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All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown. - [Contentment] Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided. - [Sorrow] Have yee him on the hip? - [Proverbs] He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give. - [Beggars] Of a good beginning cometh a good end. - [Proverbs] Robbe Peter and pay Paule. - [Proverbs] Rome was not built in one day. - [Proverbs] Set the cart before the horse. - [Proverbs] The fat is in the fire. - [Proverbs] The more the merrier. - [Proverbs] The wise man sayth, store is no sore. - [Wisdom] And death makes equal the high and low. - Be Merry Friends [Death] Let the world slide, 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 [World] The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. - Be Merry Friends [Happiness] Put your toong in your purse. - Dialogue of Wit and Folly (pt. II, l. 263) [Proverbs] The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill. - Dramatic Works (vol. I, The Author to His Book, Prefix to Apology for Actors) [World] What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? - Idleness [Idleness] An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she. - Idleness (st. 5) [Wind] When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.) - Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII) [Devil] He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth. - Johan the Husbande [Proverbs] Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares. - Proverbes (pt. II, ch. V) [Proverbs] She is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. - Proverbs [Fish : Herring] Nought lay down, nought take up. [Nothing Ventured, nothing gained.] - Proverbs (I, vi), (for variations on theme, see Chaucer and Gower) [Proverbs] Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. 10) [Fish] He has well fished and caught a frog. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. 11) [Fishing] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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