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Evangeline. Part i. 3.
And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
Evangeline. Part ii. 5.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.[616-1]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Into a world unknown,--the corner-stone of a nation![616-2]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.[616-3]
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
The Herons of Elmwood.
He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.[616-4]
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Colyn Cloute. Line 1240.
The wolfe from the dore.
Colyn Cloute. Line 1531.
Old proverbe says,
That byrd ys not honest
That fyleth hys owne nest.[8:6]
Poems against Garnesche.
[8:1] He that spareth the rod hateth his son.โProverbs xiii. 24.
They spare the rod and spoyl the child.โRalph Venning: Mysteries and Revelations (second ed.), p. 5. 1649.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.โButler: Hudibras, pt. ii. c. i. l. 843.
[8:2] Rule the rost.โHeywood: Proverbes, part i. chap. v.
Her that ruled the rost.โThomas Heywood: History of Women.
Rules the roast.โJonson, Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act ii. sc. 1. Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1.
[8:3] In spite of my teeth.โMiddleton: A Trick to catch the Old One, act i. sc. 2. Fielding: Eurydice Hissed.
[8:4] He knew what 's what.โButler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 149.
[8:5] In hope her to attain by hook or crook.โSpenser: Faerie Queene, book iii. canto i. st. 17.
[8:6] It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.โHeywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. v.
JOHN HEYWOOD.[8:7]โโCirca 1565.The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man 's without a shirt.
Be Merry Friends.
[9]
Let the world slide,[9:1] let the world go;
A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
If I can't pay, why I can owe,
And death makes equal the high and low.
Be Merry Friends.
All a green willow, willow,
All a green willow is my garland.
The Green Willow.
Haste maketh waste.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Beware of, Had I wist.[9:2]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Good to be merie and wise.[9:3]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Beaten with his owne rod.[9:4]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Look ere ye leape.[9:5]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
He that will not when he may,
When he would he shall have nay.[9:6]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
The fat is in the fire.[9:7]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
[10]
When the sunne shineth, make hay.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
When the iron is hot, strike.[10:1]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
The tide tarrieth no man.[10:2]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde.[10:3]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
And while I at length debate and beate the bush,
There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.[10:4]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.[10:5]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
So many heads so many wits.[10:6]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Wedding is destiny,
And hanging likewise.[10:7]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
[11]
Happy man, happy dole.[11:1]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Like will to like.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
When the skie falth we shall have Larkes.[11:2]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
More frayd then hurt.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.[11:3]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Nothing is impossible to a willing hart.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Let the world wagge,[11:4] and take mine ease in myne Inne.[11:5]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Rule the rost.[11:6]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Hold their noses to grinstone.[11:7]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Better to give then to take.[11:8]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
When all candles bee out, all cats be gray.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.[11:9]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
[12]
I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.[12:1]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vi.
A sleveless errand.[12:2]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vii.
We both be at our wittes end.[12:3]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Reckeners without their host must recken twice.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
A day after the faire.[12:4]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Cut my cote after my cloth.[12:5]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
The neer to the church, the further from God.[12:6]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Better is to bow then breake.[12:7]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.[12:8]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Two heads are better then one.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
A short horse is soone currid.[12:9]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
To tell tales out of schoole.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
To hold with the hare and run with the hound.[12:10]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
[13]
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.[13:1]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
All is well that endes well.[13:2]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Of a good beginning cometh a good end.[13:3]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Shee had seene far in a milstone.[13:4]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Better late than never.[13:5]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.[13:6]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Pryde will have a fall;
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.[13:7]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.[13:8]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
The still sowe eats up all the draffe.[13:9]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Ill weede growth fast.[13:10]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
[14]
It is a deere collop
That is cut out of th' owne flesh.[14:1]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Beggars should be no choosers.[14:2]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.[14:3]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.[14:4]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
To robbe Peter and pay Poule.[14:5]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.[14:6]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.[14:7]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.[14:8]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
[15]
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.[15:1]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Rome was not built in one day.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Yee have many strings to your bowe.[15:2]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Many small make a great.[15:3]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Nought venter nought have.[15:4]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Children and fooles cannot lye.[15:5]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Set all at sixe and seven.[15:6]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
All is fish that comth to net.[15:7]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?[15:8]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
One good turne asketh another.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
By hooke or crooke.[15:9]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
[16]
She frieth in her owne grease.[16:1]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.[16:2]
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
But in deede,
A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.[16:3]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
New brome swepth cleene.[16:4]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
All thing is the woorse for the wearing.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
Burnt child fire dredth.[16:5]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.[16:6]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
Love me litle, love me long.[16:7]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
A fooles bolt is soone shot.[16:8]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iii.
A woman hath nine lives like a cat.[16:9]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
A peny for your thought.[16:10]
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
[17]
You stand in your owne light.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Though
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