and a clown know more than a doctor alone. Hard upon hard never makes a good wail, The example of good men is vifible philofophy. One ill example fpoils many good laws. Every thing may be, except a ditch without a bank. He who throws a ftone against God, it falls upon his own head. He who plays me one trick shall not play me a fecond. Do what you ought, and let what will come on it. By making a fault you may learn to do better. The first faults are theirs who commits them, all the following are his who doth not punish them. He who would be ill ferved, let him keep good ftore of fervants. To do good ftill make no delay; for life and time flide faft away. A little time will ferve to do ill. He who would have trouble in this life, let him get either a fhip or a wife. He who will take no pains, will never build a house three ftories high. The beft of the game is, to do one's bufinefs, and talk little of it. The Italian is wife before he undertakes a thing, the German while he is doing it, and the Frenchman when it is over. In profperity we need moderation, in adverfity patience. Profperous men facrifice not, i. e. they forget God. Great profperity and modesty seldom go together. Women, wine, and horfes, are ware men are often deceived in. Give your friend a fig, and your enemy a peach. He who hath nochi dren does not know what love means. He who fpins hath one thirt, he who fpins not hath two. He who confiders the end, reftrains all evil inclinations. He who Fath the longest fword is always thought to be in the right. There lies no appeal from the decifion of fortune. Lucky men need no counfel. Three things only are well done in hafte; flying from the plague, efcaping quarrels, and catching fleas. 'Tis better it hould be faid, Here he ran away, than Here

| he was flain. The fword from heaven above falls not down in hafte. The best thing in gaming is, that it be but little ufed. Play, women, and wine, make a man laugh till he dies of it. Play or gaming hath the devil at the bottom. The devil goes fhares in gaming, He who doth not rife early never does a good day's work. He who hath good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing. If young men had wit, and old men strength enough, every thing might be well done. He who will have no judge but himfelf, condemns himself. Learning is folly, unle's a good judgment hath the management of it. Every man loves juftice at another man's houte; nobody cares for it at his own. He who keeps company with great men is the last at the table, and the firft at any toil or danger. Every one hath his cricket in his head, and makes it fing as he pleases. In the conclufion, even forrows with bread are good. When war begins, liell gates are fet open. He that hath nothing knows nothing, and he that hath nothing is nobody He who hath more, hath more care, ftill defires more, and enjoys lefs. At a dangerous paffage give the precedency. The fickness of the body may prove the health of the foul. Working in your calling is half praying. An ill book is the work of thieves. The wife hand doth not all which the foolish tongue faith. Let not your tongue day what your head may pay for. The best armour is to keep out of gun-fhot. The good woman doth not fay, Will you have this? but gives it you. That is a good misfortune which comes alone. He who doth no ill hath nothing to fear. No ill befalls us but what may be for our good. He that would be mafter of his own must not be bound for another. Eat after your own fashion, clothe yourself as others do. A fat phyfician, but a lean monk.

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yourself all honey, and the flies will eat you up. Marry a wife, and buy a horse from your neighbour. He is matter of the world who defpifes it; its flave who values it, This world is a cage of fools. He who hath moft patience best enjoys the world. If veal (or mutten) could fly, no wild fowl could come near it. He is unhappy who wishes to die; but more fo he who fears it. The more you think of dying, the better you will live. He who oft thinks on death provides for the next life. Nature, time, and patience, are the three great phyficians. When the fhip is funk every man knows how the might have been faved. Poverty is the worst guard for chastity. Affairs, like falt fifh, ought to lie a good while a foaking. He who knows nothing is confident in every thing. He who lives as he fhould, has all that he needs. By doing nothing men learn to do ill. The beft revenge is to prevent the injury. Keep yourfelf from the occafion, and God will keep you from the fins it leads to. One eye of the mafter fees more than four eyes of his fervant. He who doth the injury never forgives the injured man. Extravagant offers are a kind of dental. Vice is fet off with the fhadow or refemblance of virtue. The fhadow of a lord is an hat or a cap for a fool. Large trees give more fhade than fruit. True love and honour go always together. He who would pleafe every body in all he doth, troubles himself, and contents nobody. Happy is the man who doth all the good he talks of. That is beft or finest which is moft fit and feafonable. He is a good orator who prevails with himself. One pair of cars will drain dry an hundred tongues. A great deal of pride obfcures, or blenishes, a thoufand good qualities. He who hath gold hath fear, who hath none, hath forrow, Ap Arcadian afs, who is laden

with gold, and eats but ftraw. The hare catched the lion in a net of gold. Obftinacy is the worst, the most incurable of all fins. Lawyers gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients. Idlenefs is the mother of vice, the step-mother to all virtues. He who is employed is tempted by one devil; he who is idle, by an hundred. An idle man is a bolfter for the devil. Idlenefs buries a man alive. He that makes a good war hath a good peace. He who troubles not himfelf with other men's business, gets peace and cafe thereby. Where peace is, there God is or dwells. The world without peace is the foldier's pay. Arms carry peace along with them. A little in peace and quiet is my heart's wifh. He bears with others, and faith nothing, who would live in peace. One father is fufficient to govern an hundred children, and an hundred children are not fufficient to govern one father. The mafter is the eye of the house. The firft fervice a bad child doth his father, is to make him a fool; the next is, to make him mad. A rich country and a bad road. A good lawyer is a bad neighbour. He who pays well is master of every body's puric. Another man's bread cofts very dear. Have you bread and wine? fing and be merry. If there is out little bread, keep it in your hand; if but a little wire, drink often; if but a little bed, go to bed carly, and clap yourself down in the middle. Tis good keeping his clothes who goes to fwim. A man's own opinion is never in the wrong. He who speaks little, needs but half fo much brains as another man. He who knows moft, commonly speaks leaft. Few men take his advice who talks a great deal. He that is going to fpeak ill of another, let him confider himself well, and he will hold his peace. Eating little, and speaking little,

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in at the wide end of the horn, and must come out at the narrow if he can. Promifing is not with defign to give, but to please fools. Give no great credit to a great promifer. Profperity is the worst enemy men ufually have. Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glafs. A proverb is the child of experience. He that makes no reckoning of a farthing, will not be worth an half-penny. Avoid carefully the firft ill or mischief, for that will breed an hundred more. Reafon governs the wife man, and a cudgel the fool. Suffering is the mother of fools, reafon of wife men. If you would be as happy as any king, confider not the few that are before, but the many that come behind you. Our religion and our language we fuck in with our milk. Love, knavery, and necetlity, make men good orators. There is no fence againft what comes from heaven. Good husbandry is the first step towards riches. A flock once gotten, wealth grows up of its own accord. Wealth hides many a great fault. Good ware was never dear, nor a mifs ever worth the money the cofts. The fool's eftate is the firit fpent. Wealth is his that enjoys it, and the world is his who fcrambles for it. A father with very great wealth, and a fon with no virtue at all. Little wealth, and little care and trouble. The Roman conquers by fitting ftill as home. Between robbing and reftoring, men commonly get thirty in the hundred. He is learned enough who knows how to live well. The more a man knows, the lefs credulous he is. There is no harm in defiring to be thought wife by others, but a great deal in a man's thinking himself to be fo. Bare wages never made a fervant rith Lofing much breeds bad blood. Health without any money is half ficknefs. When a

man is tumbling down, every faint lends a hand. He that unfeafonably plays the wife man is a fool. He that pretends too much to wifdom is counted a fool. A wife man never fets his heart upon what he cannot have. A lewd batchelor makes a jealous husband, That crown is well spent which faves you ten. Love can do much, but fcorn or difáain can do more. If you would have a thing kept fecret, never tell it to any one; and if you would not have a thing known of you, never do it. Whatever you are going to do or fay, think well first what may be the confequence of it. They are always felling wit to others who have least of it for themselves. He that gains time gains a great point. Every dich is full of after-wit. A little wit will fervea fortunate man. The favour of the court is like fair weather in winter. Neither take for a fervant him whom you must entreat, nor a kinf man, nor a friend, if you would have a good one. A man never lofes by doing good offices to others. He that would be well ferved, muft know when to change his fervants. Ignorance and prosperity make men bold and confident. He who employs one fervant in any bufineffes, hath him all there; who employs two, hath half a fervant; who three hath never a one. Either a civil grants or a civil denial. When you have any bufi. nefs with a man give him title enough. The covetous man is the bailiff, not the mafter, of his own eftate. Trouble not your head about the weather, or the government. Like with like looks well, and lafts long. All worldly joy is but a fhort-lived dream. That is a curfed pleasure that makes a man a fool. The foldier is well paid for doing mischief. A foldier, fire, and water, foon make room for themfeives. A considering careful man is half a conjurer. A man would not be alone