A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs

COMPLETE CJOLLECTION
OF
ENGLISH PROVERBS ;
ALSO,
THE MOST CELEBRATED PROVERBS
OF THB
SCOTCH. ITALIAN, FRENCH. SPANLSH,
AND OTHER LANGUAGES.
*nie Whole methodically digestedand illoMtrated with AnnotatioiiH

and proper Explications.
BY THE LATE REV. AND LEARNED
J^ÂV M A
Fellow of tbe Royal Society, ami Author of the Historia Plantarain, aud
Wisdom of God in the Works of CreaUon, fte.
(To which is added, by the same Anther J
^ "olUction of mottifi,
lEnsUief]^
NOT GJbNUKALL'V I'sKD
With their Signiacationsand Original in two Alphabetical Clataloguex ;
the of snch as are proper to the Northern, tbe other, to the

one,
Southern Coonties.
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF
The preparingand refining such Metals " Minerals
as are found in England*
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1817.
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PREFACE.
Tfffi former edition of this Collection of BnglisliproverVs fall*
iof into the kands of divers ingênioos persons, my worthy friends,

in tereral of this kingdom, had (as I hoped it wouTd) this
parts
ffood effect to excite them, as well tu examine their own meaio"*
nes, and try what they conld call to mind themselves that were
Aerein wanting^, as also' more carefally to heed what oocnrred in
^ nading, or dropped from the months of others in diseoorse.

^ Wlwrenpon having noted snch, they were pleased for the
many
^ frankly commnnicate them All
p$i Fecting of the work to to nte.
whtch, amoanled to hundreds, besides not few of

^ some a my own
ohwrvation, I the reader with in this second edition. I

present
Ave not yet pretend it to be a compleat and perfect catalogae of
"1) English proverbs ; but I think I may without arrogance aMtm
it to be more full and comprehensive than any collection hitherto
pablished. And 1 believe that not very many

of the proverbs
generally used all Englajid over, or far diffused over any able
consider-
part of it, whether the East, West, North, or midland tries,

coun-
have escaped it ; I having had communications from servant

ob-
and inquifiilive in all those parts, viz. from Francis

persons
JesBop, Bsq. of Broomhall in Sheffield Parish, Yorkshire; Mr.
George Antrobus, master of the Free School at Tamworth in
Warwickshire, and Mr. Walter Ashmore of the same place.

IkRehad Biddulph, Gent, of Polesworlh in Warwickshire, ceased
de-
; Mr. Newton of Leicester ; Mr. Sherringliam of Cains

College Cambridge;in Sir Philip Skippon, of Wrentham in Suf-
folk,
Knight; Mr. Andrew Paschall, of Chedsey in SomerseC-

ahire; and Mr. Francis Brokesby, of Rowley in the Bast Riding
of Yorkshire. Ah for local proverbs of lesser extent, to
proper
some towns or villages, as they are very numerous, so are they
hard to be procured, and few of them, could tliey be had, very
qount or significant.
If any one shall find fanlt, that I have inserted many English
phrases thatare properly proverbs, lliungh liiat word be taken in
not
itsgi-eatest
latitude, and according to my own drfinil ion of a proverb,
and object that I might as well have admitted all Ihc idioms of the
English tongue, I answer, tlial,to say the trnth, 1 (tauriut warrant
all those phrases to be genuine i^roverbs tu which I have allowed

room in this Collection ;
for indeed X did nut suiisfymyself in
maiiy ; but because they were sent me for such by learned and
intelligentpersons, and who, 1 ought to presume, understand the
nature of a proverb better than myself, and because I find the like
in collections of foreign proverbs, both French and Italian, I
A 2
IV "
f PREFA^
"chose nther to submil Iheio to tbe censora of Uw rctderf

mjaelf paM itenteiice of rejection ou thtoi.
Aft fur the method I have used, in the preface to the fomer
edition, I have g^ven my reasons why I made ohoioe of it,which
to me do still appear to be suflicieiit. The method of common*
lâces,if any man think

it useful, may easily be supplied by an
index of common places, wlierein to each head the proverbs ap-
Itertainingor reducible shall be referred by the apposition of tbo

mmeral characters
of page and line.
Some
proverbs the reader may possibly find repeated, but I
dare say not many, I know tluH might have been avoided by
nuining over Ihe whole book, and searching for the proverbs, ono.
by one, in all the places where our method would admit theat
entry. But sloth and impatience of so tedious a work enticed me
rather to presume upon memory ; especially considering

waa it
not worth while be very
to solicitous about a mailer of so smaH
importance. In such papers as 1 received after the copy was oot
of my hands, whon I was doubtful of any proverb 1 chose to lei

it stand, resolving that it was better to repeat some than to omit
any.
Now whereas I nnderstand proverbs admitted
thai in the
some
former edition have given offence to sober and pious personn, as
savouring tuo much of obsceuity, being apt to suggest impore-

fancics tu curriipl minds, I have in this oniitled all I could suspect
for snch save only one, for the letting of which stand I have
given my reason in the note upon it; and yet now upon better
coiiRiUeration I could wish tha't. it also were obliterated. For 1
would by no means be guilty of administering fowel to lust, which

1 am seiisible needs no incentives, burning too eagerly of itself.
Bui though I do condemn lite mention of any Ihing obscene, yet I
cannot think all use of slovenly and dirty words to be such a lation
vio-
of
modesty, as to exact tlie discarding all proverbs of which
they are ingredients. The useful notions, ^hich many ill-worded
proverbs do import, ma}', I Ihink, compensate for their homely

wish contrivers of them had put their
; though 1 could
terms the
sense into more descent and cleanly langnaf";e.For if we consider

what the reasons are why the naming some excrements of the
body, or the egcslion of them, or the parls employed therein is
condemned, we shall find Ihem to be, either 1. Because such crements

ex-
being offensive to our senses,

and usually begetting a
loathing in our stomachs, the words that signify them are apt to
do so too; and for their relation to Iheni, such also as denote
those actions and parts of the body by which the^ are expelled,
and therefore the mention of them is uncivil .and contrary to
good manners or, 2. Because such excrements reflect some

;
dishonoor our bodies, il being reputed disgraceful to lie
upon
vador necessity of such evacuations, and to hare such sinks
a
n-xt-so
** WO tn% REArDER'.
lu; lad therefore modeaty reqaires that wo decliao

tibe of Ihem leat we seem to gôrj in oar fihamR.
BAnung
Now tteie reuoni to me seem not io weiglitj-and eoj^mit a"
to aeeeiaitate tbe omission- of so many of the most witty and
"igniioant of English proverbs: yet

oor avoid all further to
"oaanon of offence, I have, by that nsoal expedient of poUing

""l^ the initial letters for the uncleanly words, so veiled them,
tint 1 hope they will not torn the stomach of the most nioe. For
ii ia the naming snoli things by their plain and proi"er appellft*
lives that is odious and offensive ; when they come lapped op
(as we aay) in clean linen, that is, expressed in oblique, figora-
tnre, or metaphorical terms, or only intimated and pointed at,
IIm most modest can brook them well enough. Tho Appiendix of
JBettrew Prafserht was eollected and communicated by my worthy
frwad, Mr. Richard Kidder, rector Rayn, in
of Essex.
"" So I have dispatched what I thought needful promise either

to
Ibr my own excuse, or the reader's satisfaction,to whose favour*

able acoeptance 1 recommend this work.
J. RAY.
TO THE READER.
Little need concerning the nature

to be said and use of the
subject of this book, conveying at once entertainment and profit,

as the wise man observes, like apples of gold, in pictures of' silver,
A -proverb is usually defined, an instiuolive sentence, or mon
com-
and pithy saying, in which more is generally designed than
expressed, famous for its peculiarity and elegance, and therefore

adopted by the learned as well as the vulgar, by which 'tis dis-
tinguished
from counterfeits which want siicli authority.
It owes its originaland reputation to tbe-sayings of wise men,

allusions of the ancient poets, the customs of cuunlries and ners
man-
of mankind, adapted to common use, as ornaments of speech,

rules of instruction,argumeotit of wisdom, and maxims of ande-
niable truth.
The peculiarity of proverbs arises sometimes from the novelty

of an expression, which strikes the fancy of the hearer, and gages
en-
him to convey it down to posterity: sometimes the thing

itself discovers its own elegance, and charms men into an sal
univer-
receptionof it: it is also freqoentlybeholden to the propriety

yn TO THE BBABEB.
or tho ambigiMty of " word, tad

finr iti aingDhurity apinrolMUMiai
lA sliArt*brevity*vithoal
obMsarilyîs tlio wwyaof^ of iL
also of proverbsis self^vident:
The digôitj they are not to ba
reckoned trifles
iaaignificaiit only fit for sehool boys, aiaee thy
"ost learned among the an""ents studied and recorded tbaai ijt
lastingmononienls of faiae,and transmitted IheM to their iimiBi
aors aa the must nemorable instructions of human life,either m
ôint of regularconduct or oommon priid"noe;PlaUureb, T1m"*

nfanatus, Flalo, and Erasmus, with many others, thought tha
Icnowledge
uf them an honourable study.
Solomon oompiled a book on this subject, the noblest in the
world, the design of which is to shew, that a proverb is the in*
of the
iarpretalion words of the wise, Prowi, i. d. There is searee
any part of the sacred writingsin whioh they are not to be fonmL
Their usefulness equal to their dignity,as they coo-
is at least
dace to the understandingof philosophy,of which they are the
"ary remains, and are adapted effectually to persuade; for what
can strike more than oniverMil truths, well appliedto a point hi

question? 'llieydrive the nail home in discourse, and clinch it
with the strongest conviction ; for which reason Aristotle, in his
lUietorich,placesproverbs among the undeniable testimonies of
truth : Quintilian, of tlieir veracityanfl success,
f"n account com-
fliends them as helps to llie art of speaking and writingwell.

The understanding adages is ncithalf so difficultas the knack
of
of applyingthem with propriety,and therefore they are not to be
used as meal, but nauce, or seasoning not to clog,but adorn :
"
the too frequentuse and re|)clition of them beget a distai^te, and

therefore ought tu lie introduced imly at proper times and places,
for when imperlinentl^r applied,they are not only disgustful,but
"van daikeu one anoUier.
Of this book there have been three editions already,the two
firstpublishedli^the learned and ingeaiousauthor himself, tbo
third was in the \rar 1742, which wanted many articles that were
ia the former, all whidi are restorefl in this,with some additions

made and inserted through the assistance of a learoed gentleman,
by the pabliiber's most obedient servant
Decembers, 176T,
-I .
I'ROVERBIAL
SENTENCES.
Sentences and Phratet found in the former CoHeetions of

Proverbs^ the most of them not now in common use for
Suchy s"far as I know, bat boiTowed of other languages.
A
Antiquity is not always a mark of verity.
Better to go about than to tall into the ditch. Hispan,
The absent party is still i'aulty. "
In vain he craves advice that will not follow it

When a thing is done advice comes too late.
Though old and wise yet still advise.

It's an ill air where nothing is to be gain'd.
No alchymy to saving.
Good ate is meat, drink, and cloth.
Anger dieth quickly with a good man.
PIo that is angry is seldom jit case.
For that thou canst do thyself rely not on another.
The wholesomcst meat is at another man's cost
None knows the weight of another's burden.

When are an anvil hold you still ;
you
When are a hammer strike your filt
you
The long clippeth her that at last she kil-
ape so young
leth them.
An ape is an ape, a varleVs a varlet
'J'hough they be clad in silk or scarlet.

A broken apothecary a new doctor.
Apothecarits would not give pills in sugar unless they

were bitter.
Better ride on an ass that carries me, than an ass that
throws- me.
B
Be not a baker if your head be of butter. Hispan.
The baUance distinguishes not between gold apd lead.
There's no great bmnquet but some ikre ut
B
d PROVERBIAL SENTENCES.
One harher shnves not so close but another finds work*

On a iifoodbargain think twice. ItaL
Barefooted men need not tread on thorns.
Baahfulneu is an enemy to poverty.

Better to be beaten than be in bad company.
Beauty is a blossom.
Beauty draws more than oxen.
Beauty is no inheritance.
The ieffger
is never out of his way.
The ft^êrmay sinji^before the tldeC No more than the
English 4^ that old Latin verse.
Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

Better to die a begger than live a bcgger.
Such a beginning such an end.
He that makes his bed ill lies there. [the blush.
If the bed could tell all it knows it would put many to
He who lies long in bed his estate feels it.
Who looks not before finds himself behind.
Bells call others to chprch, but enter not in themselves.
Be not too hasty to outbid another.
Who hath bitter in his mouth spits not all sweet.
The blifid man's wife needs no painting. Hispan.
He is blind enough who sees not through the holes of a
sieve. Hispan^
That which doth blossom in the spring will bring forth
fruit in the autumn.
He that blotps in the dnst fills his eyes.
The body is the socket of the soul.
]t*s easv to bowl down hill.
Erabblwg currs never want sore ears.
The braiti that sows not corn plants thistles.

The ass that brays most cats least.
Would have better bread than is made of wheat ? Jtal,
yon
.
Bread with eyes, and cheese without eyes. Hitp. ItaL
To beg breeches of a bare ars*d man*
As I brew so I must drink.
There is no deceit in a brimmer.
Building is a sweet im|K)verishing" It is called the Spa^

nish plague : therefore,as Cato well saith.
Optimum est aliena insaniafruL
Building and marrying of children are great wasters. GalL
-
The greatest burdens are not the gainnillest
To bt^ dear is not bounty.
Buy at a market, bat seU at home. Hispan,
PROVERBIAL SENTENCES.
TheKe is nu cake but there is the like of the same make.

In a calm sea man is a pilot
every
A ôod candMiolder proves a good gamester.
If thou hast not a coxmh feed on an onyon. GaJL
The cat is
hungry when a crust contents her*
llie liquorish cat gets many a rap.
It's a bad cause that none dare speak in.
He that chastisetk one amendeth many.
Though the fox runs, the cJucken hath wings.
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.
Wo to the house where there i^ no eluding.
The child saith nothing but what he hcai*d at the fire.
'To a child all weather is cold.
When children stand quiet they have done some harm.
What children hear at home doth sooi^fly abroad.
Children are mens riches, certain cares, but certain
un-
poor are
comforts, when they arc little,make parents

fools, when great, mad.
A liu^htChrietmas heavy a sheaf. ftick sleeps.
The cholerick drinks, the melancholick eats, the ilegma-
Who never climbed never felL
After cloiids comes clear weather.
Crtve a chum your finger and he'll take your whole band.
Cohlers and tinkers are the best aUudriokers.
The eoek crows, but the hen goes.
When yon ride a young colt your saddle
see be Ivell girt.
The coitforter's head never akes. ItaL
He comniAiub enough that obeys a wise man. JicL
It's good to have in trouble.
eon^pamf
Solamen miseris socios ktAuiiie Meri9,
Keep good men eompanVj and von shall be of the number.
Cimfetsion of a fkult makes half amends for it.
He that eantemplateehath a day without a night
He may well be amtented who needs neither borrow nor
flatter.
He that con"ersetk not with men knoweth nothing.
Cam in good is hay, in ill years straw is com.
years
Com is cleanwd with the vrind, and the soul with cha5t-
ning.
He covers me with his wings, and bites ne with his bill.
A covetout man is like a dog in a wheel that roasteth
meat for others.
" 2 '
4 PROVERBIAL SENTENCES.
A dr"'cough is the trumpeter of death.

Keep counsel thyself first.
Counsels in wine seldom prosper.
He that will not be counseled cannot be hclpM.
Courtesy on one side doth never last long.
Courts have no almanacks.
Craft brini2;ethnothing home.
To a sliipall winds are contrary.
crazy
Credit lost is like a Venice glass broke.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
No man ever lost his credit but he who had it not.
Crooked legs make strait fires.
Crosses are ladders that do lead to heaven. [Itul.
Carrion crows bewail the dead siiecp and (hen eat them.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended m ith fear.

Who is a ciuckold and conceals it canies coals in his
bosom. Hisp,*
Let every cuckold wear his own horns.
In rain and sunshine cuckolds go to heaven.
A cut
purse is a sure trade^ for be hath ready money when
his work is done.
You dance in a net, and think nobody sees you.

When all is gone nothins;left,
and
yfilZt avails the dagger with the dudgeon-heft ?
llie dauger past forgotten. and 6od .
No day passeth without some grief.

It is never a bad day that hath a good night "
Derf men go away with the injury.

It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's gamer.
Death keeps no kalender.
Men fear death as children to go in the dark.
Better to go to bed supperless than to rise in d$U. Hispan,
Deeds are frorts,words are but leaves.
Deeds males,
are and words are females.
Ifatti iotio maschiy le parolefemine. Ital,

Desires are noiuished by delays.
He losetii hiM thanks who promiseth and ielayeih
Gratia ah officio^quod mora tardat, ahest*
A man may lose his goods for wunt of demanding tlicm,
Optifna HomiHananappellando^toUtnala.
"Fini deierve and then desire.
Desert and reward seldom keep company.
PROVERBIAL SENTENCES. 5
Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.
Lafemme de Men n'a nv yeux ny oreiUee. Gall.

Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.
Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
All her diskes are chafing diês.
The devil is not always at one door.
It's an ill battle where the devil carries the colours.
Diversityof humours breedeth tumors.
"A man may cause his own dog to bite him*
The dog who hunts foulest liits at most faults.
When a dog is drowning every one offers him water.
Dogs wag their tales not so much in love to you as to
your bread. Hispan,

Dogs gnaw bones because they cannot swallow them. ItdL
Do what thou ougbtest^ and come what can. GalL
A noble housekeeper needs no doors.
Do as the Mar saith^ not as he doth. Hinm.
A great dowry is a bed full of brabbles. Jaispan,
Fine dressingis.a foul house swept before the windows.
He was hang'd that left his drink behind.
Who loseth his due getteth no thanks.
Wider ears and a short tongue.

Think of ease, but work on.
That which is easilydone is believed.
soon [Hispan,
Who eats his dinner alone must saddle his horse alone.
You cannot hide an "e/ in a sack.
Good to begin well, better to end welL
In the end tilingMill mend.
He that enduretn is not overcome. lendured evlL
No man better knows what good is,than he tibat hath
Mnvy never enriched any man.
Of evil grain no good seed can comie.
Bear with evil and expect good.
EvU gotton evil soent.
Mw porta nuUi dilahmtur.
That which is evil b soon learnt.
Evil that Cometh out of thy mouth flie" into thy bosom.
F
Who hath VLjfair

wife needs more than two eyes.
Fair is notbut that which
fiiir, pleaseth. Tm is an J^
Han Proverb, Non e betto qoeP ch' e b^lo mm h Mto
quel' che place. id
A fair woman and a slasb'd gdwn find always some nail

in the way.
One may sodn"r faU than rise.
Fall not out wil Ji a iVIend for k tHflo. [in it.
It is a family that ha^ neither a whore
^^x nor a thief
Kfat house-keeper make$ leati exeotltors.

Every one baêtii f he^ltfhog^,while the lean one buhieth.
Teach yom father to get children.
Such Si father soch d son.
The faulty stands on his gnard.
Every on"s faahs are not written in their foreheads.
Better pass a danger once than be always infear, Itah
Reckon right and February hath tiiirty-onedays.
He that hath ^feHow-nder bath an over-ruler.
Fidlers fare, meat, drink, and money.
Take heed you Jind not that yon do not seek. Ital,
Well may he smell oTJlre whose gowii bnrneth.
The^r^^ dish pleaseth all.

Ill not makeÂ of one and flesh of another.
.
The fith follow the bait.

In the deepest water is the best Âiwg". [than is lawful.
He that is suficr'd to do more than hjitting will do more
No man can stay a stone.

One flower makes no garland.
None is a fool always, every one sometimes.
A fool is nilsome.
A fool demands mnoh, but he's a greater fool that gives it.
Fools tie knots and wise men loose them.
If fools went not to market bad ware wonld not be sold,
Hispan,
One fool mnkes an hundred. [the market
If yon piay with a fool at home, he'll play with you in
Better a haiefoot than no foot at all.
Forgive any sooner than thy self. "hiU, ReiL

The foremost dog catcheth the hare.
The perswasion of tlie fortunate sways the doabtftil,
Wben Fortune smiles on thee take th" advantage.
He who hath no Ulfortime is cloy'd with good.
He that viU deeeive ibe/oiemust rise betimes.
Foxes when sleeping have nothing fall into theur months.
7%t" is a French proverb. A regnard endormi rien. ne
cheut en la jguenle. [not ripe.
Foxa When
tbej cannot teach the say they are
grapes
HiebesliihiMiirissaoKiyWemil GmL Hispm.
PttOVfiRBIAL SENTfiNCES. 7
Lifo iti defttb with

vriihoittvifiriend a witness. [(M^rtd.
Make not thy /Henrf too cheap to thei^"iwr thy Rolf to thy
When 2l friend askcth there is no to-raorrdW. Hisp,
A friend
true be^ sliould
a privy, open like in nocemily.
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
Have but fewfrieHds thong^ mach acqnaintatioei
In time of prosperityyWeiidf vnM be plenty. '
In time of adversity not one amongst twenty.

A tree is known by the fruity and not by the leaves.
The further we go the farther behind.
I
G
Who would be a gentleman let him storin a town.
It's not the gay coat makes the gentleman^
He giveth twice that gives in a trice.
Qui cito dat ins dat.
Dono molto
aitpettatoe venduio jum donato, liah
A gift long waited for is sold and not given.
Giving is dead now-a-days, and restoring very sick.
Who gives thee a capon give him the leg and the wing.
Hisp,
To give and keep there is need of wit.
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
Who hath glass-windows of his own must take heed how
he throws stones at his house. "
"
What your glass tells you will not be told by cooiiBc^

He that hath a body made of glass must not thrdW stones
at another.
Do not but i. e. go thy stlfaUmg,
say go gaw,
God deprives him not his drink.
of bread who likes
God healeth, and the physician hath tlie thanks.
Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and (rod Mil send
thee flax.
God Cometh with leaden feet, but striketh with irdti hands.
God comes at last when we think hu is farthest Of. Ited,
God hath often a gredt share.in a Httle house. GaU.
God, our paroits, and our master, can hevor be k^bmiited.

GdU.
No look will hold against the power of gold* jfliip.
You may speak with your gold and maKe other totigileli
dumb. Ital.
When we have gold we are in fear, when we hbvo nooty
we "ne in danger. IM.
A good lA"n^ is soon snatch'd up.
8 PSOVBRBIAL SBNTENC"S.
An handful otgaod Ufe is better than abashel of learning.

Mievx vmd mn paign" de bonne vie que plein.nmey de
eiergie. Gall.
One never loseth by doing good turns.
Good and quickly seldom meet
Goodi are tbdrs enjoy them.
who Ital.
"rossiptand frogs they drink and talk.
The greatest strokes make not the best music.
There could be no great ones if there were no little.
He that in me dark finds that he would not.
fropes
Man^ tiimgs grow in the g^den that were never there.
Hupon.
The grounsd speaks not save what it heard of the hinges.
H
Thb wise hand doth not all the foolish tongue speaketh.
Hoppy 18 he who knows his follies in his youth.
The kard gives no more than he that hath nothing.
Things kardh attained are long retained. [night
He who would have a hare for breakfi^t must hunt over
Good harveete make men prodigal, bad provident.

oês
He tiiat hath a good harvest may be content with some
thistles.
'Til safe riding in a good haven,
Tlie first point of hawking is hold fast
The gentle hawk mans herself.
When the head akes all the body is the worse.
Dum labo^
caput iiffestai omnia membra molestat.
One isliot so soon healed as hurt.
What the heart tbinketh the tongue speaketh.
Who spitsagainst heaven it falls in his face. Hispan,
HeUia full of good meanings and wishes.
The
^h-way is never about
Look Sighand fall into a cow-turd.
Every man is best known to himself.

Better my hog dirty home than no hog at all.
Ih'y biead at homo is better than roast-meat abroad.
He is wise that is honest. ItaiL
Of all crafts to be an honest man is the master-craft
A man never surfeits of too much Itonesty.
lack honey with your little finger.
He that ucks honey from thorns pays too dear for it.
This is a French Proverb. Trop ackeptc le miel qtd sur
k leche.
ospisies
PHOVEKBIAL SENTENCES. "J
Honey m sweet, bat the bee stingy.

Honour and eafte are sMildom bcdtVHows.
Who Kiês dies breaking of wind backwards. TtaL
by hope
He that fiopedanc-cth
lives in ivithoiit n ininstn"l. Hisp.
The horse tliinks one thing, and he that Mrs liini nnuther.
Lend thy horse for a long journey, llion mayejit have him
retam with his skin.
All things are soon prepared in r woll-onlrrrd houfe.
The foot on the cradle and hand on the distal), is the
sign of a good kotisewife. Hi span.

An humble-bee in cow-turd thinks himscit* a kin;;. It
a
fcere more to A bcotio in a "ow-fird.

proper say,
An hungry man an anp-y man.
Husbatias are in heaven whose \îvcs cliiflc n'jt.
I
"
Idleness edge of wit.

turns the
Idleness is the key of beggery.
Jest not with the eye nor religion. Hispan,
llie UvLunt jestssound won"t in guilty earsf.
Better be t/Z spoken of by one before all,than by all be-
fore
one.
An iU stake standeth longest.

There were no tV/ language if it were not ill taken.
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground tween

be-
both. Hispan,
Industry is fortune's right hand, and fmgality h^r left.
He goes not out of his way that goes to a good nwt.
We must not look fbr a golden life in an iron ago.

An itch is worse than a smart.
Itch aod ease can no man please.

K
Wheresoever see kvtdred make much of

you. your
your friends.
A knottifpiece of timber roust have smooth wedgos.
Many do kiss the hands they wish to sec cut off. Hispan,
shall be choked with tiio
He that cats the ki?ig^s
goose
feathers.
I.
He that labours and thrives spins fcold.
The lame gocth as far as the staggerer.
I'he last suitor wins the maid.
of love,
In a llionsntid p("und of /"rtrthere's not sin ounce
The law is not ttiesame at morning and night.

The worst of Idw is that one suit breeds twenty. Hispatu
A suit of Uao and an urinal brings a man to the hospital.
Hitpoiu
A good lawyer an eîl neighbour.
He laughs ill that laughs himself to death. [ter. Ital*
Let your Utter stay for the post, not the post for the let-
A bean in libertyis better than a comfit in prison.
Every Ugki is not the sun.
Like auSior like book.

Like to Hke, and Nan for Nieholas.
The lion^s skin is never cheap.
A little body doth often harbour a great soul.
The little cannot be great unless he devour many.
Little sticks kindle tibe fire,but great ones put it out^
Little dogs start the hare but great ones catch it.
That little which is good fills the trencher.
He livetk long that livctli well.
Life is half spent before we know what it is"
He that livetk wickedly can hardly die honestly.
He that lives not well one year sorrows for it seven.
It's not how long, but how well we Hve.

Who lives well sees afar off. Hispan.
The lê of roan is a winter's day and a winter's way.
He Uietk nothing who keeps God for his friend.
He hath not lost all who hath one throw fo cast. Gfdl,
London bridge was made for wise men to pass over, and
Ihr fi)Ols to pass under.
Louie lives in cottages as well as in courts.
Xow rales his kingdom without a sword.
Zove being jealous makes a good eye look asquint
Lone asks faith,and faith asks firmness. ItaU
They hee too much that die for love.
They who love most are least set by.

Where love fails we espy all faults,
A hw hedge is easilyleapt over.
M
A nmid that giveth yieldeth. Ital,
A meid that laughs is half taken.
A mtdd oft seen, a gown oft worn,
Are disesteein'd, and held in scorn,
M^nmers make often fortanes. fsure.
When rmmy strike on an anvil they must strike by mca-
Nature draws more than ten oxeo.
Who perisheth in needless danger is the devil's martyr.

iVeio meat begets a new appetite. [own.
When ikyneighhour'shouse doth burn, be careful ofthiiie
Tua res mgiturparies cum ffroximusardet.
He that runs in the ntg-iil
stumbles.
The fdghtingale
and toe iBuckoo sing both in one inonth*
The more nMe^ the more humble.
Cold weather and knaves come out of the north.
Nothing down, nothing up.
Nothing have, nothing crave.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill. Nihil agendo iftfde
agere disdtnus.
It's more painful to do lutthingthan something.
He that hath nothing is not contented.
The nurse's tongue is privileged to talk.
o
The offendernever pardons. ItaL [lastcthnot.
llie off-springot^ them that are very old or very young
It's ill healing an old sore. [him. Hispan.
He wrongs not an old man who steals his supper from
If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.
Canvecchio nonhaiaindarno, ItaJ.
Old friends and old wine are best. GaU, And old gold.
Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.
Rather, as Mr. Howell hath it. When they sport with
young women.
When bees are old they yield no honey.

The old man*s staff is the rapper at death's door. Hisp.
An old knave is no babe.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
When an old man will not drink, go to see him in other
an-
world. Ital.
He who hath but one bog noiakes liipi -latyand lie who
hath but one son makes him a fopl. ItaL
One shrewd turn asks another.
One slumber Invites another.
All feet tread not in one shoe.
If every one would mend one^ all would be amended*
One and none is all one. Hispan.
There came nothing oui of the sadk but what wa3 iffit.
It's a rank coojrtesy whên a man is ipfnotsA
":"^ tfaanks
for his own.
PROVERBIAL SENTENCES. 13
The smoke of a man's own house is better than the fire of

another's. Hispan,
Where shall the ox go but he must labour.
Take heed of an ox before, an ass behind, and a monk
on all sides. Hispan,
P
Many cKapack the cards that cannot play.

Let no woman's painting breed thy stomac's fainting.
Painted pictures are speakers. dead
On painting and fighting look aloof off.
He that wm enter inioprn'odisemust have a good key.
Say no ill of the year till it be past*
Every path hath a puddle.
Patch and long sit,build and soon flit.
Patience is a flower grows not in every one's garden.
Herein is an allusion to the name of a plant so ealUdy
i. e. rbabarbarum monachorum.
He who hath much may put the more in the pot
pease .
Let pedler carry his own burden.

every
There*s no compassion like the penny. Hispan.
He that takes up not a pin slights his wife.
He that pitiethanother remembereth himself. Hispm^
Play, women, and wine, undo men laughing.
ôhie plants suit not a stubborn soil.
Fly pleasureand it will follow thee.
Neveri""a"irtf without repentance.
The of the mighty are the tears of the poor.
pleasures
If plow bo jogging you may have meat for your
your
horses.
Poor men have no souls.
There are none poor but such as God hates.
Poverty parteth friends (or fellowship).
Poverty is the mother of health.
True praise takes root and spreads. ^theturn.
Neither praise nor disprais^thyself, thine actions serve
He that will not be saved needs no preacher.

Prettiness quickly.
dies [the scabbard.
Who draws against his
his sword prince must throw away
It's an ill processionwhere the de\il holds the candle.
Between promising and performing a man may marry his
daughter. Gau.
He promiseth like a merchant and pays like a man of war.
To promise and give nothing is a comfort to a fooL
c
He is proper that hath proper conditions.

Providence is better than rent
He hath left hi"pwte in bis other hose.
A ixiM purse makes the mouth to speak.
An empty fiUs the face with wrinkles.
purte
R
It's possible for a ram to kill a butcher.
The rath sower never borrows of the late.
A man without reason is a beast in season. \Hispan.
Take heed of eneniies reconciled, and of meat twice boil'd.
A good recorder sets all in order.
Remove an old tree and it will wither to death.
When all is consum'd, repentance comes too late.
He may freely receive courtesies that knows how to r"-
9"ftethem.
God help the rick, the poor can beg.
Riches are but the baggage'of fortune.
When ridhes increase the body decreasetb. For tnost
meti grow old before they ffrow rich.

Riches are like muck, which stink in a heap, but, spread
abroad, make the earth fruitful.
It's to rob an orchard when none keeps it.
easy
A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand.
Better to rule than be raled by the rout. [covenants.
The rusty sword and empty purse plead perrormance of
S
It*s a bad sack will abide no clouting. \ltaL
When it pleaseth not God, the sain^ can do little. Jlispf
StUman and sermon have their season in Lent. GalL
A scepter is thing, ladle another. Alia
one a res sceptrum,
alia plectrum. [worth.
You for schooling than your learning is
pay more your
Who robs a scholar robs twenty men. For commonly he
borrows a cloak of a sword of another, a pair of boots
one,
of a third, a hat of a fourth, ^c.
Who hath a soM hath sorrow to his sops.
Being on sea the
sail,being on the land settle.
They complain wrongfully on the sea^

who twice suffer
shipwreck.
Bveiy thing is good in its season.
,
WoiJd know secrets, look them in grief or pleasure.

you
He who seeketh trouble never misscth it.
PROVERBIAL VeNTENCES. 1.5
A man must ""// his ware after the rates of the market.
He who jgerves well needs not be afraid to aKk his wajês.
,
The groat is ill saved that shames the master.

It's a foolish sheep thhi makes the wolf his confessor. ItaL
Ships fear fire more than water.
A great ship doth ask deep waters.
The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion.

Silence doth seldom harm.
Silence is the best ornament 6f a woman.
Silks andput satins out the fire in the kitchen.

He that sings on Friday shall weep on Sunday.
"J^he singing-man keeps his shop iu his throat. Hisp,
Sit in your place and none can make you rise.
Slander leaves a score behind it*. Calumniare fartiter
aliqnid adharehit.
Sloth turnetfa the edge of wit.^
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
A smiling boy seldom proves a good servant
The smith and his penny are both black. [water of it.
W^hcther you do boil snow or pound it,you can have but
Sorrow is good for nothing but sin.
When sorrow is asleep wake it not
Soldiers in peace are like chiranies in "ummer.
Who sows his com in the field trusts in God.

He tbfit Memks m" fiur fuad laiw" m" aoi, I^ speak him
fair and trust him not. [reap. JtaL
Ife that speaks doth sow, he that holds his doth
peace
Speech is the picture of the mind. .
Spend and be free, but make no waste.

To a good spender God is the treasurer.
The Jews s]fend
at Easter, the Moors at marriages, and
the Christians in suits of law. Ital,
Who more than he is worth doth spends he makes a rope
his life to end. [when he would.
Who spends more than he should, shall not have to spend
Who hath spiceenough
may season his meat as he pleaseth.
It's a poor qtort that is not worth the candle.
The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing. "
lliat which will not be let it not come between the

"pim,
spindle and the distaff.
They steal the hog and give away the feet in alms. Hispan"
Steal the goose send give the giblets in alms.,
after the ladder is ascended.
Stejii step
Who hath none to stUl him may weep out his eyes.
c 2
The itiUest humours are always the worst.

Who remove stoTieSy bruise their fingers.
Who hath skirts o^ straw, needs fear the fire. Hispan.
Stretch your legs according to coverlet.
your
It's better to be stung by a nettle than prick'd by a rose.
I suck'd not this out of my fingers ends.

Though the sun shines leave not your cloak at home. His.
In every country the sun riseth in the morning.
He deserves not the sweet that will not taste of the sowre.
The table robs more than the thief:

Talk much and err much {saith the Spaniard),
Talking pays no toll.
They talk of Cluistmas so long that it comes.

The taste of tlie kitchen is better than the smelL
To him that hath lost his taste, sweet is sowre.
Who hath aking teeth hath ill tenants. [fabulam.

Tell a tale to a mare, and she'll let a fart. Gall. Asino
A thin meadow is soon mow'd.
I'hc thorn comes forth with his
point forwards^ [Itah
The thought hath good legs, and the quill a good tongne.
A thousand pouncU and a bottle of hay, is all one thing at
dooms-day. "
There are more threatened than struck.

He who dies oi threats, must be rung to church by f"rtf"
thrown would wrestle.*
He tât is ever
Whî it thunderSfê thief becomes honest
Tlie tide will fetch away what the ebb brings

Time is the rider that breaks youth.
FiVery one puts his fault oil the times.
ôoh tedd soon with God. A northern proverh,when a
child hath teeth too soon,
A long tongne is sign of a

a short hand.
Better that the feet slip than the tongue.
He that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his hcaci..
I'lie totigue^snot steel, yet it cuts.
itself have GalL
The tatigue breaketh bone, tho* none.
The tongue talks at the head's cost.
Too much breaks bag. the

Hisp, [Gall.
Too much scratching pain^, too nûch talking plagues.
Trade is the mother of
mtfney: [hatchet. Gt^l.
When the free is fallen, every man goctn to it with hi"
PROVERBIAL SENTENCES. 1?
TnUh and oyi are ever above, Hispan.

Truth hath a good face, but bad clothes.
u
No cut to unMndness,
Utiknovm unki8s*d.
Unminded unmonM.
Under water, famine ; under bread. Ital.
snow,
Valour that parlies is near yielding^
Valour can do little without discretion.
Vis consilii expers mole ruit sua, Etparvi sunt forts arma
nisi sit consiKvm domi.
Tliat's not good language that all understand not.
Where men are weU used, they'll frequent there.
He that waits en another man's trencher, makes many a
late dinner.
For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the
horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
War i" daath's feast.
IVho preacheth war is the devil's chaplain.
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. Galh, It.
WoTy hunting, and law, are as full of trouble as pleasure,
lie that makes a good war makes a good peace.
He is wise enough that can keep himself u'arm.
Good watch prevents misfortune.

He that hath a head o{wax must not walk in tlie sun.
Where it is weakest there the thread breaketh.

Wealth^s like rheum, it falls on the weakest parts.
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
The gown's her's that wears it, and the world's his whoj
enjoys it.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools. Hisp,
Expect not tair weather in winter on one night's ice.
He that goeth out with often loss.

At last comes home by weeping cross.
Weight and measure take away strifb.

He that doth well wearietb not himself.
WeU to work and make fire,
a
It doth care and skill require.

Such a welcome such a fareweL
Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell down..
As wekenic as flowers in May.
c3
18 PROVERBIAL SENTJINCES.
I when I born, and day shews why.

wept was every
Whores affect not you but your money.
Whoring and bawdery do often end in beggery.
A man's best fortune or his worst is a uftfe.
He that lets his wife to every feast, and hi^ horse
go
drink at
every water, shall neitlier have gtk)d wife nor
good horse. ItaL or thus.

He that lets his horse drink at every l^ke,
And hi" wife go to
every wake,
Shall never be without a whore and a jade.
Wife and children are bills of charges.
The cunning wife makes her husband her apron. Hisp,
The wife is the key of the house.
He that hath wife and children wants not business.
Where the mil is ready the feet are light
To him that mlh ways are not wanting.
With as good a will as ever I came from school.
He that doth what he will^ oft doth not what he ought.
WillvnW have wilt, though will woe win.
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. ItaL

Pull down hat on the wind side.
your
A good winter brings a good summer.
'
Wine is the master's, but the goodness is the draper's.

Wine in the bottle doth not quench the thirst. Itah
Wine is a turn-coat, first a friend, then an enemy.
Wine that. costs nothing is digested e're it be drunk.
Yoii cannot know wine by the barrel.
Wine wears no breeches. "
Gall. i. e. Shews what a man is.
You canH drive a windmill with a pair of bellows.
You may be a wise man though you can't niake a watch.
Wise men care not for what they cannot have.

None is so wise but the fool overtakes him.
Better to have than wish.
Better it be done than tvish it had been done.
It's wit to pick a lock and steal a horse, but wisdom to
let them alone.

You have a little wit, and it doth you good sometimes.
He had enough to keep the wolf the door. from
Th(U is, to satisfyhis hunger, latrantem stomaehttm.
Wolves lose their teeth, but not their memory.
Who hath a wolf fox his mate, needs a dog for his man.
Itah
Who with the woff^ will learn to howl.
keeps company
20 PROVERBIAL OBSjBRVATIONS
est; ineredibUe etdm didu quanta morbarum vis

furgandus ex pur-
Autwmnales sttbnascatur, Miror
gatianis dêctu pastfehres autem
hoc a
me"is mMts caweri, mimiLS etiam admonerU Quandocunque
aitini ntorborumt olterMtrum (Fehrem tertianam out quartanamj
patM pravtetioris atatis homhtibus accidisse vidi, atqus purgationem
etiam amissam ; eerto pradicere patuipericulosum aUquem wiorbum
eosdem postea adoriturum, de quo tamen iUi nondum somniaverant,

quasi parfrcthjam sanati.
Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.
A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day.

Or, than a thump on the back with a stone.
You eat and eat, but you do not drink to fill you.
That inocb diioking takes off the edge of the appetite to meat, we see by
experience in great drinkers, who for the most part do (aa we say) bat pioi^le
at tlieir meat and eat Utttle. Hippocrates observed of old, that \iu,op
3"ty)l^C"
AVec ; a good hearty dranght takes away banger after long fast-
ing
sooner by far than eating woald do. The reason whereof I conceive U^
because that "add hnmour, which by Teilicating the membranes of the *"to"
mach eanses a sense of henger, is by copious ingestion of drink very mach-
dilated, and its acidity soon taken off.
An apple, an egg, and nut, you may

a eat after a slut.
Poma, ova atque nuces,si det tihi sordida, gnstes.

Children and cnicken must be always picking.
That is, tliey matt eat often, bnt little at a time: often, bccanse the body
growing, requires much addition of food ; little at a time, for fear of oppress*
ing and extinguishing the natnral heat. A, little oyl nonriahes the flame,
bat a great deal poorcd on at ouce may crown and quench it. A man may
that by litMe and little,which if laid on bis back at once he would
carry
sink ander. Hence old men, who in this respect idso, I mean by reason of
the decay of their spirits and natnral heat, do again become children, are
advised by physidans to eat often, bnt little at once.

^
Old young and old long.

Divieni loslo vecUo se vnoi vivere lungaroente veccblo. Jtal. Ala*
turlftas senex s4 diu senex esse velis. This is alledged as a proverb by.
Cicero in bb book de senectute. For as the body is preserved in health by
moderate labonr or exercise, so by violent and immoderate it is impaired and
wom^ oat. And as a great excess of any quality or external violence doth
suddenly destroy the body, so a lesser excess doth weaken and partially
destroy It,by roidering it less lasting.
They who would be, young when they are old must be
old when they are young.
When the fern is as high as a spoon
You may sleep an hour at noon.
The cnstom of sleeping after dinner in the nmrner- time is now grown
general in Italy and other hot countries, so that from one to three m four of
th" dnek io the afternoon yon shall scarce see any one stirring aboat the
streets of thdr- dtirs. Schola SaUmiiana condemns this practice. Sit

brevis aut nuUus tiifi somnus meridianus: Febris, pigrUl"s,capUlSi
BELONGING TO HEALTH, "C. 21
dol"r atque CtUarrhus. Mac tibi prweMhtMt ex somno^ meridktn^,
Bnt it may be this advice wai intended for a" English (to whoaa king this
book was dedicated) rather than the Italiani or other inhabitants ofhot coon,
tries, who in the sammer would have enongh to do to keep themselves
waking after dinner. The best way for ns in colder climates is altogether
to absuin from sleep ; bat if we must needs sleep (as the Italian physicians
advise) dtber to take a nod sitting in a chair, or if we lie down strip off our
dodies as at night, and into bed, as the present dnk^ of Toscany himself
go
practises and advises his subjects to do, bot by no means lie down opon a
bed in oiur clothes.
When the fern is as high as a ladle,

You may sleep as long as you are able.
When fern begins to look red
Then milk is good \vith brown bread.
It is obsenred by good housewives, that milk is thicker in the ratumn than
fn the sammer, notwithstanding the grass mnst be more hearty, the Jaice of it
being better concocted by the heat of the son in sammer time. I conceive
the reason to be, becanse the cattle drink water abandanHy by reason of their
heat in sammer, which doth mach dilute their milk.
Every man is either a fool or a physician after thirty

years of age.
After dinner sit a while, after sapper walk a mile.
Post qt^/w stabis vel passus mitle meahis. I know no reason for
the itiifcwprt,nnless one eats a greater dinner than sapper. For when the
pMuA% taXL it is not good to exercise- immediately, but to sit still a while ;
"#""*' ttiw "*i^." "*prrls*
^nm^ Mymm. ""*"
."^""s"yV C^vcn, vi%\ ^""""^" draws
Ike Ipaat ovtwira to the exterior parts, and 'w^ Waving the stomach and
bowds cold, hinders eoncoction : for I believe that as well the stomach as the
exterior parts are hottest after exercise : and that those, who exercise uoif,
concoct most and require most meat. So that exercise immediately after
meat is hnrtftol rather, upon aeooont of
precipitating concoction, or tnming
tlie meat oat of the stomach too soon.*'Âs for the reason they give for stand*
io|for walldng after meals, viz. becanse the meat by that means is depressed
to the bottom of the stomach where the natural heat is most vigorous, it Is
very frivolous, Iwth because the stomach is a wide vessel, and so the bottom
of it cannot be empty, but what falls into it mnst needs fall down to the tom
bot-
: and because most certainly the Oomach concocts worst when it is in a
penduloos posture, as it is while we are standing. Hence, as the Lord Vertu

lam tndy observes, gaily slaves and such u exercise sitting, though they fare
meanly and work hard yet are commonly fat and fleshly; whereupon also
he commends those works of exercises which a man perform sittittg,
may as
sawing vrith a hand saw and the like. Some turn this saying into a droll thus.
After dinner s!eep a while, after supper go to bed.

An old physician a young lawyer.
An old phyUdan because of his experience; a young hiwyer, becaase kt
havfasg Irat little practice will have leisare enough to "tlend your Irasiness,
an4 dcdriag thereby to recommend himself and get more, will be very diU*
gent in It. The Italians say, an old physician, a young barber.

"2 PSOVERBIAL OBSERVATIONS
A good snrgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart,

and a lady's hand.
Good keal is halt' a meal.
KeaU i. e. pottage of any kind, though properly keal be pottage made of

col worts, which the Scota call keal, and of which oiaally they make their
brolfc*
If you would live ever, you must wash milk from your liver.
Vin Mir laict c'eBt sonbait, Laict mr vin c'est venln. Call. This is aa
Idle old lawe, for which I can see no reason but rather for the contrary.
Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at
- night
He that would live for ay roust eat sage in May.
That sage was by oar ancestors esteemed a very wholesome herb, and
much oondndng to longevity, appears by that verse in Schola SaUmitana^
Cur moriaiur homo eui SaMa crescit in horto ?

After cheese comes nothing.
An egg and to bed.
You must drink much after after an
as an egg as ox.
This is a fond and angroiraded old saying.
Light suppers make clean sheets.

He that
goes to bed thirstyrises healthy. Gall.
He that goes to bed thirsty,4c. I look opon this ai a very gpod vation,
obser-
and should advise all persons not to go to bed with tb^ stomacba
fail of wine, beer, or ether liqoor. Por (" tte iavwiiMf ^ X-^t^^ft
any
vWcrvc8" nuuung ean b^ nfirm "-i"*iw"M tv tne brnn ; of which be gives a
moit rational and true account, which take in his words. Citm enknproj^
ter frocUfem corpcris situm urina A renUnu secreta non itti/aeiU
4 prampth uti citm erecti sumus in vesicam per uteres delabatur*.
cS$nqtte
vceica cervix ex proclivi siiu urina pondere non adeb gr"
vetun atque spiritibus per somnum in cerebrum aggregatis 4 quG

escentibus, vesica oneris ejus sensum non itd percipiat, sed officii
quasi oblita ea copiA urina aliquando distenditur^ ut meôri reel,
yfienda spatium vix detur inde fiS ut proptur impediium per renes
4 ureteres urina decursum in totum corpus regurgUet, 4 ^fsi diar-
rhaa prosimo mane succedat, aut nocturne sudors evacuetur, in^
cerebrum deponi debet. Tract de Corde. c. 2. p* I4i. Qui coucb/t
avec la soi/se leve avec la santh.
One hour's sleepbefore nUdrdghfs worth two hours after.

For the siin being the life of this sublunary world, whose heat causes and
continues the motion of all terrestrial animals, when he la farthest off, that
Is about midnight, the spiritsof themselves are aptest to rest and compose,
so that the middle of the night must needs be the most proper time to sleep
in, especially if we consider the great expense of spirits in the day time,
Irtirtly
by this heat of the afternoon, and partly by labour, and the cons|ant
exercise of all the senses : wherefore, then, to wake is to put the spiritsin
motion, when tliere are fewest of them, aiul they naturaUyitfost sluggish and
uufit for IL
AE1.0NGING TO HEALTH, "C. 23
Who goes to bed tUl night tumblei

svpperletiy and toites,
TMs is an IttUian proverb^ Chi va k letto senca eoia Tnto notte si
dinM"a. That \", if a man goes to lied huofpry ; otherwise, he that eats a
dinner
pleiitiftil may well afford to go to bied sopperless. unless he hath
used some strong bodily iaboar or exercise. Certainly it is not good to go

to one's rest till the stomach be well emptied; that is,if we eat sappers, till
two hoors at least after supper. For (as the old physicians tell us) though
the second and third concoctions be best performed in sleep; yet the first ia
rather disturbed and perverted. If it be objected, that labouring people do
notobserve such rule, but do both go to bed presently after supper,:and to
work after dinner, yet who more healthful than they? J answer that the
ease It dilliercBt; for though, by such practice they do turn their meat out of
their stomachs before fttll and perfect concoction, and so multiply crude hn-
monrs, yet they work and sweat them out again, which students and tary
seden-
persons do not. Indeed, some men, who have a speedy concoction
and hot brains, most, to

procure -sleep, eat something at night which may
send up gentle vapours into the head, and compose tlie spirits. Chi ben
cena ben dorme. Ital*
Often and little eating mahet a man fat.

Fish must swim thrice.
"
Oace in th" witter, a second time in the sauce, and a third time In wine
in the stomach* Poisson, gorret ic cocldn vie en I'eau, 6c raort en vin.
Gall, Fish and young swine live in water and die in wine.
Drink wine and have the goat, and drink no wine and
have the gout too.
.
With this sajing, intemperate persons that have or fear the gout, rage
encou-
themselves to proceed in drinking wine notwithstanding.

Young men's knocks old men fee^
Q,n"e peccamus Juvenei ea Immus senes.
Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

Early to go to bed and early to rise, makes a man
.
healthy, wealthy, and wise. [never.
Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and head
your
Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.
Tliis is a French proverb. Pain tant qu'i dure, vin a mesure, ind
they themselveA observe it. For no people eat more bread, nor indeed have
better to eat : and for wfaie, the most of them drink it well diluted, and
never to any excess that I could observe. The Italians have this saif-
ing Uketeise, Pan mentre dura ma vin k misnra.
Cheese it is a peevish elf,

it digests all things but itself.
This, is a translation of that old rhyming Latin verse, Caseus est nequdm
quia digerit omnia sequdm.
The best physicians are, Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr.
Merryman. '
this is notUng but that distich of Sch"la Saleruitana, Englished*

Jtt tiM dejiciant tnedid, niedici tibi ftant
Jitte tria mens Utta, requies, moderata diata.
24 PROVERBIAL OBSERVATIONS
Drink in the morning staring,

Then all the day be sparing.
Eat a bit before you drink.
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
Better be meals many than one too meny.
You should never touch your eye but \nth your elbow.
Nan patitur ludumfamu, fides,oadus.
To these I shall add a few French and ItaUan Proverbs.

.
Tbnbz chaud le pied " la teste, Au demeurant vivez en
beste. Which Mr. Cotgrave englishes thus, The head

and feet kept warm, the rest will take no harm,
Jeun chair " veil poisson, i, e. Young flesh and old fisli
are best.
Qui vin ne boit apres salade, est en danger estre malade,
t. e. He that drinks not wine after salade is in dang^
of being sick.
Di giomi quanto voi, di notte quanto poi, {. ". Cover
head hy day as much as you will, by night much
your (m
you can,
II pesse gauasta Tacqua, la came la concia, t. e,s Fisk

spoilswater, but flesh mends it.
Pome, pere " noce Guastano la voce.
Apples, pears, and nuts spoil the voice,

Febre quartana Ammazza i vecchii, " i giovani risana.
A quartan kills old and heals young,
ague men,
Pesce, oglio, " amico vecchio.
Old fish, old oil,and an old friend are the best,
Yitello, puUastro " pesce crude ingrassano i cimiterii.
i. e. Rawpulleyn, veal and fish make the church-yardsfut^
Yino di roezo, oglio di sopra, " miele di sotto. [isbest.
Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom^
Macrob Saturn, lib. 7. c, 12. Qiubto igiti^r.Cur oleum quod in stunmo
est, vinumquod iu medio, mel quod in /undo optimum esse credan

tur. Nee cunctaXus Disarius ait, Mel quod optimum est reliq%m.
ponderosius est. In vase egitur mellis pars qua in imo est reliquis
prastat pondere, 4 ideo Sftpernatante pretiosUtr est. Contra in vase
vini pars inferior admixtione fads non modo turbuUnta, sed 4 sm"
pore deterior est, pars verb summa aeris vlciniH corrumpitur, J^,
Aria di finestra colpo di balestra, i. e. The air of a dow

win-
is as the stroke of a cross-bow.
Asciuto il piede calda la testa, e dal resto vive da bestia,.
i. e. Keepyour feet dry and head hot, and for the
your
rest live like a beast.
CaNCBRNlNG llUSBANIXRY, 8CC. 25
Piscia chiaro " incaca al medico, i. e. Piss akar ami defy

the physician.
Proverbs and Praverhial Observations concerning ffus-

bafutry,Weather, and the Seasons of the Year.
Janiveer freeze the pot by the fire.

If the Wrass grow in Janiveer,
It gro^B the worse for't a]i the year.
There!i no genenl rale whhoat tome eaceptton ^ fnr te Che year MtT"
the winter was so mild, that |be. putores were Very greCA Ui Janaary, yet
wa* there learce ever known A jêatifnller
crop of hay than Ihe vosfmn
following.
^
When Candlema"-4ay is eome and gone

Tliesnow lies on a hot-stone.
Febraanr fill dike, be it black or be it white;
But if it be white, it's the better to like.
FInye de Febraier vant et ganz de topuer. GulU Snow brings a doable
i^vantage s it not only preaerres the eom from the bittemeai of the frost
and cold, bat oirichcs the ground by reason of the nitrons salt iHdeh it is
avppoied to contain. I have observed the Alpa and other hii^h moanlaini
covered all the vHnlfrwith snow, soon afleff it is melted to become IQce a
garden, so fhll of Ivxnriant plants, and variety of flcweis. It is worth the

noting, ttat moontainont plaijts
are for tfie most part larger tiian those of
the suiie'' feiiSf^ which grow in lo#er granndf ; and Ibat these ia#wj
mowlahM nibid greater variety of tptdes tlum â coantries.
'
Febweer do" pat and shear.

All the months in the year purse a fair Febmeer ; or thus,
The Weldunan had rather see bis dam on the beer,
ân to nee a fair Febmeer.
March in JaidYeer, Janiveer in March I fear. "
[lamb.
March hack hai9" ccmies in like a lion, goes out like a
A bushel of Mardi dust is worth a king's r^som.

Match grass never did good. [maid'sdun*
March wind and May sun, makes clothes white imd
March many weathers.
At^ showers bring forth May flowers. [com*

When A|Mil btowahis.hom, ifs gofodboth for hay and
IChit is* .wh0i it thwdcd is April ; for thunder is nsaallyaccompanied
^fHkiaia.
April borrows three days of March and they arc ill.

Aft April flood carries away the ^g.and her b^rood.
A cold May and a windy, mukes a fiiUhfun ^d a Ibldjr.
The meny month of May.

b
May, come she early or come slie late, shell make, tlie
cow to quake.
^fay seldom passes without a brant of cold weather. Some will have it
thas, she'll bring the cow-guaket i. e. Gramen tremulum, whlcli is trae,

bat I soppose not the intent of the proverb.
A May flood never did good.

Jjook at your corn in May, and youll come weeping
: look at the sûne in June, and you'll come home
away
hi another tunc.
Sheer your sheep in May, and sheer them all away.

A swarm of bees in May, is worth a load uf hay. .
But a swarm in July, is not worth a fly. ,
When tiie wind's in the cast, it's neither good for man
nor beast.
The east- wind with ns is commonly very sharp, became It comes off tl"
Continent. Midland coontries of the same latitode are cencrally colder
than maritime, and continents than islands: and it is observed in England

that near the sea side, as in the county of GfmwaUf "c the snow seldom'
lies three days.

When the wind's in the south, it's in the rain's mouth.
This is an observation that holds true all ovtr Europe; and I Iwlieve in
Jsia For //a/y and Greece the ancient Latin and

a great part of too.
Greek poets witness; as Ovid, Madidls natut evolat alls, and speaking
of the soath, Metamorp, l. he saidi, Contraria telius nubibus as*'
siduis pluvioque madescit ab Austro, Hornet calls the north wind
aiSpriyeyiTris*
P/i/iy saith. In totum venti omnes d Septentrione sic-
cUnres qudm d meridie, iib, 3. cap, 4T. For Judtea in AHa the Scrip,
tare gives testimony; Prov, xxv. 23. The norih-uind drives awajf
rain. WIterefore, by the rule of eohtraries, the sonth wind mast bring it.
The reason of this with the ingenions philosopher Des Cartes I conceive
to be, becanse those countries which lie nnder and near to the coarse of the
"an, being sufficiently

heated by tiis almost perpcndictdar beams, send up a
nknltitnde of vaponra taito the air, which being krpt in constant agitation by
the same heat tlut raised them, require a great space to perform their tions
mo-
in, and new slill ascending they must needs be cast off* part to the south,
and part to the nordi pf (he son's coarse ; so that were there no whids, the
parts of the earth towards the north and sooth poles would be most full of
doods and vapoors. Nqw the nortb*wind blowing keeps \"ck those va-
pours, and causes clear weather in these northen parts : bat the sooth-wind
brings store of them along. with it, which by the cold of the air are here
condensed into clouds, and Ml ))own in rain. Which account is ctuh
ftrmed by what Piinif reports Africa, loc.

of dt, Permutant 4: duo na-
turum cum sUu : AiMsler Afriete serenus, AquUo nubilus, Tho rea*
son is,because Africa being nnder or near the course of the sun, the soiMlK
wind carries away the vapours there ascending ; but th^ north"wiod detains
them, and so paruy by compressing, partly by cooling theqi, causa them to
condense aqd descend In showers.
When the wind's in the iK"uth,

It blows the bait into the fishes mouth. -
-
28 PROVERBIAL OBSERVAflOKS^
As the days len^hen, so the cold strenêtis.

Cresme di creite'lfreddo
dice il peseadar. Ital.
The reafon is, for thtit the earth haTiof beea well iMtted' bjr tkt Mi^t
lose lying upon it in Mmmer time, ii not snddddy cooled again hythtre-
ocas of the son, bot reuina jMit of iu warmdi tiU after tiM winter aolatioe s
which warmth, notwhhalandingthe retem fbd aooe" of the mui, nnrtneedt

atili lauKnish and decay, and ao notwitfaataading the leagUicning of tite daya
the weather growa colder, 'till the exf emai heat caaaed by the' mo ia greater
than the remaining internal beat of the earth, for as long aa the exlcmal ia
lesser than the internal (that is,so long ai the son hath not force enough to
produce as great a heat in the earth as was remaining from the last annuner)
ao long the internal most needs decreaae. The like reason there ia why die
hottest time of the day is not jnst at noon, bat about two of the clock ia
the afternoon, and the hottest time of the year not jnst at the smnnicr solstice,
bnt about a month after, because 'till then, the external heat of the son is
greater than the heat produced In die earth. So if yoa put a piece of irea
into a very hot fire it will not suddenly be lieated so liotaa tlie fire can nMlw
it ; "nd though you abate your fire, before It be thoroughly heated, yet wilt
it grow hotter and hotter, tiU it comes to that degree of heat which the fire
it is in can give it.
If there be araiobow in the eve, k will rain and leave:

Bat if there be a rainbow in the morrow, it wiU neither
lend nor borrow. ["i"y"
An evening red and a morning
gray, sign fiur is a of a
Le rooge soir dc blanc matin Font rejonir le pelerin. GnU* Sera roam
it negro matino All^;ra il pelegrino. Jtal, A red eteoiog aBd a Whltf

morning rôioe the pilgrim.
When the clouds are npon the hiUs, theyll come down
by the mills.
David and Chad sow pease good or bad*
That iSyabout the beginning of Marck.
This rule in gardening never forget.

To sow dry, and set wet.
When the sloe-tree's as whitj" as a sheet.

Sow your barley whether it be tlry or wet*
Sow beans in the mud and they'llgrow Uke wood.
Till St James his day be cpme and gone.
You may have hops or you may have none.
The pidgeon never knoweth wo.

But when she doth a benting go.
If the partridge had the woodcock's thigh,
It would be the best t)k4 that ever did fly.
Yule is good on yule even.
That is,aa I uaderatand it,evevy thing in hb season. Ynle is ChrititlH",
Tripe's good meat if it be vrdl wip'd.

A Michaelmas rot comes ne'er in the pot.
CONCERNING HUSBANDKYy "C. 29
A na^ with a weamb and a mare witli nean, i. e. none.
Behind before, before behind, a horse is in danger to be
prick*d, I
You mnst look for on the top of the oak tree.

grass
'
Bccaase the grass seldom springs well before the oak begins to pat forth,
as might have been observed the last year.
St. Matthie sends sap into the tree.

A famine in England begins at the horse-manger.
In opposition to the rack : for in dry years when hay is dear, commonly
corn is cheap : bat when oats (or indeed any one grain) is dear, the rest are
seldom cheap.
Winter's thunder and summer's flood.

Never boded Englishman good.
Butter's once a year in the cow's horn.
They mean when the cow gives no milk. And batter is said to be mad
twice a year ; once in summer time in very hot weather, when it is loo thin '
and fluid' : and once in winter in very cold weather, when it is toe hard and
difficult to spread.
Barley-straw^s good fodder when the cow gives water;

On Valentine's day will a good goose lay.
If she be a good goose her dame well to pay,
She will lay two eggs before Valentine's day.
Before St. Chad every goose lays both good and bad.
It rains by planets.
This the country people use when it rains in one place and not In another :
meaning that the showers are governed by the planets,which being erratick
in their own motions, cause such uncertain wandering of clouds and falls of
rain. Or it rains by planets, that is,the falls of showers are as uncertain as
the motions of the jriaoets are itnagined to be.
Tf Candlemas-day be fair and bright;

Winter will have another flight:
If on Candlemas-day it be shower and rain,
Winter is gone and will not come again.
This is a translation oc metraphrase of that old Latin diatich ;
Si Sol splendeicatMaria pwificante,

Major- erit glades post festimiquamfuit aiUe:
Kow
though I think all observations abont particulardays superstitionsan^
frivokm^, yet because probably if the weather be fair for some days about
this time of the year, it may betoken frost, I have put this down as it was^
delivered me.
Bamaby bright, the longest day and the shortest

night. .
^tM!v light,the shortest day and the longest nights

St. Bartholomew brings the cold dew.
St. Mktthy all the by.
year gpes
"ecaoK ib leap-year the aupersnmerary day is.then intercalated*.
D 3
so PKtlVEftBÂL OBSERVATIONS
St. 3fatthee ahnt up the bee.

St. Valentine^ set fhy hopper hy mine.
St. MatthOf take thy hopper and sow.
St. Benedick, sow thy pease or keep them in thy rick.

Jte4 herring ne'er spake word but eeii"
Broil my back bnt not my weamb.
âid the cbevin to the tront,
My head's worth all thy bonk.
Meddlers are never good tiH they be rotten.
On Candlemas-day yon must have half your straw and
half your hay.
At twelfth-day the days are !e))gthened a cockVstride.
The Italimne eay ai Christmas.
A cherry year, a merry yeû- :
A plum year, a dumb year.

TbIiU " paerile and wiueleM rbynie withimt reaaon, M far ai T can ste.
Set trees at Alhallontide and command them to prosper :
Set them after Candlemas and entreat them to grow.

Tkii Dr. J. Beal alledfeth as an old English and Welch provarb, con"
eemiog apple and pear-trees, oak and hawthorn qaiokt ; tbo' he It of Mr.
.
Betdfs opinion, that It's best to remove fraiurees in the "pring, rather tbaft
the Fhttosoph. Transact
winter. N. Tl.
If you would fruit have.

You must bring the leaf to the grave.
That is,yo" most transplant yoar trees just abont the fall of die ieaf"neither
sooner nor nsnch later: not sooner, becanse of the motion of the sap ; not
later,that they may have time to take root before the deep frosts.
To these I shall adjitima few Italian.
Primo ultimo L e. The fii'st

pig, hut the last
porco, cane.
whelp qfthe Utter is tlie best,

Cavallo " cavallacavidcaloin su la Asino
s|)alla, " nnild
cavalcalo in sn'l cnlo. i. e. Ride a hvrse and a mare on
the shovlders, an ass and a tmde on the hwttoehs,
A buon' hora in pescaria beccaha. " tardi in

Go early to the fish-market, ir late to the butchery.
AI amico cura li il fico, al inimico il Persico.
Pill a Jig/or yoar friend, and a peach for your ene^y.
Proverbs and Proverbial Observations rrferring to Lwe^

Wedlock, and Women.
Love me little and love me long.

Hot love is soon cold.
REFERKING TO LOVE, "C. 51
Ix)ve of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out.

Darbisk,
Chats, t. e. diipi.
Lads loTe*8 a busk of broom, hot a while and soon done.

CAe$h,
hoye will where go. it cannot
creep
Chi ha amor nel petto le sprone He i fianchi.
ha ftaf.
He that hath woe in his breast hath spurs in his sides*
Love and lordship likf^no fellowship.
Amor 8c leiirnoria non vogHono oompagnia. JtaL Amonr " idgaearttt
B" setiadireot Jamai* eompagaie. GalL 7%" meoniMgofour JSngUm
proverb is, LqTers and ivincei caonot eiidnre rivaU or partners* OmutS"
que potest as Imprntietisconsort is erU, The Italian and French,

thongh the same in words, have I think a. different sense, viz, Non bene
conveniunt nee in una sede morantur msrjtstms 4: amor.
LiOve is blind.
Lovei^ live by love, as larks by leeks.
Thw is I conceive in derision of sach expressions as fiving by love. LarVs
and leeks beginning with Uie same letter tielped it up to be a proverb.
Follow love and it will flee,

Flee love and it will follow thee.
This waa wont to be said of gloiyi Sequentem/^git,/ugientem sequL
tur. Just like a shadow.
Love and pease-pottê will make their way.

Because one breaks the belly, the other the heart.
The love of a woman and a bottle of wine,

Are sweet for a season^'bat last for a time.
Love comes in at the windows, and goes out at the doors.
Love and a cough cannot be bid*
Amor tussisque non celantur. The French and Italians add tOv
these two tlw itch. L'amour, la tonsse " la galle ne se peavent celer. Gqll,
Amor la rogna " la toosse non si ponno nascondere. Ital, Others add stink.
Ay be as
merry as be can.
For love ncêr deliglitsin a sorrowful man.
Fair chieve ail where love trucks.

Whom we love best, to them we can say least.
He that loves glass without G.
Take away L, and that is he.
Old pottage is sooner heated, than new made.
Old lovers fallen oat are sooner reconciled than new love's i"egan. Kay
the comedian saitb,Amantium ire amoris redintegratio est.
Wedlock is a padlock.
Age and wedlock bring a man to his night-cap.
Wedding md Ul winteoog, tame both man attd beaetb
3^ PRaVERBJAL OBSERVATIONS
Marriages are made in heaven. Nozze Sf magistrato dab-
deh e destina, Ital.
Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
It'sgood to marry late or never. [you can^
Marry your will, your

sons daughters when
when you
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
I've cur*d her from laying i'tli'hedge,
quoth the good man
when he had wed his daughter.
Motions are not marriages.
More longs to marriage, than four bate legs in a bed.
Like blood, like good, and like age^ make the happiest,
marriage.
JEquaUm uxorem quare. rrfVKagTl aavTOV eya. (Jneqsal mar-
riages
leldom prove happy. Si quam voles aptk nubere nube pari,

Ovid. Intolerabilius nihil est qudmfoetnina dives* Juvenal.
Many an one for land takes a fool by the hand. i. e. mar*
ries her or Mm.

He that's needy when he is married, shall be rich when
.
he is buried.
Who weds e're he be wise, shall die e'i"e he thrive.
Ifs hard to wive and thrive both in a year.
Better be half hang'd than illwed. [he goes to bed..
He that would an old wife wed, must eat an apple before
WUch by reason of it'k flatat)encyis apt to elcite lost*
Sweet-heart and honey-bird keeps no house.

Marriage is honourable, but house-keeping'sa shrew.
We hatclielars grin, httt you married men laugh till ymir
hearts ahe.
Marriage and hanging go by destiny.
It's,time to yoke when the cart comes to the caplcs,i. e,.
horses. Chesh.
That isjit's time to masry when the woman woes the man*.
Courting and woing brings dallyingand doing..

Happy is the woing that is not long in doing.
Widows are always rich.
He that woes a maid must come seldom. in her sight:
"
But he that woes a widow must woe her day and night
He that woes a maid must feign,lie,and flatter :
Bat he that woes a widow, must down with his breeches
and at her :
This proverb being somewhat immodest, I riioold not have inserted, bat
that I met with it in a little book, entitled,The Quakers Spiritual Court
Proclaimed, written
by Natkanael Smith, Student in Physick : wherein,
the aothoc |neBti9iitit.as"eooB8eLgiven bim by one Milkiah Bedfprd, an.
)
REFEHRINO TO LOVE, 8C"!i. $S
emineiK 6"aker la London, wbo woald htve had- kim to b"m muvM ft
rich widow, in whoM hoote, in caie ha conJd gol btr" tfait NmUum^t^
Smith bad proroiied HUkiah a chamber gfatii. The wh"i|c narrative If
very well wcHth the reading.
It*s diaig^t"a8 marrying a widow becauso she hath cast

her rider.
He that wovld the daug^hter win,
Must with the mother first begtn"
A man must ask his wife leave to thrive.
He that loseth his wife and six-pence hath lost a tast^.
Chepei'demogUe Sf un quatri"9, ha gran perdktkdel qnOf.
trino, Ital. [hi" farthing.
He that loseth his wife and a farthinghatlx a great loss of
There is one good îfe in the country, and every man
thinks he haSi her.
Wives must be had, be they good or bad.
He that tells his wife news, is but newly marriedi [poorw
A nice wife and a back door, do often make a rich man
Saith Solomon the wise,

A good wife's goodly prize.
a
A dead wife's the best

goods in a man's house.
Long-tongued wives go long with biuro"

A fiurn of straw is worth a wBttum cf'golA
f
Thisis alreaidbjiroverbm UnboBUBedepattla VMrt4H|i.fNMM4^M(w.
One tongue is enough for a viroman.
Thia reaion they give that wolad not hare women learn lanfHigei,
A woman's tongue wags like a IsmV^ tail.

ThrM wonmâida goos^ mah^ a marhet,
7%i# it an Italian one. Tre donne Sc on occa fan nn mercatty
A (diipand-a woman are ever repairing.

A spaniel, a wonân, and a walnut"-tree.
The more they're beatî the better stflt they be.
asinutf muHer
JViia;, legeUgata. sitnih sunt
Haetriafiilrect^faeiuntsiverheraceesami^, '
Addackur a Cbputto,est tamen notmm*
All women good, vtz,

are either good for 8omethiB|f or
good fbr nothing.

Women laugh when they can, and weep when they will.
Femroe ril qnand elle pent ic plcore qaand die vcnU GaiL
Women think jp2(tf"

a sWcet fish.
A woman conceals what she knows not.
Women and dogs set men together by the eais.
As great pity to see a woman weep, as a geos^ go barelbot

Winter-weather and tiroughts change

womens oft.
A woman's mind and winter-wind change ot't.
There's no mischief in the world done,
But a jfToman is Always one. [the Devil,
A tcieked woman and an evil,is three half-pence worse than
'J he more women look in tlieir glasses, the less they look
to their hoifses. [ing of dishes.

A woman's work is never at an end. Some add, and wash-
Change of women makes bald knaves.
Every man can tame a shrew, but he that hath her.

Better be a shrew than a sheep.
For commonly shrews are good buase^wives.
Better one house filPd than two spiird.

This we use when we hear of a bad Jack who hath married at bad a Jill.
For as it is said of B"num, gub communius eb melius: so, by the mle of
contraries, what is til,the further it spreads the worse. And as in a city it

Is better there should be one Lazaretto, and that fUled with the infected,
than make every house in town a pest-house, they dwelling dispersedly or
singly : so is it in a neighbourhood, "c.
Old maids lead apes in hell. [taught.

Batchelors wives and maids children are always well
Chi mm ha moglie ben la veste.

Chinon JuiJlgTivQK
ben li pasce,
Maidenft must be seen and not heard.
A dog's nose and a maid's knees are always cold.
Young wenches make old wrenches.

As the good man saith, so say we,
But as the good woman saith, so it must be.
Better be an old man's darling, than a young man's
warling. Jmaster.
A grunting horse, and a groaning wife seldom lail their
In time comes she whom God sends. [thieves.
He that marries a widow and three children, marries four
Two daughters and a back door are three err^^t thieves.
A black manVi a jewel in a fair woman's eye.
Fair und sluttish (or foolish) black and proud,
Long and lazy, little ajid loud.
Beaate Sc folic vont sonvent de compagnic. Gali, Beaity and fbllyd"
often "0 hand in hand, are often matched together.
Pat another man's child in your bosom, and be'U creep

out at your elbow. Chesh,
That is, cherish or love him, he^ll never be naturally affected towards you.
When the good man's from home the good wife's table
is soon spreads
36 AN ALPHABET OF
WoBien must have their wills while they live, hecaose

they make none when they die.
England is the paradise of women.
And wdl it may be called so, ujnIght'euUy be demoutrated ia many

paitiealan, Vere not all the world already therein itfUsfied. Henee it hatk
been said, that if a bridge were made oyer the narrow seas, aU the women
iaJTuroê woeld oome over Uther. Yet ia it worth the noting, thai thongh
in no country of the world the men are so fond of, so roach governed by,
to wedded to their wives, yet hath no langoage so many proverhkl isvec-
tives against women.
AU meat's to be eaten, all maids to be wed.

.
[coekr
li^ a sad* house where the hen crows louder than the
Trista e guettacasa dove le gallme eontend e*lguUotace. It.
If a woman were as little arshe is goodi,
A pease-cod would make her a gown and a hood.
Se la downafouepiccola come e iuoMa, la minima foglia h^
far^^ una wste Sf una corona, ItaL
Many women many words, many geese many, turds.

Dove somo donne jr ocche non vi sono parolefHfehe, ItaU .
"Where there are women and geese there wants.na "oise.
Npt what is she but what bath she.

Protimus ad centnm de nunibutvki$nafiH
"huBSti4, ê, Juven.
To these I shall add one French Proverh,
'Maisonfaicte Sffemme ifaire.

A house ready made but a wife to make, i, e,
due that is a virgin and young.
tela hone de candeUt, ItaL
N^femina ne a
Neither women nor linncn by candle-light.

No folly to being in love, or where loves In tiie case, th"
doctor is an ass.
An A^fkahet of JocuUttory,Nugatory^ and Ruitich

Proverbs*
You see what we must ali come to if we live"

if thou be hungry, I ammfrj^ let usge fight,
liay on moreôod^ "#W give m""f y.
Six "w2f make a shoemaker.
AHatiding aa hogsifightiiilg*
JOCULATORY PROVERBS. 37
Hack with that leg.

Of all and of all commend me to Ballf for by lickingthe
dishes he saved me much labour.
Like a barber's chair, fit for every buttock*
A bargain is a bargain.
His bashfulmind hinders his gôd intent.
The son of a i. e. a bastard.
batclielor, fonc.
Then the town-bull is a batckelor,i, e, as soon as such an
He speaks bear-garden.
That is,saeh rude aad nncivil, or sordid and dirty laDâage, u the rabbW
that frequent those sports are wont to nse.
,
He that hath eaten a bear-pyewill always smell of tbo

garden.
Your betty
chimes, it's time to go to dinner, [on the ear.
You shall have as much favour at BiUinsgate for a box

A black shoe makes merry
a heart.
He's in his better blue clothes.
He thinks hiauelf wond'rous fine.
Have among
you bUnd harpers. --
Good blood makes bad puddings without groats or suet.
\pri/iiaTa^"yrfp.
NobUity U nothing bat ancient riches: and
money is the idol the world adores.
A blot in his escutcheon.

To be bout, i, e. without as barrow was. Chesh,
To leave boys play,and go to blow-point. [out.
You'll not believe a man is dead till you see liis brains
Well rhym*d tutor, brains and stairs.
Now used ia derision of sach as make paltry ridicoloos rhymes.
A brinded pig will make a good brawn to breed on.
A redrheaded man will make a good stallion.

This buying of bread undoes us. [in the morning.
If I were for my life I would
to fast eat a good breakfast
She brides it. She bridles up the head, or acts the bride.
As broad as long. t. e. Take it which way you will,there's
no difference, it is all one.
To burst at the broad side,

like an old woman's breech, at no certainty.
He's like a buck of the head.
firsts
Brisk, pert, forward; some apply it to npttart geademen.
The spiritof buildingis come Upon him*.

B
38 AN ALPHABET OF
He wears the hulVs feather.

This is a FFench proverb for a cackoid.
It melts like butter in a sow*s tail ; or, works like sope, ^c.
I have a bone m my arm.
lliis is a pretended excuse, whereby people abase yoang shildren wben

they are iniportnnate to have them do something, or reach something for
them, that they are unwilling to do, or that is not good for them.
Burroughs end of a sheep^ some one.
c
Every cake hath its make, but a scrape-cake hath two.
Every wench hath her sweet-4ieartyand the dirtiest commonly the most :
make, i. e, noatch, fellow.
He capers like a fly in a tar-box.

He's m good carding,
I would cheat my own father at cards, [gained but little.
When you have counted cards you'll find have
your you
iktch that catch may.
The cat hath eaten her count.
It is spoken of women with child, that go beyond their reckoning.
He lives under the sign of the cat*s foot.

He is hen-peck'd, his wife scratches him.
Whores and thieves by the clock.

go
Quoth the young cocky I'll neither meddle nor make.
When he saw the old cock's neck wrong off for taking part with the
master, and the old hen's, fQr taking part with the dame.
To order without a constable.

He's no conjuror.
Marry come up my dirty cousin.
Spoken, by way of taunt, to those who boast themselves of thdr birth,
parentage, or the Uke.
Cousin ger mains quite removed.

He's fallen into a cow-turd.
He looks like a cow-4urd stuck with primroses. '
To a cow's thumb.
Crack m" that nut, quoth Bumsted,
To rock the cradle iu one's spectacles.
Cream-pot love.
Such as young fellows pretend to dairy*maids, to get cream and other
good things of them.
Cuckolds are christians.

The story is well known of the old woman, who, hearing a fellow
young
call his dog cuckold, says to him, Are not ashamed call
yon to a dog by "
Christian's name. i
JOCULATORY PROVB^RBS. ^9
He has deserved a cushion.

That is, he hath gotten a boy.
To kill a man with a cusMan,

A enrtaiiiAeciure.
8ach reads her hatband when she chides hiin in bed.
an one as a wife
If a cuckold come hell take away the meat, viz.

If there be no salt on the table.
It*s better to be a^cold than a cuckold.
For want of company welcome trumpery.
That's the cream of the jest
lt*s but a of his countenance.
copy
His cow hatu cal ved, or sow pigg'd.
lie hath goC what he suagbt for, or expected.
With cost, one may make pottage of a stool foot.
The dasiiel dawcock sits amongst the iloctors.

i'orchorus incer olera, Corchorns is a small herb of little accuant :
eomc take it to be the male pimpernel : besides which there is another herb,
sj called, whl^restmbles mallows, and is mnch eaten by the Egyptians.
When the Devil is blind.
Hclgh ho, the Devil is dead.

Strike Dawkiti, the Devil is in the hemp.
The Devil is good to some.
It*8 good sometimes to hold a candle to the Devi!,

Holding a candle to the devil b assistingin a bad cause, an evil matter.
The Devil is in the dice.

When the Devil is a hog you shall eat bacon.
To give one the dog to hold. i.e. 'J'o serve one a dog trick.
It*i a good dog*can catch any thing.
He looks like dog under
a a^ door.
Make "-do and have a-do.
I know what I do when I drink.
Drink off your drink, and steal no lambs.
Drift is as bad as unthrift.

He was hang'd that left his drink behind him.
Good fellows have a story of a certain malef4ctor, who came to be pected
sus-
upon leaving his driuk behind him in an ale house, at the news of a
hue and cry.
A good dai/will not mend him, nor a bad day impair him.
ril make him da?ice without a pipe.
u e. I'll do him an injury, uul be shall not kiit"w bdw.
E 2
40 AN ALPHABET OF
E
I'll warrant you for an at Easter.
egg
You two Krejinger and thumb.

My wife cries five loaves She is"n travel.
a penny, t. e.
It's goodÂ if it were but caught.

It's spoken of considerable good that bath not, bot tallcs mneh
any one
of, sues for, or endeavoar5 after. A fbtore good, which is to be catched, If

a man can, is but little worth.
To-morrow morning I found an horse-shoe.

The fox was sick, and he knew not where :
He clapp'd his hand on- his tail,and swore it was there.

Tliat which one mosiforehets soonest comes to pasib .'
Quod quisque vitet nusquam, homini satis cantwn est in hifras,llftr.

Look to him jailor,there's Sifrog ia the stocks.
G
The way to be
gone is not to stay here.
Good goose do not bite. ^
It's a sorry will not baste herself.
goose
I care no more for it than a goose-turd for the Thames,
Let him set up shop on GooaidfCs sands.
This ia piece of wit being aeqoivoqae in the word
a coontry ; there an
Goodwin, wluch is a sirnaroe, and also signiflesgaining wealth.
He would live in a gravel-pit.

Spoken of a wary, spariug, niggardly persoD.
This grow'd by night.

Spoken of a crooked stick or tree, it coald not see to grow.
Great doings Gregory^s,heat the

at oven twice for a costard.
He that swallowed a gudgeon,
lie hath swore desperately, vix- to that which there ta a great prcanmp-
lion is false : swallowed a false oath.
'J'he Devil's gTt**. t. e. The surveyor's chain.

A good fellow lights his candle at both ends*
God help the fool, quoth Pedky,
Tbii Pedley was a natural fool himself, and yet had usually this sion
expres-
in his mouth. Indeed none are more ready to pity the folly of others^
than those who have but a small measure of wit themselves.
H
His hair grows through his hood.
He is very his hood is full of holes.
poor,
JOCULATORY PROVERBS. 41
You have a handsome head of hair, pray give me a tester.

When spendthriftscorae to borrow money tbey conunonly usher in their
errand with some frivolous discourse in commendation of the person they

would l"orrow of, or some of his parts or qualities : the same may be said
of beggars*
A handsome bodied man in the face.

Hang yourselffor
pastime. a
If ibe hansfd, I'll ohuse my gallows.

A King Harry's face.
Better have it than hear of it.
To take heart
of grace.
To be hide-hound.
This was a hill in King Harry's days.
To be loose in the hiUs,
Hit or miss for a cow-heel.
A kober-de-hoy,half a man and half a boy.
Hold or cut cod-piece-point.
Hold him to it buckle and thong.
She's an holy-daydame.
You*U make honey of a dog Vturd.
That horse in troubled with corns, t. e, founderd.
He hath eaten a horse, and the tail hangs out of his mouth.
He had better put his horns in his pocket than wind them,
lliere's but an hour in a day between a good house-wife
and a bad.
With a little more pains, she that flatters miglit do things neatly.
He came in hos'd and shod.
He was born to a good estate. He canne into the world as a bee into the
bive: or into an bouse, or into a trade or exnployment.
I
I AM not the and
first, shall not be the last.
To be Jach in an office.
An inch an hour, a foot a day.
A basket ^'itfft'c^,justice, a good
a jill forenoon justice.
He'll Ao justiceright or wrong.
K
There I caught a hune in a purse net. \hiscvp.
Knock under the board. He must do so that wiU not drink
As good a knave I know, as a knave I know not.
An horsQ-hiss, A rude kiss,Me to heat 0fiU*steetk out.
L
Hjs house stands on my lady'sground^
E 3
hi" AN ALPHABET OF
A long lane and a fair wind, and always thy heels here
Lasses are lads leavings. Chesh, [away.
In tb" east part of England, whsre they use the word tnothther ftHr k
fn'rl,they have a fond old sawe of this natare, viz. wenches are tinkers
bitcheSf girles are pedlers trulls^ and modhdhers are honest men*
daughters.
He'll laugh at the wagging of a straw. [son.

Neither lead nor drive. An untoward, unmanageable per-
To play least in sight,
ro go as if dead lice droppM out of him.
He is so poor, lean, and weak, that he cannot maintain his Uee.
Thou'lt lie all manner of colours but blue, and that is gone
to the litting.i. e. dying.

Tell a lie and find the troth.
Listenei^s ne'er hear good of themselves,
To lye in bed and forecast.
Sick of the Lombard fever, or of the idles. '
She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a
waw a wall. Chesh,

This the common people use in scorn of those who having been at jLom-
don are ashamed to speak their own country dialect.
She lives by love and lumps in corners.
Every one that can lick a dish ; as ranch as to say, every

one simpliciter,tag-rag and bob-tail.
^
It*s a lighteningbefore death.
This is generally obierved of sick persons, that a little before they die
their pains leave them, and their anderstanding and memory return to thtm ;
as a candle jast beforl if goes out gives a great blaze.
The best dog leap the stile first, i. e. Let the worthiest
person take place.

M
Maxfield measure heap and thrutch, i, e. thrust Chesh.

To find a mare's nest.
He's a man every inch of him.
A match, quoth Hatch, when he got his wife by the breech.
A match, quoth Jach, when he kiss'd his dame.
All the matter'^ not in my lord judge's hand.
Let him mend his manners, it will be his own another
day. [swordB.
^
*^
He's metal to the back, A metaphor taken from knives mid
'Tis Midsummer moon with You mad.
you. t. e" are
To handle without mittins.

He was born |p a mill, i, e. He's deaf.
^
V
44 AN ALPHABET OF
He pissesbackwards, t. e, does the other thing. .
He has pissedhis tallow. "
ThU Ifl8p""keu-
of bucks who lean after ^
grow rutting time, and may be
applied to men- i
Such a reason piss*dmy goose.

He playsyou as fair as if he pick'd your pocket.
If you be not pleased put your hand in your pocket and
pleaseyourself.
A jeerioiiexpression to such as will not be pleased witli tiie reasonable
offers of others.
As plum as a jugglem ear, u e. a quagmire, Devonsh,

To pocket up an injury.
U e. To pass it by without revenge, or taking notice.
The difference between the poor man and the rich is,that
the poor walketh to get meat for his stomach, tlie rich
a stomach for his meat.
Prate is prate, but it*s the duck lays the eggs.
She is at her last prayers.
Proo naunt your mare puts, t. e, pushes.
It would yex a dog to see a pudding creep.
He was christened with pump-water.
It is spoken of one that hath a red face.
Pê-/iWmakes people wise.

Because no man can tell what is in a pye tillthe lid be taken up.
To rid post for ^puddinff.

Be fair condition'd,and eat bread with your pudding*
He's at a forc*dpitf.
Q
We'll do as they do at Quern,
What we do not to day, we must do in the mom.
R
Some rain some rest, A harvest-proverb.
The dirt-bird (or dirt-owl)sings,we shall have rain.
When melancholy persons are very merry, it is observed, that there
nsnally follows an extraordinaryfit of sadness; they doing all things com*

monly in extreams.
Every day of the week a shower of rain,and on Sunday

A rich rogue two shirta and a rag. [twain.
Right master right,four nobles a year's a crown a quar-
Room for cuckolds, "c. [ter. Ckesh.
He rose with his arse upwards. A iignofgood luck.
JOCULATORY fKOVERBS. 45
He would live as long as old Rosse of Pattern^ who liv'd

'till all the world was weary of hinu [enoagh.
Let him alone with the saint's bell, and give him rope
The lass in the red petticoat shall pay for all.
Yoans men aniwcr lo when tbey are chid fbr beiaf w prodigal and ex*
pensive, meaning, they will get a wife with a good portion, tliat shall pay
for It.
Neither rhyme nor reason.
Rub and a good cast

Be not too hasty, and yoa'U speed the better : make not more haste than
good speed.
s
*Tis sooner saidiAknn done.
School-boysare the reasonablcst people in the world/ they
care not how little they have for tlieir money.
A Scot on Scot's bank.
llie Scotch ordinary, u e. The house of office.
That goes against the shins. Le, It*s to my prejudice,I
do it not willingly.
He knows not whether his shoe goes awry.
Sigh not but send, he*ll come if he be unhang*d.
Sirrah your dogs, sirrah not me, for I was born before yoa
Of all tame beasts I hate sluts. [could see.
He*s nothing but skin and bones.
To spina fair thread.
Spitm his mouth and make him a mastiff.
No roan cryM fish.
stinking
Stretchine yawning Icadeth
and to bed"
To stumble at the truckle-bed.
To mistake the cliamber-maid's bed for his wife's.
He could have well before he brake his left shoulder

sung
Sweet-heart and bag-pudding. [with whistling.
Nay stay, quoth Stringer,when his neck was in the halter.
Say nothing when you are dead. i.e. be silent
T
His tail will catch the chin-cough.
Spoken of one that sits on the ground.
A tall man of his hands, he will not let a beast rest in bis
He's Tom Telltroth. [pocket
'i\vo slipsfor a tester.
The tears of the tankard.
l^'our farthings and a thimble make a tailor's pocket jingle,
U 0 throw snot about, i, e, to weep.
/ "If
46 AN ALPHABET^ "C,
Though he says nothing he pays it with thinking,

like the
Welchman's jackdaw.
Tittle tattle^
give the goose more hay.
Tested cheese hath no master.
Trick for trick,and a stone thy foot besides,
in mtoth one,
pullinga stone out of kis mare's foot,when she oit him on
the hack, and he hei' on the hwttock.

Are there traitors at the table that the loaf is tam'd the
To trot like a doe, [wrong side
upwards?
There's not a turd to chuse, quoth the good wife, by her
two pounds of butter.
He looks like a tootJi-drawer,
t. e, very thin and meagre.
That's as true as 1 am his uncle.
Turnspitsare dry.
VealynW be cheap : calves falL

A jeer for those who lose the calves of their legs by,"c.
In a shoulder of veal there are twenty and two good bits.

This is a piece of coantry wit. They mean by it,there are twenty (oth"M
say forty) bits in a shonldcr of veal, and bat two good ones.
He*s a. velvet true heart. CliesJi,

VW. venture it as Johnson did his wife, and she did well.
Up with it,if it be but a gallon,it will case your stumaoh*
W
Look on the wall, and it will not bite you.
spoken in Jeer to soch as are bitten with mastard.
A Scotch foarming-panî, e, a wench.

The story is well known of the gentleman travelling in Scotland, who
deriring to have his bed warmed, the servant-maid doffi her clothes, and
Jays herself down in it awhile. In Scotland they have neither bellow*^
warming-pans, nor houses of office.
8he*s as quiet as a wasp in one's nose.
Every man in his

way.
Water bewitch'd, t. e. very thin beer.
Eat and welcome, fast and heartilywelcome.
I am very wheamow, (i.e. nimble) quoth the old woman,
when she steppedinto the milk bowl, Yorksh,
A whit"-liver*d fellow.
To shoot wide of the mark.
WidCy quoth Wilson,
To sit like a wire-drawer under his work. Yorksh,
He hatli more wit in his head than thou iti both thy
He hath plaidtvily
beguiledwith himself. [shouldvrs.
'
^
PROVERBIAL SAYINGS. 47
You trass all his wit in an egg-shell.

may up
Hold tongue husband^ and let me talk that have all
your
the wit, [good medley.
The wit of and the wool of a blue dog, will make a
you,
This is tlie worlds and the other is the oountiy.
When the Devil is dead there*s a wife for Humphry,
To it up in clean liunen.
wrap
To deliver sordid or uncleanly matter in decent language.
A point next the wrist,
Y
of him.
Hb has made a iôunffer brother
The brother liath the more wit.
younger
The younger brother is the ancienter gentleman.
Old and tough, young and tender.
Miscellany Proverbial Sayings.
Put miller, a weaver,

a and a tailor in a bag, and shako
them, tlie first that comes out will be a thief.
Harry's children of Leigh, never an one like another.

A seaman if he carries a mill-stone will have a quait out
of it. Spoken of the common mariners, if they can com"
at things that may be eat or drunk.

Go heie away, go there away, quoth Madge Whitworth^
when she rode the mare in the tedder.
There's struction, t. e. destraction, of honey, quoth Dun-
hinly, when he lick'd up the hen-turd.

I kill'd her for good will, said Scot, when he kilFd his
neighbour's mare. [kicked.

Gip with an ill rubbing, quoth Badger, when his mare
This is a ridiculoas expressionj used to people that are pettistiand froward*
He's a hot shot in a mustard pot, when both his heels

stand right up.
Three dear years will raise a baker's daughter to a por-
tion.
'Tis not the smallness of the bread, but the knavery
of the baker, [in cuckold.
I liopc better, quoth Benson, when his wife bad him come
One, two, three, four, are just half a score.
I'lf make him fly up wit}i Jackson s hens, t. e, undo him.

So when a man is broke, or oodone, we lay heii blown np.
Ill make him water his horse at Highrgate,

"" e* 111 me bin, and make him Uke a journey ap to XtfJNfoii.
"
" #
48 PROVERBIAL PHRASES.
What have I to do with Bradshaw*s windmill? Leicester,

What hsve 1 to do with other mens matteriT
He that would have good luck in horses must kiss the

Parscm's wife. [to the king.
He that snites his nose, and hath it not, forfeits his face
A map can do no more than he can.
It's an ill guest that never drinks to his host.

Run tap run tapster.
This is said of a tapster that drinks so roach himself, and is 30 free of hia
drink to others, that he is fain to run away.
He hath got the fiddle hut not the stick.

i. e. The books, but not the learning, to make nse of them, or the like.
That's the way to catch the old one on the nest.

This must be if we brew.
That b, if we nudertake mean and sordid, or lacrative employments, we
mast be content with some trouble, inconvenience, affronts,disturbance,"c.
Proverbial Periphrases of one Drunk,
He's disguised. He has got a piece of bread and

cheese in his head. He has drunk more than he has bled.
He has been in the sun. He has a jag or load. He has
got a dish. He has got a cup too much. He is one and
thirty. He isdagg'd. He has cut his leg. He is afflict-
ed.
He is top-heavy. The malt is above the water.
As drunk as a wheelbarrow. He makes indentures with
his legs. He's well to live. He's about to cast up his
reckoning or accompts. He has made an example. He
lisconcerned. He is as drunk as David's sow. He has
stolen a manchet out of the brewer's basket. He's dled.
rad-
is very weary. He He drank till he gave up his
half-penny,i. c. vomitted.
Proverbial Phrases and Sentences belongingto Drink

and drinking,
LiicK your dish. Wind up your bottom. Play off
your dust Hold up your dagger hand. Make a pearl

on your nail. To bang the pitcher. There's no deceit
in a brimmer. Sup Simon, the best is at the bottom.
Ale that would make a cat to speak. Fill what you will,
and drink what you fill. He hath piss'dout all he hath
against the walls" She's not a good house-wife thiitwiU :
not wind up her bottom, t. e, take off her driiiL
PROVERBIAL PHRASES. 49
"
One thai hdUh the JFrench Pox,
He has been at Haddam. He has got the crinkams.

He peppered.
is He is not pcpper-roo" He has got a
'K^ntiidt ague" He has got tbe imw eooMmiptioii. He has
got a cUp. He hM get at blow over the nose with ftFrendi

cowlstaff. HeiaFraochified. The CoTeBt"G"rden ague.
The Barnwell ag"e*
To make Water, i'c.

To make a little maid's water. Ta water the mangolds.
To speak with a maid. To gather a rose. To look upon
the wall.
A Lier,
He deserves the whetstone. He'll not let any body lie

by him. He shall have the king's horse. He's a long-
Jbow-man. He lies as fast as a dog can trot.
A great Lie.
That was laid oi with ^ trowel. ThaVs a loud one.

Thaf s a lie with avdtness, a lie with a htehet. That
sticks in Ins throat If a lie could haê oheked him, that
would have done it. The dam of that was a" wisker.
A Bankrupt.
He's all to pieces. He has shit in the
plum-bag. /He's
blown He has shut i^ his shop-windows. He dares
up.
not shew his head. He hath swallowed a spider. He
hath shewed them a fair pair of heels. He is marched
off. He goes on liis last legs. He is run off his legs.
A Wencher,
He loTCS laced mutton. He'll run at sheep. He'll mit

com-
poaltiy. He'll have a bit for his cat. He keeps a
cast of Merlins. Men of his hair are seen oftener at the

B" ôurt than at thd gallows.
A Wkwe.
She's like a eat, she*llplaywith her tail. Sh^s as right as

^^^g" A light-skirts. A kind-hearted soul. She*s
loose in the kilts. A lady of pleasure. As errant a whore
as ever piss'd. A cockatrice. A Leman. She's as
comiBon M' a^ baidber's dhiiir. As eommoft as the hi^h-

so PROVERBS THAT ARE
way. She lies backward and lets out her fore-rooms.

She l" neither wife, widow, nor maid.
A covetous Person,
His money comes from him like drops of blood. He'll

fay a ftiiU, He'll not lose the droppingsof his nose. He
iserves the with thump

a on tne back with a stone.
poor
He'll dress an and give the offal to the poor. He's
egg,
like a swine, never good until he oome to the knife.
Avanis nisi cum moritur nil rectefacit. Lab. His
purse
is made of toad's skin.
Proverbial Phrases relatingto several Trades.
The smith hath spark in his throat The

always a
smith and his

penny are both black. Nine taylors make
a man. Cobler's law, he that takes money must pay the
shot To brew in a bottle and bake in a bag. The Devil
would have been a weaverTemples. The but fojr the
gentle craft. Sir Hugh's bones. A hangman is a good
trade, he doth his work by day-light It b good to' be
sure. Toll it again, quoth the nailer. Any tooth good
barber. A horse-doctor, Le,tk farrier. He should be m
baker by his bow legs. Take all and pay Uie baker. He
drives a subtle tHade.
Proverbs that are iniire Sentences,
A
Long absent soon forgotten.
Parallel to Ch" are. Out of sight "mt of mind, and SsUom seen toon
forgotten: And not mach different tboae Greek ones.

Ti^yS valovTtQ
^K dot
^0^.01 "l"l\oi.Friend! dwelling ato off are no friends. And
IloXXac (t"i\lac airpoatfypoia ^liXvffi, Forbearance of con-
"eraation diuolvei friendfthip.
Adversity makes a man wise not rich.

The Fieiich Vent
eay, au vUage rend un home sage. The wind in a
man's face niHke* him wise. If be
to good be the greatest wisdom, eer.
tainly affliciiun and adversity makes men better, Fexatio dot tnteUectum,
He that's afraid of every not piss in meadow.

grass must a
Chi ha d'ogui artica
paara non pisci in herba. JtaL He that'i afraid of
every. nettle most not piss in the graas.
He that's rfraid of leaves must wood.

not come ia a
59i PBOVBBBS THAT ABE
The higher the goes tlie more he shews his taiL

(^
The higher beggers, or base-bred persons are advanced, the laore tkef 4ttt
cover the lowness and baseness of their spirits and tempers : For u tlw
Scripture saitk, Pr^v, xxvi. i. Himûr is unseemljfftr m/bol. Ta M
come la simia, chi pin va in alto pin moitra il colo. ItaL Tbe ItaUaas T
find draw this proverb to a different sense, to ugnify one, who Um nnorehe
speaks the more sport he makes, and the more ridiculons be renders hianelC
Stretch your arm no further tlian your sleeve will rcacJi.

Mctiri se qacmqne modolo sno ac pede vernm est.
Lend you mine oj'se and shit through my ribs.

This is, lend yon that whereof I have necessary and freqoent oae, 9aA
want it myself. It is a Rnssick proverb, and of frequent use in this oitfkMil
and was, I suppose, brought over to us by some merchants that traded tbert*
Never be ashamed to eat your meat

Apud mensam verecundari neminem deeet, Erasmus takes notfot
that this proverb is handed down to us from tbe andents, save that the 'val'
gar adds, neqtte in lecto : whereas (saithhe) Nusquam magis hademdm

e*t verecnndUe rmH9 qukm in lecU 4^ convivio. " ^Tet some there art
wiM" oat of a rastick sbame-facedness or over-manaerlinesi are very troolikK
aonae at table, expecting to be carved to, and often invited to eat, and !""
fusing what yon offer them, "c. The Italians say almost in tke sam" wmOti
A tavola non bisogna haver vergogna. And the French. Qui a bamta
de manger a honte de vivre. Jle that's ashamed la eat is ashamed to Ut""
t
Every man must eat a peck of aahes before he dies.

Iôse nothing for oxAtW. [hontes.
]Bvery at$ thinks himself wortliy to ttaivdl with the ki"9^
A kindly aver will never make a good horse.
This is a ScotUih proverb qo("ted by King James 4a his Basilicon lhrm"
It sevnis the word aver in Scottish sigoiftes a ooU, a# appears also by diat
other proverb. An inch of a nag is worth a span of an aver: in Mw
ancient writhigs averium signifiesany labouring beast, whether ox or
horse, and seems to be all one with the Latin "/"mefif mot.
Awe makes Dun draw.
B
That whidi is good for the lack is bad for the head.
Omnis commoditas sua fert incommoda secura.
He loves bacon well tliat licks tlie swine-sty-door.

"Where had*8 the best, naught must be the choice.
A ioc^bush is better than the open field.
that Is, It^ better bad friend relation, than to be
to have any though a or
qitMe desiitate and exposed to the wide world*

A iofifshift is better than none.
Wben hale is hcxt boot is next. %
Hext is contraction is of nighest. Bale is an old

a of highest, as next
English and help. So 'tis mack as

^-wiX signifying misery, boot profit or as
to say, When things are come to tlie wojrst they'llmend* Cum duplieantur
liitcres venit Moses.
A bald bead is soon shaven.

v^#
^
s^ ^
INTIRE SENTENCES. bZ
Make not hallu of good ground.

balk, Latin Scamnwn
A : a piece of earth ^hieh the plow dips over
withoat taming np or breaking. It is also ased for narrow slipsof land left
no plowed on purpose iu champian conntries, for boundaries between mens
lands, or some other convenience.

A good face needs no hand; and a bad one deserves none.
Some make a rhyme of this,
by adding. And a pretty wench on land.
More words than one go to a bargain,
A good bargainis a pick-purse.
Bon marchi tire I'argenthors de la hoarse. Gall, Good cheap is dear,'
for it tempts people to boy what they need not.
Bare walls make giddy house-wives.
I. e. Idle housewives, they having nothing whereabout to busy them*
wdfm, and shew their good honse-wifery. We speak this in excuse of the
good woman, who doth, like St. PauPs widow, nepiipy("(r6ai

rag
OlKlaQ,gad abroad a littletoo much, or that is blamed for not giving the
entertainment that te expected,or not behaving herself as other matrons de.
She hath nothing to work
upon at home, she is disconsolate, and therefore
"aeketfi to divert herself abroad : she is inclined to be virtuous, bat discom-
posed
through,poverty. Parallel to th"i I Uke to be. that .FreitcA proverb

rum9"*chambret/ailt' th iMe" pUb, whfeliyet Mr. Cotgrmve thus
renders,Empty chamberannln wonoeu pl^ the wantons ; fai a diftrent
The greatestbarker* bite not sorest ; or, dogs that bark

'
at a distance bite not at hantL
Cane dii abbaia non morde. Ital, Chien quiabbaye ne mord pas. GalL
Canes timidi vehementiiis latrant. Cave tibi a cane mnto " aqua silente.
Have a care of a silent dog and a still water.
Sir John Barlev-eom's the strongestknight.

Ifs a hard baitu where none escapes.
Be as it may be is no banning.
Svery bean bath its black.
VUiis nemo sine nascUur. Horat. 7r"(n]atKOpvBdXoitrt
ypff
eyytviffOai,Non
XoijiOV est alauda sine crista, Omni malo
PwUco inest granum putre, Ogni grano ha la sua scmola. Every
grain hath his bran. Ital,
Sell not the bear's skin before you have caught him..
Kon vender la pelledel orso inanzi che sia preso. Ital,
He must have iron nails that scratches a bear.

A man may bear 'tillhis back breaks.
If people find him patiortthey'llbe sure to load him.
You may beat a horse 'tillhe be sad, and a cow 'tillshe

be mad.
All that are in M moat not have quietrest
Where betsare, there is honey.
F 3
64 PHOVSRBS THAT ARE
Where there are iiidastrions persoos, there ii wealth, tot the hand of tk"
dUigtat luaketh rich. TMt we lee verified in oornaghboarithe Hollanders^
A hegger pays a benefit witli a louse.
Beggers must be no choosers.

The French say, borrowers moat be no choosers.
Set a hegger ou horse-back, and he'll a gallop"

Asptrlus nihil est humill etim surgit in altum, Claiidian. il ne'at
orgueil que de pauvre cnrichi. Gall. There te no pride to the enriched
begger's. li villan nobilitado non eonosce il paTentado. Ital, The viilate
ennobled will not own his kindred or parentage.
Sue a hegger and get a louse.

Rete nofi tenditur accipttri neque milvio. Tereot. Phorm.
Much ado to bring heggers to stocks, and when they

there,
come they'll not put in their legs.
Beggers breed, and rich men feed.
A hegger can never be bankrupt
It's one hegger*fik woe, to see another by the door go"
Ka^ 7tTia\h^ irrtr^f i^dopieu Heriod. EiUmmendictiemem'
ôinvidet.fl^^^^^^
ICCJiC/Û/ AWCU
'
A good hegiimmg makes a gooa ending.
De bon coinniencenient bonne fin. Gall. " de boune vie bonne fin. A
g"od life malces a good death. Bonl principii^nis boBUS.
Well hegun is half done.

JDhiUdium facU qui cofit habet. Horat. Which sone make pentaoMler
by putttog in bene before capiC,
Believe well and have well.
The hellyhath no ears.
Venter non habet aures. Ventre affame n' a point d'oreilles. GtM"
Discourse to or call upon hnngry persons, tbeyll not mind yon, or lekw
their meat to attend. Or, as Erasmus^ Ubi de pastu agiturt non "rfb
tenduntur honestte ratUmes. Nothing makes the vulgar more nntraotMi^
itree, and seditious, than scarcity and hunger. Nescit plebes jûaa H-
mere. There is some reason the belly should have no ears, because word"
win not fill it.
Better hellyburst than good drink or meat lost.

Little difference between a feast and a helly-full,
A helly-fuirsa whether
belly-full, it be meat or drink.
When the hellyis full,the bones would be at rest
The hellyis not filfd with fair words.
Best to bend, while it is a twig.
Udum Sf.molle lutum e$t nwnc nunc propemndus ^ ecri,
Fingendus sine fine rota. Pers.
QtuB prtBbet lotas arbor spatiantibus umbras.

Quo posita est primitm tempore virgafuit.
Tunc poterat manibus summA tellmre retfUUf
Nunc Stat in immensum virihui enetm suie* OvkL
A^^^'^^^^'tu^'*'^
U^pu,e"40t^^^*^ îtr"^
^"^^ ^^^^-irf^ it^*^
INTIKE SENTENCES- 55
QiMtre ^ttnc formandi mores (inqaitErasmiu) ci^ mtilis aHhuc tttmt i

tUMc optimis asstuscendmm cum ad quidvls cereum est ingenhun*
Ce qui poolainprend en jennesse, II le continae en vie iUeue. GalL The
tricks a colt gettetb,at his first backing, will whilst he continaeth nerer be
lacking. Cotgr,
They have need of a beesam that sweep the house with a

turf.
The best is best cheap.
F(Mr it doth the boyer more credit and service.
Make the best of a bad bargain.
The best thingsare worst to come by.
mffidlia qua jfulchra : ôXffraTO. KoXa,
Beware of had I wist.
Do as you're hidden and you'llnerer bear blame.
Birckm twigs break no ribs.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Like well to like. The Greeks and Latins have many proverbs to this
pvpose, as
'Ai"" KoKoioq irpog KoXotov il^"VBi, Semper Gra,
cuius assidet Oraculo. T^mJ iikvrirriyi 0/Xoc, fivpfiaKi
^k fivpfia^,Theocrit. Cicada cicada chara, formica formica.
'lieSluI roy 8flOU"y "yu deoc w'c Tbv OfXOlOV. Homer. Odysi.
". Semper similemducitDeus adsimUem,'ÔflOiOV hôi^ ijtlXoy^
JS^mMe gaudet "mUi* kOfAoiovofioltt e^/crat. SimUe appetU
simile, vmde 8c*0/LLOl6Trig
Tê (^t\6rriroc
firiTTjp, Likeness is the
teotber of k"ve. JSqwMs aqualem deiectttt.. Young men delight in the
company of young, old men of old,learned men of learned,Mricked of wicked,
good fellows of drunkards, "c. Tully in Cat, maj. Pares cum paribus
Cut est in vetere proverbiejfacilUmk congregantur.
He's in great want of a bird that will give a groat for
anowL
One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
" meglio aver hoggi on uovo che dimani una gallina4Jtal, Better have
an egg to day, than a hen to-morrow. Mienx vant nn tenes que doiz vons
I'anrez. GalL Ti\v iraptdaay (ifiiXye,

ri tov fivyovra
ci^KeiQ, Theocr. Prasentem mulgeas. quid fugientem insequeris f
NijTriocOQ rot eroi/Aa \tvwv t aviroifiach!jK"l. Hesiod.

He that leaves and
certainty sticks to chance, when fools pipe,he may dance.
Ifs an ill bird that bewrays its own nest.

Tov OiJCOi îa/3dXX"iK.
^rjaavpov
Every bird must hatch her own eg^.
Tute hoc intristi omne tibi exedendmm est, IWent. It dionld seem
tmmmmmuwMtii
tfaiaLiritefravcrliiastlUiiiinuMogtlloilsifdl.
lU^tmfmUiemuiUeniknmik"ii"miim9$t$m$Hmsnm. M^sr
eompedts qvasftcU ip9c gestet. Amoiu
56 PROVERBS THAT ARE
Small hirds must have meat.

Children mnst be ^, they cannot be maintained with nothing.
Birth is much, but breeding more.
If cannot bite never shew your teeth.

you
He that bites on
eveiy weed must needs light on poison.
He that is a bltdt is a scab.
Black will take no other hue.
This find by experience. It may lignify, that viciono penoni
dyers true
are leldum or n"ver reclaimed. Lanarum nigra nullum colorem bU
bunt. Plin. lib. 8. b. n.
He that wears black must hang a brush at his back.
A black plum is as sweet as a white.

The prerogative of beanty proceeds from fancy.
A black hen lays a white eg^.

This is a French proverb. Moire geline pond, blapc oenf. I conoeivc
the meaning of it is, that a biaclc woman may bear a fair duld.
It is ill to drive black hogs in the dark.
They have need of a blemng who kneel to a thistle.

BHnd men can judge no colours.
n cicco Don giudica de colorl. Ital. tI ri/^X^ Ktkl KaTStirpf;

Quid cceco cum specula ?
The blind eat many a fly. [out.

A man were better be half "/iW, than have both his eyes
Who so bold as blind Bayard?
*Afia6(a fi"V ^pdffosy Xoyttrfiog ^ okvov ij"4peu
Ignorance breeds confidence ; consideration, slowness and warinesa.
Who SO bliîd,as he that will not see?

Blow first and sip afterwards.
Simul sorbere ^ Jiare difficileest,
A bht is no blot unless it be hit.

Blushing is virtue's colour.
Great boasty small roast.
Grands vanteors petits faisenrs. GaU, ^pidpEOQ ijtaiVETaiiUfy

Aayi"c. Briareus esse apparet cibnsit lepus. And ^pa"rdc
TTpo ^pya Ik TroXXS KaxSg.
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
He that is bom to be hang'd shall never be drown'd.
He that was bom under a three half-penny planet shall
never be worth two-pence.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
He that borrows must again with shame loss.
pay or
Shame if ht jretorni not u much as he borrowed, low if more, anvil's
êry hard to cat the hair*
INTIRE SENTENCES. 57
The father to the and
6oiiÂ, tlic sun to tlie plouffb.
This Mying I look npon as too narrow to be placed ui the faml'yof pro*
"erbs ; it is rather to be deemed a rule or maxim in the leniire of the Gavil
kind, where tlionghthe father had jadgment to be hanged, yet .there follow*
ed no forfeitore of his estate, bat hit son might (a happy man according
to IloraceÂ description) paterna mre bobu* exercere s"i*" lho"|^
there be tliat expound this proverb tku. The father to the boigh, i. e. to
bis sports of hawking and hunting,and the son to the plow, i. e. to a poor
hnsband*man's condition.
They that are botmd must obey.

BoiiglUwit is best. 9. in W.
Better to how than break.
II vaat mieux plier que rompre. Gall. E meglio picgar cbe scare*-
sar. Ital.
A haw long bent at last waxcth weak.
L'arco si rompe le sta troppo teso. /ô/. Arcus ninds intensus rutn-
pitur. ThUp are not to be strained beyond their tonus and strength.
This jmay be applied both to the body and the mind : too much labour and
stody weakens and impairs both the one and the other.
Otia corpus alunt, animus quoque pascitur illis ;
Infmodicus contra carpit utrumque labor.
JSrajÛ
a good dog, but that he hath lost his tail. [bite.
JBra^s a good dog if he be well set on -,
but he dare not
Much hran and little meal.,
Beware of hreed,CIiesL t. e, an illbreed.
That thafs bred in the bone will never out of the flesh.
Cbi nM per nalKra in alia fossa dura. Itai. That which ctHnes natt-
nJSf cootinact till death. The Latins and Greeks have many proverbial
lijriagf
to this porpotc, as Lupus pUum mutat no" mentem. The wolT
suajr change Ua hair (forwolves and horses grow gray with age) bat mot
hii dlspodtion.
Naturam expellasfurcA licet usque recurret, IIorat"
and *'OviroT" Trou'jffeig

tov KaoKivov opda flatiZfiy*
Aristoph. Yoa can aerer bring a erabish to go strait forwards. " {v\o V
ayKvKov tttkwOT* OfSoV* Wood that grows crooked will hardly
be straightened. Persons naturally inclined to any vice will hardly be re*
claimed. For this proverb is for the most part taken in the worse sense.
Let every man praisethe bridgehe goes over. t. e.
Speak not iU of him who hath done you a courtesy, or whom yon have
made use of to your benefit ; or do commonly make use of.
Bridges
were made for wise men to walk over, and fools
A hrtoe will enter without knocking. [toride ovcr"
A hroken sack will hold no corn.
This is a fVench proverb engUshed, Un sac perce ne pent tenlr le
grain: thoagh I am not Ignorant that there are many common both to
f'rastce and England, and some that mn thro"|^ moat Uusgnagea. SaCCO
rotto DOB tlaa migUo. Ital, Millet being one of the laait of (raiM.
"
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58^ PROVEBBS THAT ABK
A lroh"$,sleeve holdeth the annback.

Much hnat littleihiit.
Who hvJU the cow mnst keep the calf.
Mr. Howel laitb,that thU U a Uw proverb.
The hwna child dreads the fire.
Almost all langnageaafford m saylnfiand proTerbito this pvrpoM, taeb
are
ita^^v Se re viiirtOQ^vw, Heslod, p^y^^v ^^ te
vifiriOQ^yvht,
Homer. Piseator Utus saper ; itmck by the scorpion
fish whose esteemed Can' scottate da
or pastinaca, pricklesare venomons.
r acqua calda delU fredda. Itai, The same we find in

ba paora poi
French, Chien eschaad^ craint i'eaa frokle, i, e. The scalded dog tear"
cold water.
Busy will have bands.

Persons that are meddling and trooblesome mtist be tied short.
Who more husv than they that have least to do ?

Every man as his business lies.
All is not butter the cow shites.
Non i tatto batyro che fa la vocca. Itai"
What is butter among ft kemiel of hounds.

a pound of
They that have good store of butter may lay it tluck o"
their bread, (or put some in their shoes.)
Cui multum est piperis etiam oleribua immiscet.
That which will not be butter must be made into cheese*.

They that have no other meat, bread and butter are glad
to eat. [enough of one.
Who buys hath need of an hundred eyes, who sells hatlr
This is an Italian proverb, Cbi compra ha bisogno dicent' occhii,cM
vende u' ba assai de nno. And it is an nsnal saying, Caveat emptoTf Let
the bnyer look to himselft The seller knows both the worth and priceof
hil commodity.
Buying and sellingis but winning and losing.

c
A oa^s head will feast an hunter and his hounds.
A man can do no more than he can.
Care not would have it.
Care will kill a cat.
And yet a cat is said to have nine lives. Curafacit canos*
Carets no cure.
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
Cento carre di pensieri non pageranno un' oncia di debito. Itat. i. """
An hundred cart-load of thooglits
will not pay an ounce of debt.
The best eart may overthrow.

A muffled cat is no good mouser.
Gatta gaantata non pigliamai sorice. Jtal, A gloved cat^ ftc
^.v ** .1
f "
60 PKOVEKBS TKA.T ARE
A soalded mn fean cold wiiter,v. in S.

He that leaffet etriakdy and ttieks to ofaance^
Wlten
fools ]HM he may dance.
They may sit io the chair that have nalt to aelL
It chanceth in an hour, that comes not in 8ef?cn years.
Plus enlffi fmti valet A"rm henlgmt ffudm H te Vgrnris eommendet
^fUtda MartL liwvl. "Yery man ii tlMNigbt to have soom lofcky booFy
whcnftii 1m hfltli
mx opportmiity oiiMped him of bciag bapnr all bit Ufi^
could he bat diaeern it and embrace the occasion. Aocasca in nn pooto
^wldleiioiiac"McaMceirtoanoi. Ital, it Mia oat !" M fMMBliiUgh
iiUs Bot out in an hnndred yean.
There is chance in the cock's spur.

tJhanee of pasture makes fat cfdves.
Charity begins at home.
MMexre it the ^Maaora of ovr loTo to o"r Ml|blK""r. Manf aaMttMii
occor in the anciaiit GfweA tad LtitlH poata to this p"rfoae" aa" Omm$i
stbi nuliiks """e mmhmt futim mltgri, Tereut. Andr. Fr"ximus jnm
.
"gomet nUhi, Ibid. ^Xce ^ cfltvrS fôKKor iBtl^ îva, dce.

V. Erasm, Adag" Fa bone 4 te " tnoij " poi 4 gU altri m tn pooL Afll"
When good ehear is lacking our friends will be packing.

Tliose that eat cherries with great persons shall have
their eyes sprintedout with the stones.
CMchens feed capons,
I. ", As I ondmCaMl itêUdtens to b" capoM, and were
come eapasi
It's a wise eJUld knows his own father.

Ov 3PIM iov y6vov hyrh^ "viyvta.Homer.
yap TiQ Odym.
"hiid*s pig but father's bacon.
Parents nsaally tell their children, this pig or this lamft is thine ; bnC,
when they to be loM, parcBti thaiiiieiTaa tata ttie ffliO-
come growo ap and
ncy for them.
Chmrre-fcik^
are never paid.
That is,give them what yon will they are never contented.
When the chaM is christened, yon may have god-fitêrs

enough.
When a man's need Is tapplied,or his occasion people are rea^j to
over,
offer their assiBtance or serviee.
Children and fools speak truth.

'
the Diach proverb hath it thus. Too are not expect tmth firom any
to
Imt ehtldren,persons dnink or mad. Jn vino Veritas, w" know* laUm
it fols sont Divins. GdlL
"%iUr"m and fools ha"" neffy tivea.

for ont of ignonmce "r faqgeilUiwa and inad raleaqry ibof art ""! M"
" V
jtyu. "
INTIRB S"NT"NC"8. 6l
cerned either for what it put, or for what it to eomt. Neither the r"iBem"
brance of tlw one, nor fear of the other troubles them, bat only the lenae of
present pain : nothing sticks apon them. They lay notliing to heart. Hence
it hath been said, Nihil scire tut vUa JtteundUsima, to which that of
jEcclesiastes gives some coontenaace : lie that encreateth knowledge
encreaseth sorrow.
Children suck the moiher when they are young, and the
fatlier when they are old.
So we have the chink well bear VB^hthe stink.
IjHcri boniu Qif^lli6"tiwaveual. This was
est odor ex the Em-
re peror
Vesjpasian*sanswer to those who complained of his settinggabelson

urine and other sordid things.
After a Christmas conies a Lent. [init.

The chttrch is not so large but the priestmay say service
The nearer the church the further from God.
TUs to a French proverb. Fres de 1' egUse loin de Dieo.
Chureh-work goes on slowly.

Let the church stand in the church-yard.
Where God hath his church the devil will have his ohapcl.
Hon si tosto si fa nn templo " Dio come il Diavolo ci fabrica ona
capellaappreaso. Ital,
Pater noster built churches, and our father pulls them

down.
I do not look np"m the battdingof charcbes as an argnment of the ness
good-
of the Roman religion,for when men have once entertained an opinion
of expiatingsin and meriting heaven by each works, they will be forward
enough to g^ve not only the frnit of their land, but even of their body for '
the sin of their sool : and U's easier to part with one's goods than one's sins.
Claw a churl by the breech, and he will shit in your fist.

Persons of a servile temper or education have no sense of honoor or in"
gennlty, and must be dealt with accordingly.
Ungentem pungit, jmugentem ruistcus ungit,
Which.sentence both the French and Italians in their langoages have made
a proverb. Oignex villain qu' il vons poindra. Gall, "c. Insomnch that
one would be apt with AfHstotle to think, that there are servi naturd.
The greatestclerks are not always the wisest men.

For
pmdence gained more is
by practiceand conversation, titan by study
andcontemplation.
It^sthe clerk makes the justice.
Hasty cUmbers have sudden falls.
Those that rise suddenly from a mean condition to great estate or dignity,
do often fall more suddenly, as I
might easily instance in many conrt"fa'
voarites : and there is reason for it,because such a speedy advancement is
apt to b^;et pride, and consequently folly in them, amd envy in others,
which mnst needs precipitate
them. Sudden ebanges to "zinordinary good
or bad fortune, are apt to turn men's braini. A eadtr ira chi Iropp^ alto
sale* ital,
G
icfX^til,
/2^^t*^'. 'PcJ" - ^vj.
Tho clock goes as it pleasestbe dark.

Can jack-an-apcsbe merry wben his chg is at his heels f
Close sits by shirt,but closer my skin.
That iiyI love my friends well, bat myself better: aone so dear to. me as
I am to myself. Or my body is dearer to me than my goodi. Ploa pre*

est la chair che la chemise. Gall,
A close moutli catcheth no flies.

People speak and solicit for themselves, or they are not like to ob"
mast
tain preferment. Nothing ifaries it like to boldness and importunate,yea,
impudent l)eggiag. Men win give to such se defendendOf to avoid tiieir

trouble, who would have no consideration of the modest, though never ao
much needing or well deserving, fiocca trinciata mosca non ci entra. /tol*
It*s a bad cloth indeed will take no colour.

Cattiva ^ quella lana che non si pno tingere. Ital,
Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings.

Non si male nunc Sc olim sic erit.
Better see a clout than a hole out jTothers

go without.
They that can cobble and clout,shall have work when
Glowing coals sparkle oft
When the mind is heated with any passion,It will often break ont in
words and Psalm
expressions. xxxix. i.
You must cut your coat according to your cloth.

Uoifacciamo spesesecondo I'entrata.
la Ital. We must spend accord-
ing
to our income. Selon le pain il faut le conteau. Call, According to
the bread must be the knife, " Fol est qui plus despend que sa rente ne
vant. Gall. He is a fool that spends more than his receipts. Sumptus
censum nh superet, Flaut. Foen. Messe tenus propria vive, Pers.
Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.

GaUus in suo sterquilinio plurimum potest, Senec in ludlcro.
The French say, Chien sur son ftimire est hardi. A dog is stout on his own
dunghill.
Let him that is cold blow the coal.
In the coldest îni there is hot fire.
Co/c? of complexion good of condition.
A ragged coh may make a good horse.
An unhappy boy may make a good man. It is used sometimes to signify,
that cliildren,
which seem less handsome when young, do afterwards grow
into sliapeand comeliness : as on the contrary we say. Fair in the cradle,and
foul in the saddle : and the Scots, A kindly aver will never make a |ood
iiorie.
Company makes cuckolds.

Con^fHtrtsons
are odious.
Conceited goods are quickly spent
Cofrfess
and be hang'd.
An evil conseiemce breaks many a man's neck.
^%i.^"^C^^
Uc*s an illcook that cannot lick his own finfccrs.
C"luy goaverne Men nihl le miel qai n' en taste " lesdoiisttn' en Icche.
tialL He is an ill keeper of honey who tastes it not.
God sends me^t, and the Devil sends cooks.

Salt cooks bear blame, but fresh bear shame.
Com and horn go together.
t. e. for when
prices, corn is cheap cattle are not dear, 8f,vice versa.
Much com lies under the straw that is not seen.
More cost more worship. [reversion.

I'llnot change a cottage in possessionfor a kingdom in
All covet all lose.
Covetausness bringsnothing home.
Qui toot convoitetoat perd. Gall. " qai trop enipoignerien n* estrafn'd.
He that grasps at too mach holds fast nothing. The fable of the dog is
known, who, catching at the appearance in the water of the shonlder of
nmtton he liad in his month, let it drop in and lost it" Chi tutto abbraccia
nnlia stringa. ItaL
A cough will stick longer by a horse than half a peck of
Good counsel never comes too late. [oats.
For if good, it mast snit the time when it is given.
Coitnt not your chickens before they be hatch'd.

Ante victoriam n^ canas triumphum.
So many countries so many customs.

Tant de gens tant de goiaes. Gall,
A man old to the court and young
must go to a cloyster,
that would go from thence to heaven.
A friend in court is worth a penny in a man's purse.
Bon fuit avoir amy en coor, car le pruces en est pins court. Gall, A
friend in coart makes the process short.
Far from court far from care.

Full of courtesy full of craft.
Sincere and trueêarted persons are least given to compliment and cere-
mony.
It's suspicioushe hath some design upon me who courts and flatters
me. Chi te fa în carezza che non vuole, U ingannato t'ha,o ingannar te
"aole. Jtal. He tJiatmakes more of you than you desire or expect, either
be hath cozen'd you or intends to do it.
Less of your courtesy and more of your purse.

Re opitulandum non verbis,
CaU me cousin but cozen me not.

CursM cows have short horns.
Vat Deus immiti comua curta bovi.

Providence so disposesthat they, who have will,want power or nifans
to halt.
C ^
^ \. ^ ." T*^ -"-
. ^ T
Who would keep a cow, when he may have a pottle of

nkilk for a penny ?
Many a good cow hath but a bad calf.
*'AvZpuiVy/MJU/v TiKva irrifiara, Heraum ftlH nmtm,
Tlavpoi yap roi Tral^fc ofioioi irarpl iriXovTai' oi
irXEloysQ KaKlsQ^ iravpoi ê re irarpoc apelftQ, Homer*

'
Odyss. s JElius Sparitanus in the life of Severus shews, by many feic*

amples, that men famoos for learning, virtae,valoar, .
or snccess, have, for
the most part, either left behind them no children, or soch as that it had
been more for th"ir honour and the interest of hnmsn affairs that they IU|il
died childless. We might add nnto those which he prodnceth, many |p*
stances out of our own history. So Edward the first,
a wise and valiaal
prince, left ns Edward the secohd : Eduard the black prinee BiehwHt
tlje second ; Henry the fifth,a valiant and sucpesiftil king, Henrp fbt
sixth, a very unfortunate prince, though otherwise a good man. And
yet there want in history instances
not to the contrary, as, among the
French, Charles Martell, Pipin and Charlemain in continaai worn*
cession,so Joseph Scallger the son was, in point of scholanhip, na wkit

inferior to Julius the father. Fortes creantur fortibus4; lx"ni9"4iff*
Where coin's not common eommmis mutt he scant*
A collier's cow and an alewife's sow are always well fed.
Others say a poor man's cow, and then the reason is evident,why " eol-
is not
)ier's so clear.
Much coin much care.

Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniatn, Horat.
The greatest crabs are not always the best meat

.
Great and good are not always the same thing,though onr langvafe oAfi
makes them synonymous terms, as when we call a great way a good wqr,
and a great deal a good deal, "c. in which, and the like phrases, good i%"
nifies somewhat less than great, vîz.of a middle size or indifferent. Botms
also, in Latin, is sometimes used in the same sense, as in that of Ptrtimt^
Sat. %. Bona pars procerum, Les grands boenfs ne font pas les grtadft
joumees. Gall, The greatest oxen rid not most work.
Crabs breed babs by the help of good lads.

Country wenches when they are with child usuallylong for "rabs : or
crabs may signifyscolds.

There's a craft in dawbing ; or, There is more in
crtifi
dawbing than throwing dirt on the wall.
Hiere is a mystery in the meanest trade.
No man is his the first day.
craftâ-master
Nessuno nasce maestro, Ital.
'
Shameless cravingmust have, "c. v, in S.
You must learn to creep before you go.
Soon crooks the tree that would
good g'antire/ be.
A -gambrel is a crooked piece of wood on which butchers hang ap tha
sarcasset of beasts by tba Itgi^from the Italian word gamba, slgnityii^^
a
1"g. Parallel to thii is that other proverb. It early pricks that will be ""
thorn, Adeb d tenpris assuescere multum est*
Each cross hath its inscription.

Crosses and afflictions come not by chance, they spring not oat of the
earth, bnt are laid upon men for some ju"t reason. Divines truly say, that,
many times we may read the sin in the ponishment.
No cross no iorown.
it's ill killing a crow with an empty sling.
The crow thinks her own bird fairest.
Asinus asinOf sus sui pulcker, 4; suum cuique pulchrutn. So the
Ethiopians are said to paint the Devil white. "very one is partial to, ^nd'
weir conceited of his own art, his own compositions, his own children, his
own coantry, "c. SelMove is a mote in every one's eye ; it influences,
biMses, and blinds the judgments even of the most modest and cious.
perspica-
Hence it is (as Aristotle well observes) that men for the most part
love to be flattered. Rhetor* 2. " A tons oiseauz lent nids sont beaux.
Gall, "very bird likes its own nest. A ogni groUa paion' belli i suoi
groliatinl. Ital.
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often..

No carrion will kill a crow.
Cunning is no burden.
It is part of Bia6*s goods, it will not hinder " man^% flightwhen the mies
ene-
are at hand.
Many things fall between the and the lip.

cup
Multa cadunt intfr cmlicem supremaque labra,
IToXXa /LLsra^v irikti kvXiicoq Kai jîiXeog a p5.

Citantur ab A. Gellio. De la main k ia boucbe so perd sou vent la soupe.
Gall, Between the hand and the mouth the broth is times shed.
many
Entere la boache " le cneillier vient Sonvent grand destonrbier. Gall,
What cannot be cured must be endured.

Leviusfit patientia quicquid corrigere est nefas, Horat. Od;
A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.

A cursM cur must be tied short.
A meschant chicn court lien. Gall,
Custom is another nature.
Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.
D
He that will not be ruled by his own dame, must be nilcd
by his step-dame.
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
Assai ben balla a chi Fortuna suona. Ital. The French have a pro.
verb. Mieux vaut ane once de fortune qui nne livre de Better is
sagesse.
an oonce of good fortune than a pound of good forecast.
Th"y love dancing well that dance among thorns.

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66 PROVERBS THAT ABB
When
you take
jou go to dmeey take heed whom by the
If s as good to be in the dark as without light [hand.
Jone's as good as lady in the dar\ v. iiil.
my
One may see day at a little hole. '
The better day the better deed.'

A bon jour b'"n oeavre. Gall.
Dicenda bond sunt bona verba die.
He never broke his hour that kept his day.

To day a man, to-morrow a mouse.
To day me, to-raorrow thee.

Anjoard' hay Roy, deraaio rieD. Gali,
The longest day must have an end.

ril n'est li grand joar qol oe vienne i vespre. Gall. Kon riea di, che
non venga sera. Jtal.
Be the day never so long, at length comcth even-song.

Tis day still while the sun shines.
Speak well of the dead.

Mortuis non conviciandum, 4 ^^ mortuis nil nisi bonum. Nampu
ciim mortuinon mordent iniquum est ut mordeantur.
A dead mouse feels no cold. [bare-fi)ot

He that waits for dead mens shoes may go long enough
A longne corde tire qoi d'autniy mort desire. Gall. He hath but a oqU
miit who longs for another man's death.
After d^th the doctor.

HUs is a French proverb, Apres la mort le meflecin, poraUdi to fhii
ancient Greek one,
MirA iT^Keôv ri (TVfijxa\ia* PMt bettmm
auxilium. We find it in QuintUian*^ Declam. Cadavirib. paeti, wMh

another of the like import ; Quid quod medicina mortuomm term est?
Quid quod nemo aquam infundit in cineresf After a man'i homt is
bnrnt to ashes, it's too late to pour on water.
Who gives his goods before he is dead,

away
Take a beetle and knock him on the head.
Chi dona il sno inanzi morire il s' apparecchia assni patire. Ital. He
tliat gives away bis goods, before death, prepares himself to saflfer.
He that could know what would be dear.

Need be a merchant but one year.
Such a merchant was the philosopher Tliales, of whom it is reported, ttat
to make
proof, that it was in the power of a philosopher to be rich if he
pleased, he foreseeing a future dearth of olives, the year following, bovi^

op at easy rates all that kind of fruit then in mens hands.
Out of debt out of danger.

'Rvûi fiwv 6 firfikv
Oi^tiXiav,Happy he that ""et nothing*
Desperate cuts must have, ^c. ti. in C.

^viXyfrk,
^f"2uu;^^
^îîyyurrnfiUn^^ 4^^- ^7. ^- 4 )
The DrnVs meal is half bran.

La farine da diable n'e qae bran, or s* en Ta moitie en bran. Gali,
What is gotten over the DeviVt back is spent under his

belly.
MaU porta malk. dilabuntur. What is got by oppressionor extortion,
is many times spent in riot and lozory.
Every dog hath his day, and every man lus hour.
All the dogs follow the salt bitch.
Love me and love my dog,
Qni aime Jean alme son chien. Gall. Spesse volte si ba rispettoal cane
per il padrone.
He that would hang his dog gives out first that he*^s mad.
He that is aboot to do any thing disingenaons, unworthy, or of evil fame,,
first bethinlts himself of some plaasible pretence.
The hindmost dog may catch the hare.

He that keeps another man*s dog shall have nothing left
him but the line.
This is a Greek proverb. *'0c Kvva êvov
Tp""jiH TttT^ fXOVOV
X7voc fl^Vtl, The meaning is,that he who l)estow8 a benefit apon an
ungratefol person loses his cost. For if a dog break loose he presently gets
him home to his former master, leaving the cord he was tied with.
What ? keep a dog and bark myself.

That is,mast I keep servants, and do my work myself.
There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging.

Hang a dog on a crab-tree,and heMl never love verjuice.
This is a ladicrous and nugatory saying, for a dog once hanged is past
loving or hating. But generally men and beasts shun those things by or for
which they have smarted. *Ev OiQ "V aTVyqtrtJ "v^pi")TrOQ

TOTTOiQ T"TOig fiSerai, Amphis
ffKiQa 7r\rj(Tidiû)y in Am-
pelurgo apud Stobaum.

Et mea cynU"a scmH vastd percussa procelUl,
Jllum quo ifcsa est, horret autre locum, Ovid. "
Dogs bark before they bite.

It's an ill dog that deserves not a crust.
I"igna tanis pabulo, *Aj/a )/ Kvioy rS ^p^fjLaTOQ*

Eras, ex
StMa.
A good dog deserves a good bone.

It is an ill dog that is not worth the whistling.
Better to have a dog fawn on you than bite you.
He that lies down with dogs must rise np with fleas.
Chi con cane dorme con poke si leva* /ittfl. Qui w coMhe avec lea
chicu ae leve vno det paces* GutL

I INTIR" SENTENCES. 69
Give child ^till he craves, and a dogvrhUe his tail doth

a
and you*ll have a fair dog but a foul knave.

wave,
The dog^that licks ashes trust not with meal.
The ItaUatu say this of a cat, Gatto che lecca cenere non fidur
farimt*
Into the month of a bad dog often falls a good bone.

Sovvent k maavais chicn tombe an bon os eu gaenie. Gall.
Hungry will
"{og"# eat dirtypuddings.
J^fuHus rarb ttomachus vulgaria temnit*
A U Mm U n'y a point de manvaii pain. Gall, To htm who ii hangry

*
aoy lHr"ad itemi good, or noo" oomei amlM. L* Ailno ohi ha mbm maiigU
d' ogBi itrame. Jtak
It's an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog ; or, a stone

to throw at a dog.
Qd vent battre son ehien troave assex de butoos. Gall, Malefaetrt
qmiwuU muâmnon causaminvenit. Pab. Mimas. He who hath a
mind to do me a mischief, will easily find lome pretence. Mcicpa

irpSfâiQ *"Ci rS Trpdâi KaKtog* To do evil, a pretence or
oecaitoa will serve mens tarns. A petite achoison Ic loop prcud le moaton.
A old dog will learn no tricks, v, in O.

Do well and have well.
Draffe is good enough for swine.
He thaf s down down with him.
i have sweetest water.

Puteu* H hauriatur melior evadit. ^piara avrkûtva
fieXrlti^
ylperau Basil, in epist. ad Eustachium medicum. AU
things, especially mens parts, are improved and advanced by nse and cise.
exer-
Standing water* are apt to corrupt and patrify : weapons laid op nod
disused do contract rust, nay the very air, if not agitnted and brolcen with the
wind, is thought to be nnhealthfui and pestilential,especially in this onr na.
tive country, of which it is said, Anglia ventosa, si turn ventosa

venenosa.
Golden dreams make men awake hungry.

After a dream of a wedding comes a corpse.
Draffe was his errand^ but drink he would have.
Drunken folk* seldom take harm.
,
This is far from being troc, that the

so on contrary, of ray own observation,
I coald give divers instances of such as have received moch harm
very
when drunk. '
iivfer drunk ever dry.

J'arthiquoplus bibuntebyhtsjltiunt.
\llC
i^ fZiUjf^M^'h0^'f:M*U
A^
* *" ,
What soberness conceals dnmhesmea reveals.

Qu"d est in corde s9brU est in ore ebrU. KOfîar"
To CK
hi Tfis
vifl"l"ovTOQ yXdnrriQêglrS fie^vovrog,Plutarch,
irzpi dôXco-v/ac- Erasmus cites to this parpose a sentence ovt
of Herodotus, Oivti KariovTOQ *

swiirKkufriv iirrf, wlien wine
sinlcs,words swim : and Pliny hath an cl^puit saying to this parpose,
Vinutn usque adeb prodit, mentis arcana ut mortifera etiam inter
pocula loquantur homines^ Sf.nk, perjugulum quidem redituras voces
contineant. Quid non ebrietas designat f operta reeludit.

He that kills a man when he is drunk^ must be hang'd
when he is sober.
The duekt fare well in the Thames.
Dumi folks get no lands.
This is parallel to that. Spare to speak and speed; and that
a
spara to
former, A.dosb moath catcheth no flies.
E
Earh up and never the nearer.
Earhf sow early mow. %

It earlypricks that will be a thorn.
Soon crooks the three that good gambrel wonid be.
The earlybird catcheth the worm.

A penny-worth of ease is worth a penny.
ITie longer east the shorter west
You can^t eat your cake, and have your cake.
Vorrebbe mangiar la forcaccia 8c trovar la in tasca. ItaL
Eating and drinking takes away one*s stomach.

En mangeant L'appetitse perd. To which the French have another
seemingly contrary. "n mangeant 1* appetitvient, pardiel to tliat of oars^

One shoalder of niotton draws down another.
He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.

Q"i nucleum esse vuU nucom frdngat oportet^ No without
giiins
pains.
Madam Parruel^.crack the nut and eat the kemcL

Eaten bread is forgotten.
It's very hard to shave an egg.
Where nothing is nothing can be had.
An egg will be in three bellies in twenty-fourhours*

Better half an shell.
egg than an empty
Better half a loaf than no bread.
Ill egging makes ill begging.

Evil flattery,dnw others to be batr
persons, by cBtldng and ob as aa
tiiemselvea.
INTIRB SENTENCES. 71
All ehu [or helps] as the geni-wren said, when she piss'd
in the sea.
Many little* make a mickle, the whole ooean is made up of dropr.

Goatte a goatte on reroplit la cave. GalU And Goutte k goutte la mer
if cgoute. Drof by drop the sea is drained.
JBmpty yessels make the greatest sound.

The Scripinr": saith, A fuol't voice is known by multitude of words. None
more apt to boast than those who have least real worth ; least whereof justly
to boast. The deepest streams flow with least noise.
Empty hands no hawks allure.

A rigot Enehshman knows not when a thing is well.
Whoso haUi but a mouth, shall ne'er in England suffer
droughthy v, supra*
For if he Hoth but open it,it's a chance but it will rain in. True it is,we
"eldom aoffer for want of rain ; and if there be any fault in the temper of
oar wSa, it is its over^raoistness, which inclines as to the scarry and con-
aomptions; diseases the one scarce known, the other hot rare in hotter
coontries.
Every thing hath an end, and a pudding hath two.
All's well that ends well.

ExUiu acta probat.
There's never enough where nought leaves.

This is an Italian proverb, Non vi i k bastanza se niente anvanza. Tt is"^
hard so to cut the hair, as that there shoald be no want and nothing to spare.
Enough is as good as a feast.

Asier y a, si trop n' y a. Gall.
Better be envied than pitied.

This b a saying in most languages, although it hath little of the nature of
a proverb in it. ^ôvietrBai *figiv

Kpifftrov ,^ oiKTEipeffOau
JSerodot, in Thalia. 'AW 6fi(t)Q
KpiitTtTOVr^v oiKTipfifv
ibÔVOg* Pindar. Fiu tosto invidia che compassione. Ital.
Essex stiles, Kentish miles, Norfolk wiles, many men
beguiles.
For stiles Essex may well vie with any coonty of England, it being
wholly divided into small doses, and not one common field that 1 know of
in the whole country. Length of miles I know not what reason Kent hath
to pretend to, for generally speaking, the farther from London the longer
the miles ; but for cunning in the law and wrangling, Norfolk men are
Justly noted.
Where every hand fleeceth,"c. w. fleeceth.

Evening orts are good morning fodder.
The evening crowns the day.
La vita il fine, e* 1 di loda la sera. Ital. The end or death eommeods
the life,and the evening tlie day. DMqpe beatut
Ante obUum nsmA supremAque /knera b"b"t" Ovid-

i
ii^yCtlfttûSÂÂ^Û^-^'dt
!"e4^v^
Of two wXU the least is to be chosen.

lUs reaion the pbllocopherrendered, why be choK " little wife.
Ecehange is no robbery.
A bad excuse is better than none at alL
Emerience is the mistress of fools.
Etperientia stultorum magistro' WUe men learn bjr ottim
fooli by their own, like Spimetheus, OQ "Wel Kaicoy Ive vdfltru
What the eye sees not the heart mes not
Le coear ne veat donloir qae ce 1' oeil
pent veoir. GaiL
ne Tberwfore
it is not good to peep andpry into every corner, to be too inqolriliTe faMo
what oar seryant* or relations do or say, lest we create owsdtea inncic"
lary trouble.
Better eye out than always aking (or watching.)

He that winketh with one eye, and seeth with the other ;
I would not trust him, though he were my brother.
This is only a physiogaomical observation.
He that hath but one eye sees the better for it.
Better than he would do witiôat
it : a ridicoions saying.
F
A GOOD face,"c. v. band.
FaiiU heart ne'er fair lady.
y^ won
'AXX' 01 yap avEpeg Sirore

a^vfJi^"yTEg rpovdiov
eg/fffaVTO. Suidas ex Eupollde, Titnidi nunqwim stattUrt trv
p^BUtn, Ja cooard n' aara belle amie. GaU* For, Auientes fortuna
juvai*
Fair featliens make fair fowls.
Fair
clothes, ornaments, and dresses set off persons, and make them
appear handsome, which if strippedof t|iem would seem bat plainlyand

homely. 'God makes, and apparel shapes. I panni rifanno le stanghe^
vesti ana colonna " par ana donna. Ital,
Fair words, "c. v. words.

Fair and softlygoes far in a day.
Pas k pas on va bieo loing. Gall. Chi va piano va sano ^ anche Ion.
tano. Ital, lie that goes softlygoes sure and also far. He
that spurs .on
too fast,\i firstse|tiugout, tires before be comes to his Journey'send. Fes-
tina lentt.
Fair in the
cradle,and foul in the saddle.
Kfair face is half a portion.
Praise a/atr day at night
Or
else you may repent, for many tiroes clear mornings turn to cloudy
evenings. La vita 11 fine e'l di loda la sera. The end commends the Ufe,
and the eveniagthe day.
The/atre"e silk is soonest stained.
This may be applied to women. The haudaomeit women are aoontst
]NTIA" SENTENCES* 73^
corrupted, t^îpaiile
ihtgrare mm t"n|it"fU It amv tlw fe^ ipgHfdlajqyl
Miares, wUch are uMMt euKtf drawn away by rtH eooipaBy.
Men spesik of the/inr, as things weat witii tken tbcfe.

If a man once faUf all will t]:ea4pa (liiii,
4: Mitf damnatos, Javen. When the tree it fjaiaevc^ nao eoclh' t9 It

' '
withhifhatcheC GaiL
There's/a/"A"MN/in fellowship.
Common/fiine's seldom to bhime.
A general report la rarely without tome froml ^Kq smoke witboat
"oma fire. 4îgî^ TrdfiTrav'uirSKk'vmt

Iriff ^yriva
TToXXol Aaol Qedg v6 tIq 'jSgn Kql avin)*
4tTfulf/n"nf
'
Huiod.
Too machykmfltan^ hreeds oonteippt.
fessbntt oriuntHr; h veritate odium, ifamUiarUaiecoHtetiJiptut,i/"-

UeUmte in vidia, Flntardu
Ftmey passes beauty.

Fuitcy may boult bran and think it flour.
You can*tyare u"eU,but yon must cry roast-ne^t.
Sane bonne ferine tans trteape ny bocdne. GoA. Bonlt thy fine
meal, and eat good pait, wlthont report or tnuapet^ MaiC 'Oc
Siyj/wvTeg
fruojrfj irlvwi, Tb^ that arc lUnqrdridiiiieiitJIy.Si
earvus taeuUstt kdberei
Pkt*da"ii 4 rixm muUh mimki ifuitltffffMf. Hf*^
JPmr fetched and dear bought is good fiir'

ladies,
Vache de loin a laict aaios. GmU.
Fer folks fare well, and fair children die.

People are ape 10 boait ar the good and wealUiy eoodHiSKdf their A"ei'
Arienda,and. to commend thdr dead cUldpn*
If s fsooA farting before one's own flr^.
VtoftMidMdisf
Mrlv^^thevar.
At good to be out of the world as out of 4^ /i^jIfMm.
Al drops fitllfrom fat flesh.
FtU sorrow is better than l"ui sonpow.
BaHMT have a rich haabawl and " VfVMiid 4llb *" " îNT baikMd and
a lerrowftri life with him, ipotHn to.aaaomfB " mt0 i" .mmnf a rieb
"an,llw4ghillcoBditkNi^
JUttte kiwwa i^M m wJwt ^]|im."mf HHMOa.
The/"(A"r to the
boncpb* 4v. ". id #.
Whero BojSwft ii4lMi" VMdi^âo p"Mk
Every man hath Yds faults; or, He is thstt isfa^tU'

lifeless
less.
XJt vUUs nemo sine nascitur. Quisque suos patimur manex.
They that/eaf (i.e, hide) can find.

It's good to fear the worst, the test will save itself.
'So feast to a miser's.
II n' est d'bomme cbiche. GaU*
banqnet que k
Little difierence between ^ feast and belly^full.

a
Better come at the latter end of dL feast,than the begin-

Feeling hath no fellow. [ning of a fray.
No fence against a flail .
Ill fortune.
Some evils and caUmities assaaU so violently that tibere Is no reaistiiit
or
bearing them off*
No man loves his fetters though of gold.

Next to bealth and necessary food, no good in this world more desirably
than Kberty.
The finestlawn soonest stains.

The finest shoe often hurts the foot.
There is nofire without spiuc suioke.
Nal feu sans famee. Gall.
Fire and water are good scivuuts, but bad masters.
First come first served. : %
Q"i premier arrive aut moalin, premier doit monldre. Gall*
Ifs ill
fishing before the not. One would rather think
Sojishing to fi$hing in tlie t$ca. [e^terthe iiet.

n fait bean pescher en eaa largtf. Gall, It's good fishing in large
waters.
Fishes are cast

away, that are cast into dry ponds.
It's good fishing in troubled waters.
II n' y a pesche qn' eiâo trouble. Gall. lu troubled waters ; that ^
ih a time of pablick calîty,when all things are in confusion.
Fresh fish and new come guests smelly by that tliey ai"
'
4hree days old. '
^,
L* hoste " le poinon passe troia jonrs pnent GaU, Piteii^neqnsm
est nisi recens. Plant* OrdjUiary friends are welpome at first,bntwa a*0b
grow Wewyof Ibeih.

. " .'^
The hesijishswim near the bcxttonL

8tiU htjkheth that catoheth one.
IVow^n pesche qii to iir"Qit""i* Oali.
Whenfiatterers meet the Devil goes to dinner.

Wheve everyhiiniifieeeeih
iStie sheep goes naked. . ^,
.
All^#Ais notvenisool
1 r
This la a French prvterb. Tonto ehtir vetnlND'.

if eiit |"af
fU^^^w^ M^t/^
76 PRaVERBS THAT ARE
To firf^ ft wrong is the best re?eugc.

D"lle iogiarie il remcdio ^ loi scordarii. Ital, InJSrmi ett mmjmf
exigvtque voiuptas Uitio. Juvenal.
It's Dot good praisingtiford'tilla itian be over.

Fore-waru'd forMma'd. Pr^tvutnltus, prmnuniiu*.
Forecast is better than work-bard.

Every one's faults are not written in iheirfor^êuds.
The/ox preys fiirtbestfrom bis hole.
To avoid uspicion. Cri^ thieves steal far from iKMne.
llie fox never "res better thim when he is bann'd (or

curs'd.)
PoptUus mt tiWat at mUA ptmtdo
/pie domi, quotits nummot conttn^lot in orctf" Herat.
It*s an tk/oxlick a lamb.

ill sign 1o
see
When 1^ the
preaohettbeware of voitr geMie.
Fire, quodithe /bar,when he pisa'oon the ko. Ht mw
it imok^dfmidtkmtghi tk"rt would ho ftro#'r" hmf^
This Itspokra ladHMoniollMit wMeh iMVtfrNt t CfNOWlui froai toine
fbnd design ormidiitaklac, whMi li Ml Ukily to iacwt"k
Fie upon heps (qaoth the/"r) because he eonld iKit

reaol^tbeni.
The/or knows nraeh, bat more he that catcheth him.
Everyyber must pay his own skin to the flayer.
Tatto le volpi si titMnraao ia pelliiNra.ItaL "a ia regsardt m
les
troovent chet le pelletier. Gal/. The crafty are at leogtb sorprised.
Olbieves moat commoiily cone to the gallows af lasl^
ynMifriet than agift?

It's godd to have someymfMb both in heaven and helL
He is my fiiend^that grindeth at my mill.
Ihal shews me rMl kindnesa.
.
Afiiend,in n^d ii a fiiend indeed.

Prove e%
ihjfrieiui thou have need.
All are not/riendithat speak us fair. [backs.
He's a good friend that speaks well on us behind our
No longer foster no longeryWûf.
As a man isfriended,
so the law is ended, [fromhome t
Where shall a man have a worse fiiendthan he brings
Pfimis may meet, bat itaaantaias never greet
Mons cum monte mm miseehUur: Par"* cum paribus. Two haoghty
peMous will seldom agree togsOer. l"tnm hbolmcs se revcontriat Men,
inals Jamais deax montaguct. OalL
Many kinsfolk,
%Vffiimd$,
One's kindred are not always to be acconated oaa^l friend^ Ihoogh to (Mr
INTIRE SKNTENCEP^ 77.
langaage tbey be "jHoayraoM lernUf There ii a fritndLUiat itidi^ cIokt
than a brother.
One God no more, hni friends good store.
ÊiiC0"O( f^'ac ^^Xoi iroXAo/, Unius'J}etts,sed plures amid
farandi.
T\Tierever yoja see your friend trast youtse]f.'

A friend is never known Hill one have need.
Jtideus etrtus im re incerta certHtur. Ck. ex Enkiio.
iSdlice^ fUfutvtm tpeetatur in igiUbua mirtim,
TtaijMre "ic dtire sst hispMeniaJides, Ovid.
4tand afar ol^ when t nan il in adveriity.
What the/rtor never

was lov'd.good
When thenar's beaten, then comes James, "
Nffra rov voKifiov ii (rvfAfiayla, Sic ett adpugn^ fmrtt*
re ptraetA venkndum.
The friar preached against stealing when he had a pud-

in,IkIs
difltg sleeve.
II frate che "i dovetK robbare " Ini baveva V occha od
predicava, non
The ivith the BngUth, Only instead of

KcapQlario. Hal, lame gooae
imdding.
Tofrigkt a bird is not the way to catch her.^

Qd veat prendrenn oiaean qa'il ne 1' aSaroache. GaU. The ume Mrith .
the English,
The/rag cannot out of her bog.

Frost and fraud both end in foul.^
A saying ordinary in the moath of Sfar Tkdmas Egerton, Lor^ Chancellor.
Take away/eu;^/ take away flame.

Remove the tale-bearer and contention ceaaeth. Sine Cerert 4 JJb*ro
friget Venus.
Thefarth^ way aboufs the nearest way home,

What is gaiiie/iin the ahortness be lost in the goodneti of the way.
may
Campsndia pUrumque sunt dispsndia^
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
Boit ont oreilles," champs oeillets. GaU, Some hear and see him
whom be hearetb and seeth not; for fields have eyes, and woods have ears,
ye wot. Heywood,
G.
the back, and faie'U ki^k (or

TotcH a folTd jbiorseonr
skill in gdt first,and then in gold. [wince.)
Try your
In Care periculum, sabaadS/oe. Cares slim nctati sunt, qu6dt
primi vitam mercede locabunt. They wcr^tiie first mercenary soidierf.
'
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78 PROVEUBS THAT AUE
FraedfeHvilr ad "MMU wfuiiHUto in 4/bitkpe"in"Mllict"or ipon thingf

of taull Taiiic.
You may g-ope loaf ^fmrngh, eVe a brivd filltitf ymil- iiMcMV.
H* thtti i^Â miMk he be fed, wdl may be |pap"r tntil 6e
be dead.
Celt foUe de beer centre nn four. Gaik
No gaping against aii ovep.

Make uot a gtamikt of a hedged
gh"ve^
What's a gmuUnum bot his pleasures [sewet.
A i"itlf"tit living, is- Hke' tt pti"Mif^ without
gentlemMiii
8e{illomiitketyWitt"ltfth"iyo"ebtflfK"l"f"iM^.
~
OentilUy without ability,itf Worse Ite^dry.

fhatf f"laitt
Giff gaffe was a good man^ bat he ie^ sete weaiy.

Giffe gaffe is one goodF tvn for adoiImn'.
Iôok. not a gifi hone in the month.

It leems this wm a L"idn provrtb in HitT^*t time, Srmsmus âolM fit
"wt oflib preface to. IiIbcommentaries on the wistie to the JBfkesioMt, JôH
rnt viOgSre "*f fr0oWb*um)efMMiîm^fcifHtSi^ A eiiâf
donato non gaardar in bocca. JtaL A chieval d^sMMtl ne liit ptA ftjMWtr
"ta dent. GtM, It is alto in other modern laagnafit.
There's not to bftd a GtR but ther^*^ ^ b jid a WiU.

Giving much to the poor doth increase a man*s store.
Give thing and tailedat thing, ^
a
Oi^, ^" a thing and t"ke ligAirt ,
And you shall ride in hell's wain.

Plato mentions this as a child*" proverb far his time, fwy Op^"Q
Ôîyriav a"îp"(n^ hk *fi^l,
whietf with- ui aho tidhtinnte 4 pro-
verb among clindfett to this dliy.
:i$etterfill a glvUon*s belty #iw J||Uf

^.
iM ycttk ptAi ^randar que
M^^êe. "k^. Pla todd A aatolli U veritre
che I' occbio. Ital,
A Ixlly full ^tglmmijf it^l A^ver st^dy willingly,t'.e. the

old proTerHal vcfr*c?.
Impletus venter non vult etuiei^k tibeiiiit,
:Man doth what he ckn, ind "i9d \Hiftt he wifl.

When Gad wills,Ut \"li^sbrtiig
rkih.
Deus undecmnquejuvut modb propitiu** firas* La on Dien vent il
pleat* Gall*
God sends corn, and the devil marrs the sack.

God sends cold after clothes.
After ctolhfli,
k e. necordini; to the |^"ople's
elotbes. Bien dottse le frold
"eloo le drap. Ga(l.
God is where he was.
spoken Id etoeomrage peofle tt wty distress.

\ ^
Not God above gets all meng love.
*OvS" yap 6 Ze^c "^ i^ irAvrd^ ^v^Pei 8t" "r"y(btv,
Tke9gn.
God knows Well which are the best pilgrims.
What God will,no frost can kill. [thoudoest.
TqII me with whpm thoa gout, and 111 tell thee what
La Alia compagnia ^ qaella che mena haoaiioi i la farca. JtaL
Gold goes in at any gate except heaTen's.

PkUif, AlKumimr'* fiubar, was reportedto My, that he did not doobt
to take any castle dttadcl, 1^ the ascent be never
or steep so or diflknlt,
tf
be coald tat drive ip an ass'taditawith gdA to the |;ate.
All is nut gold that glisters.

Toot ce qui liUt n' eat pas or. GalU Kori ^ oro tatto qael che Ince. ItaU
FroiUi nuUa/ldes, Jnven.
A man may buy gold too dear. [lies

it.
Though good be good, yet better is better,or better car-
That's my good that does roe good.
Some good things I do not love, a good long mile, good
small beer, and a good old woman.
Crood enough is never ought.
Agoocf manean no more harm than a sheep.
Ill gotten goodsMeliom prosper.
Delia roblM di mat aoqoistanon se ne vede allegrezza. //"/. And,
Vien presto cdnsdiAato 1* ingiastamenteacqniatato.De inal 6 venu I'agneau
dc A mal retodrue le pe'aA,GalL To naught it goes that came from naoght,
Kaicoi Kip^tai"* ATtiaiv,Ilesiod. lUaid iucra teqmalkt danmic.
yfaU porta wkatt dUahutUur: and, De mail qtueslHs vix gaudtt ttV"
tius hmres, Jnviea.
That that'll good saiice for a goose^ Is good for a gander.

'Xliisis a woman's proverb.
There's meat in a goose'seye.
As deep drinketh Uie goose, as gander.
the [one thing
(xoose,and giander,and gosling,are three sounds^ but
A goshawk beats not at a bunting.
Aq%Ula non capit muscas,
Groce wi!l last,favour will blast.

While the grass grows, the steed starves.
Caval non morire, che hcrlia de venire. Ital*
Grass grows not upon the high-w'ay.

Gna^ and green make the wonH me^fey.
T\tirp"senex mUes, turps senH^ atrief. Ovid. An old letclter it
compared to an onfc"n,or toclc,#U"1i hatt a White IM"t bat a #rtea tafU
Gray haku are ieM^ iA"k$ohB.

CAê^, f^caeuj U^rxrC ^l^sU^M^
80 PROVKBBS THAT ARI
Oreat giftsare from êat men.

The gull comes against the rain.
H
Hackney mistress backney maid.
'Oirola 4 êerTroivarolae rot ^fpcwrarv/^fc.
dc. Efist^
Att, S. Qualis hera tales pedUsequm, Et, rkc dBWOivaQ al
Kijvec fxiflkt^tvai*
CatuUt dominam imitantur. Fideas aute*%
Cinquit Eratimuj 4 MellttBot, opuimttarvm mtMerum d6Ucimt,fms-

turn, laseiviam ttd"mqueferh mmrum i"nmgitum reddere.
Had I fishis good without mustard.
Half an acre is good land.
No iieforc
halting a cripple.
For fear of being detected. II ni taut pas eloeber devant an boitenx. Gdil,
Half an egg, ^rc.v, egg.

Half a loaf, v. loaf.
Help hands for I have no lands.
He is handsome doth.
that handsome
Half an hour's hanging hinders five miles riding.
It's better to be happy than wise.
" iTiegUoesser fortunato cbe si^yio. Itai. Gutta JbrtttntB
frm doU9
sapientUe, Mieax vant ane once de fortane qn* nne Hbre de safeiMw
Gali, Ad oance* of good fortnne U better tbaa a poand of wisdom.
Happy is he whose friends were bom before him.

i, e. Who hath rem turn labore parandam sed rellctam,.
Happy man happy dole, or Happy man by his dole.

Happy is the child whose father went to the Devil.
For commonly they, who first r^se great estates, do it either by nsary
and extortion, or by fraqd and ooMaing, or by flattesy and ministeringto.
other men*8 yifces.
Some have
hap, some stick in the gap.
the
Hap half-pennygoods enough, t. e.
and Good lack i^
enough, though a man hath not a penny left him.
Set hard heart against hard hap.
Tune cede mails "
sed contrH audentior Ho. In re mala anlmo Si'
'
bono utare adjuvat.
Hard w'lih hard makes not the stone wall.

Daro cpn dure non fa mai baon mtnro. Ital.Thoogb I have seen at
Ariminum in Italy , an ancient Ammcii bridge Budc of hewn itooe laid ^
together without any mortar or cement. .
Hard fare makes hungry bellies.

It's a hard winter, ^Cj v, winter.
It's a hard batUe, Ac. v. battle.
Where we least think,
thfiregoeth the hmrc ^yivjf^ i
I
INtlRE SENTENCES. 8l
Han^ watch, hnrm catch. [are so, hate cowards*
King HatTif lov'd a man, t. e. valiant men love such as
Most hoite worst speed.

Come tf 1m fretta ooo ti h mai nieote elie stia bene. JtaL Qui trop ib
hMCe "n cbemiiwoC, en beaa cfaeinio we foarvoye soaveoU Gall, lie that
walks too hastilyoften stumbleajn plain way. Qui nimis jpr^peri mintis
jfTospeH, J^ Nimium properans serliis ubsolvlt. Et Cania fextinan*

utcos jtarit eatuius. Et Festina tenth. Tkrry a little titat we mmf
make ao eoRl tlia looQer, wai a tayinc of Sir JmUu Pauiet. Presto 4
bene iKm il convSene. JtaL Hastily and well never meet.
Hasie makes waste, and waste makes want, and want

makcfs sttifb between the good man and bis wife.
As the man said to him on the tree-top, make no more
.
kMt" when yon come down than when
you went up.
Nothing must done kiutilybut be killingof fleas.
Hagt^fclimbflrt,jre.v. climbert.
A haHjf (or angrt) man never wanti woe. v. A.
JStuhfpeople will never make geod midwivet,
HaH^ gamesters oversee.
Np Mwff tt" hang trtie teen.
If s good to have a hitUn before the ddor.
High ny\njt /btt^ are fit for princels.
Make hay while the sun shines.
A great hedd and a little wit
This is oiUy for the cMneh sake l"eeoBe a |roiverK for eertatnlythe {reater,
(Iw more brains; and the more brains, the mor" wk, if rightlyeonfornied.
Better be the head of a pike than the tail of sturgeon.
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a libn.
Mîo ^ fsser capo di lacertola che coda di dragonre. Hal,
Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse.

Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the
geutry.
E raeglio esser tktik di laefeio cbe eeda di sdirfeM. ItaL Thetf har
proverbs have all the same sense, vte. Men love ptiortHf ami prêedetfey,
had rather govern than be raled^ command tbaa obey, lead than be led|
tboDgh in an inferior rank and quality.
He that hath no head needs no hat.

Qal it' a point de teste n' a que faire d" chaperon. ^11,
A man is not so soon healed as hurt.

You must not pledge yoiir own heaUh,
Heidth is better than wealtli.
The more you het^, the worse you cheap.
The more y"Ni rake and th"
lersifiib^ w"rie tateim fetihtn', nt the riMra
bnsy you are "ifd stir ya" kMp, the le'.ifytfs gtili.
8d PROVERPS THAT ARE
He tbat heari much, and speaks not all,shall be weloome

both in bower and hall.
Paria poco, ascolta assai, " non failirai. Ital.
Where the hedge is lowest cominoQly men leap over.
Chascan juue an Kny dcspouille. GulL Ihey that are once down ihali
ht sure to be iraBipied on.
Take lieed is a good read.

Or as another proverb bath it, good iake.b""d doth sorely apetd. AkttM^,
dans cauteta tun nocet.
One pair of IieeU is often worth two pair of hands.

Always for cowards. The French say, Qui na' k coear alt jambe" ; and
the Italians in the eame words, Chi nun ha cuore habbi gambe. lie that
badi BO heart let him have heels. So we see, nature hath provided timori
oas ereatures, as deers, hares, and rabbets, with good heels, to save Acm*
fielves by flight.
I'hey that be in hell think there^s no other heaven-

Every Aer"*hig*
must hang by his own gilL ^
fivery tub mast ttaod ifwa Ua owa bottooit Jbvery mu mMt gktt la*.
aceount for himself.
H\i" nothings from thy minister, phydoian, and Itwyen

Al cQiDfesaor medico- it advoeato non il d4 taoar II viro Mlalo. itik-
He that doth lo doth it to hb own harm or Ion, ^VMgtog tharaby altbir
his soul, body, or estate.
Look not too high, lest a chip fall in thine eye,

NoU altum safer e. Mr. Monffelhath it, Uew not too high, "". aoeord-
iog to the Scottish proverb.
The highest standing the lower falU

Toiluntur in aitum ut iafsu graviara ruant* The blgjlker
flood hadl^
always the lower ebb.
The highesttree hath the greatest fall.

Celsa graviore casu decidunt turres. Horat.
Up the hill favonr me, down the hill beware thee*

Every man for himself^ and Grod for us all.
Ogni on se He Dio per tsttL ItaL
per
It is hard to break a hog of an ill custom.

Ne'er lose a hog for an half-penny-worth of tar.
A man may spare in an ill time : as some who will rather die than spendL
ten groats in physick. Some have it, Ixise no( a sheep, "c" Indeed taria
more nsed about sheep than swine.
A man may hold his tongue in an ill time.

Amyclas silentium perdkHt* Tf s a known story that the Amycleans^
having been often frighted and disquiêd with vain reports of the enemtea
coming, made a taw that no man shoald bring or tell any such news. upon
Where-
it happened, that, when the enemies did come indeed, they were sar*
prised and tidcen. There ')aa time to speak at well as to be silent.

84 proveiTbs^hat abe "
* "
A resty hortt most have a sharp spur.

A scal'd hiOT9t is good, jc* *'" scaled.
The common Iwne is worst shod. i
A short A^rtey ^c, r. short [needs teaching,
f
The best hiru needs breakings and the aptest oliud
'
Where the Aorje lies down, there some hair will be fonpd.
Fuller's Worth.
The horse that's next the mill, ^c. v. mill.
A ""ll'dh"tse will not endure the comb.
Touch a g^rd horse, ^c. v. gall'd.
II tignosa non ama il pettine. Ital, Jamab tigoenx af aim^ \t pigat.
QaU, " CheTal r"^gneuz n' a cure qa' on 1* cftriUe* G\M,
You may know the harst by his harness. Ton a doff.

lliey are scarce of hone-fiethwhere two aaa two ride
A short horse is soon whisp'd, and a bare arse soon kissed.
I'he horse that draws his halter is not quite escap*d. '
Non k icappato chi itraadna U cittna dJMio. /tel, II a* esi pw ddiap "
pê qai traine son lien* GuU,
Trust not a horse* f^ heel, nor a dog's tooth.

^
Ah eûimit pedUnis procal recede.
He that hires the horse must ride before.

The fairer the hostess the fouler the reckoning.
Belle hoitesse c' est on inai pour la boorae. GtUU
Hot sup, hot swallow.

It chanceth hour, j-c.v. chancetli.
in an [y^^ after.
Better one's house too little one day, than too big all the
When thy neighbour's houu is on fire^ beware of thine
own.
Tua res aûr paries dkm proximus ardet.
k man's house is his castle.

This is a kind of law proverb. Jura public favent private domiks.
He that builds a house by the higii;i'Way

side, its either
too high or too low.
Chi fabrica la casa in plana, A che i troppo alta 6 troppo baisii, JtaS,
He that bviys a kpu^ ready wroHglit, hath mimy " pi9
and nail for nought
11 fant actaffUr maiaoR tikjk f"l|UM-| bi("*.!fi^ A )^^"^ jifn^qâ^
and a wife to make. Hence we say,
fools tpiÎ^HUtt fim fim oien biy
them.
When a man's househuruB ift nqigopd pjaynmât cftosf*

A man may love bis house well,* aira yof ix"t ndo oiithe
*
ridge. '
ABMnmylwri|ij|fc^MyyaydwTitii|Myin,ti|*
"r bt liMliiUjrfend aad iadd|ant to Ikcm.
INTIftE SENTENCES. S5
"
Ift^gemnds blow on high hills.

Feri^ntque sutnmos/uimina tnontes^ Horat.
Hunger is the best sanee.
Appetito non vnol salsa. JtaL II a' y " aavlce qne d' appetit, GaU
This proverb is reckoD"d among aphorisms of Socrates
the j Optimum
cibi condimentmmfames sitis pct"s. CIc. lib. 3. de finibas.
Hunger will break through stone walls.

Hungry flies bite sore.
The horse In the faUe with a galled back desired the flies that were fall
might not be driven away, l"ecaase Iningryones would tlien take their places.
Hungry dogs, fye,v. dogs.

1'hey must hunger iu frost that will not work in heat.
A hungry horse makes a clean manger.
Hu7ig"rmakes hard bones sweet beans.
Erasmus relates as a common proverb (among the Dutch I snppose)
Hanger makes raw beans relish well or taste of sugaf. Manet hoaUque
vulg6 tritum proverbinm Fumcm efictrc ut crudm etiam fabm sac-
citarum sdfnant. Darius, in his flight drinking pnddle-water defiled with
dead carcases, is reported to have said, that he never drank any thing that
was more pleasant: for saltb the story, Neque enim sltiens unquam bi-
berat: he never had dranji thirsty. The tnll stomach ioatheth Uie honey*
comb, bat to the bnngry, every bitter thing is sweet. Prov, XoiC
(riTB airopsiri (rTr^Bdôvrai
6i opofioi*
All are not hiadert that blow the born.
I
Every Jack must have his Gill.
Cfa^tscon demande sa sorte. Gall, Like will to like. It onght to be
written Jyll, for it seems to be a nick name for Julia, or Juliana,
A good Jack makes a good Gill,

Bonus dux bonum redtfit comitem. Infniors imitate the manners of
superiors;subjects of their princes, servants of their masters, children of
their parents, wives of their husbands, Prtecepta ducunt, exempla tra-
Jack would be a gentleman, ifhe could but speak French*

Ibis was a proverb when the gentry brought np their children to speak
French, After the conquest, tlie firit kkigs endeavonred to abolish the
Unglish language, and iutroduce the French.
More to do with one jack-an-apesthan all the bears.

Jack would wipe his nose if he had it.
Jack Sprat would teach hisgrandame.
jiute barbam doces senes.
Of idleness comes no goodness. "
Better to be idle than not well occupied.

Prsestat otiosum esse quitm ni"ii agere. FUs.Epiit. Better be idle
^
y 4
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86 PROVERBS THAT ABE
(ban do that which is to no purpose, or u good u nothing : ma^ mof"
than tlMt which is evil.
A n idU brain is the Devil's shop.

Idle folks have the most labour.
Idle folks lack no excuses.
iio jesting with edge tools, or with bell-rope*.

Tresca cod i fanti ", iascia star i santi. Hal. Play wilk diildreo" ani
let the saints alone.
When the demand is a jest, the fittest answer is a aooS,

Better lose SLJestthan a triend.
Ill gotten goods, 6fc, v. goods.
Ill news comes a-pace.
/// weeds grow a-pace.
'
Manvaise herbe croist tons jours. Gall. Passi crescono senn inalBargtt.
Jtai, Fools grow without watering. A mauTis chien la qoetie Iny vtent.
(kiU, H"rba mala praesto cresce. Ital,
III will never said well.

An ifiek breaks no squares. Some add, in a bum of thorns.
Pour an petit n' avant n' arriere. Gall,
An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

J4me*h as good as my lady in the dark.
^v-^VH dpîvTog yijvrj iraoa fj avrr/i Erasmus draws
(his to another sense, vis. J here is no woman chaste where there ia no
witness ; biU [ thinic be mistakes the intent of it, which is the same with
ours. When candles are out all cats ate gray.
No joy without annoy.

Extrema gavdii luctius occupat: tg.Usque adeb nulla est sineerm
votuptas, Sollicitumq ; aliquid Uetis inter cenit.
Strike while the iron is hot.

Infin ebe 11 ferro ^ caldo bisogna batterlo. Ital. 11 fait boo battre l" #er
(anilis qa' il etA cLand. Gall, People mast (ben lê p icd when they arn ui
a good hauoar or mood.
He tliat hath many irons in the fire, some of them will

III luck is worse than found money's [cool.
He tluit will not endure to it^h must endure to smart
Ka me and i*ll ka thee.
(Da
an oath
mihi
or
mutuum
testimony.
teslitnonium.
Swear for me and

Cic.
I'll do
Orat.
as
pro
much
Flacco.
for you.
Lend
Ov
me
claw
me and 1!11 claw you. Commend roe and fll commend yon. " Pra
JJelo Calauriam. Neptune changed with Lataua Delas fur Cs/nawinu
Heep some 'tillfiidhcrmon9 come.

INTIRB SENTENCE!^. 8?
Th^ kettle calls the pot black arse.
L" i^della dice al paiaolo vad in la, die ta mi non Unga. Itai, II 1""
vewEO t'alwffe de la ptgnata. Itai.
AU the keys hang not at one man*s girdle.

A piece of kid*s worth two of a cat. [mother's beMy,
Who was kiird by a cannon bullet was curs*d iu his
He that kil/s a man when he's drunk, v. iu D.
The kiln calls the oven burnt-house.
It's good to be near of kin to an estate.
A king^" favour is no inheritance.

A kif^s cheese goes half away in parings.
Kissing go^s by favour.
Better luss an knave than be troubled with hhn.
He that kisseth his wife in tiie market-place shall ha\e
enough to teach him.

If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid.
To kiss a man's wife, or wipe his knife, is but a thankless
Many iU"#' the child for the nurse's sake. [office.

A carrion kite will never make a good hawk.
On ne aeanroit faii:e d'une bnae an etpreuvier. GuU*
Many kinsfolks, 8rc, v. friends.

Knaves and fools divide the world.
When knaves fall out, true men come by their goods.
Let lanrons "' entiebatent, les larcins se deacoavreut, GuU, When
bigtawayHnen fall oat, robberies are discovered.
Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is best at long

The more knave the better luck. [run.
Two cunning knaves need no broker; or, a cunning
It's as hard to please a knave as a knight. [knave, i'c.
It is better to knit than blossom.
As in trees those that bear the fairest blossoms, as donUe flower'd cher*
ries and peaches, often bear no ft-oit at all,so In children, ijf.c"
AVhere the knot is loose, the string slippeth.

They that know one another salute afar off.
L
An unhi^py lad may make a good man.
A ragged colt, ^c.
A quick landlord makes a careful tenant.

He that bath Home /ittni/
most have some labour.
Vo sweet witlioot some sweat, without pains no gains.
Land was never lost for want of an heir.

A i ricchi non nuncano par"at, Itai. Tbe rich never want kindred.
B8 ?UOyEBBS THAT ARV
One leg of a Imrk's worth the whole body of i^.kHe.

He that comes last makes all fast.
Le dernier ferme la portc, oa U laiMe oavcrte. G"fii"
Better late than never.

11 viint micox twd que Jaaudf. GoU, Heglio tardc cIm non nul, Ji0im.
It*s never too late to repent.

Nunquam sera e^t, "c.
Let them laugh that win.

Merchand qni perd ae peot rire. GalL The merchaat that iMe" cuh
not laugh. Give kMers leave to tpcak, and I say. Give winocis leave to
laagh, fur if yon do not theyll take it.
He that bu3's lawn before he can fold it^shall repent him

before he have sold it.
They that make laws must not break them*
Pstere Itgem quam ipse tuUsti.
In comm4ttte Jubes tiquid cenUa v" tenendum.

Primus justa subi, tume obserwantior ^qui
Fitpopulus, nec/erre vet at cUm viderit ipsum
Jutorem parere sUd, Claudian.
Better a lean jade than an empty halter.

Never too old to learn^
Nulla etas ad perdiscendum sera est, Ambrea.
The leoit boy always carries the greatest fiddle.

All lay load npon thoM that ar* le"st able to bear ku for they thai aam
e ast able to bear are least aUe to resist the UnfKMitioa of the burden.
Better leave than lack.

Leave is light.
It's an matter to ask leave, bat ttie espence of a Uttle breath ; ud
easy
therefore servants and such as are under command are moch to blame,
when they will do or neglect to do what they onght not, or oaght, without
asking it.
While the leg warmeth the boot harmeth.

He that doth lend doth lose his friend.
Qni al amto perd donble. Gall, Be that kndt to his frieod
preste an
loseth doable, i. e, hoth money and fHeod.
Learn to lick betimes, you know not whose tail you may
Shew me a liar,and JL'Ushew you a.thie" [go by*
Life is sweet.
"While tliere's lifethere's hope.
Insin que v* ^ ftato v* i sperarsa. Ital, JSgroto dum anlma est spes
est, TuU. md Attic 'EXir/^fC ^V ftSoiîV AvAlftÔt ^^
âvivTiS, When all diseases fled out of raodora's boy, hope remained
tbere still.
There's lifein a musole, t. "" There is some hopes though

the iiieaus be but weak.
Lif eîeth uot in liviug, but in liking.

Martial saitb, Non est vivere, sed valere vUm,
Light gains make a heavy purse.

Le petit gain remplit U boune. GaU, Tliey th"t tell for imaU profit.
TvnU more conuuoditips and m"ke quick retnros, so that to invert the verb,
pro-
What they lose in the hundred, ibey gain in the county. Whereat
ttiey wlio "ell dear sell little, and many tintes lone a good part of their
^vares, either spoil'd or grown otiC of nf" and fashiun by long keeping, toco
^ spt-sso emjAe it borse to. Itul, LitUe and ottea fills tbe purse.
Light burdens far heavy.

Petit far dean poise k la longoe, or Petit choie de loing pois" Gall*
Light cheap lither yield,

-^.^mîi^^.
That that costt Uttle will do little KrTioe/Iiw
commonly the best b best
cheap.
Lightly come lightlygo.

The light is nought for sore eyes.
A r oeil malade le Ininiere nuit. Gall. lie that doth evil hateth the-
light,4;c.'
There's lightninglightly before thunder.

A heavy purse makes a light heart.
The Eton's not half so fierce as he is painted.
Minuunt prasentia famam, is a true rule. Thini^s are represented at
a distance, much to their advantage beyond their just propurtkm and merit,
lâme is a magnifying glass. -
Every one a" they like best^ as the good man said whem
he kiss'd hi^ cow,
i^
Like will to like (as the Devil said to the coUief!)Or^
as. the scabl/d 'squire said to the mangy knight, wheit
they both met in a dish of butter'd ^h,
Ogni siiuile appetisce il suo simile. Jtal. Chasciiif cherche 9on senibla*
bie, or, demaude sa sorte. Gall* Cascus casca/u. ducit, U "" vntulus
anum. Signijlcat a, si/nilis s'uaiUvi tielectat..
Lihe lips like lettuce.

Similes ha^jent labrq lactucas. A thistle is-a sallet fit for an ass's
month. We use when we would signify that things happen to people

which are suitnble to them, or which they de"er"Ni : as wfaen-a dull scholar
happens tu a stupid or ignorant master, a froward- nîfe to a peevf/sh hn""

band. ^r. Dignwn patelld operoulum. Like prjest, like people, and i
on the contrary. These proverbs are always talwn.iu.the worse sense. Tali
oarne tal cullello.' /(ffl. Like fltsh lil(e knife.
Like saint offering. like

Like carpenter like chips..
IVim tram^ like master like man.
Quel maisiri: leixvalct.. Go//. Tal Abbaie tali i onmachi*. Ital*^

1 3
9CP-*' rarrvERMT-HAT are
A Uqwnitk tone is the pane's canker.

A liquorishtongue is a liquorishlechennis taiL
A little pot's soon hot
little persona are coouBonly cholerlck.
Little things are pretty. "^?ec.

\dpig ppuoiertv
Many littles make a mickle.
'"c y6ip KBy Kal
afiiKpov
eirl afiiKpfKaraêlo Kal
$dfAa r5$' ^pdeig^T^ya kbv fiiya icai ro yci^cra. Besiod*
erit,
"
"Add* furum par vo magnus mcervus
Be petit vieat oa au grand, oMd, Lea petlu hiiaaen* fbat .U" graadf
rivicrea. Gall, All ekea, 4"^. The greatt-at iiumber it made "p of wdlca;
and all the watera of the aea, of dropa. Plnma i pinma le peta If
Jtal. Feather by feather the goose is plnck'd.
Little pitchers have greaj
^nrSSfTff^flrniJil^îrBien
tost oognea Josqnot .an
That which the child heara by the fire ia often-known aa fiur as Jlf"iM"|M%
a town in Savo$. So that it aeema they have long tongaca, as well aa
wide ears. And therefore (as Juvenal well said)Maxima debettirûere

reverentia
By littleand Httle the

poor whore sinks her ham. .
Little said soon amended.

Little strokes fell great oaks.
Multus ictibus dîcitvr quercus. Many strokes Ml, See. Aaridoily
overcomes all difficnlty. H^tK"itQ Ifl^pOVytvv"vrau Mtnutulm
pluvia imbrem forii. Assidua stilla saxum excavat.
Quid magU est durum saxo ? quid moUiut uud" f
Dura tamen molli saxa carantur aquA* Ovid.

Annulus tn digito subter tenuatur habendo ;
StHucidi casus lafidem cavat^ uticus aratri

Ferreus occulte decrescit vomer in armis. Lacret.
PUny reports, tliat thtre are to be foand flints worn by the feet of pis.
mires* Which is not altogether unlikely ; for ilic borae ants especially, I
have obaervcd to have their roads or footppatiis
so worn by their traTtllinf,
that tiM;ymay easily be observed.
AlittU good is soon spent.

A little stream drives a light mill.
Live and let live, t. e. Do an would be done by.
you
Let such penny-worths as your tenants live
may uu-
4/eryou ? Sell such bargains, ^c.
Every thing would live,
Ttiey that Kve longest mu"t go farthest for wood.
Longer lives a good fellow than a dear year]
As Ioi]ghves merry a heart as a aad.
One may live and leaf n.
Non fiiiiscc mai d' imparare. Ital. TrfpAaKU ^ aUl VoXKh
A famons saying of Scloth
ttvaiTKOfisuoCj
"tl^ %"^c4f $y)^.cj^

fy ^ fty 2^/% A^/V" ^
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02 PHOVERBS THAT ARE
Maids say na}' and take.

Who knows who's a good maid?
ICvery maid is undone.
Look U) the main, ^f^Y.
v. look.
"^^ffAtfmuch of one, good men are scarce.

Malice is mindful.
3fan proposes, God disposes.
Ik"iume propose, mais Dieu dispose. Gall, Humana eonsiUa tIMni'
tus gubcrnantur. \0
A maiC% a man thoagh he hath bnt a hose en's Lead.

lie that's munn'ef with boys and horsed with colts,shall '
have liis meat eaten and his work undone.

Many hands make light(or quick) work.
Multorum manibus grande levatur onus,
irXivvwv de (tpyoy"fAiivov. Uomer. Unus

T" vir nuUus rlr.
M(dc yap 'êipoQ A^fyi)cf^^XV* Jûrlfid.

He that hath ma:ny irons,Sfc.
v. irons.
Many sands will sink a ship.

We mast h"ve " care of thiosf lett by dosrees we
little fall iato great is.
couveniences, A littleleak neglected, in time, will sink a ship.
Many littles,
jrr.v, little.
So nmny men so many minds.
Tante teste tanti cervelll. ItaL AutanC de testes autant d' opinioiu, GaU^
Qttot homines tot sententke, Terent.
^riiere are more mares in the wood than Grisell.

You may know by the market-folkshow the market goes.'
He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good
Forsake not the market for the toll. [oih^
Mo man makes haste to the market, where there's thing
no-
to be bought but blows.
'I1ic master's eye makes the horse fat.
L'occbiodel padroneîngrassa
U cavallo. Ital. L'oell da malstre engrafac
le chevai. Gali. Aff^vo^ aô^""cr/ia
Kae t6 JlepffH Kol
îll
ctv
e\0", *0 jLuif rl
yap epwrrfdeig /toXeâ
J'tttfovirialvHj
*0 79 BtiroTti d0"SaX/ioc c^fit '0 B^ A//3i/cepwnjîiQ
iroia Kowpog api^ ; ra rS Betnrorti 'i\v*i^^V* "^*^'"
OeconoM. 2" The answers of Pertes and Liffj/s are worth obienr^.
I'he former being asked, whiit was ibe best thing to make a horse fat, swered
an-
the master's eye : the other being demanded, what was tbe best
manure, answered the master's footsteps. Not impeittnent to this pur|"OM
is that story related by Gellius* A fat man riding upon a lean bone askact
how it came to pans, that himself was fnt, and his liorse lo teaik B"
"wered, because I fctd raybelf,hot my servant my lu"rae"
'
That is not always good in (he maw that is sweet in the
Who that not as he wUW îii"
4'(^nV* [mouth.
may
Every may ^ hath a may not be.
Two ill meaU malce the third a glutton.
Measure is a treasure.
After meat comes mustard.
When there Is no more ase of it.
Meatbi much, but manners is more.

Much meat much maladies.
Surfeitingand diseases often attend full tablet. Oar nation in former
îme hath been noted for excess in eating,and it wai aiuMst grown a
pro-
Terb, that Englishmen dig their graves with their teeth.
Meat and matt ens hinder no man's journey.

In other words. Prayers and proTender, "c.
He that will meddle with all things may go shoe the

goslins.
C'e de fare per tntto,diceva coini che ferrava I'occha. Itai,
Of littiemeddling comes great ease.

It*s in the hall when beards all.
merty wag
Wlien all are eating, lieaBUug, or making good By the way we cbvar.
may note, that this word with
chear, which is particalarly ns applie*!to
meats and driolcs,
seems to be derived fromt he Greek word "ôi"
vapa^
tying joy : As it doth also with oi in Uiose words chearly and chearioi.
Merry meet merry part.

Be and wise.
merry
'The more the merrier, the fever the better chear.
Merry is the feast-making Hill we come to the reckoning.
As long lives a merry, fyc.v, lives.
Can Jack-an-apes be ^c. v. clog.
merry,
Who doth sing so a note, S^c*p. sing,
merry
Michle ado and little help.
Might overcomes right
No mill no meal.
'O /LfuXoy"\îTa ^n;y"t. Qui J^*
fîJ"ytav m"lam fugit
fatinam, M^rc fiolflkXt, He
firiTB /jieXiTra*
ihat would have
honey inost have bees. Erasmus .

saith, they commonly say, lie that
wnnU httn eggi mnst endure the eacltlingof hens* It is~ I suppose a
Hutch proverb.
Much water goes by the mill the miller knows not of.
Assai il molino ctie ii molinaio non vcde* ItaL
acqna passa per
An golden thumb.
honest miller hath a
]n vidn doth the mill clack,if the miller his hearing liick.
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94 PROVERBS THAT AllB
Every miXler dni"vs water to his own mill.

Amener eati aa mmiKn, ot, TIrer mb cd boa OMynlia. Q9U" Totti 0rar
1' acqaa "l mo molioo. Ital,
The horse next Hie witff carries all the grist.

JVly mind to me a kingdom is"
A pennyworth oK mirth is worth a pound of sorrow,
Mischirftcome by the pound, and go away by the ounce.

1 niali vengono " carri tc tngg^no a onae. Ital,
Better a imieAtVfthan an inconvenience.

That is, better a pr^'Wat miachiet that is sooo over, than a eoMUot fiitf
and distarbance. Not much nnlike to that,better eye out than always aking*
'J he French have a proverb in sense contrary to this,II faut laissef sob enr
fant morvenx pins tost que lay arrarhcr le n"s. Bvtter lei one's chiltf be
snotty than pinck his nose off. Better endnre some tmaU incoavcskace
than remove it with a great mischief.
There's no feast to the miser's,". feast.

Misfartnnet seldom come alone.
llie French say, Malhenr ne vient jiimais spqI. One misfortnne never
came alone, " Apres perdre perd on bien. When one begins onoa to lose,
one never makes an end* A Un mal attire I'antre. On^ inisrhief draw* on
another, or one mischief falls upon the neck of another. Ji\frtuna "uiU
cbesse contenta est semeL
Misreckotiing19 no i^tiyment
MiiHHderstmiding brings lies to town.
This is a good observation, lies and flslse report arise most pmrt from mia-
lake and misnnderatanding. llie first hearer mistakes the first repocter, la
some considerable circnmstance or particalar;the second him; and so at
last the truth is lost,and a lie passes current.
Money will do more than my lord's letter.

It's money makes the marc to go.
PecunUe obediunt omnia, 'AkpyvpecuQ
\oT\al"TL fidy/Hf
Ae"
I danari fan correre i cavalli. JtaL
Prate i^ but prate, it*s money buys land.

Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.
Amour tait beanconp, mais argent fait tout. " Amour fait rage, mai^
argent fait marriage. Gail, Love makes rage, and money makes riage.
mar-
God makes, and apparel shapes, but makes the

money
man.
Pecunia vir, Uprffixwaayi)p" Tanti quantum habewjit,

Horat.
Tell money after your own father.

Pp as the most do, and fewest vnll speakevil of thee*
The moQn*" not seen where the sun snincs.
INTIRE SENTENCES. 95-
A mof^ may choke a man.
A child may have too much of his maiker^s blessing.

Muthers are oftentimes too lender and fond p( tbeir duldreo; who are
rolaed and spoiled by (heir cockering and iadaigeace.
The mouse that hath hut one hole is easily taken.

'iristo i qn"l to'po, che non ha ch' un sol pertagglo per
Wvarsi.*^ Ital.
Ia sonris qai n' a qu' aoe e"tr"e est incontinent happiê. Gail* Mus non
wUjfUUt MUr0. Goo"l riding at two ancfaeo, having (wu string to one's
.
bow. This sentence came originally from Flautiu in Trucuieuto, v,
Erasm. Adag.
A mottse in time may bite in two, jrc. v. time.

God never sends mouths, but he sends meat.
lliiv proverb is much in the niouth of poor peoplti who get cldldren, bat
talce no care to maintain tliem.
Much would have more.
MuUa peieniibut desunt muita. Horat.
Creverunt 4 opes 4 opumfuriosa Cupido,

Ut qub possldeant ptirima piura petaut.
Sic qUibut intumuit suffusa venter ah uuda.
Quo plus sunt pota plus sitiuntur aqua, Ovid, Fast.
Muck and money go together.

Ihoae that are slovenly and diriy usually grow rich, not they that are nice
and cnrions in their diet, huosa, and cloths.
Mttrcfer will out.

This is olMerved very often to fall out in (he immediate sense, as if the
providence of God were more than ordinary manifested in such discoveries.
It is used also lu signify,that any Icuavery or crime, or the lilte,will come
to light.
Men muse as they use, measure other folks corn by their
owii bushel.
When a musician hath forgot his note, he makes as
tliough a crum stuck in his throat.
*A7rop/a \Ld\rti B?/^. When a singing man or ninsician isont, or
at a loss, to conceal it lie congbs. Bi/" aVTl rropBfi^,Some, seeking to
hide a with a cough, render iliemselves doubly ridicnloos.

scape
He loves mutton well, that dips his bread in the wooll.
N
.
If on^s name be up he may lie in bed.

Qui a bruit de te lever mMin peut dormir jusques a disner. GalL' Etiam
trimestres UUrifelicibas. Sort.
He that hath an ill name is half h^ng'd.

Take good luinte and take aây my life.
away my
liaugkt is never in dangcr"
9" PROVERBS THAT ARt
Near is my petticoat, jrc.v. petticoat

Necemtv hath no law.
'Avayic)/ "^" "9'co2fidyovrai* 1" neectaiu aon ha kgic"4

/raJ. Ingens telum necessitas. Cic "fo Amic.
Ntcessity is cole-black.
liieyneM/mtich whom nothing îllcpntept " / .%

iVeifrf makes the old wife irotJ,/i^4^/^^t^^tM^^ÂtfC^
BiMgao la trottar Ja vecehia. Ital. Beioigii fail irieUle trotter. GkU,
All tb" same, word for word.
Nped will have its course. [spin.) ,
.Need makes the naked man ran (or the naked quean
A good neighbour, a good good-morrow.
Qui k bon vuisin k bon matin. Gall. Chi ha cattivo vidno ha U mal
iDHtino. Jtal- j4 liquid mall j/roptcr vicinum malum* Flaat. in Mtere.
I7i//tia
KaKog ydriov otrov r' ciyaôQ fiey*ovdap, Hesiod,
ThemlstocleSf having a farm to sell, caused the crier who proclaimed it,to
adrl, that it had a good neighboar: rightlyjudging that loch an advantage
would make it more vendible.
Love thy neighbour, 4'c.". in L. [fellow,*

N"ighbonr'(\xk9jiis good quart, i, e. Gifie gaffe is a good
He dwells far from neighbours (or hath ill ueighboars)
that's fain to praise himself.
Propria laus sordet in ore* Let another man praise thee, and not thine
.
own mouthy a stranger, and not tliine own lips.
Here's talk of the Turk and Ptrpe, but it's my next neigh'
hour does me the harm.
Yon must ask your neighbour if you shall live in peace,
I'he rough net's not the best catcher of birds.
New lords new laws.
De nouvean seigneur nonvetle mesnie. Gall"
Every one has a penny to spend at a new alehouse.

A new broom sweeps clean.
No penny no, ^t?.v, penny.
No mill no, Src.v. mill.
No silver no, ^c. v, silver.
No living man all,^c, v. all.
One may know by your nose, what pottage you love.
Every man's nose will not make a slioeiug horn.

JVott cuivis fiomini contittgit adire ddnthum. lloraU
Where nothing is a little doth case.
Where notJiing's
to be had, the king must lose his right.
Ninno da qurllo ehe noB ha. Ital, Le roy perd sa rente on il n* y a
prendre. Gall,
que
INTIRB SEKTBNCBS. 97
One jMur t mtne and seven yean the worse.
flwdtag well, and doing littl^,

iIm beeoawf UqnoilA'aad feto a
lMiltt"r
Ftiir fiJl noeiltiônce by tbe year.

It nay "ooMtfittei be.bettar to have MtliiBC thaa WMtMiig. So daid the
|KMMr man. who fai a bitter inowy wtotwkag eoahl Ite'ilUl is Ua warm bed,
i f^fiuM J)^|e||Ml"a^yho^îheep ahd oihw eatdcr were Atato fit op
hetinMa aad al^raad/tolookâftar'aBd
tecoit them.
An nnlawful oaih is better broke tban kept

He that measareth oU ahall anoint lus fingers.
Quimoarel'hdleUe'eiioiDgtkamaiDi. GaU.
To cast 01^ in the fire is not the way to quench it

Old men are twice children.
A2c ircu^cc Â yipovrSQ* And thai not ia rca|wet of the bUjmI
ealy, hat alio of the body.
Old be or young die.

Never toe old to learn, v, learn.
Older and wiser.
JMtdfuhu "tt prhrU fMterior dies, Senec JVimf Mm Ua 9"l""
ûam bent MubdmetA ration* ad vitam fuU, quin res, ^tas, .mut
Hmper aUûid appariet nwif 4:c. Terent. FfypdaKCU ^ aiel
You can't catch old birds with chafiT.

An"asa vulpes nom capitur laqueo.
If you would not live to be oM, you must be hang'd

when you are young.
Young men may die, old men must
The old woman would never have looked for her daugh*
ter in the oven, had she not been there herself.
Se hi roadre non fone mai state nel forao, noa vi cerearcbbe la Sglia.
Jtai, The aaaw to a word.
An old ape hath an old eye.

An obi dog biteth sore.
Ua vtell ehiea Jamais ae Jappe ea Taia. Gail*
Of young men die many, of old men escape not any.

De GiovaBe ae uaoloBO di axtlti, di veechi ae seampa aeaaaao. Jtai*
An old fox needs learn no crait.

An old sack asketh much patching.
Old men and farâvellers may lie by authority.
n k heaa, meattr qoi vieat de lota. "Mi.
98 PROVERBS THAT ABE
Better keep under an old hedge, than a new under

creep
fursse-busb. Iyoun^ learns.)
As the old cock crows, so crows the young (or, so the
CU dl galUna nuce convien che roBole. Jtal, Some bave iu
The like the old

young pig grunts sow.
An old thief desires a new halter.

Old cattle breed not.
Thb I believe is a true ^btenratioB. For probable k is, that all terrestrial
aniinds, botb birds and beasts, bave in tliem, from the begiooing, tlie seeda
of all those they afterwards bring forth, which seeds, eggs if yoa
yoong
ao pleafe to call them, wheu they are all speut, the female becomes eflaete^
or oeases to breed. In birds these seeds or eggs are visible,and Van
Horn hath discovered them also in beasts.
An old naught will neiêr be ought.

An old dog will learn no tricks.
It's all one to physidc the dead, as to instmcC old men. NcfCpov
iarpiT"HV KoX yipovra vtStTuv ravrdy */3tc. Senis mu-
tare tinguam, is an absard impossible tiling. Old age iftintractable, ni6-
rose, slow, and forgetfol. If they have l"eeD pat in a wroog way at firat,
no hopes then of redacing them. Senex psittacus negligU ferulamn^
An old man is a bed full of bones.

The old withy tree would have a new gate hung at it
Old mares lust after new cruppers.
"That that's one man's meat's another man's poison.
L' nn mort dont V autre vit. GaU.
Ofie swallow makes not a spring, nor one woodcock a
winter.
This is an ancient Greek proverb. Arist. Ethic, Nicom, lib, l. JS/lid
One shoulder of mutton draws down another.

"ii mangeant i* appetit vient. GaU,
One man's breath's another man's death.

One man may "foetter steal a horse than another look
oirer the hedge.
If we once conceive a good opinion of a man, we will not be persuaded
he doth any thing amiss ; hot him, whom we have a pRejodiee against, we
are ready to snspect on the slightestoccasion. Some have this good fortane^
have aU ilieir actions interpreted well, and their faults
to overlooked ; otiiera
to be ill beheld and sospeeted, even when they are innocent. So parenta
times observed to bave partialitytowards
many are great some child ; and
not to be offended with liim for tiut, wliich they woold severely ponish in
their other children.
One beats the bush and another catcheth the bird.

U iMt it boiaioii MM prendre 1' oisiUoo. OaU, JUi semetUemJaduni,
^ Proverbs
^^Km that are
Patch, by patch is good husbandry, but patch upon pstdk*:

is plain beggery ; or,
One ^ch on a knee, ^c.
Two patches on a knee, jrc.
Patience with poverty is all a poor man's remedy.*
Patience perforceis a medicine for a mad dog.
Patience is a plaistcr for all sores.
Paid*s will not always stand.

A fair patun never shamed his master. [snrancea.
starts not at
A good pay-master needs no surety ; or at-
Once paid never craved.

He that last never pays twice.
pays
He that cannot pay, let him pray.
They take a long day that never pay.
He that would live in peace and rest, must hear and see
r
and say the best.
Oy, voy, " te taia, si to veux vivre en pais. GalL Ode, vede, teec*
Sevooi viver in pace. Jtal,^,
Pen and ink is wit's plough. [I have will not*.

A in my purse will bid me driak when all the friends
petmy
Penny m pocket's a good companion.
N o no pater-noster.
petmy
'I'hat is well spent that saves a groat.
penny
Kouoe la raaille qui suave le denier. Gall* The liaif-penny ii well ipent
that saves a penny.
Penny and penny laid up will be many.

Who will not keep a penny shall never have many.
The greatest sum is made up of pence : and he that is prodigal of a Uttit
can never gain a great deal : besides by his squandering a little one um$
take a scantling of his inclination.
Near is my petticoat,but nearer is my smock"

Ma chemise m' est plus procfae que ma robe. Gall. Tocca pin la tfh'
roisia ch' 11 gippone. JtaL i. e. Tunica pallio projtior, 'AÎT^tTBOOt^

rj yovv Kvilfiri,Theoer, Some friends are nearer tome thanotbert:
my parents and ctiildren than my other relations, those thao my nclgliboiin^

my neighbohrs than strangers : but above all I am next to myself. Pkw
pres est la ehalr que la chemise. Gall. My flesh is neartr than my skiit.
If physick do not work, for the kirk.

prepare
I'll not buy a pig in a poke.
The French uy, thai tn pochc, i, ". a cat ia a poka.
Pigs love that lie together.

A famili|tf convenation breeds frianddtipâmoBC tlMm who arc of Ibt
most base amUordid naivrts.
INT1RE S"l}TEl;^CES. 101
Wbcn tbeji^'s proffer*dhold ap the poke.

Never reftiae a good offer.
He that will not stoop for a pin, shall neyer be worth a
He can illpipe, that wants his upper lip. [point

Things cannot be done wilboat neccMary hcJpa aad iMtruMDti.
No longer jn)"eno longer dance.

Piss not against the wind.
Chi iritcia contra U voito ri bagna la camiseia. Jtai, He that piatCk
againflt the wind watt bia lUrt. It ia to a man's own prejodice to strive
ag^^ the stream ; be wearies hionelf and Um"" grooad too. Chi spoda
contra it vento si spnda contra 11 viso. Jtat. He that spiu against the irind
sfrftsinUs own ibee.
The pitcher doth not so often to the water, but it

go
comes home broken at last
Tlmt sottvent va ie pot i 1' ean que 1' anse y demewe. GaU, Qvem
SifpetremsitaUquandoin9enit.Sen,Tng, ,
Foolish pihf spoils a city.

Plain deahngrs a jewel, but they that use it die beggers.
He plays well that wins.
As gooidplay for nothing as work for nothing. [king.
He ihai plays more than he sees forfeits his eyes to the
Qe had need rise betimes that would pleaseevery body.

He that would please all, and himself too, undertakes
what he cannot do.
*Ov^k yap
6 ZevQ fi^ ^wv irdrraf: ^y^dvet St air^^wt^
Pleasing ware is half sold.

venda. GaU, êreantia chi âce i
' Chose qui plaistest k demi meca*
i"ndnta. ItaL
Short fdeasure long lament, v. in S.
P/!mfy makes dainty.

Th^ plow not well if the plow-roan holds it not
goes
He that by the plow would thrive himself must eithee-
hold or drive.
There belongs more than whistling to going to plow^
A man must |iW with such oxen as he hath.
He hpoor indeed that cannot promise nothing..

Poor folks are glad of pottage.
Poor and proud, fy, fy.
The Devil wipes his tail with the man*s pride.
poor
A poor man's table is soon spread. [are hui twelve^.
Possession is eleven points of the law, ana they say there:
A cottage in
posscsraon, ^c, v. t;ottage.
If you drink in your pottage, you^li cough m yooc grave^
K a
102 FKOVERBS THAT ARE
When poverty conies in at the doors, Ipê leapir oat at

Plain of poverty and die beggcr.a [the windows.
Poverty parteth good fellowship.

Pour not water on a drowned mouse.
i. e. Add not affliction to misery.

Praise a fair day, $*c.v, fair.
Praise the sea, ^c, v, sea.
Prayers and provender hinder no man's jonrney.

They shall have no more of our prayers than we of their
pies (quoth the vicar of Layton,)
He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Qui veat apprendre k prier, Aille aoavent sor la mer. GuU"
Prettiness makes no pottage.

Pride will have a fail.
Pride feels no cold.
Pride goes before, shame follows after.
It's an ill procession where the Devil carries the cross.
A proud mind and a begger's not well gether,

to-
purse agree
[begger'spurse.
There's nothing worse than a proud mind and u
agrees
As proud come behind as before.
ô
A man be bumble that is in high estate, and people of mean eondl-
may
tion may be as proud as the highest.
Tt*s good beating prmid folks, for they'llnot complain,
l^he priest forgets that be was clerk.
Proud upstarts remember not the meanness of iheir former conditioa.
lie that
prieth into every cloud be stricken with a
may
Proffered service (and so ware) stinks. [thunder-bolt.
Merx ultronea putet, apud Hieronym. saith, Qtîn vulg^
ErasTmu
etiam in ore eat, ultra delatum obsequitun plervnque ingrattun esse.
So that it seems this proverb is in use the Dutch too. Merchandise

among
offerte est k demi Tendne. Gail, Ware' that is proffered is sold for half
the worth, or at half the price.
All promises are either broken or kept.

This is a flam or droll, used by ihem that break their word.
The man (and so the honester) the worse luck.

properer
Anx bona meschet il. G^M,
Better some of a pudding than none of a pye.

There's no deceit in
bag pudding. a
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Pull hair and hair, and you'll make the carle bald.
Caude pUos equina paulatlm velUre. There is a notable story of
Sertorivs mentioned by Plutarch in bis life. He, to persuade bis soldiers
that coonsel wai more available than strength, causes two honee to bo
INTIBB SENTENCES. 105
VroQ^t oat, the om poor and lean ; the ether ttroag and having a busby
Uil. To the poor weak horse he seli a grttt, strong, yoong man. To the
atrong horse he sets a little weak fellow, each lo pluck off his horse's tail.
This latter pullinf the hairs one by one, in a short space, got off with the
whole tail : .whereas the yoong man, catching all the tail at once in hi"
hands, fell a tagging with all his might, labonring and sweating to little per*
pose; till at last he tired, and made himself ridlcnloos to all the company.
Piiuia 4 plama se pela 1' occha. Ital, Feather by feather the goose to
phicked.
Like punMmgnt and equal pain, both key and key-hole

Let your jncr^f be your master. [do maiutain.
Messe ttnu$ propria vive.
All is not won that put in the
is
pune.
He that shews his purse longs to be rid of it. \p"rs""
Be it better or be it worse, be rulM by him that bears the
Thafs but an empty purse that is full of other men's
money.
Q
Quick at meaty quick at work.
Bonne besle s' eschaoffe GuU, A good beast will
"
en mangeant. get him*
self on heat with eating. Hardi gaigneor hardi maogenr. Gall,
We must live by quick and

the not by the dead.
Any thing for a quiet life.
Next to love quietmss,
R
Small rain lays great dust.
Pedte ptoye abat grand vent. Small rain, or a little rain lays a great
wind. Gall* So said a mad fellow, who lying in bed be-piss'dhis farting
life's bacli.
After min comes fair weather.

Raise no more spiritsthan you can conjiu^ down.
Thou art a bitter bird, said the rax"en to the sterling,
Raw leather will stretch.
There's reason in roasting of eggs.
Est modus im rebus.
No receiver no thief.
The receiver's as bad as the thief.
Â/Li"l"6Tepot
KXioirtg Kai 6 Be^"fuvoc^ ical'6 K\i\pac*
PkocyL
He that reckons without his host must reckon again.
Chi fa conto senza 1' hoste fa cnnto dae volte. Ital, Qai compte sans
Ion hoste, il lai convieht compter deux fois. GcUl.
Even reckoning keeps long friends.

A vienx cnmptes noavelles disputes. Gall, Old reekoniags breed new .
dispot"8 or quarrels. Conto spesio i amicitia lOBga. Jtai"

Never refuse a good offer. [long^.

If I had reveng'd all ^rong, I Iiad not worn my skirts so
Tis brave Scrambling at a rich man's dole.

Soon ripe soon rotten.
CUo maturum citd putridum, Odi puerutum pntcoci sapUntia,
Apuk It is commonly bdd an ill sign, for " child to be too forward nod
rife-witted, vi"* either to betoken premature death, according; to that mofto

I have somewhere seen under a coat of arms,
Is cadit ante senem qui sapit ante diem ;
or to betoken as early a decay of wit and parts. As trees that bear doable
flowers, viz. cherries, peaches, "c. bring forth no fmit, but spend all in th"
blossom. Wherefore as another proverb hath it. It is better to knit than
blossom. Prseito mataro, praesto marso. Jtal,
Why should a rich man steal ?

Men use to worship the rising sun.
Plures adorant soletn arientem quatn oecidentem. They that are
yonng and riring, have more followers than they that are old and decaying.
This consideration, it is thought, withheld Queen Elizabethf a prudent pHo"
cess, ^m declaring her successor.
Airs lost that's put in a riven dish.

AU is lost that is bestowed upon an ungrateful person ; he remembers no
courtesies. Perit quod fads ingrato. Senec.
He loves roast-meat well, that licks the spit..

Many talk of Robin Hood, that never shot in his bow.
And many talk of little John, that never did him know.
Tales of Robin Hood are good enough for fools.
That is, many talk of things which they have no skill in, or experience
of. Robert Hood was a famous robber in the time of King Ricfuird the
first : his principal haunt was about Shirewood Forest, in Nottingham^

sMre, Camden calls him, preedonem mitissimum. Of his stolen goods
he afforded good pennyworths. Lightly come lightly go. Molti parlan dt
Orlando chi nou viddero mai sao brando. Itai, Non omnes qui ctfAo-
ram tenent citharadL
Spare the rod and spoil the cluld.

A roeue*% wardrobe is harbour for a louse.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
*^Saxum volutum non obdudtur musco. \lôg KvKivÔfliVOQ

TV (bvKog 0 Trotcl Pietra mossa non fa mnschio. ItaL La pierre
-souvent remuê n' amasse pas volontiers mousse* GaU. To which is lel
paral-
that of Fabius, On. Planta qute sapius trans/ertur non coaleseit*
A plant often removed cannot thrive.
Rome was not built in one day.

Rome n' a este basti tout en nn Jour. Gall, 8c Grand bien ne vient pat"
en pen d' henres. A great estate Is not gotten in a few hours.
Name not a rope in his house that hang'd himself^

No rose without a thorn.
Nulla est Hncera voluntas*.
'^
(diÛ^C.!^ C^' C tr)*'
INTIRS "KNTENCXS. 105
Hie fairest rote at last is withered.

TN rong^h net^ jre.e. net
At a round table there's no dispute of place.
This deiervea place among* proyertM, yet becaoM
not a I find It both
MWNif oar EingUtk coUeettont, and likeîte the French and JiaUan, I
have kt It peta. A tavola toada son li contende del Inceo. JiaL Roade
table otte le debat. GalL
He may ill rrm that cannot

go.
He that run* fastest gêtsmost ground.
There's no general ride witliout some exception.
s
An old sack, Sfc,v, old.
Set the saddle on the righthorse.
''rhU proirerb may be varionstyapplied ; either thus, Let them bear the
Vlme that deserve it : or thus, Let them bear the burden that are best able*
Y^bere saddles do lack, better ride on a pad, than the

bare horse-back.
.
AeiirepOQ
nXSg.
^Sûhessand gladness succeed each other.

It's hard to sail o'er the sea in an egg-shell.
A young saint an old devil, v. young.
A good salad is the prologue to u bad supper. Ital.
There's a salve for every, sore.
,A ogni e""a ^ rimedio faora qa' alia morte, Ital* There's a remedy
for every thing bat death.
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.
Fm* old age, wherein tbe head grows white. It's somewhat a harsh fM-
^taphor to compare age to a horse.
Some savers in a house do well.

jBvery penny that's saved is not gotten.
Of saving cometh having.
licarn say before yon sing.
to '
[themain seiu
He that would saU without danger, must never come on
and
Sttifing dicingare two things.
Dn dire au faict y 'a gr^nd traict. GaU,
Sa^ weU and do well, end with one Say

Iet,ter, well is
good, but do well is bettei^^
One scabb[d sheep will marr a whole flock.
: tJn a peeora infetta n' ammorba una aetta. Itai, 11 ni fant qn' une br"
Us rognense poor gaster toot le tronpeao. GaU.
*
Grex tottu in agris untus scabU cadit
" parrigine porcL Jiitenid.
Scald not your lipsin aootfaer,

{v. v. aiiotiMK.
106 PROVBTtBS THAT ARE
A scalded cat fears cold water.

i"n MottMto d' acqaa cald" ha purt pol d"lk frcdda. ItmL Ckd t"
chaodi cralnt T mb fkolde. OmU,
A icoTd head is soon broken.

A icoTd horse is good enoagh for a scabbed 'squire.
Dignum fMxtelld operculum.
Among the common people Scogfrinis a doctor.
tllisstmum avicuta genus mtnkHeque canurutiu
Who more ready to vcall her neighlM)ur scold, than the
Scwniiig is catching. [errantcKt scold in the parish ?

He th:it scorn* any condition, action, or employment, may com* to Im^
n"y often la driven npon it himiclf* Some word it thas : Hanging's acreftdH
Snf , mocking's catching.
Scratch breech, and 1*11 claw your elbow.

my
MutuwH muli scahunt. Ka me and I'll ka iliee. When andeaerVing
persons commend one another. A/anus manumfricat 4 MtMUt manMM
lavat. DlflTer not much in sense.
Praise the sea but keep on land. \

Loda il mare " tlenti 4 terra. Jtal,
The second blow makes fray. the

Seldom seen soon forgotten.
Seeing is believing.
Chi con 1* occnio vede, col cvor erede. Ital,
Seek till yon find, and yoa'il not lose your labour.
Seldom comes a better.
To see it rain is better than to be in it
The self-edgemakes show of the cloth.
Self do, self have.
Sey^'love'sa mote in every man's eye.

Service is no inheritance. ^
A yoang serving-man, ^c. v, yoang.

It's a shame to steal, but a worse to carry home.
Shameless craving must have shameful nay.
A bon demandeor bon refosenr. Gall.
It's very hard to shave an ef;g, egfi;,

v.
A barber learns to shave by shaving tools.

A barbe de fol on apprend a raire. GM, Ala barda dc pasii Q taN
bier impara a radere. ItaL He is a fool that will tuAir a yo"n| liffliaar
to practise first upon him.
It's ill against

shttving the wooll. [wolf.
Ho that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by .the
Cbi pecora ii 1^ iL lapo 1" Msgia. itfff. Q"l ae Ihlt br"bisIf taif!""
trill lenre nelghbooring princet in their ware, and are u famoQs in oar
days for mercenary soldien, as were the Carktnt of old.
Who doth ting so merry a note, as he that cannot

change a groat?
CmntakU vacutu coram Mrone vimior'
Tlie brother had rather see the sUter rich than make her
As good sit still as rise up and fall. [so^
If the sky falls we shall catch larks.
Se roninisie II cielo itl pigliarebbon di moiti aocelll. /foZ. Site del tool.
bone" cailles aeroyent prinset. Gall*
A broken sleeve, Sfc,v, broken.

Good to sleep in a whole skin.
The sluggarcTnguise, Loth to go to bed and loth to riie.
Sluts are go6d enough to make slovens pottage.
A smaU sum will serve to pay a short reckoning.
A small pack becomes a smsUl pedler.
Petit merder, petitpanier. GalL
Better are snuUl fish than an empty dish.

llic smoke follows the fair.
Ko smoke without some fire. t. e. There is no strong m-
mour without some ground for it Cognatus hath it

among his Latin proverbs, Non est fumus absqw igne^
though it be no ancient one.
Snotty folks are sweet, but slavering folks are weet.

Others have it,
Slavering folks kiss sweet, but snotty folks are wise*
Kide softly,that we may come sooner home.
Soft fire makes sweet malt.
Something hath some savour.
Soon hot soon cold.

Soon ripe, "c. v, ripe.
Soon crooks the tree, "c. v. crooks.
Sorrow, and an evil life,maketh soon an old wife.

Sorrow comes unsent for. Mala tdtro adsunt.
Sorrow will pay no debt.
Sorrow is always dry.
A turd's as good for a sow as a pancake.
Troy aime mieox bran que rosea. Gqll*
Every sow to her own trough.

In space comes grace.
Better spared, than ill spent.
Better spare at the brim, than at the bottom*
Ever spare and ever bare.
.^
INTtRB SENTENCES. 109

Sparc the rod, tec. ". rod.
What the good wife t/mrm the cat eats.
It'a too late to 9pmrt when the bottom is bare.
Sjmn spare to speed.

to speakyand
AjMl fidr and think what yon will
Be that jawafa Uvishlyshau hear as knavishly.
Qmt fmTpi m {"" vmli dhere, m {"" imn vhU audtei. TerenC
when
iSjîial yon are qK"ke to, oome when you are cali'd.
jut emHikim mlt me"$$ierli mtittfium vourU.
QnaA^pmdmn arebad lenders.

Baiie no more "c. v. raise.
spirits,
^SjâMl
and God wUl send.
A ffi dMiyoiiaMB|e du^poa lai vient. Gaii. He that eatt food OMIC
A man nin and reel at the same

cannot time.
Yqa most jjmu before you spin.
Tint ii well spokenthat is well taken.
Tl" wont in
iSfmAe a cart breaks first
No tpert no pye.
Aert b sweetest when no spectators.
Ho not spwr a free horse.
Ma tfut mdmUto stibdere calcar equo. Ovid.
A i|Ntf* in tiiehead's worth two in the heel.

Ufk a* bad Hake will not stand one year in the hedge.
Nothing itake nothing draw.
*" ""
filth.
g" pools gather,
.,.,
"#"lfsesee more
"
than gamesters.
^
" Mv ftiMOM ^mdm in nto negotiovitUni k/tmines.
Ha Ifaatwill Hed an e^% will steal an ox.

He that will iUtd a pin will steal a better thing.
When the tUed is stol'n the stable door shall be shut
"tmr la ttallaqoaado "' han i bvovi.
perduti Itml. II cat tempt de
-ttmrrtKiMaquiiidlcsdievaaxeDaoBtalka.
Gatk
QHinddquktmn accepto eimudtnda utjtama dmtm^ Jav. Sat. it.
9mrb etfpeum put vuiHera sumo, Ovtd.

*
npo/iifdc^C
CTC fiera rh wpAyfiara.lAteitm.
IBIpwed be St there's no
Stephen, "ut upon hi8~eveii.
**etiiat will not goorer thciitle must betiunst thro'the
gate.
J.
.
s
110 PROVEKBS THAT ARE
The Ml sow eats up all the draught.

Whoso lacketh a 9toeky his gain's not worth a chip.
Stwt is no sore.
Stretch your arm, "". v. arm.
Strike while the iron, "c. v. iron.

He must ttoofp that hath a low door.
After a ftorm comes a calm.
Doppo U cattiYO ne Tien U baon tempo. /To/. Apres b plnye Tient te
bew tempi. Gall,
No striving against tlie stream.

Contra torrentem uitL TlpOG Kirrpa XaKrlitlVm
Stuttus ab obUquo qtU cum discedere posaii,
Pugnat in adaersas ire natator aquas* Orld.
Of sufferancecomes ease.
lliat suit is best that best fits me.
No sunshine but hath some shadow.

Put a stool in the swi, when one knave rises another
comes, viz. to place of profit

They that walk much in the sun will be tann'd at last
Sure bind sure find.
Bon gttet chasM mal arentarfe. Gall. Abuudani cautela mm noett.
If you swear you*ll catch no fish.

No sweet without some sweat.
Nol' pain lani peine. Gall,
Sweet meat must have sowre sauce.
He must needs swim, thaf s held up by the chin.

Celny pent bardiment nager a qui 1' (m aoostient le menton. GaU.
Put not a naked sword in a mad man's hand.

N^ puero gladium. For they will abnse it to their own and others harm.
Ho that strikes with tlie sward shall be beaten with tho

scabbard.
Sweep before your own door.
T
Make not thy tail broader tlian thy wings, t. e. keep not
too many attendants.
A tailor*" shreds are worth the cutting.
Good take heed doth surely speed.
A good taley ill told, is marred in the telling.
One tale is good 'tillanother is told. *
Therefore good Jadge onght to hear both parties. Qui statult mliquld
I a
parte tmaudUA otterA, Mquum licet statuerit haud aquus/UerU.

The greatest talhen are always tho least doers.
INTIHE SENTENCES. ]11
'Ov Xoytity^HTai *EX\ac "i^' ^/oy"v. Abu tferbis std
factis est. Nee mihi dicere prompium, nee facere est isti,
opus
Ovid. Verba importat Hermodorai.
He teacheth ill,who teacheth all.
Nothing dries sooner tlian tears,

Niente pia tosto se secca cb" lagrime. Ital,
When I have thatched his house he would throw me down.
I have taught thee to dive, and thon seekest to drown me.
He that thatches his honse with turd shall have more
teachers than reachers.

Set a thiefto take a thief.
All are not thieves that dogs bark at. fcut your throat.
Save from the gallows, and hell be the first shall
a Mt^
Dispiccha V impicchato che impicchera poi te. Itml, OBteann vUain dn
gibet il vooBy mettra. Gall,
Give a tAt^rope enough and hell hang himself.

One may think that dares not speak.
And if s as usual a saying, Thoughts are free.
Haman laws can take no cognizance of thoughts, unless they discover
themselves by some overt actions.
Wherever a man dwells, he shall be sure to have a thorn-
bush near his door.

"So place, condition is from all trooble. NlMl est ab omni
no exempt
parte beatum. In medio Tybrlde Sardinia est. I think it is true of
thelborn bosh in a literal sense. Few places in JSngland where a man caa
live in bat he shall have one near him.
He that handles thorns shall prick his fingers.

Thought lay in bed and beshit himself.
Certo fa appiccato per ladro. Ital. i. e. Truly or certainly was hanged
Ibr a thief.
Threatened folks live long.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
llie French Deux de Dieo, secret de trots secret de
say, Secret de secret
tons. The Italians in the same words, Tre taceranno, s" due vi non sono.
If you make not much o^ you'llne'er

three-pence be worth
a groat. fstomacli.
Tickle throat with a feather, and make a tool of my

my
He that will thrive must rise at five : He that hath thnven
may lie 'till seven.

The thunderbolt hath but his clap.
Tidings make either glad or sad.
Time dccth away without delay.
Cito pede praterit atas, Fugit irrevocabile tempus,
l2
A mouse in time may bite in two a cable.
Time and tide tarry for no man.
Time and straw make medlars ripe.

Col " U paxlia "i mattirufo notipoU. Jtmi* Avec le temps ". la
tempo
paitle P on uaeure let mesks. GaU"
Take time when time is,for time will away.

Timely blossom timely ripe.
A tinker*s budget's fall of necessary tools.
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
Awez y a si Crop n' y a. GaU. Nk quid nimis, Mrjêv "yav.
This is an apophthegm of one of the seven wise men ; some attribate it to
ThaUs, some to SoUm* Est modus m rebus, sunt, "c. llor. 'L' abon-
danza delle cose ingenera fastidio. Jtal,
Too too will in two, Chesh, t. e. Strain a thing too much

and it will not hold.
Touch a galFd horse, "c. v, gall'd.
He that travels far knows much.
Trash and trumpery is the high-way to beggery*
Tread on a worm, "c. v. worm.
There's no tree but bears some fruit.

Such as the tree is, such is the fruit
Telle radne, telle faeille. GaU. Ife fructu arborem cognosco, Mattb.
xii. 34. The tree is known by its fruir.
If you trust before try, you repent before you die,

you may
II"T"t Xprifxar*
oXetrtra, a7rt"?/";^' ctr"toaa, Theogn,
Therefore it was an ancient precept. HAiuvtJffOiLiritrTBlV* ÔA vlao
Ingannato se non cbe si fida. ItaL There ia none deceived bnt be that tnits*
In trust is treason.
Speak the truth and shame tlie devil.

Truth may be blamed, but it shall never be shamed.
Truth finds foes where it makes none.
Obsequium atnicos, Veritas odium par it, Terent.
Truth hath always a fast bottom.

All truth must not be told at all times.
Tout vray n' est pas bon h dire. GaU,
That is true which all men say.

Vox populi, vox Dei,
Fair fall truth and day-light.

/^!7?^. 1^ Let every tub stand on its own bottom.
'
O Chascun ira an monlin avec son propre sac. CraU,
6a" Every one most go
to the mill with his i. burden.
own Mck, e, bear his own
A turd is good for

as a sow, t". sow. [grows.
AVIiere the TurWs horse onco treads, the never
grass
One good turn asks another.
Qui plaisir fait plaisirrequiert. Gall, Gratia gratiam Ji4u"iQ
parit*
y"piv TiKTH, SophocL He that would have firiends most abew himself
ffiendly. Fricantemrefrica, rov ^vovra avrt^VHV, It is meet and
comely, jast and eqnal to requite kindnesses, and to make them amends
who have deserved well of us. Mutual offices of love, and alternate help
or assistance, are the fruits and issues of true friendship.
Swine, women, and bees cannot be turned.

For one good turn another doth itch, claw elbow, "c.
my
All are not turners tliat are dish-throwers.
As good twenty as nineteen.
If things were to be done twicey all would be wise.
7\vo heads arc better than one.
*E*c "vrjpy^tiQ "vr^p, Unus vir nuUus vir.
Two good things are better than one.
Two eyes see more than one"

Deun yeux voyent plus clair qa' nn. GalL Plus vident oculi qudm
oemlus.
Two of a trade seldom agree.

Two ill meals, "c. v, meals.
Between two stpols the breech cometh to the ground.
Tener il col so doe scanni. ItaL II a le col entre deux selles, or, Assfs
entre deoz selles le col k terre. Gall, Toot est fait negUcement la o"
Ton r antres s' attend. While one trusts another, the work is left undone.
Two dry sticks will kindle a green one.
7\oo to one is odds.

Noli pugnare duobus Catoll. " Nh Hercules quMetn adversus
duos. It is no uncomely thing to give place to a moltitnde. Hard to sist
re-
the strength, or the wit, or the importunity of two or more combin'd
against one. Hercules was too little for the Hydra and Cancer together.
Two cats and a mouse, two wives in one house, two
.
dogs and a bone never agree in one.
Benz chiens ne s' aocordent point jt uq.os. Gall,
Good riding at two anchors men have told.

For if one break the other may hold.
Duabus anchoris fultus, 'ETri ^l/oTv opfitiv, Aristid,
'Ayaâe he ir^Xovrai kv vvkti

'êifjiepiq. 3'oac "K vrfOQ
hv drKvpau
d7r"flrjc"/i0ât Pindar, It's good, in a stormy or
winter night, to have two anchors to cast oot of a Aip,
Two dogs strive for a bone, s^d the third rums away
with it.
V
He that stays in th^ valleyshall never get over the hiU.^
L 3
Valour would fight, but discretion would mn away.

Y"m cannot make velvet of a sow's ear.
Vemtuite a small fish to catch a great one.
XI fant lianrder on petitpdason poor prendre an grand. GaU* Batta

ana ludoU per pigliar on Incdo. ItaL
Venture not all in one bottom.
Nothing venture nothing have.

CU non 8f arriachU non guadagna. Ital, Qui ne "' adventure a' i
cfaevalay mnkt* OaiL Quid enim tentare nocebit? 4; Conando Crad
Trifja potiti sunt.
Where vice is vengeance follows.

Rarb antecedentem tcelestum deseruit ptde pmna ciaudQ, UonU
Unbidden guests, ^c. v, in G.

Better be unborn than unbred.
Make a virtue of necessity.
II savio fa della necesaita virtn. Ital, Trjv arayKaiav Tvvnv
TpiPsiV," *Avayicat0âyeiV.Erasmus makes to be much of
the tame sense, that is, to do or suflfer that patiently which cannot well be
avoided. Levius fit patientia, QuicqtUd corrigere est ne/as. Or to
do that onrselves by an act of onr own, which we should otherwise shortly

be compelled to do. So the abbies and convents, which resigned their
lands into Kiag Henry the eighth's hands, made a i^rtoeof neoeteity.
Vngirt unblessM.
Better be unmannerly than troublesome.
Unndnded unmoned.
Use makes perfectness.
l/sus promfiet fadt^
Use legs and have legs.

Once an use and cufôm.
ever a
To borrow on usurtf brings sudden beggery.

Clthlts usura currtt quam NeracUtus. The pay-days recar beliore
the creditor is aware. Of (he niscUefr of I seed Aothlng, there
nanry say
having beep two very iagenloai treatiaet lalely published upon that snhject,
aofSdent to convince aiQr diftatercsted person of the ^vil consequences of
a high interest, and the beneit that wonld accnie to the commonwealth in
general, by the depression of interest.
w
No safe wading in an unknown water.
It's not good to wake a sleeping dog ; or lion. Ital.
Good ware makes quick markets.
Proba merx/aciU, empt"rem reperit. Plant. Fsbb.
When the wares be gone, shut up the shop windows.

One caimot live by sellingware for words.
War must be wag*d by waking men.
Tt^^'Â
116 PROVERBS that' ARE
He that %b%11 not wlien he may, when he wills he shall

Nothing is impossibleto a willing
mind. [haê nay.
Will is the cause of woe.
They who cannot as they ivilly

must will as they may ;
or, must do as they can.
Chi
non puo fare come voglia faccia tome poo. ItiU, and Chi iuhi
pao qnel che vuol, qael che pao voglia. Quoniam id fieri quod vis mm
potest, velis id quod possis.Tereot. Audria.

Puff not against the wind.
It is an ill wind blows no body profit.
A qaelqae "ho8e maihenr est bonne* Gall, MiBfortime is good tor
something.
Tlie wind keeps not always in one quarter.
Good wine need no bush.
Al baon vino non bisogna frasca* Ital. A bon vin il ne faut point (Pen*
seigne. Gall. Vino vendibili hederd suspensd itihil est opus,
Wlien the wine is in, the wit is out.

In Proverbium cessit, Sapientiam vino obumbrari, Flin. lib. 27.
cap. 1. Vin dentro, senno fnora. Ital,
The sweetest wine makes tlie sharpestvinegar.

Vinegar, i. e. Vinwn acre* Forte e 1' aceto di vin dalce. Ital, Cor"
ruptio optimi est possima.
Wink at small faults.
IVs a hard winter when one wolf eats another.
This it a French proverb, Mauvaise est la saison qnand an loap mange
V autre.
Winter is Summer's heir.

He that passeth a winter^s day escapes an enemy.
This is also a French proverb. Qui passe on Joor d'hyver passe un de ses
ennemls mortels.
Winter finds out what Summer lays up.

By wisdom peace, by peace plenty.
Wise men are caught in wiles.
A wise head makes a close mouth.
Some are wise aAd some are otherwise.
Send a mse man errand, and say notiiiogto him.
of an
Wishers and woulders are never good householders.

If wishes were butter-cakes, beggcrs might bite.
If wishes were thrushes,beggers would eat birds.
If wishes would bide, beggers would ride.
Si soohaits furent vrais pastooreanx seroyent rois. Gall, If wishes might
prevail,shepktrdt wookl be kiaigs-
It will be long enoa|^ e*re yoa wish your skin fuU oi

holes.
^^'^'INTIRE
/j^j^^,^^ SENTENCES. 117
"
I never fared wmrse tban I tt7"A*"/ lor itiy supper.

when
H^ in one hand and shit in the other, and see which
will be full iirst

Bought wit is best.
Dun/lsgeHo wteM docetur rectius, îcXrfpaC" fid*TL^Trai-

âyuyti Kapoiav" NnzioHz. Tla^rfâra fta-S^v/âra,
Noemmenia documenta, Galeatum serd dueliipaHiUt,
Good wits jump.

Wit once bought is worlli twice taught.
A wonder lasts but nine days.
A wodUrMelUr knows a woolt-bu Yorksh,
yer.
A ward ii enough to the vîsc.
A b"on iatenditor poche parole. ItaL A bon entendear il ne faut que
demje panrie. Gall, So the Jtalimns say, A few words ; we say, one
word; and the French my, half a word is eaoagh to the anfleistauding
and apprdMBihre.
Many go out for wooU and come Iiome shorn,
Wordt are but wind, but blows unkind.
KtiiôTaroy
irpdy/na XoXoc-
Words are bat sands. It's money buys lands.
Fair words makes foots fain, i, e. glad.
Dooces obligent les fois. Gall, I fatti lono maKhif, le
prooMSfes
parole femine. Ital, Deeds are males, words are females.
Few words are best.

Pocbe parole it baon regiroento. Ital, A fool's voice ia known by
nmltitode of words. Mature hath farnUhed man with two ears and bat one
tmigae, Co signify,lie mast hear twice so mach asbe vpeaka*

Fair words batter no parsnips.
Re opituUtndum non verbis: the same io other terms*
Ck"od words fill not a sack.

Good words cost nought.
Good words cool more than cold water.
Soft tDords hurt not the mouth.
Doacet er belles paroles ne scorchent pas l.i langoe. Gall* Soft words
scald not the tongue.
Words have long tails ; and ha\e no tails.
Soft words break no bones.
Soft words and hard arguments.
Many words hurt more than swords.
An ill workman quarrels with his tools.
Meschant onvrier Ja ne tronvelv boos oatils. GalU
He that kills himself with working must be buried under

Tlie better workman the worse husband. [the gallows.
'rhongb tills be no proverb, yet It is an obsenratfon generally tna (th"
more the pity) and therefor*,as I have foond it,I put it down.
"
i
118 PROVERBS THAT ARE, "C.

Account not that work slavery, that brings in penny sa-
All trorA,and no play, makes Jack a dull boy. [voury.
The irorW was never so dull,but if one won't another will.
It*s a great journey to the world*s end. [most bagv.
} wot well how the world wags, he is mostlov^d that bath
Twv irdvTEQ kttA
kvTV')(fiVTiQ trvTyevsiQ, FelieiummmUl
cognatL It was wont to be said, Ubi amid ibi opes; bnt now it may (at
Erasmus complains) well be inverted, Ubi opes ibi amicL
Tread on a worm and it will turn.
Habet 4 musca plenem, "Ev"ti rj^y

flvp/ArfKlK^v aiptîfôyil*
Jnest Siformicte 4 serpho bills, llie meanest or weakest person is not
to be provoked or despised. No creatnre so small, weak, or coatemptibl""

but, if it be injured and abused, will endeavour to revenge itself.
Every thing is the worse for wearing.

He that worst may still hold the candle.
Au pins debile la chandelle a la main. Gall,
The worth of a thing is best known by the want.

bicn perdn bien connu, or Cbose perdue est lori continae: Gall.
Vache ne sâit que vaut sa qnoue jasqaes a ce qn' elle i' ait perdue. The
cow knows not what her tail is worth, till she hath lost it.
He that wrestles with a turd is sure to be beshit,whether

he fall over or under.
That is,he that contends with vile persons will get nothing bat a ttain by
it. One cannot touch pitch without being defiled*
"
Y
As soon goes the young lamb's skin to the market, as the
old ew*s.
Aussi tost roeurt vean comme vache. GalL Coti tosto mnorcU duetto
come capra. Jtal.
Young men think old men fools,and old men know young
men to be so.
This is quoted by Camden, as a saying of one Doctor Metcalf, It is
now in many people's months, and likelyto pass into a proverb.
A young saint an old devil.

De jeune Angeiutevieuxdiable. GaU. A Tartesso adTartarum,
A young serving"maa an old begger.

Chi vive in corte mnore a pagliaro. Jtal.
A young whore an old saint v, in W.

,
Young men may die, but old men must v. in O.
U youth knew what age would crave^ it would both get
and save.
Proverbial Phrases and Forms of Speech that are not intire

Sentences.
A
'Vo bring an abbey to a grange.
To brtog a noble to niiie"pence. We ipeak it of an nnthrift. Ha fatto
d' ana lanea una spina, " d'nna calza una borietta. Hal. He hath
.
made of a lance a thorn, and of a pair of breeches, a purse : parallel to oars.
He halhthwiuen a mill-post to a pndding-priclc^
To commit as many absurdities as a clown in eating of an
^raid oHsLY enough, Chesh, \.^%^"

Of that which is never lilcelyto happen.
Afraid of him that died last year. Chesh.
Afraid of the hatchet lest the helve stick in's arse. Chesh,
Afraid of his own shadow.
.More afraid than hurt.
Tkey agree like cats and dogs.
They agree like harp and harrow.
This hath the same sense with the precedent, ârp and harrow are
coupled, chieflybecause they begin with the same letter.
They agree like they

bells,' want nothing but hanging.
He is paced like an alderman.
The case is altered,quoth Plowden,
Edmund Plowden was an eminent common lawyer in Qneen JSlixa-
beth*B time, born at Plowden, in Shropshire, of whom Camden gives
ihit character : VUte integritate inter homines sua professlonis nuUi
secundus, Elizabeth ^nn. 1684. And Sir Edward Cooke calls him the
oracle of the common law. I'his proverb b usually applied to such lawyers
or others as being corrupted with larger fees shift sides, and pretend the
case is altered; such as have bovem in lingua. Some make this the occa"
siott of the proverb : PUnvden being asked by a neighbour of bis, what

remedy there was in law against his neighbour for some hogs that had tres*
passed his ground, answered, he might have very good remedy ; but the
other replying, that they were his hogs, Nay then neighbour (qoodi be) the
case is altered. Others more probably make this the original of it. Plowden
being a Roman Catholick, some neighbours of his, who bare him no good
will,intending to entrap him and bring him under the lash of the law, had
taken care to dress up an altar in a certain place, and provided a layman in
a priest*
" habit, who should do mass there at such a time. And withall
notice thereof was given privately to Mr. Plowden, who thereupon went
and was present at the mass. For this he was presently accused and in"
dieted. He at first stands upon his defence and would not acknowledge the
thing. Witnesses are produced, and among the rest one, who deposed, that
he himself performed the mass, and saw Mr. Plowden there. Saith
Plowden to him, art thou a priest then? the fellow replied, no. Why then
gentlemen (quoth he) the ca% is altered: priest no No mass. Which came
t" b" aproverb, and coathnes still in Shropshire with this additioii^ The
f"9e isfitUrefi C9Uotk Flovên) Nq priest no mast.

^^/%c-^ ^^y/AT. ftfS
To anglewith a silver hook.

Feschar col haroo d' argento. The Italians by this phrasemean, to boy
fish in the market. It is also a Latin proverb, Aureo hamo piscari.
Money is the best bait to take all sorts of persons with.
If you be angry you may turn the buckle of yoof girdle

To cut large shives oianothMr man*a loaf. [behindyou.
To cut large thongs of another roan's leather.
Dt atteno corio liberalis. Del caoio d' altri si ftono le corregfe
largee. Ital. II coope largecourroye de coir d' aatmy. Gali, It may
pass for a sentence thas. Men cot largeshives of others loaves. This shonhl
seem to be also a Dutch proverb : for Erasmus saith, Circum/ertur
apud nostrathtm vulgus non absimile huic proverMum, "x alieuo
tergore lata secari lora.
To hold by the cepron-strings.
i. e. In rig^tof his wife.
To afuwer one in his own language.

Ut salutaris ita resaiutaberis*
A bit and a knock (or bob) as men feed apes-
Arsy versy. ''Y"""por

irp^TBpov. [begging.
She is one of mine aunts that made mine uncle a
go
A prettyfellow to make an axle-tree for an oven. Chesh,
B
He knows not a B from a hattledoor.
His hack is broad enough to bear jests.
My Lord Baldwin*^ dead.
It is nsed when one tells that for news wliich every body knows. A
Sussex proverb,but who this Lord Baldwin was 1 coald not learn there.
Youll not believe he is hold 'till

you see his brains.
Never a barrel better herring.
Bate me an ace, quoth BoUovu ,
Who this BoUon not, neither is it worth

was I know enquiring. One of
this name might liappento say. Bate me an ace, and for the coincidence
of the first letters of these two words. Bate and Bolton, it grew to be a
proverb. Wc have many of the like original as, v, g. Sup Simon, "c.
Stay, qooth Stringer, "c. There goes a story of Qneen Elizabeth, that
being presented with a collection of "nglish proverbs, and told by the '
author that itcontained all the English proverbs, nay, repliedshe. Bate me
^
an ace, quoth Bolton: which proverb being instantlylooked fbr, bap*

pened to be wanting in his collection.
Yon dare as well take a hear by the tooth.

If it were a hear it would bite you.
Are you there with your hears.
To go like a hear to the stake.
He kath as many hear,
tridcs as a duioiiig [tohis hear.
If that the course again and
Jbefair^ again quoth Btmnjf
P"OVE"BIAL PH9ASES. 181
I hear him on my back.

Thai h, 1 remember hi" injatietdone to me with iadignalioD and grief,
or a parpoae of revenge*
To hear away the bell.

Youll scratch a begger before you die.
,
1 hat is, you'llbe a begger, yon^l acratcii yoaraelf.
It would make a begger beat his bag.

I'll not hang all my Oells on one horse.
That is,give ail to one son.
Better believe it than where it was done to prove it.

go
Voglio pin tosto crederlo cbe andar a cercarlo. Itat,
The bellythinks the throat cut.

To have the bent of one's bow.
There's ne'er a best them, as the fellow said by
among
Between hawk and buzzard. [the fox-cubs.
To look as big as if he had eaten buIM"eef.
He*il have the last word though he talk bilk for it.
Bila, i. e, nothing. A man !" s"id to be bilked at cribbets when he gets
nothing, when he can mê never a game.
BiU after helve.

HeHl make nineteen bits of a bilbery.
Spoken of a covetous person.
To bite upon the bridle.

That is, to fare hardly, to be cat short "Mr suffer want ; for a horse can
cat but slowly when the bridle is in bis month. Or else it may signifyto
^Tet,swell, and diisqaiethimself wiib anger. Frana mordertf in Latin,
hatb a different sense, i. e. to resist tliose who have os in subjection, as an
unruly horse gets the bridle between his teetb, and runs away with his
rider ; or as a dog bites the staff yon beat him with. Statius aseth it in
a contrary sense, viz. to submit to the conqueror, and take patiently the
bridle in one's month. Subiit leges S^frana memardit.
Though I be bitten I am not all eaten.

What a bishop*swife? eat and drink in your gloves ?
To wash a blackmore white.
yEthiopem lavare, or deallntre,(TfltlKBLV seu XtVKdiPiiv* Labour
in v^n. Parallel whereto are many other Latin proverbs, as Laterem

^
lavare, arenas arare, ^^ UsÔ^/^t^ ^fAcJL/ "^"At*"ML Hjtjh^^
You cannot ssiy black is his eye (or nail.^ ^/t/YA^'^/î/^3
That U, yon can find no fault in him, eharge him with bo cnme.
BKnd man's holiday, t. e, twilight, almost quite dark.

As the blind man shot the crow.
He hath good blood in him if be had but groats to it.

'
That is,good parentage, if he had but ^roalth. CrroataarejgicatoalOMaH

of which good housewives art wont to make Wade piidd|figi*
M
12^ PROVER^BIAL PHllASES.
To come hluelyoff.
Hc*s true blue, he'll never stain.
Coventry bad formerly the repaution for dyinc Uuet, iosomnch that
true blue came to be a proverb, to signify one that was always the same;,
and like tiimself.
To make a boh or a shaft of a thin^.

There's a bone for you to pick.
"gli m' ha dato nn osso da rosegar. Ital,
To be boughtand sold in a company.

She hath broken her elbo^ at the church-door.
Spoken of a boase-wifely maid that grows idle after marriage.
You seek a brack where the hedge is whole.
Plis brains are addle.
His brains cvoWi.
His braim will work without barm. Yorksk.
He knows which side his bread is buttered on.
Twould make a horse break bis bridle,or a dog his halter.

One may as soon break his neck as his fast there.
Break my head, and bring me a plaister.
Taglia m' ii naso " soppi me poi nelle orecchie. Ital.
Spare your breath [or wind] to cool your pottage..

You seek breeches of a bare-ars'd man.
Ab asino lanatn,
liis breech makes buttons;

This is said of a man in fear. We know vehement fear causes a tion
relaxa-
of ibe sfhlncter unit and onvoluntHry dejection, fiiutons, because
-tlie excrements of tome animals are not unlike bottons or pellets: as of
sheep, hares, ftc. )Jay they are sojike, tiint ihvy are called by the same
name ; this figpre they get from the ceils of the col(ni"
As they brew e'en so let them bake.
Some have it, so let them drittkf and it seems to be better sense so.
Tute hoc intristi tibi omne eseedendum est. l"er"mt. Phorm. Vt
semeHtemfeceris ita metes. Cic.tfe OraL lib. 2.
To make a bridge of one's nose.
i. e. To intercept one's trencher, cap, or the like; or to offer or pretend

to do kindnesses to one, and then pa."8 him by and do it to another, to lay
hold upon and serve himself of that which was intended for another.
To leave one iiUhe briers iVtSuds.

He hath broughtw^ a bird to pick out his own eyes.
Kpioc rpo0"la hviritrt. Tal n^tre U eoryo the gU cavera poi
gli occhi. He brings np a raven, dec. ltd.
He'll bring huMe and thong together.

To bmU castles in the air.
Far casleUi ta arit. ilTal.
V ".
124 PKOVEltBlAL ^miASESr
You shall have that the cat left in the malt-heap.

They are not cater-courint.
He hath good cellarage.
That char is char'd (as the good wife said whî she had
hang'd her husband.)
A char in the Northern dialect is particolar bnunen, alRiir, cr
any
charge, that I commit to or entrust another to Vlo. I take it to be the 8aai"
with charge kuT aTTOKOTTrjVm
To go cheek by jowl with one.
To chew the cud upon a tiling.

i, e. To consider of a thin|(, to revolve it fn one's mind : to mminate,
which is ttie name of this action, is used iu the same sense both iu ttOtln.
and English.
The child hath a red tongue likes its father.

Childrefi to bed, and the goose to the fire.
1 cannot conceive what might be tlie occasion, uor what is the meaning of
this saying. I take it to be senseless and nagatory.
A chip of the old block.

Patris est Jilius. He is his father's own son ; takeA always in an ill
sense.
Like a chip \n f"ott;i2:epot, doth

a iicitlK.T good nor harm.
It goes down liko c':onp\l h^y.
i'il make hiuj know disjtf.
c.^t^nui^g
- f
To clip one*^5 wings.
Pennas incidere aiicui.
He hath a tfôaJtfor his knavery.

He is in the cloth-market, i, e, in bed.
To carry coals to Neu"castle,
iioli lumen mutuari ; ccelo Stellas; rana aquam, Crocum in
Ciciam, ubi sc, maximk ahandat: Noctuas Athenas, Por4er cte
fueilles an bois. Gall, To carry leaves to the wood. Alchtoo potna

dare.
To fiti cock on hoop.

lliis is spoken of a prodigal, one that takes oat tlie spiggct, and lays it
Qpon the top of the barrel, drawing oat the whole vessel without any
intermission.
His cdcklcfiis ulAfornished.

"."#. li%iPw"(it0"|"MpTdl^nplare''cAQmonly
like high houses, in
which the oppermosr room is worst fornishcd.
To have a col^s tooth in his head.

As k osuUy spoken of an old man that's wanton and petolant*
To cut one's comb.

As k oinally done to cocks when (elded ; to "Ml due's conragiB.
Thejf'iicome again, as Goodyer*s pigs did, i, e. never.
Come and welcome, go by and no quarrel.

Command your man and do it yourself.
Ask my companion if I be a thief.
In thQ North they say. Ask my mother if my ftfher be a thief. Deminda
al hosto s'egr ha buon vino. Jtal, Ask font host if he have good wine.
To complain of ease.
To' outrun the constable.

To spend more than one's allowance or income.
You constable for your

might be
wit. a
Cooh-ruffianyable to scald the Devil in his feathers.

To cool one's courage.
He's corn-fed, '
A friend in a corner.
To take counsel of one's pillow.

La naict donne conseil. GcUL Noctu urgendu consiUa* Inde nox
evifipovri
diciturôTiTO fi"Ki'ârolg av^ptairoig
i^povi'iPT6Tt
wapaylyerat. La notte i nadre di peniieri. Itai. The night is the
raodier of thoughts.
CounseVs as good for him as a shoulder of mutton for a
sick horse.
What is got in tiie covmiy is lost in the hundred.
What is got in the whole sum is lost in particolar reckonings ; or in
general, what Is got eae way is lost another.
Court holy-water.
Ean beniste de la coar. Gali, Fair words and nothing else.
One of the court but none of the counsel, x
All the craft is in the catching.

To though he mouth;
speak as would creep into one's
lie hath never a cross to bless himself withal.
i. e. Ko money, wluch hath nsually a cross on the reverse side.
To have crotchets in one's crown.
You look as if you was crou^ti-odden.

You look as though you would make the crow a pud-
I have a crott; to pluck with you. f^^^St*" ^* ^^^*
You need not be so crusty, you are not so nard bak*d.
Here's a great cry and but a little wooll, as the fellow
said when he shear'd his hogs.
Assai romor fc poca laaa. JtnL Jsinum tondes, Parturlunt
montest 4"^*
You before you're hurt..

cry
Let her shell piss the less.
cry,
To lay down the cwigels,
m3
126 PROVBUBIAL PHBAS"S.
Hk b"lly ones npbotu-d*

To cMTie with bell, book, and candle.
To be beside the cutkum*
Aberrari d Janua.
To stand for a e^phtr.

D
To take a dagger and drown one's selC

To be at dojggersdrawing.
To look as if he had sucked his dam tfarongh a hnrdle.
To dance to every man's pipe or whistle.
^ To barn day-light, ^-^^1 i"

^ . *
Dead in the nest.

To deal fools dole.
To deal all to otb"rs and leave nothiog to himself.
"k"od to send on a dead bod/s errand.

To work for a dead horse, w goose.
To MTork oat an old debt-, or without hope of fmlnre reward. Argoit
recea le bras rompn. Gall, The wages bad the arm is broke*. Chi p"f"
faaanid k servito indietro. Ital. He that pays before"hand b served behind*
^
hind. Chi paga'inansi tratto Trova il lavor mal fhtto. Itul,
If thon hadst the rent oiDee-miUs thon wonld'st spend

it. Chesh.
Dee is th" name of the river on whkh the eity Chetier standi : th" asitta
thereon yield a great aunoal rent, the biggest of any booses aboat tliat
city.
As demure as if butter would not melt in his mouth.

Some add, And yet dieese will not clioke him.
To get by a thing as Dicktan did by his distress.

That is, over the shoalders, as the vnlgar asnally say. Tbnre is %
coincidence in tfie first letters of Dickson and distress : otherwise wiio thia^
Dickson was I Icnow not.
Hold the diik while I shed my pottage..

To lay a thing in one's dish.
He claps his dish at a wrong man's door-
To play the Devil in the buJmong, i. e, eom mingled of
nâse, tares, and oats.
If me Detil be a vicar thon wilt be his clerks
Do and undo, the day is long enough.
To play the dog in the ifianger, not eat yourself nor let
any body else.

'AXXa TO r^c Kwoi irotcicr^c ^v t% f^"rvpKaraneifiivtis
iPROVERBIAL PHRASES. Id?
diayiiy em Tpeneu Lvcian. Canis Ht fr^stpi, " come U oint
del ortolano, che Don tnanciii "!" cattoU egli Sc ncin ne Uueu mangUr altri.
Ital, Like the gardener's dog who cannot cat the coleworts himnelfy nor
will mflRnr others.
Dogi run away with whole shoaldors.

Mot "f matton, bat their own ; spoken in derision of a miser's house.
We dogs worried the hare.

To serve one a dog-trick
It would make a dog doff his doublet. Ckesh.
A dog*^ life,hunger and ease.
To "hU more on it than a fool on bis bable.

Hell not put off his doMet before he goes to bed, t. e.
part with his estate belbr^ he die.

You need not doubt you are no doctor.
A dram of the bottle.
This is the seamens phrase for a dranght of brandy, wine, or strong
watett.
To dream of a dry sumiher.

One had as good be nibbled to death by ducksy or, pecked
to death by a hen. [by his side.
To fake things in dudgeon, or to wear a dudgeonrdaiêr
To dine with Duke Humphry.
That is,to fisat,to go without one's dinner. Thia Duke Humphrp waa
node to king Henry the sixth, and bis prote"tfor daring bis minority,
Dnke of Gloucester, renowned for hospitalityand good hoose-keeping.
Those were said to dine with Duke Humphrg, ^ho walked oat dinno*
time in tlie tiody of St. PauPs church ; becaose it was believed the Dnke
was buried there. Bat (saith Dr. Fuller) that saying is as far from troth
as they from dinner, even twenty miles off; seeing this the Dolce was buried
in tlie chorch of St. Albans, to which he was a great beueAictor.
She's past dying of her first child, t. e. she hath had a
bastard.
E
Hb dares not for his ears.
To fall together by the ears.
In at one ear and out at the other.

Dtntro da nn oreochia " foora dal altra. Jtal,
To eat one's words.
You had as good eat your nails.
Hb could eat my heart with garlick.
Tlut is, he hates me mortally. So we know some of the jimericeus
feast npos the dead carcases of their enemies.
There's as much hold of his word as of a wet eel by tbe

tail.
'Air' ipds rtpf ItyytKvv^^M""
I have on the spit.

eggs
I am very busy. Eggs if tbeybe well roaited reqoire mudi torninff.
Neither good egg nor bird. [be r6tten.

You come with yonr five a and four of th"m
^gs penny,
Set a fool to roast eggs^ and a wise man to eat tiiem.
An egg and to bed.
Give him the other half him.
cg*^ and burst
To smell of e2ôi"^grease.
Jjucemam oUre,
She hath broken her elbow.

That is,she hath had a bastard, another meaoing of this phrase see ia the
letter B, at the word broken,
Elden hole needs filling. Darhysh.

Spoken of a tier, ^den hole is a deep pit in the Peak 9t Dtnrbjfshire
near Castleton, fathomless the bottom, as they would persuade as. It is
without water, and if yon cast a stone into it yon may fpr a conMerable
time b"ar it strike against the rides to and again as it descends, each stroke
givtag a great report.
To make both ends meet.

To bring btfckle and thong together.
To have the better end of the staffs [moulds.

Hell have enovgk one day when his mouth is full of
A sleeveless errand, [muse.
Find you without an excuse and find a hare witnont a
VUu novit quibus effugit Eucrates. This Jûcrates was a miller in

Athens who, getting diare in the govern mtnt, was very canning, in finding
OQt shifts and pretences to escnse himself from dioing his doty.
I was by (quoth Pedley) when my eye was put on..
This Pedley was a naturHi fool of whom go many stories.
To cry with one eye, and laugh with the other..
To set a good /cure on a thing.

Faire l"onne mine. Gall,
I think his/"u*eis made of a fiddle, every one that looks

To come a day after the/atr. [on him loves him.
Kar($7riv r^c eoprfjQ îcecc. Postfestum venistL Plat. f"i
Gorg.
It will be fair weather when the shrews have dined.

He pins h\" faith on another man's sleeve.
To fall away firom a horse-load to a cart-load.
Fall back faU edge.
Farewell and be hang'd, fiiends mnst part.
PHOVSRBIAL FHB:ASS8, I^
Farewell frost.Nothing got nor nothiBg UmiL

He thinks his fart as sweet as musk.
He/ifrf" frsnluncense.
This is "a andent Greek proverb, B^lccv Xi/Jdwrov, SdM"Mre
mAes eves a nuni's vices, iuftraiiUef, aoi'imporfMtioni^ !" pisase iilia^
"ûus cuique crepitus bme oltt,
Hq makes a yevyfart a thunder-clap.

All the fat*sin the fire.
To feather one's nest well.
To go to heaven in vifeather-bed.
N"m ett h terris mollis ad astra via.
Better /ei/ than taught

All/e^" at footfwU.
If geDUemen and pertons iogenioady edncated will mingle ti"en)selii^
with rusticlis ia Uwir rude sports, they must loolc for usage like to or nuhtr
coarser tliaa odiers.
Go fiddlefor shives among old wives.
Fight dog, fight beat. .
JVi defiugnes i" alieno negoHo,

To fightwith one's own shadow.
To fight with shadows, ta he aftatd" of h"^ Jwt Ika^
ZKia/J.a'VHV*
cies,iniagiuiiigdanger where there h uutie.
To fiU the mouth with enq^ty ipoomk

To have finger
9^ in the pye.
He had %fingtrm Die pye when he Inmit kiîiftii ML
He hath more wit in Ms little finger than Aon is thy
To put one'sîg'er in the fire. [whole body"
Prudens in fiammam nik asanuMs hufieito, Hferon. Pot not yoar
finger needlessly into the fire. Meddle not with a qoarrel TOloatarily
wherein yoa need not be concerned. Prof.xzvi. |7.
To foul one^s fingers with.

To have a thingat his fimgefs ends.
Scire tanquam ungues ^gitds^,
Hh fingers are lime-twigs, spoken ofsL tkiemh person,.
AW fire and teugh.
To Gome to fetch jSr".
To go through ^re and water to lerre or do one good.
Probably from the two sorts of ordeal by fire and water.
To add fewel to iAnefire,

Oleum camino addere.
All isÂ that comes to net.

YouÂ fair and catch a frog.
Ncither/"A, nor flesh,nor good red herring.
ISO PROVERBIAL PHRASES*
I have other figh to fry.

By Jitsand starts, as the bog pisseth.
To give one vlJU^ with the fox's tail,t. e. to cosen ov
defraud one. [vetous person.

He would flay a flint, or flap a groat, spoken ôf a cO'
To send one away with Sifleain his ear.

Lo gli ho niesBo vm palce ii"l orecchio. ItaL It U not caay to eon*
Cfl"ve by them who have not experienced it, vrhat " bnzslng and noiie a
flea will malce tliere.
It's the fairest /?ou;^ in his crown, or garden.

To fly at
all game.
"NLorefoolthan fidier.
The Ticar offo6ls is his ghostly father.^ A /^y^
O "ef^?r r^-
To set the best /bo* forward. Ir^rt^-y
He hath i^r foreheadto ^
a graft on.
Better lost tban/otmcf.
Too free to be fat. [not get bis wife with child.
He*s/r"e of Fumbler^s-halL Spoken of a man that can-
He may e'en go write to his friends.

We My it of a man when all his bopei are fone;
To fry in his own

grease.
Out oHhe frying-pan into the fire.
Cader dalia padella nelle bragie. ItaL Sanlter de la |y"ne ft ae jetter
dam lea braiies. CkiU, De fumo in Jlamnmm (wMch Ammianut
Marcellinus cites as an andent proverb) hath the same sense, EtMatA
Charjî inSejfUam imeidere* Ni dmertm vUans inprunas incidas,
'Eif ri wvp "K rS Kdtrvu, Lucian,
Yoa are nerer well/u// nor fasting.

G
The gallows groans for you.
To gape for a benefice.
He may go hang himsolf in his own garters.
All your are swans.
geese
Suum cuifue fmlchrum. 111 sno soldo Taltredeci danari. Jtal* His
shilling'sworth is-pence.
You're the is away.

a
among man geese when the gander
What he gets he gets out of the fire.
To get over the shoulders. [the worse.
All that you get you may put in your eye and see never
He bestows his gifts as broom doth honey.

Broom is so far frura sweet that it's very bitter.
I thought I would give him one and lend him another^

t. e. I would be quit with him. .
132 PROVERBIAL PHRASE3.
AqtUlam voiare, Delphinum natare doa, II n* faot apprendre a\i"
poiiions k nager; Gait. Yoa raiut not teaoh fish to twini. Xeiiofa me to
do that I know how to do much better than yonrwlf. Teach your father to
beget children. Sus Mlnervam^
He's gray before he's good.

To a fat sow on the arse.
grease
On ne ddt pas k gras poreeau le chI oiodre. Gall,
To a man in the fist

grease
That is, to pnt money into bis hands; to fee or bribe him.
ril either grind or find.

AH bring ^st to yoar mill.
To like a cow*s tail,i. e, downwards.
grow
He has no guts in his brains.
The anjractus of the brain, louicei) upon when the Dura mater is
Itken off, do roach resemble guts.
He has more gtUs than brains.

Out oigun-SMt,
H
To be hail fellow well met with one.
It goes against the hair.

The hair uf roost animals lies on"" way, and if yon stroke them down tlie
way the hair liee, yoar hand slides smoothly down ; but if yoa stroke the.
contrary way, the hair rises up and resists the motion of your hand.
To take a hair of the same dog.

i, e. To be dmnk agaiu the next day.
To cut the hair,
i. e. To divide so exactly as that neither part have advantage.
You hah before you're lame.

1 o make a hand of a thing.
To live from hand to mouth.
In ditim vivere, or bm Persiux, Ex tempore vivere.
Hand oyer head, as men took the covenant,

IVo hands in a dish and one in a purse.
To have his hands full.
1' ay assez k faire aviron les mains. Gall,
111 lay my handon halfpenny ere I part with it.

my
To hatig one's ears.
Demitto auriculas ut iniqwe mentis ascMus, Horat.
They hang together like burs, or like pebbles in a halter.

.
To catch a hare with a tabret.

On ne prend le lievre an tabonrio. GiUl, Dae cannot catch a hare wHh
a tabret. Bove venari-leporem.
You must kiss the hartn foot,-

or the cook.
PEOVEftBIAL PURAS^6. 135
fipcdcittl
to one thst comes so late that he batb kMt -bis dimipr or tapper.
Wky the here's foot ninal be kiss'd I know not; why Ihe coek ihoekt Imi
kissed there b some reason, to gtt some victaals of her.
Set the hare's head against the goose giblets,

i, "" Ballance things, set one agauut another.
If s either a hare or a brake-bush.

VXdiov If Kvr^, îU navis, aut galenu, Somdhfaig if yoa
knew what.
To bo out of harm'" way.

JS!gaero p0st -prineipim. Terent
To harp upon the same string.

"andem cantUenam recinere; 4 eadem chordd aberrare* HoraU .
He is
drinking at the hMrrow when be should be foK.
lowing the plow.
To make a long ha^xest of a little corn. [ears.
To hear as- hogs do in harvest with harted
; or, your
He is none of the Hastings.
Spoken of a slow person. There is an aquivoque in the word Hastings
which is the name of a great Camiiy in Leicestershire, which were Earls'
of HUntington. They had a fair hoose at Jshby de la Zouch, now
much mined.
Too hasty to be a parish clerk.

He knows not a hawk from a hand-saw.
To be as good eat hay with a horse.
To have his head under one's girdle.
He cannot hear on that ear. *
He may be heard where he is not seen. [decidit.

His heart fell down to his hose or heels. Animus in pedes.
He i* heart of o'jdc.
Hell is broken loose with them*
Harrow (or rake) hell, and scum the Devil.
To help at a dead lift.
To throw the helve after the hatchet.
To be in despair. Ad perditam securim manubrium aîcere.
To fish for a herring,and catch a sprat. "A "
To be high in the instep.

To hit the nail on the head.
Toucher an hlanc. QalL To hit the white.
To hit the bird on the eye.

Hobsoti*s choice.
A is said to have Hobson*s choice, when he mast either fake what
man
is left him, choose whefher he wiU hxte H^t'or no. Thta Hobson
or any
was a noted carrier in CaasbriOie^J^ liDf^Jmm^* Jtf ^y ttf
"iiiitis/"l"R
134 PBOVEHBIAL PHRASES,
"ou-ryiog.partly by graaiag, nlaed kteaelf to a pmU cstiHe, uid dM mveh
food fai the town } reUevinf the poor, and bolldiof a pabUc coodiiit Id tte
market place.
To make a Aog*or a dog of a thin^.

To bring one's hoM to a fair market.
To hM with the Bare and run with the hound.
.
Kot mnch aollke hereto is that lAttin one, Duabus seUis tedert, I. e.
ituertarvm esse partium, %. ancipHi fide ambabus servire veUe, v*
iErasm. JLiberius Mimus cboiien into the senate by C^sar^ coming to sit
down by Cicero^ he refusing hini, said, I woold take yon In dM we not sit
ao ckMe (nisi angusth sederemus) reflecting upon Cttsar^ who chose so
many into the senate that there was scarce room for them to sit. Liberu9
replied, bot yon were wont to sit apon two stools {duabUS seUis sedere)
neinlng to be on both sides.
Hell find some hole to

creep out at
He's all honey or all turd.
As honest a man as ever J ^!,^1**^- ,_,,

C trod on shoe leather.
An honest man and a good bowler.
By hook or by crook.
.'QuoJur$, qudque it\furid, Terent. Soil k droit on k tort. GatL
'Youll ride on a horse that was foal'd of an acorn.

That ii,the gallows.
They cannot set their horses toffether.

He hath good skill in horse-flesh
to buy a to ride
goose on*
See how we apples swim, quoth the horse-turd.
To thro3K^ the house out of the windows.
'Ta iftireftTJEpo
vipnpa dfjirau
He is se hungry he could eat a horse behind the saddle.
1
To be Jack on'hoih sides.
'AXXo7rp"$(raX\oc*A tnnHM"at, a weathercock.
To play the Ja^ with one.
To break the tflc.
Romper il t!iModff
Jtal. Sctndere glaeienu To begin aity btsardont
lOr dUBcolt thing.
fiiickofthet("".
Sick of the idie crick, and the belly-wark in tbe heel,
Belly"wark, i, e. belly-akc It is nsed wben peo^ eeiqîaiaof sidiMsl
4pr a pretence to be idle upon no apparent cause.
Yottil soon learn to shape idie a coat*

Give him -aniiMA and he*Ui"k""aelL
FHOVERBlAl PHRASfii. TSS^
He hath no ink in bis pen, t. e. no money la his purse, or
DO wit in his head.

K
To lay ê key under the threshold.
To At2fwith kindness.
So the is said to strangle her yomig ones by embrackig and Imgglng
ape
them. AMd so may many be said to do, who are still urging their sick
friends to eat this and that and the other thing, thereby clogging ti"eia
stomachs and adding fewel to tiielr diseases : fondly imagining, that if they
eat not a while thcyOl preaestly die.
Kim Jmm.
It comes by Jdnd,it costs him nothing.
A man of a strange kidney.
Whosoever is king be histhou'lt man. [clogs*
111 make one, quoth Kirkkam, when he danc*d in liis
You would kist my arse before my breeches are down.
She had rather kiss than spin.
iSjitafter kind.
A chip of the old block. Qui naist de gelineil aime \ grater, irall. lie
-
that was bora of a ben loves to be scraping.
Kit careless, your arse hangs by trumps.

As very a knave as ever pissed.
Knit my dog a pair of breeches and my cat a cod-piece.
He hath tied a /btotwith his tongue that he cannot untie
with all his teeth. Meaning matrimony.
If s a good kniê; it will cut butter when tis melted.
A gooidhnifeît was made five miles beyond CutwelL
Yon say true, will you swallow my knife?
It does me Knigkt^s service.
He got a knock in the cradle.
To know one from a black sheep.
To know one as well as a begger knows his dish.
To know one no more than he does the Pope of Rome,
"Better knoum than trusted.
L
To have nothing but one's labour for one's pains.
Avoir Taller poor le veair. Gali. To have one's going for one's coming.
You'll go up the ladder to bed, t. e, be hang'd.
At latter Lammas.
Ad Grecas calendas, I. e, never.
*lLirtaP TiKeitfffU
rifJLioyoi
Cti'tn tnuli pariunt. llerodot.
Help the lame dog over the stile.

He was lapj^din his mother's smock.
Tha lapwing cries most farthest from her ne^t.
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136 PHOVEKBIAL PRItASCf.
To Ita^h in oa^'t face and cut Ins throat.

As buttled ale U Mid to do. Da nna baad* m' oogC| da f altra ma
poDge. ItaU
He can lau^h,and cry both in a wild.

To lantghin onc^s sleeve.
More nke the Devil than St. LmKremee*
He'll %o to law for the wagging of a straw.
To have the law in one's own hand.
She doth not leap an inch from a shrew.
To leap over the hedge before you come at the stile.
She hath broken )ier Ug above the kftee,.t. e. had a
He's on his last le^s. [bastard.

To have the hnigtli
of one'a foot.
To lioh one's self whole again.
To. Utk honey through a cleft stick.
To He as fast as a dog can liok a dish.
That's a lie with a latchet^
AU the dogs in the towni
cannot match it.
To tell a man a Zt",and give Mm a reasen- for it.
To stand in one's own /^t.
lAhe me, God bless the exampJe.
If the liovC^ skin cannot the fox's shall.
Si lenaina peUi* mfiu satis est^ attv^mdavulftna, Condre la pea*
.
de regntrd k celle da lioo. "UM" To.aliapipt or oonpaaa that by craft

which we cannot obtain or effect bgr foroe. Ihhu an virtus ûis im
koste rtqfOrli.
If he were as long as he is ^her, he might tfiatch a
house without a ladder. Cftafi.

To send by Tom Long the carrier.
He looks as it*he bad neither won nor lost.
lie stands as If be were moped, fai a brown Mody, nncoQcenifd. "
To hse onc^s longing.

He'll not hse ?f """,""""'"
'""'"PP^JS
\Jj"' .
C the panng ol his nails.

Egli scortarebbe on padocebio per kaverne la pdle. ItaL lie woold
fli^ a Wiiae to get the akin. Aquam piorat dim iatmt /umOers.
Flaut.
Ware skins, quotli Grubber, when he flung the louse into

l^here's love in a budget. [the fire^
To love at the door and leave at the hatch.
See for your love, and buy for your money.
I could not get any neitheff ôr Jutw imr muiiey" "
To leave ome in the lurtL

PROVERBIAL PHRASES. 13?
M
Madge ôod cow gives a good pail of milk^ and then
kicks it down with her foot
To correct, or, mend the Magnificat,
i, e. To correct that which is without any faolt or error. Magnificat
is the Virfiin Mary'% hymn, Luke i. So called fVom the first word of it,
which is Magnificat. As the other hymns are called Benedictus, Nunc
dimittif, Te Deum, ^, For the same reason. Nddum in scirfo quarert*
She's a good maid but for thought, word, and deed. '
^^
There are never the fewer Tnaids for her.^ " u^ "LîcîÂ
îîU-^-^îX^/
that tiatli maUlcn children. ' ^
Spolcen of a woman
"
For my peck of malt s^t the kiln on fire.

This is used in ChesJiire, and the ndghboaring countries. They mân hy
it, I am little concerned in the thing meutiDaed: I care not smA cmm o|i
it what will. ""
,
One lordship is worth all his manner$.

There is an êquivaqtu in the word miinners,, wUck if written with an
" signifiesmores, if with an o manneria ; howbcit in the pronunciation

they are not distingnisbed; and perhaps in writing too they ought not.
You know good m0amer$^ bttt you wse but a few.

To miss Ins mark,
Aberrare a scopo, nan attingere scopum, or txtrascejmmjacniare.
She hath a mark after her mother.

That i^ ibe ii lier motlwr'a own daughter. Patris est JUius,
The gray mare is the better horse.

I. e. The woman is master, or we wears the breeches.
say
I'll not go before my mare to the market,

I'll do notliing.
preposterously : Til drive my mare befiora me*
All is weH, and the man hath his mare agaim

Much matter of a wooden platter.
Afira irtpl(baKflQ Mira de lente, A great stir about a thing of.
nothiDg.
Qne may know your meaning by your gaping.

You measure every one!s corn by y ouir own^ bushel; .
^ .
'
Ta ndattrl gU altri ooi tno paaseno. ItaL
To meamre his cloth by another^s yard..

To bring meat in its mouth.
Meddle Wi^ your old shoes. [spiird^c butter-milk.
Ill neither meddle nor make, sQia Bill Heaps, when he
To mend as sowre ale does in summer.
I cry you mercy, I took you for a join'd,stool.

To spqnd his Michaelmas rent mJSidtiuim^ moon.
Yooni maity a midden for duck. " " * :
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138 PROYEBBIAL FHRASEjS.
Either by mi^hior by sleight.

I cap see as far iuto a tnill-stone as aBotber man.
A Scotch-mist, that will wet an Englishman to the skin.

Mock not (quoth Montford) when his wife calKcl bin
To ha^ê a mcnÂ's mind to a tiling. [cuckold.

Ifk VMiunt wills we find often mention of a month's mind, and also or"
yW's miDd, and a week's mind : they were lesser funeral soleMinilias apt
ppiqt^ by the deceased at those times, for the remembrance of him.
Tell me the mooH*s mada of gceen cheese.

Qui si caelum ruat T
Yon may as soon shape a coat for tli6 mo^mm
To make a movanJtain of a mole-hUL

Afcem ex cloaca/acere, ex ekfihantp muscam-
To speak like- a mouse io a eheese.

Your month hath beguiled your hands.
Yoa'st have his muekiot his meal. Y"rksk,
He hath a good mucMdll at his door, t. e. he is rich.
N
He had 9^ gopd eat Jms nm^
You had not your name for nothing.
I took liim flapping,as Mou took his mare.

Who this Mus was is not very matarial tolwow: I snypoM sonwJPcH
man might And his mare dead, and taking her to be only asleep might saj^
Mlavs I taken you KajfjHng T
I'll first see thy neck as long as my arm.^
To seek a needle in a bottle of hay.

I may see him need, but I'll not see him bleed.
Farents will tmaiiy tay this of profUgal or wsdviiftil ehUdrcQ; i"wuiio("
I will be content to see them suffer a Utt)e hardship, bat not anjF gfOfA nd-
aery or calamity.
As much need of it as he has of the pip, or of a cougfa*

Tell me news.
lilore nice than wise.

Mchils in nine pokes, or nooks. C^sL nothing at all.
1. e,
To bring a noble to nine-pence, and ninerpence to nothing.
II fait de son teston six sols. 6ttU. To bring an abbey to a grange.
He hath a good nose to make a poor man's ^w.

II sertrit bon tray i paavre homme. Gall.
To hold one's nose to the grindstone.

To follow one's mom.
To Md one by tfienote.
I Mciwr nao per il naao. /tel. Tfc piyos SKkutBou JVft is m

To stand upon one*s pantofles.

To pass the pikes.
He is pattriiigthe Devil's Paternoster,
When one is grumbling to himself, aad it-may be cmniaf thoie that have
"nger'd or dispit sued him.
To one in his own coin.

pay
He is going into the pease-GiMf t. e. fallingasleep.
To he in a /"ecAof troubles.
To tnke one a
peg lower.
Pefiny-wisc and pound tbolish.

Merpiifiîapiriyovreg, hfiirpwc fiâv eZovrtQ* i- f.
Ad mensuram aquam bibunt, sine mensura ojfam cotncdeutet, II"
spares at the spiggot, and lets it out at the banc4iole.
He thinks his penny good silver.

To take pepper in the nose. .
To take physick before one be sick. /

To hole in ^
pick a a man's coat.
He knows not a pig from a dog.
Pigs play on the organs.
A man so called at Hog*s Narton,ln LelcestersMre, or Hvd^fNtrtam*
Pigs fly in the air with their tails fonvard.

To shoot at and
SLjrigeon kill a crow.
Not too high for thepye, nor too low for the crow.
If there be no remedy then welcome PiUvaU,
To be in a merry pin.
Probably this might come from drinking at pins^ The Dutch, and
English in imitation of them, were wont to drink out of a cop marked
with certain pini, and he aoooonted the man that coold nick the pin ;
.
whereas to go above or beneath it was a forfeiture. X"r. FuUer EccUu

jBist,Hki9,p.l'l,
As snrcly as if he had piss'd on a nettle.

To piss in the same quill.
To stay pissing-Yfhiie.
sl
He^l plaifa small game rather than stand out.

Aukidut stt qui dtharadus esse non potest.
Let the plough stand to catch a mouse.
To be tost from post to pillory.

Togoto|H"f.
I knowhiin not should I meet him in my pottage-^lsh,.
To prate like* a parrot.
To say his prayers backward.
To be in the same predicament.
To have his head full of piâmatiow,
Prewfttifer pricks him* "
'
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FROVBRBIAL P"ftAS^B"" 14t
To come in jii4cUMg"time.
Her pii/ftf
beats matrimooy. fgrouBdy w wind^
To no more jwn^wM tiian to beat yonrêU againat th9
To as much purpose as the geese shir npon the ice. Chulu
To as much jmrpose as to give a goose hay. Ch$shm
Q
To be in a quandary.
To pick a quarrel.
Heil be quartermaster where e'er he comes;
To- tonch the quicksor to the qaiok.

R
To lie at rack and manger.
If it should rain pottage he would want his dish.
He is better with a rake than a fork^ S^ ^f^ vsrsd.
Most men are better with a rake than a foik,. mora apt U" poU io "iMt'
flcrape up than to give ont and comannicate.
No remedy but patience.

Set your heart at rest.
You ruifeas if you went to fetch the midwife.

You shall ride an inch behind the tail.
He'll neitlier do right nor suffer wrong; [my belly*
Give me roast-meaty and beat- me with the spit,or ruM.it in-
You are in your roast-meat when'oêrs are in their SmL
Priusquam mactaris excorias, . "
To,ro6 tbe spittle.

To rob Peter to Paul.
pay
II oete i S. Pierre poor donnera S. PoU G0IL
He makes Robin Hood's penay-worths*

This may b" lued In a double sense; eitber-ht aelli tUav tor Ml tbdr
w"rth-: koMn Hood atfbrded rich worths of his plnoderM gtfod"t
penny-
ôr he things at what
boys price he |rfcases:the owners %ver" glad to get
any thing of BtNn-JSood, who otherwise wtmid hew taken their good*
for nothing.
To have rods in piss for one.
You gather a rod for your own breech.

Ttel pone le baston doat 4 son ngret le bat on. "iaU, "Otr iivrf
KaKct reiiyethv^p "KK(p xaica Hesiod. *E,tl
rti/^wv.
travrf rriv aeXrjvrjyica^sXelQ,In tuum ipsius ctyui lunam
deducis.
Rigla Roger your

y
sow is gQe4"QuittotL
I'o twist a of sand.
rope
'"k r^c if^f^fut
\oivloy v\iKH"%
^^^^yUû- ^y //"/vr^.^/"y^ '
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142 rffOTEBBIAL PHIASES:
A ro^ptftnd butter, if one slipthe

f thou^ I bad fîTen ber rape cimni^ nid IWbf;
He r""e on bi* rHît side. [wbeiihe hng^l fan
T^ ICif
" one a RowUmd for an Oliver.
that it, Quid yr0 fu*, to be cvcb "liii cm. Je I
î'
1 'o ncn thick
throtif^j and thin.
Mi" thft*:narf* nuul" of running leather.
To run i\m wild g"x"f(c chase.
J'o rM"9 orii} way and look another.
Af akMiUin 40, ^^y gig inro^rifia,
apc?fpar uc
VoTo*
yirtfOy, ArUtoph. apMd StAdam* AiUta mammfirt jepUfm,
pufKtm Mttntut nUera. PUat.
s
MoKR Melu to the mill.'
'I'ointrnti Mailmf^hi a foir'f ear.
'I'o M;ii|""f
a tcowerinf^.
You innkf? ruij tcrtttch where it dofli not itdi.
'111'!tm it wantu
iôtriiilairiN water.
Thai woijlil I fain t$ey Miid blind Geor^ of HeOmKm,
To i9#r/IJ|Ioiie'N MtaiT.
If #, Tn r"""/lv" III NbMH tn " plafeek
'1*0"tii uii hitf Nail to every wind,
f "IriiVfrll* * umi v"ii(. Oil//. Evannmre ad 9mmm mmrmwu- Mh^
Nhnrti and NJiiiniliko,some all,some never a whit.
To i'IimI II 0hrtj)*n
eye at one.
To niNl iin old "/"";"
alter one.
Nol woMli tW-6fu*A/tf#.
To iiitiki*
a Mr show in a coantry chnrch. [CheA.
(iooil lo Inltih n #trA( man sorrow and a dead man woe*
To pour WHt"ir into a sieve.
To "in/(i\w snmo sonp^.

IkfHtiliHitm
fuiultm catutre, Tcrent. Pbonn. Crawtbe bU "4fci^.
NolMiiitiiiMi*' iinubl""oiii" "nd ungnUtal tk"a Uic aame Uung over ud
llVD'
Tlioii Miii\t.iilike a bird called a swine.

A'oi/i""! "nwiin.
To ciill oiir Sir and something dse, /. f. Sirrali.
To HI*! nil at #}" and neven.
'J*oKit upon oue's ikirtt.
t i
PROVERBIAL FHRASSS* 143
To slander one with a matter of truth.

To sleepa dog's sleep. [ietices.
Slow and sure. This might have been put tmumg the-senr
I smell a rat.
To dnre snails 1 A ^n"trs gallop.
Testudineus gradus. Plant. Vicistis cochleam tardi$ate. Idenu
Tdl me it snows.
To t^ke a thing in snnf^"

To have a softplace in his head.
Fair and softly^
as lawyers go to heaven*
As softlyas foot can fall.
Suspensos pedes ponere. Qatntil. Suspense gradu ire* TereiO.
To take a wrong sow by the ear.
A sow to a fiddle,
*'Ovog Xi/pag. Astnus ad lyram,
'
To sow his wild oats.

As they sou^ so let them reap.
Ut sementem feceris ita metes.
To be tied to the sovore apple-tree.

^
I. e. To be married to an ill hobband. V^ L^â
2^ ^^^
^
y
.
f^
"^*"^/
^^
Tocalla,;"deaspade. -
You never speak but your month opens. "#
Spitk and s[mn new.

From spica an eaf of com, and the spawn of fishes,saith Mr. Howelx
bnt rather as I am, informed 1^ a better aothor; spike io a soft of nail,
and spawn la a chip of a bokt : so that it is all one as to say. Every chip
and nail is new.
Spare at the spiehetand let it out at the bung-hole.

" tien an dalla spina ft spande dal coccone. Jtai*
He bath "pi^liis
venom.
in your hand and take better hold,

?nt on would #j"i^faults if your eyes were out.
To make one a ^ta^^tW-horse.
What starve in a cookVshop 2
Emtarer la soif anpres d' nne fbntaiae. GeU, Moarir de faim aa|M"s de
Ottatier* GaU, This may be made a sentence by pottingit imperaliTely.
Never etmrve, 4"^
To go throueh stitch with a buiiiness.

To Mtieh by uie ribs.
He hath swallowed. a stake hef cannot iôop.
The more you aiir the worse you stink.
}A^ KiVzly KOJKi"\v KitiuuovtPiutjktent stercera mota
^
U^ VaOVBBBlAL PHBASES.
N Vv ""ma at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

'l\" siuinUe at a straw^ and leap over a blocks
TW4" twu proverbt hav" the Ike foroKr h Med 8"
ant acme: bj cv
^hMU. Altfl"4. xxiU. 14.
^^
"^ hcu two Stotdays meet, t. e. never. ^1^ Grttcmi Cakrn^
To swaUow an ox, and be chok'd with the tail, \dmi.
^'^
"^
'^^ l\J^3hUw saiue senie wick ike two koc Mve oac.
,
,,. rf ;4^(UiOCr^ thwi^ an inch board.
^
He'll "a(?e"r^
dagger out of* sheath.
( the Devil oot of hett.
T
To thrust Us feet under another man's tMe.
AUenm vioere quadrd.
To take from one's right side, to give to one's left

To take one up before he is down.
Tell "ou a tale,and find you ears.
A tale of a tub.
To tell tales out of school.
To talk like an apothecary.
^ Totteniefi-steeple's
the cause of Gifodwin's sands.
TUf proverb is aaed when an abcvd and lidkakas reaaoa it givcB at
tmjf tkisg in qaeition ; an account of tbe original wbereof I find in one of
Biskop Latlmer'% wrmoM in these words : Mr. Meore was once seal with
coinmiwion into Kent, to trj ont, if it mifkc be, wkat was the cause of
GoodtcM9 sands, and tke shelf which stopped op Sauduieh haven. ther
Thi-
cooKth Bfr. Afoore, and calleth all the eonntry before idm, sach as -
were tho"thC to be aun of experieBce, and Men ikac conld of likelibood

beat satisfy him of tbe laalier cooccniaaK the stoppi^ ot Smadmich havra.
Among the rest came iu before liim an old man with a white head, and
one that was thought to be little less than an hnadrad yarn old. Wkoi
Mr. Miwre saw this aged wum, ke thongkl k wtfoditt to kcv kirn say kis
mind in this nutter (for being so old a man, it waa likely that he knew
most in that presence, or company.) So Mr. Môre caOed tUs old aged
man unto him, said, Father
and (said he) tell roe if yon can, what b the
cause of the great arising of the sands and shelvct here abaaC ttto kavea,
which stop It np, so that no ships eaa arrive here. Tom are *e oldest man
I can espy in M Ike eoopany, so tkat if any man eaa tell any cause of it,
yon of ail likelihood can say moat to it, or at leastwise mare tkan any man
here assembled. Yea f"vsootk, good Mr. Moart, qtonh tkis old man, for
I am well nigh an hundred years old, and no man here in tlds company
thing near my age. Well then (quoth Mr. MtertJ how uj yon to
any
this matterf What think yon to be the came of tkeae riiahres aad aaads,
which stop up Sandwich kavcaf Fonootk sir, (qaolh kt) I "m M otf
ntfs, I tUnk tkat r"nl)rrt"fiH"eeple is ikn cnse of Ctarfiifai'saan^^'Vbr

I am Ml oU on 4r (4"olk be) I smy lambcr tkA brikUifi of TVnI triMS-
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and
steeple, I may remember when there wm mo itaeplest all ther*. And
before that Tenêrôn-ateeplewa" bailding,there wae in
tio manner oC
talkingof any flats, or sands that stopped up thehaven.; and thereft"re,
I
think that TVnêrfMMteeple is the cause of the decay and destroyingof '
Sdndivich haven. ^Thns farê bishop.

"
1*11thank you for the nexi, for this I am sure o"

There's a thingin't (quoth the fellow),when he drank
the dish-clout. [my own.
V\\ not pull the thorn out of your foot and put it into
To stand upon thorns.
Thriftand he are at a fray.
When in
thrift*^ the field,he's in town. / '
^ r ^"- "- ^
He struck at Tih, but down feU Tom. ' Ô t^k^^^TATii^Û}^

His tongu"*s
no slander. A^ ^jL^v/V- r
Your tongue runs before your wit.

This is an aadent form of speech : I find it in Isocrates'a Oration to
DemonUus, IloWtov ykp ^ y\"rra irpoTpcKH rfic

^lavola^.
His totigueruns on wheels (or at random.)
To have a thing at one's tongue'send, or at the tip of
Tooth and nail. [one'stongue.
Idanibus pedibiisque. Remit velisqve.
To have an aking tooth at one. ..
'
From top to toe.

Topsy tiurvy.
I would noi'tovjch him with a pair of tongs.
To it again,no body comes.
Nemo not insequUur aut impellU. Erasmus d Platone ; who tells as
that this proverb continues to tiiis day in common use (among the Dutch
I suppose)todgnify,that it is free fur us to stay upon any bnsinees (immo-
rari in re aiiqua.)
To drive a subtle trade.
To put one to his trumps, [can throw a mill-stone.
I'lltrtut him no farther than I can flinghim ; or, than I
You may trust him with untold gold.
To turn with the wind, or tide.
To turn over a new leaf.
To turn cat in pan.
In the twinklingof an eye.
To stop two gaps with one bush.
To stop two mouths with one morseL
Jhuu Unit parktes eddemJideliA, UnkuiJttiA 4u9f parore ^ffint'
ret.* This is a modern preiverb, Braamut) to
bnt dcierves" (laith be bern-
bered amongst (be andent ones. I And it among.thie
jP1riMi"4i
IJ' uieflUt
dense gendres* To get himself two sons in law with OM dan^Mer*
o
To ki" two flies witii one flap.

To kill tivo birds with one sh^ft (or stone )
denx GnU* Di an' dono far daoi amici. Ital.
D* one pierre faire conps.
Te make two friends with one gift. PigUar doe colombe con unai fav".
Jtal, To take two pigeons witli one bean.
To two faces under one hood.

carry
II a one face a denx visages. Gall^ Dae visi sotto ana beretta. ItaL
To have two strings to one bow.

II fait bien avoir deax chordes ea son arc. Gall, This may be made a
sentence by adding to it. It is good, or sach like words. Jhtubus ancoris
fultus.
Two hands in a dish, and one in a purse.

To have thwitten a mill post to a pudding-prick.
She*s cured of a tympany with two heels.
u
To nourish a viper in one's bosom.
Ta ti allevi la biscia in seno. Ital. Qpexj/ai Koi Xl/fC(^"(",

^p^li/acKvi'aQ. Theocr. in hodoep. Col%ibrum in sinu fov4re.
Est apnd ."sopttm Apol"âs de rastico qaodam in hanc rem.
Nothing but up and ride?

To be up
the queen apple-tree. [in the cup.
No sooner up, but the head in the Aumbrey, and nose
w
A warrant seal'd with butter.
To look to one's water.
To cast water into the Thames,
Lumen soli mutuari. "e.
You canH see green cheese, but your teeth must water,
I'll not wear the wooden dagger, i, e, lose my winnings.
Wear a horn and blow it not.
To come home by weeping cross.
Thii weeping-crass, which gave occasion to tiiis phrase, b about two
,
miles distant from the town of Stafford,
You may make as good mu^ck on a wheel-barrow,

"Without welt or guard.
All shall be well and Jack shall have Jill,
With a wet finger.
Leid Itrachio 4; moUi brachio.
But when, quoth Kettle to his mare ? Chesh.

Whitt whist, I smell a bird's nest. [overthrow.
You'll make an end of your whistle though' the cart
Whist and catch a mouse.

148 PROVERBIAL SIMILIES.
Not worthy to be named the same day.

Not worthy to wipe his shoes.
Jndignus qui UU matellam porrigat*
JJispeream si tu Pyladi prastare matellam
Dignits es, aut porcos pascere Pirithol* Martial.
Not worthy,to carry guts after a bear.
Proverhiul SimiUeSy in which the Quality and Subject

begin with the same Letter,
As bare as a bird's arse, or as the back of my hand.
As bliad as a beetle or bat.

TalpA cetcior. As blind as a mole, thoagb indeed a mole be not abso*
ntely blind ; but hatb perfect eyes, and tbose not covered with any brane,
mem-
as some have reported : but open, and to be fomid withoot side the
head, if one search diligeutly, otherwise they may easily escape one, bdiii^
very small and lying hid in the farr. So that it must be fnaatcd, 4hat a
mole sees bat obscarely, yet so mnch as is snflicient for her manner 4"flbfiag"
being most part under ground. Hypstea cieeior. This Hypsaa was a
woman famous for her blindness. Tiresia cacior* The fable of Tiresias,
and how he came to be blind, is well known. Leberidt cethr. Est
autem Leberis eantvUe sioe sgintUum strpentin, in quo.appitremt tjfi-

gies duntQxat oculorum, ac membranula qtuedam tenuissinta qud
serpentutn oculi prateguntur* A beetle is thongfat to be blind, became
ia the evening it will fly with its fall force "g"tnit a mnnCs 4isee,w any
thing else which happens to be fen its wagr; which other insects, at .%"",
hornets. Sec. will not do.
To blash like alitodk dog.

As bold as blind Bayard,
As bold as Beauehamp.
Of this siruame there were many "arl" of Warwick, amongst 'vdMBi
(satth Dr. Fuller) I conceive Thomas, the first of th^ name gave chief
occasion to this proverb; who in the year 184S, with ane squire and six
archers, fought in hostile manner with an hundred armed men, at ffdgges

in Normandy and overthrew them, slaying sixty Normans, and giving
f
the whole fleet means to land.
As brisk as a body louse.

As busy as a bee.
As clear as chryitttl.
As cold as charity.
As common as Coleman hedgt?.
As coy as Croker^s mare.
As cunning as Craddook, ^-c.

As dead as a door nail.
As dull as dun in the mire.
To feed like a farmer, or ireoholder.
PROVERBIAL SIMILIEd. 149
As fine as fivepence.
As fit as a fiddle.
As flat as a flounder.
As grave as an old gate post.
As hard as horn.
As high as three horse-loaves.
As high as a hog all but the bristles.
Spoken of a dwarf Id deiisioiu
As hungry as hawk, or horse.

a
As kind as a kite, all you cannot eat youll hide.

As lazy as L-udhvCs dog, that lean'd his head against a
As mad as a March hare. [wall to bark.

Fanum habet in comu.
As merry as the maids.

As nice as a nun's hen.
As pert as a pearmonger's mare.
As plain as a pack-saddle, or a pike-stafi*.

As plump as a partridge.
As proud as a peacock.
As seasonable as snow in summer.
As soft as silk.
As true as a turtle to her mate.
As warm as wooll. fa bull.
As wise as Wahham's calf,that ran nine miles to suck
As wise as a wisp, or woodcock.
As welcome as water into a ship, orf into one*s shoes.
As weak as water.
Otheri.
As angry as a wasp.
As bald as a coot
As bare as the back of my hand.
As bitter as gall. Ipsa bile mnarwr'a, [jet,as ink, as soot
As black as a coal ; as a crow or raven ; as
the Devil, as
As busy as a hen with one chicken. [dough.

As busy as a good wife at oven ;
and neither meal nor
He's like a cat, fling him which way you will he'll light
on his legs.
She^s like a cat, she'll play with her own tail.
He claws it as Clayton claw'd the pudding, when he eat
As clear as a bell. [bag and all*
spoken principally of a rchc or Mmnd witbont wiyjarribg
or banhneat.
As clear as the sun,

As comfortable as matrimony.
o 3
150 PBOVBBBIAL SIMILIES.
It becomes him as well as a sow doth a cart-saddle.

As crowse as a new-washen-louse.
This is a Scotch ani Northern proverb. Crowte aigniAea briak,
lively.
As dark as pitch.
Blaclmess is the colour of darkness.
As dead as a herring.
A herring is said to die immediately after it b taken out of its element
the water; that it dies very suddenly myself can witness; so likewiae do
pilchards,sUada, and the rest of that ttibe.
As dear as two eggs a pemiy.

As like a dock as a daisy.
That is,very unlike.
As dizzy as a goose.
As driink as a beggar.
This proverb begins now to be disused, and instead oi it people an
ready to say. As drunk as a Lord : so much hath tbat vice (the more is the
pity)prevailed among the nobility and gentry of late years.
As dry as a bone.
As dull as a beetle.
As dun as a mouse.
As as pissing a bed, as to lick a di^.

easy
As felse as a Scot.
I hope that nation generally deserves not tnch an favpntation; and
eoald wish that we Eiilishmen,were less partial to onrselvea, aisd cen*
sorions of our neighbours.
As fair as Lady Done, Ckesh,

The J"oiH^t were a great family in Cheshire, living at Utkinton hy the
forest side : nurses use there to catl thaif children so if gitIs, if boya Earla
of Derby,
As fast as hops.
As fat as butter, as a fool,as a hen in the forehead.
To feed like aireeholder oi Mmckhtfi/eld^who hath neither

corn nor hay at Mickmdnuu, Ckesh,
This Atacklesfield or Mttî^Seld,
it a small market tpwn and borough in
ChesMre,
As fierce as a goose.
As fine (or proud) as a lord's bastard.
As fit as a pudding for a'iiiar't mouth.
As fit afi a shoulder of mutton ior a tick horse.
As Haltering or fawning as a spaniel.
As fond of it as an â whip and a bell.
ape
To follow one like a St ArUhmy's pig.
It u applicable to such as have 8wU" aalMbie toula, who for a amatt
PROVERBIAL S1MILIES" 151
reward will lacqnay it many miles, being more nttkkmn and takkiOM fei
tlieir atlendaiKw than their patroni desire. St. Anthony is aotorioosly

known to be the patron of hogs, having a pig for his piige in all ptctnres ;
1 am not so well read in hb legend as to give die reason of it ; bat t dare
say there is no good one.
As freely as St. Robert gave his cow.
This Robert was a Knareburgh saint,and the old women there can stiU
tell you the legend of the cow.
As hollow as a gun ; as a kex.

A kex is a dried stalk of hemlock, or of wild cicely.
As free as a blind manis of his eye.

As free as an ape is of his tail.
A s free as a dead horse is of farts.
A s fresh as a rose in June,
As full as an egg is of meat
" pieno qaanto nn novo. Ital*
As full piper's bag ; ai a tick.

as a
As full as a toad is of poison.

As full as a jade,quoth the bride*
As gant as a grey-hound.
As glad as a fowl of a fair day.
To go like a cat upon a hot bake-stone.
To go out like a candle in a snaC
As good as George of Chreen,
This George at Green was that famona Pindar of Wekejltli, wh"
fooght with Robin Hood and little John both together, and got the better
of them, as the old ballad tells ns.
As good as goose-skins that never man had enough of*

As good as ever flew in the air. [d/tesh*
As good as ever went Endways.
As good as ever the ground went upon.
As good as ever water wet.
As good as ever twaog'd.
As good as any between Bagehet and Bemûmw,
There it bat tiie breadth of a street between these two.
A s greedy as a dog.
As as grass ; as a leek.
green
As hail as a roch, fish whole.
" sano come nn pesce. JtoU
As hard-hearted as a Scot oiSeothmd. *
As hasty as a sheep, so soon a" lafl is "p flie tiord is out.

To hold his head like a steed of len pounds.
up
As hot as a toast
To hug one as the Devil hogs a witck.
15^ PROVERBIAL SIMILIES.
As hungry as a church-moose.
As innocent as a Devil of two years old.
A conscience as large as a shipman's hose.
As lawless as a town-bull.
As lazy as the tinker who laid down his budget to fart.
As lean as a rake.
To leap like a cock at a black-berry.
Spoken of one that deflret and eadeavoari to do harm bat cannot.
As lecherous as a he-goat
As light as a tly.
To lick it up like Lim hay. Chesh,
Um b a Tillage on the river Mersey that parti Cheshire and Lanea-
shire, where the best hay is gotten.
As like his own father as ever he can look.

As like one as if he had been spit out of his mouth.
As like as an apple to an oyster.
As like as four-pence to a groat
As like as nine-pence to nothing.
No more like thah chalk and cheese.
To look like the picture of ill luck.
To look like a strained hair in a can. Chesh.
To look like a drown'd mouse.
To look like a dog that hath lost his tail.

To look as if be had eaten his bed-straw.
To look on one as the Devil looks over Lincoln,
Some refer this to Linadn-mSntAiat, over which when first finished the
Devil is supposed to have looked with a torve and terrick oodutenance, as
envying mens costly devotion, saith Dr. Fuller; bat more probable it la
that it took its rise from a small image of the Devil standing on the top of
lAiwoln College in Oxford.
As loud as a horn.
To love it as a cat loves mustard.
To love it as the Devil loves holy water.
To love it as a dog loves a whip.
As good luck as had the cow, that stuck herself with her
own horn. [died in the summer.

As gook luck as the lousy calf,tliat lived all winter and
As melancholy as a gib'd cat
As merry as cup and can.
As merry as a cricket
As mild (or gentle) as a lamb.

As natural to him as milk to a calf.
As necessary as a sow among young children.
As nimble as an eel.
PROVERBIAL SIMILIBS. 155
A$ nimble as a cow in a cage.

As nimble as a new gelt dog. ,
As old as JUharing-Crois,
As plain as the nose on a man's face.
As poor as Job,
This umilitude rnns through most laiiiEiM|e". la the "ni"ersHy of
Cambridge the yoQDg scholari are woat to eaU chiding Jobbing.
As proud as a cock on his own dunghill.

As proud as an apothecary.
To quake like an aspen leaf.
To quake like an oven.
He's like a rabbet, fat and lean in twenty-four hoars.
As red as a cherry ; as a petticoat
As rich as a new shorn sheep.
As right as ram's horn leg.
a ; as my
As rotten as a turd.
As rough as a tinker's budget
As safe as a mouse in a cheeae ; in a jnalt-heap.
As safe as a crow in a ^tter.
As safe as a thief in a mill.
As scabb'd as a cuckow.
To scold like a cut-purse ;
like a wych-walWr. Cheth*
That IB, a boiler of salt : wycb-booaei ue uHt-homm, and wiUilic k
boiling.
To scorn a thing as a ôg scorns a i^tipe.
A" shatp as a thorny as a rasor, as megnr.
Jceto ucriut.
As much sibb'd as sieve and riddar,that gvew in the sama
wood together.
iiibt";d, that is, a kin. In Suffolk the banei of mttrimoBf are called-
sibberidge.
As sick as a cuahioB.
She simpers like a britle on her wedding day.
She simpers like a riven dish.
She simpers like a furmity kettle.
I'o sit like a frog on a chopping block
As slender in the middle as a cow in the waiit
As slippery as an eel.
As smooth as a carpet. Spoken ofôodway.
As softly as foot can fall.
As sound as a front.
As sour as verjuce.
As as an onion.
spruce
To stink like a poll cat.
ik^ A^
Bie-4^LA/^^
"ie.-4^ fi-^^r^-"-Ât.4"A,
L/C^^ fi-^^r^^"-
154 PROVERBIAL SIMILIES.
As strait as an arrow.
As strait as the back-bone of a herring.

Thon'lt stripit as Shitk strippedthe cat, when he pnird
As strong as mustard. [herout of the chum.
To strut like a gutter.
crow in a
As sure as a (oras death).

gun
As sure as check, or Exchequer pay.
Thb proverb in qaeen Elizabeth*^
was a time; the credit of the EX"
chequer beginning in and determining with her reign,lailh Dr. FuUer*
As sure (or as round) as a box.
jugler's
As sure as a louse in bosom. Chesh.
As sure as a louse in PomfreU YorhsK
As sure as the coat's on one's back.
As surly as butcher's dog.
As sweet as honey, or as a nut
As tall as a May-pole.
As tender as a chicken.
As tender as a parson'sleman, i, e, whore. [curd.
As tender as Pamell, that broke her fingerin a posset-
As testy as an old cook.
As tough as whitleather.
As true as God is in heaven.
As true as steel.
As warm as a mouse in a churn.
As wanton as a calf with two dams.
As welcome as Hopkin, that came to jailover night and
was hang'd the next morning.
As white as the driven snow.
As wild as a buck.
As wily as a fox. {C^sk*
As much wit as three folks,two fools and a mad man.
As well worth it as a thief is worth a rope.
Like Goodifer*spig, never well but when he is doing
mischief. Chesh. [s^yingpnothing. Chesk,
He stands like Mumphaxardy who was hanged for
Like the parson of Saadleworth,who could read in no
book but his own. Chesh. [herfoot. ChesK
To come home like the parson'scow with a calf at
To use one like a Jew.
This poor nation was intolerablyabased by the English, while they
'
lived in this land, especiallyat London on Shrove-Tuesday, Thns it

came to pass, which God frequently foretold,that they should become "
^ye-word and a reproach among all i^stiMs. Dr. Fuller.
He's like a swine, he'll ne'er do good whUe he lives.

156 PROVERBIAL RHYMES.
He that buys eggs boys many shells,

Bat he that buys good ale buys notUog else.
Jack Sprat he Inred no fat,and his wife she loved no lean :
And yet betwixt them both they lick'd the plattersclean.

He that hath it ai^d will not keep it.
He that wants it and will not seek k,
He that drinks and is not dry.
Shall want money as well as I.
The third of November the Duke of Vendo"me past the
water.
The fourth of November the queen had a daughter.
The fifth of November we 'scap'd a great â"^:bter.
And the sixth ot November was the next day after.
A man of words and not of deeds,

Is like a garden fall of weeds.
Friday's hair and Sunday's horn.

Goes to the D'ule on Monday mom.
Our fathers, which were wondrous wise.

Did wash tneir throated before they wash 'd their eyes.
When thou dost hear a toll or knell.

Then think upon thy passing bell.
If Fortune favouc I may save her, fur I go about her; ^
If Fortune fail yon may kiss her tail,and without her.

go
A red beard and at black head,

Catch him with a good trick smd take him dead.
He that hath plenty of good shall have more ;

He that hath but little he shall have less ;
And he that hath right nought, right nought shall possess.
Cardinal Wobey,
A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school,
Is always in good season.
Will Shimmers,
A halter and a rope for him that will be
pope.
Without all right or reason.
IVie shape of a good Greyhound.

A head like a snake, a neck like a drake,
A back like a beam, a belly like a bream,
A foot like a cat, a tail like s^nL
PROVERBS. 157
Pkneh Cole, eai cain^, set brMvd on end.

Neither good houAevrvfe, nor gootl hemsewife^ friend.
Alum si sit stalum non est mahm,

Beerum si sit deerwn est sfynterum*
If one knew how good it were.
To eat a hen in Janivere ;
Had he twenty in the flock,
He'd leave but one to go with the cock.
Children pick up words as pigeons pease.

And utter them again as God shall ple"se*
Beax Msewmfosnmi ^ six ciaqoe mihere vHihmi

Omnibus est motum qaater trois sahere $o$mm
As a man lives so shall he die.

As a Ivee Mis so shall it lie.
JEgrotat Danmi numachus tune esse volebat :
Daemon canvaluit Deemon ut ante/uH,

The devil was sick, the devil a monk woufd be?
.The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Thither as I would go I can go late,

Thither as I wotdd not go I know not the gate.
No more morter no more brick.
A cunning knave has a cunning trick.
i^^^ man. be well it will make faim sick. '
rp K w
1 obacco nic
^ ^.^ ^^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ if he be sick.
Per ander smlvo i2/ mando bisoffnu havere oechio di

per
Jkletme, orecc/iM tk amno^ viso di sdmioy ptarole di
fuercante, spaRe di cmnelo, beeca di gmnbe di

porta,
certfo, Ital.
To travel safely through the world a man must bave a
falcon's an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's

eye,
words, a camel's back, a hog^s mouth, and a harf s legSL
It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch,

Ta see a man live poor to die rich.
Est furor haud dubius sinad ^ numifesta vTwênesiSy

Ut locvpUs nuniaris egenti viverefato, Juvenal.
158 proverbs;
OvtofDr, Fuller's Worthies Êngland, such'tu are not
entered already in the Catalogues.
Barkshire.
The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray stilL

Brap it a village well known in Barkshire, the vivadoni vicar whereof
living under King Henry the Eighth, King Etfvartf the Sixth, Qaeen Mary,
and Qneen Elizabeth: was first a papist, tlien a proteatant, tlien a papiat,
then a protestant again. Tbii vicar being taxed by one for being a twra-
coat,not ]K",(ftaidhe) for I always kept my principle; which is this, to live
and die vicar of Bray.

Bedfordshire.
As plain as Dunstable road.
It is applied to things plain and simple, without either welt or guard to
adorn them ; as also to matters easy and obvious to be found out without
difficultyor direction. Such this road being broad and beaten, as the.,
any
conflaence of many leading to London from the north and nortb-weat parts
of this land. I conceive, besides this, there is an allusion to the first syllable
of this name Dunstable, for there are other roads in JSngland as broad,
plain, and well beaten as this.
As crooked as Crawley hrook.

This is a nameless brook arising about Wobourn, running by Crawling,
and falling immediately into the Ouse, a river more crooked and maandrous
than it,running above eighty miles, in eighteen by land.
The bailiff of Bedford is coming.

The Ouse or Bedford river is so called in Cambridgeshire, becaose
when swoln with rain, "c. in the winter time it arrests the Isle of JSly
with an inundation, bringing down suddenly abundance of water.
Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire bread and beef.
The former njlne, the latter as fat in this, as in any other county.
Here if you beat a bush, it is odds youUl start a thief,
Ko doubt there was just occasion for this proverb at the original thereof,
which then contained a satyrical truth, proportioned to the placa before it
wu reformed : whereof thus our great antiquary. It was altogether un-
passable in times past by reason of trees, until Lsotttxae, abbot of St"
Albans, did cut them doton, because they yielded a place of refê for
thieves. But this proverb Is now antiquated, as to the truth thereof;
Bptckinghamshire aflfording
as mauy maiden assizes as any county of equal
popalousness.
Cambridgeshire. '
Cantabrigia petitnequales,
or "equalia"
That is (as Dr. Fuller expounds it) dtber in respect of their commons ;
all of the same mess have equal share : or in respect of extraordinaries, they
are all iao(TVfl(jo\oi,
club alike : or in respect of degree, all of the same
degree wefellou^s well met. The same degree levels, although of dilTerent
age.
Cambridgeshire Camels,
I look upon this aa a nick-name groondledy fastened on' this country*
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men, perhaps because the three first letters are the same in CambtiUge ami
camel. 1 doubt whether it bad any respect to the f"n*njen stalking npon
their stilts,who then iu the apparent length of thehr legs do something re"
semble that beast.
An Henrysaphister,
So -they are called, who, after fonr years standing in the university, itay
themselves from commencing batchelors of arts, to render them in some
colleges more capable of preferment.

lliat tradition is senseless (and inconsistent with his princely magnificence)
of such who fancy that King Henry the Eighth, coming to Cambridge,
staid all the sophisters a year, who expected that a year of grace shoold have
been given to them. More probable it is, that because that king is com*
monly conceived of great strength and stature, that these Sophists Henri'
ciani were elder and bigger than others. The truth is this, in the reign
of King Henry the Eighth, after the destruction of monasteries, learning
was at a loss ; and the University (thanks be unto God more scared than
hurt) stood at a gaze what would become of ber. Hereupon many tindenta
staid themselves twOt three^ noma four years; as who would see, how their
degrees (before they took them) would be rewarded and maintained.
^witile twattle,drink up your posset-drink.

This proverb had its original in Cambridge, and is scarce known dse^
where.
Cheshire.
Ctt B"HIRE chiefof men.
It seems the Cestrians have formerly been renowned for thehr valoir.
V. Fuller,
She hath given Lawton gate a clap,

spoken of one got with child, and going to Lsnion \o c"Miceal it. Law-
tan if In the way to London ftom. several parts of Cheshire.
Better wed aver the mixon than over the moor.
That is, hard by or at home, the ndxon being that heap of compost
which lies in the yards of good husbands, than far off or from London*
The road from Chester leading to London over some part of tlie moM*
Undu In StaffordsMre, the meanfaig is, the gentry in ChesMre find it
more profitable to match within their own connty, than to bring a bride oat
of other shires, i. Because better acqnaiuted with her birth and breeding.
2. though
Because portion may her chance to be less to maintain her, sacb
intermarriages in this county have been observed both a prolonger of wor"
fhipfnl families, and the preserver of amity between them.
Every man cannot he vicar of Bowden.

Bowden, it seems, is one of the greatest livings near Chester, otherwise
doubtless there are many greater church preferments in Cheshire.
The o/ Altringham lies in bed while his breeches are

mayor
mending.
The mamrr of AUringham, and the mayor of Over, ^
The one is a thatcher, the otlier a dauber,
I'hese are petty corporations,'whose

two poverty makes them ridicolonn
to their neighlwurs.
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Stopford law, no stake no darav).

Ntitker m Cboshire nor Chawbent
That i", iieiih"r in K4n$ nor ChrisUii49m, Chtmhemt it a towa in
Jjoncashire,
The constable of Oppenshaw sets beggers in stodât chester.

Man-
He feeds like afreehilder of Maxfield ["orMacklesfield^J

who haih tmther com mor hay at Michaelmas.
Maxjieid u a ""rk"t towa %i\4 ôrovgh of f"ed "ecwiiit in Uiis connty,
whtnt th^ iwm a er"tt trade vt' aoAking and tellingbaUonn. When tUi
came to be a provarb, it 9btMld aeem llie fialiabilaiits wcve poorar or worie
iMiabapda tban now ihay are*
Maxfield measure Iteapand thrutch,u e. thrusts
Cornwall.
By Tre, Pol, and Pen,
You shall know tlte Cornish men.
These three wordi are tbe dictionary of snch flimatnes as are originaliy
Cornish ; and thoag^ seana in MOte, I may fttly term tbem prepoaitiont.
I a town, i vanion, Sec.
signifieth" an head, VEfence Pol-ivheel,
" a top, \ Hence P"nSir; Penroit^ P%t^

V ^ kevU, See.
To give one a Cornish hug.
The Cornish are masters of the art of wreHUag. Thdr bag it a cnaiU%;
close with their feUow combatants, the frvit whereof is his fair fall or foil at
the least. It is agorativaly applicable to the dcoeitfal dealing of sttch,who
secretly design their ovoifarow whom they openly emlrace*
Hengsten down weU y wrought^

Is worth London town dear yhm^ht.
!" rasped of the great quantity of tin to be fomii there under groond.
Tboogh tbe gainfnl plenty of meul, tbii place fomcrly afforded, is mom
fallen to a icant-aaving aeardty. At for the diamntda, which Dr. FnUtr

fUBcifllh may be found there, I believe tbey would be little worth.
JHe is to be summoned before the o/Halgaver.

mayor
This is a joculary and imaginary court, wherewith men make merriment
to themselves, presenting such persuns who go slovenly in their attire:
where jadgment in furnul terms ia given against thera, and cxeoited ntorf
to tbe scorn tlua hmri of tbe parsons.
When D adman and Ram-head meet.

Thne are iWo for"laoda, well known to sailors, nigh twenty miks
asander, and tbe proverb passeth for the periphrasis of an impoasibility.
He doth sail into Cornwall without a bark.

This is* an Itattan proverb, where it passeth for a description [or de"
rision rather] of siieb a man aa is wronged by hb vrife^s diflloyaky.

The wit
of it coit"i8tiin the allnsion to lh" word horn*
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PROVERBS. I6l
Cnmberland.
If Sklddaw kalh a eap^
Scrafi'el wats fuU voell of tkat.
Ihefte are two md^tboar IuUa, tbe ooe to iba eooaty, Uie other in AmmH'
dale in Sctftland : if tke foriuer be capp'd with cload* and foggy mhiU, it
will not he loug e're rain falls on tiie other. It is iiwkeu of such who
mmt expect to symjalhiie in their ndferiaifs,hy reason of the vldaity of
their habitations.
Skiddaw, Lauvelliii,mnd Canticaud,

Are ike highestIdlU in all Jbiii(^liiud.
I know not Ituw tu reconcile tliis rhyme with anotiier UMsntioned by the
gBoie antlior,Camden,. Mritan. in Lancaukire.
Ingleborougli, Peudlc% mid Peiiigent,

Are the highesthills between Scutiaud attd Trant
Unless it be, tliat the later ternary are higitesliti yarkshire mens ac-
oonnt ; the former in CumlterioMd tneufc account : every cottnty lieioK

pven to magnify [not to ssy altiiy]titeir own Uutt%".
Uevuiuiiijrc'.
To Devonshire or Densiiirc' land.
That is, to pare nB liie sarfice or top torf thereof, and to lay It ip"m
keeps and barn it : whidi ashes ar*; h marvel Ioom improveneut to bsttie
terren land, by reason of the fixt salt wliicli they contsiu. This coarse they
take wilfa their barren spm^y healthy land in many cotmtks of England^
aad call it Denshiring. Land so ased will bear two or three good crops
"f com, and then mast be thrown down again.
A Piymoath cloak.
Ttat is, a c"is" or tta0; wkereof this is the occasion. Many a man of
gand cxtractMMi, coming hoase from fsr voyages, may chance to land here,
aad, betag oat of soru, b BnaUe for tlie present tiase aad ptace to recmit
hinwilf with clothes. Here (if not friendlyprovided) they make the no^
wood their draper's shiq",where a staff eat oat serves them for a oovertag.
For we ase when we walk in c"i"rpo to a staff la oar hands, bat
carry
in a doak.
He masf remove mort-stone.

Xhae is a bay in das county called Marts^fOjf,kot die htrb"mr ia the
caiiaaee thereof a stopp'd with a boge rock called Morestane; and the
people nwrrily si^, none can remove it bat sack aa are masters of their wives*.
Firtt hang and draw,

nen. hear the cause hy Lidford law,
Udfvrd is a little and poor (bat ancient)corporatk)nin this coanty with.
very Urge fnivilês,where a conrt of Stanneries wu formerly kept.
lUs libelloas proverb woold soggest onto us, as if the townsmen thereof
(generally mean persons)were anable to nmnage (keir own liberties kvIUi
necessary discretion,administeringp^ôsterousand preproperous Justice.

Donetshire.
As much a kin as Lcnsoii-hill to PUsen-pitl.
That is,HO kin at o/l. It la ipoktu of racb who hatf vidnKy "f kftU*
p a
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tation or neighboarbood, withoat tha least degree of consangninity, or affi"
nity betwixt tbeni' For these are two high bills, the first wholly, the otlk"r
partly iu the parish of Broad Windsor. YcA the sea men make the new-
est relation between tliera, catling the one the cmv^ the other the calf; ia
which forms it seenw they appear first to their fancies, being emhient aea.
marks*
Sttihbed with a Byrdport dagger.

That is, hanged. The best if not the most hemp (for the qunUty oC
ground) growing about Byrdport, a market town in this county. And

hence it is that there is an ancient statne (lho"gh now disoaed and neglected)
that the cable ropes for the navy-royal were to be made thereabontt.
Dorsetshire Dorsers.
Dorsers are peds or paniers carried on the backs of horses, on wbiA
higiers use to ride and carry their commodities. It seems this homely, but
most nreftil instrument, was either first found oat, or is the most generally
used in this county, where Jlshjobbers bring up their fish in such eontriv*
ances, above an hundred miles from lAme to London,
Essex.
Essex stiles.
See the catalogue of lentencei.
Essex cahes,
Thia country produceth calves of the fatest, fairest, and ^nest flesh in
England, and consequently in all Europe. Sure it is, that a Cumberland
cow may be bought for the price of an JEssex calf at the beginning of tlie
year. Let me add, that it argues the goodness of flesh in this county, and
that great gain was got formerly by the sale thereof, because that ao aaaj
stately monwiwnts were ereoted therein aodeatly for butchers, avactibed
CarnifUxs in their epitapbi in Cogshail, Chelmsford, and etoewhcffai,
BMde with marble, inlaid with brass, beOtdng (saith my aalbor) a mar*
eminent nan : whereby it appears, that those of that trade have in thai
eonnty baeii richer (or at least prowler) than in other places.
As valiant as an Essex lion, i. e. a calf.

The weavers beef of Colchester.
That is, sprats, caught hereabouts, brought hidier in incredible
and
abundance, whereon the poor weavers (numerous in this town) makcf nmcb
of their repast, cuttiDg rands, rumps, snrloins, chines, out of diem, at M
goes on.
Jeering Co^shall.
This is no proverb : bat an ignominious epithet fastened on this plaoa bj '
their ndghbouni, which, I hope they do glory in,

as not so I believe tikey
are no* guilty of. Other towns in this country have had the like aboiive
cpitiietlÎ remember a rhyme which was fai common use formerly of

sbih^ towns, nar far distant the one ihmi the other.
Braintree/or tlie
pure, axtd Bodamgfor the poor
;
Cogshall for thg Jtermg totem, mi Kelvedon for the
whore*
A.. ff^y^f-:^y^-^^^^ ^
^^
f-' -
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164 PROVERBS.
Canterbury is the higher rack, hut AVinchester is the

better manger,
W, JBdington,buhop of H^chester, wa" the author of this espres-
siOD, rendering this the reason of his refusal
Canterburjft to be removed to
though chosen thereunto. Indeed though Canterbury be graced ivith

an higher honour, the revenues of Winchester are greater. It is appli-
cable
to sncb, who prefer a wealthy privacy before a less profitabledignity.
The Isle of Wight hath no monks, lawyers,nor foxes.
This speech hath more mirth than truth in it, (SpeetPi Catalogue of Re- ligious
Houses.) That they had monks I know, black ones at Carisbrook,
white ones at Quarter in this island. That they have lawyers thvy
know when they pay them their fee" : and that they hsLs^ foxes their lambs
know. But of all these, perchance fewer than in other places of equal
extent.
Hartfordshire.
Hartfordsihre cluhs and clouted shoon.
Some will wonder how this shire lying so near to London, the staple "f
English civility,
should be guilty of so much rusticalness. But the finest
cloth mu4t have a list,and the pure peasants are of as ouarse a thread in
thb, as in any other place. Yet
though some may smile at their clowtUshr
nesSf let none laugh at their industry; the rather,because the high shoon
of the tenaut pays for the Spanish leather boots of the landlord.
Hartfordshire hedge-hogs.
Plenty hedge-hogs are found in this high woodland
of country, reported
to suck the kine, though tite dairymaids conne them small thanks for
sparing their pains in milking them. Whether this proverb may have any
further reflection on the people of this country, as therein taxed for covet-
oasness and constant nuddlingon the earth, I think not worth the enquiry;
these nicknames being imposed on several counties groundle^sly, as to any
moral significancy.
Ware and Wades-mill are worth all London.

This I assure yon is a master-pieceof the vulgar wits in this connty,
wherewith they endeavour to amnse travellers as if Ware, a through-
fare marketf and Wades-mill^ part of a villagelying two miles north
thereof,were so prodigiouslyrich,as to countervail the wealth of London,

The fallacylieth in the homonymy of Ware^ here not taken for that town
to named, but appellatively for all vendible commodities. It is rather %
riddle than a proverb.

Hartfordshire kindness.
It is,when one drinks back agaUi to the party, who immediately before
drank to him : and althoughit may signifyas much as, Manus manum
fricat, 4:P^r tst de merente bene mereri, yet it is commonly used oalj
by way of derision of those,who, through forgetfulnessor mistake,drink to
them again whom they pledged immediately.
Herefordshire.
BUtted is the ^^
That is between Severn and Wye.
Not only becuue of the pleannt proipect; ba( it seems Uiitif " prophett*
FROVEBBS. 165
cmI promlte of atfety, to nek m Hve lecired wttlto tiioie grwt rWera^ as ff
privileged from martial impreuioDS.

Suttofi wall and Kenchester kill
Are able to buy London were it to seU.
Thefee are two places fraitfal in thii country, itaith Mr. ffowelU,
Lcntster bread tmd Weabley ale.

Both these the best in fteir kinds, nnderstmd k of ttiia cemty. wise
Other-
there is wheat in England that will tie wtih tket of Lemsttr Hr
pnreness : for exam{i(e thM of (Nordetfs Middlesex, Cmmden, Brit, J

Heston near Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex, of whick for a loig
time the manchet for the kings of England was made : and for ale Derby
town, and Northdovn in the Isle of Thanet, Hull in Yorkshire, and
Sambich in Cheshiref will scarce give place to WebUy*
Every one ettnnot dwell at Rothcras.

A delicate seat of the Bodmans in this coanty.
Huntingtonshlrc.
An Huntington sturgeon.
This is the way to beggerfr-foush.
It is spoken of such, who use dissohite and improvident coarses, wkicfa
tend to poverty. Beggers-bush being a tree notoriously known, on the left
band of the London road from Huniington to Caxton,
Nay stay, quoth Stringer, wJien his neck was in the halter.
Ramsa.y the rich,
Thit was the Crcesus of all onr English dMes, fbr having but tixty
nooaks to maintain thereiB, the revenues thereof, according to the standard
of those tiroes, amounted unto seven thousand pounds fer mnnum; ^riik!b
in proportion was an hundred pounds for

every monk, and a thoniaad
pounds for their abbot ; yet at the dissolution of monasteries, the income of
this abbey was reckoned at but one thousand nine hundred eighty three
it
'
i"ounds a year ; whereby plainly appears how much the revenues wero
under-rated in (hose valuations.
Kent.
Neither in Kent nor Christendom.
That is, saith Dr. Fuller^ onr English Christendomt of which Kent
was first converted to the Christian faith, as much as to say as Rome and all
Italy, or the first cut and all the lo)if besides : not by way of opposition, as
if Kent were no part of Christendom^ as some have understood It. I

rather think that It is to be understood by way of opposition, and that it
had its original upon occasion of Kent being given by the ancient Britons
to the Saxons who viere then Pagans. So that Kent might well be op"
f
poaed to all the rest of England in this respect, it being Pagan when all
th6 rest was Christian.
A knight of CaJes, a gentleman o/*Wales, and a laird of the

North-countrec. \allthree.
A of Kent, with his yearly rent, will buy them out
yeoman
Cales knights were made in that voyage by Bobert,"u\-of Bssex,U" the
number of liacty
; whteraof (though maay of graat birlh) aanse were of low
166 PROVERBS.
fortttoet : and therefore Qaeen Elizabeth was half offended îth the earl,
for making knighthood so common.
Of the nameronsness of H'êlch gentlemen nothing need be said, the

Welch generally pretending gentility. Northern
to lairds are sach, who
in Scotland bold lands in chief of the king, whereof some have no great
revenue. So that a Kentish yeoman (by the help of an hyperbole J may
countervail, "c. yeoman contracted for gemen'4nien from gemein, fying
signi-
common io di Dutch, so that a yeoman is a commoner one nified
undig-
,
with any title of gentility: a condition of people almost peculiar to
England, and which is in effect the basis of all the nation.
Kentish long-tails.
Those are mistaken who fottnd this proverb on a miiacle of Austin the
monk ; who preaching in an English village,and being himself and his
associates beat and abased by the Pagans there, who opprobrionsly tiedyf^/*-
tails to their back-sides : in revenge thereof such appendants grew to the
hind parts of all that generation. For the fcene of this lying wonder was
not laid in any part of Kent, bat pretended many miles off, nigh Cerne in
Dorsetshire. I conceive it first of outlandish extraction, and cast by reigners
fo-
as a note of disgrace on all Englishmen, though it chanceth to
stick only on the Kentish at this day. What the original or occasion of it
at first was is hard to say; whether from wearing a pouch or bag, to carry
their baggage in behind their backs, whilst probably the proud Monsieurs
had their lacqnies for that purpose; or whetlier from the mentioned story of
Austin, I am sure there are some at this day in foreign parts, who can
hardly be perswaded but that Englishmen have tails.

Why this nickname (cut off from the rest of England) continues still
entailed on Kent, the reason may be (as the doctor conjectures) because
that county lies nearest to France, and the French are beheld as the first
founders of this aspersion.
Dover court all speakers and no Jiearers,

The doctor understands this proverb of some tumultuous court kept at
Dover, the confluence of many blustering sea men who are not easily or"
dered into any awfal attention. It is applicable to such irregular con-
ferences,
where the people are all tongne and no ears.
A jack of Dover.
1 find the first mention of this proverb in our English Ennius, Chauafr,
in his Pro"me to the Cook.
And many a jack of Dover he had sold.

Which had been two times hot, and two times cold.
This be makes parallel to Cratnbe bis cocta ; and applicable to such as
grate the ears of tbehr auditors with nngratefal tautologies, of what Is w"rth-
len in itself; tolerable as once uttered in the notion of novelty, but nable
abomi-
if repeated.
Some part of Kent hath health and no wealth, viz. East Kent. Some
Health and no health, viz. The weald of Kent. Some both health and
ucalth, viz. the middle of the country and parts near London,
Lancashire.
Lancashire /at'rwomen.
Whether the women of this county be indeed fairer than their nelghboors
PROVERBS. 167
I kaow not; bot that the inhabitants of some countries may be and are ge*
nerally fairer than those of others, is most certain. The reason-whereof is
to be attribnted partly to the temperature of the air, partly to the condition
of the soil, and partly to their manner of food. The '
hotter the climate,

generally têblacker the inhabitants, and the colder the fairer : the colder
I say to a certain degree, for in extream cold coantries the inhabitants are
of dasky complexions. Bnt in the same climate that in some places the
inhabitants should be fairer than in others,proceeds from the diversity of

the sitaation (either high or low, maritime, or far from sea) or of the soil
and manner of living, which we see have so mnch inflaence upon beasts, as
to alter them in bigness, shape, and colour; and why it may not have the
like on men, I see not.
It is tvritten a wall in Rome,

upon
Ribcbester was as rich as any town in Christendom.
Some monumental wall, whereon the names of principal places were
inscribed then subject to the Roman empire. And probably this Roches-
ter
was anciently some eminent colony (as by pieces of coins and columns
there daily digged out doth appear.) However at this day it is not so mnch
as a market.town, bnt whether decayed by age, or destroyed by accident,

is uncertain. It is called Ribchester because situated on (be river
Ribble,
As old as Pendle hill.
If )M\m% pike do wear a hood.

Be sure that day will neêr he good.
A mist on the top of that hill is a sign of foul weather.
He that would take Lancashire at time or tide.

a man any
Must bait his hook with a good or an apple with a
egg-pye
red side,
Leicestershire.
JBean-hellyLeicestersliire.
So called from the great plenty of that grain growing therein. Yea those
of the neighbouring coantries use to merrily. Shake a Leicestershire

say
man by the collar^ and you shall hear the beans rattle in his belly.
But those yeomen smile at ^"t is said to rattle in their bellies,whilst they
know good silver ringeth in their pockets.
TjfBever hath a cap.

You churls of the vale look to tliat.
That is, when the clouds hang over the towers of it is
jffeiêr-castle, a
prognostick of much rain and moisture, to the much endamaging that fruitful
vale, lying in the three counties of 2/eice"/er, Lincoln,nnd Nottingltam,
Bread for Horrongh-men,

At Great Gleu tliere are more great dogs than honest men.
Carleton warlers.
Til throw field.
you into Harborough
A ttuât for children, Harborough having no Held.
Put up your pipes,and go to Lockingtoa wuhe.

168 PBOVEBBS.
The hut mmithat he kUkd keep9 hog$ in Hmtikleyjield. "
spoken of a coward that never dftrtt light. "
He htu gone over Asftnrdby Jnidge iti^wardg,

Spoke""foiie that ia paat learoiag^
Like the mayor of Hartle pool,you cannot do that.

Then rU tktttch Groby pool mtk pancakes
For his detUh there is nmntf a wet eye in Groby pooL
In mud omt hke BiUesdon t wot.
A Leicestershire phwr, i. e. a Jmg-pvdding,

Bedworth beggers.
The same again, quoth Mari( #f Beflgrave.
Whal kttw I to do with BtaAJtsAVf's wind^miil,I e. Wiat
have I to do with another man's bosioeB"?
lancolnsbire.
Xincoloshire, where hogs shite
sope, and cows shite fire*
The inbabitaotfl of the poorer sort washing their clothes with hogs Utrng^
and burning dried cow-dang for want of better fbeJ.
Lincolnshire bagpipes.
Wliether becanse the people here do more delight |n the bagpipes than
others, or whether they are more canning fai playing upon ibem ; indeed the
former of these will infer the laMef.
As hud as Tom of Lincoln.

This Tom of lAncoln \a an estfaordteary great b"ll banfiag in oMOf tht
towers of /"ficoto4ninstar ; bow it got the name I know not, nnlesi it ware
imposed on it,when baptised by the Papists. Howbeit tbis present 7bM was
cast in King Jatne^t time, Anno 1610.
All the carts that come to Crowland are shod with silver.
Crowland is situated in so moorish rotten groand in the fens, that scarce
a horse, much less a cart can conse to it. Since the draining, in snmmer
time carts may go thither.
As mad as the baiting,bull of SiSimSnrd.

Take the original hereof. (R. Mutdter in his Sarvey of Stanford,
pag. 40.) William f
"ad Warren^ lord of this town in the time ofKing
JohHf standing upon the castle walls of Stamfordf saw too bolls flghting
for a cow in the meadow, 'tiU all the batcher's dogs, great and small, pur-
toed oae'of the bulls (being madded with noise and- Bsnltitade) dean
Cbroegh ttie town. J bis sight so pleated the said earl, that he ga^rc all tliOK
meadows (ealled rile casde-meadows) where fliat the bail dael began, for a
common to the butchers of the town (after the first grass waa eatan) on coa-
dition they find a mad bull, the day six weeks before C%r""f mas-day, tat
the contfasuance of that sport every year.
He was born at little Wittham.

Little Wtttiuim is a village in this county. It is applied to such as ai%
ni"t overstocked with acuteness, being a nominal alliulou; of the like

whereto we haw wtmj cunak anoas; 4it wdgMt
PHOVERBS. 169
Orantbani ^ruel, nine grits and a gallonof water.
^
It is applicable to those who, in their speeches or "ctioo", maltiply what

is soperflaoa?, or at best less uecessary, eitlier wholly omitting or lets m-
garding the essentials thereof.
Thmf hold together as the men q/'Marfaaniy when they lost

their common.
Some understand it ironically y that is, they are divided with several fae*
tionS|which rains any canse. Others use it only as an expression of ill sac"
cess, when men strive and plot together to no purpose.
Middlesex.
Middlesex clowns,
Becaose gentry and nobility are respectlTely observed ycording to their
degree, by people i^ distant from ttondoh, less regarded by these Mid-
dtesexians (frequency breeds familiarity)becanse abonnding thereaboiti.
It is generally troe where tiie common people are richer, there are tbey^
more sarly and uncivil : as also where they have less dependence on the
gentry, as in places of great trade.
He that is at a low ebb at Newgate, may soon be afloatat

Tyburn.
Mr. BedwelTs Description oi
Tottenham, Chap. 3.
When Tottenham wood is all on fire,
Tlien Tottenham street is nought but mire,

Hhat is, when Tottenham wood, standing on an Iiigh hill at the west end
of the parish, bath a foggy mist hanging over it in manner of a smoke, tlien
generally fool weather foitoweth.
Idem, ibid,
Tottenham is turned French.
It seems about the beginning of the reign of King Henry VIII. French
mechanicals swarmed in England, to Uie great prejudice of English tisans,

ar-
which caused the insurrection in London on ill May^dyy A. D.
1517. Kor was the city only but the conntry villages for four miles about
tilled with French fashions and infeciions. The proverb is applied to such,
who, contemning the cnatoms of their own country, makes themselves move
ridiculous by affecting foreign humours and hahitB.
London.
A London jury, hang half and save half.
Some affirm this of an Essex, others of a Middlesex jury : and my
charity believes it equally true, that is, equally untrue of all three. It
would fain suggest to credulous people, as if Londoners frequently im"
pannel'd on juries, and loaded with multiplicityof matters, aim more at
dispatch than justice, and to make quick riddance (tl^gh no haste to
hang true men) acqnU half and condemn half. Thu9 they divide selves
them-
in ^quittbrio between justice and mercy, thongh it were meet the
lattet should have the more advantage* Sec,

The fiUseness of this suggestion will appear to snch, who, by perusing
history, do diseovar the London Jurort roost consckntious in proceeding
secundum mUegfita 4 proimta, always incUnjUig to the roerdftil aide in
saving life,whan they cu find any cauie or cdov for tb* aame.
Q
170 PROVERBS.
liondon lick-penny.
The country man coning up hlJu^r, by hii own experience, will eaaUir
"s{KMUid the meiniog thereof*
London bridge was made for wise men to go over, and
fools to go under,
A Loudon cockney.
This nickname is more than four hnuilred yean old. For when N^gh
Bigot added artificial fortifications to hi" naturally Mrong castle of Bungey
in Suffolk, be gave ont this rhyme, therein vanl^g it for impregmbk*
Were I in my castle of Bungey,
Upon the river o/*Wavcncy,

/ would ne care for the king o/ Cockney.
Meaning thereby King Jlenry II. then quietly possessed of London^
wbilst some other places iSid resist him : though aherwards he so humbled
Ibis Hugh, that he was fain with large sums of money, and pledges for his
loyalty, to redeem this his castle from being raved to the ground. I meet
with a double sense of this word Cockney, i. One coasfd and cocquer*d^
made a wanton or nestlecock, delicately bred and brought up, so as whea
grown up to be able to endure no hardship. 3. One utterly ignorant of
country affairs, of husbandry and housewivery as there practised. Th*
original ihereof, and the tale of the citizen's son, who knew not the guage
lan-
of a cockf but called it ucighiMg, is conunonly kno^n.
JBillings-gate language.
Billings was formerly a gate, and (as some would nuke us believe) so
called frtMn Belinus the brother of Brtnnus: is

'}$. now rather portust n
haven, than porta. Billingsgate language is such as the fishwives and

other rude people which flock thither use fr"qnently one to another, whea
tbey fall out,
Kirhcs castle and egses glory, M
BpinolaV pleasureand Fiahefs folly.

These were four houses about the city, built by dtizcns, large and sump*
taous above their estates. He that would know thing of the
any more
builders of these houses, let him consult the author.
He was horn uithin the sound of Bow-bcU.

This is the periphrasis of a Londoner at large. This is called Bow-belt
because hanging in the steeple of Soto-chnrch, and J?on--cbnrch, because
built on bows or arches (saith my author). But I have been told, that it
ciAled fh"m the stone arches, or bows the top of the
was cross on steeple,
tbey fall out.
St, Peter" in the

poor,
" Where's no tamem, alehouse, or sign at the door.
Under correction I conceive it called in the because the ^ss-
poor,
gwftinian ft1ars,pnifeasingwilful poverty for some hnndredi of years, poa-
"essed more than a moiety thereof. Otherwise this was one of the richest
parishes in London, and therefore might say, Malo pauper voeari quam
esse. How ancient the use of signs in this city on private houses is to me
Mknown, sore X am U was generally us^ in the reign of king Srf"

uard LV.
--^?l^V"-ft"-^
17^ PROVERBS.
thereof, for his greater mortiflcallon. Cripplegate was so called before the
Cooqnest, from cripplesbegi(ingof pAMengers therein.

This proverb may seem gailtyof f'llse heraldry, lameness on )ameae"s;
and in common disconrse is spoken rather merri'y than mournfnily of such,
who, for some slighthurt, lag behind ; and sometimes is appliedto thoe*
who, oat of lasiness,coanterfeit Infirmity.
You are allfor the hoistingsr"r hustiogs.

spoken of those, who, by pride or passion, are
It is elated or mounted
to a pitch above the dae proportion of their birth,quality,or estate. It
conieth from hitstings, and higliestcourt in London

the principal (as also
in Winchester^ JAncoln, York, "c.) so called from the French word
haulser to raise or lift up.
^ They agree like the clock* of London.

I find this among both the French and Italian proverbs for an instance
of disagreement.
Who goes to Westminster ybr a wife,to P^nVs for a many

and to Smithfield for a liarse,
may meet with a whore^ a
knave, aitd a jade,

Gray's Inn for walks, Lincoln's- J?en /or a wall,
7%e Jnne^-TempIc/ora garden,tqidthe Middle /or a halL
^^
'*^ "^ ^
- Thkre ti no redempnorlfrom heU. 7 / /
There place partly under, partly by tiie Exchequer chamber, cork
is a
monly called hell (I could wish it had another name, seeingit is illJesting
with edg'd tools)formerly appointed a prison for the King'sdebtors,wlio
never were freed from thence, until they had paid their ntmuat due*
As long as Megg of Westminster.

This is appliedto persons very tall, if they have hopple height,
especially
wanting breadth proportionable. That there ever was such a giant-wumai\
cannot be proved by any good witness, I pass not for a late lying panv
"c.
l"htet, tedesit. He thinks it might relate to a great gim lying in the
Tower ealled long Megg, in trueUistome times brooght to fVestmimterf
where for some time U contimied.
Norfolk*
Norfolk dumpHngs.
This refers not to the stature of their bodia ; bat U" the fare they coiii"
uionly feed on and mach delightin.
A Yarmouth capon.
That is,a red hei^ring
: more herringsbeing taken than capons bred here.
So the Ifalian friars (when disposed to eat flesh on Fridays)call a capon
jAscem e carte, a fish out of the coop.
He is arrested hy the bayliff

of Mershland.
That is, clapp'd on tihe beck by an ague, wUeh it incident to straBgan
at first pomiog into this low, feany, and anwholeeome cooatry.
FBOVERBI?. 173
Gimmiogham, Trinnningham, Knapton, andTrunch

North Kepps and Soutli Repps are all of a bunch.
Hiese are names of parishes lying close tcêiher.
Thê never was a Paston poor^ a HeydoQ a coward, nor
a Cornwallis afooL
Northamptonshif"r
The Mayor 0^ Northampton i^pens oysters with his dagger.
To keep them at a aafficient distance from his nose. For this town ing
be-
eighty miles from the sea, fish may well be presnmcd stale therein. Yet
have I heard (saith the Doctor) that oisters pot np with care,' and carried
in the cool, were weekly bronght fresh and good to AUhrof, the hoose of
the Lord Spencer at eqnal distance : and it is no wonder, for I myself

have eaten in Hârwickshire, above eighty miles from London^ oisters
sent from that city, fresh and good; and they most have been parried soom
milfes before they "ame there.
He that would eat a let

hutter^d/aggot, him to ampton.
North-
go
I have heard that King Jamei should speak this of Neu'market; bot
I am snre it may better be applied to this town, the dearest in Engtand
for fnd, where no coab can- come by water, and little wood doth grow oA
land.
One proverb there is of this county, which I wonder how Dr.' Fuller,
being native hereof, could miss, unless perchance he did studiously omit it
as reflecting disgrace on a market town therein*
Brackley hreedy better to hang than feed,

Brackley is a decayed market town and borough in Northamptmt.
shire, not far from Banbury, which abounding with poor, and troubling
the country about with beggers, came into disgrace with its neighbours, I
hear that now this place is grown industrious and thriving, and endeavours
to wipe off this scandal.
Lih" Banfoury tinkers that fh. mending one hole make three.
Northumberland.
From Berwick to Dover, three hundred miles over.
That is, from one end of the land to the other, parallelto that Scripture
expression, From JDan to JBeersheba*
To take Hector'^ cloak.

That is, to deceive a friend, who conlldeth in his faithfulness. When
Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, Anno 1669, was routed in the
rebellion he had raised ag:dnst Queen Elizabeth, ho hid himself in
the house of one Hector Armstrong of Harlow, in this county, having
confidence he would be true to him,-who notwithstanding for money be*
trayed him to the Regent of Scotland. It was obsemble, that Hector
being before a rich man, fell poor of a sodden, and so hated generally that
he never durst go abroad. Insomnch that the proverb to take Hector's
cloak is coatianed to this day among th^m, in the sense abovemenUoncd,
q3
^4 PROVERBS.
We will not lose a Scot.

'
That is, any thing how inconuJerable "oever that wc can save or
.
recover. During the enmity between the two nations, lliey had liltlt es-
.
.'"
'
teem of and less affection for a Scotchman in the English burder.
- "^ A Scottish man and a Newcastle grindstone travel all

t/ie world over.
The Scots are great travellers into foreign parts, most for maintenance^
for atcompUshment. And Newcastle gruidstoues" being the best,
many
in their idnd, most needs be car tied far and near.
*
jTf they come they eome not. And
" J^ they come not they come.
.
The cattle of people living hereabont, tnm'd into the common pastare^
Cv yO \ '-(^miil
by cnstom ase to return to their home at night, unless intercepted by
the A'ee.booters and borderers* If therefore those borderers came, tbelr
cattle came not : if tbey came not, their^catlle
sarely returned.
Nottinghamshire .
As wise as a man of Gotham.

It passeth for the periphrasis of a fool, and an hnndred fopperies are
feigned and fathered on the town's folk of Gotham^ a village in this county.
Here two things may be observed.
1. Men in all ages have made themselves merry with singling out some
place, and fixing the staple of stupidity and soliditytherein. So the Phrp'
gians in Asia, the Abderite in Thrace, and the Baotians in Greece,
were notorious for dolmen and blockheads.
2. These places, thus slighted and scoffed at, afforded some as witty and
wise persons as the world produced. So Dimocritus was an Abderite,
Plutarch a Baotian, "c, Hence Juvenal well concludes,
Sumimos posse viros 4; magna exempla daturos,
Vervecum in patria crassoque sub acre nasci.
As for Gotham it doth breed as wise people as which canselcsly
any,
laugh at their simplicity. Sure I am, Mr. WilUam de Gotham, fifth
master of Michael-house in Cambridge, ]83", and twice chancellor of th"
nniversity, was as grave a governor as that age did afford. Sapientum oc-
tavus. Hor.
The little smith of Nottingban],

Who doth the work that no man can.
Who this little smith and great workman and when he lived I
was,
know not, and have cause to suspect, that this of Nottingham is a peri-
phrasis of Nemo, Îg or a person who never was. By way of sar-
ca"m it is applied to such, who, being conceited of thehr own skill,pretend

to the atchieviog of impossibilitiea.
Oxfordshire.
You were horn at Hogs^Norton.
This is villageproperly called ffoch-Norton, whose inhabitants
a (itscena
formeriy) were so rustical in their behaviour, that boariah and downlsli
people are said to be born there. But whatever the people were, the
w"8 enongh to occaskm incb a proverb.
PROVERBS. 175
To take, a Burford bait.

TLU it seems ifta bait not to stay the stomach, but to lose ih" wit thereby,
as resolved at last into drunkenness.
Banbury veal^cheese, and cakes.

In the EngUsh edition of Camden'n JSritannia, it was, through the
corrector's mistake, printed Banbury "eal,"c. vide Autorem^
Oxford knives, and London wives,

Testons are gone to Oxford to study in Brazen nose.
This began about the end of the reign of King Heni% th* eighth, at sack
time as he debased the coin, allaying of it with copper (which common ple
peo-
confound with brass). It continued 'till about the middle of Qae"i
Elizabeth, who by degrees called in all the adulterate coin. Testone

and oar EngUsh tester come from the Italian testa, signifying a head,
because that money wap stamped with a head on one side. C^pstick id
high Dutch haih the same sense, i. e. Nummtis capUatus, money with a
head upon it.
Send Verdingalesto Broad-gates in Oxford.

For they were so great, that the wearers cenld not enter (except going:
sidelong) at ordijiary door. Though they have been long disused ia
any
"!"|r|aii"l,
yet the fashion of them is still wellenoogh known. They are used
still by the Spanish and the Italian living under the Spanish dok.
women,
minion, and they call them by a name signifying cover infhnt; because they
were first brought into use to hide great bellies. Of the name Verdingal I.
have not met with a good^ that is,true etymology.
Rutlandshire.
Draiton^s PolyottioTu
Rutland Raddleman,
That is, perchance Reddletnan, a trade and that a pow one only in this,
county, whence men bring on their backs a pack of red stones or Oker,
which they sell to their neighboaring coantriea for the marhjng of sheep. "
Stretton in the street, where shrews meet.

,
An Uppingham trencher,
Shropshire.
He that fetcheth a wife from Shrewsbafy carry mu^ her
into Staffordshire, or else he shall Uve in Cumberland.
The staple wit of this vulgar proverb, consistingsolely in sbnilitude of
sound, is scarce worth the InsertiBg.
Somersetshire.
'CA was lore at Taunton Dean, where should I he hort

else.
That is a parcel of ground round about Taunton very pleaiaat and
populeus (containing many parishes),and so fruitfhl,to ose 'their own
phrase, with the zun and the S4nl alone, that it needs no manuring at
all. The peasantry therein are as rode as rich, ^d so highly conceited of
their own couutiy, that they conoeiye it a dlqpngaiient to h% han in any

other place.
176 PROVERBS.
The begêrs of Bath.

Many in chat place ; some natives there, othen repairing Uutli"r-4h"m all
parts of the land, the poor for alms, the pained for caae,
Bristol milk.
That is, sherry-sack, wliich is tlie entertainnient of coone, which the-
Goorteoos Bristolians present to strangers, when Ant visitingtlieir dty.
Staffordshire.
Camden's Britafmia, in this county.
In April Dove's fiood,

,
Is worth a kmg^s good.
D"ve is a river paitinj this and JHrbyskire, wliidi, wlien it over-flowa
Its baiib in A^pril, is the NUus of Staffordshire, much battUng the men*
dowt thereof.
Idsm ibidem.
Wotton under Weaver.

Where God vame never.
Tikis profane proverb, it seems, took ita wicked origâl frnn the ritaattani^
of Wottim, covered with hills from the light of the son, a diamal place, aa
report represents it.
The Devil run through thee booted and spurred^ with ^
scythe on his bach.

This is Sedgely corse. Mr, H"wel.
Suffolk.
Suffolk milk.
Ttab was one of die stafrtecoramoditiet of tlie land of (kinauw, and tainly
cer-
moat wholesome for man's body, because of God's own choosing for
his own people. No county in England affords better and sweeter ef
this kind, lying opposite to Holland in the Netherlands, where is the best
dairy in Christendom.
Suffolk yatr maids.

It seems the God of Natnre hath been ImmitifU in giving them betiail\il
complexions; which I am willing to believe, so fur forth as it fizedi not a
comparattre disparagement on the same sex in other places.
You are in the high-way to Needham.

Needham is a market*town in this conn^ ; acc"ntling to the wit of the
'
Tulgar, tlk^ ar" said to be in the high"way thither,which do hasten to
poverty,
Beccles/br puritan, Bungey /br the poor,- a
Halesworth/or a drunkard, and Bilborough /or a whore^

"Between CowhHhe and Cassingland,
.
merry
Jlit Devil shit Benacro, look where it stands^
'
If scenu this place ii iDfiunous for it" bad aitnatioiu
PROVERBS* 177
Surrey.
The vale of Holms-dale
Wai never never shall.
won,
1 his proverbial rhyme hath une part of history, the other of prophecy.
As the first is certaiuly antrue, so the second is frivoIoDs, and not to be
heeded by sober persons, as neither any other of the like nature.
Sussex.
A CHicHEStBR lobster,a Seliieycockle,a" Arundel mullet^
a Pulboroug-h eel,an Aoiberley trout, a Rye herring,a
Bourn wheat -ear.
Art the best in their kind, nnderstand it of those that are taken in Uua
conutry,
Westmoreland.
Let Utcr Pendragon do what he can.
The river Eden will run as it ran.
Parallel to that Latin verse.
Naturam expellas furcci licet usque recurret.

Tradition reporteth, that Uter Pendragon had a design to fortifjrthe
castle of Pendragon in this county. In order whereto, with much art and
industry, he invited and tempted the river Eden to forsake liis old chaonelf
but all to no purpose.
As craftyas a Kendale fox.
Wiltshire.
It is done secundum nsum Sarum.
This proverb coming out of the church bath since enlarged itself into a
civil use, signifying things done' with exactnesi, according to mle and prar
cedent. Osmund bisbop of Sarum, about the year 1090, made that dinal
or-
or office,which was generally received all over the land, so that
churches thenceforward easily understood one another, speaking the same
words in their liturgy.
Salisbury /"28tnis seldom without a thiefor twain.
Yorkshire.
From Hell, Hull, and Halifax deliver us.
This it a part of the beggers and vagrants litany. Of these three frightful
things unto them, it is to be feared, that they least fear the first,conceiting
it the farthest from them. Hull is terrible to them as a tuwa of good vernment,
go-
where beggers meet with punitive charity, and it is to be feared
are oAener corrected than amended. Halifax is formidable for the law
thereof, whereby thieves taken cirauTOfhwou), in the very act of stealing

cloth, are instantlybeheaded with an engine, without any further legal pro-
ceedings.
Donbtless the coincidence of tbo initial letters of these tluree
words help'd much the setting on foot this proverb.
A Scarboronjifliwarning.
Ihat is, nune all but a sadden surprise,when a mischief is felt before it
ik bwspectcd. This proverb is but of an handre(l and four years standing*!

178 PROVERBS.
taking its originalfrom Thomas Stafford,^ho io tite leign of Queen Mary,

Anno 16S7, \"itb a small company Mixed on Scarborough caitl" (ntierljT
deatitote of proviaion for resistance) before the townsmen liad the Icaat
notice of his approach. However, within six days, by the indostry of the
earl of Wettmor eland, he was tal"en, brought to London, and beheaded}^

Skf. vide.
As true steel as Bippon rowels.

It is said of tmst'y penooa, men of metal^ faithfol in their employments.
JUppon in this coaoty is a town famous for the best spurs of England^
whose rowels may be enforced to strike throogh a shilling,uid will break
aoooer than bow.
A Yorkshire way-lit.
That is, an overphts not acconntcd in the reckoning, which sometimes
proves as much as all the rest. Ask a coantry-man, how muny miles it ia
in rach a town, and he will retarn commonly ao many miles aad a teay4"iK.
Which way'bit is eooogh to make the weary traveller sarleit of the length
thereof. But it is not nay-bit thoagh generally pronoanoed,
so bat weebit,
a pure Yorkshirism, which is a small bit in tlte Northern hmgoage.
Merry Wakefield.
What pecnliar canse of mirth this town hath above otbcrf^ I do act
know, and dare not too cnrionsly inqoire. Sort it la seated in a fmitfnl^
soil and cheap country, and where good chear and company are the pre"
misses, mirth (in common consequence) will be the coocIosioD.
Pendle) Tngleboroagh, and Penigent,

Are the three highest hills between Scotland and IVent,
And which is more common is the mouths of the Tolgir*
Pendle, Penigent, and

Ingleboreogfa,
Are the three highesthillsall England thorwgh.
These three hills are io sight of e"eh other, Pendle on the edge of Lan-
easMre Penigent, and Ingleborougk near Settle in Yorkshire, and not
far from Westwutreland, These three are indeed the hifj^t hnis in Bug*
land, not comprehending Wales, But in f Vales I think Snovdon, Co*
deridris, and Pliwllimtnon are higher.
Jf Bra}rton bargh, and Hambleton haugh^ and Burton

bream,
Were all in thy bellyit would never be team.
It is spoken of covetous and insatiable whom nothing will con*'
a person,
tent. Brayton and Hambleton and Burton are places between Cawood
and Pontefract in this county. Brayton bargh is a small bill in a plain

country covered with wood. Bargh, in the northern dialect, is properly a.
horse-way up a steep hill,though here it be taken for the hill itsalf.
When Dighton is jndVd down^

Hull shaU become a great town.
This is rather a prophecy than a proverb. Dighton is a smaU town not
a mile distant from Hull, and was in the time of the late wars for the moai
part pull'd down. Let Hull make the best they can of it.
180 PROVERBS.
Proverbs communicated hy Mr, Andrew Paschall, of

Cbedscy, tit Somersetshire ;
which came riot to hand *tiU
the Copy of the Second Edition wof delivered to the
Bookseller and so covldnot he referred to their proper
y
places.
Steal the horse, and home the bridle.

carry
What are good for? to stop bottles?
you
J'U not pin my taith on your sleeve.
A fine new nothing.
What wind blew hither?
you
As nimble as a cow in a cage.
8et a cow to catch a hare.
Is the wind in that corner ?
I'll watch your water.
One's too few, three too many.
He put a fine feather in my cap.
i, e. Honour without profit.
All Ilchester is goal, say prisoners there.

i, e" The people hard-hearted. Sinners,
The bird that can sing and will not sing must be nmdo
After a lank comes a bank. [to sing.
Said of breeding women.
There or thereabouts, as Parson Smith says.

Proverbial about Duumow in Essea,
I wip'd his nose on't.
To-morrow come never.
Choak the church-yard's nigh.

up,
Sow or set beans in Candlemas waddle.
i. e. Wane of the moon. Somerset,
You are right for the first miles.

Eat thy meat and drink thy drink, and stand thy ground
old Harry. Somerset,
Blow out the marrow and throw the bone to the dogs.
A taunt to snob as are troublesome by blowing their nose.
Twere well for your little belly if your guts were out.
Alurder will out.
This is remarkably true of murder, however secretly acted, but it is ap-
plied
also to the discovery of any fault.
To putût the miller's eye.

spoken by good bovewivei when they have wet (heir meal for bread or
juste too umch.

FROVERBi;. 181
As wedding-ring cares will wear

your wears your away.
Somerset,
She stamps like an ewe upon yeaning. Svmenet*
Pinch parson^sside.
on the
As old9sGUut(m^wy toire. Somnreet,
" Hit torn, I. ". tower, w called firom the Laftai tmri*, tbmds npon "
ronnd hill in the midft of a kvel, and may be aeen to oC It Memcd to
me to have been the fteeple of a church that h^d /ormerly itood upon that
lîU,though now scarce an/ footitepi of it nmaki.
On CandUmas-dAy throw candle and candlestick away*

Somerset.
Share and share alike^some all^some neêr a white.
To help at a dead fift
To water a stake.
As welcome as water into one's shoes.
ilfarcA birds are best [merset,
I will not want when ,1 have and when I ban^t too. So^
So many frosts in JkHarf^Bo^ nâny in Mujf.
Tisyear'd. Spoken of a'desverate iddf
The suite need not the woodcock betwite, Somerset.
You shall haye the whetstone.
Spoken to Urn that tells a lie.
Yon have no sheqp more to shears "

Somerset.
Thatfs a dog-trick.
You shall haye the basket Tatmton.
Said to the joomeyman that is envied for plearfng his maiter.
You are as fine as if you had a whiting hanging at your

side, or girdle.
April cling good for nothing. Somerset, {dan.
You must go into the country to hear what news at Lon-
lyill not be why for thy. Somerset.
Of a bad bargain or great loss for little profit.
The lamentation of a bad market

The chicken crams the capon* Somerset.
I have victualled my camp (fiUednw helki.)
Parsley fried will bring a man to bis saddle^ and a wo^-
man to her grave.

^
I knownot the reason of this proverb. Tttrslcywas wont to be esteemed
a very wholesome herb, however prepared, only by the ancients it wts
foibidden them that had Che fallingsickness^ and modem ezperieBce batb
fonad it to be bad for the eyes.
Ill make you know your driver. Sonurs.

ni vease thee, (i,e, famt, drive thee,) Somerset.
Better untaught than in taught
R
182 FROVEBBS.
Tis along of your eyes, the crows might haye help*d it

when you were
young.
Quick and nimble, 'twill be your own another day.
In tome ptacet tbey My in drollery. Quick and nkiMe, .more like a
bear than a squirrel.
Upon St. David's day put oats and barley in the clay.
With n" it is aceoonted a little too early to sow iMurley(whidi b a tender
grain) in the beginning of March.
Be patient and you shall hav" patient children.

Too fiot to hold. Moderaia durmit,
.
Talk is but tklk, but 'tis money buys lands.
You cry before you are hurt
Cradle-straws are scarce out of his breech.
God send me a friend that may tell me my faults ;
if not,
an enemy, and to be sure he will.
He is a fool that
melancholy once is not a day.
He frets like gum'd ta"[aty.
You speak in clusters, you were begot in nutting.
He'll turn rather than burn.
,
I never saw it but once and that was at a wedding.

Hang him that hath no shift,and him that hath one too
How do" your whither go you ; (ymarwtfe) [many.

Farewell and be hang'd, friends must part
What she wants in up and down she hath in round about.
He's steel to Ihe back.
A man every inch of him.
Cut off the head and tail,and throw the rest away.
To play fast and loose.
You are mope-ey'd by living so long a maid.
Your horns hang in your light

What you comedo or send.
Look to the cow, and theôw, and the wheat-mow, and
all will be well enow. Somerset.

Better have it than hear on't.
Here's to our friends, and hang up the rest of our kindred.
Do, jeer poor folks, and see how 'twill thrive.

You love to make much of naught, (yourself,)
In the shoe-maker's stocks.
Neck or nothing.
They two are hand and glove. Somerset*
They love like chick. Somerset*
To give one the go-by.
PROVERBS. 183
I'll not play with you for shoe-buckles.

God made you an honester man than your father.
One may wink and choose.
Want goes by such an one's doOr. Somerset,
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have
.
them they want every thing. Som^
Often to the water often to the tatter, (of Ztimen.)
Beware him whom God hath marked.
Most take alL
A Somerton ending. Somen,
i, e. When the differeuce between two is divided.
Truth fears no colours.

Never good that mind their belly so much.
Old head and young hands. Somersets
Lend and lose, so play fools.
Cast not thy cradle over thy head.
The d under clo the
gaily [affiightj beans.
,
Somers, Beans shoot op UA after tbaBder*atormB.
Wheat vnll not have two praises. {Summer end Winter,)

If size cinque will not, duce ace cannot, then qtuUre trey
must.
The middle sort bear public barthens, taxes, "c most.
Deux ace non passunt 4: size cinque solvere notunt :
Est igitur notutn quatre trey solvere Mum.
Take all and pay the baker.

Never sigh but send.
My son, buy nq stocks. Good countel at gleek.
There's newer a why but there's a wherefore. fspend.
Spend not where you may save ; spare not where you must
Listeners seldom hear good of themselves.
Where there is whispering there is lying, [rainrains en.
Happy is the bride the sun shines on, and the corpse tiie
By fits and girds, as an ague takes a goose.
Will you snap (or bite) off my nose?
You will tell another tale when you are tried.
You eat above the tongue like a calf.
Recipe scribe, scribe solve.

A good role for stewards.
He needs a bird that gives a groat for an owL

You go as if nine men held you.
Under the furze is hunger and cold ;
Under the broom is silver and gold*
Nine tailors make but one man. -:
R 2
184 FBOVEHBS.
I loth to change my mill. Somerset.

am
i. e, "at of tnoUicr diib.
Your horse cast a shoe.

To hit over the thumbs.
Win at first and lose at last [Spoken cf a pilferer.

He'll bear it away, if it be not too Ibot or too heavy.
Hickledy pickledy, one among another.
the like conceited rhyming words or re*

We have io oar lancaaie many
dnplicatioDSf to signify any conAiBion or mixtore, u bnrly borly, liodge

podfse, mingle mangle, any versy, 1dm kam, hub bab, crawly manly,
hab nab.
J^mdoner-hke as much more as yon will take.
So got so gone.
tiiat hath not R in it.
Oysters are not good in a month an
J love thee like pudding, if thou wert pye 1 woi^d eat
thee.
Here's nor rhyme nor reason.
Thama9 More, who being by the an-
Jbi* bring! to mind a itory of Sir
him by all
.
thor ask'd faia judgment of an impertinent book, wiih'd means
which done Sir Th"niuM ing

look-
to pat it into verse, and bring it him again ;
it is rhyme, before it
npon it saitfa,
yea now it to somewhat like, now
was neither rhyme nor reason.
Take all and pay all.

A penny saved is a penny got
is kiss. fa slice.
A lisping lass good to
When the shoulder of mutton is going ^tis good td take
Make the vine poor and it will make you rich, (phiia
offiU brmuiM$!)
Not a word of Pensante.
You if you list but do if yon dare.
may
and they will grow rich, set them rich and
Set trees
poor
Remove them always out of a
tlieywill grow poon.
more barren into a fatter soiL
19 o cut to unkindness. f
A good saver is vi,

good server.. Somerset,
'i'o slip one's neck out of the collar.
J will keep no more cats than will catch mice. (t.e. no
iikfamily than will earn their living. Somerset,)

more
Blind-man's holy-day. [grave.

the leaves to th|i
Ifyou would a good hedge haVe, cany
As yellow the golden noble. \Somerset,
ai^
be for sheep as a youngoldlamb.
As good hanged an
[Somerset (of pretenders to cheantif,)

She loves the poor well, but .cannot abid^ beggcrs;
PROVERBS. 185
Yoa put it together with an hot needle and bnmt thread.

Like a loader^ horse that lives amonfj^ thieves.
CThe cauntrp-man near a taum,) SomerSm
Apples, pears^ hawthorn-quick, oak, set

them at Allhol-
umtide and command them to prosper, set them at
Candlemas and intreat them to grow.
Tis good sheltering under an old hedge.
Let not the child deep upon bones. Somenet.
i. e. The nnne'fl lap.
The more Moors the better victory.
Ko man hath a worse friend than he brings from home.
Dênd me and spend me. (judththe Irish skurL)
To fear the loss of the bell more than the loss of the
steeple. .^
Nab me, 1*11 nab thee.
He hath a conscience like a cheverel's skin.
(That will stret^) A cbercrd is a wild goat. Somert^
If you touch pot you must touch penny. Somers*

(Pay for what yoa haye.)
He hath a spring at his elbow, {spokenrfa gamester)

PuU not out your teeth but with a leaden instrument
When Tom's pitcher'sbroken I shall have the sheards.
(i" e, KiudoeM after othen have done with it; or reftiaek)
A child's bird and a boy's wi^ are well used. Somers^

Be it weal or be it wo.
Beans blow before Mw doth gOk ^^
Little mead little need. Somerset.
(A mild winter hoped for after a had rammer.),
A good tither a good thriver. Somerset.
Who marries between the sickle and the scythe will
never thrive. [Somerset.
She will as soon part with the crock as the poiridge.
"You will have the red cap. Somerset,
(Said to a marriage-maker.)
Let them buckle for it Somerset.

She is as crusty as that is hard bak'd. Somerset.
(One that is surly and loth to do any dUng.)
Money is wise, it knows its way. Somerset.

Says the poor man that must pay as soon as he reeeiyes.
After Lammas com ripens as much by night as by day.

If you will have a good cheese and bave^n old, you must
tum'n seven times before he is cold. Somerset,
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188 PROVERBS.
He 18 ible to bury an abbey. (" ijoendthrift.)

When elder's white brew and bake a p^ck ;
When elder's black brew and bake a sack. Somers.
More malice than matter. Somen. [portianable.)
He builds cages for oxen to bring up birds in. "
(dupro'
Where there is store of oatmeal you may put enougn in
the crock (pot) Somerstt.
He that hath more smocks than skirts in a bucking, hmd
need he a man of good fore-looking. Chancer.
You never speak but your mouth opens, [the window.
The charitable gives out at the door and God puts in at
All the leavers you can lay will not do it. Somerset,
requires
âmpskur ji^round eveiy day of the ureek a
i/^
BBowerot nun, and on Sunday twain.
'^
d^^b^^Âs cunmn^^ captain Drake.
^ Let him hang by tiie heels. Somerset.
^^^
(Of a man that diet in debt : Us wife iMving all at Ui death, crying Jilt
foodi in three markets an^ three parish churches, is so free of all his debts.)
He is ready to leap oier nine hedges.

She look'd on me as a cow on a bastard calf. Somers.
I witl wash my hands and wait upon you.
The death of wives and the life ofsheep make men rich*
ilprt7fools, (peoplesent on idle errands)
After a famine in the stall,
Comes a famine in the haU. Somerset.
^
* / WeUingion roimd-heads,
^
*
1 ^
fjitw^t^^ ProTerbial in ^Jûntch for a ipfoleiittautick.
wuiî"j"^ îNone so old that he hopes not for ajâr of life.

""^^^7^^fThe young are not always with theur bow bent
To catch two pidgeons witfr one bean.

jL^^fT. jf
'^^''^^^ Eveiy honest miller hatha golden thumb.
fi^k-^^/ Tkeif repijf,Kone bnt t ^kold can see It. Somerset.
In wiving and thriving a man should take counsel otall

the world.
Tis good graftingon a good stock.
The eye is a shrew.
To measure the meat by the man.
1 e. The message by titt messenger.
He sucked evil from the dug.

They are so like that tiieyare the wone for it.
Cut of door out of debt Som^set.
Of one thM pajn not mttULoaae gpnc
188 SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
A loom pane makeft a Meat meroliaBti

As long ruoB tbe fox as he feet hath.
A hastj man never w^ted wo.
A wight man never wanted a

weapon.
A fool^ bolt is soon shot.
A given horse shonld not be look'd in the teeth.
A good asker should have a good nay-saj.
A dear ship stands long in the haven.
An oleit mother makes a sweir daughter,
A careless hussy makes thieves,
mony
A liar should have a good memory.
A black shoe makes a blithe heart
A hungry man sees far.
A sillybaime is eith to lear.
A half-penny cat may look to the king.
A greedy man God hates.
proud heart in
j["oorbreast, he's meikle doUour dree^
A a to
A scald man's head is soon broken.
A scabbit sheep files all the flock.
A burnt bairne fire dreads.
Anld men are twice bairnes.
A tratler is worse than a thief.
A borrowed len should come laughing hame,
A blitlie heart makes a blomand visage.
A year a nurish, seven years a daw.
An unhappy man's cairt u eith to tumble.
An old lôund bites sair.
A fair bride is soon bask'd,aiid a ihoit hone soon wisp'd,.
As good hand as draw.
A man that is warned, is half armed.
An ill win-penny will cast down a pound.

All the con in Uie oonntry is not ifaom by pratlert.
Ane begger is wae that another be the gate gae.
A travelled man hath leave ta lie.
Ane ill word meets another, and it were at the bridge of Londait^
A hungry louse bites sair.
A gentle horse would not be over sair sparred.

A firiend's dipner is soon dight.
An ill cook wald-have a good olaver.
A good fellow tint never, but at an illfellow's ban^
At doors, dogs come in/
open
A word before is worth two behind.
A ititlsow eats all the draff*
A dumb man holds all.
All feUs that fools tMnki.
A wooll-seller kens a wooll-bayer.

All fellows Jock and the laird.
,
SCOTTISH PROVERBS. 189
As tbe sow fills,
tbe draff sowres.
A full heart lied never.
As good mercbant t jnes as wins,

All the speidis in the spars. [beforenoon"
As sair greets the baime that is dung aft"moon,a8 he that is dung
An ill life,
an ill end.
Anes wood, never wise, ay the worse.
Anes pay it never crave iU
A good mfer was never a good rider.
All the keys in the country hangs not at ane belt.
A dumb man wan never land.
As soon comes the lamb's skio to market, as the oldêcp's"
As many heads asmany wits.
A blind man should not judge of cotours*
As the old cook craws, the young cock leares.
A skabbed horse is good oiough for a scald squire^
A mirk mirrour is a man's mind.
As meikle up with, as meikle down with.
Au i|lshearer gat never a good hook.
A tarruwingbairne was never fiit.
A good cow may have an ill calfl
A cock is crouse in his own midding.
A new bissome soupes dean.
As sair fightswranes as cranes.
" yeltsow was to grysei.

never good
As the carle riches he wretches.-
A fool when he hes done.
spoken hes jail
An old seek craves meikle obuliflg.
An old' seek is ay skailing.
A fidr fire makes a room flet. ^
An old knave is na bairne.

A good yeaman makes a good WjOfian.
A man bath no more good tiian,

hejiatbgood of.
A fool may give a wise man a eounsel.
A man may speirthe gate to jRoni^.
As long lives the merry man as the wretch for allthtf craft he can,
All wald have all;âll wald forgiv^. [garhim drink.
Ane may lead a horse to the wateri but feur and twenty cannot
A bleat cat makes a proud mouse.
An ill willycow should have sliort

horns.
A good pieceof steilis worth a penny.
A shored tree stands lang.
A gloved cat was never a good hunter.
A gangand foot is ay getting,
an it were butâ thoriju
All is nut gold that glitters. -
A swallow makes not summer qpriug-time.

or
A man may spiton his hand aiitddo

full ill.
...^.Bîiki^B.
190 SCOTTISH PHOVBRBS.
An ill senrant will never be a gôod master.

An bired hone tired never.
All the winning is in the first buying.

Anuch [enough] is a feast (of bread and oheise.)
A horse may stambTe on fbar feet.
All thing wytes that well not laires.
All things thrive but thrice.
Absence is a shroe.
Auld sin new shame.
A man cannot thrive except Us wife let him.
A baime mon or he
creep gang.
As long as ye serve the tod, ye man bear his tail.
np
All overs are ill,bot over the water.
A man may wooe where he will,but he will wed where ho is weardL

A mean pot [where several share in it]plaid never evin.
Among twentyofonr fools not ane wise man.
Ane man's meat is another man's poison.

A fool will not give his bable for the tower of London^
A foal foot makes a fall weam.
A man is a lion in his own cause.
A hearty hand to gpivea hungry meltith.

A eumbersome cnr in company, is hated for his miscarriage^.
A poor man is fain of Kttle.
An answer in a word.
A beltless bairne cannot lie.
A yule feast may be quat at Pasehe. -
A good dog never barketh bditt a bone.

A full seek vrill take a clout on the side.
An ill hound comes hailing home.
Alt things help (quod the wren) when she pished io tile sea..
All eraoks, all bnures.
A boundless man comes to Ae best bmilsng.
All things hes an end and a padding has twa.
All is well that ends well.
As good bads the stirrep,as he that loups 6n.
A begun work is half ended.
A Scittuh man is ay wise behind the hand.
A new sound, (jteronomtdop.) in ai" oTd horn.
As broken a ship hes come to land.

As the fool thinksv ay the bell clinks.
A man may see his friend need, but he will not see him bleed.
A friend is not known but in need.
A friend in court is better in the

nor a penny purse.
All things is good unseyed.
A good goose indeed, but she hes an ill gander.
All are not maidens that wears bidr hair.
A mache and a horse-shoe are both alike.

SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
Airlie oronlu the Ine that^nod "BBsk lihadd ht.
Adoimaeof fMlheri wit ii worth* pooad ofelMfj.

An worth Ilia ipu of
iDabofftnigii ananr,
B
Bitter iU idio thin work for non^t.
Better Idkra b neifhlKHr^ linDth mr by }"mr m
J roar
Better Ull impljih
injou.
Better \xtt Ihrin tku nerer.
Better hud loan than bHqod to aB ill baikiDe.

Better lu; Uttlo nor looo ri^ht aoagkt.
acKk berorc
Better Iw "cll toied oorill won geir.

Belter Anger-oITnoraT WBrkiiK.
Better rew nt, nor rew OiL
Bourd not with bawtr, fear leu he Ule jod.

Belter laj,
here it is, oor Jicre ii "u.
Better plajs a full wesmb. nor a new coat.
Better be happj nor ttiM.
Better bappf lo uoort, nor good eerrice.
Belter a witbouebt, norlwa for aooght.

Belter ban nnr break.
Belter two leila,nor ane mhtow.
Belter bairneij;reiliiurb'"arHpH nan.
BclwiiUwa ituula li
Beller be eoTied nor pitied

199, SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
Better a Kttle fire tliat warms, nor a meikle that barns.

Be the same thing that then wald be odd*
Blaek will be no other hew.
Beauty bat boonty airails nonghf.

Beware of had I wist
Better be alone nor in ill company.

,
Better a thiggpingmother* nor a ryding fkther.

Before I wein and now I wat.
Bonnie ulrer is soon spendit.
Better never began nor never endit
Biting and scratching is ScottfoOtlwooing.
Breads honse skiald never.
Baimes mother burst never.
Bannoks [a tharfeoake oat^bread] ts better than na kin bread.

Better a laying hen n6r a lyin orown"
Better be dead as oat of the fashion.

Better boy as borrow.
Better have a moose in the pot as no flesh.
c
Court to the town, and whore to the window.
Cadgers (meal-men) speaks of pack-saddles.

Changing of words is lightingof hearts .
Charge your friend or yon need.

CmU eats that hussies spares.
Cast not forth the old water while the new come in.
"]lrabbit was, and cause had.
Comparisons are odious.

Come not to the counsel uncalled.
Condition makes and condition breaks.
Cot duelles in every town.
,
Cold cools the love that kindles over hoL
Cease your snowballs casting.

Come it aire, come it late, in Mmf comes the cow*quake.
Coortesie is cambersom to them that kens it not.
Chalkc is na sheares.
.
D
Do in hill as wald do in hall.
ye
Do as ye wald be done to.
Do Weill and have Weill.

Dame deem warily.
Dead and marriage makes tearm-day*
Draff is good enough for swine.
Do the likliestiand God will do the best.
Drive out the inch as then hast done the span.
Dead men bitef not.
Daffliog(jefting)
good for nothing.
SCOTf ISH PROVERBS. 193
Dogs will red swine.

Dirt parts compui J.
Drink and droath comes sindle together.
Daft talk dow not.
Do well and doubt na man, and do weill and doubt all men.
Dead at the one door, and heirsbip at the other.

Dummie (a dumb man) cannot lie.
E
Early maister, lang knave.
Eaten meat is good to pay.
Eild (old age) wald hare hononr.
Evening orts is good morning fodder.

Every land hes the laooft, ana every com fies the cafib.
Every man wishes the water to hh oiVn myliie.^

Every man can rule an ill wife but he Ihftt hes her.
Eat measurelie and defy the medioiners.
Every man for himself ^t|m"th
the Mwteine.)'
Every man flames the fitt sow's arse.
Experience may teach a fool.
Every man wates besi where hia own shoe biade him.
Bfler lang mint never dint.
Effer word comes weird.
Efter delay comes a lette.
F
PAin' fowles hes foir fenthers.
Pair bights makes fools fiiin.
Fools are fain of flitting.
Falshood made never a fair hinder end.
Freedom is a fair thing.
For a lost thing care not.
Fool haste is no speed.

Fools let for trust.
For love of the norse^ kisser the baime.

mony
Folly is a bonny dog.
Fair words hrcBk never bone, foul words break
many anf.
Foul water slokens fire.
Far songlitiand dear bought, is good for ladies*
For fault of wise men, fools sit on binks.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Fools are fain of right nought.
"
Fnrbid a thing, and tiMt we will do. .
Follow love and it will flee thee, flee love aBdit^tdll follow,thee. "
Fegges after peace". .

,
Fools should have no chappin sticks.
Friendship stands not in one side.

Few words sufficeth to a wise man.'
194 SCOTTISH PROVERBS-
Fke is good for the faroie.

Pidlers dogs and flies comes to feasts uncalled.
Fill fow and had fow makes a stark man.
G
Grace is best for the roan.
GiiF gaff (one gift for another) makes good friends.
Good wine needs not a wispe.

Good cheir and good cheap garres roanj haunt the house.
God sends men cold as they have clothes to.
God's help is neirer nor the fair eviu.

Give never the wolf the wether to keep.
Good will should be tane in part of payment
God sends never the mouth but the meat with it.
Gim when he tie, and laugh when ye Ipuse.
Go to tlie Devil and bishop you.
Go shoe the geese.
God sends meat and the Devil tends cooks.
H
I
Hunger is good kitphine meat.
He that is far from his geir, is neir his skatith.

Had 1 fish was never good with garlick.
He mon have leave to speak that cannot had his tongue.
He that lippens to lent plows, his land will ly ley.
He rides sicker that fell never.
He that will not hear motherhead, shall hear slep-motherhcad.

He that orabs without cause, should mease without mends.
He that may not as he would, mon do as he may.
He that spares to speak, spares to speed. [in^t.
He is well easit that hes ought of his own, when others to the
go
He that is welcome faires well.
He that does ill hates the light. [not.
He that speaks the thing ho should not, hears the things he would
He that is evil deem'd is half hang'd.
Help thyself,and God will help thee.
He thai spends his geir on a whore, hes both shame and skaith.
He that forsakes missour, missour forsakes liim.
Half a tale is enough to a wise man.
He that hewes over hie, the spail will fail into his eye^
He that eats while he laslf will be the yr^r while he die.
,
He is a weak horse that may not bear the saidle.

He that borrows and bigs, makes feasts and thigs,drinks and is
not dry,'these three are not thrifty.
Hie is a proud Tod that will not scrape his own hole.
He is wise when he is well, can had him sa.
He is poor that God hates.
He is wise that is ware in time.

Hame is bamelie.
He that is bated of his subjects, cannot be counted a king.
Hap and a half-penny is warlds geir enough-
He calls me skabbed, because I will not call him skadc.
He is blind that eats his marrow, but far blinder that lets him.
Have Grod, and have all.
Honesty is na pride.
He that fishes afore 4he net, lang or he fish get.
He tint never a cow, that gprat for a needle.
He that hes na geir to lose, hes shins to pine.
He that takes all his geir fra himself, and gives to his bairns, it
were weill ward to lake a mallet and knock out his brains.
He sits full still that hes a riven breech.
He that does bidding deserves na dinging.
He that blaws best bears away the born.
He is well slaikit within, that will neither borrow nor len.
Hea will gar a deaf man hear.
He is sairest dung when his awn wand dings him.
He hes wit at will, that with angry heart can hold him still.
Proverbial Speeches of Persons given to such

Vices or Virtues tff fol"wsw
Ofgreedjf Ptrtom it U takU
Hb can hide his meat and seek mort*
He will see day at a litUe bol".

He comes for drink, though drafft be hut errand.
Of well skilled Persons,

He was bom in August
He sees an inch before his nose.
"
Of wilful Persom.
He is at his wits enÛ
He hears not at that ear.
He wald fain be fordwi^rt if he wist how.

He will not give an inch of his will, for a spau of bis thrift.
Of Vo voters or new UpUaris,

His wind shakes no com.
He thinks himself na peir.

payes
He counts himself worthy meikle myee dirt" ""
Henry Cheike never slew a man nntil be came to hiiu.
Offieifit Persons,
His heart is in his hose.
He is war frightednor lu|.is

hftrt*
SCOTTISH PROVERBS. IQ?
He looks as tbe wood were full of thieTes..
He looks like the laird of pity.
He looks like a Lochwhaber axe.
OffaUe Fenmu,
He will get credit of a hoase full of nnbered milestones.
He looks up with one eye, and down with the other.
He can lie as weill as a dog can lick a dish.
He lies never but when the holen is green.
He bydes are fast a"a cat l^nnd with a sacer.
He wald gar a man trow that the moon is made of green cheis,or
the cat took the heron.
Of mUnortured Persons,
He has a brasen face.
He knows not the door be the door bar.

He spits on his own bjanket^
Of unpr^table foolith Persons^
He harpes ay on ane string.
He robs Peter to pay PauL
He rives the kirk to thatch the quier.
He wags a wand in the water.
He that rides or he be ready, wants some of his geir..
Cff weillie Persons.

He can hald the cat to the sun.
Ho kens his oatmeal among other folks kail.

He changes for the better.
He is not so daft as he pretends him..
Cff angry Persons.

He hes pisht on a nettle.
He hesnot gotten the first seat of the midding the day.
He takes pepper in the nose.
Of uncoTUtant Persons,
He is like a widder cock.
He hes changed his tippet,or his cloak on the other shoulden.

He is like a dog on. a cat..
His evening and morning song are not both alike.
song
He is an M"erdeen*^ man, taking his word again. .
Of Plfrsons speaking pertinently.

He hes hit the nail on the head.
He hes touched him in: the quick.
Of Weasters and Dwers,
He hes not a heal nail to claw him with.
He hes not to buy his dogps a leaf.
a penny
He is as as Jeb,
poor
He is as bair as the birch at Zule evin".
s 3 -- -
198 SCOTTISH PROY-ERBS.
He begfs at them that borrow at faim.

He bes brought his pack to a fit spead.
He is on the eronnd.
His hair grows through Jua h9o4.

He hes cryed faimaelf divwr.
"ffprmtd Pertons.
He counts his half-penny good silrer.
He makes meikle of his painted sheits.
He goes away with Hfted np head.

He answers unspoken to.
He hes not that bached to swear by.

"f untymmu Persons,
He is as
welcome as water in a riven ship.
He is as welcome as snaw in hearvett.
Cf rath P"r$ons"
He sets all on sex or seviu.
He stumbles at a strea and
loupes at a l^k.
Of igTiorant Per,sfn^,
He does as the blind man when he QaiaUiiis"t|ifi.
He brings a staff to his own head.
He gars
his awn wand dii^ lonu
He takes after the goat that pasta all 4own at eyin.
He hes good skill of rosted wooll, whew it s^nks it is enough.
Of fffemiMt^ Pettfmt,
He is John 77tomson*s man, ooatchingioarlflu
He wears short hose.
Of Drunkarifu
His head is full of bees.
He may write, to his friends.
His hand is in the panyer.
He is better fed nor nortured.
He needs not a cake of bread at all hit kio.
He has meikle prayer, but iittledevotioi^.

He runs with .the hound and holds with the hairi
He hes a face to Godj and another tP the DetdU
He is a wolf in a lamb's skin.
He breaks my head, and' vnoe puts on bbj hood.
He can say, my joy, and think it not.
He sleeps as dogs do, when wives uft meal*

He will go to hell for Um houffe pr"riSt
I
It is a sairie brewing, that is not good in the sewing.
Jt is tint that is done to clpildand aqld juen.
weids w"xea weilh

6"""TTtSH PROVEIt"S. 199
In some mens anght mon the anM hmie die.

It 18 a sooth board that men sees wddn.
In space comes g*race.
It is ill to bring out of the flesh that is feted Sir the Mtie.
Ill win, ill warit.
It is a nIIj flock where the jowe bears the bell.
It is a sin to lie on the Deril.
It is eith till,that the awn self will.
It is good mowes that fills the womb.
It is na time to stonp when Ute hemA is aff.
It is 4air in hall, where bearHs wags aH.
It will come in an hoar that will not eome in a year.
If thou do na ill, do na ill like.
If thou steal not kail, break not dyke.
my my
If ye spend meikle, pnt the more to the flrek
may
If I oiln get his cairt at a woHcr, I shall lend H a port.
If I not keep i shaH keep gesline.
may geese,
It is kindly that the poke savor herring*
gf the
It is eith to cry zaie on another man's cost.
like (each) man as he loves let Mm !"end %o the cooker.
It is eith to swim where Ae head $s hdden op.

It is well ware it they hare sorrow that bays it with their silrer.
If ane will not, another will.
It is ill to take breeches off a bare arse.
It is dear bought honey that lick'd ofi* a thorn.

If God be with wha will be against i^.
as,
1 1 is Weill warit that wasters want geir.
It is ill to bring ap the thing that is not therein.
It that lyes not in gate, breaks not shins.
your your
It is na play where ane greits,and another langhs. Tj^^*
If a man knew what wald be dear, he wald be but merchant for a
It is true that all men says.

I have a good bow, but it is in the castle.
It is hard to fling at the brod (a sfciqk tliat childm ase" wk^
they play at penny prick) or klcjk at the prick.
like man mend ane, and ail will be mendit.
It is sairie collope that is tain off a

a capone*
HI baimes are best heard at home.
It is ill to wakin sleeping dogs.
HI herds make fat wolffs.
It is hard to wife and thrive in a year. \

.
It is good sleeping in a heal skin*

It is not tint that is done to firieodp.
It is ill to draw a strea before an aald cat.
It is a paine to pay bothpray. and

It is good fishingin drojBiMUlgivMpca. "
It is UtUe of God's might, !" mkM M ftur mm MJufhiH.

"00 SCOTTISH PBOVERBS.
It 18 good baking wilboat meal.

It U a good goose that drops ay.
It is not the habile that makes the monk.
It is not good to want and to hare.

It'hes neither arse nor elbew,
I shall sit on his iikirt.
It is a bair moore that he goes over and gets not a cow.
I shall hold his nose on the grindstone.

It goes as meiklf in hih heart as in his heel.
It goes in at the on^ ear, and oat at the other. [bare fit
It is na mair pi I tie to see a woman greit,nor to see a goose go
It is Weill said, bal wha will bell the cat.
It is short witile seen the louse boore the langelt.
I have a slidderie ail I bj the tail.
It is as meit as a sow to bear a saddle.
It is as meit as a thief for the widdie. [dirt..
I w aid I had as meikle pepper as he compts himself worthy myse^
It will be an ill web to bleitch.
I cannot find you baith tales and ears.
It is ill to make a blown horn of a tods tail.

If ever you make lucky pudding I
a shall eat the prick.
If that God will give, the Devil oannot reave.
In good time 1 say

a it, in a better I leave it
It's a sillypack that may not pay the costome.

I have seen as lightgreen.
It's a cold coal to blow at.
It's a saire field where all are dung down.
It's a saire dung bairn that dare not greit.,
I wat where awn shoe binds me.
my
If you wanted me and yuur meat, ê wald want ane good /riencU.
K
Kamb single, kame saire.

Kindness comes of will.
'Kindness will where it may not gang.
creep
Kindness oannot be bought for geir.
Kail spaires bread.
Kamesters are ay greasie.
"nowledge bom about. is eith
Kings are out of play.

Kings and bares oft worries their keepers.
Kings hes long ears.
Kings caff is worth other mens com.
Kilittness lies not ay in ane side of the house.
L
liXTTLB intermeddling makes good friends.. -t 4%,
Long tarryiBg takM idl "ke jkkuJcrMvay..

SbOTTISH PROVERBS. 201
Little good isAoon êndit.

Lang lean makes hameald catteT.
Little wit makes meikle travel.
Learn learn fair.
young,
Like draws to iike, and a skvbbed IiorSe to an aid dyke.
Laith to the bed, lailh out of the bed.
Little may an aid horse do, if he may not nye.
Let them that are cold blow at the coal.
Lang standing, and little offering makes a good prise.
Love hes na lack.
Leave the court, before tha oovrt leave thee.
Light supper long makes life.
Lykit geir is half bought.
Lordships changes manners.
Light winning makes a heavy purse.
Live and let live.
Liveless, faultless.
Little said, soon mendit.
Lailh to the drink, and laith fra iL
Lightly comes, lightly goes.
Last in the bed, best heard.
Lata is lang and tedious.
Little waits an ill butsie what ft difiner holds iu.
Laddes will be men.
Lauoh and lav down again.

Liêlie lies in the my and uulikeHd by it.
re, gow
Let him drink as he hes brewad. -
Like to die mends not the kirk-yard.

Lurk and a bone voyage.
Lang or ye cut Falklcmd wood with a pen*kuife.
Love me little and love mo laag.
Let alone makes mony Inrdon.
Little troubles the eye, bai"r less tiM soul.
Little kens the wife that sits by the fire,hqyv the wind blows cold
in hurle burle swyre.
M
MoNY yrons in the fire part mon ooole.
Maidens should be meek antil they be married.
Men may buy gold over dear.
Mony holds friends together.

parses
Meat and cloalh makes the man.
Mony hands make ii^bt work.
Make not twa mews of ane daughter.

Meat is good, but mcnse is better. fber a kaouK.
Mony masters qnoth the frog to the harrow, When every

Utotk toMk
Mint (oflBpr)
or ye strike.
^Measure is treasure.
Mony men does lack, that yat \i-a1clfain* have in tbeir pack.
Miffterfiill folk mon not be mansfuU.
Many smals makes a ^reaU

Maisterie ma^res the meadows down.
Mon speaks of Robin Hood, that never shot in hit bow.

J
Mister makes men of craft.
Meikle water runs where the miller sleeps.
Meikle mon a ;|ôod heart endure.
Mony cares fot meal that hes baking bread cnongh.

Meikle spoken, part mon spill.
MesHeugers should neither beheaded nor bangM.
Men arc blind in their own cause.
Mony words wald have meikle drink*

Man but God dispons.
propons,
Mony man s("rves a thnnkless master.
Monv words fills not the furlot.
Mony kinsfolk but few friends.

!Meu goes over the dyke at the ebbest.
Might oncnlinies overcomes right.

Monds is worth misdeeds.
Meikle hend, little wit.
Mustard alter meat.
Millers takes
ay tlie best toll with their own huinl.
Mony man speirs the gate he kuowi full well.

Mussel not the oxens month.
Meikle hes, wald aj Iiave mair.
Mony tynes the half mark whinger, for the half-ptu/. v
Make not meikle of little.
Mony man makes an errand to the hall, to bid i.-h.* "
Mony brings the raike, but few the shovel.

Make no balkes of good bear land.
March whisquer was never a good fisher.
Meate and masse never hindred no man.
N
Nature nortore.
passes
Na man can bailh
sup
and blaw at once
Nothing enters in a close hand.

Needs makes \crtue.
Need has ne law.
Neirest the kirk, farrest fra God.

Neirest the king, neirest the widdie.
New lords, new laws.
Na man puind for unkindness.
may
Neirest the heart, neirest the mouth.
Never rode, never fell.
Need gars naked men run, and sorrow i.^;

gar;* \v"
Flentj is na daintjr.
Poddbgs and paramonn wald be IntelM handHit*
Q
QtfHAiR (where) the deer is slain, some Uond will He.
Qahen the eye sees it saw not, the heart will think it thonght not.
Qnhen wine is in, wit is out.
Qnhen the steed is stowen, shut the stable door.
Qahen the tod preaches, beware of the hens.
Qnhen the is fullest, bear it erinest.

cap
Qnhat better is the house that the da rises in the nerniny.
Qnhen theeves reckons, leal! men comes to their geir*
Qnhen 1 am dead, make me a cawdle.
Qnhiles the hawk hes, and whiles he hmxtgin hes.

Qohen the craw flees, her tail fellows.
Qnhen the play is best, it is best to leave.
Qnha may wooe without cost.
Qnhiles thou, whiles I, so goes the baillerii.

Qnhen a man is full of lust, his womb is full of lewiaga.
Qnha m^ hold that will away.
Qnhen taylonrs are true, there little good to diew.
Quhen thy neighbour's house is on fire, take heed to thy awK.
Qnhen the iron is hot, it is time to strike.

Qnhen the belly is full,the bones wald have rest.
Quhom God will help, na man can hinder.

Qahen all men speaks, na man hears.
Qnhen the good man is fra hame, the table cloUu tint.
Quhair stands great horse.

year
Qohair tlie pig breaks^ let the shells lie.
Qnhen friends meets, hearts warmes.
Qahen the well is fall, it will run over.
R
Reason bound the man.
Ruse (praise) the foorcl as ye

find iL
Ruse the fair day at evin.
Rackless youth makes a goustie age.

Ryme spares na man.
Reavers should not be rewers.
Rule youth weil, and eild will rule the sell.

Home was not begit ou the first day.
'
s
SiKE man sike master.
Seldom rides, tynes the spurs.

Shod in the cradle, barefoot in the stubble.
Sike lippes,sike lataco.
Sike 4 man as thoa wald be^ draw thee to sike company.
SootKe bourd is na bow J.
Seldome lies the Devil dead by the dyke side.
.
Sajring goes good cheap.
Spit on the slane, it nill \f6 wet at the last.
Soft fire nakes sweet maH.
Korrows gars websters spin. .
Stnrt pays na debt,

Sillie bairns are eitir.to lear..
Saw thin, and maw thin.
Soon soon. rotten,
rype,
ênd and fetch.
Self deed, self hft.
[tnm.
Shame shall fall them that shaoM thiblSy to do themselTes a good
Sike fatlier, slke son, "c.
Seill conies not while sorrorw be gone.
Shees a, futile bird Chat syletfhef ovvn nest.
Speir at: Jock thief wy marrow, if I bd a leal maok

Soon gotten,. soon spendit
Sike priest,sike offering.
She is " sairie mouse that hes but aue bole^r
Snrfet slays mae nor the sword.
Seik your sauce where you get your ail..
Sokand seall is best.
Sike answer as a. man gives, sike will he get
Small winning makes a heavy pwrse.
Shame is past the shedd of
your hut*.
Send him to the sea and he will not get water.
Saine (.bless)
yon weill fra the Devil and the lairds bairns.
She that takes gifts herself, she sels, and she that gives, does uot^
ells.
Shroe the ghast that thcr house is the wur of.
Shew me the man, and I shall shew the law.

you
Swear by your burnt shines.
Sairie be your^meil poke, and ay your fist in the nook of il.
T
Thb mail* haste the viw speid.
Tyde bydes na man.
Twa daughters and a back door are three stark thetfves*.

There was sever a cake, but, it had a make.
There came never a large fart forth of a wrsn's arse.
Toome (empty) bagges rattles.

The thing that is trusted, is not forgiven.
Take part of the pelf,when the pack is a dealing.
Tread on a worm, and she will steir her tait
They are lightly robbed that hes their awn.
The craw thinks her awn bird fairest

There i" little to the rake to get after the biMonie.
T
Thajr buy fôd cheap Ibil bring) oilhing haine.
Thrmw (IwiiL) the wand nbile il ii

gnen.
The ibogDiiiken wife is Hont ilinl.
Thcj wil1kno"T bj a lialC-peniivif a prioit will lake oj
TjuielrTeslhetrnUi.
The ireedi oTer|;"i"
Ibe uoni.
Takaljme wb;ie1;inciB,for tynewill aitaj.

Tlie piper wants md kis iJiat wa nls the neUier chapg.
Tlrey ardwelcoDie It al bring).
Tliu langcr -ire
lite Jhemae iirange sighli we see.
Tberenre muljSdiilhB wocdi spulien in boarding.

Theraiii nalhlef nilliuutnreteiTer.
There ia manj/alr diinK/ull bUe.
Thne ia na man an dear, u be that will not hear.
Trol muthar, trot fallK^r. ban can Uiefoa] amble.
TheTwerenecer Tain that )liragg"d.

TWB fbols in ane honae i) uvcr manj,
Thflda; Jiese;nB.tlieii|^hl]ie3"ars.
The tree falls not at th" firil alrailie.
Thomairjelraoipm " tnrde, it the brcader.

growl
nerei* unne
wiUionlAraDll.
TheDovilis abadebiafaoptnhitown diooic.

Tliere ia no
friend Iv * friend in deed.
Them ii m (bol lu an anid fool.
ToDoh a good boraein the back, and bs will Sing.

There ia remeid for all tbingi hot lUrh deid.
Tliereim^medfvinofoirfcar,
Tlio veakfal î"p(1n tliuwilla.
That wliicli husiiea catieala.

iparei,
Thiia iril gelnamair oftheoatbot Ihaikin.
There WSemadinasnufniakinB.
Thcjlanghajf iWwinnfi.
TwawiUii better nor ane.
Tbey put at (he cairltbttiaaj gangaad.

"Three ma^lieepcaanael if twaba
away.
Thipy are good Killieortlieirhnrte that heinane.
TIio mag the merrier.tlieJeiver the bailer chMT.
Tbe blind horaeie hardiest.
There mae nayi io llio -naod nor ane.
There isioeikle betneen word and deed.

Tlicv thatspEirameiklo will get wot of pari.
The teu play the better.
SCOTTISH PROVEUBS. 207
The mair cost, the mair hononr.
There is nothing more precious nor tjme.
True love kjths in tyme of need. [the portion paying.
There are many fair words in the marriage making, but few in
The higher up, the greater fall.

The mother of mischief is na mair nor a gnat wing.
Tarrowing bairnes were never fat.
There little sap in dry pease hulls.

This bolt came never out of your bag.
Thy tongue is na slander.
Take him there his five eggs,
with and four of them rotten.
up
The next tyme ye daunoe, with whom ye take by the hand.
The goose pan is above the rost.
Thy thumb is under my belt.

There is a dog in the well.
The malt is above the beir.
Touch me not on the sair heel.

The pigs overgaes the aid swine.
Take a man by his word, and a cow by her horn.
There meikle hid meat in a goose eye.
They had never an ill day that had a good evening.
There belongs mair to a bed nor four bair l^s.
The greatest clarks are not the wisest men.
Thou should not tell thy foe when thy fit slides.
The grace of God is geir enough.
Twa hungry meales makes tlie third a glutton.
This warld will not last ay.
The Devil and the dean begins with a letter,when the Devil lies
the dean, the kirk will be the better.
They are as wise that speir not.

There is nothing so crouse as a new washen louse.
w
Wrang has nea warrand.
Will hes that weill is.
Well done, soon done.
Weapons bodes peace.

Wiles helps weak folk.
Wishers and walders are poor house-halders.
Words are but wind, but dunts are the Devil.
Wark bears witness wha weill does.

Wealth gars wit waver.
Weill byde", weill betydes.

Wrang compt is na payment.
Wrang hears, wrang answer gives.
With empty band, na man should hawkes allure.
Weill wats the moose, the eat's out of the house.
Well worth that the plough draw.

aw, gars
t2
208 HEBREW PROVCKBS*
'
We koands slew Ihe hair, quolh tte OMSioiu.
Wonder laaU nig^bU but

a nine in town.
Women and bairns

keeps counsel of Uiat tkey ken not.
Wont begoilt the ladj.

Waken not sleeping dogs.
We have a craw to pluck.
'Well good mother daughter.

Wood in a wilderness, and strength in a fooL
Wit in a man's head, mosae in a uoaataiM anula aothiag.
poor
Weils him and wooes him that hcs a bishop in hia kin.
Use makes perfeclness.
Unskild mediciners, and horsemarshels, slays both man and btaat.
What reakes of the feed, where thelriendabip dow nought.
Y
Ê will break your crag and your fast al"e in his konsa.
Ye strire against ihe stream.
Youlh never casts for perrill.

Ye seek hot water under cold yce"
Ye drive a snail to Rome.
Ye ride a bootless errand.
Ye seek grace at a graceless iaoe.

Ye learn your father to get bairns.
Ye not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope*
may
Youth and age will never agree.
Ye may puind for debt, but not for unkindness.
Ye breid of the oat, ye wald fain eat ish, but have na will to
ye
weet your feet.
Ye breid of this gonk, ye have aot a but
ryme ane.
Ye should be a King of your word.

Ye will get war bodes before Belten.
Ye may drink of the boam, bat n"t byte of the brae.
Ye wald do little for God an the Devil were dead.
Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe eherry.
Ye breid of the millers dog, lick your mouth the pok be open.
ye or
HEBREW PROVERBS.
The axe goes to the wood, from wbence it borrowed

its helve.
It is Qsed agalnft those who injarions 1o those flnora whom
are tiirf are
derived, or from whom they have received their power.
tcnrrn ""? -iDPn yy(A in t!?td"" d"

"\3"irtS 'y? T/U^Pul If any si^ tUatone of thine
HEBBBW PBOYBRBS. 1209
oars is the ear of an ass, regard it not : If he say so of
them both, procure thyself a bridle.
That is, it it time to arm oanelTca witii pttlence when we are greatly
reproached.
"r*^^20DD1 riT^D ô not speak of secret matters in a
field that is foU of little hills.

Becaaie it is possible some body may ]ie hid there snd hear what is said "
.onjTiB rvoiw iknynn nshy That city is in a
bad case whose physician hath the goat.

uvu unt:^ tcT'ni niyi nnn w do not dweu in *
.
city whose governor is a physician.
'Tv? TUp KDH1 A myrtle standing among nettles does

notwithstanding retain the name of a myrtle.
.103 inn K*? pn na^ rVia intk^ ". e. where
there is a man, there do not thou shew thyself a man.
The meaniag is, that it becomes os not to Intermeddle fn an ofllce where
there is already sneh good proYision made that there is no need of onr help.
'Hnmi ni ^n âî "h^ mmi anK ". e. At

the door of the fold wordty within the fold an aecow/U,
The- shepherd does with fair words call back Us ftagitivesheep to tbe
door of the fold, bat when he gets them in he ponisheth them^fbr straying
away. It is aiÛcable to what may be expected from onr goveraors^ against
whom we have rebelled.
.^J^ll rrJIilKI np3 VTK ". e. He is pleased witE

gourds, and bis wife with cucumbers.
A proverb by which is expressed, that both the man and wife are
"idons mnch alike.
KD3 Vhlk IDK mavn KD3 vh

"K^"Dp THDKI ". ". It is not as thy mother says, but as
thy neighbours say.

The meaning is, that we are not to praises of
regard the a near relation^,
bnt to listen to what is said by the neighbottrhood.
pi3 KJT"m:j no na^ ^ "i^3 ia ni3 ". e. if

the dog bark, go in ; if the bitch bark, go out.
.p^3 Vb "110 Kit) "t^3 "17nD t. e. We may

not expect a good whelp from an ill dog.
.110 '"KIDb')
yO} py^ ". ". SiehM^ marries the wife
{viz, Dinah,) and MtfgtBus is circumcised (i e.pimishetL)

Delirant Reges plectuntur AcMvi,
."1p1 ^^^ nai "!?D:Ia camel in Media dances
in a little cab"
This proverb is used against those who teUincradible things.
T3
210 HEBHEW PEOVBEBS.
'TryO YV^ ""^ *" *" *"" camel, going to sedt harns, loet x
his ears.
Against those whoj being diKontented with wiiat they have, In jMnidt
of more lose what diey onoe had.
.""^jtm Kitra ^:onDDi ^3D tea w"3 ". *" M^y

old camels the skins of the young ones to the market.
carry
^W nin^'D Kmt "3pi Kin k3P
,
012")t"^7 2- ^* I'he great cab and the utile cab go down
to the grave.
W n:iK-) rmf batk nw na"n

^n*"? pDK.TnS^ ". ^ He th"t fairaa one gnd"i""*idl
/i^ IS a^Ze to look tffler)eats birds ;
.he tint him note
than one will be eaten by the birds.

"K^Ha Kil^ Cn97 i* "" As is the garden floeh is the
fcardener.
'"î1*ljl
t* "" If I had not lifted np the stone, you had not
tbuud the jewel.
It is used wlLQiTone man reant the frait of thelabonra of anoCher.
')Xy}Jp 'blA "DV ^7T" *. ". When the son rises, ,
the disease will abate.

.
It is said by one man of the Jewt, that Umtb was a pradova alona whloli
did hang on the neck of Abr^Kuun, whieh when the ride man lookad OA
he was presently healed a and that wên Abraham died God jplaoed thia
stone in the son " This is tihoagfatto ka"" given 'oceasloo to tha fravcrb
above-named. F. Buxtcrfm LeaOe, BtAHm, In Mce K77
rri VV "P "*P/y Whoever hath a divided beard,

the whole world w9l hoi prevailagainM him.
'Ibis (vovcrb is nsed of tlioie "Ao
Mnnlng, and are sodi.are fhigrth"Mqt|it
to be whose beard divided, which, by thdr
is mnch h^'w'lii^ when thqy
are musing aad thonghtfol, they are said to divide.
^m po \kr\rm yai Km rm^

""^lttn"; nna *. ". Oo down the ladder when thou
marriest a wife, go when thou dioosest firiraid.
up a
The meaning, is, that we sbonid not likany a wife above oar rankj thoogh
-fve choose such a friend.
'-T^D vh) pT "'""" Itather sell than be poor.

y^tk nn^S^ pn Pt ". e. He that buys and seUs
is called a merchant.
This proverb is osed in darinon of those who boy and Kit to their losi.
:pT 1^3? TjrO" ^^Tnr\^ ". e. WhOe the dust is

on your feet sell what you have bought
"12 HEBREW PROVERBS.
^K/l^D Wnen the shepherd is angry with his sheep he

sends them a blind gaid".
In the time of affliction,a

:K9D^ vow ; in the time of
prosperity an inundation: w a greater increoie rfwieked'
ness"
The Peril was dck, the Devil a monk would be ;

The Devil wu well, the Devil a monk was he.
'i^jrnD, KllD UyOV Kr^'Ôl kid ". e. An old

man in an house is a good sign in an house.
Old men are fit to give wise counsel.
-rroi^p mTx" mwîtf n6 ^k f. ". wo be to

him whose advocate becomes his accuser.
This proverb is aecommodable to various purposes : God reqrired pro*
pitiatory sacrifices of his people ; when they offered tliem ap, as they^
should, they did receive their pardon upon it : but if they offered the blind
or lame, "c they were so far from gaining their pardon, that they Inereaied
their guilt; and thus tlieir advocate became their accuser.
:Kao um i?y)2 ubnxn Tjr t. e. wwie thy

shoe is on thy foot tread upon the thorns.
"TTV KSTJ^ ^^'^y *" *" ôur surety wants a surety.

TUa proverb Is used of an infirm argument that is not 8aiDcieDt4o prove
what it is alledged for.
."DTDIS) nik^^ KHBl lkJmBi3f KltO *" "" One.
bird in the net is better than an hundred flying.
'^y\ ]1" "" "" ^Littleand good.
iTo nb/1 in rvy:^ rf^rw^ ivr2
'Vhp *" ^* Never cast dirt into that fountain oi which
thou hast sometime dranJc.
The meaning is, that we should not proudly despise or reproach that per*
ton or thing which formerly have been of

u^ to us.
K7K ^^2 7K i. Do
:tt t"W 7X02 TprWD e.
not look the vessel, but upon that which it contains.

upon
'ObT) P V^ "Wn, "" ". A lie hath no feet
:"57TKKTrn inn lUm *. e. one sheep follows
another.
So thief, and other evil doer, follows- tiie ill example of hia
one any
companion. . .
nDltf TJW ^TtVO H7 We find

:'n'"9 nSU^l never
that a fox dies in the dirt of his own ditch.

The meani"g is, that men do rarely receive any hurt from the things to
which they have accustomed th^'mselves.

rVD If word be wwth
:pin3 i^pVtlD 3n22 a
one shekel, siience is worth two.
Nfmquam etenim tacviUu nocet, nocet esse tocutum^

HEBRBW PROTERBS. "15
':i^TXh im HIV) bBH if the' ox fen, whet your

knife.
The meaning is, we most not let tli * the occasion of getting tin victory
over an ene ny.
".W2D r^D }n)D 73!! When the ox falls,there

are many iinti will help to kill him.
Tbe nseaninf i", tbat there are many ready to trample npon him that is
jifflicted.
-rxb T3p rPJTJD HTyn ". ". We must fan down

before a fox in season.
The meaning is, thnt we ought to olMervc oitkniug mttt, and give them
due respect in their prosperity.
'Okmh ti^Ki r^n bik^nrwh a:jT -nn choose

rather to be the tail of lions than the head of foxe".
Îtî HlJi When the weasel and the cat make a mar-
ria^êit is a very iU presage.

The meaning is, thai when evil mea who were formerly at variance, aad
"re of great power, make agreement, it portends danger to the iunocemk,

and to others who are within their reach. Thus tlic agreement of
upon
Herod and Pilate the most innocent blood is shed. The Jews tell of iw
dogs that were very fierce one against the other ; one of them ia assaaltad
by a wolf, and thereopon the other dog resolves to help him against th"
wolf who. made the atsafUt.
;:n^D") t. e. In two cabs of dates there is one cab of

stbnea and more.
The meaning ia, that there ia much evil mingled with the good which fi
fonnd in the world.
:K3^9 blS^n r60 b^n 16 nD ". ". if the whol"

ôrld does not enter yet half of it will.
Tis meant of calumny aa4 reproach, where tiroes some part ia be-
lieved
msiny
though all be not. CalumMiare fortiier, 4: aiiquid adfuerebU,
:n^ b^rriQ ^Van i^^w rrrorr p ". e. He

that hath been bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope.
-
The meaning is, be is afk-aid of any thing that hath the least likeness to a
serpent.
:Kt"fl'"b
iki"brV:f\
rntna "M she pUys the whore
for apples and then bestows them upon the sick.
This proverb is used against those whe give ahna el whaithcy gi* en*
''"
rvrp HJib^r^b it/" i"f KJnr)

'"^"^DK/ '^'he door that is not opened to him that begs
our almsy will be opened to the phyaickut.
:70i rWSUDT m^y? p^ltt; I-et but the druiAwtl
alone, and he will fall of himself
214 HEBREW PROVERBS.
Thoa hast dived deep into the water and hast brought up
a potsherd.
'TVSp CfDIK K^ /ISTplK *" "" If thoa hast increased

thy M'ater, thou mast also increase thy meal.
Tbos be that raueih muy objections b obliged to ind lolitioM for them
also.
-yp XI PW K1 P* *" *" '^^^ w nothing so bad,

in 'wbici. there is not something of good.
tRn^rO CTpT m:^ i^D^:i ". "" He that hath had one
of his family banged, may not say to his ndghbour, hang

up this fish.
The meimiog is, we nraat abctain firom words of reproadi, and dica pecially
es-
when we are not free from the crimes which we reproach others for.
lyipn i9h NDiD^ -yrto ittd trrii ". *. o thoa
Nazante, go aboat, about, and do not come near the

go
"ineyard.
The meaniog is, that we should avoid the occasions of tin. The NkxO'
rUe was forbidden the use of wine, and it was therefore his wisest course
to avoid all occasions of trespassing.
:nt)" rrnji vh^ aik') y)Vtk t^ *"

*: ^ty
secret is thy prisoner, if thou let it go thou art a prisoner
to it
The meaning is plain, viz. That we ought to be as ^refal in keeping a
secret ss an officer in 'keeping his prisoner, who makes himself a prisonor

by letting bis prisoner go. There is sometimes a great danger in revealing
a secret, and always it is an srgament of great folly. For as the Jetoa say
well, Thy friend hatha/riend, and thy friend^s hath friend:
friend m
And therefore what thoa wonldst have- kept as a secret reveal not to thy
friend. And they elsewhere say, that He who hath a narrow heart, ". ""
hot a little wisdom, hath a broad tongue, ". ". is apt to talk at large.
:r^1 HD yr K7) Kttn:iD rtOI ". e. The magician

mutters, and knows not what he mutters.
This is proverbially used against those who pray in an nnknown tcmgoe ;
or do nny thing which they do not understand.

if thy
""rp ]n\ 71^ inrro mii irî ". e.
daughter be marriageable set thy servant free, and give

her to him in marriage.
:rW mr nKDyniK y\r\0 pr^D *. e. To expect, to
expect is worth four hundred drachms.

ZuB is the fourth part of the sacred shekel. This proverb is used to re*
commend to (is the sdvantsge of delltveraHon in oar actions.
"ITDtC^ They can find money for mischief, wIicq they

can find none to buy corn.
HEBREW PROVEBBS. 215
:''Nan')/l HD^ K^l WDtC; Kr^Dl In my own city

my in strange city cloatbs
name, a my procure me respect.
:ntt^D 7tC^ nS)p T^r^D NW Tis not a basket of faay

but a basket ol' flesh which will make a lion roar.
That is,it mast be flesh and not bay which will gwe coarage and Mifength
to a Hon.
:lW02n Vh riKI pW KIT? Tin in thyLet

grandchild buy wax and do not thou trouble thyself.
yny^ 7pri ^pw:i \kr\T:^ mtB puu off the
skin in the streets and receive thy wages.
That is, we were better submit to the meanett employment than want
neces!"arie0.
"%D ^rsnn tkrsb^TQ Knn "nio

"^Kpl \iCll One grain of sharp pepper is better than
a basket full of gourds.

That is, one wise man, how mean soever, ii more valuable than many
that are nnwise.
'T7T\2, Xnn Klti^ p^D As if a man that is killed

should come home upon his feet.
This is used proverbially of those things which we give for lost.
These that follow are the Sentences of Ben Syra, a man
of great fam" and antiquity among the Jews.
Honour a physician before thou hast need of him.

That is, we must honour Ood in our health and prosperity that he bt
may
propitious to us in our advîsity.
i^^D ""9i^ TV rrpitj; 11 NTT ni
itDIt^ Thy child that is no child leave upon the waters
and let him swim.
That is, where our child is not reclaimable by fair means we not
may
hinder him frorvi r-^ndign ynnishmcnt.
:rm:i TP^^ ^^^ ^'Onî Onaw the bone which
is fallen to thy int.
That is, he that hath an ill wife must patiently bear with her : It may
also be applied to other things,
:nKp7i^!?
KD"7!jn rrt^^^cip Tn^ Kim coia
must be beaten, and a child scourged.
':}):!(^ri
VO lkr\2^ p^V^^'r] Be good, and
refrain not to be good.
-.irrpiiT? pn? 'n "ttr"3!?
rr^ v^ wo be to the
"10 HEBBEW PROTBRBS.
wicked, and wo be to them that cleave to ibtm^ Or^

t0 their neighbours that live rlemr them,
']^ '^DD It ê would avoid a mischief we mnit not be
very kind and familiar with an evil man.
y^'On i6 Knin'ID p TT With-hold not thine

hand lioin siiewiug merey to the poor"
JTOT l6^ i^^jb nrf:h9 Krte

'H/^D HD 'the bride goci to her marriage bed, but
knows not what shall happen to her.
The mcautng if, that w" o"ght not ei"Hi(t"Dtlyto prwnlK oortdirvs la anjr
thing any great sucecBs. 'J'han it i" said, that a certain man aaid be woold
enjoy bia bride on the morrow, and when he was adawnfahrd to ny be
wo"U, if GhI wiU : He answered that he wonid, whether Omi woald or
not. This man and his bride were both fonnd dead the foUowinf U|^t"
Thos was the saying of JJen Syra verified. The bride, "o.
li^n^ 1131 irrD"6i Kraia iki^'':^'^

a nod for "
wise man, and a rod for a fool.
:K1Dr6 '"DKT VTtnoaD nyiD He that give*

honour to his enemy is like to an ass.
ifl^yO ritnji TpID p^ I'D a UttU fire bmm
np a great deal of com.
This saying is to be understood of the misehief whidi an cvQ and slaii"
dcriBf tongue does, and is aaenpliaed ha Do^, who by this mc"M broaght
destruction npon th" priesti. *I^ oXiyoP TT^p îkltniy iXrp^
^
avdlTTH, Jam. iii. 6.
:Hr^22, "3tD MWD KiT23 K3D An old man
in house is a good sign in an house.

an
'^bnV^ n\bnO ttnS KIUTS) spread the table
and contention will cease.
If thou must deal, be to deal with

'X^jK^ "ll Oy sure
an honest mau.
"4TD nSD n" nb rWOTp KDTD Be no* grateful

un-
to old friend.
your
tpliwil H7 Though thou haat never so many eown-
do forsake the counsel of thy own soul.

sellers,yet i ot
T\ynO HD^bom ""? am T1" d"y Isshoft, nd

the work is much.
4r9 |9H* ^'^ brevis^
COLLECTION
OF
ENGLISH WORDS
WOT
GENERALLY USED.
WITH
THfilR SIGNIFICATIONS AND ORIGINAL, IN TWO BETICAL

ALPHA-
CATALOGUES.
THE ONE OF SUCH AS ARE PROPER TO THE NORTHERN,
THE OTHER TO THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES.
WITH
AN ACCOUNT OP THE PREPARING AND REFINING
SUCH METALS AND MINERALS AS ARE FOUND IN ENGLAND.
U
TO HIS
HONOURED FRIEND,
PETER COURTHOPE, Esq,
OF
DANNY IN SUSSEX.
,SlR,
Tho' I need no oilier motive lo indace me to present yon with
Collecllon
tliiii of English Words, but that I might take occa*
sian poblicly to own my obligations to yon, as well for

yoar long-
continued friendship, as for the assistance yon have some time
afibrded me in those studies lo which I am, I think, naturally clined

in-
; yet one circumstance did more especiallylead me to
make choice of yon for its patron *,

and tliat is, that you were the
first who contributed to it, and indeed the who pat me

person
it; and it being in good measure own, I have rea-'

upon so, yoar
son to hope, that you will favourably accept it. 1 confess the
work is so inconsiderable, that I am somewhat ashamed to prefix
name before it ; but having nothing else left of my own,

your
which I desigfnto trouble the world with, as not knowing whether
I may live so long as to perfect what I have now before me, I
chose rather to present you with this, than lose the honour of be-
ing
known to have such a friend, or neglect the duty of making
acknowledgments where they are due, especially having already
made presents of this nature to others of friends, which is

my
"noug4i to excuse this dedication intended to do other purposes.
Sir,
Your very humble Servant,
J. RAY*
220 PREFACE.
omitted (bectuse it is not my design to write an English Glossmy)

but yet âll here mention tbem.
Benison for benediction, which it not unmual among our
elegant writers.
BLume or bloom, for blossom.
A bowre, for an arboar, because made of bows, or, as they

usaally spell it, bonghs of trees ; though, 1 ooafess, witii as k is
used neiilier for a bonse, nor fur a room.
A brigge, for a bridge, used at Cambridge, It is but a ence

differ-
of dialecL
Childermas Day, fur Innocents Da3K.

A corset for a dead body, which, in my opiuicm is originaHy
notliing but corps.
A cragge, probably from tlie BritiA Craig.
To euftf or con thanks; to give thanks.
Deflf for neat, pretty.
Fangs f
for claws, clutches, is a gêneralword.
Tojuter, or Jiyre; to laugh slily,to jeer.
^
Gear^ or geer, for doaths, aocontnunents, harness. 80 women
âll the lines, and wliat dse they wear upon their bead, head"
êar; gear is also used for trumpery, rubbishy so a" stuff is.
Goodiy gear,
A gleadf for a kite, which he, very probably, dedoeet from
gliding.
The word grove is not used in tiN) soot^ for digging wHIk ft
apade, but
appropriated cutting npon
it is to metal. But A grmn,
i.e. tepulcrum^ is a pit digged with a spade, and we say" a fpoie-
graft, or a ipit-decp. And agrsove is a furrow, made in wood,
or metal by joyners, smitlis, or other artificers.
Groats,{oT great 6otni"nl, is a general word.
Gripe, the same with grupe, is frequently used with bs for
s%ilcu8,fnssula,illex,
Han-ying the country, is also generally used for wasting, dering,
plun-
spoilingit by any means. There is a sort of pnttoek eal^
Ibd a henrharrier from chasing, preying npon, and destroying of
poultry.
Than hie you, for haste nothing more
yon ; common.
l^gs, for ears, is a general, but derisory word. With hair in

characters, and lugs in text. CleveUtnd*^ Poems.
Neb, is of frequent use, tho' not for the nose of a man, yet lor
tlie bill of a bird, and metaphorically for the point of a or
pen,
tiif) long an^^lendcr nose of any Teasel.
To nip, for to between the fingers and thumb, not using
press "
the nails; or with instrument tliat is flat as tongs, or the

any
like. To press between things that are edged, is called pinching.
A reek, witli us signiliesnota smouk, but a steam, arisingiron
an^f liquor or moist thing heated.
PKEFACE. 221
Sadi is used also for heavy, spoken of bread tliat rises not, or
the like.
^
A itrand, for a shore, or bank of sand, vrhence the Strand in

London ; and a ship is said to be stranded.
UncotUh, is commonly used for absurd ; inoongruous.
Warre, for beware, as war heads, or horns.
Wented, for acid, or a little changed, spoken of wort.
To whittle slicks, to cut off the bark with a knife, to make them
white. Hence also a knife is, in derision, called a whittle.
Wilie, subtle, deceitful.
I was the less scrupulous omitting these words, because
of the
gentleman himself intends to publish with a History

of'the dom
King-
of Northumberland, a large North^humbrick glossary.
To these might
1 some add words I obserred in Mr. Hicke^s
IslandUh Dictionary, by him nuted for northern words, v. To
bonne, i. e. to corse. To make a dinne, i. e. a noise, which we
in Essex pronounce dean, and is in frequent use. A fang, for a
claw, or paw. AJrosh, for a frog. Gaits said

gelts, or, as they
here pronounce for
it, yelts, young sows before they have had
their first fare of pigs. To yeU, i. e. to cry out hideously, to
howl. To glow, i. e. to be hot. To heave, i. e. to lift up. The
huU of corn, i. e. the ehaffe, or covering from hill to cover. To
lamme, i. e. to beat
These gentlemen being, I north-countrymen, and,
suppose,
during their abode in the universities, or elsewhere, not pening
hap-
to hear those words used in the south, might suppose them
to be proper to the north. The same error 1 committed myself ia
aany words that I put down for southern, which afterwards 1

was advised were of use also in the north, vis. orders, attic,
and
aukward, to brimme, bucksome, ehinle, clever, a cobôn, a cot"
terel,a cotir down, to arpe, crank, it dares, or dears, a dibble, a
dooltfeaberrief, to goytter, hogs for sheep, ajarreg to Jây,i. e. ta
boyl,shie, temse-broad.
In the same Jslandish Dictumary, I find also some northern
words not entered in my catalogue, vix.
The eand, spiritus, k cimbrico ande. To byg, sedifioare,bigd
habitatio. To britten beef, to break the bones of it, A. S. brittan
firangere. The ey-brees,palpebrc ey-Uds, scot bran ab island,

brun. We use ey-browsfor tuperciUa, To dwine away, gradatim
perire, inde dwindle dimin.
duyn islandico, oesso, kdefioio.
Easles,boreal. JsUs, cinis ignitus,scintillans ab island. Eysa*
We in Essex use easles for the hot embers, or, as it were, burning
coals of straw only.
feU, A mens, foumes feUs, the feljf'oot,
Ab islandico /e2,accli vitas.
Fliggurs ebor. Young birds that can fly,fledgf lal. FUigur
,
Tolatilis.
The gowk, the cuckowi Island. Gaukur,
u3
"32 PRBFACIS.
Nowt-geh, tributum pro lohiUua.

p"eore
A nab, lommitus rupis vel montiii. Island Gwjpa,
Heaty, raucus, hi. Hgte rancita*.
To hdle water, effiindere aquani.
Island. HeUCfheUre, fundo.
Aw/ireafe, tn88S8"aliaiiking,Screatio.Island. Hroo/c, ft{"ulam.
To ream, maniim ad aliquid capiendoin exporrigo. Island.
Ilremme, onguibns rapia.
To reoxite^ commendare.
Axelr-toath,dens molaris. Island, Jaxe^ idem. '
Yatut eboracensibns, a horse, a jade.

To Lek, sUIlo, Island. Lek,
Tht fire iowes, i. e. flames eboracensibns. Germ, lake, flamma.
Tlie munne, the month. Islaad. Munnur,
In Sir Thomas Brown's eig^hthtract, which is of languages,there
are Mveral words mentioned as of common use in Norfolk,or
pe-
coliar to the east-anglecountries, and not of general, vis. iMlfumdf
bunny, thurk, enemraii, sammodithee, mawther, hedge,teel, strtfi,
clever, matchly, dere, nicked, stingy,rum eore,feft,^tcpeSt
gosgoodp
camp,sibrit,fangast,
sap, cothish, thokish, bide owe, paswas.
Of tome of these the formentioned Mr. Hiches, gives an no-
count in the preface to his Staon grammar, as bwmy, a sweUini^
upon a stroke, or blow, on the head, or elsewhere, whioh lie
rallels
pa-
with the gothick bongo ulcus, and the iilandish fron, a
wound, and bem vibex. We in Essex eall it a boineim the head.
Btmny is also need as a flatteringword vtroKOpwiKOK to ehil-

dren. Bawnd tumens, as hit head is bound, haa head is fwolB"
from tiie forementioned islandish word hon. Tlturk er thark, ia
plainly from the Saxon deork, dark enemmts, nh,me ferte, as $pmir
the door, enemmis he come, i. e. lest heoome, he dednoea prohaUy
(rom eigenema or etnemo, an adverb of
excluding or exeepting"
"ow in use
among the isUmders. Samtnodithu, a form of tion
saluta-
signifying,tell me how do you,probably may \^ nothing bat
the Saxon ^^ ^^ t"erT bu, rapidly pronouneed, aa we saj
rae^^
muchgooditte,for much good do U you. Mouther I take to be
our mother, a girl,or young maid, of which I rather Sir

approve
Henry Spelman*" account, which see in myCollection. S^l tern*
pus, entered in the Collection. Straft,iratns, ir4 exelamansy
i^landis at $tr"âest objurgare, corripere, increpare. MatehUy^
perfectly, welK Islandis mooti^^, magtUga, Sax. MihHUce,
"aldd, mightily. To dere or dare, entered in the CoUectioiu
Noneare, mod6. 1st. Nuwtr. (Ere seems to signifyin old EngHsh

before,as in ere-now, and in ere-^hile, i. e. before now, before timey
and ere I
go, i. e. before I
go, of whioh yore seems to be bat a
dialect, in days ofyore. So non-ere be not before now) To

may
camp. To pfay at football. Sax. camp is
striving,and eamfnoit
to strive, or contend. This word for this exercise, extends over
Essex, as well as Norfolk and Suffolk. Sibrit is entered in the

PREFACE. 92$
Colleclloii. TiiU Author makes it a compoand of Sib and byrht

uianit'esf. Aiigl. to bruit, apad salopiensos to brit^ to dWalj2"ieaiui
fipread abroad
;
I should rather make it a componiid of sib and
ritus, Fangast, a marriageable maid, riro matnra "

q.
viruia
jam expetens ; perohanoe from fengan, or fangan, Sax. To take"
or catch, and oast love, as mucn as to say, as taken with lave, or
capable of love. To bid owt, dare unde constat, saith be,

poenas }
hide prpfluxisse Saxonico wyte, quod mulctam, suppli-
a
poenam,
cium siguificat. The other words whieh he leaves to others to
give an account of, are hedge, for brisk, badge; clever, neat, gant.
ele-
See the Collection to nick, to hit the tinie right, I nich'd

;
it, I came in the nick of time, just in time. Nick and notch, i. e.
crena are synonimoos words, and to nick a tiling seems to me to
be origiuall J no mere than to hit just the notch or mark, icopum

petere, ttingy, pinching, sordid, narrow"spirited, I duubt whether
it be of ancient original, and rather think it to be newl/-

use, or "
coii^d word. To fefi, to persuade, or endeavour to persuade.

We in Essex, rue fessing, (or putting, thrusting, or oblrading a
thing upon one, donum, or merces, obtrudere, but for the etymon,
or original, 1 am to seek
; gosgUMod, I, e. yeasi or barm, is nothiog
hot God's-good (bonum Divinwn) as they pronounce the word in
SuMex and Kent, where it is in use ;

it is also called beer-good, "
Thepes is the same

with febes, or feaberries, i e. gooseberries, a
word used also in Cheshire, as Gerrard witnessetii in his Herbal

;
but what language it owes its original to is farther to \)e enquired.
Cothish, moroê, and thokish, slothful, sluglxh, 1 have no account
to give of. Paxwax, for the tendon, or aponeurosis to strengthen

the neck, and bind the head to the shoulders, I have nothing to
say to, but that it i? a word n t confined to Norfolk, or Suffolk,

but far spread over England used, to knowledge, in fordshire.
Ox-
; my
As for the csatalogues of EngUsh birds and fishes, inserted in

tbe first edition of this book, I thought fit to omit Iheiu in this;
because they were very impertecl, and since much more fully
given in the histories of birds and fishes published bv us
; besMes
tf God grant life and health, I put forth a particular dical
metho-
may
synopsis of our English animals and fossils, with cbarao-
tefistick notes, and observations them, which will swell to

iipoii a
considerable volume, our inaecta being more numerous than the
plants of this island.

S24 NORTH COUNTRY WORDS.
A Collection of Local Words^ jfroper to the North and

South Cowmes.
A
To adle or addle; to etm ; from the ancient Saxon word frf-
lean, a reward, recompence or requital.
After-maths; the pasture after the Iiath been mowed.
grass
In other places called rovghins.
Agate ; Ches. Jast going, as J am agate. Gate in the northern
dialect signifiesa way ; so that agate is at or the waj.
upon
Alantom; at a distance.
Ameil; among, betwixt, contracted from a middl"f; or chance

per-
from the French word metier^ signifyingto mingle, whence
oor Englith medley is derived. Some it ameld,
pronounce
Anauntrins ; if so be. 1 know not what the original ef this
should be, unless it be from an, for if, and ountnus oontracted
Arom peradventure.
Anent; over-against, concerning. A word of fineqnent use
among the Scott. Some deduce it from the Greek iyavrl Cfctv-
riov oppositum. Nee male
EtymoUîco tane (inquit 5kinnerns in
Lingwe Anglicans) vel, sensut sivtl, toni

coavenientiumrespiciat,
Sed quo commercio Gneci Scotit totius Europe Longitudine distUu
Vocabula impertiri potturuntf MaUem igiturdeducere ob A S. .
prope, additdparticuld
Nean initiali otiota A.
An arain; a spider, a iMt. Aranea. It is used onlj for the
larger kind of spiders. Nottinghamshire.

Arf; afraid.
An ark ; a large chest to put corn or fruit in, like the bing of
a buttery; from the Latin word area,
Aries or earles ; earnest, an arles-penny,an eamesi-penny, from

the Latin word arrha,
Aji arr; a skar. Pocl"arrs, the marks made by the small poz"
Tliis is a general word, common both to the north and south.
ArwU-supper ; a feast made at funerals ; in part still retained

in the NorlL
An asker; a newt, or e^, saUmandra aquatica.
Astite ; anon, shortly, or as soon, t. e. as tide. Tuff in the
"
North, signifiessoon, and Oder or titter, sooner. The tider (that

is the sooner) you come, the tider ymiHl go ; from tid, the Saxon
dgnifying time, which is still in use, as in Shrove-tide, tide,

Whitsun-
"o.
As a"ly ; willingly. as
An attfrcob; a spider'sweb. Cumberland,
Aud-fafimd ; Children are stud to be so, when grave or witty"

beyond what is usual in such as are of that age.
NORTH COUNTRY WORDS. 225
Aud; Old. Var. Dial, as caud for oo\d,wauds for wolds, aumfor
elm. Aud
farand the humour or genius, ingenium,
Avcrgê ; the breaking of corn fields ; eddish, rooyhings.
Average in law, signifieseither the beasts wliioh tenants and vas-
sals were to provide their lords for certain services; or that
money that was laid out by merchants to repair the losses fered
suf-
by shipwreck ; and so it.is deduced from the old word aver
(aierium) signifying a labouring beast; or averia, signifying

goods or chattels, from the French avoir, to have or possess. Bnt
in the have used it,it from Haver,
sense we possibly come
may
signifyingoats ',
or from aiferia,beasts, being as much as feeding
for cattle,
pasturage.
Aum, elm. Var. Dial.
An aumbry, ambry, cupboard to
or or ttumery ; a pantry, or
set victuals in ; Skinner makes it to signify a cupboard's head, or
side-table : Super vasa mensaria j* tota argenJtea supeUex ad

quam
mum conviviorum exponitur; k Fr. 6. mm"ire,(xrmaire f armoire,
li. Armhro No
idem signantibus,q^, d, Latmi armarium. Prov.
sooner up but the head in the aumbry, imd noie in the cup. In
vrhich sentence, it muit needs signify a cupboard for Tictoals.
Aund; ordained; Fortan per contractionem, J am mund to
thi^ Uick, i, e, ordained.
Auntert; perad venture, or, in ease, if it ehanoe. I guess it to

be contracted from adventure, which was first moUifie"i into au-
Teoture, and tlien easily contracted into aunier* It^|pnifies

also
needless scruples,in that usual phrase, He igtroubUd wUh amntevi.
The aunder as they it in Chahire, onedtr, the
; or, proBonace
afternoon.
Awns ; arista, the beards of wheat, ov kurlej. I" Esatt tbej
frenottttoe it aUs,
B
A backster; a baker.
A badger ; such as buy oorn, or other commodities in ose place
and carry them to another. It is a word of general ase.
Bain ; willing, forward ; opposed to lither.

The balk, or bawk ; the summer-beam or dorman* balks, hamks ;
poles laid over a stable or other building for the roof, 4 belgico,
j* Teuton, balk, trabs, t^num. In common speech a balk is the
same with scamnum in Latin, i. e. a piece of land which is either
casually overslip'd,and not turned plowing, or industri-

up
in
OHsly left untouched by the plough, for a boundary between lands,

or some other use. Hence to balk is frequently used metapho-
rically
for to pass over.
A balk-staff; a quarter-staiT,
a great staff like a pole or beam.
A bannock ; an oat cake kneedcd with water only,,and baked

in the embers. In Lancashire, and other parts of the North, they
nia":e several sorts of oaten bread, which they call by several
226 NORTH COUNTRY WORDS.
names, ts 1. Tharcakes^ the same with hanru)cks,viz. caket mtAe of

oat meal, it comes from tLe mill, and fair water, without
as yettit^
or leaven, and su baked. S. Clap-bread ;
thin hard oat cakes.
3. Kitchiness-bread ; thin soft oat cakes, made of thin batter.
4. Riddle-cakes; thick sower cakes, from which differs little that
which they call hand hovtn bread,^ having but little leayen, and
being kneaded stiffer. 5. Jannock', oaten bread made io
up
loaves.
A bargh ; a horse
way up a steep hill. Yorkshire.
A bam or beam ; a child, it is an ancient Saxon word. In
the ancient Teutonickf barn signifiesa son, derived perchance ^m
the Syriack bar, filios.
A barr ; a gate of a city. York, As Boihaxnhart Monh^r,
Michael-gate-barfin the city ef York,
Banvaty^ or bowety ; tiudsey-wolsoy.

Bâm-teams; broods of children, as they expounded ft to me.
1 find that beam-team, in the Saxon, signifies issue, off-springy
children, from team soboles,and beam, A teeming woman is still
in use for one that is apt to bear children.
Beating with child ; breeding, gravid. Yorkshire-

A beck; a small brook. A word common to the ancient Saxon
,
high and low Dutch, and DanisK Hence the terminationa of
maiiy towns, Sand-beck, Well-beck, "o.
Beeld; shelter.
Beer, or 6trre, q. beare, force, might, Withaw my beer, Cheshire,

t. e. With all my force.
Beight of the elbow, bending of the elbow. Chesh, A sob*

atantive from the preterperfect tense of bend, as bovght, of tko
like from
signification bow.
Belive, anon, by and by, or towards night By the eve, Tliis
mollifying the into le, being freqnent in the North, as to ia,

for to the. Yfe have the word in Cûcer for anon.
To bernel, to bang or beat Vox rxutica, Ebor.

To berry, to thresh, i. e. to beat out the berry, or grain of the
corn. Hence a berrier, a thresher, and the the
berrying-stead,
threshing-floor.
To bid, or bede, to pray. Hence a bedes-man, one that prays
for others, and those little globules, with which they number their
are called bedes,

prayers,
Biggening, 1 wish you a good biggening, i. e. A good getting
again after lying in. Votum pro puerpera.
up
Abirk; a l"in*h-lree. Var. Dial.
Bizev^d, Skinner writes it beesent or hcezen, or bison ; blinded.
From by, signifying besides, and the Dutch word sin, signifying
sense, q, d. Saisu omnium nobilissimo orbatus, saith he.
Blake, yellow, spoken of butter and cheese. As blake as a Paiglc*

Cow-blakes, cnsios, cow-dung dried, used for fewel. "
autem appeliatur Semicinetium ex fmmo tftittttfno

"b A S. Rnit
pannicuka, hoc it verbo BrilUm. GtimtlMn,Jrangtre,

q. it* Ptatni
JharmeiUa. Skinoer.
BroMighwham ; a disb mada of dieese, eg^gs" eli|Hbi"H, sad
botter, boiled together. Lanauh,
To hreadCt i. e. to nake broad, to spread. Ab A. S. krkdan.
To 6rf e, to rrigfaten
To breidf or brade of, to be like in conditions, from hrmiutg,
1"ecau8e tlio"e that are bred of others, are. for the most part, like
then. Ye breid tf the miller^s dog, ye lick mouth, or the
your
Pope be ape. Prov. Soot.
To brian an oven, to keep fire at the month of it,etthar to fire
light, or to preserve the heat Elsewhere thej eall tlua "o a
tpruxing.
Brichoe; brittle. Var. Dial. Che$h.
A broach, spit. It is a French
a word, from ita aiailitiido
wtwveto a is
spire-steeple ealled a broach steeple,as an obelisk is
denominated from ofieXoQ,

a spit. also
It signifies a butober's-ôlr.
Hat brtuxrU, hat brims. Chesh. Var. Dial.
To bruckle, to dirty. Bruckled, dirty.

To brasle, to dry, as the srni bruslet the hay, i. e. dries it, and
hrusled pease,
i. e. parch'd pease. It is, I suppose, a word Bade
from the noise of dried things,per onomatop, or from the Frtnoh

brutler, to scorch or bum.
A buer, a gnat.
Bullen, hempstalks pilled,buns,
A bulkar. Abeam, fox Lincoln. usitatUtima, proctddu^
agro
bio d Dan, Bielcker, n.pl. trabes, bielck, tignum, trabs. Skinner.
Bimiblehitei, bramble-berries. Yorkshire,
A burtle, a sweeting.
A bur-tree, an elder tree.
Butter-jags ; the flowers of siUquA comuii,

tryhliuin
A bushel, Wanoickshire, and tlie neighboniing eovBties, i. -c*
two strikes, or two boshels, Winchester wMmre,
c
To cadge, to carry. A cad^gerto a mill, a carrier, or loader.
To ccêt, to cample, or seold, as a calletinghousewife.
A cankr^ fellow, cross, ill-condition'd.
Cant, tftroog,Insty, Very cant, God yieldyou, i, c. Very strongs

and losty, God reward you. Cheshire,
1V" cant, to recover, or mend. A health to the good wives canHngg

i. e. recovering after lying-in. Yorkshire,
her
Canting, auctio.
A capo, a working horse. Chtshiri, Capel, in old EngUih
signifies
a horse, from caballus,
A Carl"at, a boar, or he-cftt,fron the old Saxon cwrl,% ftth

and cat.
A carre, a hollow'place where water stands.
A carbary, a gooseberry.
The car-sick, the kennel, a word used in Yorkshire:
Sheffield,
From car and tike, t. e. a furrow or gutter, q. the cwrtûiter.
To carve, or kerve, to grow sonr, spoken of eream. Cheshire*
To kerve, or kerme, u ". to curdle as sour milliôth.
Casings, dried cow's-dung, used for fewel,from the Dutch kcth,

fimns, casual, q* d. cothings.Skinner,
Ground-iTj.
Cats-foot,
A câr, a particular business, or task ; "from the word cJuirge,
That char is chard, "o. That business is dispatchM. 1 have a
Utile char for

you, ^c. A char is also the name of a fish of the
trout kind found in Winander mere in Westmoreland, vad in a

^
lake in Camarvons/itr^by theback ofiSnowtfen. S^J^Ciu
To chare, to slop, A char the cow, i. e. stop or turn. her. Alio "" ^l^Ja
Czath^
to counterfeit, as to char a laughter, to counterfeit it.
Chats, keys sycomoH-chats, "c.
of trees, as ash- chats, *
A chaundler, a candlestick. Sheffteldi

To chieve, to succeed, as, Jt chieves nought with him ; so. Fair
rhieve you, I wish you good luck, good speed, or success, front
Atchieveper aji^tareun, or perchance firom the French word chevir,

to obtain.
Clamps, irons at the ends of firen,to keep up the fewel. In

other places r^dled creepers, or dogs.
To claut, to scratch, to claw.
A cletch, a brood, aS a eletch of chickens.
A clock, a beetle or dor, a hot chafer. This is a general word,
in this sense, all England over.
To ckam, a word of frequent use in Linco^ni^tre, signifyingto

glue together, td fasten with glue ah A S, Clemiau, beolenuan.
Oblinere, nnde nostrum clammy. A S. Clam, plasma, emplastrum :
Danic. Kliiner. Glutino. Nescio autcm an verbtan cJiemian j*

Nom, Clam orta sint a Lat. Limus, Limus enim
profUr lentorem
adm^tis corporibv^ adhceret. Skinner, in Yorkshire, to cleame or
clame is to spread thick, as. He cleam'd butter on his brefl4y th^
coloiurs are laid on as if they were cltOMd .on with a trowel"
spoken of colours ill laid on in a picture.
Clem*d, or clam*d, starved, because by famine, the guts sati.
bowels are as it were dammed or stuck, together. Sometimetit
signifiesthirsty,and we know in thirst,the mouth is ofteii
very
clammy.
A cUnigh, a valley between two steep hills. It is an ancient
Saxon word, derived (as Skinner saith) from the verb to cleave*
-dein. of the cUmgh, ",c. a fiunous archer.
dumps, clumpst, idle, lazy, unhandy, inqptus,a word of common
vm in Lincolnshire, d, vet, Fr, G, Cloppe* claudust Belg. vel ^

ISfrnta, klonter, vd pothu klompe, ,Teut, l^l^ynp, Mu9a^q*4"
230 NORTH COtNTRY WORDS.
Camis massa, itigeniiexpert, vtl a Belg. Lompsdh,

spiritus ^
ttupiduSfpigcr, hoc fort, it Luiiiiie,clniB|)emassd ob ratianem Jam
diciam ; vH forte cluinps contr. "j|-corr. a no^ro olowuinh, Skinner,
This ii, I suppose, tbe tame with oar clamzj, in the South, ugui-
fyinfcunhandy, clwnpst with cold, i. e. beoummed, or it maj b"
from lumpish, heavy, dull, from the subst. lump, massa.

Clung, closed up, or btopped, spoken of hens when they lay
not ; it
is nsually said of any tlhiig that is shrivelled or shrnidk
up: from cling.
Cliits,or clots, petasitcs,rather bnrdoolc. lUlerarum,
A c/uuum'd hand ; a clumsy hand. Cheshire. Per Metathetin
Cohhy, stout, hearty, brisk.
A cobble, a pebble. To cobble with stones, to throw slonet at
any thing.
.Cocket, brisk, malapert Dtctmta atUfm (verba snnt Skimieri)
homine
He is very cocket, de valetudinario qui jam meliuseule se
habet 4* convalescere insdpit, q. d, est instar galli al^teer,non ut
prius languidtis,vel Fr. G.

Coqueter, glocitare instar galli gal'
cL
Unas suas V9cantis, vel superbe incidcre iiutar galliin suo sterqui^
iinio,
A cod, a pillow, a pin-cod, a. pin"coshion. A horse-cod, a
LorKc-coller.
Coil, a henrcoil, a hen-pen.
Coke, pit-eoal,
or sea-coal charred ; it is now become a word of
general Lat. d. carbo coctus. This sort of coal

use, a coquere, q.
is now much used for tbe melting of lead.
Cole, or keal, pottage, colewort, pottage-herb, pottage was so
denominated from the herb colewort, because it was thereof

usually
Made, and colewort from the Latin word caulis icar' ^ôyrjv^
signifying brassiea. Good keal is ha^ a meal. Prov.
A eoU^fck, a great piggin.
To cope a wall, to cover it; the
coping the tep, or ,
roof of the
wall. Ab A S. Coppe, apex culmen, fastigium, hoc a oop, caput.
This is a word of general use, and not to the north
proper try
coun-
only.
Cttprose,papaoer rhoeas, called also head-wark.
Copptt ; saucy, malepert, peremptory ; also merry, jolly. The

same with cocket.
A coop, a much-coop, a lime-coop ; a cart, or wain, made close

with buaKls, to carry any thing that otherwise would fkll out, t. e.
a tumbrel. "
Perchance from the Latin cupa, which Fuller, MisceL
"'I.
2. c. 18. derives from the Hebrew ^^, a belly : whence he
'deduces our English word cup, and
couper.
AJish'Coop is likewise a great hollow vessel, made of twigs, in
'which they take fish Humher.
upon
A coop is generally used for a vessel, or
"
place to pin up,'or mk"

close any thing; u that whereb potdtrj are shat op to beleil"
u called a coop.
Counterfeits
and trinkets ; porringers and f;aucers. Chesk.
A crdkef a crow. "
Hence crake-berrieSt crowberries. Crake is
Ae name of an ancient family with us (in the East Riding of
Yorkshire) as crane, dove, heron, spamnv, swaUow, "c. haire
given sirnames sufficiently

known. Mr. Brokesby.
To exchange, or swap horse-coupers,horse-buyers,
coup, to ;
V, cope inS. W.
Crake-needle, shepherd's needle, or the seed vessels of it
A cranny lad, Cheshire, A jovial, brisk, lusty lad.

A
crassanthflad ; a coward. Chesh, In Lancashire they say
^
eraddofitly.
'
To cream : to mantle, spoken of drink, it is a metaphor taken

from milk.
Creem it into
my hand, put it in sliJy,or secretly* Chesh,
To cree wheat barley, 4^c,to boil
or it soft.
Crowse; brisk, budge* livelyjjolly. As crowse as a new washen

louse, ^rov.
D
To, docker; to waver, stajiêr, or totter; a word used in colnshire,
Lin-
parum deflexosensu ^ BeLs^. Daeokeren, motare, moti-
tare, volitare hoc d, nomine daeck, vapores nebula : enim nebulosi

hue illuc vel minima ventijlatuimpelluntur, Skinneras.
To daffe ; to daunt.
A daffock; a dawkin.
Daft ; stupid,blockish, daunted : h verbo daffe"

Dare; harm or pain. Dare, in the antient Saxon signified
hurt* harm, loss. It does me no dare, i. e. uo harm. So in Essex,
we say, It dares me, i. e. it pains me.
To daw, or doto; to thrive. He neither dees nor daws,i. e. He
neither dies nor mends. He'll never dow, i. e. He will neter b^
good. A
Dauwen, Tent,
verdauwen, concoqaere, potius a vel
deyen, gedeyen, augescere increicere, pnîscere,AS, dean, pro*

Jieere,vigere. Skinner.
To daw ; in oommon speech is to awaken ; to be dawed,ioh9Lye
abaken sleep,to be fullyawakened, and come
off to one's-self,oat
of a deep sleep.
A daiwgos,or dawkin; a dirty.Blatteringwoman.
A dayes-man ; an arbitrator ; an umpire, or jndge. For as
Dr. Hammond observes in his Annotation on Heb, x. 25. p. 752.
The word day in all languages and idioms, signifiesjudgment.
So hvOpfairhriiîipa^man's day, 1 Cor. iii. 13. Is the ment
judg-
of men. dicere, in Latin, is to implead.
So diem
Dosed bread, dough-baked. Dazed meat ; ill roasted, by son
rea-
of the badness of the fire. A dazed look, such as peifsons have
when frighted
"s dmed ; I am very cold.
Veafky; "r
lonely, solitary, from neighboars.
X2
S32 NORTH COTJNTBY WORDS.
Deam, signifiM the same.
Deary ^
HtUe.
Deft; little and pretty, or neat A deft man or thing. It in a
word general ase all England o?er.

of
To deg. V. lech,
Dessably; constantly.
To deue ; to laj close together, to desiie wool, straw, tjrc.
To didder ; to quiver
with cold, a Beig, Sitterem Teut. Zit-
tern, nmnia a stridulo sonOy quern frigore honêntes Sj^ trementes
dentibus edimus. Skinner.
dig
A ; a mattock. lu Yorkshire they distinguish between
digging and graving, to dig is with a mattock, to grave with, a
spade. Mr. Brokesby.

Dight; dressed: ill dt^^t,illdressed, from the Saxon dihtan^
pararef instruere.
To dight; Cheshire. To foul or dirty one.
To ding, to beat, forte a Teut. Dringeu : urgere, premere^

eiisd literd r.
A dingle,a smal^cloogh or valley, between two stee^ hills..

To dise; to put tow on a distaff.
Di%en'd; dresl.
Dodded sheep, i. e, sheep without horns.
Dodred wheat; is red wheal without beards.
To dojffjind
dmi ones cloatlis,contracted from do off, and do
^1C/ 4^^^ *'""" to'ôi off and on.
kdonanau^X orcfoitnot, (i. e. donaoght;) nanght, good for no"
ihii^ : idle persons being commonly such. YorUihire*

A doU or dool, a long narrow green in a plowed field left aB"
plowed. Common to the Smith also.
Dimndrtns, derh. Afternoon drink ings : ilund^ then sigaify*

ing the aderuoon. Doncanner in Yorkshire.
A dosome beast, CAesAr That will be content witli^ neUiiiig;^
also thriving, that comes on well.
Adooile, a noteh made in the pan into which the bawk Is faa*
lened, of this figure ft 9* ôo

tail, i. e* do9"4aUf becMiM Uk"t^
pigeon's tail extended.
A platter,so caHed
doublet, a also in the SttuUi,
Dmcly, melancholly, lonely.
A drape, a farrow cow, or cow whose raiUc is dried Drape^
up.
sheep, Qves rgicula^ credo "b AS, drese, expukio. Skinner*
To "frate, to draw out one's vifords.
A true dribble, a servant that is truly laborions and diligent.
Drauk; leliHm,feûcaaltera, Ger.
Drtt; lung, seeming tedious

beyond expectation, spoken ofn
way. A hard bargainer, spoken of a person. 1 suppose it iq op-
ginally no more than dry, tho' there be hardly any word of mor"^
frequent uae in the North country" in the senses meoliQued,

Drosen; fond, Tipytjy.

A dub, a pool of water.
A dungeonahle body nhrewd or, as tUe vulgar express
; a person,
it, a devillish fellow. As Tartarui signifies hell, and a
dungeon ; so dungeon is applied to both.
purz'd or d(yn*d out, it is spoken of corn, that by wind, turning

of it,^c. is beaten out of the straw.
E
Eald, age. He is tall of his edld. Hence old, or oZd, aud.
Earn, mine earn, my uncle, also generally my gossip, my pere,
com-
my friend. Ab AS. Earn, TeuL Ohm, Belg, Oon, avunculus.

Omnia d latino amita, fort, j* ant, amitu^, Hinc Dan. ^ Tcut,
amme, nutrix : Matertera enim $eu amita nqôtes suos nuttirt
Solent ^fooere. Skinner.
To earn, to run as cheese doth. Earning, cheese rennet, o"
rening. Va. IHaL

The easter; the back of the chinuiey, or chimney-stock.
Eath ; easy. It is eath to do, "" e. easy.
To eckle or ettU ; to aim, intend, design.
Eddish ; roughings" ab AS. e"ljTC gramen serotinum ^ hoc i
Ti-ap.loquelariAS. Ed. rurstu, denuo q, d. Gramen quod denv4
crescit. Forti eatage. [spare timev
To gem, Chesh, As 1 cannot eem, I have no leisure, I cannot
Eever, Chesh, Comer or quarter. The wind is in a cold eever,

i. e. a cold comer or quarter.
An el-mother, Cumb. a step-mpther. [Dutch.
The eêr, the udder: it signifiesthe same thing in the Low-'
Dêny fewel for fire,ab AS, i"led, ignis, Mian, accendere.
"(se,beforebjilready. I have done that eke, i. e. already.
To elt,to knead.
To ettkf to intend.
An eshin, a pail pr kit.
Skêr the esse ; Chesh, Separate the dead ashes firom the em*
bers. Esse being the dialect of that county for ashes.

.
Fain, glad. Pair words nuikesfoolsfaiyi,Vrov,'

From the Saxon
fsegan,Icettus, hilaris, ftegnian,gaudere. Psalm Ixxi. 21. In the

translation of our Liturgy : My lipsudll be fain when 1 sii^ unto
thee.
Fantome com, lank or light com: flesh,when
y!int"Hne it hangs
loose on the bone. A fantome, a conceited person. The French "
call a appearing by night, or

spirit, a ghost, afantosme, from phan^
tasma. spectrunu So then pfumtotmeeon, b com that has as little
bulk or solidityin it as a spiritor spectre.
Parotid is used in eompositioB, sa i, e,
Jightingfarrand, ui- Sk
fightinghumour* V, Audfarand,
x3.
Farantly,handsome. Fair fair and

tLndfarantlif, handsome.
Fastens-eertf or even, Shrove-Tueiday^ the sueceeding day b"ing
Ashwednesday, the first of the Lenten fast.
Fause, q. false, cunning, subtle. [hides,j"e.
To feal, to hide. He ihatfeah can find. Pro. i. c. He that
To fee, to minnow ; perchance the same with fey, to cleanse,
scour, or dress.
Feg, fair,handsome, clean : from the Saxony"rger by Apocope:

to feg, to flag or tire.
To fend, to shift for, from defend, per t^hceretin, Inde fenda-
hie, one that can shift for himself.
Festing*penny^ earnest given to servants when hired.

To fettle,
to set or go about thing to dreas A
any or prepare.
word much used^
To few, to change.
To fey or feigk it : to do thing notably. To/ey meadows,
. any
^
b to cleanse them : to fey a poud, to emptjf it.
Kfiacket, a bottle made in fiuhion of a barrel.
AJUnin, a custard. As flat as afiaun, Prov.
flay,to fright. Afliniid

To coxcomb, a fearfal fellow.
Kfleak ; a gate to set up in a gap. 1 understand by Mr. Brokesby,

that thia word flaik signifiesthe same as hurdle, and is made of
hasel, or other wands.
Finish, q, fluid; washy, tender, weak, perchance from the Low
Dutch, /2ati" ; faint, feeble. '
ftizse;
To to fly off,from the Low Datoh, flitten,
to fly"vidt
jliitsfrUl
arrow or shaft
Aflizsmg; a spHnfcer, of the same original, they seem to be

made from the ieund, per ovofiaTOTToiav,
Toflite; to scold or brawl ; from the Saxonîntcii, to eontendi^
stiire, or brawl.
Flowish light in carriage, impudica.
;
FUnory; florid, handsome, fair,of a good complexiom
Flowter'd ; afl^ghtedw Aflowter, a fright.
Kflurch; anraltitude* a great many; spoken of things. Hoi
persons, as tkflurchof strawberries.
Fogge *,
long remaining in pastures till winter.
grass
Foist; fusty.
To format or formel; to bespeak any thing; from -/ore and ma^
I
(oi suppose) signifying in the ancient Danish, a word, sermth^
Fitrmal or formal, in the Saxon, abargain" a treatj". an.

signifies,
agreement, a covenant.
Fore-VHrrden\ with lice, dirt, ^, i. e* over-ran with.
A/brXttffi-ro66{n,
an earwig, called from its forked tail.
^
Forthen Sind forthy, therefore.
Fow, Chesh, Fowl. Var, DiaL

Afoutnart, a fitchet .
*
A gavdock a pitch,an iron bar to enter stakes into tbe groimd,

;
or the like uses. [sUl?V
A gauntry ; that on which we set barrels in a oellar. A beer-
To gausten^ as gojster. Vid. Soothern wordsi
A gaul ; Lane* a leaver ;
a6 AS. Geafle, palanga, oectt's.
.
Gaulick'hand left-tiand. I from gauche.

; suppose
A gawn or goan; Ckesh. a gallon, by contraction of the word.
To ghyhe or gibe ; to scold. gtfreis to jeer.
Elsewhere to
To geer or gear; to dress snogly gear'd, neatly dressed.

A gibbon ; a nat-book.
.
A ^b-sto^';
a quarter-staff.
CMy ; mad with anger. The word giddy is eommon ';an
England over, to signify diny, or by a metaphor, unoonstaot,

giddy-headed ; but not to signify furious, or intoxicated with
anger ; in which s"ise the word mad is elsewhere used.

Gliders, snares.
A gtmmer-lamb, an ew-lamb, fort. q. a gammer-Iamb, gammer"

is a contraotioB of god-mother, and is the nsnal oompellation of.
the common sort of women. A geU-gimmer, a barren ewe.
Gin, gift in the old Saxon is gt/*,

from whence the word ^ is
made per aphmre$in litera G. gif, from the verb gtfan, d"re, and
is as much as data.
Glad is spoken of doors, bolts, 4ê.that gom
oothly and loosely.-
t
Glove or glafe,smooth. Glavering is generally used for flat-
tering
î^h smooth speech. A glavering fellow, a smooth-tongued^ .
flatteringfellow.
To glaffer,
or glaver,Chesh. To flatter.
Glatton, Welsh flannel.
Glob% Cheih. Wedded to. fond of.
Glotten^df Chesh. Surprized, startled.

"
To be glum, to look sadly, or sourly, to frown, contraeted from
gloomy, a word common to the vulgar, both in the North au"i

South.
To gly, or glee,Lineolnsh. to look asquint. Limis seu distortis,
oeulis instar StrqJboni" contueri,forte ab AS. Gleyan, Belg. Gl0e"-
yen, Teut,
Gloeii, ignescere, candescere, q. d. incensi^ ^ prm ira
j^mmantibus oculis conspicere. Skinner.^

To goam, to grasp, or clasp. In Yorkshire to miitd, pr looK.
at. \V,e pronounce it gaum and gouve, and speak it of persons
that unhandsomely gaze or look about them. Mr. Bfohesby.
Goulans, q. d. goldins; corn-marigold. In the South we usually,
call marygolds simply-golds of the flower. ; from the colour
Agool, a ditoh, Ljincolnsfi. Lacuna fort, a Belg. Gouw, agger,

dquagium, vel ei Ft. G. Jaule, gaiole, Latini caveola, quoniam.^
ubi infossam, scrobem seu lacunam hujuamodi incidimus, ea taii'.
q-^fim cavea aut carcere detinernur, "c. Skin. Hence and
tigull^ ,
giiUel,a little ditch ^ and gullet,iht throatjôr rather, frqjDithe/ .

KORTH^ COUNTRY WORDS. SS7
hAmgula} from whence, percliance, goal iUelfmay be derived*
Goose-grass,goosc-tansieârgentina. Called also by some an*
serina, becaase eaten bj gêeie.

Gopingfull, as much as jou can hold in your fist
A gappenJtUl ; a Vid, Soutb words.
jeepsen.
Goppish, proadi pettle,apt to take exceptioir.
Grisly a^y, t
from gnz", swine. speckled
Gru/t/ usually riipiifies
of bhick and white, from griseus,
Guizen*d, spoken of tubs or barrels that leak through drought.
Gypsies,springs that break forth sometimes on the Woulds ia
Yorkshire. They are look'd upon as prognostick
a- of famine or
scarcity. And no wonder in that ordinarily they come after

abundance of rain.
Greathly,handsomely, towardly. In greaih, well*

Grath, assured, confident.
Grees, griece, stairs, from the French
or ]grtt,and both from the
Latin gradus. In Norfolk they call them grisiens.
To griet,or greet, to weep, or cry : it seems to come from the
Julian gridare, to cry, or weep. Vox Scotis iisitatissima* To
greet and yowl, Cumb, To weep and cry. For yoiol,in the Souths
they say yawl.
A grip or gripe, a little ditch, or ab
trench,y0fsiiia AS, Gnep,
fossula,cunicnlut. This word b of general use all
BnglanU.
over
A grove, Lincolnshire, a ditch, or mine, h Belg, Groeve, fossa,

to to it Belg. Onren, fodere.
grove, grave,
Grout, wort of the last running. Skinner makM it to signify
'
coiuitmenfftm cerevisiee, mustum cereviiue,' ob AS, 6rnt. Ale^ be*

Xore it be fiillybrewed, or sod, new alei^ It signifiesalso milteti
1 grow, I am troubled.
To
grotne, to beohtll before the beginning of an agiic*fit
To guill,to daxxle, spoken of the eyes. Chesh*
A gun, a great flagdiiof ale, sold for three-penoe, or foui^pdnoek

H
A hack Lincolnth. forti ah AS,
hegge, h"g" sepeStteptum, vel
lieca, Belg. Heck. Jpessulus, repagulum, vel locus repaguU" mm
cattcellis cUnuus ; nobis autem parum defiexosensu fami eondi'
torum, seu ctmceUatum signat,d Rack. Skinner,
pngsepe
A hack, a pick-ax, a mattock made only with one, and that "
bi'uad end.
iLhaggles,ii hails, Var. Dial, ab AS.

hagale,hatgle,
grando.
Httghes,haws, Var. Dial ab AS. hagan, haws.
To hake, to sneak, or loiter.
Hanty, wanton, unruly, spoken of a horse, or the like, vrben

pfovcnder pricks him.
To happe, to corer for warmth, from heap, as I suppose, to hea^
cloaths on me.
Heppa, hap ye^ think you ?

S36 NOBTH COUNTRY WORbs^
To harden, "", the market Jiardens, u e. Things grow dekrir.

A hart, a mist
HarifftMd catchweed, goose-grease, aparine^

Haxns, Cumb. Bnuns.
A sea harr, Lincolnsh. Tempestas a mart in^ruent,fon6 ah AS,
YivtTn,flustrwn,cestu",.Skiiu
Aharry'gaud, a rigsby, a wild girl.
Hart'Claver, Melilot.
A haspat, or haspenald 1ad" between a man and a bon
HattU, Chesh, Wild, skitlisb, harmful. Tie the kattle ky by

the horn, i. e. The skittish cow.
^
A hattock, a siiock, containing twelve sheaves of com.
Haver, Cumb. Yorkth, oats; it is a fjow Dotch word.

The house, or hose, the throat ab AS, hals, coUum,
An haust, cough.
or hoste, a dr
j
To hoste, to couglif/rom the
Low Dutch word hoesten, to cough, and hoest, a cough ^ ab ASi
hwoslan, tussire, to cough.

It hates, it misles, or rains small rain.
To hose, or house, to hog, or carry in the anns, to embrace.- -
To healdf when out of a pot.

yon as ponr
A bed-healivg,Derb. A corerlet, it is also called absolutely a
hulling in places. To heal signifiesto cover in the South.
many
Vid, Suss, from the Saxon word helan, to hide, cover, or heal.
The heck, tho door. Steck the heck. Hence hatch cum aspirat.
An heck, a rack for cattle to feed at Vid, hacK.
Heldar, rather, before..
An helm, aîiovel. I as it is a covering, under which

suppose,
t^g is set. Heno^ a helmet, a covering of the bead, ah
any
AS, helan.
Belfie, or helaw, bashful, a word of common use. Helo, in the
old Saxon, signifieshealth, safety.

A, henting, one that wants good breedings that behaves himself
downishly..
goods left in an house, as it
Ifftivioom*;.. were by way of inlie*
litanoe. Some standing pieces of hooshold stuff,that go with
tibe house. Prom heir and^ loom, i. e. utensil of hoashold stuff.
any
Heppen, or heply, neat,, handsome, Yorksh, Skinner expounda
it dexter, and
agilis, sailh it is used in Linco1nshire,/ort.Ab, AS"
îMBpIic,compar, vel potius "e^. hebbelick, habilis, decent, aptui,.

vel 0. d,
Helply, i. e. iielpful.
Better, eager, earnest, keen.
Hight, called ab AS. haten, gehaten, vocatut h verifo hatao,,

dicere,jubere, Teut. Heissen, nominari, cluere.
To hight,Cumb. To
promise or vow, as also the Saxon verb
haton sometimes signifies,teste Sumnero im Dictionario'Saxonico'
Jbatino-AngUco, so it seems to be used in the English metre of
the fourteenth verse of Psalm cwu. J to the Lord will my.
pay
JTORTH COUNTRY WORDS, 239
vtnos, which I U him behight. So also il is used in Chaucer, jfbr

promised.
Hind-berrieSt rasp-berries,
ab A 3. Hindberian. Ftyrte He dicta,
îa interhinniUos 4* cervos, i. e. t7" Sjflvis
i saUUnts crescunU
Hi?ie, hence, Cumb. Van Dial.

Hine of a while, ere long'; q. d, behind, or after a while.
A hipping'hold, or hatod, a place where people stay to chat in^
when they are sent of an erratid.
The hob, the back of the chimDcy.
Hod" hold. Var. Dial.
Hole, hollow, deep, an hole dish, ppposed to shallow.
A hog, a sheep of a Northampton and
old ; used also in
year
Leicester shires, where they a hoggrel. also call it
Hoo, he; in the north-west parts of Eng;land, most frequently

used for the, ah AS. heo, hio, d Lot, ea,fortasse, [iTorksh,
A hoop, a measure containing^ a peck, or quarter of a strike,
A hoppet, a little handbasket. Nescio an a corbe, saith Skinner,
addita term, dim. ^ asperan eaninam Uteram r propter euphoniam
efidendo, ^ quod satis frequens est C initiali in spiritum ^ B m P
mutando.
Horseknops, heads of knapweed so called, q. knopweed.

The house, the room called the hall.
A Chesh.
gillr-houter, Aii owl.
Mure, hair, Var. Dial.
To hype at one, to pull the month awry, to do one a mischief,
or dUpleasure. An ox is also said to hijpe,that pushes with his
horn.
I
Jamu)cfc, oaten bread made into great loaves.
The Jaum of the dour, the side post. This word is also used in
the South, where
they say the the chimney ; from Ihe jaum of
French /amftc, signifying a leg.
Jimmers, jointed hinges, iu other parts called wing-hinges.
To ill,to reproach, to speak ill of another, used verbally.
Innom-barley, such barley as is sown the second crop ailer the
ground is'fallowed.
word borrowed fron
An ing, a common pasture, a meadow, a
"the Danes,'"n^, in that language, signifying a meadow.
Ingle,Cumb. Fire, a blaze, or flame, a LaU ignis.

To insense, to inform, a pretty word, used about Sheffield in
Yorkshire.
Jumut, earth'diut, Bulbocastanum,
K
Kale, or cale, pim,vicem. Chesh.
Kal", or heal, for yotXsê, Vide Cole. [ties.
Kaszardli;;cattls sabject to dye, hazardoosi sabjeet^tocasual-
A keaU, Lincolmh. a cold, turns dfiigore coniracta, ab AS,

celan, frigeicere.
To hedge, to fill one's self wiih meat. A keUuo.
kedge-beUjf,
To keeve a oart, Chesh. To overthrow it, or to turn out the .
dang.
To ken, to know, as I ken him not, ab AS, kennan. Ken is
oommonljr used of viewing, or protrpect with the eye. At far as
icon ken. i. e. As far as the sight of my eye can reach ; and so^
mit of ken. i. e. out of sight.

Kenspecked, marked or branded, notd insignihu, q. d, maculatus
$eu macuUt distinctus ut cognoscatur, ab AS, kennan scire ^

specce macula. Skinner.
To kep, to boken, spoken when the breath is stopt upon one's
being ready to vomit Also to kcp a ball, is to catch it, to keep

it fromfalling. [own mind.
Kickle, or kittle,uncertain, doubtful, when a man knows not his
To heppen, to hoodwink.
A ketty cur, stinking fellow. a nasty,

A kid, a small faggot of underwood, or brushwood,y0rt^ a cxr.
dcndo, q. d.fascictUusligni ciedui. Skinner.

A kidcrow, a place for a sucking calf to be in. Chesh,
Kilps, pot-hooks.
A kimnel, or kemlin, a powdering tub.
To kink, it is spoken of children when their breath islong stop-

ped
thro' eager crying, or coughing. Hence the kink cough, caK
led in other places the chin-cough, by adding an aspirate.
A kit,or milking pail like a churn, with two ears, and a covert
a Belg. kitte.
A kite, a belly. Cumb.
To klick up, Lincohish, to catch celeriter corripere, nescio
up,
an a Belg. Klackeu.
Klutsen; quatere, vet a Latino clepere, hoc a Graco jcX^Trroi^

Skinner.
To knack, to speak finely. And it is used of suoh as dp speak
in thel^nthern dialect.
A kfiightle
man, an active or skilful man. I suspect it to be the
same with nitle.

A knoll, tL little round hill, ab AS, cnolle. The top or cop of
a hill, or mountain.
A kony thing,a fine thing.
Kye; kine. Var. DiaL
Kyrk; church, KvpiaKOV^

Kyrkmaster, church-warden.
L
To lake,
play,a word to common to all the North tsountry ; vel
(inquitSkinnertu) ab AS. PhpgaQ, tudcre, rgecto P. m d^tJmg,
NORTH COUNTRY WORBS. 241
in simpL a^ g incvelk mutatis, vel d. Teuton, ^ Btlg. Lacben n-
dere vel quod cateris Umge verisimilius ett iL Dan, Ijeeger ludo*
Ideo autem luec vox in septentrionali Anglic regione, n"m in al\$
mvaluit, quia Dani illam partem primam invaterunt ^ penitut OC"
cupdrunt, uno vel akero seculo priusquam reliquam Angliam sub*
jugarunt.
The
langot of tbe shoe latchet the shoe, firoui languet
; the of
lingola, a little tongue or slip.
ijor^
; urine, piss, it is an antient Saxon word used to this
day in Lancashire, Somner, -We say iant or leint.
To leint ale, to put urine into it to make it strong.
Laneingf they will give it no Umeing, i, e. they will divnlge it,

Lare, learning, scholarship.Var. Dial.
Lot, q. late, slow, tedious, lat week, let weather, wet, or other-
" wise, unseasonable weather.
A lath is also called a lat in the Northern Dialect.
Latching, catching, infecting.

To late,Cumb. to seek.
A lathe; a bam, ybrt. h verbo lade, quafiugibus oneratwr*
Skinner, fort.
Lathe, case, or rest, ab AS. Latian, differre,
tardare, cunctaru
Lathing; entreaty, or invitation. You need no lathing,joa

need no invitation or urging ; ab AS, Geladhian, to bid, invite,
desire to come.
The lave, all the rest. Cumb,

A lavm, a place in the midst of a wood free from wood, a laud
in Fr. G. Hisp. Landa
a park, a Lande, ; inculta planities.
Lazy, naught, bad.
Leach, hard-work, which causes le ache in the workmeA's joints,
frequent among onr miners in tbe North.
A leadden, or Hdden, a noise or din, ab AS, Hlydan, clamare^
garrire, tumultuari, to make a noise, or out-cry, to babble, to
chatter, to be tumultuous, hlyd, tumult, noise.

To lean nothing, to conceal nothing, q.
leave nothing, or from
the old Saxon word leanne, to shun, avoid, decline.
To lear, to learn. Var. Dial.
Leath, ceasing, intermission ; as, no leath of pain, from the

word leave, no leaving of pain.
Leek on pour
; on more liquor, v. g,
Leeten
you,
Chesh, Make ypurself,pretend to be. You are
not so mad as you leeten you,

Leethwake, limber, pliable.
Leits; nomination to offices in election,often used in bishop
arch-
SpoPwood*s History, q, lots.
Lestal, saiitable,
that weighs well in the hand" that is heafy in
from t^yr
lifting, j^b lift,as 1 suppose.
To lib,fo gela, A libber,a sow-gelder.
242 NOBTH COUNTRY WORDS.
Lingey, limber.
To lig,to lie,Yar. Dial. It is near the Saxon liegan,lo lie.
Ling, health, ericas Yorkshite,
To lippen,to rely on, nr trust to. Scot.
Lither, lazy, idle, slothful. A word of general nse, ab AS.
Lidh. Liedh. Lenit alludit Gr, 'Acioc Uevis, glaber, j- Xiiroi:

tenuis,
iilhplex, Skinner.
lathing,Chesh. Thickening, spoken of a pot of broth, as Lithe

the pot,i.e. put oatmeal into it.
A lite,a few, a per Apocopen.

little,
To lite on, to rely on.
A liten, a garden.
lit,to colour, dê; linendo
To or a
sup. litem.
he, a little round
A hill,a great beap' of stones, ab AS. Lsewe,
agger, acervm,"umulus, tumulus, a law, lo"w"loo, or high ground,
not suddenly nsing as an hill,but by little and little,tillable also,
and without wood. Hence that name given to hillocks
many
and heaps of earth, to be found in all parts of Rngland, being no *
other but so much congested earth, brought in a way of burial,

used of the antients, thrown upon the budies of the dead. Somner
in Dictum, Saxon.
A loom, an instrument, ortool in general. Chesh. Any sil,
uten-
as a tub, ^c. "t"yshire.

Loert, q. lord, gaffer,lady, gammer, used in ê Peak of Der-
A loop,an hinge of a door.

To Uipe,
Lincoln. leap,Var. Dial. To
A Urp,a Ilea,ab AS.

loppe, from leaping. Lops and lice,lused
in the South, i. e. fleas and lice. [itself. Hence a lopperd slut
Lopperd milk, such as stands so long till it sours and curdles of
Lowe, flame, and to""lowe,to flame, from the High Dutch lohe.
A lilly-lQW,a belliblîz, a comfortable blaze.
To lowk, i. e. to weed corn, to look out weeds, so In other
countries, to look one's head. i. e. to look out fleas or lipe there.

A heavy,
lout, a idle fellow; to lowt is a general word fpr
cringing, bowing down the body ; They were very low in their
lowtings.
A lown, or lodn, the same with a lout, or mpre general for an
ill-conditioned The Scots say, L

Sifausse, e. false loon.
person.
The lttfe,iheopen hand.
M
To mab, to dress carelessly,tnabs are slatterns.
Mom-sworn, forsworn.
To maddle, to be fond. She maddles of this fellow, she is fond

of him. She is (as we say) mad of him.
Make, match, matchless, ab AS, maca, a peer, an equal, a eon-
panion, consort, mate.
To miOntle, kindly to embrace.

244 NOKTH COUNTST WOBDS
Amltzy; a qaagmire.
MoUer, the toll ofk mill, a Latino tnola.
Mores, i. e. hills,hence the hilly part of Staffordshire is called
fhe Morelands ; hence also the county of Westmoreland had its
name, q. The land, or coontry of the western mores or hills, and .
many hills in tlie North are called mnreSf as Stainsmores, ^c. from
the old Sa\on word mor, a hill or mountain.
To moskeTf to rot, or contract corruption, perhaps from ing
gather-
mosse, as a mosker'd trte, a
moskei'd tooth.
Welly moyder'df almost distracted. Chesfi,

Much, Lincolnsh* moist, wet, h Belg. Muyck, mollis, leniSy
Riitis. Mollities enim hnmiditatem sequitnr. Elsewhere muck
"ignifiesdang^, or straw that lies rotting, which is usually very

moist Hence those proverbialsimilies,As wet as muck, Muck-wet"
Mugwort in the East Riding of Yorkshire, is the usual word for
common wormwood ; tho' they have there abundance of artemi-

sia ; which they call motherwort.
Mullock, dirt, or rubbish.
Murk, dark ; murklms, in the dark, a Dan. Morck, fuscus,
moroker ; infusco, item tenebrae. Occurrit " Ant. Lat mur- "
cidns, murcus, qnse festo idem sonant quod ignavus, iners. Thia
word is also used in the South, but more rarely.
To murl, to crumble.
A murth of corn, abundance of corn. Forte cL more.
N
A nape or neap a piece of wood that hath two tliree feet^
; or
with which they bear the fore-partOf laden wain. Tins was
up a
filefurca of the ancient Jflumans, thus described by Plotaroh^

'
ûXnv cLirXi^r o rtc ^juia'âic

o(l"i'7a0i,which Ji. Cusaubimt
ilvercit. 16. " 77. Urns iiilerpreU,Sigiiirroiit
wtie ligtmm divtvom
in altero exlremo in duo eomna.qnod sitbjiciluremoni phiufttri,
t
quoties volunt aurigse rectum stare plaustrum oneratnm. Furca
was used in sovoral kinds of panishnieikts.V. Ceaaidjon. ibid,
Pag, 443. Edit, Fraaccf. f Yorkshire.

A napkin, a pocket-hankerohtef, so called about Sheffield in
Nash or nesh, washy, tender, weak, puling. Shnner makes it
to Worceaiershirc, nml to be tJie same in senwe and ginal

ori-
proper
with luce. Bull am sure it b ased in many other counties,
I believe all over the north-west partof Enghuid, and also in the
midland, as in Warwickshire. As for the etymology of it, it ia
donbtless no ether than the antient Saxon word nesc, signifying
soft, tender, delicate, effeminate, tamet gentle, mild. Hence our
nescock, in tlie same sense, i. e. a tendering, Somner.

Nearre, Lincotn. in use for ncatber, ab AS. nerran, posterior,
A neive or neiffe; a fi"t.
A neckabout ; any woman's neck linen. .

Sheffield.
My n"me, my gossip,my Warwickshire, v. Eame. "
compere,
NORTH COUNTRY \VORDS. 9A5
Netherd, itarred with oold.

Netting, chamber-lee, urine.
To nigh a thing, to tonch it. I did wit nigh it ; i. e. I came
not nigh it [commodious.

Kittle, bandy, neat, handsome. Fort, ofr AS, nytlio, profitable,
Nithing, much valuing, "paring of, as nithing of hit e.
punt, t.
sparing of his pains.

A noggin, a little piggin holding abo^t a pint,d Teut* nossel.
Nor ; than, more nor I, t. e. more than I.
To note, to pash,^ sti^ke or goa^ with the horn, as a bull or
ram, ab AS, hnitan ejutdem tignyication, Lancath, Sonrnev,

A note-heard^ a neat"heard. Var. Dial.
o
O mellow, spoken of land.
my,
Oneder, v. aunder. [derins.
Omdoms ; Cumb, Afternoons drinkibgs, corrupted from one-
An osken of land, an o"-gang, which in some places contains

ten acres, in some more. It is but a corruption of ox-gang.
To o$ie, to offer to do, to aim at, or intend to do. Osiing comes

to bossing. Prov. Chesh, I did not omu, or meddle with it, i, e.
1 did not dare, ^cforii ab audeo, ausus.
Ousen^ oxen.
'
An oversxoitcht house-wife, i. e. a whore. A ludicrous word.

An ox-hoo$e, an ox-stall, or cow-stall, whei'e thejr stand alt
njght in the winter, ab AS. BosUi. pr4uepe,ti stall.
'
An oxter, an armpit,axilla.
p
To to closev jojn together,agree, Prov. Weal and tooman,
pan,
cannot hv$wo "md It seems to come from in
pan, women can. pan
buildings,which in our stone houses is that piece of wood that
lies wall, dose with it,
upoi" the top of the stone and must to
which the bottom of the fastned buildings in

spars are ; in timber
the South, it is called the raten, or rtsen, or retening;
PartletSi ruffs, or bands for women. Chesh, Vetus vox (in-
quit Skinnerus) pro sudario, prsesertim qudd gesta- circa collum
tur. Minshew dictum putat quasi portelel, quod oiroumfertnr,
Tcl, ut melius divinat cowel, jt verbo, to ^t, quia facild separatum
k
corpore. SkiMter^
A pate, a brock or badger, U, is also a general word for the
he^. Peat in the. North is used for tjurfdigged out. of pits,and
ôrf appropriatedto the top.turf,or sod; but in Cambridge, "c..
jpeatgoes bj the name ofturf.
A posh, a mad-brain.
mad Chesh.
A pelt,a skin, spoken chieflyof sheep skins when the wooll is
o/^ ôm pelUs, Lat. The pelt-rotis wh^n sheep dye for pov:erty
Of if]Imping. PÛ u 1^ word much, used ip fi^coiury.for. t|(ft)
246 NORTH COUNTKY WORDS.
skin of a fowl stafl,or the carcase itself of a dead fowl, to throw

out to a hawk.
Feeie Iht pot, cool the pot.
Feedt Mind of one he pees, he looks with one eye.'
eye,
Ftetishf witty, sabtle.
-
A Tpeniwuhf a hewer's can.
A pet and a pet lamb, a cade lamb.

Fettle, pettish. Var. Dial.
To p^ to filch.
A ptn-ponmefr^j^
fellow; a coretous miser, that pins up hi"
panniers,or baskets.
A Jfîn; a little pail or tab, with an erect handle.
It's pine, q. pein to tell : it is difficult to tell,ab AS, pin,
A pingle, a or small
picle. crofl
A pleck, a place, Yorksh, Lane, ab AS, Place, a street, a place.

A poke, a sack or bag. It is a general word in this sense all
over England, tho'lnostly used ladicrously,as are gang and

keal, 4^, because borrowed oT the northern people. Hence
pocket, a little poke, and the proverbs, tobuy a pig in a poke, and
iohen the p^ is profered,hold ope the poke. Mr. Brokesby forms
in-
me, that with them in the East Riding of Yorkshire, th"

Vfofd appropriated to a poke that holds four bushels, and
sack is
that poke a general wordis for all measures hence a met-poke, a ',
three bushel poke, ^c.

Poops, gulps in drinking. Popple, cockle.
To pote the cloaths ofl*. To kick all off; to push, or put out^
from the French pousser, or poser, pulsare, or ponere, to put.
Prattily; softly.
Prich; thin drink.
Aprincock; a pert, forward fellow. Minsbew, deflictit a
pro-
COX9 q.
d. Adolescens praecocis ingenii ; quod lic^t non absardfini"
sit, tamen quia sono miniis discrepat,puto potii!is dictum quasi

jam priffliim Gallis, qui sci. non ita pridem pubertatem attigit, ^
reoens Veneris stimulos percepit. Skinner,
PubhU, fat, full, usually spoken of corn, fruit,and the like"
It is oppositeto iantome.
Apulk; a hole of standing water, u used also for a slough or
plash of some depth.

A puttockcandle : the least in the pounds put in to makeweight..
Q
Tbi quest of an OTen ; the
side thereof. Pies are said to be
quoted, whose sides hare been crushed by each other, or so joined

to them as thence to be less baked.
R
To rack or reck, to care, never rack i. e. take yon no'
ypu,
thought or care. From the ancient Saxon word rtcc, c"re" and'
NOBTH COUNtHY WORDS. 247
reecan, to care for. Chaucer hath reckeiht for carelh" Hence
retchUss, and retchlesmess, for careless,and carelessness; as in
t"e Saxon.
Race rannet, or rennin^. Henee spoken of wine.
; racy,
To rait timber, and so flax and hemp, to pat it into a pond or
ditchi to water it, to harderi, or season it.
Radlings ; windings of the wall.

To rame, to reach, perchance from Rome.
Bash, it is spoken of corn in the straw, that is dry that it

so
easilydurses out, or falls out of the straw with handling it. Vox
"$se mdeturÔvofiariyireTroirfêinj,
To rank, to scratch. A rank with a pin. Perehance only a
Tariation of dialect for rake.

Redshanks, arsmart.
To reek ; to wear His sickness will reek him ; that is^

away.
"o waste him as to kill him.
Reckans, hooks to hang pots or kettles on over the fire.
To reem, to Lancashire, ab AS.
plorare, cla- 'Hneman,
cry,
mare, ejulare,
to with crying and bewailing, hream, ûlatus.
weep
To rejumbk, Lincoln, as it rejumbtes upon stomach. Fr. GT.
my
II regimbe snr mon estomac, i. e. calcitrat. Sic an tern dioimna
nbi cibus in ventricnlo fluctuat ^ nauseam parit. Verb, aat Fn
6. a k, Vr. G, Jambe, It. Gamba ortum dudt Skinner,
pnep. re,
To remble, Lincoln. To move, or remove, q. d, remobiliare.
A reward, or good reward ; a good colour, or ruddiness in the
foee, used about Sheffield in Yorkshire.
Renty, handsome, well-shap'dispoken of horses, cows, "c"

To rerîer ; to separate, disperse,^c. V\\ render them, spoken
of separating a company. Perchance from rending paragogen,
per
Refnnish; furious, passionate ; a rennish Bedlam.
To reul, to be rude, to behave ones self unmannerly, to rig*

A reuling lad, a rigsby.
To retize, to extol, or commend highly.
To rine, to touch, ab AS. hrinan, to touchy or feel.
To ripple flax, to wipe off the seed vessels.
Roohf, misty, a variation of dialect for reeky. Reek is a genmd

word for a steam or vapour.
Rops, guts, q. ropeSffunes. In the South the guts prepared Mid
cut out for black-puddings or links, are called ropes.
Reamrpenny, q. Rome-penny, which was formerly paid from

henoe to Rome, Peter-pence. He reckons up his Ream pennies,
that is, tells all his faftilts.
A roop, a huarsness.
Rowty; over-rank and strong ; spoken of corn or gprass.

To rowt or raiot ; to lowe like an ox or cow. The old Sixoa
word hrukan, signifiesto snort, snore, or rout in sleepiiig.
To rucks to 8qaat" or shrinfc down.
"48 NOBTH COUNTRY WORDS.
Hunches, And runchballs ; oarlock when it is dry, and withered.

Runnel, pollard wood ; from nuiing ap apaoe.
He rute$ it ; ChesK spoken of a child, he cries fiercely,
i. e, he
rowts it,he bellowf*.
Rynt ye ; by yonr leave, stand handsomely. As, Rynt you

witch, quoth BeBae Locket to her mother, Proverb, Chethire,
s
SackUu, innocent, faaltless,without crime, or accnsaticm ; a
pure Saxon word, from the noun sac, saca, a cause, strife, suit^
quarrel, j^. and the preposition leas,without
A saghe ; t. e. a saw.
To samme milk ; to poi the tuning to it,,

to curdle it;
A tark -y
a shirt.
Sough, sauf; sallow*

and
saur-fHwl; a stinking poddle.

A
Scaddle; that will not abide touching; spoken of young horses

that flyont
Scrfe ; wild, spoken of boys.

A "carre, the cliff of a rock, or a naked reck on the dry land;
from the Saxon carre, cautes. This word gave denomination to
the town, of Scarborough. Pot scars, pot-shreds,or broken pieces

of pots.
A scrat an hermaphrodite ; used of men, beasts and sheep.

;
Scrogs; blackthorn.
Scrochf-grass;. scurvy-grass.. Var. Dial.
A scan, Lmcoln. a kind of net, froculduhio contract, a Latino
S[ Gr" Sagena. Skinner. "
Seaves, rushes, seavy ground, such as is ov.ergprown with, rushes.

A seeing'glasSta looking-glass.
Seer; several,. divers. They are gone seer ways. Perchaqoe
seer is but a contraction of sever.
Sell,self. ^
^
Selt, Chesh. chance, Iis,buta sell whether,, it is but a chance
whether.
Semmit, limber.
To setter, to out the dew-lap.of an on or cow, into which they
put helleboraster,which we call setterwort, by which an issue is
made, whereout ill humours veni themselves.
Senfy,not: sign,likelihood, appearance.

Sensine, Cumb. Since then. Var. Dial.
A shafman, shafmet,or shafiment: the measure of the fist witb
the thumb set up,ab AS, .Seseft mund, semipes.
Shan, Lincoln. Shamefacedness, ab AS. Scande, confusio,
vere-
cundia; item abominatio, ignominia.

Shandy; wild.
To sheal ; to separate, most used of milk* So to sheal milk it
to curdle i^ to separate the partA of it" .
NORTH COUNTRY WORDS. M9
To ikear eorn ; to
reap corn.
Voshed; no differenoe between thlnj(8"to s^fmi, Lane, to dlih
tingnish, a6 AS. Kceadan to distinguUh, diôiii, dividc" or.MVor.
Betgis Achejrden, fcbeeden.

SiedMners with a tohaver. Chesfi, Winning an^ oa"t Uial wai
Terr good, i. e, strike ofT.one that touches, j*c.v. rynCt

Shoods, Darbysh,
oal hulls,
The shot'Jiagnn,
or come again ;
which the hoitt glros to hll
guests if tlieydrink above a shilling. Darbiftht

A shippen, a cow-house, ab AS, scjrpene. Stûluin, bovile^ A
stable, an ox-stall.
A sJUrt'band ;
Yorkih. a band.
Sibi'd,a kin, no sole sifd, nothing akin ; no more iib*d than lifM
and riddle, thMt both in a wood together, Prov. Oliosh*
greio
Syb, or tyhbe, is an antient Saxon word, signifyingkindred, atli-
ance, affinity.
Sickerly,surely, k Lat" secure.
Side, long, my coat is very side, i. e. very long. Item prondf

steep, firofflthe Saxon side, sid ; or the Iknish sUU, signifyiaf
long.
A sike ; a little rivulet, ab AS. sioh, sulcus, a furrow, vel potloi
fulcus* aquarius, lacuna, lira,stria,elix, a water furrow, a gattor^
Somner"^
Sike, such. Tar. Dial, sike a thing, such a thing.
To sile down, Lincoln, to Adl to the brilton, w subside, firt,
ab AS. Syl, basis, limen, q. d. adfundum dclabi, t^kiiio#r"
Siaely,nice, proud, coy.
To skime ; to look asrjuint,to glee.
SkelUrd ; wrapt, cast, become crooked. Darb*
Skattoe; loss, harm, wrong, prejodioe,ens doth the skiUht 4n4
another hath the scorn, Pror. ab AS, Mstdsut, BomAkkn, Belg"
Sehcden, Teut. Schadea Dan, Skader, naeere. Add iuUh ts
scam, Pror. of sock as do Uboigs botk to tlMr losf Md sInmm*

A skeel, a collock,
A slab, the oolside plaidicof a piece ef tuaber wIm Mm" kl#
boards. Its a word of geaeral we.
SUqte, slîpery, tmx usMitisaima,
Slape-ak, Limctimsk. Flam ale m opposed Us aU mtf4indl4

wilk wormwood, or sc"rrj.gnMs" ffr
wssiii wkkmj "4W timsffs
Ibrtcu, lieeC leaiai mb porm varidy ok alt. Mef" t^mitipn
"rrbo, lo slip.Skimmer.
To sUt am, Ui leek ms, to casi mm, mr dM "pmiit. If em
Totiemkomtlhetam^mr,%mfmiimmihfwmf 04mm9. Ckesifk,

Skek, amaO pit""aaL \$Uf0i*
250 NORTH COUNTRY w6EDS.
To sleech, to dip,or take up water.
To tlete a dog, is to set bim any thing, as swuie,

at sheep, "o.
Slim, Lmcolruh. k Belg, Slim, Teiit. Schlfm, vilis, perversos,
pravns, dolosus, obliqnas, distortas. Skinnet, Ita a word,
nerally
ge-
used in the same sense with sly. Sometimes it significsv
slender bodied, and thin cloathed'.
To slive, Lincoln$h" k Dan, Slsever, nrpo, Teut. Schlefffen,
humi trahere, hinc j* Lincolmh. sliverly fellow,
a vir mbdolus,
vafer,dissimulatort veterator. Sliren ; idle, lazy.

Slokened, slockened, cboaked*, Yar. DiaT. fire
q. slackened, as a
is chodted by throwing water it.

upon
The il0ie of a ladder gate, the flat step, or bar.
or
To slot a door
; Lincolmh' t. e. To Belg. sloyten..
shat it, k
Teut. schliessen, clauderct occludxre, obterare, Belg. slbt,.sera,
claustrum, ferreum.
A slough,a hvsk ; it is pronounced sluffe. [place*
To slump; to dip, or fall plam down ia any wet, or dirty
To smartle waste
away ; to away.
To smittle, to infect, from the, old lâxon smittan,, and Dntck
VBMtten, spot or infect,whence

to oar word* smvtm
SmoppU, brittle,as smopp/e wood, smoppU pye-crust,.I" e. short

and ht.
To snape or sn^tp ; to cheek; aa children easily sneaped^
herbs and fruits
sneaped with cold weather. It is a general word
all over England.
The snaste ; the burnt week or snnff ofa eandTe.
To snathe or snare; to trees, to cut oflT the boaghs of
prone
ash, or other timber tr^s ;
of which this word is vsed, M prime
is of frnit trees. A snathe.
Snever; slender, an usual word.
A snever-spawt ; a slender stripling.
Sneck the door, latch the door ; the sneck or snecket ofa door
(iaccording to Skinner) is the string which draws up the latch ta
open the door: nescio h'Belg. snappen, compere, set. cum

an ûta
janua aperienda est, semper arripitur,
* To snee, or snie ; to abound, or swarm. He 5nte" with lice,
he swarms with them.
To snite; wipe. Suite your
to nose, i. e. wipe your nose, a
Bchneutzen, Belg. snntten, snotten, nares emungere, Dan. sny'der

emunge, a snot substamthot wipe to off ti"e snot.
A sniihe wind, vox eteguotissima, agro LiMolnsh. nsatitissima,
significatautem Teltum vald^ frfgidnm " penetrabilem,ab AS.
snidan, Belg. sneiden ; Teut. schneideo,. scindere,^ ut nos dicifnus,

a cutting wind. Skinner. [dresU
5nod, and snog; neat, handsome; as snogly geared, handsomely
Snog malt; smooth with few combs.
.
A so, or soa, a tub with two ears^to carry en a slang.

252 NORTH COUNTRY ^tTORD^.
A stee ; a ladder, in the Saxony ttegher is a stair, gradut $cAle,
^rehance from stee.
Stead ; is used generally for a place,as. It lies in sncli a stead,

i. e. in snch place,whereas elsewhere only in stead, is made use of
for tn pface,or in the room of.
To steak, or steick,or steke the dare ; to shut the door, d Tent,
4* Be^. stecken, steken, to thrust, or put, to stake.
To steem ; to bespeak a thing.
A steg ; a gander.
To stem, or Steven ; idem,
Stiven, sternness, perhaps from stifle.
A "ttfequean ; a lusty quean ',
stê, in the old Saxon, b obsli*
nate, sUff',inflexible.
iSttfebread, strong bread, made with beans and "c.
pease,
which makes il of a strong smell and taste.
Stithe ; iftrong, stifl*,

ab AS. stidh, stiff",
hard, severe, Tiolent^
great, strong, stithe cheese, t. e. strong cheese.
A stithy,
an anvil, a predict, AS, sUdh, rigidus,durus. Quid
enim incude duriusf
A
stot, a young bullock, or steer a horse in Chaucer,
; young
ah AS, stod, or steda, a stallion,also a war horse, a steed.
Stood, crept, sheep are said to be stoo'd whose ears are cropt,
and men who wear their hair very short. [stifpa.
A stoapt or stowp, a post fastened in the earth, from the Latin
Stocks bill, geranium Robertianum.
wooden vessel put small in. Also
q. standi
A stound, a to beer
a ^hort time, a small stound. [sheaves.

A stowk, q. stalk,
the handle of a pail,also a shock of twelve
A stowre, a round of
hedge-stake; Also the staves a ladder, a
in the side of a wain, in which the eve-rings are fastened, tho' the
large and flat ones are called slots. fcail strandy-mires,
Strandy ; restive, passionate, spoken of children. Such they
A strike of com, a bushel, foar pecks, a Teut, Komstreiche,
hostorium, vel radius, Ftreichen, hostorio m^nsuram radere, t"r
quare, complanare.
Strunt, the tail or rnmp, ab AS. steort, stert, Be^. stert, steert,
Teut. stertz. Belg. stront, Fr.
cauda: vel d G. Estron, It. stronzo
stercus,p"r Metmiym. a"(;uncttVSkinner.

Stunt, Lincolnsh. stubborn, fierce,angry ; ab AS. stnnta, stnnt,
stuUus, fatuus,forte quia- stulti prteferocessunt, vel k verbo, to
stand, ut resty, k restando m"taphor" ab equis contumacibus

sumptd. Skinner.
1. A srom, the instrument to keep the malt in the "t.
2. Strushins, orts, from destruction, 1
suppose.
'
We use the
word strushion for destruction. It lies in the way of strushion,
i, e. in a IQcelyhood to be
destroyed. Mr. Brokesby,
A sturh, a yoang bullock, Or heifer, ab AS" styrk,buculus k.
NORTH COCKTXY WOBBS. :25S
To iturken,jgroW, Iktivc^lihnddtn.'atAVe$unc.
16 "' ^
A swad, siliqua,a cod, a pease-ticad, tfsed meH^plMJricaUjiftr

one tUatis4leiiiletf"ainMer,ii0aii"";'' .
"m".'
A tmmshe^^m telljrîhatwkioli is .ifitt

U ptoliiSteii^
to dlje^t"f
which Uie owner keeps the olher part. "
To swale or sioeai ,* to singe or burn, to wtirte -or bliao awajr,

mb AS. ^widan,. to kindle, tb Îtdn fihs;to hani.
A ntang, a fresh piece of grêh 0waHliif]jrisgv-m

a botton,
. amoHg Arabke" or barren land. " 'A dool.
A twarthf Cumb, The ghost of a dîng man, fift,.""; \AS"

^weart. Blaek" dark, pab| wan. .-,t..r
'
Swathe,iia\au .
" .IM^..
To swattâway, to waste. "
. .
j- ir-^jv.
A niMitAe bmuk, a swartk of newnrnwen grasaioroAlv. "
Swemnish, i, e. sqneaoiiah,mad for modest^.

To tweb, to swoon. To ivteit ; " i(Um. -.
'
A tmlXt a keeler to waah in, standag on ihrae feet.

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To wXSktr ore; to daah over. Vtx ovoôrdflr.
A sk;M^M, of iivhie-crtre, a hogs-sty. "
*
Swipper,tthnM^,qa{ck, a6.il" sdbllej-tVMiS^

svHprt^^'criHVjs ,
'To-Sti^lSBeii, '""'' """ ^""-'J' '"

to wngc. """ ""
"!
**
M .""" '.. ! -^ h'.,vD
rp- ".. "
.
The tab of a shoe, the I atc1iôf s^ sjlioe^

,|. ,
J
A oelUr, a Lot "^,a!"erna."
fabem, ! "" "
.,
.,
.
T"mt)'e2s;idle people thnt will notiii to anjîoftlojraient^'
A tarn, a lakeôr me^r-pool, a usual word m the Korfili. ^.'^ "
.
To taste, i, e. to êll in th^ North; indeed th)^ b'a.rery

great aMnity between thbte two ênicML..
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i
Tôrage,a oei^',iTobbeni^toppjeQy.daren
.
To tave, LiiioohsK .
Teut, Toven, are .j^^, tq.,tffvfitîf4^

/urcre.. Sick. peoj^ê tlô
.
hands, when .they catch at.aijy th;iig".pr
wi^re tljÛ^^nds^when
they want the nse.of.reaftoii.
.,"..: . ,\i:t.
1/ ;:\i .:"!"
To touwi, to swoom. -
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"
""."", â
,
To teem, or team, to ponr out, to lade ouiof one.vcus^hm^
another. Credo ^ Danko Tommer, hawiot vtyquib,
exhauriq,, tTbm-
nier, autem oritur i Tbm, vacuus, v. Skinner. .
,
; "..
TeamfiU; bnmfnl, having ais much as oan be ieaoiedm ; in
the antient Sasôn it ^nuilesfrnitful,abBnAa8,"plttflfuifj

from
team, soboifiStftOm,
and roll.
.
Teen, angry, ab AS.

prevoke, ^tir,.ang^,
or enrage.tynan, to
Good or fow teen, CêsA. Cood[oir foulj^kiffgf.

A.tewe, fifine fierce,a small ifieire,.^^..
^"Pl^4iemiC..'^* G,
tamis. li, tanusio, taoiiso^ ctQir^,} wbenpe oês onr tcmse
bread. .,.."".'..;" '

iti l
To tent, to iend; or VmIl' ^. tar.'Diil.C"eilXl.'lîeiit
tUe,
z
2M NO'RTK CO0NTAY WOUDS.
.jpLothWood. 'Jf I cdrmH ntfe daughter, I-tl rule Good,

my my
"Crow* -
uWflpA.
Tkam, lAncolnsh. GaU cleuiied, and blown
prepiUMidl, np for
4o neeive puddiilg^ "! A"deiimu Btlg, d"nu,denB,r0iit.darm,

dearm. nmpL intestinum, '
';
'
Theatt firm
,
utaancb, spoken of banwis wbea Uwy do not run.
Thew'ds toyfwMy,' .
To thirlt to boro a: bole, to drill. 'Uncolmsh, ab ^S.'dbryl,

.
dbÎy/aramai* dbikrlian;Bo^.-.dHJsen, ferfhrare. Skinner.
A thiblci or tMue/, a stiok " to ittir a pot. Al"o a dibUeyor
abttJBg Biitk,
To thole, Derb. To brook, or endnra ; tJu^ a while, i. e* May
a while. Chaucer hath tholed, for suffered, ab AS. tholiaii,ejus*
dem significaHanis.
Thone^thimaf";'.meA itntentiSt q, tbawn, damp, moist. Skhiner
a Teut. tunoken, moeenare, intmgere, deduck.

A throve, a sliock of com, containing twentj"foar sheaTes, ab
AS. threaf, Jnanipntitf^'a bandlul, a bundle, a boUle.
To thrave,^^MHtolnsh, To urge, qb'AS, L^raviaji,urgere.
To threap, threapen'f Ip blame, .rebuke* repro^'e, ehide; ah AS,
9"ig;"âiion, 'f!n.fêap
jyh|reapan,/liir"apiM),..e^.^Mfllem Idndiicss
one, is nsed in another sense. To threap with ia to urge,

upon ns^
or press. It is no threaping ware; so bad" that oiie need be
urged to buy it Mr. Broheskifi

I'll thrippa thee, Chesh. TUbeat or cudgel thee.
Very throng, bnsily employed.' .
To throdden, to grow, to thrive, to was, Icf ^tiirken.
Uiruich, ôr '^îrast,

'
Chah, MaxfUld ihcitsure,heap mid

thrutii. iProV. '. '
'" Tb thimo; to' tu^ as tamers do ;

bb AS, thrawao, qtue inter
aKo^ to wheel, turn* 0/* wind; sî/fcat. ...'".
"'
throttle, or slranglc. Var. Diil.
1*0 tftnip^fc.ttf Yorhsh.
.
' lMi6 thfc winrfipipiu

tfcf""pyij!c, Yorksh. IMaT.
'
To tRttifte;to' wlttlfe,out;-'mak" whUe by cutHi^. He hah
tkwitten a mUl-pi^stinto pudding-prich. Pro
a v.
Tider, or tidder, or titter,soon, quickly, sooner. From Ude,

'^Viallfertyc?
.*' ', *
'
*ôt[^,^to
"
tum,ta
"
8t|r;to disorder any. Ihrng by tumbling in
it,SQ standing com or grass ilstifled whod trodden down.
' '
Timotoils, 'hj the rdlgar is here ns^d for fiirions or'passionate.

I'o tine, to shut, fence, tine the d6or, shut the door. a6 AS*
'
tytian,tH in^loite,ifenoe,hedga, or teen.
K^lh Utile as an aug-
Too too" ns^ %tôV"t9|j

foi;rerj w^Lor good.
NORTH COUNTRY WORDS^ Q53.
Toem or tume ; empty ; a taom purge makes a bkU [u e. bash-

,
fal j merchanU Prov. Manifeste d Danico 'I'oin^

vacuus, inaHis,
To toweoH; to. wonder or mnse wâfr one means to do.
tn^her, a dower, or dowrjr.
A Dial^ Cumb,
Toothy peevish, crabbed. f
Tranty, wise and forward above their age, spoken of children.

The same with atidfarand.
Trout^ onrds taken off the whey when jit is boiled ; a rastic
yffned, in seme places they call them trottera4.
To turn wool, to mix wool of divers colonrs.
A twUl, a spople, from quill. In the Sonth. they call it winding
qfquilMSfbecause antiently, J suppose, Uiey wound the
yarn upon
quiUa lor- the weavers, tho* now they use reeds. Or else reeds
were, called quUls, as in lialin, ctdaniL Fur quills, or shafts of
bird's feathers, are now called calamu because they are employed "
for the same one of writiipf,which of old reeds only were, and. to
thu day ^re, in some parts of the world. The word used
pen, now
for the instrument we write with, is no other than the Latin

penna, which signifiestlie qfull, or bard feather of any bird, and
if a very, proper word for it,because pens our are now piade of
such quills,which, at. I said, were antiently made of reeds.
Treenumre, earthen vessels.
tivitter,to tremble, it TenU. tittern,treraere, ntru^que
To aôno.
Actum. This is a word of general use. My heart twitters^, ,To
tipitter thread* or yam, is to spin it uneven^ generally u^ aJbo
iB.lhiaiense. ".
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A tye-top, a garland. L.
.,
,:.; ." ".. U "
""
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U-hach; n-block, "J-c. v. yn-baeh, ^. ""'::'*..,

Umstrii, astride, asCridlands.
. , ,
Vinerous, hard to please.

Unbeer, impatient
Ure ; udder.
To be urkd, it is spoken of soth as do n6t grow. Henee an
urlttig, a little dwarfish In the Sou" they call siick

person.
knurUs.
Iff
....,, ...
( .:w
-
A walker, a fuller, a vxdk^ll, ":ftiUing*niUl;ii Bdg. wa)clnr"*
fttllo,hock verb. Belg. walchen, Jt. gnal care,. -pan nos premare,
calcare. Tettt. walcken, polire,omnia jOijedo " Lai. Ckl-
pannum
care. Skinner. .^ '.
.
To vmlly, to coqner, or indulge.: *
.
Walch; iniiipid,fre8fa,-wftt^rtsfa;i^
the South, 11^0 say^troUruM^,
meaning somewhat nauseous. -.;.' ,1:
WaUitig; i. e. boyUflg, it is now in frequent* use anMi^.Ihe

salt-boilera at Nurthwyoh, Nauptwyofa, "o.
Z 2
3i"n NORTH COUK-rXV WOHD6*
T)" vfalt,t" toller" or lean one wajt to oTerilironry itmn tlie

old SaxoD V9("ltaufto tombl^ or rowl) whence -our weltring in
blood, or ratberiVtMh the Saxon vtealtiein',
to rtMil'Or sta^|;"fr.
The
wang-toothy jaw4eolh, wimg, vong^, the od AS. VMndibula,
Wone todh seu potius wongtodh, den" caninui,
"Wankle, Hniber,. flacoidi tiokllaih, ftckle, wavering.
A wantf a mole, ah AS. wand. Talpa.
IfiM*,worse, war "nd war; worse and worse. Van Diait'.
To WMTch, or wafirk ; to ake, to work, ab AS, wark, dîor,
Uti'umque, a work.
'to waryt "Lancath, To cotm, ab AS. warian, verigan, ex"'
crari, diris devovere. To viaryt Le. lav an

egg*
To VMTt ones money, to bdstow it well, to laj it oat id wave.
WeeAi^t, that bath conqaered any disease, or difficulty,

aud is
steure against the fdtnre, also welt -stored, or furnished.
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To ârp, tb lay eggs, a hen watpt. The smne'with iewy,
A t0ftrt^,a water-ford : I find that wmth\\n the old Saxon sigw
uifies the shoar.
Waratead, nsed in that sense : q. Walerslead.

TfV" m", woe is me : Vhtr. DkU* lYorkih,'
Way*bit, a Kttle pieoe/alittle way; a mile and ai wtty l"it.
Way-bread; plantain; ab AS. wseg-hnede^ so oall^ becanse
growiiig eri^y therein streelai and ways.

fTeafcy; moist.
Mown gkvtS8wetk"i that is/dri"il in Ordo^ to bMomtiig K"7"
To for
toilt, wither, spoken of green herbs or flowers, it tt gekieriA'
word. ''
To welter, to go heaVSyi as women

aside, with child, or fat
or
people from the old

Sax^n ve^fJ^* tp reel or sta^^ger, or dse
;
rom the Saxon wettan, ijo tumble or rowl^ whfsloe weltmriog in
fblood.
To wear the pot ; to cool it.
To weat the bead, to look it. r. g. for lice.
H^CQôrtft yo", W09 lMiU4e.yfî}. .
Weet or wite ; nimble, swift ; used also in the Sooth.

Weir or waar; Northnmberlud, sea-wrack, alga marina, from
tbe old Saxon waar, alga marina, fnous marinas. The Thanet
mBiiJ^nitb3afencr"]MlHt #o"eoi" wooîb : -
." -I^dianeer,.aiap. ""
.
" "
-; ".'. "
".' '
-!.'IV" wend', togot. " 'r/.-'i'.- "" ; -

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Westy ; dizzy, giddy. ^
HÂorre, crabs: as sowr as u?i|ê,"CheshhnK

A isheady nttie/t JoAg ttik, a nrild lonjârthtoi it-seems to ll)e.
,
Us^ in Shropshire. .
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'Wkftam orfohdtm; ntar,: close, no ar ao .wind can enter it ;
also yery handsome and "cxmrenff nt Ibrr.oBri' n, h lies wkeiî

XORTH COUNTRY WQBDa* 557
forme, Che^.a6. A$. geoweme, gr"Ufti1.aooepUbliB, pleasant,fit.

Whetimaw, nimble^' I ai" very uheamtw, the old vHma$i,
qi/Lotk
when she stejA in4fith" miik-kaiffit,
Prov. "
.
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A whee, or vhey, an )mI^v .

The only .wood ved here (in t^
East Riding^ of Yorkshire) in that sense.
A toheen-ciftta qiieeiM)"t.: catiif fjaemm- iThat,i|aQett'!mis

used by the Sucons to signifythe female sex, appeals in " that
QVWVfiigolîrMuaadfor tLhe^'tqfyr]^^
A vActnt lad, q. qaeint,a. fine lad^ innufit.difitutiHyCMk^yagy,
Dial* AUo ounniQg, snbMe.
A vfhinner-neibâ lean, sparie*faoed
man* WMnwer, I suppose
is the name of some bird that nsnally builds whins, haying, a in
slender bill or neb. Mr. Brokesby, I rather, take it to be the
name of some )nrd that freqp^ts t|iey^f^lbfKB,.. " M
.
1l^trftetieii,."hoaked,,simngle(|;
; ,... ...", .;: ,; ...
,
A whisket, a basket, a skofitle

or.shamw pa^-t,, "
", .
To white, requite,as (rod white gf^m, diJ^rjîii^yiMij

to Cheth,
Var. Dial, while pro quite,quiteêrapheresin pro requite.
To white, to blame : You lean all the white off your sell,i. e.
You remove all the blame from yoni"sd" V. miu. "
l^"miUi,t6 blame: ab AS. {Msna, mnletat qi snpplieianu Chau-

eer uMth the word for blame. .
,
To whmiK, CkeA* to covjsr or whelm, over. WewiU net hill

kit whoavet Picor,-Cheih, Spoken of a pig or foiw] that they iMTe
.
overwlielniiedwith some Tessel in readiness to kill, ab AS.hmvX,

.
kwaif^'A eonlring.or oaiopy ^ verb, hwalfian,earaerare^ fomiMire.
Te "iiddlerto fret ^' '"'"""
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"
""
;"
" ' H^ger^ "troBg." A w^gjer fellow.
olear-pitoh'd ^
The wikes of the mouth, the corners of the mouth;^ "

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To wiszle, to get any tilingaway slily.' '
"
Awhowhiskin, a whole great drinking pot^r .to^ benu^^the

Cheshire dialect for whole, and a wfctifcin^
signifyinga. bBaok
"
i'"
pot. '= "
Whoak^t erery joinl^shook every jbintii Cheah.. \ i-
A wiegh, or waagh^ a leavelr, a wedge^. ab ASiîm^pt, ponJIf^,.

massa,
iStra. ^
.
/ I,
-J. :-.t\:...' ^," i ":.i'-.i: -i^
^
WiUem, wilful^ it AS.

Saxmfi:imUer,.i"tVaing^ weaUe,.
peeviA,
cochlea mariAa, Wmai taarinus: ^^n^^P^t^(^yp^P*"ôg,
turbo, cochlea marina, qu" olim ad Imeelnflîlili
'lAeBantur.
Hoc itverbo wealcan, volvere, revolTel"*J

^ttiaioi. cj^ tdna in-
orbem, spirsein modum oontorquetur. SXikiaerC' "*' ";';

' "
A wftitf-^^/aiim^berry,
wlidrflMiWi*^ or
"
A nn5"fcel,
v; ^hiikeU "
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Wifily^qemy.^ '"''':''{.' "
.:'"
."'"."..-...
iyiwit.itIf- -
it "" .
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A wogfc,awall: Lancashire, ab AS^mgi patUi, ^99wheke

in the North wogh is used for wool, by a change of the dialect.
za
iB9 N6ft9ff (fofH^-Pt^ wonos.
yhmum ^-mm'î lo'dNrMI IfMiit or froquMt ; as where

; to
"^""^# wHeMi dw6ll'y"ii^ ib ASk Wwiiiui, gewtmlaa, Jia-
bitare, manere, Belg, vrwmooi iVttt. wobMi imhneu : kafyUare,
i?" "
solet autfrequentat? : .
H^NNfutMiMli^-liolMHl " pM"or|riM6' of tulLlMff:

9. rf. places
wiitkig %""xkb-
Worch-bracco, Chesh, i, e. yiîAt^hAiXki, ^my ^HgMêtirtttl
or imiMIti v^MîiiohM Wtfi%. iW. Dial;
To be toorried, to be ohoaked. Wht"m bt tfie andebt Siotoii
alîliSekio^dMWftty; in WMeh teiUb nê atill aaj, A doj: worries
ahiep.- "".
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A ioftfefH, a-îveaM^.- =
Wrmgle-streas, or afirkw*;' f. e. IIMti, i/^ni'iniidleîtrawa.

A wnÂt, it the only word ik ii"tf'iMre"But Ridiiigrof York-
sUre) a for iMtel^
carpeiitist'/Mr. -
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To'ii^yAAiBlulM^T.idtei
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Yane,oine', ytmcet onH"yVop, DiaL .-" m.- j.- ^
YkriêOTetMM* iit#liaUisli.
4eiiMi"i" "agar"altfoîiiaiblfl""ited;^
It is used also in ike South, h TtiU. guh^fmwidu$p
Htdmn-
ptomfiUi, pmcepi, mpatkim: geafaa pntcîtitt,'ôaveiiy /"riere"
"i|$MrMiefr8; vel pmmm de/km mnht iii JS. ^fearo^ gcin**-
Chaitcttfo MtoMi yaite, ^MrMva, prMipiiu^- 4"" *^ SMimite- eict|mB
.
Tatf|iittotiNt6"""ividat'CljîM^"6i""
Qeosn, gtudJMm, i"rftrfMr".
dt%en", tttfentits. Spoken of grass orpastuMs, ii:i"ftiasK fatten.
leardly, valde; ywrUy^ mnob, yrartiiy gi"Bt". that it very
great* u*-
The yeender, or eendev^ thei Ibreaeoli, Peri^tA*

s.'-AfliM, aigat^.
"-.Sifeandfr,
yooder,! Far Biot
yetod, or yod,went; yetoing, going; ab AS. Kode, tvt^, it"f
fecit,amcessit,.immhiU^^'""hmii89fo
j%d^ y^dani yoiw effdemimsu,
.Sfmteî riao-inBisltaigg'Qneen, Hbt i. e" tOfc ^
He that the blood-red billows like a wall, "
/. "" wiibliiMTia^
Ouitffber.iMîsârlM ',
.,-;-; v'âH')naivwk4i;j#74(8i"t.t|^^
'
illiMialrinnnf Juommj i. i
..
iir9fn,OT9A| F#r. 4î0^ .,.-, '.,,.,
. o.,
To3foi0êr^tQ.|iqi|||9r/
.",..,,..
block f yurgams, Christmof-gtaties,

db AS, ikM ,"""" 4ule-
i
.
dag fiotoUs CAriitt; hoc forte a Xottno. jpibttwhiiSXli^r.

Hefrriep^
Yvcfc, Xmc. a Be^. Jeuckeoi joookeii^raAt* JteBclu"#j;riirtre
:
260 SOUTH AND EAST COUNTRY WORDS.
A hillard, a bastard oapon. Suss,

The bird of the ey; the sight or P"{h1, St^. '
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Blighted corn, blasted oorn. Suss, Blight idem quod milldew,
i. e. mel roscidum vel roscida quiedam melligo fruges cor-
quae
ruipit : aesoior an 4 Teutr Bieych, pallidas,k colore scilicet,
Skmner,
Bogge; bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very hog fellow.

A bmmbyt a deep plaee of mure and dang, a filthypnê.
A hugge, any insect of the scambei kind. It is, I suppose, a
word of general use.
Budge; adject Bride, jocund. Yoa are Tery budge. To

budge, Tcrbaliy, is to stir or move" or walk in which sense
away,
it is, 1 of general use.
suppose^
A hoftalf a way up a hill, Sums.
Boudts,i.e. weevils, an insect breeding in malt, Ke"tf.Su"s. Essr,
Boumt i. e. swelled, Nerf. [they call it crap.
Brcmk, buck-wheat. Eta. Suff. In some countries of England
A brâk, i. e.
plowed land the first year after it hath lain faU
low. in the- sheep-walks, Nerf. [ed from bridle.

To bricken bridle
; to op the head. A mstio word oormpt-
A sow gooft to hrimtne, i. e. to boar. Of use also in the North.
JBrins bring it hither, Suff. Var, Dial.
itkUker,
To hrite ; spoken of hops, when th^ be over*ripe and shstter.
To brook up ; spokm of clonds, wh^ they draw together, and
threaten rain, they are said tf" brook mp^
TA" briitte; to browse^ Sum. 'Dial
The buck, the breast. Suss, t
it is used for the body, or the
trunk of the body ; in Dutch and old Saxon, it signifiesthe
belly, the buck of a cart; i. e. the body of a cart

JBucfcsome; blithe, jolly, fVoKck, chearly; Some write it
husome', ab AS, bocsum, obedient, tractitbilis,

hoc k Tcrbo
Iwigan flectere, q. d; flexibilis quod confirmatnr, quod apod

: ed
Chaocenun buxumness exponitur lowliness, Skinner. ] it is used

also in the North.
A bud, a weaned calf of the first year. Suss, hecttasp the horns
"re then in the bud. .
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Snllimeng, oats, pease, and vetches mixed. Ess: [drum*

A buttal, a bittern, k Jbntino buCeo. Iti the North a mtre-
.-.,
"
c-
A caddoWf a jack-daw, Narf. In Gomfralithey oa)Vtbe guil'
liom a kiddaw..
Corpet-woy,i..e. green"!W"y.. "
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A cadma, tiie least

the pigs which a, sew of
hath.44,oi|" hrt;
cpmmonlj they have one that ^s signallyless tjbsn tjierest ; it is
also called the whu^nock, [place. ...
A carre, a wood of alder, or other trees, in a moist, boggj

A cart^rake, Ess, A cartrtrack,, in 8ome,,coui^ti:iea call^ a
SO^tJTH ANJ) EA^T COUNTRiY WO;RP6, 20l
cart-rot, improperly, for whedier

but more, it b* eart-irafaSt
or
cart-track, the etjmologjr is maaifest* but not so of

orijgînall/
cart-ruL
Catch-land, land which is not known

certaitiljr to what parish
it belonji^th; and the minister that irst gets the tithes qf it joys
en-
it for that Norf, ["*$$"

year.
A chaviskf chatting a among ^reat aianyy
or pratHi)|^noise a
Chmel^, hv^n, a Te%U*_ kiesellj laliqua, Gluma, Sutx Kent,

It is a\fo iiABd in the North.
Itie churchrlitten, ^ oharch-yard, Sxus, WilU fort, ah AS*
ÛedaOfTût. lieyteii.ducere, q. d. via.duceos ad templam,
A chuck, a great chip, Suss. In other countries titey oidl it

Cle^, i. e. stiff,Kent.
Clever ; oeaU smooth, cleanly wrought, dextrous ^ "Fr. G.
teger,cleaverly, q. d. LegeHv^ Skinner. Of ose also in the
North.
A cobweb
morning ; a misty morning, Korf.
A combe
; a valley, Devon. Corn, ab AS. Comb, comp. k Ci
^F" edqne antiqMo Gailico kom, ewmm, unde deflnxit OaUtoum

reoens combe, vallis utrinque coUibus obstta. Skinner, "
Acwfmb, or eoumb of "ôrn^ half a quarter, a Fr. Q. oomble

.
ntrudfqoe k Lat. cumulus. .
A coh-iron, an andiron, "Est*Leicestersh,

A C0li,a wicker-basket tp carry open the arau So a^Ma4 9oh,
or seed-lib,is such a basket for so wmgi
To i. to chop exchange, used by the coasUrt of
cope; e. or
Norf. sis* "c. at also Yorkshire.

A cosset lamb, or colt, j[C i. e. a eade Umb, a lamb or oolt
brought up by the hand, â^. Sufi This .irpr4 Br.Hammend,

Ipi,
.bia AjuiolatioBS "oa the lêw Testanmaf,, p. 556.
Act, "af" T,
derir^s from the Hebrew HDUpp sigoiîng r lamb.

.Ciu(t""rd,
the head. UUi^ kindf of opprobMUHw Mroffd" vsei bjr
way of
contempt.
Acottrel, Comw, Denwh. A CranMil tohaiv tiie potion
over the fire. Used also in the North.
-A pmft,tk)im\9^ kari"o"r f^r boalai ITtft Couiitry. Uatd also

^
in the North. fdMt
ôiPM.
To cowe, to rnck down, ut mulieres solent ad mingendum, ab
It. Covare; Fr, G. couver, iooubare, hoc a Lat. cubare. It
aeema t6 be a general lArord.

Aeowi, aiub, JEss.
..
A cowslip,that which is elsewhere called an pxeslip.

A a small beer-vessel.
cragge,
A erateh^tmU; a kite;- milvns caodk fordpati.
Cranfc; brisk, merry^ jocund, Essex. SanoH, integer: sint qui
derivant k Belg. 4t Teut, Kranek, quod prorsus oontraiium so^
26S 80VTH AND^ EAST COUNTKY WORDS.
flegram sig^nificat.Ah itfiis anteiii antipbrasibtis

tolas abhorrco"
Mallem ig^tor deducere aban rt\ Onkranck, noir asgêr, omissa
per injuriam temporis iniliali sjllab^. Skinner, It is used alsa
in YorksliirfT, Mr. Broktsby.
Cnp, darnel. Suss. In Worcestersbire and otber ooontries
tber call back-wheat crap.
'
Cr^le, coarse meal, a decree better than bran, a Lcftno cibmn,
A criteh, "n
earthen-pot to pat batter or the tike in, ab AS,
Croca, Teut, kragf. Belg. krogb, kroegh, C. Br, crochan, Dan,
kriick, olUifietilutvasJietiU,urceîs. Skinner.
To crock, Ett, To black one -with soot, or 'black of a pot or
kettle, or chimney-stock. This black or soot is also sabstantivel j

called crock.
Crones, old ewes. [craves,
A crated, or critck; nifallor k Lert. crtttiea,traticula.
a rack ;
Crawly mawly ; indiiSerentlywell, Ncrf\
A culveTf a pigeon or doTc, ab AS, Culfer, columba*
D
Dt^f dew
upon the grass. Hence daggle-tail is spoken of a
woman that hath dabbled her coats with dew, wet, or dirt
It dares me, it pains or grieres me, jEss. ab AS, Dare sigiihj^
ing hurt, harm, loss. Used also in the North.
A dUling; a darling, or best-bek^Ted child.
A dibble, an instroment to make holes in the groond wltb" for
settingbeans, pease, or the like. Of general use.
Diiîrmeatf
spoon-meat^ jKent.
To ding, to sling.Ess. In the North It signifies to beat
A dodman, a shisll-snail,
or bodmandud, Noif, '
" A dohe, a deep dint or farrow, Ess, Suff,

A tfool, a long, narrow green in a plowed ifeld,witb plovwcd.
land on each side it ; a broiid balk. - Forti k dkle, a vallej, be"
cause when standing com grows on both sidea it, it appears like
a valley. Of use also in the North.

'
A douter, an ektingoisher,qu. do"nttr. '
A drasUlf a dirty slut

To drill a man in ; to deoay or- flatter a mian iiit0|
asy tbhtg^
To drill,is to make a hole with a piercer or gittilet '
'
E
EUinge, solitary, Inuely, melancholy, far from neighbonrs, ^
elongatus, Suff. k Galileo esloigner. Ellende in the ancient Suxqb
signifiesprocul, far off, far from.

Ernf'ul; i. e. lamentable.
Ersk the that eiish, tho stubble after the com is cut,
; same
Sius, Edisc is an old SjuLon word signifyiog sometimes routings,

af'termtlhes.
SOUT,H AJSD EAST COUNT:I^V W,OR0S. ^3
. .
F
Faity'Bparks,or dxeUfire, Kent, oflen seen on doatks in the
Bight. ..."
A fare of pigs is so many as a sow bringeth forth at one time.

To farrow, is a word pecdliar^to a sow's bringing forth pigs.
Oar langvftge abounds in tumeMflsary w"xt]s of this and other
kinds. So a sheep is said to yean, a cow to calve, a mare to foal,
a bitch to whelp, ^c. All which words signify no more than
parere, to bring forth. So for sexes we haye the like stiperflaous

words, as horse and mare, bull and oow) ram and sheep^ dog and
bitch, boar and sow, ^. Whereas the difference of sex were
belter signifiedby a termination.

t'eabei,
or feah^rries,gooseberries, Saff. LeiccsUrsh, Thebes
ill Norfolk. :
Fenm/i t. e. mouldy, fenny chcosc, mouldy cheese^ Kent, Ab

AS, fennig, miicic^tM.
Fimble hemp, early ripe hemp.
Flags, tbe surface of tlie earth, wbicU they pare off to burn,
tlie upper In rf, Norf. [gastered.
To ftaite; affright or to scare. FiaiUd is the same with
hjiaiket ; a long shallow basket.

FoUon, orjison, the natural juice or moisture of tbe grass, or
other herbs. The heart and strength of il, Sftff,

k Gallico foissou*
ner, abondare, velfortea Teut, feist, piogiiis.
Footing time, Norf. is the same with upsettingtime in York-
shire,
when the puerpera gets up.
Afostcd,forteforestal ; a way leading from, the highway to a
great house. Suss,
Frampald, or frampard ; fretful,peevish., cross, froward. As

froward comes from from, so mvky frampard.
Afrower, an edge-tool cleaving lath. used in [frangere.
To frase,to break, Norf. It is likêlyfrom the Latin word
Frobly mohly, indifferently
well.
To gatter, to affrightsuddenly.
scare, Gastred, perterre-
or
iactus: ab AS. gast, spiritfls, umbra, spectrum, q. d. spectri ali-

ci^QS. vian territus, vei q. d. gastrid vel ridden, i, e* a speotro
aliqoo wfA ephialle invasus " quasi iaequilatus.Skinner, It is a

word of common use in Essex.
A gattle-head,Cambr. A forgetful person, ab AS* ofer-geotol

"
4"Himosus; immemor.
.
[something.
To gaincope, to go cross a field the neiirest way, tf^ meet "with
Gant, slim, slender. It is, I

suppose, a word of generi^ nse.
.Gatteridge-tree is comus fiemina, or prickwoq4i. and yet gat-

teridge-berries are the fruit of euo)ii^7nu5 tHeophrasti,Ue,spindle-
tree, or loose berry. "",..:
Garc"bram% very heedless. Hare-bfm|A'4 wm^
it fl"9. in'^he
964 SOV^tB AND EAST COUNTRY WORDS.
same the hare being a T^ry timorous creature minds

^scnse ; uo-
thlttgfor ter of .th* deg"" rosbea apan any thimg, Garuk is the
same, signifying one that is as 'twere in a fright,and so lieeds
Botfaiag.
Buaan, cameiby/ Est,
tiudne, kird to " "
A giUet"m^great o"dgd, noli as'tbe)*throw-op trooi to boot

down tholniiir
A gill; a riroloCy a beeir, fkm*
A gtmie^, an inslramentto bore a smaH hole, called alsd a scDrew.
A gaffe } a mom ot bay or corn, "w.
Gois-gwd, yeast, barm, KenU Karf. Suff.

Gole, big, large, full and florid. It is said of rank com or
that the leaf, blade, or ear is goal. So of a young cockrel,

grass,
when his comb and gillsare red and tnrgid wilh bUiied,"that be
is goo/. [bellylike a jug.
A gotchf a large earthen or stone drinking pot, wilh a gpreat
A goyster, to be froUck and
ramp, to laugh aloud. Sum, Used
"also in Yorkshire.
Gweta ;
Somersetshire. Canales, cloacae, san senfine subter-
raNeae,^proculdnbio" Fr. G. gouttes, gutse, it inde verb. Esgou-

ter, gultatim transfluere. Cm aia manifested Lat. gutta. Skinner.
A grainâffya qfiarter^ Staff,with a shoit pair of tines at Uie
end, which they call grains. "
To gratie } to ehoak or throttle.

gravif or
A gratum^ an etvh or eddish, Susgex, Stubble, Kent,

The of the morning, break of day, and from thence till it
grmf
be clear light. That part of lime that is oomponnded of light and
darkness, as grey is of white and black, which answer thereto.
A grippe, or grtiidUt; a small drain, dttohi or gutter.
A hagester,a magpie, Kent.

A hede, Suffli. e. A trammel in tlie Essex Dial. Y. Tr^mel*
A haw, Kent. A close, ab haga sen
AS. hseg, ageNulus seu
cors juxta domum, hoc ab AS.'hegian sepire.

To hare, to afiVight,
or mkike wild ; to go harwnistarMii
To htnl,io coter. Suss, As, to heai thefitet rckml a house;
to heal a penonmhed, i. e. 1o cover them, ab AS; beiliii',
toliide,
coi*er, or heal.' Hence hi the west, he thiit aor^M a Itbiise witli
slates, is called a healer or helUer.

To kie, lA-make haste, ude hUh haste.
Handm, or helm, stubble gathered after Ae com is limed ^5

AS. boaliiSiMefan, ttipala, cnlmns. Omnia i Lat ealatfds vel
cOflmo^.
Hw8, yovBg sheep, Northamptotsh, Used also In ,the âme

aense in Ybrinhire.
Hoddu,'we\\, pleasant,in good tun^; or hnsAW.

SOUTH AND EAST COUNTRY WORDS. 265
A how, primounced as mow and throw, a narrow iron rake

without teeth, to cleanse gardens from weeds, rostrum GaUicum*
A homicUf a hornet. Suss, Dial. [hoiagoeyow tongue.
To kotagoe, to more nimbly, spoken of the tongae. Suss* xou
A holt; a wood, an ancienliSaxon word.

Hover groitnd, u e. lightground.
To hummer, to begin to neigh ; vox onomatojHSum,
I
Tub door stands a jarr, t. e. The door stands half open, Ntnf,
Ajugglemear ; a quagmire, Devonsh,
An ice-bone, a rump of beef, Norf,
K
Kedge, brisk, budge, lively,iSt^
A keeve, Devon, A fiit wherein they work their beer op fore
be-
they turn it.
Kelter, or kilter,frame, order, procoldnbio (inquit Skinnerus)

"" Dan^ opkillersuccingo, kiUer, ciogo, vel forte a voce oultura.
Non absurde etiam deflecti posset a Teut, kelter, torcular, SJatt'
nertU, quern adi sis.
The the
kerf'e, furrow made by the saw, Sussex, Essex,
A kerle of veal, mutton, "c. A lion of those meats, Devon,
A kidder, badger, huckster, or carrier of goods on horsebacl^.
Ess. SiLss. [cart-horses.
A knacker, one that makes collars and other furniture for
KnoUes, inmeps, Kent.
L
To lack, to dispraise.
A largess,largitio,a giltto harvest-men who
particularly, cry
"a largessso many times as there given. It is also used
are pence
generally by good authors for any gift.
A lawn in a park, plain untitled ground.
Laye, as lowe in the North, the flame of fire, tlio' it be
peea-
liarlyused for the steam of charooal, or other burnt coal,
any
and so distinguished from flame, as a more general word.
A leap, or Ub, Suss, half a bushel. In Essex a seed-leap,or
lib; is a vessel or basket to com in, "hi the arm to sow. ah
carry
AS, ssed-leap,
a seed-baskeL [Suss,Aent.
To lease and leasing,to glean gleaning, spoken of com,
and
A letch or lech; a vessel to put ashes in to run water through*
to make lee or lixivium for washing of ojloaths. A back.
Lee, or lew ; calm, under the wind. Suss,
As leve; as willingly, as good, spoken off a ttuag

lerf,or
equally eligible. Lever, in ChoMtcer, signifiesrather, thp' tMs
comparative be not now in use with as.
A three or Jour-way Iceti irivium vol whtra

qaadririuiDi thite
or fonr ways neot*
266 SOUTH AKD BAST COUNTRY WORDS.
'
A l^, i. e. a stile that may be opened like a gate, Norf,
lAther, lithe,flexible. It is ased also for lazj, slothfol.
Litten, V. churcli"litten. Lio-tane Saxonice caBiniterium.
Lizen'd corn, q. lessened, i. e. lank, or shrank corn, Suss,
Long it hither, reach it hither, Suffi

A loop,a
pails,or joined together like a gata, to be
rail of bars
removed in and out at pleasure.
Lourdy; sluggish, Sum Prom the French lonrd, socors, ig-

navns, lourdant, lourdin bardos. Dr. Hfy/in, in his Geography,
'will have Unirdon for a slug"jî"li,
Uzy fellow, to be derived from
Liord Dane, for that the Danes, wiieo ihey were roasters here, were
distributed singly into private liuuses, and in each palled the
Liord Dane, who lorded it there, and lived sock a slothful idle life.
A lynchettfa green balk to divide lands.
M
A mad, an earth worm, Ess. From the High Dutch madea.
Mazzards, black cherries, West country.

A meag, or meak; a pease-hook. Ess.
A mere, i. e. lynchet.
To be mxrWd, or merk*d, to be troubled or disturbed in one's
mind, to be startled, probably from the Saxon merk, signifying

dark.
Misagffi, mistaken, misgiven, Suss.

A mixon, dung laid on a heap, or bed, to rot and ripen, Silss,
Kent. I find that this word is of general use all over England.
Ab. AS. mixen, sterquilinium, utr. a meox, simus, hoc forte a
fflisceo " miscela ; quia est misoela omnium alimentorum.

A tnodher, ormodder, mgihther, a girl,or young weneh ; used
all over the eastern parts of England, v. g. Es. Suff.Norf. Camhr,
From the aiiLient Danish word moer, Quomodo (saith sir H. Spel-
man in Giossario) k Danis ortundi Norfoloiences puellam hodie
"ocant, quod interea rident probi- Angli caoteri, voois nescientes
tattm. Gopio patrio Intelligendum

meo suffragari idiomati.
igitur est Nurfuiciam hanc nostram (quse inter alios aliquot An-
gliom comitatus in Danornm transiit ditionem. An. Dom. dT6.)
Danis maxime habitatam fnisse, eorumque legibus, lingua atqne
moribus imbutam. Claras illi virglncs "c puellas (ut arctoae gen-
lea alise)moer appellabaut. Indc canendo heroum laudes 6c
quas
poemata palmam retulere (teste Olao Wormio^ Scaldmoer, t. f.
yirgines oanlatricej" ; qute in prseliisgloriam ex fortitudine suit
adeptae Sciold moer hoc est scutiferas virgines Bunoup4runt.

Eodem aomine ipsee,Amazones, "c. En quantum in spreta janf
Toce antique gloriae. Sed corrninpi hanc faleor vulg^ri labio,
quod mother matrem sighificansetiam^pro moer, h..e. puella pro*
nunciat.
A tnuckinder, a clotii hung at childrens gircUesto wipe their
268 SOUTH AND EAST CODNTKY WORDS.
Q
Quotted Suts, Clojed, glutted.
R
Bathe, early, Suss. As rathe in morning, i, e. early in the
the
morning. Rathe-ripe fruit, i. e* early fruit, fructus proecoces,

ab A8. radh, radlie, cite.
A riddle, an oblong sort of sieve to separate the feed from the
com, ulj AS. hriddel, cribrum, hoc k hreddan, liberare, qdia so.
cribraiiiio partes puriores a crassioribus liberentar, because it
rids the corn from the soil and dross.
A pedder, dorser,
ripper, a or badger. Suss,
Rising, yeast beergood.

Roughings ; latter grass, after mathes.
RosH, or rosilly; soil, land between sand and clay, neither
light nor heavy. I suppose from rosin, which here in Bsaex the
vulgar call rosilL

To rue ; to sift,Devonsh*
s
To santer about, santering up and down,
or go it is derived
from Saincte terre, i. e. the Holy Land, because erf old time, when
there were frequentexpeditions thither, many idle persons went
from place to place,upon pretence that they bad taken, or in*

tended to take, the cross them, and to thither. It tig*
upon go
nilieA to idle and down, to loitering about
go
up
Say of it, i. e. taste of it. Suff. Say for anay, Aphoere$inp
per
from the French
essayer, and the Italian assaggiare,to try^
assay,
or prove, or attempt, all from the Latin word sapio, which sig^
nifies also to taste.
A scoppertoit,
a time of idleness, a play-time.
A seame of corn of any sort ; a quarter, eight bnshds, 1^, ab
AS. " hoc fort^ k Gneco load, burthen*
seam, aayfia, a a %
horse-load ;
it seems also to have signifiedthe quantity of eight
bushels, beiog oftsn taken in that sense in Matth* Parii. Somner*
A seam of wood ; an horse-load : Suts. ejusdem originis.
iSear, dry, opposed to green, spoken only of wood, or the parti
of plants, from the Greek iffpogaridus. Hence perhaps woodican
Seel, or seed, time or season ;
It is a fair seel^'or
you to come at^
i. e. a fair season or time ; spoken ironically to them that como
late.Ess. ab AS. seel time. What seel of day? What^me of day ?

To go sew, i. e. to dry, Sum. spoken of a cow.
go
A show, a wood that ennom a close. Suss, ab AS soawa
passes
umbra ; a shadow. [" shoveL
A shawle, u shovel to winnow withal, ûst. ridetur contractu ni
A shtat, a young hog, Suff. In Essex they call it a shote, both

from shoot.
SOUTH AND EAST COUNTRY WOKDS. 269
Shie or ihyt apt to startle and flee from you, or that keeps off
and will not come near. It. scliifo, d Belg, scliouwen, schuwen,
TeuU schowen, vitare, Skinner. Vox est generalis,
Sheld, flecked, partj-ooloiired,Suff,inde shel-drake and sheld-
fowle, Suu.
To shimper, to skimmer or sliiiie,Sus. Dial.
A showel, a blind for a cow's made of wood.
eyes,
To thurit to shoTe, Suu. Dial.
Sibberidge or sibbered, the banes of matrimony, Suff,ab AS,
tjb, sjbbe, kindred, alliance, affinity.

A shuck, an husk or shell, as bean-shuoks, bean-shells, per
"AnagratntnatismumrS huak forte, [working.

Sizzing,yeast or barm, Suss, from the sound beer or ale in
Sidy, surly,moody. Suss,
Sig,urine, ohamber lie.
Sile ; filth,because usually it subsides to the bottom.
Simpson, grounsel, senecio. Ess. Suff.
A size of bread, and cue of bread, Cambridge, The one nifies
sig-
half, the other one-fourth part of a half-penny loaf. That
is nothing of quadrans is
oue but
q, the first letter quarter or
manifest. Size comes from scindo. \

Skaddle, scathie; ravenous, mischievous. ab AS, Suss, Skade"
harm, hurt, damage, mischief; or scdcdan, loedert, nocere, Vrbv.
")ne doth the skathe, and another hath tiie scorn ; i. e, one doth
the harm, and another bears the blame. Supra among the North-
em Words. [skip,a bee-hive.

A skip or skep; a basket, but not to carry ; a bee* in the hand
Skrow; surly, dogged; used most adverbially,as to look

shrow, i. e. that is to Ipok sowrly, Suss.
Skeeling,an isle,or bay of a bam, Stiss,.
To skid a wheel si^flaminare, with an iron hoop fiuteo"
; rotam
ed to the axis to keep it from turning round upon the descent of
a steep hill, Kent.

.
A slappel,
a piece,a part, or portion, 5^s.
To slump; to slip, or fall plum down into any dirty, or wet
place. It seems to be a word made per ononuttopoiianfrom the

sound.
A snagge, a snail. Suss, Dial.
A snurle, a pose or cold in the head, corysa, Suff.
Span new, very new, that was never worn or nsad. So spick
and span new.
The snaste; the borat week or snuff of a candle.
A snathe; the handle of a sithe.
A spurget tagge, ; piece of wood
a or to hang any thing upon.
A spurre-toay; a horse-way through a man's ground^.wbioh
one may ride in by. rightof cvstom.
To. spurh up ; to springishoot, or brisk np.
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270 SOUTH AND EAST COUNTRY WOIt]"8*
To squirm ; to move very nimbly about^ after Uke mftaner of a"
eel. It M spoken of an eel.

To tummerland a gpround, to lay it fallow a ye"r,.Suff.
A iolter, or solar
,
an upper chamber or loft^lLatino solariunu
To iguat, to braue or make flat by leltiBgfall. Activif Suss*
A staffeof cocks, a pair of cocks.
A stank ; a dam or bank to stop water.
Stover for cattle ab GaU

; fodder : estover,
hollow in any part of field.
A suwnp ; a low place k
Tlie steal of any thing, i e. manubrium^ The hand]", or pedU

cuhis, the foot-stalk : " Bel^, steel, stele. Teut, stiel jêtiolus,
A speen, or spene; a cow's pap;, Kent, ab AS. spaiia nutmm^p.
uhera, [only owd by the vulgar..
A sosse-hangle; a laxy "Penoii,a' rustic word,.
s1attisb".s}attsering,
A stew ; a pool to preserve fish for the table ; to be drawn and
filledagain at pleasnre.
stolyhouse, t. e. a dutter'd, dirty house, Suff,
A
A strand i one of the twists of a line,^be it of hors"-hair on-
oaghtdse. Suss.
A stound, a Utile whitie, 5i#. ^ a stand.
The strigfthe foot-stalk ofany fruit,petiolus,
SosSb
Stamwoodf the root of trees stubbed np" Suss,

A
stuckUng, an apple-pasty or pye Suss,
"
Stufhet,a posnet or fkillet, Suss". [victuals^ Es%.

A UuU, a luncheon, a great pieee of bread, cheese or othof-
inflexible,
jltltrry, sturdy and stiff;stowre is used in the samt*
sem^ and spoken of doth, in opposition to Umber.

A stut, a gnat; Sommersct, db AS, Stut, culex.
^
Stover, fodder for cattle; as hay, straw, or the Uke, Ess. fron^
the French estourer fivere, according to Cowel. Spelman re-
dnoet it from the Frestch estoffe matertay j* ettuffer,necessaria-
tumeditmre,
Swads, pods of pease, or the like pulse.
To sweale, to singe or bum, Sus, A swealed pig, a singed {tig;:
ab AS, suodan, to kindle, to set on fire,or burn.
To tmrrlf, to aoarl as a dog doth. Suss,
T
A tagge,sheep of the first year.
a Suss.
Techy, i. e. touchytpeevish, cross, apt to be angry.

To tede grass, to spread abroad new mowen grass, which is the-
fir^t Ihing that is done in order to the drying it,and making it
into hay.
Tewly, pr tuly, tender, sick : tnty stomached, weak stomached.
To toll,to entice or draw in, to decoy or flatter, aa the bell
lulling calls in the people to the church. [a iieve or sierce.
Temse-bread, i. e. sifted bread, firom the Funch word iamis,
Very tharky,very dark, Suss,
SOUTH AND KA8T COUNTRY WORbs. 271
A theave, an ewe of tUe first year, En,
Ticlung, Devmth, C"mw. selling op torres that to thej maj

b" dried by the aan, and fit to bam upon land.
To tbue or tmti candle, to light it,ab AS. Tynan, eceendere"
kmc tinder.
A toOTf, or half
tofet, a banhel', Kent, h twUro two, AS. Tu,
duo, 4* ^ fnen99^ram nnUts pecci signantt, a peek.
A trammel, an iron instrument hanging in the chimney, where*
"n hang pots or kettles over

to the fire,Et$,
Trtaf,peevish, frnward" pettish,Tory apt to be angry.
A tuwtirel,
a dang oart.
Troselfor truetSt patten* for women, Sufi

"
A trip of sheep, t. e, a few sheep, Norf.
A trug, trey for milk,
a or the like, Sussex Dial.
To truU, to trandle" per ecntraetionem, Sum.
V
To vang, to answer for at the- font as godfather. He tNing'dto*
wu tt the vant, Somersetshire, in baptitteriopro me suKepit, ab'
AS. Fengau^ to receive, also to nndertake, verto f in r, pro-
wtore locL
Vellmg, plowing- np- the turf, or upper sorface of tlie ground^,

to lay on heaps to bam. West country,
A voor, a furrow, Suss,
A voUow, a fallow. Suss. Generally in the West country they
use V instead of^ and s instead of s.
yritk; etherings, or windings of hedges, teneri rami corylf^

^nibus infiexis sepes oolligant " stabiliunt : ab AS. Wrydhan,.
torqnere, dtstorqaere, contratorqnere : wridha, lornm, wride^,
fiiscia,quia sol. hi rami contorti instar lori " fasoioe sepes col*
tigant, Skinner,
w
Wattles, made of ^lit wood, in "uhion gates, wherein
of they
use to fold sheep, as elsewhere in hurdles, Susso tit AS, vfateha,
crates, hurdles.
Welling, or whey,, is heating it scalding hot, in order to the
taking ofi" the ourds. WeUisig or tsalling,in old English, is
boiling.
A wem, a small faalt, hole, decay or blemish } especiallyin
cloth. Ess, oB AS. ioem" a bIot" spot, or blembh.
A were pr ttutr, a pond or pool of water, ab AS. vxer a pond,

fish-
plaoe or for catching and keeping of fish.

a engine
A vokapple way, i. e, where a cart and horses cannot but
pass,
bosses only, Siuss^
A whetden, a simple person. Wesi, [to be"
A 'wheady mil, a mile
beyond expectation,longer than it seema
Whicket for vslhacket',

or quxttte for ûoltce^ i, e. îd pro ftt^
Kent"
272 A CATALOGUE OF LOCAL WORD*.
To whimper, to begin to crj.

A whittUi a double blanket, ^rkich women wear over their
shoulders in the Wefci-countrj, as elsewhere short cloaks, tib AS.
Hwitel, sagum, toga, Utna, a kind of garment, a cassock, an Irish

mantle, ^c. v. Somner,
WiUous bench, a share of tlie husband's estate which widows
in Sussex enjoy,.beside their jujrntnres.
To wimme, Suss, Dial. i. e. winnow.
A wind-row, the greois or borders of a field dug in'orden
up"
to the
carxjing the earth on to the land to mend it. It is called
windrow, because it is laid in rows, and exposed to the wind..

Woadmel, a hairj, coarse stuff, made of island wool, and
brought thence by our seamen to Norf, Suff."c.

Woodcock soil,|pround that hath a soil under the turf thut looks
of a woodcock colour, and is not good.
Y.
Yare, nimble, sprightly, smart, JSuff.
A yaspen, oryeepsen,,in Essex signifiesas- much as oan be takes
up
in bpth hands joined together. GoiUdtnan renders it, vola sea
manipulas, furtean a nostro. Grasping, ilisi propter euphoniam

Uteri oanioli r and
g m y hciMimk sane " vulgatissima nostroe
lingnoe moiatione Iranseunte ; q. d" quantum quis ?ola
compr""
hendere potest, Skinner.
Sussex, for hasp, clasp, wasp,
In they pronounce hapse, elapse,
file. ; for neck, nick; for throat, tbrotte ; forohoak, chocks
wapse,
Sel'n down, let'n standi come again and fet*n anon. C'have eat so
much c'ham quite a quot, Devonsh, %. e. 1 oan eat no I have

more;
cat so mncb tjiatI am cloyed..
A Catalogue of Local Words, paralliledivith British' or
Welsh, by my learned and ingenionsfriend Mr. Edward

Lloyd, of Oxford,
M.Bw The syllables thus marked '
are long^ thus ^
very short
and smart.
Eiiglub. "British,
1'. An ttrk, a large chest fbr 1. Arkh ; Lat. arca" cista,
corn. Bat the modern significationis

a coffin. It is doubtless of thQ
same origin with the Latin
word, though we cannot saji
that all that are so have been
borrowed of the "RmMuts,

"
2. A'u aiUTc"p\ a spider*s 2, is
Coip,and coppifii a. spl-
A CATALOGUE OF LOCAL WORDS. 273
English. BriUsh,
web. Mr. Nicolson gives the der ; but a spider's web we
etymology of this word from call

gwcr cop, and corruptly.
Saxon, I rather think it ginally
ori- Givydyr goppyn.
British, because maining
re-
in use only in Cumber-

land,
3, An aumbry ; a cupboard. 6. Âlmari signifiesthe same
thing in Welsh, but it's now
grown obsolete. I suppose we
might have it of the Normans,
4. Bragget ; a sort of pound

com- 4. Bragod, idem. A mon
com-
drink or metheglin. drink among country ple

peo-
in their feasts or wakeS.
5. A bratt ; semicinctium ex 5. Brathay, rags, brettyn, a
.
vilissimo ftret^]^,woollen cloth. Hi-

paiino, rag,
bernis bredhy'^n.
6. Bravgh wham; a sort of 6. Brwkhan, a sortof Ibymry.
meat ia Lancashire,
7. A capo ; a working horse. 7. Kephyl, a horse. The
Irish call a working horse kap"

pwl. All of the same original
with caballas.
8. A cod; a pillow, A" 8. Kw^d and k6d, a bag.
Codê est pera, marsupinm.
Afattb. X. 10. Gneoi fcc"êa
Itctis byemem imponebant, at
Mtate il/id^nc,
antore Laer-
tin lib. f in Menedemo, Mn
.
Nicokan,
9. A crag ; a rook. In 9. Kraig, a rock. I conjee-
Lyoia cragus mons qnidam est tare this word to be originally
diotas Stephano antore, cnjas British,
etiam meminit Horatins.
Aut Tiridis oragi, "c. Mr.
Iîcolson,
10. Cole or keale ; pottage. 10. Kawl, idem. SeeArmo-
ricanis. This word runs through

many languages, o-* dialects, and
is nothing but the lAtin caulis^
a synonjme of brassica, called
thence colewort.
11 Coppingt the top or roof 11. Koppa, the top of any

.
of a wall. thing.
19. Zâre, harm or pain. V2, DtVa, phrenesis, unde y
^ndharedb,. iusania,,faror.
274 A CATALOGUE OF LOCAL WOKDS.
English. BrUisli.
13. Trinket, " porringer. 13. Tranked, idem.
14. A dub, ft pQol of water. 14. Hibemiftiybyrfons, nobis
dwi/r, aqoa.
1.5. A doublet; dish. 15. 1)wbl"r,m
a Cardiganthirc,
signifiesthe same.
16. A dooL 16. Dot, a meadow by a

river side.
17. An ellmother, 17. Ail^ the second. So that
a step*
mother. perhaps a step-mother might b"
called the second mother..
18. Elden; fewell, ab AS. 18. Aetwyd, the heath.
JBled. Ignis.
19. A garth, a yard. 19. Gardh, a garden.
20. Grig, salopiensibus heath. 20. Gry^g, heath.
21. Grees, stairs. 21. Grisiay,idem. Borrow^
ed doubtless from the French.
22. He, she. 22. Hly she. In tion
pronuncia-
there is no difference.
23. To heal, te cover.
23* Hilio, to cover. Perhaps
we have received it from the-
English, which may be the rea"-
son Dr. Davies hath omitted it

in his Lexicon. It is a word
generally used m North Wales.
24. Helc, bashfuh 24. Gw''yl,bashftil, whicb* in
the feminine gender is vfyl, as
fnerkhvfyl,a bashfol maid ; and

so in some other cases, accord-
iug to the idiom of this guage.

lan-
T. g. y mae ya wfy]".
(e is bMhfal.
25. ITnolI,
a llttte round bin, 25. Kol^ the head. The
ab AS. CnoUe, of a. ^'1* Wales generally dc"
are
top or oop ""
billormoiuitaiii. nominated by melaphors from

some parts of the body. Ex"
gr.. ^cnnênmawr, y pengit"g,
Tal y" Uiykhay,ker'n y bicf'kh,y
vrbn dig ket^n y braikh,y grim'^
mog. Pen signifying a head,.
penglog a skull, tdl the forehead ;.
kern one side of the face, y vron,
the breast; keven the bauk ;
braikh an arm, and krimmog ^
leg.
26. The
speer, the chimney 26. Yspyr, idem.
l?o"t.
"76 A CATALOGUE OF
EngUth, British.
It is a gonend word in nost
countries.
38. Spokes of a wheol. 38. yifpogvy,legs ; used also
metaphoricallJ for the feet of a
stool.
39. A glaive,a sword or bill. 39. GUnv, a bUl ; it is a
French word.
40. A rtddê, a coarse Mere. 40. Rhi^lk, idem.
We make a differonce between
a riddle and a siere. A riddlo

is of an oblong figare"whereas a
neve is round, and a riddle is

made of round wickers, placed
long-ways one bj another,
whweas a sieve is made of thin
long plates as it were woTea
together, so that the holes of it
are four-square.
A Catalogue of North Country Words, received from

Mr, TomKnson, of Edmund'haJl, a Cwnber land rentier
man, and cominxmicated to mehy the same Mr, Edward
Lloyd,
A 'heckf a rirulet, or small brook. This word is already tered

en-
among the Northern Words ; and noted to be common to
the ancient Saxon, High and Low Dutch and Danish. It is used
not only in the North, but in some Southernand Western ties,

coun-
and gives denomination to some towns, as Welbeck, Sand-

beck, Troutbeck.
Bourn, or hum; a rirulet, orspring. This is also eommon to
some Southern counties, and gives denomination to many towns"

as Sherbnm, Miibum, "c.
Bore-tree, elder-tree, from the great pith in the younger
branches^ which children commonly bore out to make pot^guns
of them.
Braeker ; fern. Ab. Angl. break, because, when its moisture is

dried it is brittle. A brake is. an instrument to break
very
up
flax with, of the same original. Break comes from the Saxon
brecan. Brake fern is a general word all England over, and
belter known in this country (Essex) than fern indeed the only
;
word in the vulgar, who understand not fern. Bnu;kea
use among
is but the pluralof brake, as oyn of ey, and peaseo of peaso, ice.
Bretvt brow, a steep hill^Metaph, The brow of a hill^super-
NORTH COUNTRY WOADS. 277
vUium, tlie edge or side of a hill"or precipioe.
A brock; a badger. This is a word known in most oonntries.
The animal is
trionymas, badger, brock, or gray.
To to chaffer, or It is Low Dutek
coop, or cowp, exchange. a
word. Tiiat which is given by the party which hath the worsti
goods is called boot ; as what boot toUl you give me between your
oldyawd omd myjillyf i. e, between your old mare and my yoaog
one : abÂS. bot, reward, To boot is used fre-.
or recompense.
quently in the same sense all England over. Boot signifiesprofit,
as in that impersonal verb, it booteth not, it profiteth,he)peth,or
availeth not
Copt'know; the top of a hill rising like a cone or sugar-loaf.

Copt, 1 conceive, comes from caput, and know, or knoUCf is the
top of a hill.
A cowdy a little cow, a Scotch runt without horns, else
; or
with short exceeding South veaVin

very ones, scarce a country
height: so that the word is only a diminutive of coxo.
A creil ; a short, stubbed, dwarfish Northumberland,

man,
A
croft, a small close, or inclosure, at one end whereof a
dwelling-house,with a garth, or kitchen-garden is usually placed,

ab AS. craft,agellulus. Crofi,for any small field or inclosnre in
general, without respect to a mansion-house, is common in

any
all counties of England.
Cyphel, houscleek.
A dish-cradle, or credle, a wooden utensil for wooden dishe""
much in use in the North of England, made usually like a cdbe
t"r die, and sometimes like a long cube,

parfljlelipipedon, or era*
die, cumber,
A (ti/cf
,
a ditch. Tins is only a variety of dialect; tho* it
seems dyke, and sengh, or sough, are distinguished in the Norths
a dyke being a ditch to a dry hedge, either of trees or earth, at in
arable lands, where the ditch is usually dry all sommer ; hot a
sough a ditch brimful of water, as in meadows or sowbrows are
not above half a yard in height. A sough is a subterraneous

vault or channel, cut through a hill,to lay coal mines or any other
mine dry. [partem diffusa.
A dubler or doubler, a platteror dish. Vox per raagnam Anglia
Dra^'e, the grains of malt, k Belg. draf ejusdem signifioati;
This is a general word', signifying not only grains,hut swill; aa
in those proverbs. Draffe is good enough for swine ; and, The
still sowe eats up all the draffe. i
fitchet; Brit, ffwlbarth. This is

A fowmart, a polecat, or tered
en-
in the Collection.
A gill,a place hem'd in witk two steep browS) or hanks, ^siiallj

flourishing with brushwood, a rivulet running between them. Vt
is entered in the Collection.
A geose, or grose-creej a hat to pat geese in,
2ft
27B A CATALOGUE, "C.
A gob, an open or wide moath. Hence to gobble) to swallow '
greedily, or with open mouth. " Gob, in the Sonth, signifiesa large
morsel or bit ; so we say a good gob, t. e. a good segment or
I'he dimlnative whereof is gobbet, cut into gobbets,

part chance
per-
from the Greek word KOWTU, KOflfia,
A gully a large household knife.
t
A gavelocky an iron crown, ab AS. gaoc. Tel catapillta"

Valuta.
Already entered.
Hadder, heath, or ling.
The kollent in a wkll aboat two yards and an half bigh, used in
dwelling-houses to secure the family from the blasts of wind
rbshing in when the heck is To this wall, on that side

open.
next to the hearth, is annexed a sconce, or skreen of wood or
stone. [V. bawks.

Hen-bawks, a hen-roost, from the bawks of which it consists.
A knor, or knurre, a short, stubbed, dwarfish man. Metaph.
from a knor, or knot in a tree. In the South we use the dimina-'
live knurle, in the same sen.se.
A keil of hay, a cock of hay, Northumberland.

A losset, a large flat wooden dish, not much unlike a voider.
A mould warpy a mole ; mold in the Saxon is dust ; in Engfish
mould is used for earth, especially among gardeners. Worpoi
in Low Dutch is used to cast forth, whence to wort is to cast
forth, as a mole or hog dot.h. This is a word known all over
England, tho' not in frequent use.
A mellt a wooden sledge or beetle ; ab AS. m"U, crux, from

the exact resemblance of the head and shaft (or handle) esprciallj
before IIm" upper part of the shaft is cut off, to a crobs. Hence'
meldeurs (or doors) a passage throngh a dwelling-house. For
in the north parts of England the houses of those of the inferior
,
sort have a passage through them with a door or heck on one
tide into the dwelling-house, and another on the other side into
the byer, whei" they bind their "c. lengthways
cows, oxen, on
each side. This byer hath a fostufa, in the midst

grupe, grotrp or
from the door to the other end ; si" that the fossula from the door
to the other end represents the shaft of a mell or the straight
;
tree in cross, and the through tlie house, the head
a passage or
transfers tree.
A porr ; ji glasier or plummer, a salamander.
Pot-rlepM : pot-hooks, from clip or clap, because they ^lap or

catch hold of the pot. [the redtsolour.
Bvd i a sort of blood-stone, nsed in marking sheep; from
A nggili ',
a ram with one stone a tup-hog is a ram of one
;
year old ; a gimmer-hog, an ewe of the same age, a twmter is a
bog two \ears old. y
A roop; a hoarseness ; k oimbrico hroop vel heroop, vociferatio,

by which it is frequently contracted.
GLOSSARIUM NORTH AN HYMBRICUM. 279
Sinidy; a smith's shop, whence smich/Zcnoom,Var. Dial.

A steg ; a gander.
To sUm une to beat or cuff one strenuoasljr*A tlam or slim
;
fellow, U a skragged, tall, raw-boned ; the length of
whose fellow
arms gives him the advantage of striking hard, and therefore soch '
are noted for fisty^cuffs

; whence slam seems to be derived.
Snuries; nostrils.
Sotoer-milk ; biitier-milk ; sower from its long standing.
A swang ;
locus paludosus, or |iart of a pastnre overflowed
with water, not much unlike a taittf or lough ; whence the' grass,
hy the superfluity of an oleaginous moisture, degenerates into

coarse piles, which in summer (must of the water being exhaled)
is so interwoven with thick mud and slime, and the piles so long
and top-heavy, tliat they eni brace the surface of the mud, and
a verdure like that of meadow.
oompose a
Swine-greuH; a swine's snout, a Dan. an Island. Graun nasus,

saperins labrum. Whence our English word to grin, because in
grinning the muscles of the

upper lip are contracted.
TcJ)s; childrens hanging sleeves j a tab for a shoe-latchet is
already entered.
Thin drink ; small beer, cerevSsia tenuis, whence thin is de"
rived. The Low Dutch use thick beer for strong beer ; tho* to say
the trutlwthat they call thick beer is properly so, very thick and
**
muddy.
Wad, black-lead, Catalogue.
Cumberland. See Mr. Nicols(m*n
Walsh, or welsh ; strange, insipid, ab AS. wealh, yel potiiis

cTeotonioo welsch strange ; VVelsli potage, strange, inKipid potage.
Unleed, or unUad ; a general name for any crawling veno^
moQS creature, as a load, "c. It is sometimes ascribed to man,
and then it denotes a sly, wicked fellow, that in a manner creeps

to do mischief, the pest of society. See Mr. Nkolson** talogue.
Ca-
very
A whinnock, kit ; pail to milk in.

or a carry
Glossatium Northanhymbricum,
Aandem; merenda. AS. Unbejinntier, prandium. Itaê

Goth. Undaurnimat. Luc. xiv. 12. This is, I suppose, the same
word that is entered onidom in my Collection.
Arelumes, V. heir-lumes.
Arvell-bread, ulicemium. AS. AjipuiU Pins reiigiosns,b"e

videtor. Ita at arvel- bread propria denotet panem so-
spectare
lenniter raag^ " religiosd oomestnm. This word is also cBtereA
in the Collection ; but there wants the etymology of it.
2 B t"
280 GLOSSARIUM NORTH ANHYMBRICUM.
Atterctfp; aranea. AS. AtXejtCOpa. q.d. Animal samm^

Tenenusum. This is in Llie Collection etymol. without
A heeld; munimentiiin, a frigoris injnrid. Q^^^ ^ ^ ^"
bciHOian, cxcusare, liberare ?

A bispel; Qui aded insij^niaest
ncqiiam q. d. nebnlo at- jam
in proverl.imn abiil. AS. bl^fpel " blJT"el, parabola,
provcrhiiiin. Matt. xxi. S3*
Blake; subniger. AS.
color bleac. Hiiic oognmneoy apod
Dostrates frcquens, blakelock ; vox ejusdem fer^-yaloris cam
Dobil fair faxiorum cognomine. Vidctur esse variatio dantaxat

dialecti black. [initiali. Chaucero, blin.
pro
To blin; cessare. AS. ablinnan ": biinnan ;
sine aagmento
Brott, Frumenti analecta, AS. jebjlOTC, Fragmenla. Lue,
ix. 17. " Matt. XV. 37.
Bummle hytes; vaccinia. Rubam Saxonis voc"ront beij^

beam, i. e. tribal am majorem. Est autem cyf), vcl CltS*^
minatio.
A cawel; cliors. AS. C*apei,calathuSf qnalu8"

Achibe; AS. Mpe"
cepa.
To c/icfc; arripere. AS. Selaecean.
Copt ; sQperbus, "stuosus. AS. ooppei ap"z, fkitigiiim.Uode
COpeyZ, summus.
A cowihot; palnmbus. AS. CUJêOte.

To crune; magire. -
Fortd k Saxoiiioo nimtDi tiiliinmni"
mussilare.
Quae in C desidorantur qnaere in K. "

.
To deeght; extergcre, mandare. AS" blbcaili paratei dis^

poiiere. Dlhtan an aejiendb 2SPP^^" Nobis, to indite ft
letter.
[deliraBS.
A dobby\ stultus, fatuns. AS. bobênb, senex decrepitus 6c
To dree \ perdurare. AS. at"|ie05ail, pati.

Druvy-f limosus. AS. Se^Jiaepeb paeicejl, aqua torbata.
Cbaucero, drovi.
[ccro, eith " elh*
facilis. AS. Ea^ " eafelic. Matt. xix. 26. Chan-
Eeth',
To fang -f
appiehendere. AS. pillgan. Belgis, vanghen.
Tofaw'f i. fang. AH, }:on. Qolliic^, faban. Islandis, faa.
A fell; mons. pinra, TTfpi rS (jieWâjg,videaptid Scboliasten
in Aristoph. in Nudibus, act. i. seen. i. Quae transcripsitfer^

Suidas in voce 0fXXd"
Foor-dayi'y die declinante. AS. JZOJl^-DajCf .
Et pOJl^
nihcej^, nocte long^ proveclfi"
GLUSSARIUM NORTIIANHYMBRICUM. 281
' To found; idem quod fellle. AS. pUllbian.

Gam-mndles'f harpedone, rhombus. AS. JSâjipinêL
Quod k
3^BJ1.I1 pensa, stamen ; " pmOan, torqaere.
To geall; dolere. Vox propria de dulare ex nimio frigore dr.
forU k SaxoQicu-SâUaUyintertigrere,to gal).
Oiverous ; avidna, AS. Sipejt. Lite. xvi. 14. Quam Tocen
k Graeco ypiTTifffia peritM. Gasaub. Tract, de 4to. Liag. p. 219.

To gloom; valta esM sereriori. AS. ^Ô^^ÛIIS) crepuscU'*
lorn nostratibiis,the glomeiug. Ita at to gloom aptd respondet
;
Latine frontem obnubiiaro. In the South we use gloom, or glam^
frequently a" an adjective for tetricu8" volti tristi.
A gobstick;.cochleare. F. Junius (in Gloss. Goth. p. SI 8.) tes-
iatur se quondam in illo tractu Hollandiie ubi, "o. incidisse in
rusticas aliquot familias quibus cochlear quotidiano sermone
gaepîock dicebatur. Goth. Stika est calix. AS. J^lCCe oochr
lear; " jftlCCe bacillus. Vox gob est ab AS. êapaD pandere
to gape. Unde 3^P' P*^ diruptione sepis.
A gate; oomtua. 4 flood-gate. AS. êotao t aêotân,
fundere. Goth : giutan. Belgis, gieten.
cueulus, avis. AS. ^ce t âec.
A gouk ; Danis, g6g.
A LaUna. AS. gjl"p, gjiep " gjioepe. Kiliano,
grupe^
grippe.'Goth : grobos, foveas. Matt, viii. 20.
Ahackin; lucanica. AS. gehadcCOb |dej*C,farcimen ; "
Sehaecca, farcimentam.
Hand-Jesting ; contractus matrimonialis. Danis" festenol. J.

Is. Pontan. Chor. Dan. Descr.
p. 799.
Harms; cerebrum. Goth: Tbairn. Danis. Hierne. Sicambrif
;
hern vel hirn. Oinuia baec facillimd k Graeco 'Kpdyiov.V. M.
Gasaub. de 4to. Lang. p. 170.
This word is entered in the Oolleo-
tion given of its elymologj.
I but no account
To herry; spoliare,AS. hejlian t hejlgian. P. Junius de-
rivari vult ab c^/pciiy

tollo, aufero.
Hoven-bread; zymiles. Matt, xiii. S3, q^ he eall
paer*
ahapen. %. e. Usque dum fermentaretur tota. Ho von is the
preterperfect tense of heave 3 we use it for what is unduly raisedT

as heven-cheese, ^.
A hull ; hara. AS. houthula, cuUeola tegens nucem. Brat
eUam hole proavis nostris tuguriuin ; quod contract^ dictum pu"
tat F. Junius ab vXtKOe materialis. Goth. Hu|gan est velars

tegere. Islandis, eg hil tego.
llkin; quilibet,AS. "lc. Chancero, ilk.

.
'A.karl; rusticas, vir robustus. Ghauceroi carU AS. CCOJll^

2 B 3
S8^ OLOSSARIUM NORTHANIIYMBRICUM.
(ande oostrates dionnt karl-cat fete mascolo " karl^henp

mas pro
pro cannabo major! rel ina8calo)It. Yirfortis, robostas, slremiiis.
TJnde huf ceojU, aeceji. ceojil,ê eojiUce 3e cepJice,

"o. Belgis kaerle.
To kenn scire. Cliaaoero, to ken " kende, noias. AS. oun*
; ;
nan. Goth, konnan. Germanis, keunen. Daiiis, kiende. Islandiiu
kanna. Belgis, kennen. This word is of general use, but not
common, tho' not unknowu, to the Tnl(^. Ken for pro^

Yery
apicere is well known, and used to discover by the eye.
To kep ; apprendere ; to
catch ialling.AS. cepaii, caplare" h"
he
pojiulblicjie yunj. i. mundanam captavit laudem.
Cepii;
A hite venter, uterus. Forte a Grteoo
; ici/roc, iOQ^ ro"
Yentricosa cavitas. Est " Kvroc (apud Arbt io Hist Animal.^

Insectorum troncus.
The lave; reliqois. AS. lap " lape. lap etiam est vidua;
at nobis hodie relict. This is entered in the Collection ; bat
without etjmolugy. Those that are left, from leave.
A lavroc; alauda. AS. lapejic.lauejlC. lapCJlC. Larlt

it but this word contracted.
To lether; AS. hleo^Jlian est tonare. Dicunt an tern U04-
trales de equis cursitantibus. They lether it; aicut anstraliores.
They thunder it.
,
A leiken ; amasius, yel amasia. Goth. Leikan est plaoere. AS*
llCian. Gimbris, arliika. Anglis australioribus, to like; nostralT-
bus, to leik, "c. Et fallor si non aliqna sit cum his affinitas in
liatinorum diligo, negiigo, "c. a lego. Prsesertim ciim prbbabil"

ait Terbum lroo antiqnit6s cum c. lego, scriplum fnisse. Sicut
LEGE LEGE, LEGION LEGION, uon semcl in vett. monii^

pro pro
mentis.
Leithwake, agllis,AS. " unlljêpac,

hjêpaCesttracUbilis;
intraotabilis. A ll])(Goth. Liikd) membrum ; "c pace, lentu^
ilexilis. Cbaucero, lithi " lethy, mansuelus. This word is also
entered in the Collection, but 110 account of it: I should rather
take it to come from lith, i. e. Kmber, pliable, "cc, and wake 4
termination.
Liever, potius. Cliauccro. lever " liver. AS. leopejl" IcOpJlC*.

^
V. iElfr. de vet. test 23. " 40. Ubi inlerpres, leyfer " leiver.
p.
Lieve, or lief, is of frequent use all EngUmd over, in this sion,
expres-
I. had as lief, t. e. vellem.
aque
To lithe, ausnltare. Chaucero lithe. Fortd k Sax. hli^C;
tranquiUus, quietus. "
A luvet vola. Cimbris luvana sunt volae manunm. Gothic^ etiam

lofam saohun ina. i. e. alapis caedcbanl cum. Marc. xir. 65.
To tndle,decolorare AS. nuel " mal, macula. Goth, melgan
584 GLOSSARIUM NORTHANHYM^BRTCUM.
Scam ; stercus bovinain, vel vaccinara. AS. J^ceajUI*

Hincqae scarabasas, AS. Jfceajinpibba ; Kitiano, Scfaeaniwe-
Ter. Etqnidein (sit coiijeclarae venia) videor mihi non miniiini
in voce Scarabaeiis rocabnli uostri Skarn restigâ decemere
apposite eatm redderent nostrates, a skarn hee?
qnam
A scemmel; scammom. AS. J^camul,f caunol " f camoK
Matth. V. 35. Unde tox hodiema shambles. Oociirrit" apQ"l
Latinos aliquotics scamellam pro scabellum } " scsmillus apad
apoleiam " Titruvium.
Scus; umbra AS. fCUa.

Segg'd; callo obdnctjus. AS.|êcg, callns.
A sho"-waug ; corrigia. AS. J'CeO^panj.

A tipsio,inter
slott ; petf8iilii9. voces vett Germanicas, Sclott
est sera. In the South we have some footsteps of this word for
;
we sa", to slit a lock, t. e. to thrust back the boll without a key.

Snod; leevis, equus sine nodo. AS. "
]rnit"ail gejÔlbaO^
Dolare, Belgis, Siiidan, Willeramn, Snidan "l Siiitiiaii.
A snude; villa. AS. JpnOb. Oecurrit " apud Somneram,

sicut " "c.
pnaebpro piaeê. pnaBp:au pro piaif tan,
Sool; obsouiuin, pulmenlarium. AS. J*Uple 6^ J*UpoK
Joh. xxi. 5.
A spetck ; fascia. AS. d|"elo.kiliano, spalke. Pastor(U.xvu, 9.
âer j^ceap âeji Jjaep fcancpojiab pay ne fpilCzt

2^6 ^CZ" i. Expuneule F. Junio, ovem cujus urns fractum erat
non alligLnlis. ^
A stiddy ; Incus. Doctiss. Joh. Raius vocem petitab AS. J^l^

rigidus, dnrus. Mallem tanieu k yZGH^l^ (hudie steady) stabi-
lise
firmus.
A stoop; cadus. AS.

Jôppa. Belgin, stoop..
To storken; gelu ad."lringi. Videlur non raininam habere afli^
nilatem cum Gothico illo Gastaurkny quod oecurrit Marc, ix. 18.
pro f";pa/vfrainovimns autera {17/oa/evatapud Hippocratem, .
ali6sque, non arescere sulummodd sed"gelu confttriugidenotare;

It seems to me to be derived from stark, stiff,rigid. '
Tostreek; expandere. AS. yZJieCÛ.

To swell; dellcere; to sownd. AS. aj'pclran, mori. Gotb..
Swiltan Cbauceio Swell Seficiens.
To threep-f vehementiiis afitrmare. AS. ^Jieapian^. redar-

guere, ipcrepare. Chaucero, threpe. This is entered in the Coh*
Jectiou, but not in the sense of vehement affirming, in which yet it

is used, even in the South,, in that common phrase. He reap'd me
douin.
6LOSSARIUM NORTHANHYMBRlCUM. 285
To torfett; mori. AS. mir yZdimm rojipian, ad mortem
lapidare. Vide T. Mareschalli Observat. ia Evang. Anglo-Sax.

p.'646.
Unlead; nomen op^robrii. Quids! ab.un particul^ privati7" "
Jae"an, Ieg:ein ferre? Ade6 ot

Vox unlea^;) propria sit exlex.
Goth. Unleds, mendieos, pauper.
Unsel', nome"i (item) opprubriosum. Gotb. sel est bonus.;
unsel, malus. AS. unjâell^, Infoelix, Gbaucero, Selinest, foe-
licitas.
Wad'f oleastrense ; nigrica fabrilis doct. Merret; aliis, puigltis*.

black lead. AS. pafej Sandyx.
To ab AS. ejicere. V. Mould*
warp; ovum parere. apajipan,
warp.
Awath; vadum. AS. paO. quod k pat"ail, Iransire. Klli-
ano, wadden "l wteden. V. Vossii Etymol.in voce vado, " vadiim.
Toweat'f scire. AS. pdeZdiU, Ps. I. 7. Chancero, wate; "
wete, scit. It seems to differ from wote only in dialect* -
To weell'f eligorar. Germanis,' welen. Belgis'vet. waele (Sc

Danis hodiernis, vaal) elecUo. Vide Gl. P. Janii Glou. Gotb. itt
voce Walgan.
TTeZJaiMjî bent AS. palapa.
A ttjian^ 'f lornm. AS. ^panj* V. ihoc-waDg.
Whilk; quisy quid, ulrura, Chancero whilk. AS. DplIC*
Goth, theleiks. Danis, builk. Belgis, welk" Scotia, qailok*
A whê ; |"auoi AS. hpaeQ 6c h-won, aliqaantom. ^
At p^jf "
Cenbe hpon^ Operatii pauqi inCodd. Rush. " Cott. Lno. x; 'i
ruritis hpon 3eC0]ien0, paoci elecli ; Matt. xxii. 14. Ger-

maois, wrinyr.
A whye, juyrnoa. Danis hodiemis " Scotis, quie.
Wunsome. Comptus, jucuudus. AS, binrmii# Willeramo^
wunne est gaudium. Kiliano, wonne. Kt certd nostratibos, a
wun to see, est, visu jucundum. #
Yeable-sea. Forte, forsitan. Vox yeable maiiiresl6 orla.^t

Saxouico Et proiiide yeable-sea sonat ail
i Teable, poleiw*
Terbum, Potest ila habere. Scntis, able- It be so.

se sea. may
Ayeather. Viinpn. 8obOjl-bp.yce in LL. Sax. septs frac-
tio. We in the South use this word in liedges. Kathering 4^
hedges, being binding the tops of them with small flicks, as it
were wooven on the stakes.

286 ACCOUNT OF SOME ERROKS ANIX
An Account of some Errors and Defects in our JEngUtk

Alphabet, Orthography, and Manner of Spelling.
Having lately bad occasion to consider onr English alphabet,

orthography and manner of spelling, 1 obserred therein many
errors and nmissidns. Those that coneern the alphabet, I find'
noted and reclltied by the Right Reverend Father in Ood, and
niy honoured friend John, late Lord Bishop of Chester, in hi"

book, entitled, An Essay toward an nnwersal Character, "c. p. 3.
c. 10. Which, becanse that work is not in every man's hand*

I shall, together with my own observations and animadversions,
npon our orthography and manner of spelling, Here exhibit to
the reader. I conid wish they were corrected, as giving offence

to strangers, and causing trouble and confusion both to the
teachers and learners to read ; but 1 see little reason to hope
they ever will be ; so great is the force of general and inveterate
vse and practice.
I know what is pleaded in defence of presmit orthography*.
onr
vis. That in this manner of writing, the etymologies and deriva-

tions
of words appear, which if we should write, acoordiog as
we pronounce, would not so easily be discerned. To which I
answer, that the learned would easily observe them ing;

notwithstand-
and as for the vulgar and illiterate,it is all one to them;
they can take no notice of such' things.
First then as to onr English alphabet, I have observed it to be
feulty. 1. In the number. 2. In the and valor of the

power
letters.
As to the number of letters it is peccant, both in the defect,,
and in the excess. That is to say, it wants some letters that are
necessary, and contains some that are superfluous. [nant^.

I. It wants some that are both vowels and conso*
necessary
First, vowels; and those it wants three.
1. H wants a letter to the sound we give to a, in the

express
words hallt shalU wall, and the like ; and to o, in the words God,
rod, horn, and innumerable the like ; it being the same sound
i^th the former. This is supposed to be the or sound

power
which the antient Greeks gave to the letter alpha, or a ; \and,
therefore, the Bishop of Chester, would have the character a
used to signify this vowel.
2. It wants a letter to signify the sound, we give to oo, or ble

dou-
0, as in good^ stood, look, loose, and in whatever others worda

it is used. For that this is a simple vowel is manifest, in that
the entire sound of it may be continued as long as you please,
.which is the only certain note of distinction, between a simple
vuwel and a dipthong. This the Bishop of Chester expresseft
DEFECTS IN 01;E ENGLISH ALPHABET. 287
Vy the character tt, which is oied in Greek for ov dipthong ; be-

diDse commonly that dipthong, as also the French ou is pro-
nounced
in the sound of this simple vowel.
5. It wants a letter to denote the sound we give to the vowel
V in la, um, ^. which is manifestly difl'erent from what we atlri-
bote to it in the words use, mute, fume, ^. This vowel, as the
Bishop well observes,

wholly guttural, is
comes near to the and
"oand we make in groaning. As for the letter u in use, mute,^.
my Lord of Chettet would have it to be a diplhong. and the

.
V4"wel wîch terminates the dipthong, or the subjunctive vowel,

to be 00, wherein I cannot with him the subjunctive vowel
agree ;
seeming to me rather to be the French or whistling u, there
speming to ne to be a manifest difference between Lvke and-
look, luce, and loose ; and that there is nothing of the sound of
the latter in the former*
Secondly, it wants consonants ; and of those four.

"1. A letter to express the sound we give to v consonant,
which is
"nothing else bat 6 aspirated,or incrassated, or hh. For
though we distinguish v consonant from u vowel, and attribute to
it the of 6 incrassated, yet do we not make it a distinct

power
letter as we ought to do. The power of this letter was first ex^
pressed, among the LMtint,,hy the Digamma JSoUcum (ao stiled

for its figure, ^pi its eoond) which is now the "character for the
letter/; but had at first the power

of tlie consonant v, and was
"written in Claudius's time invertedly, as DIÂl, AMFLlAjIT.

Bishop Chester.
2. A character to express d aspirated or incrassated, or dJu

For that this is a distinct letter from th, though we confound
them, making th serve for both, is manifest by these examples.
DA.
The.iliis, there, then, that, thou, thine, those, tho', "|*c.
Father, mother, brother, "c
'Sniooth, seeth, wreath, bequeath.

Th.
Thank, thesis, thiclc, thiu, thistle, thrive, thrust.
Death, doth, both, broath, wrath, "c.
Of this difference our Saxon ancestors were aware, and fore
there-
made provision for both in their alphabet. Dh they sented
repre-
by 'S, as in la^cr, DIo'Ser, "c. th by J", ajs in peif,

)"ick,Aic.
3. A letter to denote t incrassated, or the Greek 0" which we
by th That these three last mentioned are simple ters,

let-
express
and therefore ought to be provided for in the alphabet, by
distinct characters, appears in that the sound of them (for they
"re sonorous) be coDtiuoed. 2. By the confession of the
may
288 ACCOUNT OF SOME ERRORS ANB. -
cQinpoiers of oor alphabet ;

fur Uiej make/ a timple leUer, andt
giire it a neyeral character, which differs no more from ph. Hum
V doth from bh, ^ from d^ or Jl from th, 3. By the eonseot-
of the composers of other alphabets. The Greeks and HebreHrs
making th a simple letter, and giving it a eharacter, and the"
Saxons both dh and th,
4. A i;haracter to th, which is Hm same with the H"*

f express
brew tchtn, and be proved to be a simple letter bj the fitoe*
maj
going reasons.
II. Our English alphabet contains some letters that are super-
fltaouR : five in number.
1. C, which, if we use it in its proper
power (as we oaght i"
do) differs not at afl from k, and therefore, the craie, or the other^
must needs be snperflaoos.
2. Q, which is, by general consent, gpranted and agreed to be-
nothing else bat tu. And therefore writers, and among

many
the rest, no less a critic than Mr. Gataker, omits the u after itf
as being involved in it : writing, instead of ûi^, quid, fu"tm,Scc

qis,qid, qam. But the Bishop of Chester, who more nicely and
curiously considered it, finds the letter involved in to be 00,
9,
not V, to whom I do fully assent.
3. W, which is nothing else but the letter 00 rapidly prononnoed.
This the Greeks were sensible of, for instead of the Dutch word
wandals, they wrote 'Ova vcaXot ; and we noted before, that
the pronounced their diphthong B as we

Greeks do 00.
4. X is, confessedly, nothing but the letters cs; and therefore,

thonpi^h it may be retained as a compendium of writing, yet is it
by no means to be accounted a distinct letter, or allowed a place
in the alphabet.
Y, though it be by some esteemed a consonant, when placed
before a vowel, yet it is not so, but only the Greek iota, or our
ee rapidly pronounced, as we said before of w. When it is ac"
counted a vowel, as in my, thy, it differs not at all from what iê
call i long in mine, thine.
Now I come to shew that our alphabet is faulty, as to the
or valors attributed to some letters.

powers
1. To r, before e and i, we give the power of s, before the rest
of the vowels of k, which is a great offence and stumbling-block

to children, who are apt (as they have good reason) to pronounce
it alike before all letters. So my own children have, 1 ber,
remem-
in the word accept, for example, pronounced the second c as
if it had been a k, as if the word had been written akhept; and

I was forced to grant them, that they were in the right, but only
they must follow the received pronunciation.
do
2. ^, before
To e and i, we give the same power as we to J
eonsonanty that is dzy, as I shall shew afterward, as in gender.
DEFECTS IN OUR ENGLISH ALPHABET. 269
^[ii^tr,
gibbet,and, which is wonie" that not oonttantljneither ;
for in geld,gild,gird, Aco. we pronoanoe it u we do before the
i"ett of the Towels, which doth, and mast needs breed trouble and
.
4"oafusion to children.
3.. To eallj consonant,
that we we attribate a strange power,
-which no canchild
imagine to belong to it; which the Bishop of
"Chester hath rightly determined to be dzy. That d is an dient
ingre-
into it children do easily discern; for bid a joong cMld,
that begins to speak, say John, it will say Don.
4. To the Towel t we give two powers, where it is pronounced
rahort,that of iota, or ee ; as in thin, thick, fill,and innumerable

others: but elsewhere of a diphthong, as in thine, mine, and in
the last syllable of all other words, to which e is added after the
"consonant. It is tbe
opinion, e received a note of that is there
production, signifying that the letter i is to be pronounced long ;

but I say, it signifiesthat the character i is there to be
nounced
pro-
as a diphthong. That it is a diphthong is deary because,
in pronouncing of it, you cannot continue the entire sound, but
must needs terminate in iota, or ee. What is the prepositivelet^
ter in this diphthong is doubtful ; one,
that did not curiously observe
it, would think it to be e, but the Bishop of Chester will

have it to be as pronounced in us. Children take notice of
v,
this difierence between i, when pronounced as k diphthong, and
when as iota. One of children, in all words wherein it is to
my
be pronounced as a diphthong, pronounced it as a simple iota,or
ee. As for mine, thine, like, bile,it pronounced meen, theen, leek,
beel, and so in all others of that nature; the child, it should seem,
finding it more facil to pronounce the single vowel, not being
able to frame its mouth to the diphthong.
pronounce
5* To the vowel give two 1. That of the Greek
a we powers.
alpha in hall, wall, "c as we noted before. 2. That of the Latin
a in hat, that, mofi, bran, "c.

6. To the vowel o we give three powers: 1. That of the Greek
alpha in God, rod, hot, "c. ^. That of the letter oo in hood^

stood, book, "C0. 3. The usually attributed to it in other
power
languages, as in hole, home, stone, "c.
f. To the vowel u we also give two powers, as appears in us
and use. Whereof the first is a simple letter, but the second a
diphthong, as was noted before.
8. To ch give a strange
we power, or sound, which the Bishop
of Chester rightly determines to be Uh. This young children
perceive : for bid them pronounce church, some shall pronounce
it tursh andL some shursk, the former observed the letter t in if,
and the latter the letter sh. Whence it appears, that the true
writing of it is tshurtsh.
9. in all words where
41; is pat before h, as in what, whioh"
wkMtt "o" It b eridoot bj the promnoiatiooj that the h ought
2 c
2g0 AN ACCOUNT OF SOME ERRORS AND
'
to pot before the w;

be and the words written hweh, or tutoenf'
hoaitth, hooatf "c. So oar Saxon niiceston were wont to place it.
W kioh manner of writing I cannot but wonder how it came to
be changed for the wurMe.
If all these (kults yr"re amended, vis. the snperflnoas letters cut
oflT,the wanting supplied, and to every letter his proper power'

attribvted, spellingwould be mnoh more regular, ani^m, aad
easy.
I come now to make some further animadversions our
upon
orthography and manner of speliiug.
The grammarians have a rule, tiiat in spelling and dividing
words, by \ syllables, where ever there is a consonant or two fore
be-
a vowel, Ihc syllable must begin with the consonant. Againi^

this role 1 wuuld pnt in two exceptions.
1. In compound words, 1 would have the preposition in ing
spell-
and dividing the
syllables, lo be separated from the radical
word. As for example, I would have sp"^lleda"ûse, not O'huse ;
abrogate t
not a-brogate; dtt-turb, not dirsturb; dii-4nut, not dt-
ttrvst, and the like.
2. in words formed from verbs for tenses,
persons, or particles,
by a s}llabioaladjection, proper,
I think it that the syllable that
is added, should, in spelling and dividing the word, be separated
from the radical verb. For example, I would have it spelled
khved, not lov-ed; hat-ed, not ha-Ud, "c. This 1 think most tional
ra-
and convenient. 1. To distinguish these adjections from

the radical verb. 2. Because we separate them thus in
ciation,
pronun-
as appears must evidently in words that end in liquids, "
and, therefore, in such liquid rather

we double the than so divide
tlie word. As, for example, rather than spelland divide the word
swimmeth thus, svyUtneth, in our orthography, we double the m,
writing swimmeth; the like may

be said of trimmeth, drummeth,
in which last there is nu more reason the m should be doubled
than in the word cometh. This, I confess, seems not so ent
conveni-
in words that end in a mute and liqnid, such as are handle,
tremble, spittle
; yet may
the analogy be well enough observed
even in them.
disapprove the adding

3. 1 the letter e to the ends of words, to
signifythe production of the last syllable, as to mate to guish

distin-
it from mat, smoke from smock, mine from mm, shine from
shin, ".O. This is a great offence to sVnmgers and children, who,
in such words, are (as they have good reason) to make
apt two
syllables of one, lo spelland

and pronounce ma~te, smo-ke, thi-ne,
people. The production of a syllable onght to be signifiedby a
mark over the vowel to be produced thus, a, 6, "c. But where
e is added
syllable,compounded to a with i, it signifiesnot, as is
vii1;"-arly
thought, that i is to be produced, but that it stands for
a diphthong, as we have before noted the same ia to be spoken

292 POSTSCRIPT.
/ oaght to be tubslitiited instead of it : in otherf only u an ^ or
Mmple upiration, u in through, which therefore

may be written
throuh. In others, as right,might, bright,light,(as we now pro-
noonce them) it is altogether soperfluoas, maj and be omitted,
for who, in pronouncing duth, or in hearing pronounced can, tinguish
dis-
between rigJu,and rite for
a a custom or ceremony ; and
might and a mite in a cheese j so in plottgh,for which, therkbre,
flow is now accepted.
POSTSCRIPT.
I H A VE this day sent you, by the carrier, my Colleetum of Local

Word*, augmented almost by the one half; wherein I have ed,
insett-
out of the catalogue were pleased to send 1. All
you me,
auoh as I took general use ;
not to be of for 1 intend not this
book to general English glossary, (of which
be a sort there are
many already extant) but only, as the title imports, a catalogue

ef such as are proper to some countries)and not universally
known or used.
9, 1 have omitted also such as are names of some utensils or
instruments, or terms belonging to arts. particulartrades and

And 3. Words newly coined about London, wMch wiU soon'
be diffused all England over.

Of the first sort are bonny, sedge ; whereof remem"^
yo" may
ber, they have faggots at Cambridge, using it for the kindling of
ooal-fires. Muek, marry, orioket, sotM, bong. A toper and top-
ing,
buck and bucking, a wag, blend, bliuk, brickte, wiuchX
take to oome from break, signifying any thing apt to break. Sod
is also used for turf in most places where I have been ; so is wood
a knqwn word for mad, and the usual metrical tnkndation of tb^*^
Psalm".
Some Observations made and communicated hy ilfr. Francis

Brokesby, concerning the Dialect, and various Pronunki'
ciation of Words in the East-Riding of Yorkshire.
1. Many words are varied by changing o into a; though I
question whether our Yorkshire pronnnoialion be not the most
ancient So for both wepronounce bath ; for bone, bane ; for

work, wark; hence Newark, South wark, "o. for morej mare; as
mickJe mare, much more ; for home, hame, hence all the town^
ending in ham, as Wickham, Fulham, Stretham, "c. hamely fof
homely; for worse, warte and tear; for stone, stone ; tmde Stantofi;
POSTSCRIPT. 293
Town, Stanford, Stanemore, "o. So for is me, wa*$

q. Stony wo
me Kjifiou So ham$, obildrenk is borns, derived from bear ;
exactlj auswerin; to the Latin nali. For knapioeed, knapweed,

because of the knops at the top.
2. In many words we leave out the aspirate,both at the ning,
begin-
and at the latter end. So for chaffs they say cc^h, for
churrit kern; and thence ^m^milk is butter-milk ; for chest,kist;

near the Lai cista; for lath, iat ; for bench, binch ; for pitch,
in
pick ; for thatch, thack ; thatcher, theaker ; for church, kykr ; near
KvpiaKdv*
3. In many words we change ol and oul into au ; as for cold
they caud ; for old, aud thence audley, as much as to saj

say ;
old town ; for elder auder, or, as we write tdder ; thenoe aldei^
num, a senator; for woldt, or wouldt, vands; tbns the ridge of

hills in the Bast, and part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, [oar
Apennine']is called ; and sometimes the couitry adjoining is call-
ed
the ioaudt. But that which lies under the hills, especially
down by Humber and Oose side, towards Howden, is called b/
the country people the Lawth$, t. e. the Low Coontry, in contra-
distinction
to the Waudt. Though some call dl the Bast Riding

besides HoldernesSt and in distinction from it the Wouidt.
4. In some words, for oo, we pronounce eu, as ceul,feul,eneuf,

for cool,fool,enough. In some words, instead of oo, or o, or oo,
we ee, as deer; JUer

deer for door, stock
floor; the (or
pronounce
abreed for abroad ; ge for go ; te for so ; se throng, t. e. so full
of business ; ne forno ; for poison they pronounce peuton.
Note, in some part of the West Riding they pronounce oi for e;
hoil for hole',coil for cole ; hoise and shoin for hose and shoes,
5. They ordinarily omit s at tlie end of a word, when osed for
his ; as instead of Jackson's wife, they say Jackson wife ; instead
of brother's coat, brother coat,
6. They place y brfore some words beginning with rowels,

yane, yance ; as in some other parts of England, yarely ibr early;
yowes for ewes.
7. To the ends of some words they add en\ as in maslifên,
docken, bracken, Blhewhere in England, the termination e?iu.is
a
note of the pluralnmnber, as in housen for hoses; hosen for hoses

i
shooen, or akoon, for shoes ; peason for pease ; children for childs,
"c.
In the same country, for straw, they nfte strea, and for claws,
cleas.
2 c 3
"04 or SMELTING AND
An Aeetnmi rfvreptaringsome Engluk of our MHmIs mud

Minerain, i^ nneSipgand refiningef SUher ai the
Siher Milk in Cardiganshire,
Tai oar beaten into small pieeetifis broaght from tbe mine tip
tbe smelting^bouse, and there melted with black and white coal ;
t. e, with charcoal, and wood slit into small pieces and dried in a
kiln for that purpose. The reason why they mix black and
white coal is, because the black alone makes too rehement a fire,
mad tbe white too gentle ; but mixt together, they make a just
tamper of heat After the fire b made, the mine is cast on thh
coals; and so interchangeably mine and ooals. The mine, when

melted, runs down into the lump, i. e. a round pit of stone coTered
o?er daywith : within thence it is laded out, and oast into long^
Hqnarebars, with smaller ends fit to lift and them by.
carry
These bars they bring to tlie refiningfurnace, which is covered
#ilk a thick cap
of stone, bound about with iron, and moyeable,
timt so they may lift it up, and make the test at the bottom anew.
wbiob they do erery refining. In the middle of the there is
cap
a bole, in which tbe bar of metal hangs in iron slings above the
Amaoe, that so it may be let down by degrees as it melts off.
Besidee this, they have another hole in the side of tbe fanace,
parallel to the horizon, and bottomed with iron. At this hole
they thrust in another bar. The test of an oval and

figrnre, pies
occu-
all the bottom of the furnace. The fire is put in by the sido
of tbe bellows. When the furnace is come to a true temper of
boat, the lead converted into lithargeis cast off by the blowing of
the bellows, the silver subsiding into the bottom of the test. The
blast blows the lead, converted into off the
lithatge, silver,afler
the manner that cream is blown off milk
As soon as the glut of Utharge {for to they caU it)is cast off,-the
silver in the bottom of the onple grows cold, and tfant same degree
of heat will not keep it melted as before. The cake of silver,
siter it grows cold, springs or rises up into branches.
The test is made of marrow bones burnt to small pieces,after-
ward
stamped to powder, and, with water, tempered into a paste.

Tbe test is abont a fbot thick, laid in iron. After the cake of
silver is taken oat, that part of the test which is discoloured they
mingle with the oar to Imb melted; the. rest they stamp, and use
again for test.

lie lithargeis broogtit to a reducing furnace, and there, with
chi^rcoal only, melted into lead. The Utharge is oast upon the
charcoal in the bing of the furnace, and as the charcoal burns
aivay, and the lithargemelts, more charcoal thrown on, and
Utharge put upon

it as at first smelting.
Another furnace they have, which tbey call an almondjumace,
REFINING SILVE*'.* 695
Ib wbich they melt the slags, or refuse of the lit^fê l(iiot

timp;
ed) with ehftrooal only.
The iÛgS, or cinders of the first smelting^ they beat SHiall with
great stamps lifted up by a wheel nored with water, and faHisg^

by their own weight. First Ihey are stamped with dry stampa,
then sifted with an iron sieve in water. That which lies at Um
bottom of the sieire is returned to the smelting furnace without
more ado. That which swims over the sieve is beaten with wet
stamp.
That which passeth through the sieve, as atso that which, after
it hath been beaten with the wet stamps, tinrougfa a fin"
passes
grate or strainer of iron, goeth to the buddU, which is a vessel
made like to a shallow tumbrel, standing a little shelving.
Thereop the matter is laid, and water running constantly over
it, moved to and fro with an iron rake or hoe, and so the water
carries away the earth and dross, the metal remaining behind.
That which is thos buddled,they lue with a thick hair sieve,^doae
wrought in a tub of water, rolling the sieve aboat, and inclining
it this way and that way with their hands. Tlie light which
swims over the neve is returned again to the huddle. That whicb
sabsides is fit for the smelting furnace.
They have besides, an assay furtwce, wherewith they try the

value of the metal, t. e. what proportion the lead bears to the
silver, cutting piece off every

a bar, and melting it in a sasall
cupd. First they weigh the piece cot off, then, after the lead is
separated, the silver. A ton of metal will jield 10, sometimes 15,
and, if it be rich, SOlb. weight of silver. All lead oar digged in
England, hatli a proportion of silver mixed with it,but some so
little,that it will not quit cost to refine it.

At the first smelting thev mingle several sorts of oar, som^
rjchery some poorer, else they will not melt so kindly.
The silver made here is exceeding fine and good.
These six mountains in Cardiganshire, not far distant from each
other, ôrd silver oar, Talabout, Geginnon, Comsomlack, Ge-
darren, Bromefloid and Cummer.
At our being they digged only at Talabont.

there
They sink a perpendicular square hole, or shaft; the sidts

whereof thej strengthen round from top to bottom with wood,
that the.eartli fall not in.
"Hie transverse pieces of wood they call stempleSf and apen

these, catching hold with tlieir hands and feet, they descend with-
out
They dig the oar thos holds little

using any rope.. ; one a
picqae, or pundh of iron, having a long handle of wood, whieh
they call a gad ; another with a great iron hammer, or sledge,

drives it into the vein.
The vein of metal runs east and west, it riselJi north, and
slopes,or dips to the south. There is a white Jiuttrabout the

996 OF PREPARING TIN.
Yeia, wliich tliey call spar, and a black which tbejr call blinds.
This last covers the vein of oar, and when that appears, thejrare
"ore to find oar.
Tbej sell the oar for $L or 4L the tun, more w lesi,as it is in

goodness, or as it is more rare or plentiful.
This iufornjalion and account we had fi*om Major Hill, 166^2.
who was then master of the silver mills.
The histor
J
of these silver works may be seen in Dr, FuUfir's
Worthies of Wales, General, p. 5.
The smelting;of lead is the same as the smelting of silver oar,
and therefore no need that anj thing be said' ot it.
The and smelting^cr blowingofTin

preparinfr in Cormuall,
Thb tinners find the nine bj the shoad (or, as they call it,
tfuad, which is loose stones of tin mixed with the earth, of which
ihej give jon this aoconat

The iood or vein of tin, before the flood, came np to the so-
perfieiesof the earth. The flood washing the

upper part it of as
of the whole earth, brake it off from the load, and confounded, or
mixed it with the earth to such a depth, liieyobserve that the

deeper the sfioad Jies, the nearer is the main load, and the lower,
shal-
the further off. Sometimes it comes up to the exterior
tnperficies
of the earth. The main load begins at the east, and
nins westward, shelving still deeper and deeper ; and sometimes

descending almost perpendicularly. Besides the. main load, they
have little branches that run from it north and south, and to
other points which they call country. The vein, or load, is som"^
times less, sometimes greatw, sometimes not a foot thick, times

some-
three feet or more. When they have digged a good way,

they sink an air-shaft,else they cannot breathe nor keep their
candlM light. The shoad commonly descends a hill-side. There
is a kind of fluor,which they call spar, next the vein, and which
sometimes encompasseth it.
In this are often found the Cornish diamonds. Above the spar
lies another kind of substance like a white, soft stone, which they
call kellus. They get out the mine with pick-ax, but, when
a it is
hard, they use a gad (a tool like a 8mith*s punch) which they
drive in with one end of their pick-ax, made like a hammer.
When they have they break it with a
gotten out of the mine,
hammer into small pieces the biggest not exceeding half a pound,
or a pound, and then bring it to the stamps. (The stamps am
only two at one place,lifled up by a wheel moved with water as
the silver mills.)There it is put into a square, open box, into

whieh of water continually runs, and therein the stamps
a spont
beat it to powder. One side of the box mentioned U made of an
:" :
OF PREPARING TINr 297
iron-pltteperforated with KiaaH boles like a grate, by wHich the
water runs out, aud carrieh with it the mine that is pounded
away
small enoagh to pass the holes, dn"s and ail together, i" a long
gutter or trough made of wood. The dross and earth (as being
lighter)is carried all along the irongh to a pit, or vessel, into
which the trough delivers it, called a loob : llie tin, as being
heavier, subsides and slays behind in the trough : and, besides^
at a good distance from the stamps, they put a turf in the trough
to stop the tin that it runs no further.
The tin remaining in the trough, they take oot and to the
carry
îu2"i/e,(a.vessel deseribed in the lilver-work^ where tlie saad
"Jid earth is washed from it by the water running over it,the
tinners stirringand working it, both with a shovel, and with their
feet in the buddU the rough tin (as they call it)falis behind ;
the head tin lies uppermost or foremost. The head tin passes to
the wreck, where they work it with a wooden rake ia vessel^, al"
most like the huddling vessels, water running also over it. la
the wreck the head tin lies again foremost, and tliat is finiabed
and fit for the blowing house, aud is called black tin, being of a
black colour, and as fine as sand. The rough tin Ilea next, that^
as also that in the huddle, they sift to separate the coarse, and
dross, and stones from it, which is returned to the stamps to be
new beaten. The fine is lu^d in a fine sierce, moved and waved
to and fro in the is described in th* silTer-work ; the
water, as
oar subbiding to the bottom, the sand,. earth, and other dross^
flows over the rim of the sierco with the water: that which rer
'
mains in the sierce, they sift through a fine sieve, and what passes
through they call black tin. In like manner they order the
waste tin that falls hindmost in the buddU and wreck, which the/
call the eai/,.
as also that which falls into the hob, pit,or sunp,
vis. washing and siftingof it, which they oalls^ri/ipuiôfit,
retnai^
ing the rough and coarse to the stamps, and the finer to tht wreck*
tVith the rough tin that is returned to the stamps, Ihey mingla
new oar, else it will not work" butliir up the stamps. The tin in
the Iqob they let lie a while, and the Wnger the belter, for, say
they,it grows by lying*
and increases
The bUick tinat the blowing house, with
isv smelted, charcoal
only, firiit throwiug on charcoal, then upoii that black tin, and
"o interchangeablyinto a very deep bing (which they call the
house) broader at the top, and narrower at the bottom. They
make the fire very vehemmit. blowing the coals continually with
moved in the smelling
a pair of great bellows by water, as
of other metala. The melUog tin, together with the dross, or

at hole, at the bottom of the bing, into large
slag, runs oot a a
trough made of Jitone* The cinder, or slag, swims pn the fdp qf

it like sown, tad hardans presentiv. .1
This they take off with aah"iTei and Uy it by.

SP8 OF IRON WORK*
When they hiiTe {|^t a sufficient heap of ifr they m11 It to he
"tamped, baddled, aud lued. Thej fêt a good qaantily of tm

oat of it. Formerly it was throwu away to mend the hijj^ways,
as nothing worth. When they have a sufficient quAotity of the

nelted metal, they oast it into oblong, square pieces iu a mould
made of Moore-stone. The lesser pieces they call iia6s, the
greater blocks. Two pounds of black tin ordinarily yields a pound
0f white or more.
The tin, after it is melted, is eoined, i, t, mirked"hy the kln|î

fiffioer,with the Hon rampant The king's ootlom ii four ihil-
lUgi on eyery hundred weight Other partieohirtioonoaming
tiie tin-works, I omit, beeauie they but be leeu in Carewa/t
Bmrrey of Cornwall. But the manaer of preparing the tin for
Mowing or smelting,is now muoh different from what It wu in
Ills time.
Tin oar is so different in colour and appearanoe from tin, that
"ne would wonder that one should come out of the other ; and
"omewhat strange it is,that tin oarbeing lo Hke to lead, tin oar
ahould be so unlike to lead oar, being Tory like to the lead that
if melted out of it
The Mtttmtr ofth^ Iron Work at the FumoM*
The iron-mine lies sometimes deeper, sometimes shallowed in

tiie earth, from four to tJ"Tiyand upward.
There are several sorts of mine, some hard^ some gentle, some
rich, some coarser. Hie iron masters always mix different sort*
of mine together^ otherwise they will' not melt to advantage.

When the mine is brought in, they take small-coal, and lay a
row of it, and upon that a row of mine, and so alternately, S.S S.
one above another, and setting the ooalt on fire, therewith burn
the mine.
The bummg
use is to mollify it, that
of this so it nay be
broke in small pieces; otherwise, if it should be put into the
fiimace, as it comes out of the- earth, it would not melt but come
away whole.
Care also must be taken tiiat it be not too much burned, for
then it will
loop, i e. melt and run together in a mass. After it
is burnt, they beat it into small pieces with an sledge, and
iron
then pot it into the furnace (which is before charged with coals^
casting it upon the top of the coals, where it melts, and falls into
the hearth, in the space of about twelve hours, more or less, and
then it runs into a sew.
The hearth, or bottom, of the fbmace is made of a sand-stone,

and the sides round, to the height of a yard, or thereabout ; the
rest of the furnace is lined up to the top with brtok*
aOO OBSERVATIONS ON HlTSBANDRY.
of tliat "liape,they inleDd the- whole hwrttf be made of it; M

both ends a square piece led rough to be wroogbt at the chafery.
Note, At the yinery three load of the biggest coals' go to make
one tun of iron.
At the chafery thejronly draw out of the two endu snitable to
what was drawn oot at ih^ finery, in the middle, and so finish the
liar.
Note, 1. One load of the smaller coals will draw out one tnn of
iron at the chafery.
2. They expect that one man and a boy, at thejinerjf,
shonld
make two tuns of iron in a week : two men at thechafay, should
take up,
i. e. make or work fire or six inn in a week.
.
3. If into the hearth where they work the iron sows (whether
the chafery or the^nery) you oast upon the iron a piece of brass*
it will hinder the metal working, caosing it
from to spatter about*
so that it cannot be brought into a solid piece.
This account of the whole of the iron work I had
process
from one of the chief iron masters in Sussex, my honoured lriend"
Waller Borrel, of Gnokfield, Esq ; deceased. And now, tliat 1
hate had occasion to mention this worthy gentleman, give me
leave, by the by, to imiert a few obiervatiom referring to hup-
bandry, communicated by him in occasional discourse on thoae
gybjects.
V
.
Observations referringto Husbandry^
1. In removing and transplanting young oaks nra^ be sura

you
not to cut off or wound that part of the root which descends
downright (which, in some countries, tbey call the iap-root^ but
dig it up to the bottom, and prepare your hole deep enough to
set it; else, if persuade it to live, you hinder the growth of it
you
half in half.
% Cora, or any other grain, the
longer it continues in the
.
ground, or the earlier it is sown, cateris paribus, the better ladcM

it is, and the berry more plomp,fuil and weighty, and of stronger
noorifhinent as for example, winter oats better than summer
;
^
oats ; beans set in February, than those in March, "o.

3. The most effectual way to burning of
prevent smutting, or
any com, is to lime it before you sow it, as is found, by daily

experience, in Sussex; where, since this practice of liming, they
have no burnt corn, whereas before they had abundance. Tliey
lime it thus : first they wet the corn a little to make it stick, and
then sift or sprinkle powdered lime upon it.
4. He oses to plow with his
end-ways, or oxen all in one file,
and not to yoke them by pairs,whereby he finds a donble tage,
advan-
1*. Ht, by thia mMns, loteth no part of the ftrength of an/

OBSERVATIONS ON HUSBANDRY. 901
whenas beut-wiw, it U vwy hard w evealy lo BMlbb

"x,
M thai a p"a fart of tka atraqith of aoMa af thna bt Ml

-derod aneleii f In this way
.
a tret and claj gronnd ia aot a"
aradi poaclwd bj the feel of the oxen.
5. practiced to barn the ends of all the pMta, whM

Hr hath
lie aets into the gronnd, to a coal on the oataide" wheieUj tiqr
a Ion; tiflM withoot rotting, which otherwiae WQVH
^pddenlj deeay.
This observation I alao find in an extraet of a letter,wriUm
%f David Von-der-beek, a German philosopherand phyiloiaB at

Miadea, to Dr. Laagelot, he, Reipstered in the Fhilmnhkml
Trgmtmetiatu, Nnmb. XCII. pag. 5t8.V In these words, HMM
"lno they sHf hlly bam the ends of timber, to be set In the ffronsdt
4bat so by the fnaion asade by (Ire, the volatile salts, whToh,by
4be accession of the moisture of the earth, would ensllybe eeii-
anmed, to the oormption of the timber, may oatoh and ffx one
6. He first introduced the um of fern, for bnmlag of line,

'which serres that
purpose as well as wood (the flame thereof being
vtej vehemeut) and is far cheaper.
7. Bucks, if gelded when they have cast their head, their liorns
3iever grow again ; if when their horns are grown, they never cast
them ; in brief, their horus iieror "j|^row after they are geld'^d.
This observation, expre"bed iu almost the same word", I find in
the summary of a book of Francesco Ro"li, the llalian, f^"il"d,
F.spericnzewtorna a diverse cose naturali, Ace Dcliveved m lie
Fkihsophical Transactions, Numb. XCII. p. 600.V

8. Rooks, if they infest your com, are nMnre l/iiifod I* Umir
i/ij
sight, you lake a rook, and, plucking it limb fross lisab, caul l"e
seveitil limbs about field, tJian if jau bang op

hdV a dMien
your
dead rooks in it.
9. Rooks, when they mske tlioir nests, one "yf the pairalways
aitttby to watch it, while the olh^r goes to llrl"h sastin m8s l" iaftM
it. Else, if bdth go, and leave it nnfinisbed, their MUm vwvk^,
before tlieyreturn again, will ba"e carried sway, Wassil therr
several nests, all the sticks and amlerials they hwl gat laff'ffcir.
Hence, perhaps,the word tollingfor eheatiag aad i
d U
.302 MAN NEK OF THE WIRE 6CC.
WORK,
The Manner i/fthe Wire Work at Tintcni tn
^loDinoatbshirey
TiiEY take little square l"ars, made like bars of steel, which
"thej call oshom inmt wrought on purpose for this ntanvlactiire,
and strain, i. draw them at furnace with hammer mored
e. a a bj
water (like those at the iron forg:eft,
bat lesser)into rods
square
of about the bigness of one's little finger,or less, and bow them
round. When that is done, they put them into a furnace, and
neal them with a pretty strong fire for about twelve hours : alter
nealed, they lay theift in water for month (tbe

they are a or two
.longer the better)then the rippers take them and draw them mto
.wire, through two or three holes.
Then they. neal them again for six hours, or more, and water
tliem the second time about a week ; then they are carried
to the rippers, who draw them to a two-bond wire, as big as a
great pack-thread.
Then again they are nealed the third time, and watered about -a
week, as before, and delivered to the small wire drawers, whom
.they call overhouse-imewy 1 suppose only because they work in an
upper room.
In the mill, where the rippers work, the wheel moves several
engines, like little barrels, which they also call haiTeU,hooped

with iron. Tlie barrel hath two hooks on the upper-side, upon
each whereof hang two links, standing a-cross, and fastened to
the two ends of the tongs, which catch hold of the wire, and draw
it through tlie hole. The axis on which the barrel moves, runs
not through the center, but is placed towards one side, viz. that
on which tlie huoks are. Underneath is fastened to the barrel a
spoke of wood, which they call a sunnglCywhich is drawn back a
good way by the calms or cogs in the axis of the wheel, and draws
back the barrel, which (alls to again by its own weight The
tongs, hanging on the hooks of the barrel, are by the workmen

fastened on the wire, and by the force of the wheel, the books
being drawn back, draw the wire throqgh the holes.
They anoint the wire with train-oil, to make it run the easier.
The plate, wherein the holes.are, is on the outside iron, on the
inside steel.
The boles are bigger on the iron side, because the wire finds
more resistance from the steel, and is streightened by degrees.

There is another mill, where the small wire is drawn, which,
with one \iheel, moves three axes that run the length of the house,
on three floors, one above another.
I'he description whereof would be todioos and difficult to oii"
derstand without a scheme, aud therefore I shall omit it.

TUB MANNER OF MAKING VITRIOL, 303
Modusfaciendi Vitriohim coctile in Anglia,
Worm. Mqs. Sect ii. Cap. xiii. p. 89.
lAriDEsex qaibus Titriolum excnquitur ad iitus orientale

insula; ShepAr reperiuutur. Ubi inêiileuilioruin copiam cutle-
l^crunt |"cr spatiusain areterrss inUtos sparûut, duuec imbriiim
niuvioi accedeiite soHa aeslu 6l calure \\x leri*aui sou pulverem re-
diffaalur tiublilisMiiuuin,nitro"uin,
sulphurcum odore pneteretmtet
onendentom interea aqua hano terrain peroolata in sabjecta
per
Ytsa per lubulos " canales derivata in vate plombeo amplo sex
Tel leptem dieruin spatio coquitur ad justam eonaUtentiaui, turn
in aliud van plurobeiim efTiinditur inimusis asseribos aliquot ;
qoibus adhasrens conoresoat vitriol um uuinibns refrigeratit.
râllo alio vatte coqui aut oonlineri hoc lixivium potent qu4a.
plambeo ; cni ut faoilius ebulliat ferri injioiuntparticulas,qnm 4
lixivio pland consommuntur.
We saw tlie mauner of making vitriol,or copperas, at Brickl""
.
ley in Essex. They lay tLe stones apon a large bed" or 6oor,
preparedin the open air, underneath which there are gutters, or
Crongbs, disposed to receive and the liquor nated,

impreg-
carry away
with the mineral, to a cistern where it is reserved. (For
the air and weather dissolving the stones, the rain fallingupon
them, carries away with it the vitrioline juice,or salt, dissolved.)
This liqyor they boil in large leaden putting in a good
pans,
ântity of old iron. When it is sufficiently
evaporated, they
piBar it out into large troughs wherein it coolw, the viyiol ehrys-
tallisingto the sides of the troughs, and to cross bars pot int"
tliem.
The liqoor that remains, after the vitriol is chrystalliaed,they
"all the mothtr, and reserve it to be again evaporated by boiling.
They gatiierof these stones in several places besides the coiM
.
of the island of 8hepey. people gathering

I have observed them
on the sea shore Brighthelmslone in Sussex.
near to
The manner of making vitriol in Italy is something different
from ours in England, which take in Malthiolns's words.
Minerae glebas in acervos mcdiocres conjectos igne snppouto

accendunt. Spunte autem urunt semel accense, donee in oaloem
seu cineres maxima ex parte redacanlnr. Mineram cubustam in
piscinas aquas pleiias obruunt, agitando, misccndoque earn, at
aqua
imbuatur substantia vitrioli. Aquam hanc vitriolatam k
sedimente claram hauriunt ; " in caldaria plumbea transfundunt
quam igne supposito deooqonnt. Vernm dum ebullir, in medio

couturse vol parum iopra vel infra addunt modicum ferri veteris
yel glebe sens juxta intentioncra operautis. Aqaam vitriolatam
2d2
904 THE ALLOM. WOBK AT WHITBY.
deoocUm in tem lignca trtiiKfundunt ill qaibas frigescens con*
geiftlurin Titriolum.
They make great qnantiliesof groen copperas al Deptford'
qear Greenwich.
The nuking of Minium, or Red-lead,
FrnsT they take lead and waste it in an oven or famace ;,

that id, bring it to a sobKlance almost lithargy, by stirring,
like a
it with an iron rake or hue. This they grind with two pair of
atouet
,
.which deliver it front one to another, the flnt gnods it
oo"rier" the ieoond finer. (There is a mill so oontrired as that It
"Mves at onee six pair of these stones.) Thus reduced to powdef
aad washed, it is put into an oven, or reverberating furnace, and

liy continual stirring with the iron rake, or hoe, it is brought to
tlie right colour in two or three days. The fire must not be ex*-
trene all this while, else it will clod toMther, and change colour..
Hie iron rake, wherewith it is stirred, is hung, or poised, on as
iron hook, else it is so heavy that it could not be moved by one
nan.
Ceruss Is made
plates of lead softened with of steams of vinegar^.
Tid. PhilosophicalTraiisactumt, Numb. CXXXVll. p. 935.
The AUom Work at Whiihy in YarhMrt.
Tub process of making allom, as wo partly saw, nd partly

Meeived from the workmen^ was as fellowetb.
First, they take the mine, picked from the drwe, or rode, tatf
YayiBg it on great heaps, bum it with whins ami wood till it fa"
white. When it is sufficientlyburned, they barrow it into a pit
ayade on puqjose, some ten feetlong, six
tmremr feet broad, and
fourths of a yard deep, where it is
steeped in water for th" wffM$
of eight or ton hours. Then they draw out the liquor (which ilf
bat a iixwium impregnated ^th tlie allom mine) into troughs^
by which it is conveyed to the allom house, into a deep efsteMI
of about twenty yards in circumference, and three yArds and a
lm)f deep. Alter this first water is drawn off the mine is lh#
pits,they do not presently cast away the mine, but pour IVesli
nater on it the second time ; and, after the second t^ter ia
draw* off (which is much weaker tlian tbe first)they east onf IW
tnneând put in new, and pour oi* fresh water as before.
Oot of the cistern they
convey thtf Mriknwn, \ry tKWafjhs,iarta
^ ptnr; where it is Mledfei* tfee ^ptm "f tftm/ff-tbrn feeors
mômhly, Thi* they Mle "ff fiell^pM#tftifreF m fi"9,aa4

THE MANNEK OF MAKING SALT. 305
examine it
by Weigfht, lo know how mooh Ice, made of kelp, it
will require, which if for the most part six iuches of t!ic |["auV
depth.
Wliiek beings pot in, so soon as the liquor boiIs".or flows ap^
bj the patting in of an iron coal rake, or ntber iron instrument,.

they draw it off into a settler, and there let it stand about aik
hour, that so the sulphur and other dregs may settle to the botr'
kom, which being done, it is drawn off into coolers, where it con^
tinues about four days and nights. The cooler being drawiL
about hair full,, they pour into it a quantity of urine, viz. about
eight gnltons into a cooler that contains about two half tuns.
Having thos stood foar days and nights, it is quite coo), aad^
the allom chrystalHzed to the sides of the cooler. Then the/
scoop out the liquor (which they call the mother) into a cistenv.
and put it into the again, with new lixivium to be evapo"
pans
rated by boiling, "o. The a1)om that is ihotten and clirystaDizecl
on the sides of the cooler, they scrape off and wash with faic
spring water; then throw it into a bing, where the water draint
from it. Thence it is taken and cast into a pan, which tbey caU
the rocking pan, and there melted it is scooped out, and
; ooa-^
feyed by troughs into tuns, in which it stands about ten dtLjt^
votil it be perfectly cool and condensed. Then they onhoob
and stave the tuns, and taking ont the ailom, chip it and carry ^
into the 8tor^boa8e"
We failed enquire exactly what
to proportion of kefy they paC
ia. For thongh tbey told et six inches of the p4ti'|deptOaJrfi
Hmj tohl ai aot how deep the are mad"..
pans
7^ MMng of Salt ai Namptwychy in CheMre.
The salt spring, or (acithey call it) the ^ri7"e pit, h near tk$
river, and is so plentiful,that were all the water boiled oat tlMl
it wonld afford (as they told ns) it would yield salt enough for
all Buglandv The lords of tlie pit appoint how much shall M
boiled as tbey see occasioii" that the trade be not clogged.
Divers have interest in the brine-pit, so that !t bv^
persons
longs not all to one 4ord ; some have one Iead*walling, some two,
some three, some foqr, or morei
N.B. A lead-wallingis the brine of twetity-fnurhour$ boi"ng

fir one home.
Two btindrnd and sixteen lead-wallings, or thereabout, beloilg
to all the owners of the pit. No tradesmen, batchehir, or widow,
can rent more than eigfatetttlead-wall ings.
They barre four sworn officers chosen yoarfy, which they call
"ccnpier^ of gfaSiing,
whote dol^ ie to see eqnal dMiiag between
306 THE MANHER Of MAKING SALT.
lord and Icuant, and all pwsoiu concerned. Tbey appoint Iioiit"
many hoas^s shall work at a time, and that is twelve at tlie moat*.
When there is occasion for salt to be made, they cause a cryer tO'
make proclamatiuis so that all partiesconcerned may put to their

fires, at the same time ;
and so when they shall ceaAe at a deter-*-
ninate hour, at nhich the^ mnst give ovefy-else they cause theif
salt to be marred by casting diit into it, or tlie like.
There are iii the town about fitlyhouses, and house hath
every
four which I he rulers to see be exactly of the same
pans, are
aaasart.
Salt-water taken cot of the brme-pit in two honri and a qaar*

tsr boiling, will be evaporated and boiled op into salt. When
tke liquor li more than loke^warn, they take strong ale, bnllock's
blood, and whites of
egg8" mixed together with brine in this portion;
pro-
of blood one egg"sbell full, the white of one egg, and a.
pint of ale, and put it into a pan of twentj-fuurgallons,or there*

nbonts. llie whites of the and the blood, serve to clarify
eggs,
ilie brine by raising the which they take off just the
scam, upon
boiling of the pans, otherwise it will boil in and spoil the salt.
The older the blood is the better it is, cceterii paribus. They do
M"t always put in bloody vis. when there is danger of the liqnor't
boiling too fast, if the liquor happens to boil loo fast, they take^
to allayit, brine that had been boiled and drained from the salts
onide brine, they say, will diminish their salt The ale serves, they
fud, to harden the corn of the salt.
After on" hour's boiling, tlie brine will begin to com : then
they take a small quantity of clear ale, and sprinkle thereof into
the about an egg-shell full. [Note, If yon pat in too much
pan
it will make the broth boil over the pan.] All the' while before
they pot in the last ale, the^ cause the to boil as fast as they
pan
afterwards gently,'till the salt be almost' dry; They
can; very
do not evaporate ad ticeitatem, but leave about a pottle or lon
gal-
of brine in the lest the salt should burn and stick to
pan,
the sides of the pan. .
The brine tlms boiled

sufficiently ond evaporated, they take
.
ont the salt, and put it into conical baskets, (which they call
barrows) and in them let the water drain from it an hour, more
or less, and then set it to dry in the hot-house behind thefornaoe.
A barrow, containing pecks, is sold there for Is. 4d.

six
Out of two pans

of forty-eightgallons, they expect seven peeks
of salt, Winchester measure,
.
Note, The house in which the salt is boiled is called the Wych/f
house; whence it may be guessed. what toj/c^ signifies,and why
all those towns where there are salt springs and salt made, are
called by the name of wycA, viz. Namptwycb, Northwych, Mid-
dlewych, Droitwycfa. The vessel wbereinto the brine is by
trovghs conveyed from tlie i" called the sliip. It is

brine-pit,

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COMPLETE CJOLLECTION

THE MOST CELEBRATED PROVERBS

SCOTCH. ITALIAN, FRENCH. SPANLSH,

AND OTHER LANGUAGES.

*nie Whole methodically digestedand illoMtrated with AnnotatioiiH

BY THE LATE REV. AND LEARNED

(To which is added, by the same Anther J

With their Signiacationsand Original in two Alphabetical Clataloguex ;

the of snch as are proper to the Northern, tbe other, to the

The preparingand refining such Metals " Minerals

as are found in England*

Ht^ntUtd Vtrbaiim fromtfui Ediiiua vj iTli"i

PRINTED POR t. AMD J. ALLMAV, PRINCB8 STREET, IZANOVEU

SQUARB; T" BOONEt 8TBAND; AND BALDWIN, CRADOCE,

Tfffi former edition of this Collection of BnglisliproverVs fall*

iof into the kands of divers ing^enioos persons, my worthy friends,

Aerein wanting^, as also' more carefally to heed what oocnrred in

^ nading, or dropped from the months of others in diseoorse.

whtch, amoanled to hundreds, besides not few of

ohwrvation, I the reader with in this second edition. I

it to be more full and comprehensive than any collection hitherto

pablished. And 1 believe that not very many

part of it, whether the East, West, North, or midland tries,

have escaped it ; I having had communications from servant

and inquifiilive in all those parts, viz. from Francis

George Antrobus, master of the Free School at Tamworth in

Warwickshire, and Mr. Walter Ashmore of the same place.

; Mr. Newton of Leicester ; Mr. Sherringliam of Cains

Knight; Mr. Andrew Paschall, of Chedsey in SomerseC-

English tongue, I answer, tlial,to say the trnth, 1 (tauriut warrant

all those phrases to be genuine i^roverbs tu which I have allowed

"chose nther to submil Iheio to tbe censora of Uw rctderf

l^aces,if any man think

Itertainingor reducible shall be referred by the apposition of tbo

entry. But sloth and impatience of so tedious a work enticed me

rather to presume upon memory ; especially considering

importance. In such papers as 1 received after the copy was oot

of my hands, whon I was doubtful of any proverb 1 chose to lei

former edition have given offence to sober and pious personn, as

savouring tuo much of obsceuity, being apt to suggest impore-

would by no means be guilty of administering fowel to lust, which

they are ingredients. The useful notions, ^hich many ill-worded

proverbs do import, ma}', I Ihink, compensate for their homely

sense into more descent and cleanly langnaf";e.For if we consider

body, or the egcslion of them, or the parls employed therein is

condemned, we shall find Ihem to be, either 1. Because such crements

being offensive to our senses,

do so too; and for their relation to Iheni, such also as denote

good manners or, 2. Because such excrements reflect some

lu; lad therefore modeaty reqaires that wo decliao

to aeeeiaitate tbe omission- of so many of the most witty and

"igniioant of English proverbs: yet

"oaanon of offence, I have, by that nsoal expedient of poUing

"" So I have dispatched what I thought needful promise either

Ibr my own excuse, or the reader's satisfaction,to whose favour*

Little need concerning the nature

subject of this book, conveying at once entertainment and profit,

and pithy saying, in which more is generally designed than

expressed, famous for its peculiarity and elegance, and therefore

It owes its originaland reputation to tbe-sayings of wise men,

of mankind, adapted to common use, as ornaments of speech,

The peculiarity of proverbs arises sometimes from the novelty

him to convey it down to posterity: sometimes the thing