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Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say,
Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.
Proverbs (1546)
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,
Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
Proverbs (1546)
A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
Proverbs (1546)
Be the day never so long,
Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
Proverbs (1546)
The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.
Would yee both eat your cake, and have your cake?
An yll wynde that blowth no man to good.
Proverbs (1546)
Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?
Proverbs (1546)
What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?
Idleness (1576)
It is better to be
An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
Proverbs (1546)
Much water goeth by the mill
That the miller knoweth not of.
Proverbs (1546)
It is a deere collop
That is cut out of th' owne flesh.
Proverbs (1546)
Ka me, ka the, one good tourne askth an other.
Proverbs (1546)
Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.
Proverbs (1546)
I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
Proverbs (1546)
I know on which side my bread is buttred.
Proverbs (1546)
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee,
Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
'Tis not the robe or garment I affect;
For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
Proverbs (1546)
Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?
Proverbs (1546)