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.

The March sunne raises but dissolves not.

The March sunne raises but dissolves not.

Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.

Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.

There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my read more

There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.

The first and last frosts are the worst.

The first and last frosts are the worst.

Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.

Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its
approach.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its
approach.