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Drawn Picture Frame

2103.—Herstmonceaux Castle.

398.—Norwich Castle

700.—Byland Abbey, Yorkshire.

2105.—East Basham, Norfolk

Decorative initial I, Coloured

703.—Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk.

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

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

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

Hungry Dogs will eat dirty Pudding; He that would live at Peace and Rest, Must hear and see, and say the Best.

Near is my Shirt, but Nearer is my Skin.

He makes a Rod for his own Breech.

Nothing venture, nothing have; Virtue which parleys is near a Surrender.

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A Fool’s Bolt is soon shot; Birds of a Feather flock together; Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.

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

Give him a Rowland for his Oliver; Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish; He that Reckons without his Host must reckon again.

Give a Man Luck and throw him into the Sea; Money makes the Mare to go; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip.

The Traceys have always the Wind in their Faces; To cut large Thongs out of another Man’s Leather; Too much of one Thing is good for nothing

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Places Shown

Coxwald; Yorkshire; England

Herstmonceaux; East Sussex; England

Norwich; Norfolk; England

Walsingham Abbey; Norfolk; England

Walsingham; Norfolk; England