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Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.

Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

The Law is not the same at morning and at night.

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

The hole calls the thiefe.
[The hole calls the thief.]

Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.

The chiefe boxe of health is time.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before.

He that chastens one, chastens 20.

The body is more drest then the soule.

A hatt is not made for one shower.

A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

Ships feare fire more then water.
[Ships fear fire more than water.]

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.

Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.

He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]

Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.
[Justice pleases few in their own house.]

The eye will have his part.

Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.

The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.

The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.

I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.

After so many deaths I live and write;

There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.

Pardon all but thy selfe.
[Pardon all but thyself.]

Weening is not measure.

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.

A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
[A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.

Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

Everyone is a master and servant.

Castles are Forrests of stones.

There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.

Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

Buy at a faire, but sell at home.
[Buy at a fair, but sell at home.]

To a child all weather is cold.

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.

It's more paine to doe nothing then something.

Every bees hony is sweet.

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

The reasons of the poore weigh not.
[The reasons of the poor weigh not.]

He that serves well needes not ask his wages.

To a boiling pot flies come not.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

Hast comes not alone.

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
[The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

Evening words are not like to morning.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

Spend not on hopes.

When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.

The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.

A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish.
[I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

The great put the little on the hooke.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

Pension never inriched young man.
[Pension never enriched a young man.]

He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.

Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

He that measures not himselfe, is measured.

Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.

The absent partie is still faultie.

Nothing lasts but the Church.

He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.

Feare, the Bedle of the Law.

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]