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Ebook has 1272 lines and 58925 words, and 26 pages
A cold May and a windy Makes a full barn and a findy.
Company in distress, Makes trouble less.
Look at your corn in May, You'll come weeping away; Look at the same in June You'll come home in another tune.
When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn, Sell your cow and buy your corn, But when she comes to a full bit, Sell your corn, and buy your sheep.
My son is my son till he marries a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
He that would the daughter win, Must with the mother first begin.
The Devil Was Sick, the Devil a Monk Would Be; The Devil Grew Well, the Devil a Monk Was He.
If the ash before the oak comes out, There has been, or there will be drought.
A dry May and a dripping June, Does surely bring all things in tune.
Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Eat at pleasure, Drink by measure.
An evening red and a morning grey, Is a sign of a fair day.
Evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart.
Fair and foolish, black and proud, Long and lazy, little and loud.
After a famine in the stall, Comes a famine in the hall.
February fill dike, be it black or be it white; But if it be white, it's the better to like.
Stretch not your feet Beyond the sheet.
Where hearts are true Few words will do.
Let not the fiddler play the fife, Nor fifer play the fiddle.
When the wind's in the south, It blows the bait into the fishes' mouth.
He's up at five, And he will thrive.
Forego, forget, forgive, Then happy you shall live.
Two things you won't fret o'er, If you're a wise man-- The thing you can't help, And the thing that you can.
As the Friday, so the Sunday, As the Sunday, so the week.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty, In time of adversity, not one among twenty.
If you would fruit have, You must bring the leaf to the grave.
Under the furze is hunger and cold. Under the broom is silver and gold.
He that gapeth until he be fed Well may he gape until he be dead.
This rule in gardening never forget, To sow dry and set wet.
Get what you can, and what you get, hold, 'Tis the stone which will turn your lead into gold.
Giving to the poor Increaseth your store.
Who loves his glass without a G, Take away L and that is he.
No lock will hold 'Gainst the power of gold.
The wife that expects to have a good name Is always at home as if she were lame, And the maid that is honest her chiefest delight Is still to be doing from morning to night.
Good words without deeds Are rushes and reeds.
If the grass grow in Janiveer, It grows the worse for't all the year.
Happy is the bride the sun shines on, And the corpse the rain rains on.
A hedge between Keeps friendship green.
Till St. James's day be come and gone, You may have hops, or you may have none.
He that buys a house ready wrought, Hath many a pin and nail for nought.
If Janiveer calends be summerly gay 'Twill be winterly weather till calends of May.
Calm weather in June Sets corn in tune.
If the first of July, it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.
Still stand by kin Through thick and thin.
Many a one for land, Takes a fool by the hand.
Laws, like spiders' webs, are wrought, Large flies break through, the small are caught.
A little house well fill'd, A little land well till'd, And a little wife well will'd.
He that goeth out with often loss, At last comes home by Weeping Cross.
March wind and May sun, Make clothes white and maids dun.
Bachelors, before you marry, Have a house wherein to tarry.
If you regard old saws, mind, thus they say, 'Tis bad to marry in the month of May.
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