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[13:3]
Who that well his warke beginneth,
The rather a good ende he winneth.
Gower: Confessio Amantis.
[13:4] Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 288.
[13:5] Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, An Habitation Enforced. Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress. Mathew Henry: Commentaries, Matthew xxi. Murphy: The School for Guardians.
Potius sero quam nunquam (Rather late than never).—Livy: iv. ii. 11.
[13:6] Quant le cheval est emblé dounke ferme fols l'estable (When the horse has been stolen, the fool shuts the stable).—Les Proverbes del Vilain.
[13:7] Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.—Proverbs xvi. 18.
Pryde goeth before, and shame cometh behynde.—Treatise of a Gallant. Circa 1510.
[13:8] She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth.—Swift: Polite Conversation.
[13:9] 'T is old, but true, still swine eat all the draff.—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, act iv. sc. 2.
[13:10] Ewyl weed ys sone y-growe.—MS. Harleian, circa 1490.
An ill weed grows apace.—Chapman: An Humorous Day's Mirth.
Great weeds do grow apace.—Shakespeare: Richard III. act ii. sc. 4. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Coxcomb, act iv. sc. 4.
[14:1] God knows thou art a collop of my flesh.—Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI. act v. sc. 4.
[14:2] Beggars must be no choosers.—Beaumont and Fletcher: The Scornful Lady, act v. sc. 3.
[14:3] Þet coc is kene on his owne mixenne.—Þe Ancren Riwle. Circa 1250.
[14:4] The stone that is rolling can gather no moss.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 524. Gosson: Ephemerides of Phialo. Marston: The Fawn.
Pierre volage ne queult mousse (A rolling stone gathers no moss).—De l'hermite qui se désespéra pour le larron que ala en paradis avant que lui, 13th century.
[14:5] To rob Peter and pay Paul is said to have derived its origin when, in the reign of Edward VI., the lands of St. Peter at Westminster were appropriated to raise money for the repair of St. Paul's in London.
[14:6]
You know that love
Will creep in service when it cannot go.
Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. sc. 2.
[14:7] Shakespeare alludes to this proverb in Macbeth:—
Letting I dare not wait upon I would,
Like the poor cat i' the adage.
Cat lufat visch, ac he nele his feth wete.—MS. Trinity College, Cambridge, circa 1250.
[14:8] Whylst grass doth grow, oft sterves the seely steede.—Whetstone: Promos and Cassandra. 1578.
While the grass grows—
The proverb is something musty.
Shakespeare: Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4.
[15:1] An earlier instance occurs in Heywood, in his "Dialogue on Wit and Folly," circa 1530.
[15:2] Two strings to his bow.—Hooker: Polity, book v. chap. lxxx. Chapman: D'Ambois, act ii. sc. 3. Butler: Hudibras, part iii. canto i. line 1. Churchill: The Ghost, book iv. Fielding: Love in Several Masques, sc. 13.
[15:3] See Chaucer, page 5.
[15:4] Naught venture naught have.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October Abstract.
[15:5] 'T is an old saw, Children and fooles speake true.—Lyly: Endymion.
[15:6] Set all on sex and seven.—Chaucer: Troilus and Cresseide, book iv. line 623; also Towneley Mysteries.
At six and seven.—Shakespeare: Richard II. act ii. sc. 2.
[15:7] All 's fish they get that cometh to net.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. February Abstract.
Where all is fish that cometh to net.—Gascoigne: Steele Glas. 1575.
[15:8] Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
[15:9] This phrase derives its origin from the custom of certain manors where tenants are authorized to take fire-bote by hook or by crook; that is, so much of the underwood as many be cut with a crook, and so much of the loose timber as may be collected from the boughs by means of a hook. One of the earliest citations of this proverb occurs in John Wycliffe's Controversial Tracts, circa 1370.—See Skelton, page 8. Rabelais: book v. chap. xiii. Du Bartas: The Map of Man. Spenser: Faerie Queene, book iii. canto i. st. 17. Beaumont and Fletcher: Women Pleased, act. i. sc. 3.
[16:1] See Chaucer, page 3.
[16:2] In old receipt books we find it invariably advised that an inebriate should drink sparingly in the morning some of the same liquor which he had drunk to excess over-night.
[16:3] See Chaucer, page 6.
[16:4] Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleane—Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 89.
[16:5]
Brend child fur dredth,
Quoth Hendyng.
Proverbs of Hendyng. MSS.
A burnt child dreadeth the fire.—Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 319.
[16:6] You do not speak gospel.—Rabelais: book i. chap. xiii.
[16:7] Marlowe: Jew of Malta, act iv. sc. 6. Bacon: Formularies.
[16:8] Sottes bolt is sone shote.—Proverbs of Hendyng. MSS.
[16:9] It has been the Providence of Nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.—Pilpay: The Greedy and Ambitious Cat, fable iii. b. c.
[16:10] Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 80.
[17:1] Pryde and Abuse of Women. 1550. The Marriage of True Wit and Science. Butler: Hudibras, part ii. canto i. line 698. Fielding: The Grub Street Opera, act ii. sc. 4. Prior: Epilogue to Lucius.
Lord Macaulay (History of England, vol. i. chap. iii.) thinks that this proverb originated in the preference generally given to the gray mares of Flanders over the finest coach-horses of England. Macaulay, however, is writing of the latter half of the seventeenth century, while the proverb was used a century earlier.
[17:2] See Chaucer, page 6.
Two may keep counsel when the third 's away.—Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, act iv. sc. 2.
[17:3] Pitchers have ears.—Shakespeare: Richard III. act ii. sc. 4.
[17:4] See Chaucer, page 3.
[17:5] Thou shalt come out of a warme sunne into Gods blessing.—Lyly: Euphues.
Thou out of Heaven's benediction comest
To the warm sun.
Shakespeare: Lear, act ii. sc. 2.
[17:6] Ther can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.—Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 153.
[17:7] One swallowe prouveth not that summer is neare.—Northbrooke: Treatise against Dancing. 1577.
[17:8] See Chaucer, page 2.
[18:1] See Skelton, page 8.
[18:2] I have thee on the hip.—Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1; Othello, act ii. sc. 7.
[18:3] See Chaucer, page 4.
[18:4]
A hardy mouse that is bold to breede
In cattis eeris.
Order of Foles. MS. circa 1450.
[18:5] The same in Don Quixote (Lockhart's ed.), part i. book iii. chap. iv. Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress. Fletcher: The Wild-Goose Chase, act iv. sc. 3.
[18:6] Time trieth truth.—Tottel's Miscellany, reprint 1867, p. 221.
Time tries the troth in everything.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Author's Epistle, chap. i.
[18:7] I saye, thou madde March hare.—Skelton: Replycation against certayne yong scolers.
[18:8]
More water glideth by the mill
Than wots the miller of.
Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, act ii. sc. 7.
[18:9] An earlier instance of this proverb occurs in Heywood's Johan the Husbande. 1533.
He must needs go whom the devil drives.—Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 3. Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iv. chap. iv. Gosson: Ephemerides of Phialo. Peele: Edward I.
[18:10] Others set carts before the horses.—Rabelais: book v. chap. xxii.
[19:1] Gascoigne: Roses, 1575. Title of a Book of Epigrams, 1608. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Scornful Lady, act i. sc. 1; The Sea Voyage, act i. sc. 2.
[19:2] To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast.—Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act iv. sc. 2.
[19:3]
Be the day short or never so long,
At length it ringeth to even song.
Quoted at the Stake by George Tankerfield (1555).
Fox: Book of Martyrs, chap. vii. p. 346.
[19:4] Jack Jugler, p. 46. Rabelais: book i. chap. xi. Blackloch: Hatchet of Heresies, 1565. Butler: Hudibras, part ii. canto iii. line 263.
[19:5] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.—Pilpay: The Two Fishermen, fable xiv.
It will never out of the flesh that 's bred in the bone.—Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, act i. sc. 1.
[19:6] None so deaf as those that will not hear.—Mathew Henry: Commentaries. Psalm lviii.
[19:7] He has the wrong sow by the ear.—Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, act ii. sc. 1.
[19:8] See Chaucer, page 6.
[19:9] Chapman: Widow's Tears, 1612.
A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard was, Qui me amat, amet et canem meum (Who loves me will love my dog also).—Sermo Primus.
THOMAS TUSSER. Circa 1515-1580.God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.[20:8]
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind turns none to good.
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. A Description of the Properties of Wind.
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. The Farmer's Daily Diet.
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Such, mistress, such Nan,
Such master, such man.[21:1]
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. April's Abstract.
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. June's Abstract.
'T is merry in hall
Where beards wag all.[21:2]
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. August's Abstract.
Naught venture naught have.[21:3]
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October's Abstract.
Dry sun, dry wind;
Safe bind,
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