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I talk of Chalk and you of Cheese; Charity begins at Home; Cut your Coat according to your Cloth; What can’t be cur’d must be endur’d.

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

When the Steed’s stolen, shut the Stable Door.

Well begun is half ended; All is well that ends well.

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 more Haste the worse Speed; When the Sky falls we shall catch Larks.

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

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

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

He sets the Fox to keep his Geese. [woodcut: fox watching geese]

What is bred in the Bone will never be out of the Flesh; One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush; A Cat may look upon a king.

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

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

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

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

Sue a Beggar and catch a Louse; Many Hands make Light Work; [woodcut: well-dressed man scratches his head standing near a beggar with outstretched hat]

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

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]

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