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SOOTHING OF PROVERBS : With only True forsooth .

In two Parts .

By B. N. Gent.

LONDON , rinted for Iohn Wright , and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate at the signe of the Bible .

1626.

To the Reader .

SOothing and Crossing are two humours more troublesome than profitable , The one troubles the wise that loue no flatterie , and the other fooles that loue to be flattered . What you are I know not , and therefore as you finde your selfe , so fit your sense : And yet if you will not scorne a fooles counsell , be silent rather than crosse , for feare of quarrels ; and rather learne silence among the wise , than sooth their sayings in their hearing , for their eares are iealous ouer their wits . But lest I make a great entry to a little house , leauing what you reade to your leisure , and the liking to your capacitie , I rest .

B. N.
SOOTHING OF Prouerbs : WITH Only True forsooth . Prouerbe .

LOue is a rauishing humour .

Sooth.

True , or else so many Virgins would not lose their maiden-heads .

Prou.

Beauty is a bewitching obiect .

Sooth.

True , or else men would not be so mad vpon it .

P.

All things are common among friends .

S.

Then wiues must be put in as well as wenches .

P.

Nothing is hard to a willing minde .

S.

True , if there be hope in the businesse .

P.

Beware the witch .

S.

True , for she is a deuill incarnate .

P.

Euery man loues himselfe best .

S.

True , or else he lacks vnderstanding .

P.

Too much of any thing is good for nothing .

S.

True , for the quantitie marres the qualitie .

P.

A valiant minde feares no fortune .

S.

True , for he knowes t is but a fiction .

P.

Young wenches make old wrinches .

S.

True , when clasping of the brest breeds the cricke in the backe .

P.

Like will to like .

S.

True , that makes Lads goe to Lasses .

P.

A baudy-house is an earthly hell .

S.

True , for the deuill stands at the doore to bring his Guests into their roome .

P.

No Play is without a foole .

S.

True , nor ●ithout many to looke vpon them .

P.

Quarrelling makes the Surgeons haruest .

S.

True , when out of a little salue he gets a great deale of money .

P.

Physitians are costly visiters .

S.

True , for they seldome come but for their fee .

P.

An Apothecaries shop is ill in a mans belly .

S.

True , for if the stomacke be not kept cleane , it will stinke of the medicines .

P.

A Sexton is a fatall Musitian .

S.

True , for his musicke is a message of death .

P.

When the Cat is away , the Mouse may play .

S.

True , if she come not in the trap .

P.

Contraries can hardly agree together .

S.

True , that makes May and Ianuary so farre asunder .

P.

Sweet meat will haue sowre sauce .

S.

True , or else it would be too lushious .

P.

Trowling eyes make rowling wits .

S.

True , when feminine wags make masculine wantons .

P.

Euery thing hath an end .

S.

True , either whereto , or whereof .

P.

A gay foole is an idle picture .

S.

True , for it is but lost time to looke vpon it .

P.

Airie bodies haue light braines .

S.

Or else mad men would not be so fantasticke .

P.

A scolding woman is a troublesome creature .

S.

True , and especially to her husband .

P.

Many men goe backward thorow the world .

S.

True , or else Rope-makers and Weauers could not get their liuings .

P.

A Iester and a Pandar are cousen varmins in villany .

S.

True , and if both be in one , he will breed Cuckold● out of crie .

P.

A defeated armie is a lamentable spectacle .

S.

True , when Iewes make hauocke of Christians .

P.

Pouertie breeds peace .

S.

True , for there is nothing to goe to warre withall .

P.

Peace breeds plentie .

S.

True , when labour brings profit .

P.

Plentie breeds pride .

S.

True , when money must purchase honour .

P.

Pride breeds ambition .

S.

True , when Beggars will be Kings .

P.

Ambition breeds warres .

S.

True , when principalitie will no equalitie .

P.

Warre breeds pouertie .

S.

True , where a long siege makes a poore Campe , and a penurious Citie .

P.

Pouertie breeds peace .

S.

True , when the Souldiers must rise for want of pay .

P.

A Pirates life is in two great perils .

S.

True , for if he scape drowning , he is in danger of hanging .

P.

A Tinkers budget is full of necessary tooles .

S.

True , for he can mend a kettle , and picke a locke with them .

P.

A Tailors shreds are worth the cutting .

S.

True , for sometimes they purchase lands .

P.

A widow is dangerous to meet withall .

S.

True , for commonly she is either poore , or proud .

P.

An ill wind that blowes no man good .

S.

True , for it may ease my belly , that offends your nose .

P.

Age and wedlocke tames man and beast .

S.

True , and yet they will to the businesse .

P.

Money and a Mistresse will make a Souldier runne thorow fire .

S.

True , and yet if he be burned , he had better haue missed them both .

P.

Better a little in the morning , than nothing all day after .

S.

True , supposing to be good , or else better spared .

P.

Experience is the Mistresse of fooles .

S.

True , when a Prodigall feeles his penurie .

P.

Art is the Schoole-mistresse of Nature .

S.

True , when Reason guides Iudgement .

P.

Learning is an ornament to Nature .

S.

True , especially where the studie is gracious .

P.

Familiaritie breeds contempt .

S.

True , among fooles and Beggars .

P.

A knaue and a foole neuer take thought .

S.

True , for if the one cannot , the other will not take thought .

P.

Wares commonly are dearest at their first comming .

S.

True , and yet Carriers Titts are hired at a small rate .

P.

A Rogues Wardrobe is a harbour for a Louse .

S.

True , but a Louse dares harbour where a Rogue dares not .

P.

A Flea is a pretty foole , that feeds only on sweet bloud .

S.

True , and commonly makes her diet of the daintiest creatures .

P.

Ingratitude makes a true Machauilian .

S.

True , and such a one as no villaine can match him .

P.

Burnt children dread the fire .

S.

True , and yet old fooles will be raking in the ashes .

P.

Darksome mists are best for Theeues .

S.

True , when the deuill hides the Gallowes while they are plotting for the Rope .

P.

Foolish Punkes liue euer in feare .

S.

True , for the name of a Constable frights them with Bridewell .

P.

An vnlawfull gaines makes an vnquiet conscience .

S.

True , and especially when the cries of the poore are in the eares of the rich .

P.

The falling out of louers may be the renewing of loue .

S.

True , when patience hath ouer-ruled passion .

P.

Sleepe is the pride of ease .

S.

True , for then both bones and senses are at rest .

P.

Well warn'd is halfe arm'd .

S.

True , for lacke of care may be losse of life .

P.

A tall trencher-man had not need be a poore man .

S.

True , lest his belly be too strong for his purse .

P.

Tennis and Tabacco are costly exercises .

S.

True , when sweat and smoake brings many a purse into a consumption .

P.

Fire and water haue no mercy .

S.

True , with mad men and drunkards .

P.

The more the merrier .

S.

True , for he that liues alone is like a dogge in a kennell .

P.

One hand is enough in a purse .

S.

True , and too many if it be of a pick-purse .

P.

To day for thee , to morrow for me .

S.

True , for euery day is not for euery mans humour .

P.

Better a crust than no bread .

S.

True , for if it be hard for the teeth , it will be soft in the pottage .

P.

He runs farre that neuer turnes .

S.

True , for then he will out-run the Constable .

P.

Salt sauours all things .

S.

True , but the better with pepper .

P.

Soft fire makes sweet malt .

S.

True , for a hastie fire may burne downe the furnace .

P.

He that goes softly , goes easily .

S.

True , for else a man would goe faster than a Snaile when he hath the gout in his feet .

P.

He that lookes high , may haue a chip in his eye .

S.

True , if he stand vnder a tree that is lopping .

P.

Two faces vnder a hood .

S.

True , T is meere hypocrisie .

P.

The foole marres the play .

S.

True , when a bitter iest angers the Audience .

P.

A Cuekold is a horned man .

S.

True , but he hides them like a Snaile .

P.

A Wittoll is a note of a coward .

S.

True , for he is afraid of his wife .

P.

Pride will haue a fall .

S.

True , and though it be from the Gallowes .

P.

Thought is free .

S.

True , till it come to words .

P.

Law is costly .

S.

True , in delayes .

P.

Time is pretious .

S.

True , in his right vse .

P.

Ill weeds grow fast .

S.

True , and therefore need the more weeding .

P.

Pitie spoiles a Citie .

S.

True , if the Magistrates be fooles .

P.

None more blinde than he that will not see .

S.

True , for his will takes away his power .

P.

A Drunkard is worse than a beast .

S.

True , for a beast can stand , and he cannot .

P.

A Lier is worse than a Theefe .

S.

True , for he may steale away his good name .

P.

The neerer the Church , the further from God .

S.

True , when the Alehouse keepes the parish from praier .

P.

Early vp and neere the neere .

S.

True , when will wants wit in the businesse .

P.

Faire words make fooles faine .

S.

True , for wise men know they are but wind .

P.

Had I wist was a foole .

S.

True , for preuention is a proofe of wisdome .

P.

A friend is like a Phoenix .

S.

True , for they are more talked of than knowne .

P.

There are more maids than Mawkin .

S.

True , for else how should Bachelers doe for wiues ?

P.

Labour to no purpose is as ill as idlenesse .

S.

True , if a man want his tooles to goe to worke withall .

P.

Necessitie hath no Law .

S.

True , for Forma pauperis troubles the Court.

P.

Idlenesse is the root of Ignorance .

S.

True , and commonly the tree makes the Gallowes .

P.

Time trieth all things .

S.

True , and most of them to be nothing .

P.

The euening proues the day .

S.

True , so doth a mans death his life .

P.

One Tale is good till another be told .

S.

True , for the last commonly puts downe the first .

FINIS .

SOOTHING OF PROVERBS : With only True forsooth .

The second Part.

By B. N. Gent.

LONDON , Printed for Iohn Wright , and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate at the signe of the Bible .

1626.

The second part . Prouerbe .

WIshers and woulders are neuer good housholders .

Sooth.

True , for they feed their families with sentences .

P.

The tide tarrieth no man .

S.

True , and therefore it is good to to watch it .

P.

An old babe is no childe .

S.

True , if he be past the dugge .

P.

Error breeds idolatrie .

S.

True , else would not fooles worship babies .

P.

Patience keepes the wits in temper .

S.

True , for impatience maketh men mad .

P.

The Nightingale and the Cuckoe sing both in one moneth .

S.

True , but there is great difference in their notes .

P.

Trauellers tales are hardly beleeued .

S.

True , because they forget themselues in their discourses .

P.

No man is wise at at all times .

S.

True , and he is happy that is wise at any time .

P.

Fooles

P.

Fooles are fortunate .

S.

True , or else they would not be so rich .

P.

A curst Cow hath short hornes .

S.

True , or else she would goare the Milke-maid .

P.

A kennell is fit for a dogge .

S.

True , and yet fisting Curres lie on faire laps .

P.

Snaphaunces are most fit for Pistols .

S.

True , for if they be too quicke , they may be ill in an house .

P.

He hath need of mutton , that dips his bread in the wooll .

S.

True , for he may hap better be fasting , than take a taste of it .

P.

A maid and a virgin is not all one .

S.

True , the one is a childe , the other a woman .

P.

Euery virgin is a maid .

S.

True , but euery maid is not a virgin .

P.

Honestie is ill for thriuing .

S.

True , only among knaues .

P.

Poetrie is too full of fictions .

S.

True , and therefore the lesse esteemed .

P.

The foole is wise .

S.

True , when he makes fooles of wise men .

P.

Iacke an Apes is no Gentleman .

S.

True , and yet he will haue a gay coat .

P.

Beggery is a wonderfull cunning trade .

S.

True , for it getteth money for words .

P.

Robbery is a very cheape purchase .

S.

True , for it costeth but a peny halter .

P.

Lechers and mad men haue two great kinds of extreme weaknesse .

S.

True , the one in their backs , the other in their brains .

P.

Fighting is euery way dangerous .

S.

True , either for killing or hanging .

P.

A knaue may be an honest man .

S.

True , if it be but against his will .

P.

Money is a maruellous kinde of metall .

S.

True , for it plaies the deuill in the world .

P.

Hopes are very strong imaginations .

S.

True , but when they hit not , they make weake hearts .

P.

Lies haue strange effects .

S.

True , for they make truth mistrusted .

P.

Tabacco is like wood .

S.

True , for it consumes in smoake .

P.

Wyermen are fishes enemies .

S.

True , for they make hookes for their noses .

P.

Iuglers and lesters are cozen varmins to the knaue .

S.

True , for they commonly come from the queane .

P.

A Piper and Tinker make a bad peece of musickc .

S.

True , for they seldome agree but in drinke .

P.

Two to one is ods .

S.

True , and yet a man and his wife are one .

P.

Cozeners are the worst cousins .

S.

True , for they will deceiue their fathers .

P.

Greatnesse and goodnesse goe not euer together ▪

S.

True , for then the deuill would not be so wicked .

P.

Wine and wenches empty mens purses .

S.

True , and fill the body with diseases .

P.

Care is more costly than comfortable .

S.

True , when a man is troubled with a scold .

P.

Friendship is doubtfull in time of distresse .

S.

True , for kindnesse may proue costly .

P.

Thrift is the commendation of wit .

S.

True , for beggerie is a base profession .

P.

He is wise that can hold his peace .

S.

True , if that he be not tongue-tied .

P.

Wealth is a blessing vnto the wise .

S.

True , if it be not hurtfull to the soule .

P.

Coynesse is a foolish nicenesse .

S.

True , when a wench will say she cannot dance .

P.

He that is rich is wise .

S.

True , if he haue wisdome to gouerne it .

P.

Faire women are delightfull obiects .

S.

True , if they be not proud .

P.

Wantonnesse is the way to wickednesse .

S.

True , when lust goes for loue among the youthfull .

P.

Age claimes the reuerence of time .

S.

True , when a horse-stealer is hanged before a cutpurse .

P.

Youth is the desperate time of nature .

S.

True , or else there would not be so many swaggerers .

P.

Physicke is good for the sicke .

S.

True , for it is a fore-staller of death .

P.

Quacksaluers are ingrossers of diseases .

S.

True , for they will take vpon them all cures .

P.

Great spenders are but bad lenders .

S.

True ▪ for they will hardly pay that they owe .

P.

Euill natures are no good companions .

S.

True , for their conditions are infectious .

P.

Water is a cleanly element .

S.

True , till it meet with vncleannesse .

P.

Come sleepe with me , seemes to be a sweet word in a whores mouth .

S.

True , but he that awaketh with the pox , will curs● her for her kindnesse .

P.

Bugge-beares fright none but fooles .

S.

True , for wise men know a vizar from a face .

P.

Painters are agents for Idolatrie .

S.

True , when fooles worship Images .

P.

A witch is a fit wife for a Coniurer .

S.

True , and the deuils chapell for their Church .

P.

Three trees are the Hangmans farme .

S.

True , and his haruest is most in lowsie raggs .

P.

An hypocrite is the deuils Chaplaine .

S.

True , for his heart saith seruice in hell .

P.

He that reads that he vnderstandeth not , wrongs his wit with his tongue .

S.

True , that makes so many Latine-asses make their praiers to pictures .

P.

Patience is a plaister for all diseases .

S.

True , but it is often long a healing .

P.

All brazen worke is good but in faces .

S.

True , for it makes them as bold as beggers .

P.

Sinne is the wound of sense .

S.

True , when the soule is troubled with the flesh .

P.

Feare is the fruit of sinne .

S.

True , for it rotteth the soule of the reprobate .

P.

It is neuer long which commeth at last .

S.

True , for if hoped for , it is welcome ; if feared , it then commeth too soone .

P.

A Campe is the glory of the warre .

S.

True , but peace maketh a braue Court and a blessed Countrey .

P.

Out of sight out of minde .

S.

True , for a man shal be no sooner dead but forgotten .

P.

Fasting should goe before Feasting .

S.

True , for then one may the better doe it .

P.

Rest after labour is sweet .

S.

True , for idlenesse vpon idlenesse is easelesse .

P.

Long trauels make weary voyages .

S.

True , when they get little for their labour .

P.

Farre trauellers doe know many things .

S.

True , and many that were better vnknowne .

P.

Good company is a waggon in the way .

S.

True , for its tedious to trauell alone .

P.

A baudy house is an earthly hell .

S.

True , for the house is neuer without a deuill .

P.

An Inne is the hope of guests .

S.

True , for without them the Host may pull downe his signe .

P.

A Tauerne is the bloud-letter of the grape .

S.

True , for he will draw it to the last drop .

P.

Words are but winde .

S.

True , when there is no intent of performance .

P.

An Alehouse is the beggars ruine .

S.

True , for there he spendeth the profit of his profession .

P.

A Theefe is a resolute Rascall .

S.

True , for he hath set vp his rest to be hangd .

P.

Women are necessary euils .

S.

True , and it is pitty they should be so .

P.

Pen and Inke is wits plough .

S.

True , and yet sometime it vndoeth the Ploughman .

P.

Words are thoughts actors .

S.

True , yet sometimes they vndoe the players .

P.

Robin Goodfellow was a strange man .

S.

True , among wenches that kept not their houses cleane .

P.

Will Sommer was a shrewd foole .

S.

True , for he made an Asse of many a faire beast .

P.

Two dayes are most dreadfull to the wicked .

S.

True , the day of death , and the day of doome .

P.

The wicked are for the most part fearfull .

S.

True , for the guilt of conscience frighteth the soule .

P.

Enough is as good as a feast .

S.

True , for what is more than enough is not good .

P.

Too much of one thing is good for nothing .

S.

True , when the quantitie spoileth the qualitie .

P.

Where the hedge is low , it is easily trodden downe .

S.

True , when honestie ruleth not the will .

P.

It is easie to finde a stone to throw at a dogge .

S.

True , inferiours are easily wronged .

P.

Sleepe is the pride of ease .

S.

True , and yet too much will spoile the spirit .

P.

Contraries cannot agree .

S.

True , for an ill tongue will kill a quiet heart .

P.

The noblest life is in warres .

S.

True , where valour may shew mercy , and wisdome may gaine honour .

P.

A woman is the weaker vessell .

S.

True , for the weakest goeth to the wall .

P.

Hastie climbers haue oft sudden falls .

S.

True , when they make more haste downe than vp .

P.

Honestie is an excellent and pretious vertue .

S.

True , for what is rare is pretious .

P.

Pride is without profit .

S.

True , for it spends much to gaine scorne .

P.

Money is a great master in a market .

S.

True , for without him there is but cold trading .

P.

A Cuckoe is a most vnkinde creature .

S.

True , for she kills the Sparrow hatcht her young .

P.

A Pelican is the kindest bird .

S.

True , for she wounds her brest to feed her young .

P.

A young Seruingman an old beggar .

S.

True , when youth forgets that age will come .

P.

Wit and learning are faire vertues .

S.

True , when humilitie is ioyned with vnderstanding

P.

The richest men haue not euer most wit .

S.

True , for wealth is no cause of wit .

P.

Honestie is better than riches .

S.

True , for honestie is honestie still .

P.

It is good to make hay while the Sunne shines .

S.

True for in rainie weather there is more paines , and yet to lesse purpose .

P.

Money is a great comfort .

S.

True , if it be well vsed .

P.

Like will to like .

S.

True , when theeues and whores meet at the gallowes .

P.

Tradesmen liue vpon lacke .

S.

True , for were there no lacke , they could not liue for want of trading .

P.

A Cobler deales with All.

S.

True , for without Aule he is no body .

P.

All is not gold that glisters .

S.

True , nor euery man the same he seemes .

P.

It is hard to make mutton of a Sow .

S.

True , for Art cannot easily change what is inbred by nature .

P.

Tabacco is a great purger .

S.

True , for it purgeth both the head and the purse .

P.

Too much of one thing is good for nothing .

S.

True , for too much money will make a man mad .

P.

All is not got that is put into the purse .

S.

True , when a man sels his friend for a trifle .

P.

Kissing goes by fauour .

S.

True , and that makes desert goe a begging .

P.

A friend in the Court is better than a penny in the purse .

S.

True , but both together is best of all .

P.

The end proueth the act .

S.

True , for many large promises haue small performances .

P.

It is good to be merry and wise .

S.

True , for mirth without measure is meere madnesse .

P.

Bought wit is best .

S.

True , for it is best remembred .

P.

Many things are best learned without experience .

S.

True , for you may chance pay more for your schooling than your learning is worth .

P.

There is a time for all things .

S.

True , for after follie comes repentance .

P.

Many a dogge is hangd for his skinne .

S.

True , and many a man killd for his purse .

P.

Delayed hope is grieuous to the heart .

S.

True , when feare oppresseth the soule .

P.

It is an ill thing that is good for nothing .

S.

True , and yet many such things there be .

P.

That is well spoken that is well taken .

S.

True , for then the hearers are pleased .

P.

The longest day will haue an end .

S.

True , and therefore we must hope and feare .

FINIS .