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re you leap 1052 Look not a gift horse in the mouth 1482 Lose nothing for asking 1009 Luck is all 31 M Make a virtue of necessity 224 Make hay while the sun shines 316 Man proposes, God disposes 1056 Marry in haste and repent at leisure 135 Measure twice, cut but once 617 Meddle with dirt, and some of it will stick to you 148 Might overcomes right 1598 Milk the cow, but don’t pull off the udder 923 Misfortunes seldom come alone 822 Money lent, an enemy made 86 Much praying, but no piety 941 Much religion, but no goodness 848 Much smoke and little roast 1934 Much would have more 213 N Necessity has no law 1099 Never be ashamed to eat your meat 241 Never yowl till you’re hit 691 No butter will stick to his bread 1480 No flying without wings 2075 No one can see into another further than his teeth 1604 No one dies of threats 1072 No one has seen to morrow 1881 No one is content with his lot 213 No one knows the Weight of another’s burden 1841 No one likes justice brought home to his own door 981 No one sees his own faults 788 No safe wading in an unknown water 355 None so blind as those who won’t see 1278 None so deaf as he that won’t hear 1918 None so deaf as those who won’t hear 1278 Not too little, not too much 818 Nothing is had for nothing 700 Nothing passes between asses but kicks 756 Nothing so bad as not to be good for something 863 O Of two evils, choose the least 776 Old men are twice children 125 Once an use, and ever a custom 1732 One good turn deserves another 1739 One grain of pepper is worth a cart-load of hail 2620 One ill calls another 1149 ( 142 ) index II. One ill weed mars a whole pot of pottage 335 One lie draws ten after it 2247 One lie makes many 2247 One man is no man 480 One man knocks in the nail, and another hangs his hat on it 96 One never loseth by doing good turns 663 One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock 335 One step forwards and two backwards 619 One “Take it” is better than two “You shall have its” 62 One to-day is better than ten to-morrows 2091 One trick is met by another 281 One word brings on another 2018 Out of debt, out of danger 88 Over shoes, over boots 288 P Penny wise and pound foolish 2191 Practice makes perfect 94 Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often together 856 Pride goes before and shame follows after 2241 Priests bless themselves first 1251 Puppies imitating their mistresses 22 Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag and and shake them,'-4he first that comes out will be a thief 2045 Put a snake into your bosom and when it is warm it will sting you 636 Put not a naked sword in a madman’s hand 2009 Put your finger in the fire, and say ’twas your ill fortune 761 R Relationship gives rise to envy 909 Rich people are everywhere at home 560 Riches have wings 210 Roguery hides under the judgment seat 1168 Rome was not built in a day 492 S Save a thief from. the gallows, and he will be the first to cut your throat 1850 Say well, and do well, end with one letter, Say well is good, but do well is better 1707 Saying and doingare two tilings 530 Send a fool to the market, and a fool he’ll return 609 Set a beggar on horseback, he’ll ride to-the devil 136 Set a frog on a golden stool, and off it hops again into the pool 632 Set your sail according to the wind 422 Shaal waters mak the maist din 454 Shame may .restrain what the law does not pro¬ hibit 215 She hath a mark after her mother 1019. She is well married who has neither mother-in- in-law nor sister-in-law 54 Sick of the idle crick, and the belly-wark in the heel 1829 Sick of the idles 150 Six of one and half a dozen of the other 295 Slander leaves a slur 1928 Slow and sure 872 Smooth waters run deep 458 So got, so gone 1927 Sorrow an’ ill weather come unsent for 1963 Sour grapes, as the fox said when he could not reach them 979 Spare the rod and spoil the child 2419 Steal the goose, and give the gibbets in alms 829 Store is no sore 978 Strew no roses before swine 393 Strike while the iron is hot 2308 Such a father, such a son 176 Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof 691 Sugared words generally prove bitter 839 Sune enough to cry “ chick” when it’s out of the shell 936 T Take a ay my good name, and take away my life 1716 Take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves 2446 [ Take the chestnuts out of the fire with a cat’s paw ] * Take time while time is, for time will away 2308 Teach your grandmother to suck eggs 797 Tell me the company you keep, and I’ll tell you what you are 291 That is as likely to see a hog fly 59 That which must be, will be 1980 The ass of many owners is eaten by wolves 331 The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled 1555 The best bearing trees are the most beaten 2271 The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr Merryman 498 The biter bit 380 The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion 1578 * Uir.itted to be entered under No. 081. ( ) INDEX II, The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window 283 The countenance is the index of the mind 1760 The crow thinks her own bird the fairest 572 The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil grew well, the devil a monk was he 182 The devil’s children have the devil’s luck 2370 The eye is bigger than the belly 2117 The eye is blind if the mind is absent 1339 The feet of the avenging deities are shod with wool 577 The first cut, and all the loaf besides 838 The fool hunts for misfortune 902 The forest has ears, the field has eyes 1456 The full belly does not believe in hunger 851 The game is not worth the candle 160 The gladiator, having 4 entered the lists, is taking advice 1890 The greatest talkers are always the least doers 1704 The grey mare is the better horse 1823 The husband’s mother is the wife’s devil 49 The jewel is not to be valued for the cabinet 1431 The kiln calls the oven burnt house 652 The more one has, the more one wants 213 The more rogue, the more luck 2370 The mother-in-law forgets that she was a daughter-in-law 58 The old ape is taken at last 551 The old branch breaks if bent 901 X The old fox is caught at last 551 The one-eyed is a king in the land of the blind 830 The-pan says to the pot “keep off or you’ll smutch me” 652 The peril past, the saint mocked 742 The proof of a pudding is in the eating 1068 The remedy is worse than the disease 681 The river passed, the saint forgotten 742 The secret of Anchuelos 685 The secret of two is God’s secret; the secret of three is all the world’s 525 The shovel makes game of the poker 652 The tongue talks at the head’s cost 1270 The trade of thick-headed Michael: eating, drinking, and idling 1385 The treasure turned out charcoal 63 The wife wears the breeches 1823 The will is every thing 1107 The will is the soul of the work 1107 The wolf changes his hair but not ,his nature 573 The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations 515 ( i There are more ways to the wood than one 479 There is a cause for all things 590 There is no argument like that of the stick 103 There is no disputing of tastes, appetites, and fancies 1616 There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich 136 There is no stripping a naked man 819 There is no Worse water than that which sleeps 458 There’s nane without a faut 997 There’s nothing agrees worse than a proud mind and a beggar’s purse 1608 They agree like cats and dogs 1282 They are finger and thumb 1283 They are hand and glove 469 They drink their water by measure, but eat their cake without 2191 They scratch you with one hand and strike you with the other 969 Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones 72 Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise 918 Three know it, all know it 525 Three may keep counsel if two be away 1521 Throw in a sprat to catch a salmon 290 Throw much dirt, and some will stick 1395 Time and tide wait for no man 113 ’Tis good feasting in other men’s houses 1709 ’Tis the nature of the beast 630 To a child all weather is cold 1451 To a hard knot a hard wedge 1864 To a rogue a rogue and a half 2073 To be between the hammer and the anvil 35 To break the Constable’s head and take refuge with the Sheriff 2390 To bring down two apples with one stick 1681 To carry coals to Newcastle 2266 To cast oil in the fire is not the way to quench ' it 29 To celebrate the triumph before the victory 1471 To cut into another man’s ear is like cutting into a felt hat 398 To cut large shives of another man’s loaf 1396 To draw the snake out of the hole with another’s hand 984 To entrust the sheep to the wolf 2387 To have a belly up to one’s mouth 2066 To have nothing but one’s labour for one’s pains 1996 To have two strings to one’s bow 107 To hold with the hare and hunt with the hounds 233 To kill two birds with one stone 1681 14 ) INDEX II. To lock the stable door when the steed is stolen 77 To look like a drowned mouse 188 To lose one eye that you may deprive another of two 1562 To make a mountain of a mole-hill 82# To milk a he goat 1863 To one who has a pie in the oven, you may give a bit of your cake 282 To put the cart before the horse 2315 To rip up old sores 1718 To run into the lion’s mouth 2390 To sit on two stools 43 To take one a peg lower 1916 To the unskilled the voice of the sparrow is music 2106 To throw pearls before swine 393 To-day a king, to-morrow nothing 47 5 To-day in finery, to-morrow in filth 476 To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave 2435 Tom Noddy’s secret 47 Tomorrow comes never 1881 Too little and too much spoils everything 818 Trickery comes back to its master 2427 Trust, beware whom!