To undo crosses in a straw-loft (i. e. to part all the straws that they may not lie crosswise; to be over nice), [213]

To wait and be patient soothes many a pang, [348]

To wash a blackamoor white, [323]

To wash an ass’s head is but loss of time and soap (To reprove a fool is but lost labour), [3]

To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from Saint Michel (where shells abound), [5]

To whom you tell your secret you surrender your freedom, [66]

To wipe up the sea with a sponge, [308]

To withhold truth is to bury gold, [348]

To wolf’s flesh dog’s teeth, [193], [264]