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]