Proverbs from Beaumont and Fletcher

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• A67 AGE should be housed
• A99 ALE (Liquor) that would make a cat speak
• A103 Good ALE is meat, drink, and cloth
• A246 ANGER is short madness
• B207 Where the BEE can suck no honey she leaves her sting behind
• B208 Where the BEE sucks honey the spider sucks poison
• B238 Set a BEGGAR on horseback and he will ride a gallop (run his horse out of breath)
• B290 The BELLY thinks the throat cut
• B335 To be no BETTER than one (it) should be
• B612 BREAD is a binder
• B692 As wild as a BUCK
• B702 To nip in the BUD (blossom)
• C19 You would have the CALF with the white face
• C62 He may cast his CAP after him for ever overtaking him
• C84 CARE will kill a cat
• C99 No CARRION will kill a crow
• C349 He must needs swim that is held up by the CHIN
• C772 Till the COWS come home
• C872 I am sorry for thee but I cannot CRY
• C895 As cool as a CUCUMBER
• D118 My dancing DAYS are done
• D134 As pale as DEATH
• D140 DEATH has a thousand doors to let out life
• D188 The DEEPER the sweeter
• D263 The DEVIL rides on a fiddlestick
• D267 The DEVIL take the hindmost
• D340 After DINNER sit a while, after supper walk a mile
• D354 DISCRETION is the better part of valor
• D453 A DOG (man) of wax
• D568 As dull as (To sleep like) a DORMOUSE
• D643 DUN¹ is in the mire
• E121 Everything has an END and a pudding¹ has two
• E122 He knows no END of his good (goods)
• E232 The EYE that sees all things else sees not itself
• E249 To have by the EYE
• F97 You are your FATHER's own son.
• G324 GOOD to be merry and wise
• G433 He fries (stews) in his own GREASE
• G468 To love (hate) the GROUND another treads on
• G481 Bounce, quoth the GUN
• H99 To make a HAND (fair hand) of a thing
• H174 To hang one's HARP on the willow
• H252 He will not give his HEAD for the washing
• H398 As false as HELL
• H454 To be HIDEBOUND
• H785 To throw the HOUSE out at the windows
• I1 As chaste as ICE (snow)
• I80 As white as INNOCENCE
• I81 INNOCENCE bears its defense with it
• I88 You are IPSE (he, the man)
• J8 To play the JACK with one
• J57 JOAN is as good as my lady in the dark
• L34 As gentle (quiet, meek, mild) as a LAMB
• L140 He trembles (quakes, shakes) like an aspen LEAF
• L266 To keep LIFE and soul together
• L280 LIGHTNING (Thunder) bruises the tree (melts the marrow) but breaks not the bark (skin)
• L412 To chop LOGIC
• L557 I LOVE it but it loves not me
• M345 No naked MAN is sought after to be rifled
• M541 MEN are but men
• M590 Three merry MEN and three merry men and three merry men be we
• M763 As fresh as MAY
• M849 You cannot fare well but you must cry roast MEAT
• M1010 Once to have been happy is MISERY enough (Remembrance of past pleasures augments present pains)
• M1331 What MUST (shall, will) be must (shall, will) be
• N165 As secret (silent) as the NIGHT
• P546 He PRAISES who wishes to sell
• P596 It is an evil (ill) PROCESSION where the devil bears (carries, holds) the cross (colors, candle)
• R68 The REMEDY (cure) is worse than the disease
• R184 To pluck a ROSE
• R208 He may ill RUN that cannot go¹
• S28 Enough to make a SAINT swear
• S620 SOMETHING (Somewhat) has some savor
• S656 SORROW is dry
• S822 STANDERS-BY (Lookers-on) see more than gamesters (players)
• S839 As hard (stiff, strong, tough) as STEEL
• S1003a To sing for one's SUPPER
• T44 A TALE of a roasted horse
• T90a He can tell¹ TEN (the fingers in his hand)
• T304 In TIME the sturdy oak will bend and bow
• T326 TIME devours (consumes, wears out) all things
• T434 He looks like a TOOTHDRAWER
• T611 As red as a TURKEY cock
• W312 To wet one's WHISTLE
• W318 You have leaped a WHITING
• W422 Keep (Save) your WIND (breath) to cool your pottage (porridge, broth)
• W436 To shoot between WIND and water
• W547 Do not set your WIT against a fool's (a child)
• W640 Who has a WOMAN has an eel by the tail
• Y48 YOUTH will have its course (swing)