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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You stand in your owne light.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Though chaunge be no robbry.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Might have gone further and have fared worse.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
The grey mare is the better horse.[17:1]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.[17:2]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Small pitchers have wyde eares.[17:3]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Many hands make light warke.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.[17:4]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.[17:5]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
There is no fire without some smoke.[17:6]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
One swallow maketh not summer.[17:7]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.[17:8]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
A cat may looke on a King.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.[18:1]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Have yee him on the hip.[18:2]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.[18:3]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.[18:4]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.[18:5]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Time trieth troth in every doubt.[18:6]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Mad as a march hare.[18:7]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Much water goeth by the mill
That the miller knoweth not of.[18:8]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive.[18:9]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Set the cart before the horse.[18:10]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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The moe the merrier.[19:1]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.[19:2]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
It is better to be
An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Be the day never so long,
Evermore at last they ring to evensong.[19:3]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
The moone is made of a greene cheese.[19:4]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
I know on which side my bread is buttred.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.[19:5]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii.
Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?[19:6]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
The wrong sow by th' eare.[19:7]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.[19:8]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Love me, love my dog.[19:9]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.[20:1]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.[20:2]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake?[20:3]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Every man for himselfe and God for us all.[20:4]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.[20:5]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
This hitteth the naile on the hed.[20:6]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
Enough is as good as a feast.[20:7]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.