to Dean Swift, he said, with a sarcastic smile, 'The receiver is as bad as the 'thief.'" BC. 368, quoting The Fest Book, by Mark Lemon, 1864.

The children of Holland take pleasure in making

What the children of England take pleasure in breaking. Alluding to toys, a great number of which are imported into this country from Holland. AV. 187. "A face like a Dutch doll" is a well-known simile.

The Englishman weeps, the Irishman sleeps,

But the Scotchman goes while he gets it (food, etc.).

BC. 380. English readers may better understand the variation of the last line given in Proverb. Folklore, p. 48, "And the Scotchman gangs till he gets it."

The higher the plum-tree the riper the plum,"

The richer the cobbler the blacker his thumb.-CQ. 155.

The like I say,

Sitteth with the jay.

BC. 389, quoting Booke of Merry Riddles, 1629.

The mistress of the mill,

May say and do what she will.

Cornwall. CG. v. 208.

The more haste the worse speed,

Quoth the tailor to his long thread.-BC. 392.

Compare "A sempstress that sews," etc. CLOTHING. GENERAL MAXIMS, ante.

The more you heap,

The worse you cheap.

The more you rake and scrape, the worse success you have ; or the more busy you are and stir you keep, the less you gain. Ray.

The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh,
The nearer the grun' the greener the gress.

Liucolnshire. AG. 125. The first line is in Clarke's Paræmiologia, 1639.

Too mich o' owt

Is gooid for nowt.

Yorkshire. Y. 93. Common.

To scrat where it itches

Is better than fine cloäs or riches.

Kerton-in-Lindsay, Lincolnshire. AG. 215.

Two women in one house, two cats and one mouse, Two dogs and one bone, will never accord in one. MS. Lansd., 762, temp. Hen. V. in Reliq. Antiq. i. 233. also occurs with a slight variation in the Book of St. Albans, 1486, reprint, 1881, sign. F. BC. 461.

Walk groundly; talk profoundly;

Drink roundly; sleep soundly.

BC. 465, quoting Heywood's Proverbs, etc., 1562.

When caught by the tempest wherever it be,

If it lightens and thunders beware of a tree.-N. 19.

When corpselight shineth bright,

Be it by day or night,

Be it in light or dark,

There corpse shall lie both stiff and stark.

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It

CG. xii. 467, where the verse is said to be copied from MS. notes; but no further particulars are given.

Will o' the Wisp. See Superstition, Charms,

When the rain raineth, and the goose winketh,
Little wots the gosling what the goose thinketh.

Skelton's Garlande of Lawrell, 1523. Sir W. Vaughan, in his Golden Fleece, 1626, sign. p. verso, substitutes the gander for the gosling. There is another version : “When the cat winketh, little wots the mouse what the cat thinketh." BC. 481.

Whoso heweth over high

The chips will fall in his eye.

Parlament of Byrdes (circa 1550). "For an old Prouerbe it is ledged He that heweth to hie, with chippes he may lese his sight." The Testament of Love (Chaucer's Works, 1602, fol. 279 verso). "In the choyce of a wife, sundry men are of sundry mindes; one looketh high, as one yt feareth no chips." Lyly's Euph. and his England, 1580, reprint, Arber. p. 467. Howell and Ray afford different but inferior versions. BC. 492.

Who that builds his house of sallows,

And pricks his blind horse over the fallows,
And suffereth his wife to go seek hallows,

Is worthy to be hanged on the gallows.

Chaucer's Wif of Bathes Prologe; MS. Lansd., 762, temp. Hen. V., in Reliq. Antiq. i. 233. See also Herbert's Ames, p. 129. BC. 491.

One who would hold his house very clean,

Ought lodge no priest nor pigeon therein.

AL. 169. The lines, according to Mr. Hazlitt, Proverbs, 1882, occur in Wodroephe's Spared Houres of a Souldier, etc., 1623.

Wilful waste makes weeasme want,

An' you may live to say

I wish I had that sharve o' bread
That yance I flang away.

Whitby. AJ. 215.

Winter time for shoeing,

Peascod time for wooing.

See art. PEASCOD, Halliwell's Archaic Dictionary; and Literary Gazette for July, 1846, p. 626. N. 64. See also Hazlitt's Pop. Antiqs. of Gt. Britain, 1870, ii. 57.

Women be forgetful, children be unkind,
Executors be covetous, and take what they find :
If anybody asks where the dead's goods become?
They answer so God me help and holydoom

He died a poor man.

Reliq. Hernianæ, p. 215. This is quoted from Stowe, who calls it an "old proverb." See Southey's Commonplace Book, 3rd. ser., p. 139. BC. 499.

Yeow mussent sing a Sunday,

Becaze it is a sin,

But yeow may sing a' Monday,
Till Sunday cums agin.

In Suffolk, children are frequently reminded of the decorum due to the Sabbath by the above lines. AY. 73.

MISCELLANY.

A. B. C.

D. E. F. G.

H. I. J.

If you look you'll see ;

L. M. N. O. P. Q.

R. S. T. U. V. W.

X. Y. Z.

A rhyme to remember the alphabet. AV. 140.

A guinea it would sink,

And a pound it would float,
Yet I'd rather have a guinea,

Than your one pound note.

Mr. Halliwell says, "Proverbial many years ago, when the guinea in gold was of a higher value than its nominal representative in silver." But surely the one pound note was at no time the representative of the guinea. The pound note is still in circulation in North Britain, but is not esteemed. BC. 19.

A roof to cover you, and a bed to lie,

Meat when you're hungry, and drink when you're dry,
And a place in heaven when you come to die.

A wedding wish used by an old woman at Offley Hay, Eccleshall, July, 1885. AR. iv. 359. See "Joy go with her," etc., ultra.