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Proferred Service stinks; The Receiver is as bad as the Thief; Reckon not your Chickens before they are hatched.

Many Words will not fill a Bushel; The younger Brother the better Gentleman.

An old Dog will learn no Tricks; If you trust before you try, You may repent before you die.

After sweet Meat comes sour Sauce; [woodcut of stout man, seated, with bandaged foot]

Save a Thief from Hanging, and he’ll cut your Throat; Jack will never make a Gentleman.

He makes a Rod for his own Breech.

A Rolling Stone gathers no Moss; It is good to make Hay while the Sun shines.

As you brew so you shall bake; Every bean has its Black; it is an ill wind that blows no body good

Fast bind, fast find; Like Father like Son.

Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]

One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]

Fat Paunches make Lean Pates.

As sure as God’s in Gloucestershire; Every Man thinks his own Geese Swans.

’Tis too late to spare when all is spent; One Swallow does not make Summer.

It’s neither Rhime nor Reason; What is got over the Devil’s Back will be spent under his Belly.

Good Wine needs no Bush; Kissing goes by Favour; A Lark is better than a Kite

Better play at small Game than stand out; Give him a Rowland for his Oliver.

Harm watch, Harm catch; It is a good Horse that never stumbles.

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One scabbed Sheep marrs a whole Flock; Tread on a Worm and it will turn.

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