A hardy mouse that is bold to breede

In cattis eeris.

Order of Foles. MS. circa 1450.

[18:5] The same in Don Quixote (Lockhart's ed.), part i. book iii. chap. iv. Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress. Fletcher: The Wild-Goose Chase, act iv. sc. 3.

[18:6] Time trieth truth.—Tottel's Miscellany, reprint 1867, p. 221.

Time tries the troth in everything.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Author's Epistle, chap. i.

[18:7] I saye, thou madde March hare.—Skelton: Replycation against certayne yong scolers.

[18:8]

More water glideth by the mill

Than wots the miller of.