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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]

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

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.

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

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One good Turn deserves another; He steals a Goose, and gives the Giblets in Alms.

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

Fat Paunches make Lean Pates.

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

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

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

A Shoemaker must not go beyond his Last

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

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

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

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

Near is my Shirt, but Nearer is my Skin.

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.

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

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