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Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
A gentle houswife marres the houshold.
A gentle houswife marres the houshold.
