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hoke ne by croke.[8:5]

Colyn Cloute. Line 1240.

The wolfe from the dore.

Colyn Cloute. Line 1531.

Old proverbe says,

That byrd ys not honest

That fyleth hys owne nest.[8:6]

Poems against Garnesche.

Footnotes

[8:1] He that spareth the rod hateth his son.—Proverbs xiii. 24.

They spare the rod and spoyl the child.—Ralph Venning: Mysteries and Revelations (second ed.), p. 5. 1649.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.—Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. c. i. l. 843.

[8:2] Rule the rost.—Heywood: Proverbes, part i. chap. v.

Her that ruled the rost.—Thomas Heywood: History of Women.

Rules the roast.—Jonson, Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act ii. sc. 1. Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1.

[8:3] In spite of my teeth.—Middleton: A Trick to catch the Old One, act i. sc. 2. Fielding: Eurydice Hissed.

[8:4] He knew what 's what.—Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 149.

[8:5] In hope her to attain by hook or crook.—Spenser: Faerie Queene, book iii. canto i. st. 17.

[8:6] It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.—Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. v.

JOHN HEYWOOD.[8:7]  Circa 1565.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,

As sages in all times assert;

The happy man 's without a shirt.

Be Merry Friends.

[9]

Let the world slide,[9:1] let the world go;

A fig for care, and a fig for woe!

If I can't pay, why I can owe,

And death makes equal the high and low.

Be Merry Friends.

All a green willow, willow,

All a green willow is my garland.

The Green Willow.

Haste maketh waste.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.

Beware of, Had I wist.[9:2]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.

Good to be merie and wise.[9:3]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.

Beaten with his owne rod.[9:4]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.

Look ere ye leape.[9:5]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.

He that will not when he may,

When he would he shall have nay.[9:6]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

The fat is in the fire.[9:7]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

[10]

When the sunne shineth, make hay.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

When the iron is hot, strike.[10:1]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

The tide tarrieth no man.[10:2]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde.[10:3]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush,

There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.[10:4]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.[10:5]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

So many heads so many wits.[10:6]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

Wedding is destiny,

And hanging likewise.[10:7]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

[11]

Happy man, happy dole.[11:1]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

Like will to like.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

When the skie falth we shall have Larkes.[11:2]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

More frayd then hurt.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.[11:3]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

Nothing is impossible to a willing hart.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

Let the world wagge,[11:4] and take mine ease in myne Inne.[11:5]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

Rule the rost.[11:6]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

Hold their noses to grinstone.[11:7]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

Better to give then to take.[11:8]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

When all candles bee out, all cats be gray.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.[11:9]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

[12]

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.[12:1]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vi.

A sleveless errand.[12:2]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vii.

We both be at our wittes end.[12:3]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.

Reckeners without their host must recken twice.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.

A day after the faire.[12:4]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.

Cut my cote after my cloth.[12:5]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.

The neer to the church, the further from God.[12:6]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

Better is to bow then breake.[12:7]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.[12:8]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

Two heads are better then one.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

A short horse is soone currid.[12:9]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

To tell tales out of schoole.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

To hold with the hare and run with the hound.[12:10]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

[13]

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.[13:1]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

All is well that endes well.[13:2]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.[13:3]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Shee had seene far in a milstone.[13:4]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Better late than never.[13:5]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.[13:6]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Pryde will have a fall;

For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.[13:7]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.[13:8]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

The still sowe eats up all the draffe.[13:9]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Ill weede growth fast.[13:10]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

[14]

It is a deere collop

That is cut out of th' owne flesh.[14:1]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Beggars should be no choosers.[14:2]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.[14:3]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.[14:4]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

To robbe Peter and pay Poule.[14:5]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

A man may well bring a horse to the water,

But he cannot make him drinke without he will.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.[14:6]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.[14:7]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.[14:8]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

[15]

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.[15:1]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Rome was not built in one day.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Yee have many strings to your bowe.[15:2]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Many small make a great.[15:3]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Nought venter nought have.[15:4]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Children and fooles cannot lye.[15:5]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Set all at sixe and seven.[15:6]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

All is fish that comth to net.[15:7]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?[15:8]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

One good turne asketh another.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

By hooke or crooke.[15:9]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

[16]

She frieth in her owne grease.[16:1]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

I pray thee let me and my fellow have

A haire of the dog that bit us last night.[16:2]

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

But in deede,

A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.[16:3]

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.

New brome swepth cleene.[16:4]

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.

All thing is the woorse for the wearing.

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.

Burnt child fire dredth.[16:5]

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.

All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.[16:6]

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.

Love me litle, love me long.[16:7]

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.

A fooles bolt is soone shot.[16:8]

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iii.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.[16:9]

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.

A peny for your thought.[16:10]

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.

[17]

You stand in your owne light.

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.

Though

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