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INTRODUCTION.
A 668. [Cf. Even reckoning maketh long frendes. Heywood,
p. 112.]
MS. 1098. [No peny no Pater noster. Heywood, p. 163.]
A 670. [Fer from eghe fer from herte. Hendyng, St. 27.
Out of sight out of mind, Heywood, p. 12.]
A 672. [Of unboht hude men kerveth brod thong. Hendyng,
St. 28.
Cut large thongs of other mens leather. Heywood,
p. 114.]
A 674. [For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matt. xii. 34.]
A 684. [Draweth no monkes more unto your in. Chaucer,
‘C. T.,’ B 1632.3
A 693. [Ower prude schale aualle. ‘Owl and Nightingale,’
1. 1685.]
[For eftyr prid oft folowis schame. ‘The Thewis off
Gud Women,’ E.E.T.S., 43, p. 104, 1. 52.]
[Pryde will have a fall. Heywood, p. 46.]
A 694. [Povertie partith fellowship. Heywood, p. 84.]
[If thou be povre, thy brother hateth thee
And alle thy freendes fleen fro thee. Chaucer, ‘ C. T.,’
B 120-1.]
[And if thy fortune change, that thou were povre, farewel
freendshipe and felaweshipe. Chaucer, ‘ C. T.,’
B 2749.]
A 701. [Plentie is no daintie. Heywood, p. 107.]
MS. 1148. [Nether cast ye your pearles before swine. Matt,
vii. 6.]
A 708. When the coppe is follest, thenne ber hire feyrest.
Hendyng, St. 16.
A 723. [Ther God will helpen nouht ne dereth. ‘ Havelok the
Dane,’ 1. 648.J
A 733. Misgovernit yowth makis gowsty age. Dunbar, Vol. II.,
p. 309, 1. 29.
A 737. Rome was not built in one day. Heywood, p. 64.
A 741. [Such lips such lettice. Heywood, p. 139.]
Sic lippes, sic lattouce. ‘ Legend of the Bischop
of St Androis Wyfe ’ {circa 1595) in Scottish
Poems of the XVIth Century, Edin., 1801,
p. 322.
A 743. [Sooth pley quaad pley. Chaucer, ‘C. T.,’ A 4357.]
[Sooth bourd is no bourd. Heywood, p. 150.]
A 744. Seldom lygs the dewyll dede by the gate. ‘Towneley
Plays,’ p. 123, 1. 229.
“ Heir lyes the Deuill,” quod he, “ deid in ane dyke.”
Henryson, Vol. II., p. 152, 1. 2055.
A 747. [Soft fire maketh sweet malt. Heywood, p. 6.]