[217:A] Similar wise counsel is found in the warning that "A jest driven too far brings home hate," and that "Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth."
"Myne ease is builded all on trust,
And yet mistrust breedes myne anoye."—Gascoigne.
[219:B] "I love everything that is old—old friends, old times, old manners, old books."—"She Stoops to Conquer."
"What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything: in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree."—"The Antiquary."
[221:A] "Geflickte Freundschaft wird selten wieder ganz," say the Germans—patched up friendship seldom becomes whole again.
[222:A] Tusser writes of such:
"His promise to pay is as slipprie as ice,
His credit much like the cast of the dice,
His knowledge and skill is in prating too much,
His companie shunned, and so be all such.
His friendship is counterfeit, seldome to trust."
[225:A] "The book sayeth that no wight retourneth safely into the grace of his olde enemie, and Ysope sayth, ne troste not to hem, to which thou hast some time hed werre or enmitee, ne telle hem not thy counseil."—Chaucer, The Tale of Melibeus.
[229:A] "To become rich is a good thing, but to make all rich about you is better."—V. Hugo.