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Pleaseth. Let the world slide, 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.— filed under Content
I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night.— filed under Hair
Lecture VII. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.— filed under Happiness
What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?— filed under Idleness
Let the world slide, 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.— filed under Indifference
All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.— filed under Trees And Plants-Yew
An ill wind that bloweth no man good- The blower of which blast is she.— filed under Wind
At our wittes end.— filed under Proverbs
Better is to bow than breake.— filed under Proverbs
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.— filed under Proverbs
By all that's good and glorious. น. BYRON-Sardanapalus. Act I. Sc. 2. By hooke or crooke.— filed under Proverbs
Johnson. 1784. Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee; Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.— filed under Proverbs
gg. Frieth in her own grease. hh.— filed under Proverbs
God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.— filed under Proverbs
Have yee him on the hip? aa.— filed under Proverbs
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's eare.— filed under Proverbs
See BISHOP HORNE'S Sermon on the Duty of Contending for the Truth. It is good to have a hatch before the durre. cc.— filed under Proverbs
Look ere thou leap.— filed under Proverbs
Art. "March Hare."— filed under Proverbs
Nought venter nought have.— filed under Proverbs
THOS. TUSSER-Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October's Extract. Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.— filed under Proverbs
Robbe Peter and pay Paule.— filed under Proverbs
Rome was not built in one day.— filed under Proverbs
Set all at sixe and seven.— filed under Proverbs
Set the cart before the horse. hh.— filed under Proverbs
Tell tales out of schoole.— filed under Proverbs
There thou beholdest the walls of Sparta They do not love that do not show their love.— filed under Proverbs
Also A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Serving-Men. 1598, Two heads are better then one.— filed under Proverbs
Went in at the one eare and out at the other.— filed under Proverbs
S. Put your toong in your purse.— filed under Pacuvius
The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.— filed under Iii
The fat is in the fire.— filed under Iii
HERBERT-Jacula Prudentum. The more the merrier.— filed under Iii
Yee have many strings to your bowe.— filed under Providence
The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill.— filed under Work