When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger. Ital.

A good thing is soon snatched up.

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning. Mieux vaut un poing de bonne vie, que plein muy de clergie.— Fr. The Spaniards say, A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning. Mas vale puñado de natural, que almozada de soiencia.

One never loseth by doing good turns.
Good and quickly seldom meet.
Goods are theirs who enjoy them.

Gossips and frogs drink and talk.

Ital.

The greatest strokes make not the best music.

There could be no great ones if there were no little.
He that gropes in the dark finds that he would not.
Many things grow in the garden that were never there.

The groundsel speaks not save what it heard of the hinges.
He who is a good paymaster is lord of another man's purse.

Ital.

H.

Span.

THE wise hand doth not all the foolish tongue speaketh. La
mano cuerda no haze, todo lo que dice la lengua loca.
Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
The hard gives no more than he that hath nothing.
Things hardly attained are longer retained.

He who would have a hare for breakfast must hunt overnight.

Good harvests make men prodigal, bad ones provident.

He that hath a good harvest may be content with some thistles. 'Tis safe riding in a good haven.

The first point of hawking is hold fast.

The gentle hawk mans herself.

When the head aches all the body is the worse.

infestat labor omnia membra molestat.

One is not so soon healed as hurt.

Health without money is half a sickness. Ital.
What the heart thinketh the tongue speaketh.

Who spits against heaven it falls in his face. Spen.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishes.
Hell is paved with good intentions.

Dum caput

King Henry robbed the church and died poor.
The high-way is never about.

Look high, and fall into a cow-turd.

Every man is best known to himself.

Better my hog dirty home than no hog at all.

Dry bread at home is better than roast-meat abroad.
He is wise that is honest. Ital.

Of all crafts, to be an honest man is the master-craft.
A man never surfeits of too much honesty.

Liek honey with your little finger.

He that licks honey from thorns, pays too dear for it.
Trop achepte le miel qui sur espines le leche.
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. Ital.

Honour and ease are seldom bed-fellows.

Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.

Fr.

He that lives in hope, danceth without a minstrel. Span.
The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides him another.
Lend thy horse for a long journey, thou mayest have him
return with his skin.

All things are soon prepared in a well-ordered house.

The foot on the cradle, and hand on the distaff, is the sign of a good housewife. Span.

An humble-bee in a cow-turd thinks himself a king. Or, A beetle in a cow-turd, &c.

A hungry man, an angry man.

Husbands are in heaven whose wives chide not.

Be a good husband, and you will get a penny to spend, a penny to lend, and a penny for a friend.

I, J

IDLENESS turns the edge of wit.
Idleness is the key of beggary.

Jest not with the eye, nor religion. Span.

The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all, than by all before

one.

An ill stake standeth longest.

There were no ill language were it not ill taken.

› perisheth in needless danger is the devil's martyr. meat begets a new appetite. Fr.

n thy neighbour's house is on fire, be careful of thine owu, Tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet.

that runs in the night stumbles.

nightingale and the cuckoo sing both in one month. more noble, the more humble.

weather and knaves come out of the north.

ing down, nothing up.

ing have, nothing crave.

loing nothing we learn to do ill. Nihil agendo male

scimus.

more painful to do nothing than something.

hat hath nothing is not contented.

nurse's tongue is privileged to talk.

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offender never pardons. Ital.

agere

offspring of them that are very old, or very young, lasteth

t.

Ill healing an old sore.

Trongs not an old man who steals his supper from him.

an.

e old dog barks, he gives counsel. Ital. Cane vecchio non baia Jarno.

riends and old wine are best.-Fr.

men, when they scorn young, make much of death. ther, as Mr. Howell hath it, When they sport with young

men.

bees are old they yield no honey.

dman's staff is the rapper at death's door. Span. knave is no babe.

old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

an old man will not drink, go to see him in another d. Ital.

hath but one hog, makes him fat; and he who hath one son, makes him a fool. Ital.

is wanting to one friend, loseth a great many.

ewd turn deserv

mber invites another.

is good till another's told.

The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between both. Span.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.

He goes not out of his way, that goes to a good inn.
We must not look for a golden life in an iron age.
An itch is worse than a smart.

Itch and ease can no man please.

K.

WHERESOEVER you see your kindred, make much of your friends.

A knotty piece of timber must have smooth wedges.
Many kiss the hands they wish to see cut off. Span.
He that eats the king's goose shall be choked with the feathers.
He giveth one knock on the hoop, and another on the barrel.
-Ital. i. e. He speaks now to the purpose, now on matters
wholly extraneous.

ན.

HE that labours, and thrives, spins gold. Span. Quien ara, y cria, oro hila.

The lame goeth as far as the staggerer.

The last suitor wins the maid.

In a thousand pounds of law there's not an ounce of love.
The law is not the same at morning and night.

The worst of law is, that one suit breeds twenty. Span.

A suit of law and an urinal brings a man to the hospital. Span. A good lawyer, an evil neighbour.

He laughs ill that laughs himself to death.

He would not lend his knife to the devil to stab himself.-Ital

i. e. So excessive is his avarice.

Let your letter stay for the post, not the post for the letter.Ital. i. e. Be always before-hand with your business.

A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.

Every light is not the sun.

Like author like book.

Like to like, and Nan for Nicholas.

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 the fire, but great ones put it out.