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Fat Paunches make Lean Pates.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]

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.

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

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

Little Pitchers have great Ears; Many talk of Robin Hood who never shot in his Bow.

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]

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

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

Fast bind, fast find; Like Father like Son.

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

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]

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