Catholics From England

"Ill weede growth fast."

"The still sowe eats up all the draffe."

"She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth."

"Pryde will have a fall; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after."

"When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre."

"Better late than never."

"Shee had seene far in a milstone."

"She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring."

"A short horse is soone currid."

"Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me."

"Cut my cote after my cloth."

"A day after the faire."

"Reckeners without their host must recken twice."

"We both be at our wittes end."

"A sleveless errand."

"I perfectly feele even at my fingers end."

"No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth."

"Better to give then to take."

"Rule the rost."

"Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne."

"The wise man sayth, store is no sore."

"Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone."

"More frayd then hurt."

"God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat."

"This hitteth the nayle on the hed."

"Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can. Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all."

"Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say, Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away."

"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."