Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.

Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

Flies are busiest about leane horses.

Flies are busiest about leane horses.

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.

Beauty drawes more then oxen.

Beauty drawes more then oxen.

God keep me from false friends!

God keep me from false friends!

A drunkards purse is a bottle.

A drunkards purse is a bottle.