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I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.
Proverbs (1546)
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.
And while I at length debate and beate the bushe,
There shall steppe in other men, and catche the burdes,
And by long time lost in many vayne wurdes.
Proverbs (1546)
This wonder lasted nine daies.
And once their hasty heat a little controlled,
Than perceive they well, hot love soon cold.
And when hasty witless mirth is mated well,
Good to be merry and wise, they think and feel.
Proverbs (1546)
... Be they wynners or loosers,
… beggers should be no choosers.
Proverbs (1546)
I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A hair of the dog that bit us last night.
And death makes equal the high and low.
A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.
Proverbs (1546)
Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stood
Till it was finist, as some say, full faire.
Proverbs (1546)
There is no fyre without some smoke.
Proverbs (1546)
Ye can not sée the wood for trées.
Proverbs (1546)
This hitteth the nayle on the hed.
Proverbs (1546)
The more hast the lesse speede.
Proverbs (1546)
Two heddis are better then one.
Proverbs (1546)
Shee had seene far in a milstone.
Proverbs (1546)
What man, loue me, loue me dog.
Proverbs (1546)
Rome was not built in one day.
Proverbs (1546)
Enough is as good as a feast.
Proverbs (1546)
The tide tarrieth no man.
Proverbs (1546)