A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter, [280]

A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered, [262]

A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken, [19]

A calm portends a storm, [105]

A capon eight months old is fit for a king’s table, [208], [272]

A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins, [143]

A cat may look at a king, [169], [314]

A cat pent up becomes a lion, [99]

A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat, [68]

A cat that meweth much catcheth but few mice, [314]