Nay, a box on the eare hath no smell at all.
[17.] One having a scoulding Wife, swore he would drown himself. She followed him desiring him to forbear, or at least to let her speak with him. Speak quickly then, says he: Pray Husband, if you will needs drown your self, take my counsel to goe into a deep place; for it would grieve my heart to see you long a dying; with that the Fellow came back again and went to the Indies.
[52.] Coomes of Stapforth hearing that his wife was drowned comming from market went with certaine of his friends to see if they could finde her in the River; he, contrary to all the rest, sought his wife against the streame: which, they perceiving, said, He lookt the wrong way. And why so? (quoth he) Because (quoth they) you should look down the streame, and not against it. Nay (quoth he) I shall never finde her that way: for she did all things so Contrary in her lifetime, that now she is dead, I am sure she will goe against the streame.
[12.]I've known many men
Know each other now and then
Yet never the knowledge could get
Of any Man before
Though known many a score,
That ever knew himself yet.
[4.] Doctor Fuller overtook one Mr Woodcock upon the Road, falling into Discourse in a facetious manner, ask'd him what difference there was between a Woodcock and an Owl, (supposing Mr Woodcock had not known him). He wittily replyed, That an Owl was Fuller in the Head, Fuller in the Face, Fuller in the Eyes, Fuller in the Neck, and Fuller all over.