Little between right and wrong.

The lame returns sooner than his servant.
Earth is the best shelter,

Truth is the best buckler.
No weeping for shed milk.

Lng and hale, it will not hold long.
What is not wisdom is danger.

A work ill done must be twice done.
Wise words and great seldom agree.
If thou play the fool, stay for a fellow.
A scholar may be gulled thrice:
Bad to care no more than for to-morrow.
The devil is a most bad master.

a soldier but once.

Do good, and then do it again.
Heaven is mine if God doth say Amen.
Well goes the case where wisdom counsels.
Better God than gold.

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
A fool will not be foiled.

A good friend never offends.
Too much is stark naught.
None patient but the wise.
Learn not, and know not.
No folly to being in love.
No joy to heaven's.

No deceit to the world's.

In

every fault there is folly. Clear conscience, a sure card. As long as a Welsh pedigree.

Anglesey is the mother of Wales.

King Arthur did not violate the refuge of a woman
The Welshman keeps nothing till he has lost it.
He that would be a head let him be a bridge.

To escape Cluyd, and be drowned in Conway.
Powis is the paradise of Wales.

Arthur was not but whilst he was.

There's more than one yew-bow in Chestor.

THE FOLLOWING PROVERBS ARE PRESUMED TO BR IRISH.

SHE is like a Waterford heifer, beef to the heels.

He is like a Waterford merchant, up to the a- in business. His eyes are like two burnt holes in a blanket.

Full of fun and foustre, like Mooney's goose.

He looks as angry as if he was vexed.

'Tis as bad as cheating the devil in the dark, and two farthing candles for a halfpenny.

A wild goose never laid a tame egg

He'd skin a louse, and send the hide and fat to market.

DANISH PROVERBS.

TO-DAY gold, to-morrow dust.

The Finlanders say, To-day well, to-morrow cold in the mouth: Tà ng pan culda, huomeri mulda.

Without favour art is like a windmill without wina.
No and yes often cause long disputes.

An injury forgiven is better than an injury revenged.
It is good fasting when the table is covered with fish.
The devil always leaves a stink behind him.
Better bend the neck than bruise the forehead.
A cake eaten in peace is better than two in trouble.
Though poverty may bring sorrow, riches create inquietude.
Unanimity is the best fortress.

Rare commodities are worth more than good.

The Dutch say, Was, vlas en tin, groot gelt, klein gewin.

TITHE and be rich.

EASTERN PROVERBS.

In Golgotha are skulls of all sizes.

God and men think him a fool who brags of his own great wisdom.

Defaming or slandering others is the greatest of all sins. Neither speak well nor ill of yourself. If well, men will not believe you; if ill, they will believe a great deal more than you say.

He is miserable once who feels it; but twice, who fears it before it comes.

The truest wealth is that of the understanding.

Silence is wisdom, and gets a man friends.

Speak well even to bad men.

He who repeats the ill he hears of another, is the true slanderer.

Knowledge is a second light, and hath bright eyes.

Provide for thy soul by doing good works.

Consider well, and oft, why thou camest into this world, and how soon thou must go out of it.

A lie, though it promise good, will do thee harm; and truth will do thee good at the last.

A wise man gets learning from those who have none themselves.

A man's folly is his worst foe, and his discretion his best friend.

When a wise man errs he errs with a vengeance.

He who sows thorns will never reap grapes.

The wise man knows the fool, but the fool doth not know the wise man.

Per.

The Most High God sees, and bears: my neighbour knows nothing, and yet is always finding fault. There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

God loves good accounts.

Turk.

One man may teach another to speak; but none can teach

another to hold his peace.

Pol

ADAGIA HEBRAICA-HEBREW PROVERBS.

The axe goes to the wood מניה וביה אבא ניזיל ביה נרגא :

from whence it borrowed its helve.

It is used against those who are injurious to those from whom they are derived, or from whom they have received their power.

אם אמר לך חר אזניך דחמר לא תיחוש תריין עתיד לך פרומבי :

If any say, that one of thine ears is the ear of an ass, regard it not: if he say so of them both, procure thyself a bridle.

That is, it is time to arm ourselves with patience when we are greatly reproached.

בחקלא דאית ביה אזגרין לא תימר מילה דמסטירין:

Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills. Because it is possible somebody may lie hid there, and hear what is said.

whose physician hath the gout.

That city is in a bad case עלובה מדינתא שאסיה פודגריס :

Do not dwell in a city whose אל תדור בעיר דריש מתא אסיא :

governor is a physician.

A myrtle אסא דקאי ביני חליפי אסא שמיה ואסא קרו ליה :

באתר דאית גבר תמן לא תהוי גבר :

standing among nettles, does notwithstanding retain the name of a myrtle.

1. e. Where there is a

man, there do not thou show thyself a man.

The meaning is, that it becomes us not to intermeddle in an office where there is already such good provision made that there is no need of our help.

אבב חוטרא מילי ואבי דרי חושבנא :

i. e. At the door of the fold, words; within the fold, an account.

The shepherd does with fair words call back his fugitive sheep to the door of the fold; but when he gets them in, he punisheth them for straying away. It is applicable to what may be expected from our governors against whom we have rebelled.

איהו בקרו ואתתיה בבוציני:

i. e. He is pleased with gourds,

and his wife with cucumbers.

A proverb by which i expressed, that both the man and his wife ars virious much like.

e. It is not . לא כמא דאמרת אמך אלא כמא דאמרין מגרייא:

as thy mother says, but as thy neighbours say.

The meaning is, that we are not to regard the praises of a near relation, but to listen to what is said by the neighbourhood.

i. e. If the dog bark,

נבח בך כלבא עול נבח בך גורייתא פזק:

go in; if the bitch bark, go out.

e. We may not expect a . מכלבא בישא גורא טבא לא נפיק :

שכם נסיב ומבנאי גזור:

good whelp from an ill dog.

i. e. Sichem marries the wife (viz. Dinah); and Mifgæus is circumcised (i. e. punished). Delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi.

נמלא במדי אקבא דקדא :

A camel in Media dances in a little

cab.

This proverb is used against those who tell incredible things.

e. The . גמלא אזלא למיבעי קרני אודני דהוו ליה גזיין מניה :

camel going to seek horns, lost his ears.

Against those who, being discontented with what they have, in pursuit of more, lose what they once had.

i. e. Many old camels

carry the skins of the young ones to the market.

נפישו גמלו סכי דמטועני משכא דהוגני:

קבא רבא וקבא זוטא מיגנדר ואזיל לשאול :

e. He .2 דאגר גינה אכל ציפרין דאגר גיין ציפרין אכלין ליה :

and the little cab go down to the grave.

i. e. The great cab

that hires one garden (which he is able to look after) eats birds; he that hires more than one will be eaten by the birds.

.i. e. As is the garden such is the gardener לפום גנתא גננא :

אי לאו דלינא חספא לא משכחת מרגניתא תות :

i. e. If I had not lifted up the stone, you had not found the jewel.

It is used when one man reaps the fruit of the labours of another.

e. When the sun rises the disease . אולי יומא ארלי קצירא:

will abate.

It is said by one of the Jews, that there was a precious stone which did hang on the neck of Abraham, which when the sick man looked on he was presently healed: and that when Abraham died, God placed this stone in the sun. This is thought to have given occasion to the proverb abovenamed. V. Buxtorf. Lexic. Rabbin, in voce 7.

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