(5) A slut will poison thy gut (14).
(6) Riches has wings and flyeth away (14).
(7) Ill words corrupt good manners (15).
(8) [Old maids] lead apes in hell (18) (see Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 1.)
(9) She that’s afraid of the grass must never —— in the meadow (26).
(10) One swallow never makes a summer, nor one woodcock a winter (26) (see Polyd. Virg. Prov. Libellus, 1498; Northbrook’s Treatise against Dauncing (1577), Swallow’s Cinthia’s Revenge, 1613; Arist. Ethic. Nicom. lib. i.)
(11) Set thy stool in the sun, if a knave goes, an honest man may come (27).
(12) He would have played a lesson on my lute (27).
Only four of these are recorded in Hazlitt, namely, numbers 4, 6, 8, and 10.
Footnotes
[1] Pasquil’s Jests will be reprinted in one of the series of the present collection. Hazlitt’s Handbook to Popular Literature says there are editions in 1604, 1609, 1629, 1635, 1650 and 1669. Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted it in the third series of his Old English Jest Books, 1864.