Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole, [341] (See If the sky, &c.)

Were there no fools there would be no wise men, [149]

Were you at the wedding, Molly? No, mother, but the bride was very fine, [230]

What a monk thinks, he dares, [10]

What a woman wills, God wills, [10], [229]

What belongs to the ravens is never drowned, [175]

What can’t be cured must be endured, [175], [290]

What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway, [213]

What Christ (or the Church) does not take the Exchequer takes, [176], [229]