"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."

"And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde, Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde. And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele, Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele."

"Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste."

"Beware of, Had I wist."

"All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland."

"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt."

"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."

"Enough is as good as a feast."

"Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother."

"The wrong sow by th' eare."

"Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee That wilfully will neither heare nor see?"

"It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone."

"I know on which side my bread is buttred."

"The moone is made of a greene cheese."

"Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong."

"It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling."

"To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray."

"The moe the merrier."

"Set the cart before the horse."

"He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive."

"Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of."

"Mad as a march hare."

"Time trieth troth in every doubt."

"Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre."

"It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare."

"Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill."

"Have yee him on the hip."

"It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest."

"A cat may looke on a King."

"Fieldes have eies and woods have eares."

"I cast before the Moone."

"A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne."

"For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots."

"I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head."

"Fishe and gesse in three dayes are stale."

"Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde."

"Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest."

"Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate."

"A comely olde man as busie as a bee."

"Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke."

"It is a world to see."

"Is it not true which Seneca reporteth, that as too much bending breaketh the bowe, so too much remission spoyleth the minde?"

"Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede."

"I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde."

"Lette me stande to the maine chance."

"Did not Jupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alcmæna; into the form of a swan to enjoy Leda; into a Bull to beguile Io; into a showre of gold to win Danae?"