALLA ROOKH. TRIPLICATE VOLUMES. Coloured edges, 3s. each. 1. HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS & READERS (_English_). 2. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF QUOTATIONS, _English, French and Latin_. 3. LAMB'S TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE, RASSELAS, & ELIZABETH. 4. REFERENCE HANDBOOK FOR BIBLE & GENERAL READERS. 5. HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS & READERS (_Classical_); CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, PLUTARCH, AND MYTHOLOGY. A DICTIONARY OF English Proverbs AND Proverbial Phrases WITH A COPIOUS INDEX OF PRINCIPAL WORDS _SELECTED AND ARRANGED_ BY THE AUTHOR OF 'A DICTIONARY OF DAILY BLUNDERS,' 'A HANDY BOOK OF SYNONYMS,' ETC. ETC. LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO. "The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."--LORD BACON. PREFACE. Long before writing and books were in common use, proverbs were the principal means of imparting instruction. In modern times there is not so much need to apply these old sayings as a means of educating the people, but they are still constantly met with in the newspapers and in general literature, and they are rightly considered as "The texts of common life." The late Earl Russell very aptly described a proverb as "The wisdom of many and the wit of one." We value proverbs chiefly as moral maxims teaching some practical lesson set forth in concise, pithy sentences, which are fixed in the memory without effort, and retained without being burdensome. They have been found useful for guidance in almost every condition of life; but, on the other hand, it is quite true that many dangerous precepts have been propounded in proverbs, and some of the older ones gave such questionable advice, or were couched in such objectionable language, that they have been very properly omitted from every collection intended, as this is, for general use. Other old proverbs have become obsolete, and as their meaning is now obscure, they have not been included in the Dictionary. This series of "Handy Books" would hardly be complete without a collection of English Proverbs. Many books on the subject have been written, but it is hoped that this collection will, in some respects, be found to be an improvement on all its predecessors. Like _The Dictionary of Daily Blunders_, this _Dictionary of English Proverbs_ has been framed so as to enable the reader to find what he wants without difficulty. The Dictionary itself is arranged according to the principal words, and there is also a Copious Index of additional principal words. Other modern collections profess to give an "Alphabetical Index," but such an index is of little use when we find that it is framed on the rule that because a proverb begins with the article _A_, it should therefore be indexed under that letter. As, "A bald head is soon shaven." In another similar Index we find the proverb, "'Tis the second blow makes the fray," inserted under the letter _T_. In one index of this kind there are no less than twenty-two pages of _A's_ and almost as many of _The's_. Indeed the whole index is compiled without the slightest regard to the subject of the proverbs. On this subject Disraeli, in his essay on the "Philosophy of Proverbs," says "The arrangement of proverbs has baffled the ingenuity of every one of their collectors. Ray, after long premeditation, has chosen a system with the appearance of an alphabetical order, but it turns out that his system is no system, and his alphabet is no alphabet. After ten years' labour the good man could only arrange his proverbs by commonplaces." In this little Dictionary, as we have already stated, the proverbs are arranged in alphabetical order, according to the leading words, and are consecutively numbered. But, in order to avoid repetition (as most of the proverbs contain, at least, two leading words), the _subject words_ are used for the Dictionary, and the other principal words will be found in the Index, with a numerical reference to the proverb. The great advantage of this arrangement is, that if only one important word of a proverb be remembered, that word can be turned to in the Dictionary, and, if not found there, will certainly be in the Index. Nearly two thousand of the leading words are thus indexed--enough to make it almost impossible to miss finding what is wanted. This plan has also the effect of bringing together the proverbs on kindred subjects, which is often a matter of importance to writers, and is, moreover, most amusing to those who only read the book to while away a leisure hour. Ready reference is further facilitated in the Index by the addition of associated words. If one word only had been given, the reader might have had to refer to eleven proverbs before he found the one he required; as, for example, in the case of _Dog_. It may be convenient to state that the Dictionary has been compiled principally from Ray's collection, first published in 1670. The remainder of the proverbs have been collected from ancient and modern literature; but some few of them will not be found in any other published collection. It only remains to remind the reader that this is a collection of ENGLISH Proverbs only; and we may appropriately conclude our Preface with a further extract from Disraeli's essay, wherein he very justly remarks that "The experience of life will throw a perpetual freshness over these short and simple texts; every day may furnish a new commentary; and we may grow old and still find novelty in proverbs by their perpetual application." _A Dictionary of English Proverbs._ A 1. ABSENCE. Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones. 2. ABSENT. The absent are always at fault. 3. ABSENT. Long absent, soon forgotten. 4. ACHING TEETH. Who hath aching teeth, hath ill tenants. 5. ADVERSITY. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. 6. ADVERSITY. Adversity tries friends. 7. ADVERSITY. Adversity flattereth no man. 8. ADVICE. Give neither advice nor salt until you are asked for it. 9. ADVICE. What every one asks, what every one gives, but what very few take--advice. 10. ADVICE. In vain he craves advice who will not follow it. 11. ADVICE. Advice comes too late when a thing is done. 12. AFRAID OF WOUNDS. He that's afraid of wounds must not come nigh a battle. 13. AFRAID. More afraid than hurt. 14. AGE. Age before honesty. 15. AGE (OLD). Old age is honourable. 16. AGREE. Two of a trade seldom agree. 17. AGREE. Agree, for law is costly. 18. AGUE. An ague in the spring, Is physic for a king. 19. AGUES. Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot. 20. AIR. A man cannot live by the air. 21. ALCHEMY. No alchemy like saving. 22. ALE. Good ale is meat, drink, and cloth. 23. ALE. He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, He that buys ale buys nothing else. 24. ALE-HOUSE. Every one has a penny to spend at a new ale-house. 25. ALL'S WELL. All's well that ends well. 26. ALL THINGS. No living man All things can. 27. ALMOST. Almost was never hanged. 28. ALMS. Steal the goose, and give the giblets in alms. 29. ANGER. Anger is short-lived in a good man. 30. ANGER. Keep from the anger of a great man. 31. ANGRY MEN. Angry men seldom want woe. 32. ANGRY. He that is angry without a cause must be pleased without amends. 33. ANOTHER'S BURDEN. None knows the weight of another's burden. 34. APPLES. Apples, eggs, and nuts, One may eat after sluts. 35. APRIL. April and May are the keys of the year. 36. APRIL. When April blows his horn, It's both good for hay and corn. 37. APRIL. April borrows three days of March, and they are ill. 38. APRIL SHOWERS. March winds and April showers Bring forth May flowers. 39. ARGUS. Argus at home, but a mole abroad. 40. ASHAMED. Never be ashamed to eat your meat. 41. ASHES. Every man must eat a peck of ashes before he dies. 42. ASK. Ask but enough, and you may lower as you list. 43. ASK. Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy. 44. ASKING. Lose nothing for asking. 45. ASS. The ass that brays most, eats least. 46. ASS. Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king's horses. 47. AUGUST. August dry and warm, Harvest doth no harm. 48. AUGUST. If the twenty-fourth of August be fair and clear, Then hope for a prosperous autumn that year. 49. AUGUST. A wet August never brings dearth. 50. AUTHOR. Like author, like book. B 51. BACHELORS. Bachelors grin, but married men laugh till their hearts ache. 52. BACHELORS' WIVES. Bachelors' wives and maids' children are always well taught. 53. BAD. Where bad's the best, naught must be the choice. 54. BAD COMPANY. Better be alone than in bad company. 55. BAD DAY. A bad day never hath a good night. 56. BAD MARKET. He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one. 57. BAGPIPE. Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble. 58. BAGS. He is most loved that hath most bags. 59. BAIL. Be bail and pay for it. 60. BALANCE. The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead. 61. BALD HEAD. A bald head is soon shaven. 62. BANQUET. There's no great banquet but some fare ill. 63. BARBER'S CHAIR. Like a barber's chair, fit for every buttock. 64. BARBER. One barber shaves not so close but another finds work. 65. BAREFOOTED. Barefooted men should not tread on thorns. 66. BARE FOOT. Better a bare foot than no foot at all. 67. BARGAIN. Make the best of a bad bargain. 68. BARGAIN. A bargain is a bargain. 69. BARGAIN. At a great bargain make a great pause. 70. BARK. What! keep a dog and bark myself? 71. BARKERS. The greatest barkers are not always the sorest biters. 72. BARLEY. When the sloe-tree is as white as a sheet, Sow your barley, whether it be dry or wet. 73. BARLEYCORN. Sir John Barleycorn is the strongest knight. 74. BARLEY STRAW. Barley straw's good fodder when the cow gives water. 75. BARREL. You cannot know wine by the barrel. 76. BATCHELOR. Commend a wedded life, but keep thyself a batchelor. 77. BEAN. Every bean has its black. 78. BEANS. Sow beans in the mud, they'll grow like wood. 79. BEANS. Beans should blow before May doth go. 80. BEAR. A man may bear till his back breaks. 81. BEAR. Bear and forbear. 82. BEAR. Bear with evil and expect good. 83. BEAT. 'Tis easy to find a staff to beat a dog. 84. BEATEN. Better to be beaten than be in bad company. 85. BEATEN. A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, The more they're beaten the better they be. 86. BEAUTY. Beauty buys no beef. 87. BEAUTY. Beauty is no inheritance. 88. BEAUTY. Beauty is but skin deep. 89. BED. As you make your bed so you must lie on it. 90. BED. He who lies long in bed his estate feels it. 91. BEES. A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay, But a swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly. 92. BEES. Where bees are there is honey. 93. BEFORE. He that hires the horse must ride before. 94. BEGGAR. Better be a beggar than a fool. 95. BEGGAR. A beggar can never be bankrupt. 96. BEGGAR. The beggar is never out of his way. 97. BEGGARS. Beggars must not be choosers. 98. BEGGARS. Beggars on horseback will ride to the devil. 99. BEGGARY. Trash and trumpery is the highway to beggary. 100. BEGGING. Begging is an ill trade on a fast-day. 101. BEGINNING. A good beginning makes a good ending. 102. BEGINNING. Such a beginning, such an end. 103. BEGIN WELL. Good to begin well; better to end well. 104. BEGUN. Well begun is half done. 105. BEHIND. When two ride together one must ride behind. 106. BELIEVE. You would make me believe the moon is made of green cheese. 107. BELIEVE. Believe well and have well. 108. BELL. Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeple. 109. BEND. Bend the twig while it is young. 110. BENT. As the twig is bent the tree's inclined. 111. BEST. The best is cheapest. 112. BEST. The best lie is the worst. 113. BEST. Make the best of a bad bargain. 114. BEST DOG. Let the best dog leap the stile first. 115. BET. Any fool can bet. 116. BETTER. The better the day, the better the deed. 117. BEWARE. Beware of "Had I wist." 118. BIDDEN. Do as you are bidden and you'll never be to blame. 119. BIRCHEN TWIGS. Birchen twigs break no ribs. 120. BIRD. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 121. BIRD. Every bird must hatch her own egg. 122. BIRD. One beats the bush and another catcheth the bird. 123. BIRDS. Birds of a feather flock together. 124. BIRD. The bird that can sing and will not sing, must be made to sing. 125. BIRDS (SMALL). Even small birds must have meat. 126. BITE. If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. 127. BITES. He that bites on every weed must needs light on poison. 128. BIT. A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day. 129. BITTER BIRD. Thou art a bitter bird, said the raven to the starling. 130. BLACK PLUM. A black plum is as sweet as a white. 131. BLAST. The sharper the blast, The shorter 'twill last. 132. BLIND. As blind as a bat. 133. BLIND. Who so blind as he that will not see? 134. BLIND MAN. A blind man would be glad to see it. 135. BLIND MAN. Like a treatise on light and colours by a blind man. 136. BLOOD. You cannot get blood out of a stone. 137. BLOT. 'Tis a blot on his escutcheon. 138. BLUSHING. Blushing is virtue's colour. 139. BLUSTERS. He who blusters without reason has most reason to bluster. 140. BOAST. Great boast, small roast. 141. BOIL SNOW. Whether you boil snow or pound it, you will have but water from it. 142. BONE. Give a dog a bone in his mouth, and you may kick him and he can't bite. 143. BONE. I have a bone in my arm. 144. BONE. The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat. 145. BORN. He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. 146. BORROWED GARMENTS. Borrowed garments never fit well. 147. BOUGHT WIT. Bought wit is best. 148. BOUGHT WIT. Bought wit makes folk wise. 149. BOUND. They that are bound must obey. 150. BOW. A bow long bent at last waxeth weak. 151. BOWL. It is easy to bowl down hill. 152. BOYS. Boys will be boys. 153. BRAG. Brag's a good dog, but Holdfast is a better. 154. BRAG. Brag's a good dog, but that he hath lost his tail. 155. BRAG. Brag's a good dog if he be well set on; but he dare not bite. 156. BRAGGERS. Great braggers, little doers. 157. BRAIN. The brain that sows not corn, plants thistles. 158. BRAN. Much bran, little meal. 159. BREAD AND BUTTER. They that have no other meat, Bread and butter are glad to eat. 160. BREAKFAST. He who would have a hare for breakfast must hunt over night. 161. BREAKING. The best horse needs breaking, and the best child needs teaching. 162. BRED. That which is bred in the bone will never be out of the flesh. 163. BREVITY. Brevity is the soul of wit. 164. BREW. As you brew, so shall you bake. 165. BRIBE. A bribe will enter without knocking. 166. BRIMMER. There is no deceit in a brimmer. 167. BROKEN LEG. A broken leg is not healed by a silk stocking. 168. BURDEN. A burden which one chooses is not felt. 169. BURDEN. The back is made for the burden. 170. BURDEN. No one knows the weight of another's burden. 171. BURDENS. The greatest burdens are not the gainfullest. 172. BURNT CHILD. A burnt child dreads the fire. 173. BUSINESS. Business is the salt of life. 174. BUSINESS. Every man as his business lies. 175. BUSH. A bad bush is better than the open field. 176. BUSY. Who more busy than they that have least to do. 177. BUTCHER. Better pay the butcher than the doctor. 178. BUTTER. Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night. 179. BUTTER. Why, butter would not melt in his mouth! 180. BUTTER. What is a pound of butter amongst a kennel of hounds? 181. BUTTER. Once a year butter is in the cow's horn. 182. BUTTERED. He knows on which side his bread is buttered. 183. BUY. Do not buy a pig in a poke. 184. BUYER. Let the buyer look out for himself. 185. BUYS. Who buys hath need of a hundred eyes. Who sells hath need of one. C 186. CAKE. You cannot eat your cake and have it. 187. CALM SEA. In a calm sea every man is a pilot. 188. CALM WEATHER. Calm weather in June sets corn in tune. 189. CAN. A man can do more than he can. 190. CANDLE. Burn not your candle at both ends at once. 191. CANDLEMAS. On Candlemas day you must have half your straw and half your hay. 192. CANDLEMAS. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; If on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. 193. CANDLEMAS. When Candlemas day is come and gone, The snow lies on a hot stone. 194. CANDLEMAS DAY. The hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As Candlemas day should be pleasant and clear. 195. CANDLEMAS DAY. On Candlemas day throw candle and candle-stick away. 196. CAP. If the cap fit, wear it. 197. CAPTAIN. Be captain of your own ship. 198. CARCASE. Where the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. 199. CARDS. Many can pack the cards that cannot play. 200. CARE. Care's no cure. 201. CARE. Care will kill a cat. 202. CARE. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. 203. CARE NOT. "Care not," would have. 204. CARRY. Don't run away with more than you can carry. 205. CARRYING COALS. Like carrying coals to Newcastle. 206. CASTLES. Tis easy to build castles in the air. 207. CASH. Rolling in cash he can't use, like a cat in a corn-bin. 208. CASTLE. An Englishman's house is his castle. 209. CAT. When the cat's away, The mice will play. 210. CAT. A cat may look at a king. 211. CAT. The cat is hungry when a crust contents her. 212. CAT. The cat sees not the mouse ever. 213. CATS. I'll keep no more cats than will catch mice. 214. CAT. A cat has nine lives, yet care will kill a cat. 215. CAT. When the cat winketh, little wots the mouse what the cat thinketh. 216. CAT. Though the cat winks awhile, yet sure she is not blind. 217. CAT. A cat loves fish, but she's loth to wet her feet. 218. CATCH. Catch that catch may. 219. CAUSE. It's a bad cause that none dare speak in. 220. CAUTION. Those are wise who learn caution from their own experience; but those are wiser who learn it from the experience of others. 221. CERTAIN. There is nothing certain in this life but death and taxes! 222. CERTAINTY. Never quit certainty for hope. 223. CHAFF. I'm too old a bird to be caught by chaff. 224. CHALK. As like as chalk and cheese. 225. CHAMBER. The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion. 226. CHANCE. Look to the main chance. 227. CHANCE. He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance, When fools pipe he may dance. 228. CHANCETH. It chanceth in an hour that comes not in seven years. 229. CHANGE. Change of pasture makes fat calves. 230. CHARITABLE. The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window. 231. CHARITY. Charity begins at home. 232. CHASTISETH. He that chastiseth one, amendeth many. 233. CHEESE. Cheese it is a peevish elf, It digests all things but itself. 234. CHEESE. After cheese comes nothing. 235. CHEESE. If you would have a good cheese, and have'n old, You must turn'n seven times before he is cold. 236. CHERRY. A cherry year, a merry year. 237. CHICKENS. Count not your chickens before they are hatched. 238. CHIDING. Woe to the house where there is no chiding. 239. CHILD. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. 240. CHILD. A child may have too much of his mother's blessing. 241. CHILD'S PIG. Child's pig, but father's bacon. 242. CHILDREN. Children and fools speak the truth. 243. CHILDREN. Children and fools have merry lives. 244. CHILDREN. Children and chickens must be always picking. 245. CHILDREN. Children are poor men's riches. 246. CHILDREN. Children should hear, see, and say nothing. 247. CHILDREN. When children stand quiet they have done some harm. 248. CHILDREN. Children are certain cares, but very uncertain comforts. 249. CHILDREN. Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they are old. 250. CHINK. So we have the chink, we'll bear the stink. 251. CHIP. A chip of the old block. 252. CHRISTMAS. Christmas comes but once a year. 253. CHRISTMAS. Green Christmas, white Easter. 254. CHRISTMAS. They talk of Christmas so long that it comes. 255. CHRISTMAS DAY. If Christmas Day on a Monday be, A great winter that year you will see. 256. CHURCH. Where God hath His church the devil will have his chapel. 257. CHURCH. The nearer the church the farther from God. 258. CHURCHES. Pater-noster built churches, and Our Father pulls them down. 259. CIVIL WORDS. Civil words cost nothing, and go a long way. 260. CLAW. Claw me, and I will claw you. 261. CLEAR. As clear as mud. 262. CLERK. 'Tis the clerk makes the justice. 263. CLIMB. Climb not too high, lest the fall be the greater. 264. CLIMBED. Who never climbed, never fell. 265. CLIMBERS. Hasty climbers have sudden falls. 266. CLOAK. Have not the cloak to make when it begins to rain. 267. CLOAK. Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home. 268. CLOCK. The clock goes as it pleases the clerk. 269. CLOSE MOUTH. A close mouth catcheth no flies. 270. CLOTHES. It is good keeping his clothes who is going to swim. 271. CLOUD. Every cloud hath a silver lining. 272. CLOUDS. Clouds that the sun builds up darken him. 273. CLOUDS. When the clouds are on the hills, They'll come down by the mills. 274. CLOUDS. After clouds comes clear weather. 275. CLOUDY. Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings. 276. CLOVER. He is in clover. 277. CLOWN. Even a clown clings to his cloak when it rains. 278. COAT. Cut your coat according to your cloth. 279. COAT. It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman. 280. COBBLE. They that can cobble and clout, Shall have work when others go without. 281. COBBLER. Let not the cobbler go beyond his last. 282. COBBLER'S WIFE. Who goes worse shod than the cobbler's wife? 283. COCK. If the cock moult before the hen, We shall have weather thick and thin; But if the hen moult before the cock, We shall have weather hard as a block. 284. COCK. The cock crows and the hen goes. 285. COCK. Every cock is proud on his own dunghill. 286. COIN. Where coin's not common, commons must be scant. 287. COIN. Much coin much care. 288. COLD APRIL. A cold April a barn will fill. 289. COLD MAY. A cold May and a windy Makes a full barn and a findy. 290. COLDEST FLINT. In the coldest flint there is hot fire. 291. COLOURS. It's an ill battle where the devil carries the colours. 292. COLT. When you ride a young colt see your saddle be well girt. 293. COMPANY. Two's company and three's none. 294. COMPANY. Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you who you are. 295. COMPANY. It's good to have company in trouble. 296. COMPANY. Company in distress, Makes trouble less. 297. COMPANION. A merry companion on the road is as good as a nag. 298. COMPANION. There's no companion like a penny. 299. COMPARISONS. Comparisons are odious. 300. COMPLAIN. They complain wrongfully of the sea, who twice suffer shipwreck. 301. COMPLEXION. Cold of complexion, good of condition. 302. CONCEALS. A woman conceals what she knows not. 303. CONFESSION. A generous confession disarms slander. 304. CONFESSION. Confession of a fault makes half amends for it. 305. CONFESSION. Open confession is good for the soul. 306. CONQUEST. It is no small conquest to overcome yourself. 307. CONSCIENCE. A clear conscience is a sure card. 308. CONSTANT DROPPING. Constant dropping wears the stone. 309. CONSUMED. When all is consumed repentance comes too late. 310. CONTENT. Content is the true philosopher's stone. 311. CONTENTED. A contented mind is a continual feast. 312. CONTENTED. He that hath nothing is not contented. 313. CONTENTED. He may well be contented who needs neither borrow nor flatter. 314. CONTENTED. People are sometimes better contented full than fasting. 315. CONTENTMENT. The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. 316. CORN. Look at your corn in May, You'll come weeping away; Look at the same in June You'll come home in another tune. 317. CORN. Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the soul with chastening. 318. COTTAGE. I'll not change a cottage in possession for a kingdom in reversion. 319. COUNSEL. Counsel is never out of date. 320. COUNSELS. Counsels in wine seldom prosper. 321. COUNSEL. In wiving and thriving men should take counsel of all the world. 322. COUNSEL. Three may keep counsel, if two be away. 323. COUNSELLED. He that will not be counselled cannot be helped. 324. COUNT. Count not your chickens before they be hatched. 325. COUNTRY. In every country the sun riseth in the morning. 326. COUNTRY. You must go into the country to hear what news at London. 327. COUPLE. Every couple is not a pair. 328. COURT. A friend at court is better than a penny in the purse. 329. COURT. Far from court, far from care. 330. COURTS. Courts have no almanacks. 331. COURTESY. Less of your courtesy, and more of your purse. 332. COURTESY. Courtesy on one side never lasts long. 333. COURTSHIP. Men dream in courtship but in wedlock wake. 334. COUSIN. Call me cousin; but cozen me not. 335. COVERLET. Stretch your legs according to your coverlet. 336. COVERS. He covers me with his wings, and bites me with his bill. 337. COVET. Covet nothing over much. 338. COVETOUSNESS. Covetousness brings nothing home. 339. COW. Many a good cow hath had a bad calf. 340. COW. Look to the cow, and the sow, and the wheat mow, and all will be well enow. 341. COWARDS. Cowards are always cruel. 342. COWARDICE. Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen. 343. CRABS. The greatest crabs are not always the best meat. 344. CRACK. He must crack the nut that would eat the kernel. 345. CRAFT. Craft bringeth nothing home. 346. CRAFTS. Of all crafts, to be an honest man is the master-craft. 347. CRAFTY. Crafty evasions save not the truth. 348. CRAZY SHIP. To a crazy ship all winds are contrary. 349. CREAKING GATE. A creaking gate hangs longest on its hinges. 350. CREAKS. The worst wheel of a cart creaks most. 351. CREDIT. Credit lost is a Venice glass broken. 352. CREDITORS. Creditors have better memories than debtors. 353. CREEP. First creep and then go. 354. CRITICS. Critics are like brushers of other men's clothes. 355. CROOKED. A crooked tree will have a crooked shadow. 356. CROOKED. Crooked logs make straight fires. 357. CROSS. No cross, no crown. 358. CROSS. Every cross has its inscription. 359. CROSSES. Crosses are ladders for getting to heaven. 360. CROSSES. Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven. 361. CROW. The crow thinks her own bird fairest. 362. CROW. A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often. 363. CROWS. It never goes well when the hen crows. 364. CRUELTY. Cruelty is a tyrant always attended by fear. 365. CRUELTY. Cruelty is a devil's delight. 366. CRUMBS. Where are the crumbs there are the chickens. 367. CRY. Don't cry out before you're hurt. 368. CRY. Great cry and little wool. 369. CUCKOO. When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn, Sell your cow and buy your corn, But when she comes to a full bit, Sell your corn, and buy your sheep. 370. CURED. What cannot be cured must be endured. 371. CURSES. Curses are like chickens, they come home to roost. 372. CUSTOM. Custom is second nature. 373. CUSTOM. Once a use and ever a custom. 374. CUSTOM. Custom makes anything easy. 375. CUSTOM (BAD). A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. 376. CUT. Cut and come again. 377. CUT. No cut like unkindness. 378. CUT. I had not cut my wise teeth. 379. CUTS. Desperate cuts must have desperate cures. D 380. DANCE. No longer pipe, no longer dance. 381. DANCES. He dances well to whom fortune pipes. 382. DANCING. They love dancing well that dance among thorns. 383. DANGER. The danger's past, and God's forgotten. 384. DAINTY DOGS. Dainty dogs may have to eat dirty puddings. 385. DARK. It is as good to be in the dark as without light. 386. DARK MAN. A dark man's a jewel in a fair woman's eye. 387. DARK. He that gropes in the dark finds that he would not. 388. DAUGHTER. My son is my son till he marries a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. 389. DAUGHTER. He that would the daughter win, Must with the mother first begin. 390. DAYLIGHT. Daylight will peep through a small hole. 391. DEAD. As dead as a door-nail. 392. DEAD MAN'S SHOES. He that waits for a dead man's shoes may go long enough barefoot. 393. DEAF. There are none so deaf as those who will not hear. 394. DEAF MAN. Tell that tale to a deaf man. 395. DEARTH. It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's garner. 396. DEATH. Death keeps no calendar. 397. DEATH. Death is deaf and hears no denial. 398. DEATH. Nothing is surer than death. 399. DEATH. After death the doctor. 400. DEBT. Debt is the worst kind of poverty. 401. DEBT. Out of debt, out of danger. 402. DEEPEST WATER. In the deepest water is the best fishing. 403. DEEDS. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. 404. DEEDS. A life spent worthily should be measured by deeds--not years. 405. DELAYS. Delays are dangerous. 406. DEPTH. Never venture out of your depth until you can swim. 407. DESERT. Desert and reward seldom keep company. 408. DESERVE. First deserve and then desire. 409. DESIRES. Desires are nourished by delays. 410. DESPISES. What one man despises, another craves. 411. DESTINY. Hanging and wiving go by destiny. 412. DEVIL. Talk of the devil and he'll be sure to appear. 413. DEVIL. He that hath shipped the devil must make the best of him. 414. DEVIL. Give the devil his due. 415. DEVIL. Make not the devil blacker than he is. 416. DEVIL. He needs must go that the devil drives. 417. DEVIL. One must sometimes hold a candle to the devil. 418. DEVIL. The devil is not always at one door. 419. DEVIL. The Devil Was Sick, the Devil a Monk Would Be; The Devil Grew Well, the Devil a Monk Was He. 420. DEW. St. Bartholomew brings the cold dew. 421. DIE. Never say die. 422. DIE. Young men may die, old men must. 423. DILIGENCE. Diligence is a good patrimony. 424. DILIGENCE. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 425. DINNER. After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. 426. DINNER. He who would enjoy his friend's dinner should not look into the kitchen. 427. DISTRESS. Two in distress make sorrows less. 428. DISCOURSE. Sweet discourse makes short days and nights. 429. DISCREET. Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears. 430. DISCRETION. An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. 431. DISEASE. Disease is oft the tax of pleasure. 432. DISEASE. To know the disease is half the cure. 433. DISH. The first dish pleaseth all. 434. DO. Do as you would be done by. 435. DO. We must do as we may, if we cannot do as we would. 436. DOCK. In dock, out nettle. 437. DOCTOR. A doctor and a clown know more than a doctor alone. 438. DOCTOR. An old doctor, a young lawyer. 439. DOG. Every dog has his day. 440. DOG. A good dog deserves a good bone. 441. DOG. It's a bad dog that deserves not a crust. 442. DOGS BARK. Dogs bark before they bite. 443. DONE. If you wish a thing done, go; if not, send. 444. DOOMSDAY. A thousand pounds and a pottle of hay is all one thing at doomsday. 445. DOOR. When one door shuts another opens. 446. DO WELL. Do well, and have well. 447. DOWN. He that's down, down with him. 448. DRAW. You may draw him which way you will, with a twine thread. 449. DROWNING MAN. A drowning man will catch at a straw. 450. DRINK. Drink water like an ox, wine like a king of Spain. 451. DRINK. He who drinks when he is not dry, will be dry when he has no drink. 452. DRIVE. Drive not a second nail till the first is clenched. 453. DROPS. Many drops make a shower. 454. DROUGHT. If the ash before the oak comes out, There has been, or there will be drought. 455. DROWNED. Pour not water on a drowned mouse. 456. DRUNK. Ever drunk, ever dry. 457. DRUNKEN. A drunken night makes a cloudy morning. 458. DRUNKEN FOLK. Drunken folk often speak truth. 459. DRUNKENNESS. What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals. 460. DRY BREAD. Dry bread at home is better than roast beef abroad. 461. DRY COUGH. A dry cough is the trumpeter of death. 462. DRY MAY. A dry May and a dripping June, Does surely bring all things in tune. E 463. EARLY. Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 464. EARLY. Early sow, early mow. 465. EARLY BIRD. 'Tis the early bird catches the worm. 466. EARS. Little pitchers have long ears. 467. EARS. Walls have ears. 468. EARS. Wider ears and a shorter tongue. 469. EASE. A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny. 470. EASE. Think of ease, but work on. 471. EASILY DONE. That which is easily done is soon believed. 472. EAT. Live not to eat, but eat to live. 473. EAT. Eat a bit before you drink. 474. EAT. Eat at pleasure, Drink by measure. 475. EATING. Eating and drinking takes away one's appetite. 476. EDGED TOOLS. It is ill meddling with edged tools. 477. EEL. You cannot hide an eel in a sack. 478. EGGS. Don't put all your eggs into one basket. 479. EGG-SHELL. 'Tis hard to sail o'er the sea in an egg-shell. 480. ELBOW. Rub your sore eye with your elbow. 481. ELBOW GREASE. Give it plenty of elbow grease. 482. EMPTY HOUSE. Better an empty house than a bad tenant. 483. EMPTY PURSE. An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles. 484. EMPTY PURSE. That's but an empty purse that's full of other men's money. 485. EMPTY VESSELS. Empty vessels make the greatest sound. 486. END. Everything hath an end, and a pudding hath two. 487. ENDURETH. He that endureth is not overcome. 488. ENGLAND. England is the Paradise of women. 489. ENGLISHMAN. An Englishman's house is his castle. 490. ENOUGH. Enough is as good as a feast. 491. ENOUGH. Enough and to spare is too much. 492. ENOUGH. There's never enough where nothing's left. 493. ENVIED. Better be envied than pitied. 494. ENVY. Envy never enriched any man. 495. EPITAPH. He lies like an epitaph. 496. ERR. To err is human; to forgive divine. 497. ERRAND. Send a wise man on an errand and say nothing to him. 498. ESCAPES. 'Tis a hard battle where none escapes. 499. ESTATE. He that throws away his estate with his hands, goes afterwards to pick it upon his feet. 500. ESTEEMS. He that knows himself best, esteems himself least. 501. EVENING. An evening red and a morning grey, Is a sign of a fair day. 502. EVERYBODY. He had need rise betimes that would please everybody. 503. EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS. Everybody's business is nobody's business. 504. EVERY MAN. Every man for himself, and God for us all. 505. EVERY TUB. Let every tub stand on its own bottom. 506. EVIL. Evil communications corrupt good manners. 507. EVIL. If you must have an evil, choose a little one. 508. EVIL. That which is evil is soon learnt. 509. EVIL. Evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart. 510. EVIL NAME. The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name. 511. EVIL GOTTEN. Evil gotten, evil spent. 512. EVIL GRAIN. Of evil grain no good seed can come. 513. EVILS. Of two evils choose the lesser. 514. EXAMPLE. Example teaches more than precept. 515. EXCHANGE. Exchange is no robbery. 516. EXCUSE. A bad excuse is better than none at all. 517. EXPENSES. Proportion your expenses to what you have, not to what you expect. 518. EXPERIENCE. Experience is a dear school, but it is the only one we are apt to learn in. 519. EXPERIENCE. Experience is the mistress of fools. 520. EXTREMES. Extremes seldom last long. 521. EXTREMES. Extremes meet. 522. EYE. Better one eye than quite blind. 523. EYE. What the eye sees not, the heart rues not. 524. EYE. You should never touch your eye but with your elbow. 525. EYE. What the eye does not see the heart does not grieve for. 526. EYE-WITNESS. One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays. F 527. FACE. Her face was her fortune. 528. FACT. A single fact is worth a ship-load of argument. 529. FAINT HEART. Faint heart never won a fair lady. 530. FAINT PRAISE. Faint praise is disparagement. 531. FAIR AND FOOLISH. Fair and foolish, black and proud, Long and lazy, little and loud. 532. FAIR AND SOFTLY. Fair and softly go far in a day. 533. FAIR FACES. Fair faces need no paint. 534. FAIR FACE. A fair face may hide a foul heart. 535. FAIR FEATHERS. Fair feathers make fair fowls. 536. FAITH. Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. 537. FALL. One may sooner fall than rise. 538. FALL. If a man once fall, all will tread on him. 539. FALLS. When the tree falls every man runs with his hatchet. 540. FALLING. Keeping from falling is better than helping up. 541. FALSE REPORT. A false report rides post. 542. FAMILIARITY. Familiarity breeds contempt. 543. FAMINE. After a famine in the stall, Comes a famine in the hall. 544. FAMINE. Under water famine, under snow bread. 545. FAMINE. A famine in England begins at the horse-manger. 546. FANCY. Fancy passes beauty. 547. FANCY. Fancy goes a long way. 548. FANCY. Fancy may bolt bran and think it flour. 549. FARE WORSE. You may go farther and fare worse. 550. FASHION. As good to be out of the world as out of the fashion. 551. FAST BIND. Fast bind, fast find. 552. FAT HOG. Every one basteth the fat hog, while the lean one burneth. 553. FAULT. Every one puts his fault on the times. 554. FAULT. A fault once denied is twice committed. 555. FAULT-FINDERS. Fault-finders should be fault-menders. 556. FAULTS. Every one's faults are not written on their foreheads. 557. FAULTS. Every man hath his faults. 558. FAULTS. God send me a friend that may tell me my faults; if not, an enemy, he will be sure to. 559. FAULTY. The faulty stands on his guard. 560. FEAST. A feast is not made of mushrooms only. 561. FEAST-MAKING. Merry is the feast-making until we come to the reckoning. 562. FEASTS. Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. 563. FEATHERS. Fine feathers make fine birds. 564. FEATHER. Feather by feather the goose is plucked. 565. FEBRUARY. February makes a bridge, and March breaks it. 566. FEBRUARY. February fill dike, be it black or be it white; But if it be white, it's the better to like. 567. FEED SPARINGLY. Feed sparingly, and defy the physician. 568. FEET. Stretch not your feet Beyond the sheet. 569. FELLOWSHIP. Love and lordship like no fellowship. 570. FETTERS. No man loves his fetters, though of gold. 571. FEW FRIENDS. Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. 572. FEW WORDS. Where hearts are true Few words will do. 573. FIDDLER. The fifer don't pay a fiddler. 574. FIDDLER. Let not the fiddler play the fife, Nor fifer play the fiddle. 575. FIDDLER'S FARE. Fiddler's fare; meat, drink, and money. 576. FIELDS. Fields have eyes, and woods have ears. 577. FINGER. He wants to have a finger in every pie. 578. FIRST BLOW. The first blow is half the battle. 579. FIRST COME. First come, first served. 580. FIRE AND WATER. Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. 581. FIRE. Well may he smell of fire whose gown burneth. 582. FISH. He that would catch fish must not mind getting wet. 583. FISH. 'Tis good fish if it were but caught. 584. FISH. The best fish are near the bottom. 585. FISH. I have other fish to fry. 586. FISH. Make not fish of one, and flesh of another. 587. FISH. Fish are not to be caught by a birdcall. 588. FISH (GOOD). There's as good fish in the sea as were ever caught. 589. FISHES' MOUTH. When the wind's in the south, It blows the bait into the fishes' mouth. 590. FISHETH ON. He fisheth on that catcheth one. 591. FISHING. It's good fishing in troubled waters. 592. FITS. Every shoe fits not every foot. 593. FIVE. He's up at five, And he will thrive. 594. FLAX. Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send thee flax. 595. FLAY. No man can flay a stone. 596. FLEECETH. Where every hand fleeceth, the sheep go naked. 597. FLOOD. A May flood never did good. 598. FLOWERS. Flowers are the pledge of fruit. 599. FLOURISH. It is one thing to flourish and another to fight. 600. FLYING. No flying without wings. 601. FOLLIES. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth. 602. FOOL. No one is a fool always; every one sometimes. 603. FOOL. A fool may ask more questions in half an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. 604. FOOL. A fool may give a wise man counsel. 605. FOOL. One fool makes many. 606. FOOL. Every man is either a fool or a physician after thirty years of age. 607. FOOL (OLD). An old fool is the worst of fools. 608. FOOL. Better it is to meet a bear bereaved of her whelps, than a fool in his folly. 609. FOOL. A fool is fulsome. 610. FOOL THINKS. As the fool thinks, so the bell chinks. 611. FOOLS. Fools set stools for wise folk to stumble at. 612. FOOL'S BOLT. A fool's bolt is soon shot. 613. FOOLS BUILD. Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. 614. FORBEARANCE. Forbearance is no acquittance. 615. FORBIDDEN FRUIT. Forbidden fruit is sweet. 616. FORCED FRUITS. Forced fruits fail in flavour. 617. FORECAST. Forecast is better than work hard. 618. FOREGO. Forego, forget, forgive, Then happy you shall live. 619. FOREMOST DOG. The foremost dog catches the hare. 620. FOREWARNED. Forewarned is forearmed. 621. FORGET. To forget a wrong is the best revenge. 622. FORGIVE. Forgive and forget. 623. FORGOTTEN. Eaten bread is soon forgotten. 624. FORTUNE. Fortune favours the brave. 625. FORTUNE. Every man is the architect of his fortune. 626. FORTUNE. Change of fortune is the lot of life. 627. FORTUNE. Better a fortune in her than on her. 628. FORTUNE. When fortune smiles take the advantage. 629. FORTUNE KNOCKS. Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate. 630. FOUL HANDS. Foul hands befoul all they touch. 631. FOUR FARTHINGS. Four farthings and a thimble make a tailor's pocket jingle. 632. FOX. The fox knows much, but more he that catcheth him. 633. FOX. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose trial. 634. FOX. When the fox preaches, beware of your geese. 635. FOXES. Foxes, when they cannot reach the grapes, say they are not ripe. 636. FOX RUNS. Though the fox runs the chicken hath wings. 637. FRET. Two things you won't fret o'er, If you're a wise man-- The thing you can't help, And the thing that you can. 638. FRIDAY. He that sings on Friday shall weep on Sunday. 639. FRIDAY. As the Friday, so the Sunday, As the Sunday, so the week. 640. FRIDAY'S SAIL. Friday's sail, sure to fail. 641. FRIEND. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. 642. FRIEND. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 643. FRIEND. He loseth nothing who keeps God for his friend. 644. FRIEND. Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. 645. FRIENDS. In time of prosperity friends will be plenty, In time of adversity, not one among twenty. 646. FRIENDS. Save me from my friends. 647. FRIENDS. All are not friends that speak us fair. 648. FRIENDSHIP. Love and lordship never like friendship. 649. FROST. What God will, no frost can kill. 650. FROSTS. So many frosts in March, so many in May. 651. FRUIT. If you would fruit have, You must bring the leaf to the grave. 652. FRUIT. Such as the tree is, such is the fruit. 653. FRUIT. If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower. 654. FRUGALITY. Frugality makes an easy chair for old age. 655. FRUGALITY. Frugality is an estate. 656. FRYING-PAN. Out of the frying-pan into the fire. 657. FUEL. Take away fuel, take away flame. 658. FULL PURSE. A full purse makes the mouth to speak. 659. FULL PURSE. A full purse never lacketh friends. 660. FURZE. Under the furze is hunger and cold. Under the broom is silver and gold. G 661. GAINS. No gains without pains. 662. GALLED HORSE. Touch a galled horse, and he will wince. 663. GAPETH. He that gapeth until he be fed Well may he gape until he be dead. 664. GARDEN. Many things grow in the garden that were never planted there. 665. GARDENING. This rule in gardening never forget, To sow dry and set wet. 666. GARLAND. One flower makes no garland. 667. GEMS. Gems must not be valued by what they are set in. 668. GENTILITY. Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary. 669. GENTLE STROKES. Gentle strokes make the sweetest harmony. 670. GET. Get what you can, and what you get, hold, 'Tis the stone which will turn your lead into gold. 671. GIFT HORSE. Look not a gift horse in the mouth. 672. GIFT. A gift with a kind countenance is a double gift. 673. GIVE. To give and keep there is need of wit. 674. GIVETH. He giveth twice who gives in a trice. 675. GIVING. Giving to the poor Increaseth your store. 676. GLADNESS. A man of gladness seldom falls into madness. 677. GLASS. What your glass tells you will not be told by counsel. 678. GLASS. Who loves his glass without a G, Take away L and that is he. 679. GLASS HOUSES. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. 680. GLASSES. The more women look in their glasses, the less they look to their houses. 681. GLITTERS. All that glitters is not gold. 682. GNATS. Men strain at gnats, and swallow camels! 683. GO. If you want a thing done, go; if not, send. 684. GO ABOUT. Better go about than fall into the ditch. 685. GOD. God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks. 686. GOD. One God, no more; but friends good store. 687. GODFATHERS. When the child is christened, you may have godfathers enough. 688. GOD WILLS. When God wills, all winds bring rain. 689. GOLD. A man may buy gold too dear. 690. GOLD. Gold alone makes not prosperity. 691. GOLD. As good as gold. 692. GOLD. Gold goes in at any gate, except Heaven's. 693. GOLD. No lock will hold 'Gainst the power of gold. 694. GOLDEN. We must not look for a golden life in an iron age. 695. GOLD DUST. Gold dust blinds all eyes. 696. GOOD. Do all the good you talk of; but talk not of all the good you do. 697. GOOD. Good and quickly seldom meet. 698. GOOD. No man knows better what good is than he that has an endured evil. 699. GOOD. Though good be good yet better carries it. 700. GOOD CHEER. When good cheer is lacking our friends will be packing. 701. GOOD WORD. A good word is as soon said as an ill one. 702. GOOD COUNSEL. Good counsel never comes too late. 703. GOOD FRIEND. He's a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. 704. GOOD HARVESTS. Good harvests make men prodigal, bad ones provident. 705. GOOD MAXIM. A good maxim is never out of season. 706. GOOD MONEY. It is no use throwing good money after bad. 707. GOOD NAME. The wife that expects to have a good name Is always at home as if she were lame, And the maid that is honest her chiefest delight Is still to be doing from morning to night. 708. GOODS. A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them. 709. GOOD THINGS. God reacheth us good things with our own hands. 710. GOOD THING. One can never have too much of a good thing. 711. GOOD TURNS. One never loseth by doing good turns. 712. GOOD TURN. One good turn deserves another. 713. GOOD WORDS. Good words without deeds Are rushes and reeds. 714. GOWN. The gown is hers who wears it, and the world is his who enjoys it. 715. GRASP. Grasp no more than thy hand will hold. 716. GRAIN. Never split timber against the grain. 717. GRASP. Grasp all, lose all. 718. GRASS. March grass never did good. 719. GRASS. If the grass grow in Janiveer, It grows the worse for't all the year. 720. GRASS. While the grass grows the steed starves. 721. GRASS. Grass grows not upon the highway. 722. GRAVES. We shall lie all alike in our graves. 723. GREAT DOWRY. A great dowry is a bed full of troubles. 724. GREAT MARKS. Great marks are soonest hit. 725. GREAT ONES. There would be no great ones if there were no little. 726. GREAT SHIP. A great ship needs deep waters. 727. GREEN WOOD. Green wood makes a hot fire. 728. GREEN WOUND. A green wound is soon healed. 729. GREEN WINTER. A green winter makes a fat churchyard. 730. GREY HAIRS. Gray hairs are death's blossoms. 731. GRIEF. Grief pent up will burst the heart. 732. GRIND. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 733. GUEST. An unbidden guest must bring his own stool with him. 734. GUEST. 'Tis an ill guest that never drinks to his host. 735. GUILTY CONSCIENCE. A guilty conscience needs no accuser. H 736. HAIL. Hail brings frost in the tail. 737. HALF A LOAF. Half a loaf is better than no bread. 738. HALF HANGED. Better be half hanged than ill wed. 739. HAND-SAW. A hand-saw is a good thing, but not to shave with. 740. HAND-SAW. He knows not a hawk from a hand-saw. 741. HANDSOME. He who is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor wise at forty, nor rich at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise. 742. HANGED. He who is born to be hanged will never be drowned. 743. HANGED. One may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. 744. HANGING. There are many ways of killing a dog beside hanging him. 745. HAPPY. Happy is the bride the sun shines on, And the corpse the rain rains on. 746. HARE. Where we least think, there goeth the hare away. 747. HARDLY EVER. "Hardly ever" saves many a lie. 748. HARE. Little dogs start the hare, but great ones catch it. 749. HARE SKIN. Sell not the hare's skin before you have caught him. 750. HARM. Harm watch, harm catch. 751. HARMS. Wise men learn by others' harms, fools by their own. 752. HARVEST. He that hath a good harvest may be content with some thistles. 753. HASTE. More haste worse speed. 754. HASTE. Haste trips up its own heels. 755. HASTE. Over haste makes certain waste. 756. HASTE. Haste over nothing but catching fleas. 757. HASTY MEN. Hasty men never lack woe. 758. HASTY RESOLUTIONS. Hasty resolutions seldom speed well. 759. HAT. Pull down your hat on the wind side. 760. HATCHET. When the tree is down, every one runs with his hatchet. 761. HAVEN. 'Tis safe riding in a good haven. 762. HAY. Make hay while the sun shines. 763. HEAD. Man is the head, but woman turns it. 764. HEAD. He that hath no head, needs no hat. 765. HEAD. Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. 766. HEADACHE. When the head aches, all the body is the worse. 767. HEALED. A man is not so soon healed as hurt. 768. HEALETH. God healeth, and the physician hath the thanks. 769. HEALTH. Health is better than wealth. 770. HEART. What the heart thinketh, the tongue speaketh. 771. HEARTS. Hearts may agree though heads differ. 772. HEDGE. Where the hedge is lowest, men commonly leap over. 773. HEDGE. A low hedge is easily leapt over. 774. HEDGE. A hedge between Keeps friendship green. 775. HEDGES. Hedges have eyes, and walls have ears. 776. HEED. Good take heed doth surely speed. 777. HEELS. One pair of heels is often worth two pair of hands. 778. HEN CROWS. It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. 779. HID. Love and a cough cannot be hid. 780. HIDE. You cannot hide an eel in a sack. 781. HIDE. Hide nothing from thy minister, physician, and lawyer. 782. HIGH PLACES. High places have their precipices. 783. HIGH WINDS. High winds blow on high hills. 784. HIMSELF. Every man is best known to himself. 785. HIMSELF. He is not wise that is not wise for himself. 786. HIND. To fright a hind is not the way to catch her. 787. HINDERMOST DOG. The hindermost dog may catch the hare. 788. HOBBY. Happy is the man that has a hobby. 789. HOBBY-HORSE. Every man has his hobby-horse. 790. HOG. A hog in armour is still but a hog. 791. HOLLOA. Do not holloa till you are out of the wood. 792. HOME. Home is home, be it ever so homely. 793. HONESTY. Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on this principle is not an honest man. 794. HONESTY. A man never surfeits of too much honesty. 795. HONOUR. Better poor with honour than rich with shame. 796. HONOUR. Honour and ease are seldom bed-fellows. 797. HONOUR. Where honour ceaseth, there knowledge decreaseth. 798. HOOP. He giveth one knock on the hoop, and another on the barrel. 799. HOPE. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. 800. HOPE. Hope humbles more than despair. 801. HOPE. Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper. 802. HOPE. If it were not for hope, the heart would break. 803. HOPS. Till St. James's day be come and gone, You may have hops, or you may have none. 804. HORN. All are not hunters that blow the horn. 805. HORSE. A good horse cannot be of a bad colour. 806. HORSE. A good horse often wants a good spur. 807. HORSE. 'Tis an ill horse will not carry his own provender. 808. HORSE. One man may lead a horse to water, but fifty cannot make him drink. 809. HOT LOVE. Hot love is soon cold. 810. HOT MAY. A hot May makes a fat churchyard. 811. HOUNDS. Hold not with the hounds and run with the hare. 812. HOUSE. He that buys a house ready wrought, Hath many a pin and nail for nought. 813. HOUSE. Better one's house too little one day, than too big all the year round. 814. HOUSEHOLDERS. Wishers and woulders are never good householders. 815. HOUSEKEEPER. A noble housekeeper needs no doors. 816. HUMOUR. Every man has his humour. 817. HUMOURS. The stillest humours are always the worst. 818. HUNDRED YEARS. It is all one a hundred years hence. 819. HUNG. As well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. 820. HUNGER. Hunger costs little; daintiness much. 821. HUNGER. Hunger will break through stone walls. 822. HUNGER. Hunger makes short devotion. 823. HUNGER. Hunger makes hard bones sweet beans. 824. HUNGER. Hunger is the finest sauce. 825. HUNGRY FLIES. Hungry flies bite sore. 826. HUNGRY HORSE. A hungry horse makes a clean manger. 827. HUNGRY MAN. A hungry man, an angry man. 828. HUNGRY MEN. Hungry men think the cook lazy. 829. HUNGRY MEN. Bitter is sweet to hungry men. 830. HUSBAND. Be a good husband, and you will get a penny to spend, a penny to lend, and a penny for a friend. 831. HUSBAND. In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness. I 832. IDLE BRAIN. An idle brain is the devil's workshop. 833. IDLE FOLK. Idle folk have the least leisure. 834. IDLE FOLK. Idle folk take the most pains. 835. IDLE. A young man idle, an old man needy. 836. IDLE. Better be idle than ill employed. 837. IDLENESS. Idleness is the key of beggary. 838. IDLENESS. Of idleness comes no goodness. 839. IDLENESS. Idleness is the root of all evil. 840. IDLENESS. Idleness must thank itself if it goes barefoot. 841. IGNORANT. The ignorant think all things wrong which they cannot understand. 842. ILL BIRD. It is an ill bird that defiles its own nest. 843. ILL DOG. 'Tis an ill dog that deserves not a bone. 844. ILL FORTUNE. He who hath no ill fortune, is dazed with good. 845. ILL GOT. Ill got, ill spent. 846. ILL GOTTEN. Ill gotten gains seldom prosper. 847. ILL LUCK. When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her. 848. ILL NEWS. Ill news comes apace. 849. ILL WEEDS. Ill weeds grow apace. 850. ILL WORD. One ill word asketh another. 851. IMPOSSIBLE. Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. 852. IMPUDENCE. Impudence is not courage. 853. INCH. Give him an inch, and he'll take an ell. 854. INCHES. God never measures men by inches. 855. INDUSTRY. Industry is fortune's right hand and frugality her left. 856. INFIRMITIES. Jest not at another's infirmities. 857. INGRATITUDE. Ingratitude is the daughter of pride. 858. INJURY. Pocket an injury. 859. INN. He goes not out of his way that goes to a good inn. 860. INSTINCT. Woman's instinct is often truer than man's reasoning. 861. INTENTIONS. Hell is paved with good intentions. 862. IRONS. He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool. 863. ITCH. Itch and ease can no man please. J 864. JACK. Jack-in-office is a great man. 865. JACK. Every Jack has his Jill. 866. JANIVEER. If Janiveer calends be summerly gay 'Twill be winterly weather till calends of May. 867. JANIVEER. Who in Janiveer sows oats, gets gold and groats. 868. JEST. Better lose a jest than a friend. 869. JEST. Many a true word is spoken in jest. 870. JESTING. Jesting lies bring serious sorrows. 871. JESTS. Jests, like sweetmeats, are often sour sauce. 872. JOURNEY. 'Tis a great journey to the world's end. 873. JOY. No joy without annoy. 874. JOY. There's no joy without alloy. 875. JOY. Joy surfeited turns to sorrow. 876. JUDGE. Judge not of men or things at first sight. 877. JUDGE. Judge not a ship as she lies on the stocks. 878. JUDGMENT. He hath a good judgment who is apt to distrust his own. 879. JUNE. Calm weather in June Sets corn in tune. 880. JULY. If the first of July, it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together. 881. JUST. Just is honest, and honest is just. K 882. KEEP. Keep a thing seven years, and you will find a use for it. 883. KEEP. Keep some till more come. 884. KERNEL. He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut. 885. KEY. The wife is the key of the house. 886. KEYS. All the keys hang not at one man's girdle. 887. KIN. Still stand by kin Through thick and thin. 888. KINDLED. Wood half burnt is easily kindled. 889. KINDNESS. Kindness will always conquer. 890. KINDNESSES. Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing. 891. KINSFOLK. Many kinsfolk, few friends. 892. KISS. As easy kiss my hand. 893. KISS. Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake. 894. KISSING. Kissing goes by favour. 895. KITCHEN. A fat kitchen, a lean will. 896. KITCHEN. The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell. 897. KITCHEN. Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen. 898. KNAVERY. Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is best in the long run. 899. KNAVES. Knaves and fools divide the world. 900. KNAVES. When knaves fall out, true men come by their goods. 901. KNOT. He tied a knot with his tongue he couldn't undo with his teeth. 902. KNOTS. Fools tie knots and wise men loose them. 903. KNOTTY TIMBER. To split knotty timber use smooth wedges. 904. KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge is power. 905. KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. 906. KNOWLEDGE. The knowledge of the disease is half the cure. 907. KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge, like physic, is more plague than profit, if it arrives too late. 908. KNOWLEDGE. An ounce of knowledge may be worth a pound of comfort. L 909. LABOURS. He that labours and thrives, spins gold. 910. LABOUR. Labour warms, sloth harms. 911. LADLE. The ladle cools the pot. 912. LADDER. Step after step the ladder is ascended. 913. LAMB'S TAIL. A woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail. 914. LAME. The lame goeth as far as the staggerer. 915. LAMMAS. After Lammas corn ripens as much by night as by day. 916. LAND. Land was never lost for want of an heir. 917. LAND. Many a one for land, Takes a fool by the hand. 918. LANTERN. On a dark night an owl would be glad of a lantern. 919. LAST STRAW. It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. 920. LATE. Better late than never. 921. LAUGH. Let them laugh that win. 922. LAUGH. That's where the laugh comes in. 923. LAUGH. They laugh the loudest who have least to lose. 924. LAW. In a thousand pounds of law there's not an ounce of love. 925. LAW. The law is not the same at morning and night. 926. LAW. He that loves law will get his fill. 927. LAW MAKERS. Law makers should not be law breakers. 928. LAWS. Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free. 929. LAWS. Laws, like spiders' webs, are wrought, Large flies break through, the small are caught. 930. LAWS. Laws were made for rogues. 931. LAWYER. A good lawyer, an evil neighbour. 932. LAWYERS. Fair and softly as lawyers go to heaven. 933. LAZY FOLK. Lazy folk take the most pains. 934. LEAD. A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink unless he will. 935. LEAD. 'Tis folly to dig for lead with a silver shovel. 936. LEAK. A small leak will sink a great ship. 937. LEARN. Never too old to learn. 938. LEARNING. Learning makes a man fit company for himself. 939. LEAST. Least said is soonest mended. 940. LEAST BOY. The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle. 941. LEATHER. Nothing like leather. 942. LEECH. The empty leech sucks sore. 943. LEND. He that doth not lend doth lose his friend. 944. LEND. He would not lend his knife to the devil to stab himself. 945. LIAR. A liar should have a good memory. 946. LIARS. Liars have short wings. 947. LIBEL. The greater truth, the greater libel. 948. LIBERAL. The liberal man deviseth liberal things. 949. LIBERTY. Too much liberty spoils all. 950. LIE. One lie makes many. 951. LIES. He lies as fast as a dog can trot. 952. LIFE. Life is full of hazards, which experience neither bought nor taught will always enable us to foresee. 953. LIFE. Life is half spent before we know what it is. 954. LIFE. Life is sweet. 955. LIFE. Life lies not in living, but in liking. 956. LIFE. While there's life there's hope. 957. LIGHT. He stands in his own light. 958. LIGHT. Every light has its shadow. 959. LIGHT. Every light is not the sun. 960. LIGHT GAINS. Light gains make a heavy purse. 961. LIKE. As like as two peas. 962. LIKE. Every one as they like best, as the good man said when he kissed his cow. 963. LIKE. Like father like son. 964. LIKE. Like will to like. 965. LION. The lion's not half so fierce as he's painted. 966. LIPS. Lips however rosy must be fed. 967. LISTENERS. Listeners never hear good of themselves. 968. LITTLE. Little and often fills the purse. 969. LITTLE. Little mother, little daughter. 970. LITTLE BIRDS. Little birds may peck a dead lion. 971. LITTLE BOATS. Little boats must keep the shore. 972. LITTLE BODIES. Little bodies have large souls. 973. LITTLE GOOD. A little good is soon spent. 974. LITTLE GOODS. Little goods, little care. 975. LITTLE HOLE. One may see day at a little hole. 976. LITTLE HOUSE. A little house well fill'd, A little land well till'd, And a little wife well will'd. 977. LITTLE MINDS. Little minds, like weak liquors, are soon soured. 978. LITTLE THINGS. Little things please little minds. 979. LIVE. Everything would live. 980. LIVE. It's not how long, but how well, we live. 981. LIVE. Live and learn. 982. LIVE. Live and let live. 983. LIVER (LONGEST). The longest liver dies at last. 984. LIVES. He that lives not well one year sorrows for it seven. 985. LIVETH. He liveth long that liveth well. 986. LIVING DOG. A living dog is better than a dead lion. 987. LOAD. All lay load on the willing horse. 988. LOCK. You needn't lock the stable door when the steed is stolen. 989. LOOK. Look before you leap. 990. LOOK. They look one way and row another. 991. LOOKED FOR. Long looked for comes at last. 992. LONG LANE. 'Tis a long lane that has no turning. 993. LONGS. He that longs most lacks most. 994. LONGEST DAY. The longest day must have an end. 995. LOQUACITY. The loquacity of fools is a warning to the wise. 996. LORDS. New lords new laws. 997. LOSERS. Losers are always in the wrong. 998. LOSS. He that goeth out with often loss, At last comes home by Weeping Cross. 999. LOST. 'Tis not lost that comes at last. 1000. LOVE. Love is no lack. 1001. LOVE. Love is blind. 1002. LOVE. Love is the touchstone of virtue. 1003. LOVE. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. 1004. LOVE. Love me little, love me long. 1005. LOVE. Love me, love my dog. 1006. LOVE. They love too much who die for love. 1007. LOVE. Whom we love best to them we can say least. 1008. LOVE AND A COUGH. Love and a cough cannot be hid. 1009. LOVE (HOT). Hot love is soon cold. 1010. LOVERS. Lovers live on love, as larks on leeks. 1011. LOWLY SIT. Lowly sit and be richly warm. 1012. LUCK. Give a man luck, and throw him into the sea. 1013. LUCK. The devil's children have the devil's luck. 1014. LUCK (ILL). What is worse than ill-luck? 1015. LUCKY. It is better to be born lucky than rich. 1016. LUCKY. It's better to be lucky than wise. 1017. LUCKY. Happy go lucky. 1018. LURCH. Never leave a friend in the lurch. M 1019. MAIDENS. Maidens must be seen and not heard. 1020. MALICE. Malice is mindful. 1021. MALT. Slow fire makes sweet malt. 1022. MAN. A man at five may be a fool at fifteen. 1023. MAN. Man proposes, God disposes. 1024. MAN. Man doth what he can, and God what He will. 1025. MANNERS. Manners often make fortunes. 1026. MANY HANDS. Many hands make light work. 1027. MARCH. March wind and May sun, Make clothes white and maids dun. 1028. MARCH. March many weathers. 1029. MARCH DUST. A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom. 1030. MARKET. A man must sell his ware at the rate of the market. 1031. MARKET. Forsake not the market for the toll. 1032. MARKET. If fools went not to market, bad ware would not be sold. 1033. MARKET. Three women and a goose make a market. 1034. MARRIAGE (ILL). An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune. 1035. MARRIAGE. Marriage halves our griefs, and doubles our joys. 1036. MARRIAGES. Marriages are made in heaven. 1037. MARRIES. He who marries for wealth sells his liberty. 1038. MARRY. Marry in haste, repent at leisure. 1039. MARRY. Bachelors, before you marry, Have a house wherein to tarry. 1040. MARRY. If you regard old saws, mind, thus they say, 'Tis bad to marry in the month of May. 1041. MASTER. Like master like man. 1042. MASTER. He that will too soon be his own master, will have a fool for his scholar. 1043. MASTER. No man is his craft's master the first day. 1044. MASTER. Marry above your match and you get a master. 1045. MASTER. One eye of the master sees more than four of the servants'. 1046. MASTER-CRAFT. Of all the crafts honesty is the master-craft. 1047. MASTERS. No man can serve two masters. 1048. MASTER'S EYE. The master's eye makes the horse fat. 1049. MASTER'S EYE. The master's eye does more work than his hands. 1050. MATRIMONY. Matrimony's a matter of money. 1051. MAY BE. Every "may be" hath a "may not be." 1052. MAY. A windy March and a rainy April make a beautiful May. 1053. MAY (COLD). A cold May, Plenty of corn and hay. 1054. MEADOW. A thin meadow is soon mowed. 1055. MEASURE. Good measure is a merry mean. 1056. MEASURE. With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again. 1057. MEASURE. Measure twice before you cut once. 1058. MEASURES. He measures your corn by his bushel. 1059. MEAT. Much meat, much maladies. 1060. MEAT. Meat is much, but manners is more. 1061. MEDIUM. There's a medium between painting the face and not washing it. 1062. MEDLARS. Medlars are never good till they be rotten. 1063. MEDLARS. Time and straw make medlars ripe. 1064. MEND. It is never too late to mend. 1065. MEND. If every one would mend one, all would be mended. 1066. MEND. In the end things will mend. 1067. MERCY. Cry you mercy, who killed my cat? 1068. MERRY. He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. 1069. MERRY. It's good to be merry and wise. 1070. MERRY. It is good to be merry at meat. 1071. MERRY. Merry meet, merry part, merry meet again. 1072. MERRY. As long lives a merry heart as a sad. 1073. MERRY MONTH. The merry month of May. 1074. METTLE. Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. 1075. MILK. Milk which will not be made into butter must be made into cheese. 1076. MILK. Who would keep a cow when he may have a bottle of milk for a penny! 1077. MILL. No mill, no meal. 1078. MILLSTONE. I can see as far into a millstone as the picker. 1079. MILLSTONE. The lower millstone grinds as well as the upper. 1080. MIND. Out of sight, out of mind. 1081. MIND. In the forehead and the eye, The picture of the mind doth lie. 1082. MIND. A woman's mind and winter wind often change. 1083. MIND. A wise man changes his mind; a fool never. 1084. MIRTH. A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. 1085. MISCHIEF. A little mischief is too much. 1086. MISCHIEFS. Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce. 1087. MISFORTUNES. Misfortunes seldom come alone. 1088. MISS. A miss is as good as a mile. 1089. MISTS. So many mists in March you see, So many frosts in May will be. 1090. MISUNDERSTANDING. Misunderstanding brings lies to town. 1091. MOB. The mob has many heads, but no brains. 1092. MOCKING. Mocking is catching. 1093. MODESTY. Modesty is the handmaid of virtue. 1094. MONDAY. Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all; Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all. 1095. MONEY. Money is more easily made than made use of. 1096. MONEY. They who have money are troubled about it, And they who have none are troubled without it. 1097. MONEY. Money makes money. 1098. MONEY. Money often makes the man. 1099. MONEY. The abundance of money ruins youth. 1100. MONEY. A fool and his money are soon parted. 1101. MONEY. A fool may make money, but a wise man should spend it. 1102. MONEY. 'Tis money makes the mare to go. 1103. MONEY. He that hath no money needeth no purse. 1104. MOON. In the old of the moon, A cloudy morning bodes a fair afternoon. 1105. MOON. A Saturday's moon Always comes too soon. 1106. MOON. The moon's not seen where the sun shines. 1107. MORE. The more the merrier; the fewer the better cheer. 1108. MORNING. Lose an hour in the morning, and you'll be all day hunting for it. 1109. MORNING SUN. The morning sun never lasts a day. 1110. MOST. Do as most do, and fewest will speak ill of thee. 1111. MOST. Most take all. 1112. MOTHER'S BREATH. The mother's breath is always sweet. 1113. MOTHER'S HEART. A mother's heart never grows old. 1114. MOTHER-WIT. An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of clergy. 1115. MOUNTAIN. Never make a mountain of a mole-hill. 1116. MOUNTAIN. If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, let Mahomet go to the mountain. 1117. MOUTH CIVILITY. Mouth civility costs little but is worth less. 1118. MOUTHS. He that sends mouths sends meat. 1119. MUCH. A fool demands much, but he's a greater that gives it. 1120. MUCH. Much is expected where much is given. 1121. MUCH. Much would have more, and lost all. 1122. MUDDLES. Muddles at home make husbands roam. 1123. MUFFLED CATS. Muffled cats are bad mousers. 1124. MURDER. Murder will out. 1125. MUSIC. Music helps not the toothache. 1126. MUSIC. Where music is no harm can be. 1127. MUSICIAN. When a musician hath forgot his note, he makes as though a crumb stuck in his throat. 1128. MUSK. It's no use looking for musk in a dog's kennel. 1129. MUTE. They are as mute as fishes. N 1130. NAME. A good name is better than riches. 1131. NAME. A good name keeps its lustre in the dark. 1132. NAME. Take away my good name, and take away my life. 1133. NATURE. 'Tis the nature of the beast. 1134. NECESSITY. Necessity knows no law. 1135. NECESSITY. Make a virtue of necessity. 1136. NECESSITY. Necessity is the mother of invention. 1137. NEED. Need makes the old wife trot. 1138. NEED. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 1139. NEEDLE. To look for a needle in a pottle of hay. 1140. NEEDY. He that's needy when he is married Shall be rich when he is buried. 1141. NEIGHBOUR. Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge. 1142. NEIGHBOUR-QUART. Neighbour-quart is good quart. 1143. NEIGHBOUR. You must ask your neighbour if you shall live in peace. 1144. NEIGHBOUR'S HOUSE. When thy neighbour's house is on fire, be careful of thine own. 1145. NET. All is fish that comes to his net. 1146. NEW. Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Be not the last to cast the old aside. 1147. NEW BROOM. A new broom sweeps clean. 1148. NEWS. No news is good news. 1149. NIMBLE. A nimble ninepence is better than a slow shilling. 1150. NIP. Nip it in the bud. 1151. NOBLE. The more noble the more humble. 1152. NODS. The great Homer himself sometimes nods. 1153. NONSENSE. A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. 1154. NOTICE. It is the part of a wise man to take no notice of many things. 1155. NOTHING. By doing nothing we learn to do ill. 1156. NOTHING. Of nothing comes nothing. 1157. NOTHING. Doing nothing is the hardest work. 1158. NOTHING. Nothing came out of the sack but what was in it. 1159. NOTHING. It is more painful to do nothing than something. 1160. NOTHING. Doing nothing is doing ill. 1161. NOVEMBER. November take flail, Let ships no more sail. 1162. NOW. Now or never. 1163. NURSE. The nurse's tongue is privileged to talk. 1164. NUTSHELL. You may as well bid me lade the sea with a nutshell. O 1165. OAK. An oak is not felled by one blow. 1166. OCCASION. An occasion lost cannot be redeemed. 1167. OCTOBER. Good October, a good blast, To blow the hog acorn and mast. 1168. OFFER. Never refuse a good offer. 1169. OFFENDER. The offender never pardons. 1170. OFTEN. Little and often fills the purse. 1171. OLD AGE. When old age is evil, youth can learn no good. 1172. OLD. Old young, old long. 1173. OLD CAT. An old cat laps as much as a young kitten. 1174. OLD COCK. As the old cock crows so crows the young. 1175. OLD DOG. An old dog barks not in vain. 1176. OLD DOG. An old dog will learn no tricks. 1177. OLDER. Older and wiser. 1178. OLD FOOLS. Old fools are the worst of fools. 1179. OLD FOXES. Old foxes need no tutors. 1180. OLD FRIENDS. Old friends to meet, old wine to drink, and old wood to burn. 1181. OLD FRIENDS. Old friends and old wine are best. 1182. OLD MEN. Old men are twice children. 1183. OLD SACK. An old sack wanteth much patching. 1184. OLD SAWS. Old saws speak the truth. 1185. OLD SORE. It's ill healing an old sore. 1186. OMELETTES. You can't make omelettes without breaking eggs. 1187. ONCE. Once well done is twice done. 1188. ONE. Make much of one, good men are scarce. 1189. ONE HAND. One hand will not clasp. 1190. ONE HOLE. The mouse that hath but one hole is easily taken. 1191. ONE THING. Too much of one thing is good for nothing. 1192. OPPORTUNITY. Opportunity makes the thief. 1193. OPPORTUNITY. Opportunity lingers sometimes. 1194. OPPRESSION. Oppression causeth rebellion. 1195. ORDERLY. In an orderly house all is soon ready. 1196. ORTS. Evening orts are good morning fodder. 1197. OTHERWISE. Some are wise, and some are otherwise. 1198. OUGHT. Do what thou ought, let come what may. 1199. OUTBID. Be not too hasty to outbid another. 1200. OVER. Over boots, over shoes. 1201. OVERTAKES. None is so wise but the fool overtakes him sometimes. 1202. OYSTERS. Oysters are not good in the month that hath not an R in it. 1203. OWN DOG. A man may cause his own dog to bite him. P 1204. PAIN. Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 1205. PAIN. Great pain and little gain make a man soon weary. 1206. PAINS. No pains, no profit. 1207. PAINS. Pains are the wages of ill-pleasures. 1208. PAINTING. On painting and fighting look aloof off. 1209. PARDON. Pardon all men, but never thyself. 1210. PARENTS. Study to be worthy of your parents. 1211. PARTRIDGE. If the partridge had the woodcock's thigh, It would be the best bird that ever did fly. 1212. PASSION. A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him. 1213. PATCH. Patch and sit long, build and soon flit. 1214. PATIENCE. Patience is a flower that grows not in every one's garden. 1215. PATIENCE. Patience is a plaister for all sores. 1216. PATIENT. As patient as Job. 1217. PAY. Pay him in his own coin. 1218. PAY. Pay as you go. 1219. PAYS LAST. He that pays last never pays twice. 1220. PAYMENT. They who don't intend to pay, Will promise payment any day. 1221. PEARLS. Cast not pearls before swine. 1222. PEAS. He who hath most peas may put most in the pot. 1223. PEDLAR. A small pack suits a small pedlar. 1224. PEDLAR. Let every pedlar carry his own pack. 1225. PEN. Pen and ink are a wit's plough. 1226. PENCE. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. 1227. PENNY. That penny is well spent that saves a groat. 1228. PENNY. A penny in my purse will bid me drink when all my friends I have will not. 1229. PENNY. A penny in your pocket is a good companion. 1230. PENNY. In for a penny, in for a pound. 1231. PENNY. A penny saved is a penny got. 1232. PENNY WISE. Penny wise and pound foolish. 1233. PEPPER. Pepper is black, yet it hath a good smack. 1234. PERCH. The topmost branch is not the safest perch. 1235. PERIL. Peril proves who dearly loves. 1236. PERSEVERANCE. Perseverance kills the game. 1237. PERSUASION. The persuasion of the fortunate sways the doubtful. 1238. PETER. He robs Peter to pay Paul. 1239. PHYSICIAN. Physician heal thyself. 1240. PHYSICIANS. The best physicians are Doctor Diet, Doctor Cheeriman, and Doctor Quiet. 1241. PICTURES. Painted pictures are dead speakers. 1242. PIG'S TAIL. You can't make a horn of a pig's tail. 1243. PILLOW. Sleep on it; the pillow is the best counsellor. 1244. PILOT. Every man is a pilot in a calm sea. 1245. PIN. He that will not stoop for a pin, shall never be worth a point. 1246. PIN. See a pin and let it lie, Want a pin before you die. 1247. PIN. A pin a day is a groat a year. 1248. PINCHES. No one knows where the shoe pinches so well as him who wears it. 1249. PIPE. He can ill pipe that wants his upper lip. 1250. PITCHER. The pitcher does not go so often to the water, but it comes home broken at last. 1251. PITY. Pity, promises, and blame, are always cheap and plentiful. 1252. PITY. Foolish pity spoils a city. 1253. PLACE. Sit in your place, and none can make you rise. 1254. PLACE. A place for everything, and everything in its place. 1255. PLAIN DEALING. Plain dealing's a jewel. 1256. PLAY. All play and no work, Gives Tom a ragged shirt. 1257. PLAY. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 1258. PLAY. If you play with a fool at home, he'll play with you in the market. 1259. PLEASE ALL. He that would please all, and himself too, Undertakes what he cannot do. 1260. PLEASING. Pleasing ware is half sold. 1261. PLEASURE. Make not a toil of your pleasure. 1262. PLENTY. Plenty as blackberries. 1263. PLOUGH. Don't stop the plough to catch a mouse. 1264. PLOUGH. A man must plough with such oxen as he hath. 1265. PLOUGH. He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. 1266. POOR. Do not live poor to die rich. 1267. POOR. As poor as Job. 1268. POOR FOLK. Poor folk have few kindred. 1269. POOR FOLK. Poor folk are glad of pottage. 1270. POPE. He that would be Pope must think of nothing else. 1271. POSSESSION. Possession is nine points of the law, and they say there are but ten. 1272. POT. A little pot is soon hot. 1273. POT. The pot calls the kettle black. 1274. POVERTY. Poverty parts friends. 1275. POVERTY. Poverty breeds strife. 1276. POVERTY. Poverty is the mother of health. 1277. POVERTY. When poverty comes in at the door, friendship leaps out of the window. 1278. POVERTY. Poverty parteth good fellowship. 1279. POVERTY. Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bed-fellows. 1280. PRACTICE. Practice makes perfect. 1281. PRAISE. True praise takes root and spreads. 1282. PRAISE. Neither praise nor dispraise thyself, thine actions serve the turn. 1283. PRAISE. Never sound the trumpet of your own praise. 1284. PRAISE. Praise a fair day at night. 1285. PRAISE. Old praise dies, unless you feed it. 1286. PRATE. Prate is but prate; 'tis money buys land. 1287. PRAY. He that would learn to pray let him go to sea. 1288. PRETTINESS. Prettiness makes no pottage. 1289. PRETTINESS. Prettiness dies quickly. 1290. PREVENTION. Prevention is better than cure. 1291. PREY. Birds of prey do not sing. 1292. PRIDE. Pride feels no pain. 1293. PRIDE. Pride will have a fall. 1294. PRIDE. Pride goes before, and shame follows after. 1295. PROCRASTINATION. Procrastination is the thief of time. 1296. PROMISE. He is poor indeed that cannot promise nothing. 1297. PROMISE. Be slow to promise, but quick to perform. 1298. PROMISE. Apt to promise, apt to forget. 1299. PROMISES. Promises are too much like pie-crusts, made to be broken. 1300. PROOF. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 1301. PROSPERITY. Prosperity gains friends, adversity tries them. 1302. PROUD MIND. There's nothing agrees worse than a proud mind and a beggar's purse. 1303. PROVERB. According to the old proverb. 1304. PROVERBS. Proverbs are the texts of common life. 1305. PRY. Pry not into other people's affairs. 1306. PRYETH. He that pryeth into every cloud, may be stricken with a thunder-bolt. 1307. PUDDLE. Every path hath a puddle. 1308. PUFF. Puff not against the wind. 1309. PULL. Pull gently on a weak rope. 1310. PULL DOWN. It is easier to pull down than to build. 1311. PUNCTUALITY. Punctuality begets confidence. 1312. PUNISHMENT. Many without punishment, none without sin. 1313. PURSE. Be ruled by your purse. 1314. PURSE. Let your purse be your master. 1315. PURSE. You cannot make a purse of a sow's ear. 1316. PURSE. A full purse maketh the mouth to speak. 1317. PURSE. He that shows his purse longs to be rid of it. 1318. PURSE. Be it better or be it worse, Be ruled by him who bears the purse. 1319. PURSE. A heavy purse makes a light heart. 1320. PURSE. He who gets four pounds and spends five has no need of a purse. 1321. PURSES (WRINKLED). Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces. Q 1322. QUARREL. Don't quarrel with the beggar for his bone. 1323. QUENCH. To cast oil in the fire is not the way to quench it. 1324. QUICK. Quick at meat, quick at work. 1325. QUIETNESS. Next to love, quietness. 1326. QUIET LIFE. Anything for a quiet life. 1327. QUOTE. The devil can quote Scripture to suit his purpose. R 1328. RAGGED COLT. A ragged colt may make a good horse. 1329. RAIN. Rain from east, Two days at least. 1330. RAIN. Should it rain on Easter Day, There'll be plenty of grass and little hay. 1331. RAIN. Some rain, some rest. 1332. RAIN. After rain comes fair weather. 1333. RAIN. Small rain lays great dust. 1334. RAINS. It never rains but it pours. 1335. RAISE. Raise no more spirits than you can conjure down. 1336. READY MONEY. Ready money will away. 1337. REAL FRIEND. He is a real friend who assists one in a pinch. 1338. REASON. If we do not hear reason she will one day make herself be heard. 1339. REASON. There's reason in roasting of eggs. 1340. RECEIVER. The receiver is as bad as the thief. 1341. RECEIVERS. If there were no receivers there would be no thieves. 1342. RECKLESS YOUTH. Reckless youth makes rueful age. 1343. RECKONS. He that reckons without his host must reckon again. 1344. RECKONING. Fools always come short of their reckoning. 1345. RECKONING. Short reckonings make long friends. 1346. RECONCILE. Reconcile yourself to present trials, the future may bring worse. 1347. RECORDER. A good recorder sets all in order. 1348. REIGNS. Man reigns and woman rules. 1349. REINS. Men hold the reins, but the women tell them which way to drive. 1350. RELIGION. Better wear a cloak for religion than religion for a cloak. 1351. REMOVE. Remove an old tree and it will wither. 1352. REMOVED. A plant often removed cannot thrive. 1353. REPROOF. A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit. 1354. RESERVE. Reserve the master-blow. 1355. RE-TELLING. A story never loses by re-telling. 1356. REVENGE. To forget wrong is the greatest revenge. 1357. REVENGE. Revenge is sweet. 1358. RICH. God help the rich, the poor can beg. 1359. RICHES. Riches are like muck, which stink in a heap, but spread abroad make the earth fruitful. 1360. RICHES. Riches are but the baggage of fortune. 1361. RIDE. Better ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. 1362. RIGHT HAND. Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth. 1363. RISETH. He that riseth betimes hath something in his head. 1364. RIVER. Follow the river and you'll get to the sea. 1365. ROAD. Rich country, bad road. 1366. ROOST. A bird can roost upon but one branch. 1367. ROLLING STONE. A rolling stone gathers no moss. 1368. ROME. When you are at Rome, do as Rome does. 1369. ROME. Rome was not built in a day. 1370. RUDDER. He that will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. 1371. ROSE. The fairest rose at last is withered. 1372. ROTTEN APPLE. A rotten apple injures its companions. 1373. RUGGED STONE. A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand. 1374. RULE. There is no rule without an exception. 1375. RULES. Love rules his kingdom without a sword. 1376. RUNS. He that runs fastest gets the prize. 1377. RUNS FAST. He that runs fast will not run long. S 1378. SACK. It's a bad sack will abide no clouting. 1379. SACK. Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. 1380. SADDLE. Set the saddle on the right horse. 1381. SADNESS. Sadness and gladness succeed each other. 1382. ST. DAVID'S DAY. Upon St. David's day, Put oats and barley in the clay. 1383. ST. STEPHEN. Blessed be St. Stephen; There's no fast upon his even. 1384. SAIL. Make not your sail too large for your ship. 1385. SALMON. Salmon and sermon have their season in Lent. 1386. SALT. Catch a bird by putting salt on its tail. 1387. SAND. You can't make ropes of sand. 1388. SAUCE. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 1389. SAUCE. Sweet meat must have some sauce. 1390. SAVE. If youth knew what age will crave, It sure would strive to get and save. 1391. SAVE. Who will not save a penny, shall never have many. 1392. SAVING. Saving is getting. 1393. SAVING. It's useless saving at the spigot and spending at the bung-hole. 1394. SAVING. Of saving cometh having. 1395. SAY. Learn to say before you sing. 1396. SAYING. Saying and doing are two things. 1397. SAYS. If a man says little he thinks the more. 1398. SAY WELL. "Say well," and "do well," end with one letter; To say well, it is well, but to do well is better. 1399. SCABBED SHEEP. One scabbed sheep infects the whole flock. 1400. SCALD. Scald not your lips in another man's pottage. 1401. SCALDED CAT. A scalded cat fears cold water. 1402. SCEPTRE. A sceptre is one thing, a ladle another. 1403. SCHOLAR. A mere scholar a mere ass. 1404. SCHOLARS. The greatest scholars are not always the wisest men. 1405. SCORNING. Scorning is catching. 1406. SCOTCH MIST. A Scotch mist will wet an Englishman through to the skin. 1407. SEA. On the sea sail; on the land settle. 1408. SEASON. Everything is good in its season. 1409. SEASON. To everything there is a season; and a time to every purpose under heaven. 1410. SECOND BLOW. 'Tis the second blow that makes a fray. 1411. SECRET. He that revealeth his secret maketh himself a slave. 1412. SEEING. Seeing is believing. 1413. SEEK. Seek till you find, and you'll lose no labour. 1414. SELDOM SEEN. Seldom seen, soon forgotten. 1415. SELF. Self do, self have. 1416. SELF LOVE. Self love's a mote in every man's eye. 1417. SELF PRAISE. Self praise is no recommendation. 1418. SEPTEMBER. September blow soft, Till the fruit's in the loft. 1419. SERVANTS. Good servants make good masters. 1420. SHADOW. Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance. 1421. SHARE. Share and share alike. 1422. SHAVING. It's ill shaving against the wool. 1423. SHEAR. Shear your sheep in May, And shear them all away. 1424. SHEEP. One sheep follows another. 1425. SHIPS. Ships fear fire more than water. 1426. SHOE. The finest shoe often hurts the foot. 1427. SHOE. To know where the shoe pinches. 1428. SHOOT. Every man will shoot at the enemy, but few will go to fetch the shaft. 1429. SHOP. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. 1430. SHORN SHEEP. God tempers the wind to the shorn sheep. 1431. SHORT CUTS. Short cuts are sometimes longest. 1432. SHORT RECKONINGS. Short reckonings are soon cleared. 1433. SHORT AND SWEET. Short and sweet like a donkey's gallop. 1434. SHREW. Every one can tame a shrew but he that hath her. 1435. SIGH. Never sigh but send. 1436. SIGHT. Out of sight out of mind. 1437. SILENCE. Silence seldom doth harm. 1438. SILENCE. Silence is consent. 1439. SILENCE. Silence is the best ornament of a woman. 1440. SILVER. White silver draws black lines. 1441. SILVER SPOON. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. 1442. SING. A bird that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing. 1443. SING. None but fools and fiddlers sing at their meat. 1444. SINGS. Who sings drives away care. 1445. SIT STILL. As good sit still as rise up and fall. 1446. SLANDER. Few people are out of the reach of slander. 1447. SLANDER. Slander leaves a score behind it. 1448. SLAVERY. Account not that work slavery That brings in penny savoury. 1449. SLEEP. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two hours after. 1450. SLEEPING. There is sleeping enough in the grave. 1451. SLEEPING DOG. Don't wake a sleeping dog. 1452. SLIP. Better that the feet slip than the tongue. 1453. SLOTH. Sloth turneth the edge of wit. 1454. SLOTH. Sloth is the mother of poverty. 1455. SLOW. Slow and sure. 1456. SLUGGARD'S GUISE. The sluggard's guise, Loth to go to bed and loth to rise. 1457. SLUTS. Sluts are good enough to make slovens' pottage. 1458. SMALL FISH. Better are small fish than an empty dish. 1459. SMALL THINGS. Small things affect light minds. 1460. SMALL THINGS. He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little. 1461. SMOKE. Where there is smoke there is fire. 1462. SNAKE. Put a snake in your bosom, and when it is warm it will sting you. 1463. SNOW. A snow year, a rich year. 1464. SOFTLY. He that goes softly goes surely. 1465. SOFT WORDS. Soft words butter no parsnips. 1466. SOLDIERS. Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. 1467. SON. My son's my son till he hath got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. 1468. SOON HOT. Soon hot, soon cold. 1469. SOONER SAID. 'Tis sooner said than done. 1470. SORROW. Sorrow and bad weather come unsent for. 1471. SORROW. Sorrow will pay no debt. 1472. SORROW. A fat sorrow is better than a lean one. 1473. SORROW. Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. 1474. SORROW. Sorrow will wear away in time. 1475. SORROW. When sorrow is asleep, wake it not. 1476. SORROW. Sorrow comes unsent for, and, like the unbidden guest, brings his own stool. 1477. SORROWING. He goes a-sorrowing, who goes a-borrowing. 1478. SOUND. As sound as a nut. 1479. SOUR GRAPES. "Sour grapes," as the fox said when he could not reach them. 1480. SOW. Every sow to her own trough. 1481. SOWS. Who sows in May gets little that way. 1482. SOWS. What a man sows, that shall he also reap. 1483. SPARE. 'Tis too late, to spare when the bottom is bare. 1484. SPARE. It is better to spare at the brim than the bottom. 1485. SPARE. Spare when young and spend when old. 1486. SPARE. Spare to speak and spare to spend. 1487. SPEAK. There is a time to speak as well as to be silent. 1488. SPEAK. Speak well of the dead. 1489. SPEAK. Many speak much that cannot speak well. 1490. SPEAK. Speak fair and think what you will. 1491. SPEAKS. He that speaks me fair and loves me not, I'll speak him fair and trust him not. 1492. SPECULATION. Speculation completes what extravagance began. 1493. SPEECH. Speech is the picture of the mind. 1494. SPEND. Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend. 1495. SPEND. Carefully spend, and God will send. 1496. SPEND. Spend and be free, but make no waste. 1497. SPENDER. To a good spender God is the treasurer. 1498. SPENDERS. Great spenders are bad lenders. 1499. SPENDS. He who more than his worth doth spend, Makes a rope his life to end; He who spends more than he should, Shall not have to spend when he would. 1500. SPENDS. You may know by a penny how a shilling spends. 1501. SPENDTHRIFT. It is the thrift of a spendthrift which ruins him most effectually. 1502. SPICE. Who hath spice enough may season his meat as he pleaseth. 1503. SPITE. Don't cut your nose off to spite your face. 1504. SPITS. Who spits against the wind spits in his own face. 1505. SPLIT. He would split a hair. 1506. SPOIL. Too many cooks spoil the broth. 1507. SPOIL. Spoil not the ship for a penn'orth of tar. 1508. SPOKEN OF. Better be ill spoken of by one before all, than by all before one. 1509. SPORT. It's poor sport that is not worth the candle. 1510. SPORT. No sport, no pie. 1511. SPOTS. Rich men's spots are covered with money. 1512. SPRAT. Throw a sprat to catch a whale. 1513. SPUR. Do not spur a free horse. 1514. STABLE. Being born in a stable does not make a man a horse. 1515. STAKE. An ill stake standeth longest. 1516. STANDERS BY. Standers by see more than the gamesters. 1517. STANDING. The higher the standing the lower the fall. 1518. STANDING POOLS. Standing pools gather filth. 1519. STARS. Stars are not seen during sunshine. 1520. STARVE. He would starve in a cook-shop. 1521. STEAL. He that will steal an egg will steal an ox. 1522. STEAL. He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing. 1523. STEAL. One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge. 1524. STEED. When the steed is stolen the stable door shall be shut. 1525. STEP BY STEP. Step by step the ladder is climbed. 1526. STICKS. Little sticks kindle the fire, but great ones put it out. 1527. STILE. He that will not go over the stile must be thrust through the gate. 1528. STILL WATER. Trust not still water nor a silent man. 1529. STILL WATER. Keep me from still water; from that which is rough I can keep myself. 1530. STILL WATERS. Still waters run deep. 1531. STINKING FISH. Never cry "Stinking fish." 1532. STITCH. A stitch in time saves nine. 1533. STOCK. Whoso lacketh a stock, his gain's not worth a chip. 1534. STOLEN KISSES. Stolen kisses are sweet. 1535. STOMACH. The full stomach loatheth the honeycomb, but to the hungry every bitter thing is sweet. 1536. STOMACH. With stomach, wife, and conscience keep on good terms. 1537. STONE WALL. Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall; But soft upon soft makes none at all. 1538. STOOLS. Between two stools he comes to the ground. 1539. STOOP. He must stoop that hath a low door. 1540. STORM. After a storm comes a calm. 1541. STORE. Store is no sore. 1542. STORY. One story is good until another's told. 1543. STRAIGHT TREES. Straight trees have crooked roots. 1544. STRATAGEM. By stratagem, not valour. 1545. STREAM. No striving against the stream. 1546. STRIFE. Weight and measure take away strife. 1547. STRIFE. Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife. 1548. STRIKE. Strike while the iron is hot. 1549. STROKES. Little strokes fell great oaks. 1550. STUDY. Morning is the time for study. 1551. STUMBLES. He that runs in the night stumbles. 1552. STUMBLES. He that stumbles twice over the same stone, deserves to break his shins. 1553. STUMBLES. 'Tis a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles. 1554. SUBJECTS' LOVE. The subjects' love is the king's lifeguard. 1555. SUCCESS. Nothing succeeds like success. 1556. SUCCESS. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. 1557. SUCKERS. The young suckers drain the old tree. 1558. SUFFERANCE. Of sufferance comes ease. 1559. SUFFICIENT. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. 1560. SUIT. That suit is best that best fits me. 1561. SUNSHINE. No sunshine but hath some shadow. 1562. SUPPERLESS. Better go to bed supperless than to rise in debt. 1563. SUPPERS. Light suppers make long lives. 1564. SURE. Sure bind, sure find. 1565. SURGEON. A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. 1566. SWALLOW. One swallow does not make a summer. 1567. SWALLOW. One swallow makes not a spring, nor one woodcock a winter. 1568. SWEAT. No sweat, no sweet. 1569. SWEEP. Sweep before your own door. 1570. SWEEP. They have need of a besom that sweep the house with a turf. 1571. SWEET. He deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour. 1572. SWIM. He must needs swim that's held up by the chin. 1573. SWIM. Never trust yourself out of your depth till you can swim. 1574. SWORD. He that strikes with the sword shall be beaten with the scabbard. 1575. SWORD. Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard. T 1576. TABLE. A poor man's table is soon spread. 1577. TABLE. Who depends upon another man's table often dines late. 1578. TALE-BEARER. Remove the tale-bearer and contention ceaseth. 1579. TALE-BEARERS. Put no faith in tale-bearers. 1580. TALK. Talk of the devil and his imp appears. 1581. TALKERS. The greatest talkers are always the least doers. 1582. TALKING. Talking pays no toll. 1583. TASTE. To him that hath lost his taste, sweet is sour. 1584. TEACHETH. He teacheth ill who teacheth all. 1585. TEARS. Nothing dries up sooner than tears. 1586. TEETH. A man may dig his grave with his teeth. 1587. TEMPERANCE. Temperance is the best physic. 1588. TEMPTER. The tempter is the greater rogue. 1589. THANKS. He loseth his thanks who promiseth and delayeth. 1590. THATCHED. When I have thatched his house he would throw me down. 1591. THIEF. Give a thief rope enough and he'll hang himself. 1592. THIEF. The thief's sorry because he is caught, not because he is the thief. 1593. THIEF. Set a thief to take a thief. 1594. THIEVES. All are not thieves that dogs bark at. 1595. THINK. One may think that dares not speak. 1596. THINK. Think twice before you speak once. 1597. THINK. Think much, speak little, and write less. 1598. THINK. Who thinks to live must live to think, Else mind and body lose their link. 1599. THINKS. The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides him another. 1600. THINKERS. Thinkers govern toilers. 1601. THISTLES. Gather thistles, expect prickles. 1602. THISTLES. He that sows nothing plants thistles. 1603. THORN. No rose without a thorn. 1604. THORN. The thorn comes forth with his point forwards. 1605. THORNS. Roses, mind you, have thorns. 1606. THORNS. He that handles thorns shall prick his fingers. 1607. THOUGHTS. Second thoughts are best. 1608. THOUGHTS. Thoughts are free. 1609. THREATENED. There are more threatened than struck. 1610. THREEPENCE. If you make not much of threepence you'll ne'er be worth a groat. 1611. THRIFTY. Thrifty men are fond of thrifty sayings. 1612. THRIVE. He that will thrive must rise at five. He that hath thriven may lie till seven. 1613. THUNDER. Thunder in December foretells fine weather. 1614. THUNDERS. When it thunders the thief becomes honest. 1615. THYSELF. For what thou canst do thyself rely not on another. 1616. TIDE. There is a tide in the affairs of man which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. 1617. TIDE. Every tide has its ebb. 1618. TIDE. The tide will fetch away what the ebb brings. 1619. TIME. Take time by the forelock. 1620. TIME. A mouse, in time, may bite in two a cable. 1621. TIME. Take time when time is, for time will away. 1622. TIME. Time and tide tarry for no man. 1623. TIME. Time assuages the greatest grief. 1624. TIME. Time cures sorrow. 1625. TIME. Time is the rider that breaks youth. 1626. TIME. Time tries all. 1627. TIMELY. Timely blossom timely ripe. 1628. TITLE. Simon Noland, clown, is a better style and title than Humphrey Hadland, gent. 1629. TO-DAY. To-day me, to-morrow thee. 1630. TOM. He's Tom Tell-troth. 1631. TO-MORROW. To-morrow comes never. 1632. TONGUE. A man may hold his tongue in an ill time. 1633. TONGUE. Temper the tongue. 1634. TONGUE. Confine your tongue, lest it confine you. 1635. TONGUE. Keep your tongue within your teeth. 1636. TONGUE. The tongue breaketh bone, Though itself have none. 1637. TONGUE. The tongue's not steel, yet it cuts. 1638. TONGUE. The tongue talks at the head's cost. 1639. TONGUE. One tongue is enough for a woman. 1640. TONGUE. Who has not a good tongue, ought to have good hands. 1641. TOO LATE. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. 1642. TOOLS. A bad workman quarrels with his tools. 1643. TOOLS. What is a workman without his tools? 1644. TOO FAR. Too far east is west. 1645. TOO MUCH. He that grasps at too much, holds fast nothing. 1646. TOP SAWYERS. We can't all be top sawyers. 1647. TRADE. He that hath a trade hath an estate. 1648. TRADE. Every man to his trade. 1649. TRADE. Trade knows neither friends nor kindred. 1650. TRADE. Trade is the mother of money. 1651. TRADES. Jack of all trades, and master of none. 1652. TRADESMAN. A tradesman who gets not loseth. 1653. TRAVELS. He that travels far knows much. 1654. TREE. A tree is known by its fruit, and not by its leaves. 1655. TREE. Remove an old tree and it will wither to death. 1656. TREES. Set trees poor, and they will grow rich; set them rich, and they will grow poor. 1657. TREES. You cannot see wood for trees. 1658. TRIFLE. Fall not out with a friend for a trifle. 1659. TROUBLE. He who seeketh trouble never misseth it. 1660. TROUBLED WATERS. Never fish in troubled waters. 1661. TROUBLES. Never make troubles of trifles. 1662. TROUBLES. Hidden troubles disquiet most. 1663. TRUE WORD. There's many a true word spoken in jest. 1664. TRUE. That is true which all men say. 1665. TRUST. If you trust before you try, You may repent it ere you die. 1666. TRUST. Trust in God, and keep your powder dry. 1667. TRUST NOT. Trust not a broken staff. 1668. TRUST NOT. Trust not a horse's heel, nor a dog's tooth. 1669. TRUTH. Truth lies in a well. 1670. TRUTH. Truth is stranger than fiction. 1671. TRUTH. Fair fall truth and daylight. 1672. TRUTH. Speak the truth and shame the devil. 1673. TRUTH. Truth hath a good face, but bad clothes. 1674. TRUTH. Truth may be blamed, but it can't be shamed. 1675. TRUTH. Whatever you do, whatever you say, Tell your doctor and lawyer the truth alway. 1676. TRY. Try your friend before you trust him. 1677. TUB. Every tub must stand on its own bottom. 1678. TURN. One good turn deserves another. 1679. TURNED. Swine, women, and bees are not to be turned. 1680. TWELFTH DAY. At twelfth-day the days are lengthened a cock's stride. 1681. TWENTY. As good twenty as nineteen. 1682. TWICE. If things were to be done twice, all would be wise. 1683. TWO FACES. Never carry two faces under one hat. 1684. TWO HEADS. Two heads are better than one. 1685. TWO PLACES. One cannot be in two places at once. 1686. TWO SUNDAYS. When two Sundays come in one week--that is, never. U 1687. UNHAPPY. An unhappy lad may make a good man. 1688. UNITS. The greatest number is made up of units. 1689. UNKNOWN. Unknown, unmissed. 1690. UNMINDED. Unminded, unmoaned. 1691. UNTAUGHT. Better untaught than ill-taught. 1692. USE. Use is second nature. 1693. USE. Use the means, and God will give the blessing. 1694. UTILITY. Utility is preferable to grandeur. V 1695. VALENTINE'S DAY. On Valentine's day will a good goose lay, If she be a good goose, her dame well to pay, She will lay two eggs before Valentine's day. 1696. VALLEY. He who stays in the valley will never get over the hill. 1697. VALOUR. Valour can do little without discretion. 1698. VALOUR. Valour that parleys is near yielding. 1699. VENTURE. Nothing venture nothing win. 1700. VENTURE. Venture a small fish to catch a great one. 1701. VENTURE. Venture not all in one ship. 1702. VERY LAST. Fools think themselves wise to the very last. 1703. VICAR OF BRAY. The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray still. 1704. VICE. Vice is nourished by being concealed. 1705. VINE. Make the vine poor, and it will make you rich. 1706. VINEGAR. The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar. 1707. VIRTUES. Search others for their virtues, thyself for their faults. 1708. VOWS. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. W 1709. WAGER. A wager is a fool's argument. 1710. WAGES. He who serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages. 1711. WAITS. He that waits on another man's trencher, makes many a late dinner. 1712. WANT. The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it. 1713. WANT OF. For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost. 1714. WAR. War, hunting, and law, are as full of trouble as pleasure. 1715. WAR. War is death's feast. 1716. WAR. Who preacheth war is the devil's chaplain. 1717. WAR (GOOD). He that makes a good war makes a good peace. 1718. WARES (GOOD). Good wares make quick markets. 1719. WARM. He that is warm thinks all are so. 1720. WARM. He is wise enough that can keep himself warm in winter. 1721. WARM. The head and feet kept warm, The rest will take no harm. 1722. WASHING. There's no washing the blackamore white. 1723. WASTE. Waste not, want not. 1724. WASTE. Wilful waste makes woeful want. 1725. WATCH. Good watch prevents misfortune. 1726. WATCH. You may be a wise man though you cannot make a watch. 1727. WATCHED POT. A watched pot never boils. 1728. WATER. Water bewitched. 1729. WATER. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. 1730. WAX. He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun. 1731. WAY. Where there's a will there's a way. 1732. WAYS (MORE). There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging. 1733. WAYS. To him that wills ways are not wanting. 1734. WEAKEST. Let the weakest go to the wall. 1735. WEAKEST. Where it is weakest there the thread breaketh. 1736. WEALTH. Their folly pleads the privilege of wealth. 1737. WEARER. The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches. 1738. WEARING. Everything is the worse for wearing. 1739. WEARS. Constant dropping wears the stone. 1740. WEATHER. 'Tis pity fair weather should do any harm. 1741. WEATHER (CHANGE). Any flat can talk of change of weather. 1742. WEDDING. Wedding and ill-wintering tame both man and beast. 1743. WEDLOCK. Wedlock is a padlock. 1744. WEDS. Who weds ere he be wise shall die ere he thrive. 1745. WEEP. As great a pity to see a woman weep, as to see a goose go barefoot. 1746. WELCOME. As welcome as the flowers in May. 1747. WELCOME. "Welcome death," quoth the rat, when the trap fell down. 1748. WELCOME. Welcome is the best dish on the table. 1749. WELL. Let well alone. 1750. WELL. When the well is dug it is easy enough to pump. 1751. WELL-DOING. Be not weary of well-doing. 1752. WELL-ORDERED. All things are soon prepared in a well-ordered house. 1753. WELLS. Well-drawn wells give the sweetest water. 1754. WEPT. I wept when I was born, and every day shows why. 1755. WHET. A whet is no let [hindrance]. 1756. WHISTLE. You may pay too dear for your whistle. 1757. WHY. There's ne'er a why, but there's a wherefore. 1758. WIDE. Wide will wear but narrow will tear. 1759. WIFE. Choose your wife on Saturday, and not on a Sunday. 1760. WIFE. He that goes far from home for a wife, either intends to cheat or will be cheated. 1761. WIFE. A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife. 1762. WIFE. There is one good wife in the country, and every man thinks he hath her. 1763. WIFE (GOOD). A good wife makes a good husband. 1764. WIFE (GOOD). A good wife and health Are a man's best wealth. 1765. WIFE (GOOD). Saith Solomon the wise A good wife's a prize. 1766. WIFE (NEWS). He that tells his wife news is but newly married. 1767. WILD OATS. Happy is he who hath sown his wild oats betimes. 1768. WILES. Wise men are not caught by wiles. 1769. WILFUL. If wilful will to water, wilful must be drowned. 1770. WILFUL MAN. A wilful man never wants woe. 1771. WILL. Take the will for the deed. 1772. WILL. They that cannot do as they will, must do as they can. 1773. WILL. Will without reason is blind. 1774. WILL NOT. If one will not, another will. 1775. WILL (READY). Where the will is ready, the feet are light. 1776. WILL (WAY). Where there's a will there's a way. 1777. WILLING HORSE. All lay load on the willing horse. 1778. WILLING MIND. Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. 1779. WILLOWS. Willows are weak, yet they bend other wood. 1780. WIN. Win first, lose last. 1781. WIND (NORTH). When the wind's in the north You need not go forth [_to fish_]. 1782. WIND (EAST). When the wind's in the east The fish will bite least. 1783. WIND (SOUTH). When the wind's in the south The bait goes in their mouth. 1784. WIND (WEST). When the wind's in the west The fish will bite best. 1785. WIND. Where the wind is on Candlemas Day There it will stick to the end of May. 1786. WIND (EAST). When the wind is in the east, 'Tis neither good for man nor beast. 1787. WIND (ILL). It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. 1788. WIND (SOUTH). When the wind's in the south It's in the rain's mouth. 1789. WIND (STILL). No weather is ill If the wind be still. 1790. WINDFALLS. None ever yet got fat on windfalls. 1791. WINDMILL. You cannot drive a windmill with a pair of bellows. 1792. WINE. More have been drowned in wine than water. 1793. WINE. When wine sinks, words swim. 1794. WINE. Wine is the master's, but the goodness is the drawer's. 1795. WINE (GOOD). Good wine needs no bush. 1796. WINE (IN). When wine is in, wit is out. 1797. WINE (TURNCOAT). Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy. 1798. WINK. Wink at small faults. 1799. WINK. A wink's as good as a nod to a blind horse. 1800. WINTER (GOOD). A good winter brings a good summer. 1801. WINTER. Winter finds out what summer lays up. 1802. WISDOM. By wisdom peace, by peace plenty. 1803. WISDOM. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 1804. WISDOM. Wisdom rides upon the ruins of folly. 1805. WISE. Better wise than wealthy. 1806. WISE MEN. Wise men care not for what they cannot have. 1807. WISHES. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. 1808. WISHES. If wishes were thrushes, beggars would eat birds. 1809. WISHES. If wishes would bide, beggars would ride. 1810. WISHES. If wishes were butter-cakes, beggars would bite. 1811. WIT. Wit is the lightning of the mind. 1812. WIT. Wit bought is twice taught. 1813. WIT. You may truss up all his wit in an egg-shell. 1814. WIT. Wit ill applied is a dangerous weapon. 1815. WIT. Wit is folly, unless a wise man hath the keeping of it. 1816. WIT. Wit may be bought too dear. 1817. WITS. He that lives upon his wits, breaks for want of stock. 1818. WIVE. A man cannot both wive and thrive in a year. 1819. WOE. Woe follows wickedness. 1820. WOLF. He had enough to keep the wolf from the door. 1821. WOLVES. Wolves lose their teeth, but not their memory. 1822. WOMAN'S STRENGTH. A woman's strength is in her tongue. 1823. WOMAN'S WORK. A woman's work is never at an end. 1824. WOMEN. Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears. 1825. WOMEN (WILLS). Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die. 1826. WONDER. A wonder lasts but nine days. 1827. WOO. To woo is a pleasure in young men, a fault in old. 1828. WOODCOCK. One woodcock does not make a winter. 1829. WOOING. Happy is the wooing, That is not long a-doing. 1830. WOOL. Many go for wool and come back shorn. 1831. WOOL SELLERS. Wool sellers know wool buyers. 1832. WORD. An honest man's word is as good as his bond. 1833. WORDS. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. 1834. WORDS. Words are but sands, 'Tis money buys lands. 1835. WORDS. Sometimes words Wound more than swords. 1836. WORDS. Words are like weights, gravity gives them effect. 1837. WORDS. Words are for women, actions for men. 1838. WORDS AND BLOWS. Words are but wind, But blows unkind. 1839. WORD (ENOUGH). A word is enough to the wise. 1840. WORDS (EVENING). Words spoken in an evening the wind carrieth away. 1841. WORDS (FAIR). Fair words butter no parsnips. 1842. WORDS (FAIR). Fair words will not keep a cat from starving. 1843. WORDS (FEW). Few words are best. 1844. WORDS (GOOD). Good words cool more than cold water. 1845. WORDS (GOOD). Good words fill not a sack. 1846. WORDS (MANY). Many words will not fill a bushel. 1847. WORDS (SOFT). Soft words hurt not the mouth. 1848. WORK. They that will not work in heat, must hunger in frost. 1849. WORKMEN (BAD). Bad workmen always complain of their tools. 1850. WORLD. One half of the world knows not how the other half lives. 1851. WORLD. The world is his who knows how to wait for it. 1852. WORLD. The world was never so dull but if one won't another will. 1853. WORLD. This world is nothing except it tend to the next. 1854. WORLD'S PULSE. There needs a long time to know the world's pulse. 1855. WORM. Tread on a worm and it will turn. 1856. WORST. When things get to the worst, they'll mend. 1857. WORST SPOKE. The worst spoke in the cart-wheel breaks first. 1858. WOULD. "He that wolde not when he might, He shall not when he wold-a." 1859. WOUNDS. Wounds may heal, but not those made by ill words. 1860. WRANGLERS. Wranglers never want words. 1861. WRATH. A soft answer turneth away wrath. 1862. WRESTLE. He that is thrown would ever wrestle. 1863. WRETCH. He who maketh others wretched is himself a wretch, whether prince or peasant. 1864. WRONGS. Two wrongs will not make a right. 1865. WRONG SOW. To take the wrong sow by the ear. Y 1866. YEAR. Say no ill of the year till it is passed. 1867. YEARS. Years know more than books. 1868. YES AND NO. Between a woman's yes and no, There is not room for a pin to go. 1869. YORKSHIRE. Yorkshire fashion--every man pay his share. 1870. YOUNG. Old young, and old long. 1871. YOURSELF. Help yourself and your friends will like you. 1872. YOURSELF. If you want a thing done, do it yourself. 1873. YOUTH. A growing youth hath a wolf in his stomach. 1874. YOUTH. If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save. 1875. YOUTH. Youth and white paper take any impression. 1876. YOUTH. Youth will have its swing. 1877. YULE. Yule is good on Yule even. Z 1878. ZEAL. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. 1879. ZEAL. Zeal without knowledge is frenzy. 1880. ZEAL. Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. INDEX OF PRINCIPAL WORDS. _The Subject Words of the Dictionary are not repeated here._ _Word_ _No._ A Ability--gentility 668 Abroad--beef 460 Abundance--money 1099 Accuser 735 Acorn--October 1167 Acquittance 614 Acquaintances 571 Actions 1282 Actions for men 1837 Advantage 628 Adversity--friends 645 Adversity tries 1301 Affairs--others 1305 Affairs of men 1616 Afraid--cowardice 342 Afternoon--fair 1104 Age--rueful 1342 Age--save 1390 Age--youth 1874 Agrees worse 1302 Air--castles 206 Alloy--joy 874 Almanacks 330 Alone--better 54 Amends--angry 32 Angry man 827 Another's table 1577 Answer--fool 603 Appetite 475 Apple--rotten 1372 April--rainy 1052 Architect 625 Argument--fact 528 Argument--wager 1709 Arm--bone in 143 Armour--hog 790 Ash 454 Asleep--sorrow 1475 Ass--head 765 Ass--mere 1403 Ass-ride 1361 Autumn 48 B Bachelors 1039 Back--the 169 Bacon--father's 241 Bad clothes--truth 1673 Bad company 84 Bad excuse 516 Bad sack 1378 Baggage--riches 1360 Bait--fishes' mouth 589 Bait--wind 1783 Bake--brew 164 Bankrupt--beggar 95 Bare--spare 1483 Barefoot 392 Bargain--bad 113 Bark at--thieves 1594 Barks--old dog 1175 Barley--St. David's 1382 Barrel--knock 798 Bartholomew--St. 420 Basket--one 478 Bat--blind 132 Battle--afraid 12 Battle--colours 291 Battle--hard 498 Beast--nature 1133 Beauty--fancy 546 Bed--early to 463 Bed--supperless 1562 Bed-fellows 796 Bed-fellows--poverty 1279 Beef--buys 86 Bees--turned 1679 Beg--poor 1358 Beggar--quarrel 1322 Beggars--bite 1810 Beggars--eat birds 1808 Beggars--ride 1809 Beggars--wishes 1807 Beggar's purse 1302 Beggary 837 Bellows--windmill 1791 Besom--sweep 1570 Best day--Wednesday 1094 Better--good 699 Bide--wishes 1809 Bill--bites 336 Bind--fast 551 Bind--sure 1564 Bird--best 1211 Birdcall 587 Bird--catch 1386 Bird--early 465 Bird--fairest 361 Bird--old 223 Bird--roost 1366 Bird--sing 1442 Birds--little 970 Birds of prey 1291 Bite--bark 442 Bite best--fish 1784 Bite--beggars 1810 Bite--fish 1782 Bite--own dog 1203 Biters--barkers 71 Bitter--sweet 829 Bitter thing 1535 Blackamore 1722 Blackberries 1262 Blame--bidden 118 Blame--pity 1251 Blamed--truth 1674 Blessing--God 1693 Blind--will 1773 Blind horse--mettle 1074 Blind horse--wink 1799 Blind--love 1001 Blossom--timely 1627 Blow--felled 1165 Blow--first 578 Blow--second 1410 Blows--unkind 1838 Blows--wind 1787 Boast--great 140 Body--think 1598 Bond--honest man's 1832 Bone--bred 162 Bone--tongue 1636 Bones--buys 23 Book--author 50 Books--years 1867 Born--stable 1514 Born--wept 1754 Borrow--contented 313 Borrowing 1477 Bosom--snake 1462 Bottle--milk 1076 Bottom--bare 1483 Bottom--fish 584 Bottom--spare 1484 Bottom--tub 505 Bought wit 1812 Brain--idle 832 Brains--mob 1091 Branch--roost 1366 Brave--the 624 Bray--vicar of 1703 Bread--buttered 182 Bread--dry 460 Bread, no 737 Bread--eaten 623 Bread--snow 544 Breakfast 801 Breath--mother's 1112 Bride--sun 745 Brim--spare 1484 Broken at last 1250 Broken--promises 1299 Broken staff 1667 Broom--furze 660 Broth--cooks 1506 Brusher's--critics 354 Bud--nip 1150 Build--flit 1213 Build houses 613 Build--pull down 1310 Built--Rome 1369 Bung-holes 1393 Buried--rich 1140 Burneth--gown 581 Bush--beats 122 Bush--bird 120 Bush--wine 1795 Bushel--corn 1058 Business 503 Butter--cheese 1075 Butter--parsnips 1465 Butter-cakes 1810 Buttock 63 Buy--houses 613 Buyers--wool 1831 C Cable--mouse 1620 Cake--good 375 Calendar 396 Calends 866 Calf--bad 339 Calm--storm 1540 Calm sea--pilot 1244 Calms--vows 1708 Calves--fat 229 Camel's back 919 Camels--gnats 682 Candle--devil 417 Candle-stick 195 Candle--sport 1509 Candlemas--wind 1785 Care--coin 287 Care--court 329 Care--goods 974 Care--kill 214 Care--sings 1444 Cares--children 248 Cart--creaks 350 Cart-wheel 1857 Castle--house 489 Cat--care 201 Cat--fair words 1842 Cat--mercy 1067 Cat--old 1173 Cat--scalded 1401 Cats--muffled 1123 Catch bird 1386 Caught--thief 1592 Certainty 227 Chance--main 226 Change mind 1083 Change of weather 1741 Chapel of devotion 225 Chastening 317 Cheap--pity 1251 Cheapest--best 111 Cheeriman--Doctor 1240 Cheese--butter 1075 Cheese--chalk 224 Chickens--count 324 Chickens--crumbs 366 Chickens--curses 371 Chickens--picking 244 Child--nurse 893 Child--train 239 Children--devil's 1013 Children--maid's 52 Children--twice 1182 Chimneys 1466 Chin--swim 1572 Chip--stock 1533 Choice--the 53 Choosers--beggars 97 Christened 687 Churchyard--fat 729 Churchyard--May 810 City--pity 1252 Civility 1117 Clasp--one hand 1189 Clay--St. David's 1382 Clergy--wit 1114 Clerk--clock 268 Cloak--religion 1350 Cloth--ale 22 Cloth--coat 278 Clothes--critics 354 Cloud--pryeth 1306 Clouting--sack 1378 Clown--doctor 437 Clown--title 1628 Coat--gay 279 Cock--crows 778 Cock's stride 1680 Coin--own 1217 Cold--soon 1468 Cold water--words 1844 Colour--horse 805 Colours--treatise 135 Colt--ragged 1328 Companion--pocket 1229 Companions 1372 Company--bad 84 Company--fit 938 Comfort 908 Comforts 248 Common life 1304 Complain--workmen 1849 Confession 305 Confidence 1311 Confine--tongue 1634 Conjure down 1335 Conquer--kindness 889 Conscience--clear 307 Conscience--guilty 735 Conscience--stomach 1536 Constant dropping 1739 Contempt 542 Contention 1578 Cook--lazy 828 Cooks--broth 1506 Cooks--devil 685 Cook-shop 1520 Cool--good words 1844 Corn--April 36 Corn--buy 369 Corn--May 1053 Corn--measure 1058 Corn-bin 207 Corpse--rain 745 Cottages--love 1003 Cough--dry 461 Cough--hid 779 Cough--love 1008 Counsel--fool 604 Counsel--glass 677 Counsel--good 702 Counsellor--best 1243 Country--rich 1365 Courage 852 Courts--love 1003 Cow gives water 74 Cow--keep 1076 Cow--kissed 962 Cow--sell 369 Cow's horn 181 Cozen--cousin 334 Craft's master 1043 Craves 410 Crosses--Thursday 1094 Crown 357 Crows--cock 1174 Crows--hen 363 Cruel--cowards 341 Crumb--musician 1127 Crust--cat 211 Cry--never 1531 Cure--care 200 Cure--prevention 1290 Cut--nose 1503 Cuts--short 1431 Cuts--tongue 1637 D Daintiness 820 Dance--chance 227 Danger--debt 401 Dangerous--delays 405 Dark night 918 Daughter--little 969 Daughter--son 1467 Day--longest 994 Daylight--truth 1671 Dead--speak 1488 Dear--wit 1816 Dearth--wet 49 Death--cough 461 Death--taxes 221 Death's blossoms 730 Death's feast--war 1715 Debt--sorrow 1471 Debt--supperless 1562 Deceit--brimmer 166 Deceit--smooth 1353 December--thunder 1613 Deed--better 116 Deed--will 1771 Deeds--words 713 Deeds--words 1833 Delays--desires 409 Depth--out of 406 Depth--out of 1573 Deserve--success 1556 Desire--deserve 408 Despair--hope 800 Desperate cures 379 Devil--chapel 256 Devil--colours 291 Devil--cooks 685 Devil--horseback 98 Devil--imp 1580 Devil--knife 944 Devil--quote 1327 Devil--truth 1672 Devil's chaplain 1716 Devil's delight 365 Devil's luck 1013 Devotion--short 822 Die--love 1006 Diet--Doctor 1240 Digests--cheese 233 Dines late 1577 Dinner--waits 1711 Discretion--valour 1697 Disparagement 530 Dispraise 1282 Distress--company 296 Divine--forgive 496 Doctor--death 399 Doctor--pay 177 Doctor--truth 1675 Dog--bone 142 Dog--Brag 153, 154, 155 Dog--foremost 619 Dog--hanging 1732 Dog--hare 787 Dog--keep 70 Dog--killing 744 Dog--living 986 Dog--sleeping 1451 Dogs--dainty 384 Dogs--little 748 Dog's tooth 1668 Doing--saying 1396 Donkey's gallop 1433 Door--poverty 1277 Doors--housekeeper 815 Dowry--great 723 Drawer's--wine 1794 Dream--courtship 333 Drink--ale 22 Drink by measure 474 Drink--eat 473 Drink--horse 808 Drinking--appetite 475 Drive--plough 1265 Drive--women 1349 Dropping--constant 308 Drowned--born 145 Drowned--wilful 1769 Drowned--wine 1792 Dry--ever 456 Dry--well 1729 Due--devil 414 Dull boy 1257 Dunghill 285 Dust--bushel 1029 E Eagles--carcase 198 Eagle's eye--surgeon 1565 Ease--honour 796 Ease--itch 863 Ease--sufferance 1558 East--rain 1329 East--too far 1644 East wind--fish 1782 East wind--man 1786 Easter--white 253 Easter day 1330 Easy chair--frugality 654 Ebb--tide 1617 Eel--hide 477 Eel--sack 780 Eggs--reason 1339 Eggs--sluts 34 Egg-shell--wit 1813 Elbow-grease 481 Ell--inch 853 End--day 994 Ends--both 190 End well 103 Enemy--faults 558 Enemy--shoots 1428 Enemy--wine 1797 England--famine 545 Englishman--house 208 Englishman--mist 1406 Enough--ask 42 Enough--word 1839 Escutcheon 137 Estate--trade 1647 Evasions--crafty 347 Evening--red 501 Evenings--clear 275 Everything--place 1254 Evil--bear 82 Evil--good 698 Evil name 510 Evil--old age 1171 Evil--root 839 Exception--rule 1374 Experience--caution 220 Extravagance 1492 Eye--picture, mind 1081 Eyes--fields 576 Eyes--hedges 775 F Face--painting 1061 Face--wind 1504 Faces--fair 533 Faces--two 1683 Fair day--praise 1284 Fairest rose 1371 Fair lady 529 Fair weather 1332 Faith--tale-bearers 1579 Fall--pride 1293 Fall--sit still 1445 Fall--standing 1517 Fast bind 551 Fast-day 100 Fast--St. Stephen 1383 Fasting 314 Father--children 249 Father--like 963 Fat--windfalls 1790 Fault--amends 304 Fault-menders 555 Fault--woo 1827 Faults--search 1707 Favour--kissing 894 Fear--cruelty 364 Feast--enough 490 Feather--birds of a 123 Feathers--fine 563 Feet--light 1775 Feet--slip 1452 Feet--warm 1721 Feet--wet 217 Fellowship 1278 Fiction--truth 1670 Fiddle 940 Fiddlers--sing 1443 Fifer--pay 573 Fifer play--fiddle 574 Fight--flourish 599 Fighting 1208 Filth--pools 1518 Find--seek 1413 Find--sure 1564 Fingers--thorns 1606 Fire--burnt child 172 Fire--frying-pan 656 Fire--hot 727 Fire--house 1144 Fire--quench 1323 Fire--ships 1425 Fire--slow 1021 Fire--smoke 1461 Fire--sticks 1526 Fire--zeal 1878 Fires--straight 356 Firmness 536 First--be not 1146 First sight 876 Five pounds 1320 Five--up at 593 Fish--all 1145 Fish--bite 1782 Fish bite best 1784 Fish--cat 217 Fish--small--venture 1700 Fish--small 1458 Fish--troubled waters 1660 Fishes--mute 1129 Fishing--best 402 Flail--November 1161 Flatter 313 Flattereth 7 Fleas--catching 756 Flies--hungry 825 Flies--large 929 Flies--law 928 Flint--coldest 290 Flock--infects 1399 Flood--fortune 1616 Flour--fancy 548 Flower--patience 1214 Flowers--May 38 Flowers in May 1746 Fodder--barley 74 Fodder--morning 1196 Folk--poor, pottage 1269 Folk--poor 1268 Folly--wealth 1736 Folly--wisdom 1804 Folly--wit is 1815 Folly--zeal 1880 Fool--beggar 94 Fool--bet 115 Fool--demands 1119 Fool--fifteen 1022 Fool--land 917 Fool--money 1100 Fool overtakes 1201 Fool--play 1258 Fool--scholar 1042 Fool's argument 1709 Fools--feasts 562 Fools--fiddlers 1443 Fools--harms 751 Fools--market 1032 Fools--merry 243 Fools--mistress 519 Fools--old 1178 Fools--tie 902 Fools--truth 242 Fools--wise 1702 Foot--bare 66 Foot--shoe 1426 Forbear 81 Forearmed 620 Forehead--mind 1081 Forelock--time 1619 Foresee--hazards 952 Forget--apt to 1298 Forget--forego 618 Forget--forgive 622 Forget wrong 1356 Forgotten--seen 1414 Forgotten vows 1708 Fortune--face 527 Fortune--good 424 Fortunes--manners 1025 Fortune--riches 1360 Fortune--pipes 381 Fortune--tide 1616 Fortune--wife 1761 Foul heart 534 Four pounds 1320 Fox--grapes 1479 Foxes--old 1179 Fray--blow 1410 Free--spend 1496 Free--thoughts 1608 Frenzy--zeal 1879 Friday--losses 1094 Friday--Sunday 639 Friday--sing 638 Friend--court 328 Friend--faults 558 Friend--in need 1138 Friend--jest 868 Friend--leave 1018 Friend--lend 943 Friend--trifle 1658 Friend--try 1676 Friend--wine 1797 Friends--adversity 6 Friends--few 891 Friends--long 1345 Friends--old 1180 Friends--packing 700 Friends--poverty 1274 Friends--prosperity 1301 Friends--purse 659 Friends--store 686 Friends--trade 1649 Friendship--window 1277 Frost--hail 736 Frost--work 1848 Frosts--May 1089 Frugality 855 Fruit--flowers 598 Fruit--forbidden 615 Fruit--September 1418 Fruit--tree 1654 G Gain--little 1205 Gain--pain 1204 Gamesters 1516 Gander--sauce 1388 Garments 146 Garner--dearth 395 Gate--creaking 349 Gate--stile 1527 Gent--title 1628 Gentleman--coat 279 Gentleness--wife 831 Giblets--alms 28 Gladness--sadness 1381 Go--send 443 God--blessing 1693 God--charity 230 God--church 256 God--church 257 God--flax 594 God--for all 504 God--friend 643 God--healeth 768 God--inches 854 God--rich 1358 God--spender 1497 God--tempers 1430 God--trust in 1666 God disposes 1023 God will send 1495 Gold--balance 60 Gold--butter 178 Gold--fetters 570 Gold--glitters 681 Gold--lead 670 Gold--spins 909 Goodness--idleness 838 Goods--care 974 Goose--alms 28 Goose--barefoot 1745 Goose--lay 1695 Goose--sauce 1388 Goose--woman 1033 Govern--thinkers 1600 Grandeur--utility 1694 Grapes--fox 1479 Grass--rain 1330 Grave--sleeping 1450 Grave--teeth 1586 Gravity--words 1836 Grief--time 1623 Griefs--marriage 1035 Grin--bachelors 51 Grinds--lower millstone 1079 Groat a year 1247 Groat--penny 1227 Groat--threepence 1610 Ground--stools 1538 H Hadland--title 1628 Hair--split 1505 Half done 104 Half of world 1850 Hand--bird 120 Hand--left 1362 Hands--master's 1049 Hands--pair 777 Hand to hand 1373 Handmaid of virtue 1093 Hang--thief 1591 Hanged--almost 27 Hanged--drowned 145 Hanged--half 738 Hanging--destiny 411 Hanging--dog 1732 Hardest work 1157 Hard upon hard 1537 Hare--breakfast 160 Hare--dog 787 Hare--run 811 Harm--music 1126 Harm--silence 1437 Harmony--sweetest 669 Harvest--August 47 Harvest--good 704 Haste--marry 1038 Haste--waste 1547 Hat--head 764 Hat--two faces 1683 Hatch--own egg 121 Hatched--chickens 237 Hatchet--tree falls 539 Hawk--hand-saw 740 Hay--April 36 Hay, corn and 1053 Hay--Easter 1330 Hay--load 91 Hay--needle 1139 Hay--doomsday 444 Hazards 952 Head--warm 1721 Head--wax 1730 Heads--two 1684 Heads differ 771 Heal--thyself 1239 Heal--wounds 1859 Health--mother of 1276 Health--Tuesday 1094 Health--wealth 1764 Hearsays 526 Heart--burst 731 Heart--grieve 525 Heart, mother's 1113 Heart--break 802 Heart--merry 1068 Heart--rues 523 Heart sick 799 Hearts ache 51 Hearts--true 572 Heat, work in 1848 Heaven--ladders 360 Heaven--lawyers 932 Heaven--marriages 1036 Heaven--time 1409 Heaven's gate 692 Hedge--neighbour 1141 Hedge--steal 1523 Heir--land 916 Hell--paved 861 Hen--moult 283 Hen crows 363 Highway--grass 721 Hill--valley 1696 Hills--clouds 273 Hind--bier 194 Hinges--gate 349 Hog--October 1167 Hold--plough 1265 Holdfast 153 Hold fast nothing 1645 Home--charity 231 Home--fool 1258 Home--muddles 1122 Home--wife 707 Home--wife--cheat 1760 Homer 1152 Honest--just 881 Honest--thunder 1614 Honest man 346 Honest man's word 1832 Honesty--age 14 Honesty--best 898 Honesty--craft 1046 Honey--bees 92 Honeycomb 1535 Honourable--old age 15 Hope--certainty 222 Hope--life 956 Horn--April 36 Horn--pig's tail 1242 Hornets--laws 928 Horse--blind 1799 Horse--born 1514 Horse--colt 1328 Horse--gift 671 Horse--passion 1212 Horse--steal 1523 Horse--stumbles 1553 Horse--tail 765 Horse--thinks 1599 Horse--want of 1713 Horse--willing 1777 Horseback--agues 19 Horseback--beggars 98 Horse-manger 545 Horse's heel 1668 Horses--wishes 1807 Host--guest 734 Host--reckons 1343 Hot--love 1009 Hot--soon--cold 1468 Hot--soon--pot 1272 Hot--strike 1548 Hounds 180 Hour--lose 1108 Hour's sleep 1449 House--fine 1144 House--thatched 1590 House--well-ordered 1752 Houses--women 680 Human--err 496 Humble--noble 1151 Hunger--work 1848 Hungry--sweet 1535 Hunters--horn 804 Hunting--trouble 1714 Hurt--afraid 13 Hurt--cry 367 Hurt--healed 767 Husband--good 1763 Husbands--roam 1122 I Ill--do 1155 Ill--doing 1160 Ill fortune 1034 Ill-luck 1014 Ill-taught 1691 Ill wed 738 Ill words--wounds 1859 Imp--devil 1580 Impression--youth 1875 Inheritance 87 Ink and pen 1225 Inscription 358 Instinct--woman's 860 Invention 1136 Iron--strike 1548 Iron Age 694 J Jack of all trades 1651 Jack--play 1257 James--Saint 803 Janiveer--grass 719 Jest--true word 1663 Jest not 856 Jewel--woman 386 Jill--Jack 865 Job--patient 1216 Job--poor 1267 Joys 1035 July--bees 91 June--corn 316 June--dripping 462 June--weather 188 Justice--clerk 262 K Kernel 344 Kettle--black 1273 Keys of the year 35 Kill--dog 1732 Kindred--poor 1268 Kindred--trade 1649 King--cat 210 King's guard 1554 King's horses 46 King's ransom 1029 Kingdom 318 Kisses--stolen 1534 Kitchen--dinner 426 Kitchen--fat 895 Kitten--laps 1173 Knife--devil 944 Knight--strongest 73 Knowledge--decreaseth 797 Knowledge--folly 1880 Knowledge--frenzy 1879 Knowledge--zeal 1878 L Labour--seek 1413 Lack--love 1000 Lad--unhappy 1687 Ladder--crosses 359 Ladders--step 912 Lade--nutshell 1164 Ladle--sceptre 1402 Lady's hand--surgeon 1565 Lamb--hung 819 Land--money 1286 Land--little 976 Lands--words 1834 Lane--long 992 Larks--lovers 1010 Last--cobbler 281 Last, be not 1146 Laugh--hearts ache 51 Law--costly 17 Law--necessity 1134 Law--possession 1271 Law--trouble 1714 Laws--lords 996 Law breakers 927 Lawyer--hide 781 Lawyer--truth 1675 Lawyer--young 438 Lazy--long 531 Lead--balance 60 Lead--butter 178 Lead--gold 670 Leaf--grave 651 Lean--sorrow 1472 Leap--look 989 Leaves--tree 1654 Leeks--lovers 1010 Leisure 833 Lenders--bad 1498 Lent--salmon 1385 Liberty--marries 1037 Lie, many a 747 Life--quiet 1326 Lifeguard, king's 1554 Life--end 1499 Light--zeal 1878 Light heart 1319 Light suppers 1563 Light work 1026 Lightning--wit 1811 Liking--life 955 Link--think 1598 Lion, dead 970 Lion, dead--dog 986 Lion's heart--surgeon 1565 Liquors--weak 977 Little and little 1460 Little--loud 531 Little strokes 1549 Live, eat to 472 Lives, nine 214 Lives on wit 1817 Load--willing horse 1777 Lock--gold 693 Loft--fruit 1418 Logs 356 London--news 326 Long lives--suppers 1563 Longest--short cuts 1431 Lordship 569 Lose--substance 1420 Lose all 717 Lose last 1780 Losses--Friday 1094 Lost--occasion 1166 Lost all 1121 Loud--little 531 Love--faith 536 Love--lordship 569 Love--quietness 1325 Love rules 1375 Love--self 1416 Love, subjects' 1554 Loves--dearly 1235 Loves not 1491 Luck, ill 847 Luck--Saturday 1094 Lurch--friend 1018 M Madness 676 Mahomet 1116 Maid--children 52 Maid--honest 707 Maids--dun 1027 Maladies--much 1059 Man--head 763 Manners--good 506 Manners--meat 1060 March--April 37 March--bridge 565 March--frosts 650 March--mists 1089 March--windy 1052 March grass 718 Mare to go 1102 Market--fool 1258 Market--rate 1030 Married--needy 1140 Married, newly 1766 Marries--son 388 Marry--bad 1040 Marry--match 1044 Master--fire 580 Master--marry 1044 Master--purse 1314 Master--trades 1651 Master-blow 1354 Master-craft 346 Master-craft 1046 Masters, good 1419 Master's--wine 1794 Maxim--good 705 May and April 35 May--beautiful 1052 May--bees 91 May--cold 1053 May--corn 316 May--frosts 650 May--frosts--mists 1089 May--hot 810 May--marry 1040 May--merry 1073 May--shear 1423 May--sows 1481 May--sun 1027 May--weather 866 May--welcome 1746 May--wind 1785 May flood 597 May flowers 38 Meal--little 158 Meal--mill 1077 Measure--strife 1546 Meat--ale 22 Meat--best 343 Meat--cooks 685 Meat--merry 1070 Meat--mouths 1118 Meat--quick 1324 Meat--sweet 1389 Meddling 476 Meet--old friends 1180 Memories 352 Memory--liar 945 Memory--wolves 1821 Men, old 422 Men--reins 1349 Mend--worst 1856 Mice--cat's away 209 Mice--catch 213 Mile--miss 1088 Mill--grind 732 Mills--clouds 273 Mind--picture 1081 Mind--sight 1436 Mind--speech 1493 Mind--think 1598 Mind--wit 1811 Minds, little--soured 977 Minds--little things 978 Minds--light 1459 Minister--hide 781 Minute too late 1641 Misfortune--watch 1725 Mist--Scotch 1406 Mole 39 Mole-hill 1115 Monday--Christmas 255 Money buys land 1834 Money--land 1286 Money--ready 1336 Money--spots 1511 Money--trade 1650 Monk--devil 419 More--much 1121 Moon 106 Morning, bit in the 128 Morning--cloudy 457 Morning, cloudy--moon 1104 Morning--fodder 1196 Morning--grey 501 Morning--law 925 Morning--study 1550 Mornings--cloudy 275 Mortals--success 1556 Moss--stone 1367 Mote--self-love 1416 Mother--daughter 389 Mother--little 969 Mother--necessity 1136 Mother--poverty 1454 Mother of money 1650 Mother's blessing 240 Mouse--cable 1620 Mouse--cat sees 212 Mouse--cat winketh 215 Mouse--drowned 455 Mouse--one hole 1190 Mouse--plough 1263 Mouth--close 269 Mouth--fishes' 589 Mouth--melt 179 Mouth--spoon 1441 Mow--early 464 Muck--riches 1359 Mud--beans 78 Mud--clear 261 Mushroom 560 N Nag 297 Nail--door 391 Nail--second 452 Nail--want of 1713 Name, good--life 1132 Name, good--riches 1130 Neighbour--evil 931 Nest--defile 842 Nettle--dock 436 Newcastle 205 News--country 326 Night--good 55 Night--law 925 Night--stumble 1551 Nine days' wonder 1826 Ninepence 1149 Nine points 1271 Nineteen--twenty 1681 No--woman's 1868 Nod--wink 1799 Noland--title 1628 Note--music 1127 Nothing--cheese 234 Nothing--children 246 Nothing--promise 1296 North--wind 1781 Nose--off 1503 Nothing--venture 1699 Nut--crack 344 Nut--sound 1478 Nuts--sluts 34 O Oak 454 Oaks--great 1549 Oats 867 Oats--St. David's 1382 Oats--wild 1767 Obey 149 Office--Jack 864 Oil, in fire 1323 Old--learn 937 Old--long 1870 Old--needy 835 Old--spare 1485 Old age 654 Old block 251 Old men--woo 1827 Old praise 1285 Old saws 1040 Old sore 1185 Old tree 1351 Old wife 1137 Old wine 1181 Old young 1870 Order 1347 Ornament--silence 1439 Ounce--mischief 1086 "Our Father" 258 Overcome 487 Owl--lantern 918 Ox--drink 450 Ox--steal 1521 Oxen--plough 1264 P Pack--own 1224 Pack--small 1223 Padlock--wedlock 1743 Pain--pride 1292 Pains--gains 661 Pains--idle 834 Pains--lazy folk 933 Paint--faces 533 Painting--face 1061 Pair--couple 327 Paradise 488 Pardons--offender 1169 Parleys--valour 1698 Parsnips--fair words 1841 Parsnips--soft words 1465 Passions--absence 1 Pasture--change of 229 Pater-noster--churches 258 Path--puddle 1307 Patrimony--diligence 423 Paul--Peter 1238 Pause--bargain 69 Pay--sorrow 1471 Pay--too dear 1756 Pay--Yorkshire 1869 Peace--war 1717 Peace--wisdom 1802 Peas--like 961 Peasant--wretch 1863 Peck--of ashes 41 Pence--care of 202 Penny--companion 298 Penny--for friend 830 Penny--shilling 1500 Perform--quick 1297 Peter--Paul 1238 Philosopher's stone 310 Physic--ague 18 Physic--plague 907 Physic--temperance 1587 Physician--defy 567 Physician--fool 606 Physician--hide 781 Physician--thanks 768 Picture--speech 1493 Pie-crusts 1299 Pig--child's 241 Pig's tail--horn 1242 Pilot--calm sea 187 Pin--steal 1522 Pinch--friend 1337 Pinches--shoe 1427 Pitchers--ears 466 Pitied--envied 493 Place--sit in 1253 Places--two 1685 Plaister--patience 1215 Plant--removed 1352 Play--cards 199 Pleasure--tax 431 Pleasure--woo 1827 Plentiful--pity 1251 Plenty--peace 1802 Poison--weed 127 Poke--pig 183 Policy--honesty 793 Poor--beg 1358 Poor--giving to 675 Poor--honour 795 Poor man's table 1576 Pope--would be 1270 Pot--ladle 911 Pot--watched 1727 Pottage--other's 1400 Pottage--poor 1269 Pottage--prettiness 1288 Pottage--sluts 1457 Pottle--hay 1139 Pound foolish 1232 Pound--in for 1230 Pound--mischief 1086 Pounds--care of 202 Pounds--pence 1226 Pours--rains 1334 Poverty--debt 400 Poverty--sloth 1454 Powder--trust 1666 Power--knowledge 904 Praise--self 1417 Precept--example 514 Prickles--thistles 1601 Pride--ingratitude 857 Prince--sword 1575 Prince--wretch 1863 Privilege--folly 1736 Prize--wife 1765 Profit--pains 1206 Promises--pity 1251 Prosperity--friends 645 Prosperity--gold 690 Proud--black and 531 Proud--cock 285 Provender--carry 807 Provident--harvests 704 Puddings--dirty 384 Pudding--end 486 Pudding--proof 1300 Pulse--world's 1854 Purse--ask thy 43 Purse--courtesy 331 Purse--empty 484 Purse--fills 1170 Purse--heavy 960 Purse--little 968 Purse--no money 1103 Purse--penny 1228 Q Quarrels--tools 1642 Quart--neighbour 1142 Quick--markets 1718 Quick--perform 1297 Quiet--Doctor 1240 R R--oysters 1202 Rain--Candlemas 192 Rain--corpse 745 Raven--starling 129 Reason--bluster 139 Reason--will 1773 Reasoning--man's 860 Rebellion--oppression 1194 Reckoning--feast 561 Reckonings--short 1432 Repent--marry 1038 Repent--trust 1665 Repentance--late 309 Rest--rain 1331 Revenge--best 621 Reversion--kingdom 318 Reward--desert 407 Ribs--birchen twigs 119 Rich--adversity 5 Rich--die 1266 Rich--fifty 741 Rich--lucky 1015 Rich--shame 795 Riches--children 245 Riches--name 1130 Rider--lost 1713 Rider--time 1625 Right--two wrongs 1864 Rise--early to 463 Rise at five 1612 Road--companion 297 Roast--small 140 Roast beef 460 Roasting--eggs 1339 Robbery--exchange 515 Robs Peter 1238 Rock--ruled by 1370 Rogues--laws 930 Rolling stone 1367 Roost--curses 371 Roots--crooked 1543 Rope enough 1591 Ropes--sand 1387 Rose--thorn 1603 Roses--thorns 1605 Ruins--youth 1099 Ruins of folly 1804 Rules--woman 1348 Runs--stumbles 1551 Rushes--good words 713 S Saddle--colt 292 Sail--Friday 640 Sail--sea 1407 Salt--advice 8 Salt of life 173 Sands--words 1834 Satins--kitchen 897 Saturday--no luck 1094 Saturday--wife 1759 Sauce--hunger 824 Save--spend 1494 Save--youth 1874 Saved--penny 1231 Saving--alchemy 21 Sawyers--top 1646 Sayings--thrifty 1611 Scarce--good men 1188 Scholar--mere 1403 Scholar--fool 1042 Scripture--quote 1327 Sea--calm 187 Sea--fish 588 Sea--lade 1164 Sea--luck 1012 Sea--pray 1287 Second nature 1692 Second thoughts 1607 Seed, good 512 Seen--seldom 1414 Send--go 443 Send--sigh 1435 Sermon--salmon 1385 Servants, good 1419 Seven--rise at 1612 Seven years 228 Shadow--crooked 355 Shadow--light 958 Shadow--sunshine 1561 Shame--devil 1672 Shame--pride 1294 Shave--hand-saw 739 Shaven--bald head 61 Sheep--buy 369 Sheep--hung 819 Sheep--scabbed 1399 Sheep--shear 1423 Sheep--shorn 1430 Shells--eggs 23 Shilling--slow 1149 Shilling--spends 1500 Ship--crazy 348 Ship--great 726 Ship--leak 936 Ship--own 197 Ship--sail 1384 Ship--stocks 877 Ship--tar 1507 Ships--November 1161 Shipwreck--complain 300 Shirt, ragged 1256 Shoe, finest 1426 Shoe fits 592 Shoe pinches 1248 Shoe, want of 1713 Shot--bolt 612 Shovel--silver 935 Shower--drops 453 Sick--devil 419 Sickness--devotion 225 Silent--man 1528 Silent--speak 1487 Silver--butter 178 Silver lining--cloud 271 Silver--white 1440 Sing--birds 1291 Sing--can 124 Sing--say 1395 Sings--Friday 638 Sin, none without 1312 Sin--sorrow 1473 Sink--leak 936 Sit--awhile 425 Sit--lowly 1011 Sit still 1445 Skin deep--beauty 88 Slander--confession 303 Slave--secret 1411 Sleep on it 1243 Sloe-tree--barley 72 Sloth--harms 910 Sloven 1457 Slow--promise 1297 Sluts, eat after 34 Smack--pepper 1233 Smell--kitchen 896 Snow--bread 544 Snow--lies 193 Snow--water 141 Soberness--conceals 459 Soft answer 1861 Soft upon soft 1537 Solomon--wife 1765 Son--like 963 Son--marries 388 Sore eye--elbow 480 Sore--store 1541 Sores--patience 1215 Sorrow--joy 875 Sorrow--lies 870 Sorrow--mirth 1084 Sorrow--time 1624 Sorrows--less 427 Soul--cleansed 317 Souls--large 972 Sour--sauce 871 Sour--sweet 1571 Sow--wrong 1865 Sow's ear--purse 1315 Spain--wine 450 Spaniel--beaten 85 Speak little 1597 Speak once--think 1596 Speak--purse 658 Speak--spare 1486 Speak--think 1595 Speak--well 1489 Speakers--dead 1241 Speed--worse 753 Spend--old 1485 Spend--spare 1486 Spending--bung-hole 1393 Spiders' webs--laws 929 Spigot--saving 1393 Spirits--raise 1335 Spite--nose 1503 Spoon--silver 1441 Spring--swallow 1567 Spur--free horse 1513 Spur--horse 806 Stable door 988 Stable door 1524 Staff--dog 83 Staggerer--lame 914 Starling--raven 129 Steed starves 720 Steed--stolen 988 Steel--tongue 1637 Steeple--bell 108 Sting you--snake 1462 Stink--bear 250 Stinking fish 1531 Stocking 167 Stolen--steed 1524 Stone--dropping 308 Stone--blood 136 Stone--rugged 1373 Stool--guest 733 Stool, own--guest 1476 Stoop for pin 1245 Storms--vows 1708 Story--re-telling 1355 Straw--drowning 449 Straw--last 919 Strength, woman's 1822 Strong--thirty 741 Strife--poverty 1275 Substance 1420 Sudden falls 265 Summer--chimneys 1466 Summer--good 1800 Summer--swallow 1566 Sun--bride 745 Sun--clouds 272 Sun--hay 762 Sun--light 959 Sun--morning 1109 Sun riseth 325 Sunday--Friday 639 Sunday--weep 638 Sunday--wife 1759 Sundays--two 1686 Sun shines--moon 1106 Sunshine--stars 1519 Supper, after 425 Supper--hope 801 Supperless--bed 1562 Sure card 307 Surely--softly 1464 Sweet--taste 1583 Sweetest water 1753 Swim--depth 406 Swine--pearls 1221 Swine--turned 1679 Swing--youth 1876 Swords--words 1835 T Tail--salt 1386 Tale--tell 394 Talk--good 696 Talk--nurse 1163 Talks--tongue 1638 Tame Shrew 1434 Tame--wedding 1742 Tar--ship 1507 Tarry--tide 1622 Taste--kitchen 896 Tax--disease 431 Taxes--death 221 Teaching--child 161 Teeth--aching 4 Teeth--tongue 1635 Teeth--wolves 1821 Temper--tongue 1633 Tempers--God 1430 Tenant--bad 482 Tenants--ill 4 Texts--proverbs 1304 Thief of time 1295 Thief--opportunity 1192 Thief--receiver 1340 Thief--receivers 1341 Thief--thunder 1614 Think--live 1598 Thinks--says 1397 Thirty years 606 Thistles--brain 157 Thistles--harvest 752 Thorn--cuckoo 369 Thorns--barefoot 65 Thorns--dancing 382 Thread--draw 448 Thread--breaketh 1735 Three women 1033 Thrift--ruin 1501 Thrive--up at five 593 Thrive--plant 1352 Thrive--wive 1818 Thrown--wrestle 1862 Throws--horse 1361 Thrushes--beggars 1808 Thunder-bolt--pryeth 1306 Thursday--crosses 1094 Tide--tarry 1622 Timber--split 716 Time for study 1550 Time--season 1409 Time--sorrow 1474 Time--stitch 1532 Times--fault 553 Toil--pleasure 1261 Toilers--thinkers 1600 Toll--market 1031 Toll--talking 1582 Tom--play 1256 Tongue--shorter 468 Tongue--knot 901 Tongue--nurse's 1163 Tongue--slip 1452 Tongue speaketh 770 Tongue--strength 1822 Too late--advice 11 Too late--never 1064 Tools--edged 476 Tools--workmen 1849 Toothache--music 1125 Touchstone--love 1002 Trade--two of a 16 Trash--beggary 99 Tread on worm 1855 Treasurer--God 1497 Tree--crooked 355 Tree--falls 539 Tree--fruit 652 Trees--straight 1543 Trials--present 1346 Tricks--old dog 1176 Tries--time 1626 Trifles--troubles 1661 Trouble--bagpipe 57 Trouble--company in 295 Trouble--hunting 1714 Troubles--company 296 Troubles--dowry 723 Trough--own 1480 Trumpery--beggary 99 Trumpet--own 1283 Truss up wit 1813 Trust--speak fair 1491 Trust--try 1676 Trust not--water 1528 Truth--drunken folk 458 Truth--evasions 347 Truth--fools 242 Truth--libel 947 Truth--old saws 1184 Try--trust 1665 Tuesday--health 1094 Turncoat--wine 1797 Twig--bend 109 Twig--tree 110 Tyrant--cruelty 364 U Unbidden guest 1476 Unkindness--cut 377 Unmissed--unknown 1689 Use--keep 882 Use--nature 1692 V Valour--stratagem 1544 Venice Glass 351 Vessels--empty 485 Virtue--modesty 1093 Virtue--necessity 1135 Virtue's colour 138 Virtue--touchstone 1002 W Wait--world 1851 Walk a mile 425 Walk--sun 1730 Wall--weakest 1734 Walls--ears 467 Walnut tree 85 Waste, wilful 1724 Want--strife 1547 Want, woeful 1724 Want not 1723 Ware--pleasing 1260 Ware--sell 1030 Washing--crow 362 Washing--face 1061 Waste--haste 755 Waste--spend 1496 Waste--want 1547 Water--cat 1401 Water--deepest 402 Water--drink 450 Water--famine 544 Water--fire 580 Water--wine 1792 Waters--deep 726 Waters--still 1530 Waters--troubled 591 Way--will 1776 Wealth--contentment 315 Wealth--marries 1037 Wealth--wife 1764 Wealth--Monday 1094 Wealthy--wise 1805 Weapon--wit 1814 Weary--well-doing 1751 Weather--bad 1470 Weather--calm 879 Weather--fair 1740 Weather--rainy 880 Weather--thunder 1613 Weather--wind 1789 Wedded life 76 Wedlock--wake 333 Wednesday--best day 1094 Weed--poison 127 Weeds--words 1833 Weight--strife 1546 Weights--words 1836 Well done--once 1187 Well--dry 1729 Well--truth 1669 Weep--Sunday 638 Weeping Cross 998 Wet--mist 1406 Whale--sprat 1512 Wickedness--woe 1819 Wife--bier 194 Wife--gentle 831 Wife--grumbles 1553 Wife--good terms 1536 Wife--key 885 Wife, little 976 Wife, one good 1762 Wife--son 1467 Wiles, caught by 1768 Will--way 1731 Will--lean 895 Will, woman's 1825 Win--laugh 921 Wind--against 1504 Wind--puff not 1308 Wind--sheep 1430 Wind--south [fishing] 589 Wind--words 1838 Window 1277 Winds--contrary 348 Winds--high 783 Winds--March 38 Winds--rain 688 Wine--barrel 75 Wine--counsels 320 Wine--old 1180 Wings--covers me 336 Wings--flying 600 Winter--Candlemas 192 Winter--green 729 Winter--warm 1720 Winter--woodcock, one 1828 Winter--woodcock 1567 Winter wind 1082 Wisdom--husband 831 Wisdom--age 905 Wise--adversity 5 Wise--some 1197 Wise--word enough 1839 Wise--forty 741 Wise--himself 785 Wise--lucky 1016 Wise--merry 1069 Wise--penny 1232 Wise--twice 1682 Wise folk 611 Wishers and woulders 814 Wist, had I 117 Wit--brevity 163 Wit, mother 1114 Wit, need of 673 Wit--pound of 430 Wit--sloth 1453 Wit is out 1796 Wit's plough 1225 Wiving--counsel 321 Wiving--destiny 411 Woe--angry men 31 Woe--hasty men 757 Woe--wilful man 1770 Wolf--growing youth 1873 Woman--beaten 85 Woman--fair 386 Woman--head 763 Woman--rules 1348 Woman--silence 1439 Woman--tongue 1639 Woman--weep 1745 Woman's mind 1082 Woman's tongue 913 Woman's work 1823 Woman's yes 1868 Women--discreet 429 Women--drive 1349 Women--England 488 Women--glasses 680 Women--turned 1679 Women--words 1837 Wood--beans 78 Wood--old 1180 Wood--out of 791 Wood--trees 1657 Woodcock--winter 1567, 1828 Woodcock's thigh 1211 Woods--ears 576 Wool--little 368 Wool--shaving 1422 Word--true 1663 Words--leaves 403 Words--soft 1465 Words--wranglers 1860 Words swim 1793 Work--all 1257 Work--play 1256 Work--quick 1324 Work--slavery 1448 Work--woman's 1823 Workman--bad 1642 Workman--tools 1643 Work on 470 Workshops--devil's 832 World--enjoys it 714 World--fashion 550 World's end 872 Worm--bird 465 Worth--spend 1499 Worth--want 1712 Worthy--parents 1210 Wound--green 728 Wound--words 1835 Wound--evil 510 Wounds--afraid of 12 Wrinkled--faces 1321 Wrinkles--purse 483 Wrong--forget 1356 Wrong--losers 997 Y Young--idle 835 Young--spare 1485 Young men--die 422 Young men--woo 1827 Youth--follies 601 Youth--money 1099 Youth--old age 1171 Youth--reckless 1342 Youth--save 1390 Youth--time 1625 THE END. A DICTIONARY OF DAILY BLUNDERS. _Containing a Collection of Mistakes often made in Speaking and Writing._ CORRECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, AND ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY THE AUTHOR OF 'A HANDY BOOK OF SYNONYMS,' 'A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PROVERBS,' ETC. ETC. Price 1s. cloth; 1s. 6d. half-bound in leather, red edges. EXTRACTS FROM OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Useful knowledge. . . . Invaluable alike as desk or pocket companion. . . . Treats of the multitude of errors daily made in speaking and writing, and offers corrections collected from the best authorities. Its dictionary form enables any one in doubt to readily turn to the word required. . . . Its value and necessity are unquestionable.--_Morning Post._ A dictionary has just been published, enumerating the common blunders of speech and writing, which are constantly perpetrated. Such a work seems, at first sight, a very formidable undertaking, and the complete mastery of its text promises many a wretched quarter of an hour to those on whom its valuable information is inflicted. . . . There are some mistakes which appear to be ineradicable, and will not be corrected, even if the Blunder Dictionary arrives at its thousandth edition. . . . Next to the slave who attended a Roman Emperor in triumph to remind him that he was mortal . . . surely the object most to be dreaded is the editor of a Dictionary of Blunders, arranged on such a complete and systematic plan, as to form a court of appeal to which every household can be conveniently referred. . . . The volume is actually published, and contains 126 closely printed pages, containing examples of errors that are to be found in the daily speech even of well-educated persons. . . . The Editor is to be thanked for his useful book.--_Daily Telegraph._ Pleasantly written. . . . In its dimensions it is handy, and the utility of its contents is beyond question. The legion of "self-educated" men who adorn our age should not be without this useful companion, for, by its aid, the blunders of speech more particularly common to them would be advantageously avoided.--_Citizen._ So far as we can discover from a brief perusal of the handy little volume, the author's work has been very well done.--_AthenA|um._ A well-meant attempt to keep people clear of some common errors. . . . There is certainly evidence enough, of one kind or another, in the volume before us, of the existence of blunders which could hardly have been suspected.--_Saturday Review._ Beautifully printed. . . . may be confidently recommended to those for whose use it is designed.--_Manchester Guardian._ . . . Of value, and worth knowing. . . . Amusing, and to an extent, useful also.--_Dublin Freeman's Journal._ Will be found useful and amusing. . . . It is arranged alphabetically, and contains a considerable vocabulary of words supposed to present a difficulty either in spelling, meaning, or pronunciation. Some of the comments on popular mistakes are very well done.--_Record._ Those who are not quite sure as to their grammar, their pronunciation, or their spelling, will doubtless find this pocket volume very useful.--_Sunday Times._ Will be of use to every one who has either to speak or to write. As this embraces all mankind, the book may be said to be of value to everybody. Very neatly got up.--_Scotsman._ A glance through the pages of this book is very amusing, almost as entertaining as a selection of wit and humour would be. There is no doubt as to the general accuracy and usefulness of the corrections. . . . . We heartily recommend the Dictionary.--_Liverpool Albion._ Corrected from the best authorities and arranged in alphabetical order. . . . The student can turn readily to the remarks made upon any particular mistake.--_Dublin Evening Mail._ A useful aid to correct speech.--_Literary World._ The value of a book is not always to be reckoned by its size. This little dictionary would go into the waistcoat pocket, yet every word in it has its value, and the common mistakes in speaking and writing which it undertakes to correct are nearly always put right in the best way. In a few instances in which we are inclined to criticise, a conflict of opinion among the authorities would probably be found to exist.--_Bookseller._ A manual such as this will not be out of place at the right hand of all who desire not to blunder.--_Dundee Advertiser._ An excellent little book, which cannot be too well known or too widely circulated. We know a large number of persons who would preserve themselves from perpetrating the most unfortunate blunders if they would carefully consult it.--_Christian World._ The compiler of _A Dictionary of Daily Blunders_ at least deserves credit for an excellent idea. . . . Even the most practised speaker or writer is liable to momentary uncertainty about simple points of pronunciation or spelling--not to say construction of sentences. . . . Contains some good material. . . . A useful feature of the book is the publication in full of participles, in the spelling of which a writer is often apt to get confused, and which are rarely included in dictionaries.--_Nottingham Guardian._ Evidently at great pains, the author of this useful handbook has brought together a large number of blunders which are heard often in speaking and seen in writing. We have gone rather minutely over the work, and can say that the corrections are nearly all just. . . . The book will be useful to many, and the reader will be surprised to find in what a great number of instances he is wrong in the usage and pronunciation of words. We recommend this handbook heartily.--_Dundee Courier._ We can speak highly of this publication. . . . A credit to the publishers, and we have little doubt will have a very large circulation.--_Wigan Observer._ The selection has been very judiciously made. One must be a remarkably faultless speaker and writer who does not get several useful hints from this booklet.--_Aberdeen Journal._ . . . There is in this small volume a good deal of really useful matter, and many readers (especially among those who are also writers) might derive more benefit from its study than would by themselves be imagined.--_Exchange._ _Excerpts from the Press Notices of Familiar Latin Quotations and Proverbs._ A translation of the Latin phrases which are of most common use in the literature of the day, which is likely to be useful.--_The Echo._ In a cheap and handy little volume we have here a large selection of Latin phrases, proverbs, and quotations. It is ample in all respects, and is likely to be of great and general utility.--_Sunday Times._ To newspaper men, public speakers, and correspondents in every direction, this little "Vade mecum" will prove most useful.--_News-Vendor._ The English translations are given as literally as possible, and they frequently embrace all the most generally accepted renderings. So far as we have been able to detect, the book has been carefully edited by a competent and capable writer.--_Railway Fly-Sheet._ A small work of reference such as has been greatly needed. We recommend it especially to all readers who want to understand what they read, and do not know Latin, and to all writers who want to seem more learned than they are.--_Civil Service Review._ A very handy selection of "Familiar Latin Quotations and Proverbs," of which not only translations but also explanations are given. We confidently recommend this little book.--_Printers' Register._ A very handy little book. It contains, arranged in alphabetical order, all the most common Latin quotations with their signification, and many which are not so well known. The author has been careful in doing his work, and has produced a really good little book of reference.--_Scotsman._ To those whose classical education has been wholly neglected the work will be found to be a suitable "Vade mecum," and even to those who learnt a good deal of Latin at school it will be found to be highly useful.--_North British Advertiser._ It is a most admirable compilation. We can heartily recommend it as a book of reference, and from which most genuine instruction can be extracted.--_Glasgow Citizen._ In this handy little book the compiler has collected the Latin quotations which occur most frequently in the serial literature of the day, arranging them alphabetically along with translations. This is truly a "handy referential volume," and deserving of a large sale.--_Edinburgh Courant._ A very useful little work which will be invaluable to the reader whose studies have not included the classic languages. In the space of 120 pages are compressed no fewer than fifteen hundred Latin words, phrases, and proverbs, frequently met with in newspapers, political or philosophical works, law books, etc. We have looked over the book carefully, and tested it by searching for less usual quotations; but in every case we have found what we sought. Each phrase is rendered as literally as the construction of the English and Latin languages will admit; and where necessary a paraphrase or explanation is appended in addition.--_Irish Times._ _FAMILIAR ENGLISH QUOTATIONS._ The object of this little volume is to trace the Familiar Quotations so constantly in use to their proper authorship, and to correct the errors so frequently made by public speakers and writers. The origin of such everyday sayings as "He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day," (erroneously supposed to be in Butler's "Hudibras,") and a number of other phrases of a like character, is given, and the _exact place_ of them in the different authors' works is recorded. The errors constantly made in quoting are remarkable. The author of an interesting volume, comprising many well-known passages, names "Hudibras" as containing the lines "They that in quarrels interpose, Will often wipe a bloody nose." In an essay on "Misquotations," which recently appeared in a very ably conducted newspaper, the object of the writer being to _correct_ the blunders constantly made, he falls into the usual mistake of quoting Nat. Lee as writing "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war," and a learned and eminent divine, a certain Dr. B., some years ago, in the presence of a large party, obstinately insisted that "A man convinced against his will" was a correct passage from "Hudibras," and was only satisfied as to his blunder by the production of Butler's immortal work. Even so accomplished a scholar as Mr. Gladstone--_quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus_--errs; in a recently published number of the _Nineteenth Century_, quoting Byron's words, "The bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony," he names them as occurring in "Childe Harold," instead of in "Don Juan." LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES The following corrections have been made to the text: Page ii: 2. FAMILIAR FRENCH QUOTATIONS & PROVERBS.[period missing in original] Page 9: Bread and butter are glad to eat.[period missing in original] Page 26: 445.[period missing in original] DOOR. When one door shuts another opens. Page 45: HONOUR. Better[original has Bettter] poor with honour Page 62: 1099. MONEY. The abundance of money ruins youth.[period missing in original] Page 64: 1135. NECESSITY. Make a virtue of necessity.[period missing in original] Page 74: so crows the young.[period missing in original] Index entries were changed to match the spelling and hyphenation in the main text. Proverb numbers were corrected when necessary. 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