14. No native Physician can be excellent; for all excellent simples are foreigners.
15. A Master of Fence is more honourable than a Master of Arts; for good fighting was before good writing.
16. A Court fool must needs be learned; for he goes to school in the Porter’s Lodge.
17. Burgomasters ought not to wear their fur gowns at Midsummer; for so they may bring in the sweating sickness again.
18. A Cutpurse is of the surest trade; for his work is no sooner done, but he hath his money in his hand.
Feminine.
1. ’Tis far better to marry a widow than a maid.—Causa patet.
2. Downright language is the best Rhetoric to win a woman; for plain dealing is a jewel, and there is no lady but desires her lap full of them.
3. Women are to be commended for loving Stage players; for they are men of known action.
4. If a woman with child long to lie with another man, her husband must consent; for if he will not, she will do it without him.