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All is fish that that cometh to net. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. 2) [Fish] Haste makes waste. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. II) [Proverbs : Work] God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IV) [Eating] Better is to bow than breake. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX) [Prudence] Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX) [Luck] Two heads are better than one. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX) [Proverbs] At our wittes end. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. VIII) [Wit] Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X) [Pleasure] Tell tales out of school. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X) [Gossip] Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI) [Birds] By hooke or crooke. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI) [Proverbial Phrases] It is good the have a hatch before the durre. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI) [Prudence] Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.] - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI), (for variations on theme, see Chaucer and Gower) [Proverbs : Risk] Set all at sixe and seven. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI) [Proverbs] The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI) [Cats] Yee have many strings to your bowe. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI) [Prudence] I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night. - Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI, l.424) [Hair] This wonder lasted nine daies. - Proverbs (pt. II, ch. I) [Wonder] Went in at the one eare and out at the other. - Proverbs (pt. II, ch. IX) [Hearing] It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care. - Proverbs (pt. II, ch. V) [Mice] 'Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes? - Royal King and Loyal Subject (act II, sc. 2) [Tailors] All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland. - The Green Willow [Willow] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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