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

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

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

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

He who has a mind to beat a Dog will easily find a Stick; Naught is never in Danger; Faint Heart never won fair Lady.

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

’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]

A scan of blank paper for use in backgrounds (public domain)

Fat Paunches make Lean Pates.

Near is my Shirt, but Nearer is my Skin.

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.

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

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.

All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]

A Shoemaker must not go beyond his Last

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

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

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