He – the country parson – is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints.
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
A master of straw eates a servant of steele.
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
A penny spar’d is twice got.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.
A scab’d horse cannot abide the comb.
A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
A small heart hath small desires.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.