Poets From England

"Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill."

"Beggars should be no choosers."

"It is a deere collop That is cut out of th' owne flesh."

"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."

"Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke, Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in, Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn."

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

"Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?"

"For whan I gaue you an ynche, ye tooke an ell."

"An yll wynde that blowth no man to good."

"What man, loue me, loue me dog."

"Yes yes (quoth she) for all those wyse woordis vttred, I know on which syde my bread is buttred. But there will no butter cleaue on my breade. And on my bread any butter to be spreade. Euery promise that thou therin dost vtter, Is as sure as it were sealed with butter."

"Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese."

"It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng."

"The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)"

"Set the cart before the hors."

"There is no fyre without some smoke."

"Many handis make light warke."

"Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away."

"Marke ye, how she hitteth me on the thombis (quoth hée) And ye taunt me tyt ouer thumb (quoth shée) Sens tyt for tat (quoth I) on euen hand is set."

"Ye can not sée the wood for trées."

"A penny for your thought."

"A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat."

"All thing is the woorse for the wearing."

"Proue thy fréende er thou haue néede, but in déede A fréende is neuer knoen tyll a man haue néede."

"A heare of the dog that bote vs last night."

"Ka me, ka the, one good tourne askth an other."