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Fat Paunches make Lean Pates.

Fast bind, fast find; Like Father like Son.

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

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

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

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.

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

He makes a Rod for his own Breech.

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

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.

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

Curs’d Cows have short Horns; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip. No longer pipe no longer dance.

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

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

To buy a Pig in a poke; Robin Hood’s Pennyworths; He looks one way and rows another.

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

Brag is a good Dog, but Holdfast is a better; The Belly has no Ears; [woodcut: mouse by house perhaps made from candle with snuffer]

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

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

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