Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

504 Outlandish Proverbs.488. Praise a hill, but keepe below.489. Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.490. In chusing a wife, and buying a sword, we oughtnot to trust another.491. The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.492. Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.493. There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.494. He that's long a giving, knows not how to give.495. The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.496. Every one fastens where there is gaine.497. All feete tread not in one shoe.498. Patience, time and money accommodate all things.499. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of ashoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.500. Weigh justly and sell dearely.501. Little wealth little care.502. Little journeys and good cost, bring safe home.503. Gluttony kills more then the sword.504. When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.505. A little and goodfills the trencher.506. A penny spar'd is twice got.507. When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friendnor kin.508. Short boughs, long vintage.509. Health without money, is halfe an ague.510. If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.511. Beare with evill, and expect good.512. He that tells a secret, is anothers servant.513. If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme aflock of geese.