Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi

Ibid.

She frieth in her owne grease.1

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night."

Ibid.

But in deede,

A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.

Ibid.

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

All is not Gospell that thou doest speake."

Ibid.

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.

8 See Chaucer, page 6.

4 Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleane-LYLY: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 89.

5 Brend child fur dredth,

Quoth Hendyng.

Proverbs of Hendyng. MSS.

A burnt child dreadeth the fire. - LYLY: Euphues (Arber's reprint),

p. 319.

6 You do not speak gospel. — RABELAIS: book i. chap. xiii.

7 MARLOWE: Jew of Malta, act iv. sc. 6.

8 Sottes bolt is sone shote.

BACON Formularies.
Proverbs of Hendyng. MSS.

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.

10 LYLY: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 80.

B. C.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.*

Ibid.

Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne."

Ibid.

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.

2 See Chaucer, page 6.

Two may keep counsel when the third 's away. Titus Andronicus, act iv. sc. 2.

SHAKESPEARE: Richard III. act ii. sc. 4.

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.

Ther can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. - LYLY: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 153.

7 One swallowe prouveth not that summer is neare. Treatise against Dancing. 1577.

• See Chaucer, page 2.

- NORTHBROOKE:

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.1

Have

yee him on the hip.2

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.

Ibid.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill."

Ibid.

It had need to bee

A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.1

Ibid

He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive."

Set the cart before the horse.10

1 See Skelton, page 8.

Ibid.

Chap. vii.

Ibid.

2 I have thee on the hip. - SHAKESPEARE: Merchant of Venice, act iv.

sc. 1; Othello, act ii. sc. 7.

8 See Chaucer, page 4.

4 A hardy mouse that is bold to breede

In cattis eeris.

Order of Foles. MS. circa 1450.

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.

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.

7 I saye, thou madde March hare. - SKELTON: Replycation against certayne yong scolers.

8 More water glideth by the mill

Than wots the miller of.

SHAKESPEARE: Titus Andronicus, act ii. sc. 7. 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.

10 Others set carts before the horses.

RABELAIS book v. chap. xxii.

The moe the merrier.1

Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.

Ibid.

To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.2

It is better to be

An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

Be the day never so long,

Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

Ibid.

Ibid.

The moone is made of a greene cheese.*

Ibid.

I know on which side my bread is buttred.

Ibid.

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.5

Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother."

Ibid.

Love me, love

my dog.

9

Ibid.

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.

2 To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast.-SHAKESPEARE: 2 Henry IV. act iv. sc. 2.

3 Be the day short or never so long,

At length it ringeth to even song.

4 Jack Jugler, p. 46.

Quoted at the Stake by George Tankerfield (1555). Fox: Book of Martyrs, chap. vii. p. 346. RABELAIS book i. chap. xi. BLACKLOCH : BUTLER: Hudibras, part ii. canto iii. line 263. 5 What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. - PILPAY: The Two Fishermen, fable xiv.

Hatchet of Heresies, 1565.

It will never out of the flesh that 's bred in the bone. - JONSON: Every Man in his Humour, act i. sc. 1.

• None so deaf as those that will not hear.-MATHEW HENRY: Commentaries. Psalm lviii.

7 He has the wrong sow by the ear.-JONSON: Every Man in his Humour, act ii. sc. 1.

8 See Chaucer, page 6.

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.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.1

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.2
Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake? 3

Ibid.

Ibid.

Every man for himselfe and God for us all.4

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke."

This hitteth the naile on the hed."

Enough is as good as a feast."

THOMAS TUSSER.

Circa 1515-1580.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Chap. xi.

Ibid.

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind turns none to good.

A Description of the Properties of Wind.

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

The Farmer's Daily Diet.

1 Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
Pistol Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.

SHAKESPEARE: 2 Henry IV. act v. sc. 3.

2 Give an inch, he 'll take an ell. - WEBSTER: Sir Thomas Wyatt. 8 Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? HERBERT: The Size. 4 Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all. - Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. i. mem. iii.

5 For buying or selling of pig in a poke. -TUSSER: Five Hundred

Points of Good Husbandry. September Abstract.

6 You have there hit the nail on the head. - RABELAIS: bk. iii. ch. xxxi. Dives and Pauper, 1493. GASCOIGNE: Poesies, 1575. POPE: Horace, book i. Ep. vii, line 24. FIELDING: Covent Garden Tragedy, act v. sc. 1. BICKERSTAFF: Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1.

8 God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. JOHN TAYLOR: Works vol. ii. p. 85 (1630). RAY: Proverbs. GARRICK: Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation.