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3 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,

But to support him after.

27-i. 1.

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7 Trust not him, that hath once broken faith.

23-iv. 4.

8 There's place, and means, for every man alive.

11-iv. 3.

9 How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, Makes deeds ill done!

16-iv. 2.

10 A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.

22-iii. 1.

11 Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

14-iii. 2.

12 Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

22-i. 3.

13 There's not one wise man among twenty that

will praise himself.

6-v. 2.

• 2 Tim. iii. 13.

14 Small things make base men proud.

22-iv. 1.

15 Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis

offer'd,

Shall never find it more.

30-ii. 7.

16 Tears shew their love, but want their remedies.

17-iii. 3.

17 They, that dally nicely with words, may quickly make them wanton.

4-iii. 1.

18 Heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.

19

They well deserve to have,

23-iii. 3.

That know the strong'st and surest way to get.

17-iii. 3.

20

20

Mock not flesh and blood

With solemn reverence.

17-iii. 2.

21 Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

11-ii. 2.

22 One drunkard loves another of the name.

8-iv. 3.

23 God the best maker of all marriages.

20-v. 2.

24 Small cheer, and great welcome, makes a merry

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27 A madman's epistles are no gospels.

28 Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

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30 A golden-mind stoops not to shows of dross.

9-ii. 7.

"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and

hatred therewith."

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31 What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

13-iii. 2.

32 It is religion, that doth make vows kept.

16-iii. 1.

33 A crafty knave does need no broker.

22-i. 2.

34 Young blood will not obey an old decree.

8-iv. 3.

35 Graces challenge grace.

23-iv. 8.

36 Direct not him, whose way himself will choose.

17-ii. 1.

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The will of man is by his reason sway'd.

7-ü. 3.

easily untie.

40 The amity, that wisdom knits not, folly may

26-ii. 3.

41

Be ever known to patience.

30-iii. 6.

42 True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

24-v. 2.

43 Pleasure, and action, make the hours seem short.

37-ii. 3.

44 Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour.

17-i. 3.

45 To weep, is to make less the depth of grief.

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52 It is a sin to be a mocker.

9-i. 2.

53 Some innocents 'scape not the thunder-bolt.

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56 Past all shame, so past all truth.

13-iii. 2.

57 Every one can master a grief, but he that has it.

6-iii. 2.

26-i. 1.

58 He, that will have a cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding.h

59

So Judas kiss'd his Master;

And cried-all hail! when as he meant-all

harm.

23-v. 7.

60 Against the blown rose may they stop their nose, That kneel'd unto the buds.

61

30-iii, 11.

Pleasure and revenge

26-ii. 2.

Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decision.

62 Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of

blame.

24-v. 1.

63 An English courtier may be wise, And never see the Louvre,'

25-i. 3.

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h Grinding---the bolting, the leavening, the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

i A palace at Paris.

67 Vice repeated, is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eyes.

33-i. l.

68 Those that with haste will make a mighty fire,

Begin it with weak straws.

29-i. 3.

69 Great griefs medicine the less.

31-iv. 2.

70 Great men have reaching hands.

22-iv. 7.

71 An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.

24-iv. 4.

72 Dread curses-like the sun 'gainst glass, Or like an overcharged gun-recoil.

22-iii. 2.

73 Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than their ears.

28-iii. 2.

74 Wishers were ever fools.

30-iv. 13.

75 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp, Than with an old one dying.

30-iii. 11.

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Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech.1

77 What is the trust or strength of foolish man?

26-i. 2.

21-iii. 2.

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81 There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

30-i. 1.

82 Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.

83 Things won are done, joy's soul lies in

84 Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.

That is, which blows dust.

1 Men, after possession, become our commanders; before it, they are our supplicants.

m That is, the literary qualifications of a bookish beggar are more prized than the high descent of hereditary greatness.

22-i. 2. the doing. 26-i. 2. 21—iii. 1.

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