At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.
Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.
If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.
Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.
Time tries the troth in everything.
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.
A fool and his money be soon at debate.
A fool and his money are soon parted. – Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate’s claws.
What a greater crime. Than loss of time.