Sentences of three words.

• LOue doth ouercome all things.
• Selfe loue, or loue of a mans own selfe.
  Loue of himselfe [is] blind.
• Armes or warres.
  Weapons doe not knowe laws, [or regard no laws.]
• Luck or chance.
  Fortune doth helpe
  ventrous men.
  bolde [men.]
• Continuall sitting at it.
  Assiduitie [or continuall di­ligence] doth ouercome the hardest things.
• A couetous [man]
  is alwaies needy.
  dooth need alway.
• Nothing is more miserable then
  auarice.
  couetousnesse.
• [Page 4]Nothing [is]
  vnable to be won with gould.
  unconquera­ble to gould.
• Science or skill.
  Arte doth ouercome nature.
• A bowe
  too much bent.
  bent ouermuch is broken.
• Do not desire ear­nestly.
  Doe not couet other mens things.
• Fly vice.
  Abstaine from vices.
• Riches doe get friends.
  Money doth make friends.
• Couetousness [is]
  the chiefe.
  the head of vices.
• One [man]
  doth excell.
  is better then another.
• Continuall custom.
  Accustoming is most effec­tuall.

• The ende of warre [is] vn­certaine.
• Remember a good turne.
  Be thou mindful of a benefit receiued.
• The issue or euent.
  The fortune of warre [is] doubtfull.
• Warre is to bee
  borne, handled, done or atchieued.
  made with counsell.
• The life of men is short.
• Old men [are]
  twise children.
  childrētwice.

• Religion or the worship of God.
  Worship [is] a
  sacred.
  holy thing.
• [Page]The heart of man [is]
  cannot bee tamed or brought vnder.
  vn­tameable.
• The heart of man [is] wic­ked.
• Many
  faults.
  crimes are to be
  to be passed by.
  dis­sembled.
• Euery comparison.
  All comparison [is] odi­ous.
• The proper.
  His owne gift [is] to euery one [or, Euery one hath his owne proper gift.]
• Curtesie or huma­nitie.
  Gentlenesse
  doth bring forth.
  dooth gette friendes.
• Wayward, or hard to please.
  Froward [men] are to bee ouer come by gentlenesse.
• The conscience
  is insteede of a thousand witnesses.
  [is] a thou­sand witnesses.
• Ouermuch meate.
  Immoderate meate is hurt­full.
• Angrinesse is an enemy
  to reason.
  to counsell.
• Couetousness is
  vnsatiable, can ne­uer haue enough.
  vnfillable, [or vnpossible to bee fil­led.]
• Couetous or gree­die desire.
  Couetousness of money is to be fledde or shunned.
• Aduersitie or mise­rie.
  Calamitie [is] to be vpbrai­ded to no man.
• [Page 5]Wee must not answere
  to reuilings.
  with raylings.

• Slothfulness
  doth ingender or breede.
  dooth begette
  obliuion.
  forgetfulness.
• Time.
  A day dooth bring many things.
• [It is]
  a hard thing.
  a difficult thing to leaue things accustomed.
• Riches
  do cause pride or hautinesse.
  do bring forth dis­daine.
• Time.
  The daie dooth take away griefe.
• We must
  be out of hope.
  despaire of no mā.
• Gifts
  can much preuaile.
  can do much.
• Offenders.
  [Men] offending are to bee corrected.
• Riches are the
  seruants or occasi­ons.
  ministers of vices.
• [It is]
  a most hard thing.
  a most difficult thing
  to conquer.
  to ouercome nature.
• Kingdomes
  are ouerthrowne or lost.
  do slide down by
  dissension.
  discord.
• [Those things are] difficult which are honest.
• The speech of a rich man [is]
  inconsiderate.
  vnwarie.
• Contention.
  Diuision
  doth lessen or con­sume.
  doth waste the [Page]
  thing.
  substance [or goods.]
• Proue thou euery doubtfull thing.
• The issue or falling out.
  The euent of things is doubtfull.
• Euery rich man [is]
  vnfillable.
  vnsa­tiable.
• Time [is] the physician of of griefe.

• Exercise [is] the best mai­ster.
• Exercise can do all things.
• Like things.
  Equall things doe delight equall men.
• Banishment.
  Exile
  doth commend or grace.
  doth make-honest many men.
• Nothing [is] more certaine then
  experience.
  experiment.
• Wee are made more wise by age.
• Obliuion follow­eth.
  Forgetfulnesse [is] the com­panion of drunkennesse.
• Age
  is hu [...].
  is corrupted by wine.

• The end of horrible offences [is]
  filthy.
  dishonest.
• There are [many] kinsfolks [Page 6]
  of men in prosperi­tie.
  of happy men. [that is, rich men haue many kins­folkes.]
• Felicity.
  Happinesse doth stirre vp enmities.
• Hunger [is] the best cooke.
• Prosperity.
  Fortune dooth make men
  proud.
  insolent.
• Enuie [is] the companion
  of prosperity.
  of felicitie.
• Crueltie.
  Fierceness
  is aswaged.
  is pacified
  by mildnesse or gentleness.
  by lenity.
• A foole doth acknowledge the fact [or
  the deed when it is done.
  a thing done.]
• Women are inconstant.
• We must giue place
  to rage.
  to fury.
• Fly
  things high ouer­much.
  too high things.
• Behold.
  Look to the end of [thy] life.
• Beauty
  is marred.
  perisheth by wine.
• Fortune dooth helpe valiant [men.]
• Nothing [is] more misera­ble then hunger.
• Nothing [is]
  sure or stable.
  firm in [this] life.
• Age [is]
  flying away speedilie.
  flying away.
• Nothing [is] to be
  committed in trust.
  credited
  to a foole.
  to a blabbe or prattling [Page] [man.]
• Death [is] the end of misery.

• Ioy [is] ioyned to griefe.
• Thanks gets good will or kindnesse.
  Fauour bringeth forth fa­uour. [or, One good turne deserues another.]
• Labour [is] the foundation of glorie.

• Honor doth nourish
  the Arts.
  Artes.
• The minds of men [are]
  variable.
  di­uers.
• Money dooth
  giue or bring.
  affoord ho­nours.
• Mens chances.
  Humane chaunces [are] doubtfull.
• [There is]
  a course of succee­ding by course.
  an enterchange of
  things belonging to men.
  humane things.

• The end
  of contentions.
  of strifes [is] vn­happie.
• The
  issue.
  end of things [is] vn­certaine.
• Anger [is] the torment
  of a mans self.
  of it self.
• Labors
  past.
  done [are] pleasant.
• Veritie.
  Truth [is] in wine.
• [Page 7]It is a hard thing
  to restrain or bridle.
  to keepe in anger.
• Enuy [is] the companion
  of boasting.
  of bragging.
• The wittes of men [are] di­uers.
• men who take no aduise, or rash, or in­considerate.
  Vnaduised men [or men who take no counsell] do rush [or fall downe head­long] easily.
• A discommodity [is] to
  to be lessened or sweetned.
  bee seasoned
  With cheerfulness.
  vvith mirth.
• Neede.
  Necessity [is]
  very great or pier­ceth deep.
  an huge dart.
• God doth help
  the diligent or painfull man.
  the industri­ous man.
• Partnershippe.
  Societie [
  is alwayes.
  is] vnfaithfull alwaies.
• Inconstancy doth
  loath.
  disdaine friendes.
• An vnknowne thing.
  A thing vnknowne is not loued.
• Beggerlinesse is vnfillable.
  Beggerie is vnsatiable.
• An iniurie is ouercome by
  a good turne.
  a benefit.
• Change or inter­course.
  The course of things is pleasant.
• All vnconstant.
  Euerye ignorant man is [Page] vnstable.
• Vnhappinesse or misery.
  Infelicitie is to be obiected to no man.
• It is a difficult thing
  to beare or suffer.
  to to­lerate iniuries.

• Praise
  doth excite.
  dooth stirre vp the witte.
• Strife
  doth breed.
  doth bring forth strife.
• All things doe flourish by la­bour.
• The tongue hath destroyed many [men.]
• Labours [are] the foundati­on of glory.
• Bridle.
  Keepe in thy tongue with thy finger.
• Labour is the treasure of man.
• Praise [is] the reward of ver­tue.
• Nothing [is] more sweete then liberty.

• An euill [man] dooth seek
  a like man.
  [a man] like.
• A thing euill got­ten.
  That which is gotten euill doth slide away.
• Hunger dooth teach many [Page 8] things.
• An euill thing
  is borne.
  is taken away by patience.
• The minde is
  a diuiner or fore­teller.
  a presager
  of that which is to come.
  of a thing to come.
• Silence dooth adorne a wo­man.
• [It is] a most miserable thing to die
  thorough hunger.
  with hunger.
• Nothing is safe to mortall men.
• Gifts
  doe catch.
  do take men.
• Defence of one another.
  Mutual defence is most safe.
• Loue doth teach musicke.
• Death doth throw downe all things.
• Death is
  vnshunnable.
  ineuitable.
• Crosses, losses, mis­fortunes.
  Euill things doe hasten old age.
• Chastitie [is] the dowrie of a woman.
• Memory [is]
  the treasurie or treasure.
  the treasure­house of Arts.
• We must not answere
  to reproches or rai­lings.
  with euill-speeches.

• Nature [is] content with a fewe things.
• [Page]No man is borne
  for himselfe.
  to himself.
• Thou shalt belieue nothing rashly.
• Thou oughtest not to lie.
  Thou oughtest to lie no­thing.
• Neede runnes bare legd.
  Necessitie wants bootes or startvps.
• Do not bragge of thine owne things.
• Doe not despise other folkes things.
• Speake not ill of a­ny man behinde his backed.
  Do not backbite any man.
• Necessitie hath no law.
  Nothing doth repugne [or resist] necessitie.
• Neede.
  Necessitie doth break yron.
• Too much nig­gardlinesse.
  Ouermuch sparing [is] to be shunned.
• The night
  is without or voide of.
  doth want shame­fasteness.
• Let not any thing be.
  Not any thing ouermuch, [or, Nothing too much.]
• Nothing [is] greater then
  dayly practise.
  continuall custome.
• Fidelitie or faithful­nesse.
  Faith is safe no where [that is, it is hard to finde him whom we may trust.]
• [See that] thou try.
  Thou maiest affirm nothing
  vnexperienced.
  vntried.
• [Page 9]
  It is repugned.
  It is resisted to nature in vaine. [or,] it is in vaine to resist [nature.]
• Nothing [is] more
  floting or swift.
  flying away then time.

• Dutifulness or o­bedience.
  Pliantnesse
  doth bring forth.
  dooth gette friendes.
• The occasion doth make the thiefe.
• Wealth taketh away friends.
• Euery beginning [is] grie­uous.
• Occasion [is] not to be neg­lected.
• Riches do slide away
  speedily.
  swift­ly.
• Hatred is
  quicklie pacified, qualified, or made more gentle.
  asswaged by
  seruiceeblenesse or dutifulnesse.
  pli­antnesse.
• Time.
  Age
  taketh away.
  brings all things.
• Riches
  are gotten or pro­uided.
  are prepared
  by skill.
  by Art.
• Idleness [is]
  the spoyler.
  the rust of the wit.

• Pouerty
  doth make vs to seek Arts.
  doth stir vp Arts.
• Let the schollar o­bey.
  The schollar let him obey the master.
• [Page]All things obey money.
• Rash.
  Headlong counsell [is] vn­luckie.
• Pouertie
  depriues vs of.
  spoyles [men] of friends.
• Things gotten are to be kept.
• Shame or bashful­nesse.
  Shamefastnesse [is] vnprofi­table to a beggar.
• An account or forecast. Calculus is also a pebble stone or a table-man.
  A counter doth ouercome very much, [or we may do much by counters or by an account.]
• Nothing [is] more sweete then our country.
• Delaying or put­ting off from day to day.
  Procrastination is odious.
• The beginning [is] the halfe of the whole.

• What things do hurt do teach.
• Euery
  land.
  earth [is] a country [that is, to a valiant man, because hee can liue any where.]

• Ouermuch laughter is to bee taken heed of.

• Like things fauour like [or [Page 10] like to like.
• A like thing.
  Like doth reioice in the like.
• All
  bondage.
  seruitude is miserable.
• Only
  rich men, or in prosperity.
  fortunate men are lo­ued.
• Sleepe [is]
  a picture or resem­blance.
  the image of death.
• Hope
  saues or preserues.
  doth keepe afflicted [men.]
• Learning or endea­uour.
  Study dooth make men courteous [or ciuill.]
• His owne things.
  His owne [is] faire to eue­ry one, [or Euery one likes his owne things best.]
• The spring time.
  The spring doth follow the winter.
• A foolish man.
  A foole doth speake foolish things.
• The course of life.
  Studies
  do shew.
  doe declare the minde.
• Chance or hap.
  Lot
  doth turne vpside­downe.
  doth turne about all things.
• Silence [is] safe euery where.
• Proud [men] are
  amended or refor­med.
  corrected hardly.
• Onely a wise man [is] rich.
• Hope doth
  comfort and sus­taine.
  nourish banish­ed men.
• [Page]Euery man doth please him­selfe.
• Abundance, or plenty, or riches.
  Fulness
  doth bring forth.
  doth breed fierce­nesse [or cruelty.]
• Holy dayes [are] alwaies to
  sluggards.
  slothfull [men]: [or, Idle men would haue euery day holyday.]
• Speech
  doth heale sorrow­fulnesse.
  doth cure sadnesse.
• Nothing is more profitable then silence.

• Time is
  a deuourer or con­sumer.
  an eater of things.
• Time is short.
• Time
  doth passe away.
  doth fly away most swiftly.
• Al things are changed in time.
• Time
  brings all things to light.
  dooth reueale all things.
• All things are
  accomplished or fully done, or brought to an end.
  finished in time.
• Nothing is swifter then time.
• All things are done in time.
• Time doth
  doth lenifie or as­swage.
  mitigate griefe.

• The belly wanteth eares [or, The belly cannot be per­swaded.]
• [Page 11]
  We haue an appetite to, or desire earnestly.
  We couet more greedily things forbidden.
• The speech of truth [is]
  one and not di­uerse.
  sim­ple, [or plaine.]
• The iudgement of the common people is foolish.
• Vertue praysed doth increase.
• All things are consumed by vse.
• The gifts of men [are] diuers.

Sentences of foure words.

• Euery age of man hath the proper courses which do be­com it: as, Chil­dishnesse chil­dren, Grauitie old age &c.
  O Other things doe become an other age.
• Another thing of vice.
  Other men haue other falts: or euery man hath one fault or other.
  Another vice is to other [mē.]
• Wee must vse friendes with mo­desty.
• Dayly.
  Continuall exercise can doe all things.
• We must take heede.
  Wee must beware of flattering men.
• We know [our] friends amongst [aduerse things [or in aduersity.]
• Good friends are rare.
• Ancient.
  Olde friendshippe is abolished seldome.
• Nothing is difficult to a louer.
• [Page]Ambition is
  hurtfull or dan­gerous.
  most pestilent in the Common-wealth.
• Friendship is to be
  put before, pre­ferred before.
  preferred to all things.
• The yeare
  Doth make fruitfull,
  dooth fructisie, not the earth.
• The mind of euery man is
  relieued or comforted.
  re­uealed
  by his speech:
  by speech.
• [There is] no wisedome before
  experience.
  yeares.
• Euill things accustomed doe not
  disquiet.
  offend.
• Loue is not
  able to be hea­led.
  cureable.
• Aduerse things doe stir vp the wit oft times.
• A couetous king is
  pleased or qui­eted with gold.
  pacified by gold.
• Couetousnesse or greedy desire.
  The couetous desire of a coue­tous man is filled
  no where.
  neuer.
• It is not of.
  It is not the part of a wise man
  to be ouerbold
  to be bold.
• Nothing is more pretious then a faithfull friend.
• There is a measure.
  A measure
  let it bee pre­sent, or let there be a measure.
  is present to e­uery thing.
• [Friendes] admonishing freelie are rare.
• Chastitie is
  beauty inough.
  beautye ample enough.
• [Page 12]Friendshippe dooth refuse no
  burden or la­bour.
  weight.
• The eyes do get loue especially.
• Couetous men
  can neuer haue inough.
  cannot be satis­fied.
• No vice is
  worse or more vile or mischie­uous.
  more foule then co­uetousnesse.
• Lawes are like to the webbes of spiders.

• A good turne.
  A benefit alwayes
  doth procure.
  doth pro­uoke a benefit.
• A benefit is to bee measured by the minde of the giuer.
• The
  objecting or casting in the teeth.
  vpbraiding of a benefit is
  troublesome.
  grieuous.
• Ciuill-warre [is]
  dangerous, noysome, or deadly.
  a pernicious euill.
• Many good things are lost by neglecting.
• We must vse good friends more sparingly.
• All things do becom good men.
• Men are ouer-intreated
  with fawning or flattering speeches.
  with faire words.

• The mariage of
  vnequall ma­riages.
  vnequals is e­uill.
• [Page]Fearefull dogges do bark more vehemently.
• Too much sut­tletie.
  Ouermuch crastinesse dooth hurt sometimes.
• [That thing] is deare which is rare.
• Custome
  doth make easie.
  doth lenifie [or soft| en] all hard things.
• Counsell dooth preuaile very much euery where.
• A good con­science.
  A right cōscience is most sweet.
• Custome [is] more mighty then any tyrant.
• A common shipwrack [is]
  a comfort.
  a solace to all.
• Counsell is vnprofitable after
  the deeds done
  the deeds.
• Wisedome is more pretious then all riches.
• More money more care: or more rich more carefull.
  Care doth followe money in­creasing.
• An enemy dooth deceiue when he flattereth.
• Friendes are changed with for­tune.

• Feare
  doth proue or declare.
  dooth argue
  base or dast­ardly mindes.
  degene­rate
  friends.
  mindes.
• [Page 13]Riches are the burdens of a good minde.
• Learned [men] do reioyce in the familiaritie of learned [men.]
• It is a sweet thing
  to haue re­membred of.
  to remember our labours.
• The soyle or place where we were borne.
  [Our] fathers soyle is pleasant.
• The greater part [is] alwaies of the worse [men.]
• Damage [is]
  to be prefer­red to.
  to be put before filthy
  gaine.
  lucre.
• Diuers earths bring forth diuers things.
• A gift
  is esteemed, or considered.
  is weighed by the minde of the giuer.
• Riches [are] the cause
  of braulings.
  of chi­dings.
• We ought to condemne no man
  rashly or light­ly.
  easily.
• A mans owne miserie.
  His owne miserie
  is to bee hidde.
  is to be dis­sembled.

• A rose
  is not bredde.
  doth not growe vpon a sea-onion.
• An idle hand doth bring
  neede or want.
  po­uerty.
• Loue
  groweth of sight or seeing.
  is bredde of sight.
• Wee are all made more learned [Page]
  by damage.
  by losse.
• Mourning
  doth follow occupy or take.
  doth possesse
  the last things or last parts.
  the extreamities of ioie, [or After the greatest ioy comes mour­ning.]
• Drunkenness
  doth discouer or vtter.
  doth bring forth
  the most secret things.
  the most hidden things
  of the heart.
  of the breast.
• The greatest things [are made] of the least beginnings.
• It is a common thing to mortall men to erre.
  To erre is a common thing to mortall [men].
• Sword-point to be giuen to children.
  A sword is not to bee commit­ted to boyes.
• Vpbraiding
  of misery.
  of calamity is to be obiected to no man.
• Experience is
  the teacher.
  the mistresse of prouidence.
• Great things are made of little things.
• Vices do come of idlenesse.
• He-that-hath-tryed dangers
  doth easily fear.
  is sore afraied easily.

• Prosperity or men in prosperi­ty.
  Felicitie hath many kinsfolks.
• Fortune is most like to the winde.
• It is an euill thing to.
  To deceiue others is an euill thing.
• [Page 14]
  There is no certaine.
  No certaine knowledge [is] of things to come.
• Thou shalt bee made euill by the
  familiaritie in the same Inne, house, or tent.
  Contubernium of con-taberna. in the same Ta­uerne.
  company of euill men.
• The
  custome in buying and sel­ling, trafique with.
  commerce [or familiar company] of euill [men] is to be sledde.
• The
  agreement.
  concorde of brethren is rare.
• Too high things are to be fled.
• Faith.
  Fidelitie [is] to be kept euen to an enemy.
• It is
  a great fault.
  a grieuous fault to speake things
  to be kept in.
  to be kept secret.
• Glory is not bought with mony.

• Men [are]
  prone or tur­ning or incli­ning.
  ready to euill.
• The figure, the condition.
  The fashion of man is knowen by his speech.
• The lowe or base.
  The humble kinde of life [is] most safe.

• Nothing is more intollerable
  then an vnwise or foolish man in prosperitie.
  then fortunate foole.
• Angry men do nothing
  well.
  right­ly.
• Agreement.
  Concorde [is] rare amongst brethren.
• [Page]Holy-daies are alwaies to
  to slothful men
  slug­gish men.
• vnthankfulnes.
  Ingratitude [is] the head of all vices.
• There is neede
  of a courage.
  of a minde in e­uery thing.
• A friend is proued
  in aduersitie.
  in aduerse things.
• Change.
  Varietie doth delight in euery matter.
• Lawes are silent [or doe hold their peace]
  in warres.
  amongst wea­pons.
• Impatience doth
  make al things more sharp.
  exasperate all things.
• Vehement rage or force.
  Violence
  doth effect or work.
  dooth minister all things euilly, [or vnhappily.]
• Honour
  doth cost.
  doth consist of innu­merable labours.
• Anger dooth wax olde the most slowly of all things.
• A good friend [is]
  a huge.
  a very great treasure.
• Euills
  vnlooked for, or besides our o­pinion.
  vnthought of are more grieuous.
• Glory hath
  an exceeding great spurre.
  an vnmeasurable spurre, [or, Glory doth set vs on exceedingly.]
• [Page 15]Enuie
  doth vexe.
  dooth writhe [or-tor­ment]
  the author of it.
  the owne author.
• Nothing is
  more mischie­uous.
  more pernicious then
  a malepart tongue.
  a naughty tongue.
• Carelesnesse.
  Securitie dooth bring forth in­numerable euills.
• Euill things often
  do stir vp the wit often.
  do mone the wit.
• Anger is not
  pacified.
  appeased by an­grinesse.

• Labour is a treasure to men.
• Labour
  is crowned with vertue.
  doth receiue the glory of vertue.
• continuall or sturdy.
  Vntired labour doth ouercom all things.
• A longer life a long-lasting cala­mitie.
• Thou maiest beare.
  [See that] thou beare willinglie that which it nec [...]ssarie.

• Nothing is to be
  assayed.
  tried,
  the goddesse of lear­ning or of wit.
  Miner­ua [or nature being vnwilling] [or We must attempt nothing against nature.]
• An ill-weed dyeth not.
  An euil hearbe doth not perish.
• The minde [is]
  a foreteller.
  a presager
  of that which is to come.
  of a thing to come.
• [Page]Manie thinges are wanting to [men]
  to them that aske.
  asking many things.
• It behoueth a lyar
  to haue a good memory.
  to be minde­full.
• Euill
  gaine.
  lucre
  is no better then loss.
  is equall to losse.
• An oke
  is hewen down.
  is cast downe by manie blowes.
• Wayward.
  Frowarde [men] doe
  do expound.
  inter­prete nothing
  whitely.
  sincerely [or well and louingly.]
• Euill counsell is the worst
  to the asker.
  to the consultour.
• Nothing is more deare to mor­tall men then money.
• Death is common
  to all age.
  to euery age.
• Euill things are
  next or neere neighbours.
  neere to good things.
• A foole is wise,
  an euill thing.
  the euill being receiued [or after the euill.]
• Forced.
  Compelled wits do answere e­uilly.
• Modesty dooth
  further.
  conferre [or help] much to health.
• Men in misery.
  Miserable men are wont to en­uie
  Men in pros­perity.
  happy men.

• Nature doth loue
  no solitarie thing.
  nothing soli­tarie.
• [Page 16]It is
  a troublesome thing.
  a busie matter
  to wrangle, or sue one another in law.
  to striue [or to contend in law.]
• Do not follow.
  Thou maiest not follow the er­rours of the common people.
• Doth knowe: few haue know­en quiet rest.
  Quiet rest hath knowen few▪
• Nothing [is] more effectuall then
  the plain truth.
  the simple truth.
• Thou mayest not vndertake
  things aboue thy strength or power.
  greater thinges then thy strength.
• Nothinge is more filthy then
  leeherous or incontinent.
  an old man giuen to lust.
• Nothing [is] more
  against reason or sense.
  absurde then
  a couetous rich man.
  a rich man couetous.
• No mortall man.
  None of mortall men [is] bles­sed
  on all parts, or euery way.
  absolutely.
• The necessity of nature is paci­fied with
  a little.
  little thing.
• No man is hurt except of him­selfe.
• Want of con­sideration.
  Rashnesse doth hurt mortall [men] much.
• No possession is better [then the possession] of friendes.
• Nothing [is] more
  miserable or subiect to mise­ry.
  calamitous then man.
• No thing [is] more sweete then a friendly
  admonisher.
  monitour.
• [Page]Nothing is
  more commō.
  more vulgar then to deceiue men.
• Ouer much
  mildenesse.
  lenitie is not ap­proued.
• Fortune doth not
  laugh vpon vs alwaie.
  smile alwaies.

• Riches
  reconcile or procure.
  doe not get friends.
• No man can haue all things.
• No man is wise
  at all times.
  at all houres.
• [It is] the best thing
  to make vse of, to learne to bee wise by other▪ mens foolishnes.
  to inioy as other mans madnesse [or folly.]
• All things [are]
  to be done.
  to be finished in their owne time.
• All things are changed easily.
  The care or seeing to of the maister,
  The eye of the maister dooth make fatte the horse, [or The maisters eye dooth feede the horse.]
• Idlenesse doth teach many vices.
• It is
  the sweetest thing of all things.
  the most sweete thing of all to receiue.
• All good things
  are vpholden by peace.
  doe consist in peace, [or depend vppon peace.]
• We all are
  made worse.
  worse
  by liberty.
  by licence.
• The speech is
  a likenesse or resemblance.
  a picture of the deeds.
• [Page 17]The eyes are
  more to bee trusted, or that which we see is more sure.
  more faithful then the cares.
• Euery
  earth or place.
  soyle is a countrey
  to a couragious▪ man.
  to a valiant man.

• The death of poor men is
  without stir, or talking of.
  with­out noyse.
• The speeches of poore men
  are not regar­ded.
  are vaine.
• The
  iudgements, or opinions are better.
  sentences of olde men are more excellent.
• Small things.
  Little things are not to be con­temned.
• Wits
  ouer timely, quickly.
  Soone ripe, soone rotten.
  ouersoone ripe do faile soone.
• His owne country [is] most plea­sant to euery man.
• Nothing is more profitable then
  common peace or agreement.
  publike concorde.
• Substance.
  Things [or goods] doe in­crease by sparing and labour.
• It is the part of a wise man
  to hide, or conceale.
  to dissemble many things.
• Nothing [is] pleasant to a trou­bled
  minde.
  heart.
• It is
  a varie difficult thing.
  a very hard thing to bee good.
• Frowardnes, or obstinacie.
  Stubbornnesse is the compani­on [Page] of a minde
  puffed vp, proud.
  lifted vp.
• Goodnesse.
  Honesty maketh
  a bolde or pre­sent wit.
  a great wit.
• Pliantnesse, rea­diness to please.
  Obedience is not to be perfor­med to [a man] sinning.
• Enuy ceaseth after death.
• The minds are
  wanton, or running riot.
  proud in pros­perous things, [or prosperity.]

• How many heades, so many
  judgements, meanings, opi­nions.
  senses.
• As the man [is] such is his speech.
  What a man, such a speech.
• As the prince [is] such is his peo­ple.
  What a prince such a people.
• Euery man
  doth flatter himselfe in his owne sinnes.
  doth flatter his own euills.
• What is
  more filthy.
  more dishonest then
  proud.
  arrogant vnskilfulnesse?
• How many men, so many
  opinions.
  sen­tences [or mindes]
• How much thou shalt haue,
  of so much reckoning or ac­count, or so much esteemed.
  of so much valewe thou shalt be.
• What a question, such an answer: [or As the question [is] such [should be] the answere.]
• Taking coun­sell or aduise.
  Consultatiō is
  a holy thing.
  a sacred thing.
• A foole vnderstandeth
  a thing done and past, or when it is too late.
  a thing finished.
• Wee are all wise
  a thing done and past, or when it is too late.
  a thing being past.
• [Page 18]
  Blushing.
  Rednesse is the colour of ver­tue.
• [There is] seldome any calami­tie alone.
• Reason
  doth grow our of kinde.
  doth degenerate with­out exercise.

• Onely
  men in misery.
  miserable men
  are free from.
  do want enuy.
• The qualitie of a man is knowen by his speech.
• We answere more fitly.
  It is answered
  many things.
  to many men more aptly by silence.
• Clearenesse or faire weather.
  A calme doth follow
  a storme.
  a tem­pest easily.
• A mans owne skill.
  His owne Art
  doth maintain.
  doth nourish e­uery man.
• Nothing [is] more pleasant then
  quiet, which may bee at ease.
  ▪ idle olde age.
• Meere speech, or in due season.
  Fit speech is the best.
• Speech is
  the ingrauen forme, picture or image.
  the character [or print] of the minde.
• Her owne King
  doth like the Queene best.
  doth please the Queene.
• Sparing
  is too late.
  is late
  in the bottom of the purse.
  in the bottom.
• Whosoeuer doth couet is
  needy, wanting help.
  poore alwayes.
• His owne studies doe delight e­uery [Page] man.
• Wee are able [to doe] nothing
  without the help of God.
  without helpe.
• Nothing in the life [is] better then health.
• No man is borne without
  faults.
  vices.
• Ouermuch wisedome is not wise­dome.
• Euery man hath his errour.
  His owne errour is to be attri­buted to euery man.
• We must trie, or attempt.
  Nothing [is] to be tryed aboue strength.
• Euery man is delighted with his owne study.
• Hope doth
  foster, or sus­taine.
  cherish the mindes of men.

• Dishonest.
  Filthy
  lucre.
  gaine doth bring mis­fortune [or losse.]
• Time doth draw all things with it.
• His owne pleasure doth
  intice, or allure.
  dravv
  euery one.
  euery man, [or Euery owne followeth his owne pleasure.]
• A friend is proued in time of ad­uersitie.
• All things are made more light
  by time.
  in time.

• [Page 19]
  ouermuch, or wine immode­rately taken.
  Immoderate wine is the cause of euills.
• Consolation is better
  when the bellie is full.
  with a full belly.
• The common people
  doth measure, or allow by gain
  doth ap­proue friendships by profit.
• A more seldom vse.
  More rare vse doth commend pleasures.
• Where feare [is] there is shame.
• Where friends [are] there [are] riches.
• Where
  our loue.
  loue [is] there [is] the eie.
• Where
  our griefe.
  griefe [is] there [is] [our] finger.
• One man [is] no man.
• As
  euery one.
  euery man is, so he speaks.
• No possession is greater then vertue.
• The enterchanges of things are
  variable, or changing.
  diuers.
• Faults.
  Vices cannot be
  concealed.
  hidde.
• Our owne glory.
  Vaine glorye is not to bee
  required.
  sought.

Sentences of moe words.

• LEarn what thou maiest
  auoide.
  shun by the
  chance, mishap or perill.
  fall of other men.
• Shame or o­uermuch mo­desty.
  Shamefastnesse is to bee cast a­way, as oft as necessitie doth
  constraine, re­quire or inforce.
  vrge.
• A boare is holden oft times
  of a little dog.
  of a dogge not great.
• We all are
  inclining, han­ging or prone.
  ready to idlenesse.
• Troubles.
  Aduerse things are to be
  vndergone.
  tole­rated [or borne]
  patiently.
  with an e­quall minde.
• Flatterie [is] the greatest plague in friendship.
• It is the duty.
  It is [the part] of a young man to reuerence his
  elders or bet­ters.
  greaters by birth.
• It is
  so great a thing, or of so great force.
  so very much to accustome [our selues]
  frō our tender.
  in our tender [yeares.]
• Olde age is more slowe
  to euery in­struction, or to learne any thing.
  to all discipline.
• Doers and consenters are puni­shed with like punishment.
• The vndoing or fall.
  The destruction of one [man] [Page 20] is
  the rising or making.
  the riches of
  of another.
  another [man.]
• The riches of one [man] are the
  vndoing.
  spoiles of another [man.]
• Another life
  another man­ner.
  , another way of li­uing, [that is A new course of liuing is a new life, [or, An other trade of life, another course of liuing.]
• A true friend is a great treasure.
• Friends are knowen in
  aduersitie.
  aduerse things.
• True loue
  knoweth.
  hath knowen to haue no measure.
• A minde accustomed
  to troubles.
  to hard things
  is less offended.
  is offended lesse.
• The minde of euery man is re­uealed by [his] speech.
• Art
  doth trauell.
  doth labour about the help of fortune.
• An asse
  had leiffer haue.
  will rather haue
  strawes.
  straw then gold.
• Gold hath perswaded oft times many [men]
  vnhappily.
  ill [or amisse.]

• Excellent.
  Egregious learning is
  the stay or little staffe.
  the staffe of life.
• A benefit bestowed vpō thank­full [Page] full [men] is wont to be
  lent to vsurie, or to com home with gaine.
  put to vsurie.
• It is better to bee
  an honest poor man, then a wic­ked rich man.
  a poore man well, then to waxe rich euil­lie.
• The Cittie [is] most blessed, vvhich
  is gouerned by.
  is ruled of vvise men.
• Good lawes are
  made, begun or enacted.
  procreated of euill manners.
• That which is done well.
  VVhat thing is done well to good men, doth not perish [or is not lost.]
• Euill speeches
  doe nothing hurt.
  do wound good men nothing.
• Good [men] do come
  willingly.
  of their owne accord, to the feasts of good [men.]

• The dogge
  doth annoy, or enuy, or bark a­gainst.
  dooth trouble alwayes a poore stran­ger.
• The bitch ma­king haste.
  The hasty bitch dooth bring forth blinde whelpes.
• [Page 21]An old dog cannot be
  acquainted, or taught to lead.
  accusto­med to the chayne.
• Those things [are] more cer­taine which are seene, then which are heard.
• What thing is
  What is saide
  we are not to beleeue rashlie.
  is not to bee be­leeued quicklye [or rash­lie.]
• Wise men doe hide their
  houshold e­uils, or euils at home.
  do­mesticall euills.
• Wee must take heede of him who hath
  put vnto vs, be­guiled, or cir­cumdented.
  deceiued [vs] once.
• VVhatsoeuer
  is gotten.
  is prepared by wage, is
  more pretious.
  more deare.
• Thou maiest ouercome better by counsell then by
  anger, or cha­sing.
  angri­nesse.
• There is not need of consultati­on,
  after the deede done.
  the thing beeing finish­ed.
• Counsell is to bee asked
  men skilfull & experienced.
  of [men] able to giue counsell, and wise.
• Familiaritie.
  Custome [or familiar acquain­tance] is to be had with good men.
• Thou maiest be willing, or thou hadst rather
  Thou wilst rather [thy] body [Page]
  to be grieued.
  to bee affected with griefe, then [thy] minde.
• It is
  a hard thing.
  a difficult thing
  to change or amend.
  to cor­rect an euill nature.
• Thou taking a iourney.
  Thou beeing about to goe [a iourney] doe not vse
  a leud compa­nion.
  a wicked companion at any time.
• Custom is
  most potent or auaileable.
  most mighty alwaies in all things.
• Care
  doth auaile most of all.
  preuaileth very much in euery thing.
• Strife is not
  to be begun.
  to bee taken vp with a friend hauing deserued well.
• Hee hath no friend
  who is in ad­uersity.
  to whom fortune is aduerse, [or against him.]

• It is the chiefest wisedome
  to play the fool or seeme foolish.
  to doate in place, [that is] at somtimes.]
• differing man­ners do follow.
  Differing studies doe follow
  vnlike or di­uerse.
  differing manners.
• They that dis­agree.
  [Men] disagreeing are ouer­come easily, [men] agreeing not easily.
• No man is loued, but to whome [Page 22] fortune
  is second, or who is in pros­peritie.
  is prosperous.
• It is a hard thing to faine a iest, with
  a sad or heauy minde.
  a sorrowfull minde.
• He is a rich man, who thinketh nothing to be wanting vnto him.
• Riches are gotten by labour, they
  vanish, or are lost or cōsumed.
  perish by prodigalitie, [or by spending aboue our com­passe and vainely.]
• That which is
  of equall va­lue, or an equall recompence.
  equiualent is not rendred, [or restored] to the Gods, parents,
  Maisters.
  schoole­masters.
• A true friend is a thing hard to be found.
• Thou being rich shalt remember
  to do good to.
  that thou mayest profit
  the little poore ones.
  the silly poore.
• Learning is vaine
  without reasō.
  vnlesse rea­son shall come vnto it, [or beioined vnto it.]
• A portion.
  A dowry dooth not make a happy mariage, but vertue.
• It is a hard thing to leaue those things to which
  thou hast been accustomed.
  thou hast accustomed [thy selfe] long.
• Euerie one makes wordes [or [Page] speaks]
  concerning his owne matters.
  of his owne matters.
• Sith that.
  Whilst
  I cannot.
  it is not lawfull
  as I look for, or wish.
  as I expect, I liue
  as I may.
  as I can.
• Thou shalt condemne no man
  his cause not being knowen.
  the cause not being knowen.
• The vertue of the parents is a great
  portion.
  dowry.
• The mise doe dance
  whilst the catte sleepeth.
  whilst the catte doth sleep.
• Riches are giuen now
  to none but.
  to no man, except to rich [men.]
• It is
  a harder thing.
  more difficult to beare happy [fortune] [or prospe­ritie] then aduerse fortune [or aduersity.]
• A poore man learned,
  is preferred.
  is put before a rich man vnlear­ned.

• A great thing
  doth spring, or grow.
  dooth rise from a little beginning.
• A wise man dooth
  reforme.
  amend his owne [fault,]
  by the vice.
  by the fault of another man.
• Wee our selues are made
  more heedy.
  more wary,
  of the
  by the
  errors, or slips.
  faults of others.
• It is a banishment to a man, there [Page 23] where hee liueth little, [or no­thing]
  fitly, or profita­bly.
  commodiously.
• It is
  a choise, or rare vertue.
  an excellent vertue to performe silence
  in businesses.
  in mat­ters, [or to be silent in weigh­ty matters.]
• A sword point.
  A sword doth wound the body: but speech [doth wound] the minde.
• Wee.
  We our selues do not acknow­ledge
  our owne er­rours, or slips.
  our faults.

• It is
  the duty, or wisedome.
  [the part] of a valiant man to contemne a false
  slaunder, or re­proach.
  infamy.
• It is the part of a valiant minde not to be troubled greatly
  in aduersity.
  in aduerse things.
• Any man dooth
  aduise, consult, or aske counsell.
  giue counsell more easily to others, then to himselfe.
• The discommodities of fortune,
  do not trouble a wise man.
  doe mooue a wise man no­thing.
• The companions
  of hasting, or making haste.
  of haste, are errour and repentance.
• Hee is wise happily, who is wise by an others mans
  danger.
  perill.
• [Page]
  He may finde.
  He shal finde
  a staffe.
  a club easilie, who
  desireth.
  coueteth to beate a dogge.
• A word
  passeth forth or escapeth vs.
  dooth flie out easilie:
  yet.
  notwithstanding,
  it doth not returne.
  it retur­neth neuer.
• Prosperity.
  Prosperous fortune doth de­stroy whilst it flattereth.
• Hee is most happy to whom no­thing of euill, [or no cuill thing]
  chanced or fal­len out.
  hath happened in his life.
• [Thou art] happy, whosoeuer doest learne by the griefe of an other [man] to be able
  to be free from
  to want thine owne.
• It is an easie thing to ouercome [a man] absent who doth not resist.
• He is wise
  to no purpose
  in vaine, who is not wise
  for himselfe.
  to himselfe.

• A cocke can doe very much in [or vpon] his owne dunghill.
• Vertue comming from a faire body is
  more pleasing.
  more acceptable.

• It is the best reuenge to ouercom [Page 24] an enemy
  by kindnesses or good turnes.
  by benefits.
• The meant estate.
  The low fortune [or conditi| on] is more safe then
  the high.
  the lofty.
• The
  heritage.
  inheritance of a
  of fame.
  good name is more honest
  then [the in­heritance] of riches.
  then of riches.
• The ghessing at.
  The coniecture
  of the humane minde.
  of mans minde is difficult.
• A couetous man doth hasten all things whatsoeuer he doth.
• Calme waters haue also their
  trouble or danger.
  tranquillitie [or calmness.]
• The goodness.
  The honesty of the master doth make also the family better.

• There is
  an ancient con­tention.
  olde warre betweene the mother in law and the daughter in law.
• Things
  vnlooked for.
  vnhoped for, doe fall out more often then [those things] which
  thou hopest for.
  thou canst hope for.
• Famous wits
  haue wanted neuer.
  haue neuer wan­ted
  enuiers or followers for vaine glory.
  emulatours.
• [He] who beareth a yoke
  willingly.
  wil­lingly, doth make it light.
• The day it selfe [is] sometime [Page]
  friendly as a parent or mo­ther.
  a parent, sometimes a step­mother, [or vnluckie as a step­mother.]
• Hide thy
  vnhappinesse, mishap or mise­ry.
  infelicitie, least thou make [thy] enemies
  to reioyce.
  merry [or ioyfull.]
• Huge wealth.
  very great riches are not
  prepared.
  got­ten without
  deceit.
  fraud.
• Ingratitude doth
  imbrace or containe.
  comprehend all vices in it selfe.
• Discommoditie is alwayes
  goeth with.
  a companion of commodities.
• Wee are
  full of eyes or sharp sighted.
  quick sighted by na­ture, into other folks vices, not into our owne.
• Thou
  commanding.
  ruling anger shalt liue a
  most strong, healthfull, or comfortable.
  most able, [or healthfull] life.
• It is
  feeble, or lan­guishing.
  a saint thing, euery where to apply [ourselues] to diuers things.
• There is need of good counsell in euill things.
• A friend is knowen
  in aduersity.
  in aduerse things.
• We are not to sleep, or be neg­ligent.
  We are not to slumber in a dan­gerous businesse.
• It is a signe of one that doateth
  It is [the part] [of a man] doa­ting, [Page 25] to wish impossible things vnto himselfe.
• Shame.
  Shame fastnesse is vnprofitable, when necessitie doth
  compell, or in­force.
  vrge.
• It behooueth vs to bring a buy­er,
  of our selues, or to seek out a buyer.
  of our owne accord,
  to marchan­dise.
  to ware
  vnmeete to be sold.
  vnsaleable.
• The time
  doth declare.
  doth shew friends, as the fier [doth shew] the gold.
• An enuious man dooth
  pine away, or fret away.
  waxe leane at the
  plentie, or a­boundance.
  fatte things, [or prosperity] of another man.

• Strifes are wont to take away the
  peace, or qui­etnesse.
  tranquillitie of the mind.
• A longer life,
  a life somwhat long.
  is wont to bring very many discommodities.
• Hee is praised, not who [hath li­ued] long, but [he] who hath liued well.
• Euill gaine.
  Euill lucre doth bring losse al­waies.
• The
  sharpnesse.
  edge of the minde dooth waxe dull, by the
  excesse, or in­temperance.
  riot of the body.
• It behooueth [a man] to be libe­rall; but
  according t­his faculty, bilitie.
  for his abilitie, [or not beyond his compasse.]
• [Page]Vnlesse there were
  lucre.
  gaine, no man would be euill.
• It is
  beleeued, wee beleeue.
  credited more willinglie to
  eyed witnesses, them that see.
  eye [witnesses] then to
  eared, or them who heare.
  eare witnesses.
• The burden is made light, which is borne well.
• Men are ouercome by praise, and pliantness.

• An euill woman is more fierce, then all
  sauage, or cru­ell.
  wilde beasts.
• A thriftie matrone is not
  easie to bee mette with, or found.
  met
  all abroad.
  euery where.
• A woman is the
  preseruation, ouerthrowe.
  health, [or sa­fety,] & calamity of the house.
• It is the most miserable, &c.
  To die with hunger, [is] the most miserable kinde of death.
• Euill speeches
  ouerthrowe, or corrupt.
  throwe downe good manners.
• Thou shalt lose greater things, vnless thou shalt
  keepe.
  retaine lesse things.
• Many things
  do chance, or fall out.
  doe happen to man, which he will not.
• A meane is best to bee had in all things.
  The best meane [is] to be had in all things.
• [Page 26]Many good things haue fallen out to many besides hope.
• Many men doe enuy the good thing to others, which them­selues do want.
• The elegancie,
  The finenesse of the speech is wont
  to declare the disposition or qualitie.
  to shew the habit of the minde.
• Hee that doth please himselfe o­uermuch, doth displease many men.
• It is better by much
  to look to, or help.
  to cure, [or remedy] the beginnings then the end.
• Naughty com­pany.
  Wicked liuing together, [or familiaritie] doth infect good manners.
• Thou shalt knowe the manners of thy friend; thou shalt not hate [them.]
• All mortall things haue many changes.
• Great things doe perish by dis­cord:
  they are in­creased.
  they are strong [or preuaile] by concord.
• Euery wise and good man,
  hath hated.
  doth hate a lie.
• Idlenesse dooth bring many e­uills [Page] to men.
• It is the greatest
  commoditie.
  profit, to know to vse pouertie.

• Nothing is ours, which may bee taken away.
• There is no discord, where there is the same minde.
• Thou mayest not haue
  buying and selling, compa­ny, fellowship or familiaritie.
  com­merce, [or trafique] with wic­ked men.
• It maketh no matter.
  It skilleth not how long thou shalt liue, but how well.
• Punish no man.
  Do not thou punish any man, vnless thou shalt
  weigh the mat­ter well.
  weigh tho­roughly the matter.
• Doc not
  triumph.
  insult ouer a misera­ble man:
  chance.
  lot is common.
• A good man
  is neuer made rich.
  , hath neuer been made rich of a sudden.
• No liuing creature, no merchan­dise, is harder to bee knowen then man.
• It is not to bee liued, or wee doe not liue.
  Thou must not liue that thou mayest eate: but thou must eat, that thou mayest liue.
• Wisedome is gotten, not by age, but by wit.
• [Page 27]
  Goodnesse of wit.
  Happinesse of wit shal not pro­fit thee, except thou shalt exer­cise it.
• Thou mayest not
  torment, or disquiet.
  vexe thine owne minde with cares.
• Thou shalt not
  stir a bad mat­ter.
  mooue an euill
  ended well.
  well hid, [or couered.]
• Nothing is
  more filthy.
  more dishonest, then
  to contend or braule.
  to make war with a fa­miliar [friend.]
• There is
  no man at all.
  no man of [all] men, in whom there is not
  something of vice.
  some vice.
• It is not a benefit, which is
  sent forth for profit.
  sent into gaine, [or which is done for aduantage.]
• He maketh
  no small.
  no little gaine, who
  flyeth from.
  escapeth
  damage.
  losse.
• Do not learne filthinesse, neither shalt
  thou shalt not permit euill to be done.
  thou admit it, [or suf­fer it.]
• Gold dooth not
  set forth, or beautifie.
  adorne a wo­man, but good manners.
• Nature hath not giuen, to wo­men
  to beare rule ouer the man.
  to rule.
• A woman
  knoweth no­thing.
  hath knowen no­thing, besides [that]
  which shee longeth for, or coueteth vehe­mently.
  which she desireth earnestly.
• [Page]Nature doth not suffer a woman,
  to be before, or ouer men.
  to beare rule.
• Nothing is
  happy.
  blessed,
  of all parts.
  of euerie part.
• Nothing
  is more com­mon then sor­row, griefe or heauinesse.
  is before sorrowe, in the things of mortall men.
• Thou canst beare.
  Thou shalt beare
  no burden.
  no weight,
  more grieuous­ly.
  more bitterly then pouerty.
• I aduise thee.
  I pray [thee] that thou do not
  credit.
  beleeue all things alwayes to all men.
• do not deuise.
  Thou maiest not study to do e­uill
  hauing trusted riches.
  trusting to thy wealth.
• Nothing is so
  heauie.
  grieuous as po­uerty.
• Do not thou make haste
  to be rich.
  to wax rich, least thou
  soon come to pouertie.
  bee made poore straight way.
• The iniquity [or naughtiness] of manners, doth
  corrupt.
  infect na­ture
  altogether, or quite.
  plainely.
• There is nothing
  so heauie.
  so grieuous, but thou maiest make it friend­ly.
• Nothing in the life.
  Nothing is better then health in life.
• No man
  doth look to.
  dooth care for other mens businesses, so diligently [Page 28] as his owne.
• Do not
  go about that
  indeauour [that] which cannot be done.
• Nothing is so
  hard to be done.
  long continuing, [or so hard] which
  continuall sit­ting by a matter.
  assiduity, [or continual diligence]
  cannot make soft or easie.
  can­not soften [or ouercome.]
• The night, loue, wine
  do incourage to lewdnesse.
  doe per­swade filthy things.
• It hurteth no man to haue holden his peace: it hurteth [him] to haue spoken.
• The same man cannot.
  It is not of the same man, to speake both many things, and fit [or seasonable.]
• Nothing is more odious then
  the same thing alwayes.
  that which is alwayes the same.
• It is a difficult thing to take a­way the owne right
  from nature.
  to nature.
• Fearne
  meet to be bur­ned.
  to be burnt
  is bredde.
  doth grow
  feelds vnhus­banded.
  in neglected feelds.
• The
  ministers.
  seruantes doe nothing
  well.
  rightly, vnlesse the master be present.
• All things doe not fall out which
  thou shalt de­termine.
  thou hast determined in thy minde.

• [Page]Euery thing
  which is ouer­much.
  too much, is
  to bee auoyded.
  to be fled in all things.
• Trust is to be giuen, or we are to beleeue.
  Faith [or credit] is to bee had rather to the eyes, then to the eares.
• Things deui­sed.
  Things thought of the best of all, doe
  do fall.
  fall out the worst of­tentimes.
• It behooueth [a man] waxing old,
  to learne to, or euer to bee learning.
  to learne something al­wayes.
• All
  very good things.
  best things haue difficult
  egresses, or issues.
  ends.
• All men
  do chuse ra­ther.
  wil rather to be better to themselues, then to another man.
• Euerie thing
  doth breed. properando.
  doth bring forth errour,
  in preparing.
  with making haste.
• Euery euill
  comming vp.
  growing is
  suppressed, or preuented.
  op­pressed, [or stayed] easily.
• All delay, although very little, doth seeme
  the longest.
  most long.
• It behooueth
  to consult or esteem good of, or of good.
  to take in good part, that thing which is pre­sent, [or which we haue.]
• It is the best to take the fit seasō.
  It shall be the best thing, if any man shall look to the fit time.
• [Page 29]
  Thou shalt not take on thee.
  Thou shalt not vndergoe the burden, to which thou art
  vnlike, or vna­ble to beare.
  vnequall.
• Euery
  vaine, not nece­sary.
  superfluous thing,
  doth spring a­broad.
  doth flow forth from a full breast.
• Death is
  the last or vt­termost.
  the last thing of all things.

• [Those things] are to be borne patiently which cannot bee changed.
• The manners of [our] fathers are not to be
  reprehended, or found fault with.
  reproued, but to be borne.
• Fewe [men] are moderate in prosperous things.
• Anger is the worst
  the worst di­rectour.
  author
  of things to be done.
  of doing things.
• A mans owne countrie.
  His owne countrey, is most pleasant to euery man.
• We are more wise.
  We are wise more for most part after the deed.
• Hornes
  do shoote out of a sudden.
  do rush out to rammes well fedde.
• Anger and
  lust, or immo­derate desire.
  couetous desire, are the worst
  counsellers.
  consulters.
• It is better to be enuied,
  then pitied, or in miserie.
  then miserable.
• [Page]Very many things are to bee knowen: but the best things are
  to be holden.
  to be retayned.
• rash, or incon­siderate anger.
  Headlong anger is the author of many euils.
• Medicins are to be vsed, in the beginning.
  Remedies are to bee added to an euill breeding, [or begin­ning.]
• Beauty.
  Faireness of the body is a
  brittle.
  frail good thing.
• It dooth appeare
  straightway.
  forthwith, what plant
  will be fruitful.
  may bee fruit­full.
• A little sparke being
  neglected.
  contem­ned,
  hath caused a most grieuous fire.
  hath stirred vp a most great burning.
• It is
  a perilous thing.
  a daungerous thing,
  to credit or trust.
  to commit himselfe to the vva­ters.
• There is the chiefest rarenesse, [or scarsitie]
  of the best things.
  of most excel­lent things.
• It is
  [the duty.]
  the part of a vvise man to doe nothing rashly.
• Men of like condition.
  Like [men] are gathered together easilie vvith like [men.]
• A good
  ware.
  marchandise
  doth soon find buyers
  doth [Page 30] finde a buyer easily.
• Things past maie bee
  found fault with.
  repre­hended: they cannot be
  amended.
  cor­rected.
• Moe are ouercome
  by equall, or milde dealing then by rough­nesse. or by e­quity then force.
  by equali­ty, then by hardness.
• It is
  a goodly thing
  a faire thing
  to knowe the time.
  to knowe the measure [or manner] of euery time.
• It is better to die then to liue
  a dishonest life.
  a filthy life.
• Griefe shal be
  eased.
  cured rightly by
  pleasing and sweete words.
  pleasant words.
• It is a good thing,
  to keep a mea­sure.
  to put a mea­sure to anger and to plea­sure.
• It is better
  to be poore.
  to neede, then to wax rich
  from or by wic­kednesse.
  of wickednesse.
• It is better
  to hold a mans peace.
  to holde the peace, then to speake
  things vnbe­seeming.
  vndecent things.
• One eye witnesse is of more
  price or value.
  [worth,] then ten care wit­nesses.
• The tongue doth kill moe then the sword.
• Nothing is
  cleane.
  pleasant, to a troubled heart.
• [Page]A fatte belly doth not beget
  a dull head, or little wit.
  a thin sense [or wit.]
• The smoke of our countrey is,
  more full of light, more clear or shining.
  more bright then another mans fier.
• Euerye man dare doe more at home, then abroad.
• Eyes do see more then an eye.
• Good deeds,
  do spring forth or issue out.
  do flow out from good mindes.
• It is [his] countrie to a man, wheresoeuer hee dooth [or li­ueth] happily.
• Hee is a poore man, not vvho hath little, but who
  is alwayes co­ueting more.
  coueteth more.
• Naughty com­pany.
  Peruerse fellowships do beare euill fruit.
• Shamefastness being lost, all ver­tue
  doth rush down or decay of a sudden.
  dooth fall downe, [or come to nothing.]
• Things past doe compell vs to haue
  a reason, or consideration.
  a regard of things to come.
• It is
  a faire thing.
  a goodly thing
  to commute, to do good for euill.
  to change iniuries into fauour.
• It doth hurt
  boyes.
  children to drink wine.

• [Page 31]That which is taken vp sudden­lie, is not
  not continu­ing, or durable.
  long lasting.
• Those things which are seene.
  What things are seene, are more certaine then what are heard.
• What thing any man loueth ve­hemently, hee cannot
  be forgetfull of that.
  forget that.
• Thou thy selfe shalt not do that,
  which thou blamest others for.
  which thou turnest for a vice to others.
• Whatsoeuer dooth happen be­sides hope,
  depute, or ac­count that thing to be gained.
  depute it to be in gaine.
• They that doe
  fly often, do shun.
  flie labours, do wish holy-daies.
• Whosoeuer refuseth labor
  doth get no good.
  doth not beare fruit.
• See often what thou sayest,
  concerning a­ny man and to whom.
  of any man, and to whom.
• That which many men do, is not good straight way.
  That thing is not good foorth­with, which many men do.
• VVhat thing [seemeth] good to one [man,] seemeth euill to another [man.]
• That thing which is not in­ured.
  What thing is not accustomed, [to labour] doth refuse labour.
• [Hee] who hasteth ouermuch, [Page]
  doth absolue later.
  doth finish more lately.
• [He] who knoweth not to dis­semble, knoweth not
  to gouerne.
  to beare rule.
• Let him wish nothing more,
  who hath e­nough.
  to whom that doth happen which is enough.
• [Hee] who knoweth not him­selfe
  to do euill.
  to sin, will not bee cor­rected.
• How many e­uils, doth idle­nesse bring to men?
  Idlenesse dooth bring to men very many euils.
• Thou shalt correct, [or amend] by no labour.
  Thou shalt correct by no busi­nesse [that thing] which is
  inbredde.
  ingrafted by nature, [ Al. Thou shalt not correct by any businesse.]
• Euery man
  taketh good heede to, or is carefull for.
  watcheth to that thing which hee earnestly de­sireth.
• Hee, who
  doth place a good turne vp­on an vngrateful man.
  bestoweth a benefit, vppon an vnthankfull man, doth lose
  his di­ligence.
  his labour.
• That thing is not easily chan­ged, which is na­turall.
  VVhatsoeuer is naturall, that thing is not easily changed.
• He that
  taketh or see­keth greedily.
  catcheth at [or hunteth after] a double commoditie
  together.
  at once,
  is deceiued of.
  is frustrate of both.
• [Page 32]
  No man can shun.
  It is lawful to no man to
  auoid.
  shun that thing which is decreed by destinies.
• What thing is done, cannot bee made vndone.
• VVhat Arte euery man
  knoweth.
  hath knowen, let him exercise him­self in this, [or Let euery man followe the Arte which hee knoweth.
• [They] who
  talke of, or vaunt of.
  doe make report more arrogantly of them­selues, haue
  bad neighbors
  euil neighbours.
• Those things which thou suffe­rest
  worthily.
  deseruedly, are to bee borne
  lightly, or pati­ently.
  easily.

• A diuerse fortune is to be feared,
  A cōtrary state.
  in things
  most prospe­rous, or chiefly prosperous.
  especially prospe­rous.
• [Our]
  matter, state, or goods.
  substance cannot stand sure [or abide] vvhen
  our expense or laying out.
  our cost [or spending]
  doth exceed.
  doth go beyond [our] gaine.
• A matter little in the beginning, doth increase into a greater.
• A thing hard to bee done,
  yet or neuer­thelesse.
  not­withstanding
  is brought to passe.
  is ouercom by [Page] continuall
  diligence.
  industrie.
• The custome
  of an euill thing.
  of a thing not good, is the worst.
• Humane things are
  prone, incli­ned, or turning to.
  ready to fall
  to decay.
  to corruption by nature.
• It is an euil thing, to
  couet greedily
  couet ma­ny things.
• [He is] a great king, whosoeuer, if he shall rule well.

• A friend ha­uing compassiō.
  A compassionate friend, [or a friend suffering with vs,] is
  a comfort.
  a solace in miseries.
• Prosperitie.
  Prosperous things doe make madde, and do destroy vnwa­ry [men.]
• Idleness
  belong to old age.
  is of old age, and
  ease.
  rest [is of old age.]
• Wisedome is oftentimes euen vnder
  an ill fauoured, or poore little cloke.
  a base cloke.
• Anger
  ariseth.
  is often
  for small causes.
  of most light causes.
• It is not an easie thing, to fly without
  wings, or pens.
  feathers.
• A clear, or loud crie, or a good name.
  A famous cry is
  the best dowrie.
  the houshold stuffe, [or instore] of a wo­man.
• [Page 33]
  The best wits lie hid.
  The chiefest wits doe lie oft times in a secret [place.]
• Euery one.
  Euery man
  doth like of.
  doth approue his owne study especially.
• It is wisedome, to learne of a wise man.
• The tongue ought
  to be gouerned
  to be ruled, with the chiefest care.
• They are fooles, who will not be corrected.
• All fortune is to be ouercome by bearing.
• If thou canst not [doe] what thou wilt, thou maiest will that thing which thou canst.
• An old man is
  greeuous.
  troublesome, to the company of young men.
• There is not any thing more worthy then wisedome.
• A wise man hath all
  riches.
  substance in himselfe.
• Neuer
  bewray, vtter, reueale, or be­tray.
  disclose the secrets of [thy] minde.
• It is
  a reproachfull thing.
  a dishonest thing to a wise man, to say I haue not thought.
• choise, or pic­ked as out of a flock.
  Egregious [or most excellent] vertue hath beene enuied al­wayes
  of euill men.
  to euill [men.]
• [Page]An olde man doth see many things which
  he would not.
  he will not.
• If thou shalt say what things thou wilt, thou shalt heare what things thou wilt not, [or Thou shalt heare what things thou wilt not, if thou shalt say what thou wilt.]
• Oft times all the people
  doth suffer punishment for, or satisfie for, or redeeme.
  dooth pay for [or rue] the euill deeds of an euill man.
• A foole is changed
  like as, or in like manner as.
  euen as the moone.
• Thou maiest ouercom
  oft times.
  often by patience, whom thou shalt not ouercome
  by force.
  by violence.
• Things
  not ouer­come.
  inuincible otherwise, may be
  ouercome by fight.
  ouercome [or con­quered]
  by mony alone
  by only money.
• It is better
  to remedy, or help.
  to cure the begin­nings then the end.
• The
  fight.
  battel
  of one hand a­lone.
  of a solitarie hand, is
  not valiant.
  feeble [or weak.]
• Life is
  is not pleasant.
  vnsweet [or vnpleasant] without a friendly conuictour. [or companiō to liue with vs.]
• No man doth offend
  by holding his peace, or by si­lence.
  by being silent; by speaking, very often.
• [Page 34]
  We all in com­mon.
  [We] all doe despise in [or commonly] present things.
• Euery man dis­likes his owne estate.
  It doth repent euery man of his owne lot, [or conditiō] he doth admire anothers mans [lot.]
• We are able [to do] nothing with­out
  the help of God
  the diuine help.
• God
  doth direct.
  doth lead [or guide] al­waies a like man to a like.
• Wee doe imbrace very often the worst things, for good things.
• A mind
  ouer suspicious.
  presaging [or ghessing before] ouermuch, doth feare alwaies.
• It is better
  to be silent.
  to holde the peace, then
  to vtter.
  to speake out
  things not to be spoken.
  things to be kept silent.
• The
  issue.
  euent [or end] [is] often­times vnlike to the counsell.
• the issue.
  The ende and going out of a thing, is to bee looked to al­waies.

• No time is to bee
  spent vnprofi­tably.
  passed ouer vnfruitfully.
• [Page]Such things shallbe sayd to thee,
  of what sort, or as.
  what ones thou thy selfe shalt say.
• Men
  do iudge at length.
  doe iudge then,
  when.
  where it doth repent now [or when they begin to repent.]
• Time doth bring truth to light.
• A drunken man
  when he is a­sleepe.
  sleeping is not to be stirred vp.
• Slownesse in dooing things, [is]
  hatefull.
  odious.
• Euery one.
  Euery man is had [or accoun­ted] of so great
  reckoning, or worth.
  [price]
  how much wealth he hath.
  how much he hath.
• Euery one is made such a one,
  as they with whom he is fa­miliar.
  [as] with what ones he doth [or hath] familiarity.

• Bashfulnesse is a good signe in a young man.
• Violence dooth bring forth ha­tred: hatred [doth bring forth] dissensions.
• violence.
  Force dooth profit nothing, without counsell.
• Where euery one hath his trea­sure, there also he hath his heart.
• As thou shalt speak, so thou shalt be answe­red.
  As thy speech, shal be, so it shall [Page 35] be answered vnto thee.
• The will is to be praysed often­times, where strength
  is wanting, or away.
  are wanting.
• Will and labour
  do breed, or in­uent.
  doe procreate Arts.
• A woman is
  inconstant.
  variable and muta­ble alwaies.
• A wife which hath lost chastity, hath lost all things
  withall.
  together.
• Wee learne
  the faults.
  the vices of wiues after mariages.
• Men
  are catched.
  are taken with pleasure, as fishes [are taken] with a hook.
• The onely
  place of refuge, or succour.
  refuge in pouertie is Art [or skill.]
• Prepare [thy] liuing
  from what place soeuer.
  howsoeuer▪ but not
  from vice.
  of sin, [or by wicked­ness.]
• Nature hath giuen
  a fault.
  a vice
  to euery man, or euery creature.
  to e­uery one created.
• Where any man grieueth, he hath also his hand
  in the same place.
  there.
• Our life is like a bubble
  on the water.
  in the water.
• Cheerfulness, [or pleasantness] of wine
  doth lessen.
  doth diminish
  the sorrow, or wearisomenesse.
  the grief of old age.

Holy. Sacred sentences to be taught. to be propoun­ded, to schollars. to the learned youth vpon the feast dayes, or holy dayes. in the festiuall dayes.

• We are able to doe.
  We can doe nothing with­out God.
• God doth
  strictly require
  exact the affection of the heart.
• The Lord is wont to be present
  to men in af­fliction.
  to afflicted [men.]
• All things
  hang vpon.
  doe depend of God.
• We must not respect earthly things.
  Wee must not looke back to earthly things.
• A tree is knowen
  by the fruits.
  of the fruits.
• We must be do­ing good.
  We must work well
  dayly.
  continu­ally.
• Our
  troubles, or crosses.
  aduersities [are] from God.
• Couetousness.
  Auarice
  doth cause.
  doth bring in forget­fulnes of God.
• We must adde nothing.
  Nothing is to be added to the word of God.
• All things are to bee hoped for
  from the Lord onely.
  from the Lord alone.
• The word of God being lost, all things are lost.
• [Page 36]
  The saluation.
  The health of the soule dooth depend of the word of God.
• Couetous [men]
  do laugh at.
  do deride the word of God.
• The Lord doth cast down
  proud, or pre­sumptuous men.
  bold [men.]
• Sinne is deriued from Adam to vs.
• All things which we neede.
  All things are giuen from God which we haue need of, [or do need.]
• Man
  is prone.
  is ready to vanitie by na­ture.
• Help, or suc­cour.
  Ayde is to be
  to be looked for.
  expected from the Lord.
• Auarice.
  Couetousnesse doth blind and harden the heart.
• God is the author of all works.

• The blessing of God
  doth make all things plentious.
  dooth make fruitfull all things.
• All good things are giuen
  to the beleeuer.
  to a man beleeuing.
• We are only
  stuards of our good things.
  dispensours of our goods.
• The goodnesse of God dooth
  shine bright, or appeare.
  shine out in all things.
• We must not contend.
  We must not war except neces­sity
  compelling.
  vrgeth.
• [Page]
  Men mouing warre, are oft o­uercome first.
  The first men mouing war, are ouercome oftentimes.
• Kingdoms gotten
  in warre.
  by war,
  are ouerthrown or lost.
  do perish in war.
• Good things
  do come to.
  do happen to the godly, by the grace of God.
• Good works
  do declare, or approue.
  do proue faith.
• The blessing of the Lord, dooth nourish and
  vpholde.
  sustaine
  men belieuing.
  the beleeuers.

• The knowledge of God
  brings euerla­sting life.
  [is] e­ternall life.
• All things
  are made, or do come to passe.
  are done by the counsell of God.
• All things are possible
  to a beleeuer.
  to [a man] beleeuing.
• The counsells of God are not changed.
• All good things are
  giuē, or impar­ted.
  communi­cated
  to [men] beleeuing.
  to beleeuers.
• God dwelleth in Christians.
  Christiās are the temple of God.
• Loue.
  Charity is the
  note, or mark.
  badge of belee­uers.
• Charity is
  the fulfilling.
  the fulnesse of the law.
• [
  No counsell is.
  There is] no counsell against the Lord.
• [Page 37]Carnall men doe not
  perceiue things belonging to Gods kingdom.
  see the kingdome of God.
• Sole confi­dence, or confi­dence alone is to be had in God.
  Confidence is to bee had only in God.
• [Hee] who hath Christ by faith
  that which is better then all.
  hath all things.
• Christ is
  the treasure­house.
  the treasure of al good things.
• The cross doth follow
  men confes­sing the faith.
  the con­fession of faith.
• Glory doth follow the cross, [or sufferings for Christ.]
• We must
  haue cōpassion.
  suffer together with all men.
• The cross is the
  triall, or pro­uing.
  trying of faith.
• All things are to be done, with
  a certaine.
  a sure conscience.
• Blindness is a punishment of the
  despising.
  contempt of the worde of God.
• All things are to bee done by counsell
  painfulness, or diligence.
  and industry.
• All misery.
  Euery calamity is a punishment of sins.
• Beleeuers doe commit all things to God.
• men beleeuing.
  Beleeuers in Christ haue eternal life.
• [Page]The Church is to bee
  gouerned.
  ruled by concord.
• All power is giuen to Christ.
• [
  He heareth Christ who &c.
  He] who is of the truth, doth heare Christ.
• All creatures do obey Christ.
• The kingdome of Christ shall
  continue.
  indure
  for an euerla­sting time.
  for euer.
• [There is] no worship of God without faith.
• The counsell of God is
  immutable.
  vn­changeable.
• All care [is] to be committed to God.
• Christ only, or Christ alone.
  One Christ dooth deliuer from death.
• Nothing can bee wanting
  to them that follow.
  to [men] following Christ.
• It is to be done.
  We must
  deale.
  do bountifully with our enemies.
• Greedy desire▪
  Couetousnesse of hauing, is the root of all
  euill [things]
  euils.
• It is not to be trusted to vs. pordered by God.
  We must not trust in man.
• The counsels of men are
  ordered by God.
  mode­rated from God.
• There is no remedy against death

• The wil of God is to be looked to in all things.
• [Page 38]God doth help in afflictions.
• God
  careth for vs.
  hath the care of vs.
• Nothing is to bee
  damned.
  condemned rashly.
• A reason [or an account] is
  to be giuen.
  to be rendered
  of euery idle word.
  of an idle word.
• God doth amēd vs
  by affliction.
  by the cross.
• God is
  the spring or cause.
  the fountain of al good things.
• God doth help
  his children speedily, or of a sudden.
  his suddenly.
• God alone [is] the searcher of the hearts.
• Euery thing is possible.
  Nothing is not possible, [or is impossible] to God.
• God is
  the maker.
  the builder of al things.
• God doth
  help.
  succour in time.
• Only God.
  God alone is eternal.
• God
  is knowen.
  is acknowledged by faith▪
• God [is] the hope of faithfull [men.]
• Nothing is
  secret.
  hid to God.
• All things
  are manifest.
  lie open to God.
• God doth
  guide.
  rule all things.
• Euery doctrine [is] to be
  tried.
  pro­ued.
• God
  hath set vnder.
  hath subdued all things to man.
• God doth not respect persons.
• [Page]God doth see, and doth heare all things.
• The counsells of God are
  hidden frō vs.
  hid to vs.
• Wee must obey God more then men.
• God
  hath reserued.
  hath kept all things
  for himselfe.
  to himselfe alone.
• Nothing [is] to be added to the commandements of God.
• Riches
  do come to vs, or fall out.
  do happen by the bles­sing of God.
• God dooth deliuer his,
  in the time ap­poynted.
  in his owne time.
• The rich [man] & the poor man, are made of God.
• Where God is not, there [is] no­thing.
• Mans subtlety.
  Humane subtletie
  can conceale.
  can hide God nothing, [or can hide no­thing from God.]
• God
  being an ad­uersary.
  being against vs, all crea­tures are against vs.
• God will not
  haue men.
  men to be idle.
• The couetous desire of riches
  doth draw vs from God.
  doth lead away [men] frō God.
• God doth feede and
  preserue vs.
  keepe vs
  aboue.
  beyond our care.
• [Page 39]God is
  a spirituall na­ture.
  a spirit, and
  to bee worshipped.
  to be ado­red in spirit.
• The works and counsels of God are
  not to be sear­ched out.
  vnsearchable.
• God doth re­mit sins alone, and freely.
  God alone and freely doth re­mit sins.
• God doth work all good works in vs.
• God dooth
  warne.
  admonish by his word, before he do punish.
• God doth correct, but not cast a­way his.

• A man
  exalting, or lifting vp.
  extolling himselfe shall be humbled.
• The examples of many men are not to be imitated.
  shalbe brought lowe.
• Outwarde things, or with­out a man.
  Externall things do not defile the man.
• [Those things]
  come to passe.
  fall out, not which we
  institute.
  appoint, but which
• God hath
  determined.
  decreed.
• It is blindnes to care for outward things, the inward things be­ing
  not regarded.
  neglected.
• The
  amendment.
  amending of [our] life is by the law of God.
• Foolishness [is] a punishment of drunkenness.

• [Page]Nothing is wanting
  to the faithfull.
  to faithfull men.
• The world hateth the faithfull.
• Rage.
  Fury
  doth marre.
  doth depraue the iudge­ments.
• Faith is the gift of God.
• Faith
  alone.
  onely dooth iustifie, [or make vs to stand iustified, or iust in Gods sight.]
• Faith is giuen
  without any desert.
  freely.
• God doth
  regard.
  respect faith.
• Works are the signes of faith.
• Faith maketh the sonnes of God.
• Faith is
  is tried.
  proued in aduersity.
• The death of the faithful is life.
• God cares for faithfull men.
  Faithfull [men] are a care to God.
• The faithfull
  haue enough.
  are satisfied in the time of
  hunger, or dearth.
  famine.
• Faith
  doth rest vpon.
  doth leane vpō the word of God.
• the carking care.
  The care
  of things to come.
  of future things is vnprofitable to vs.
• The faithfull doe not perish
  for lack of food.
  with hunger.
• True faith cannot be
  vnfruitfull.
  idle.
• [Page 40]
  Euery mans faith.
  The faith of euery one is know­en
  of his fruits.
  by fruits.

• Glory is to be giuen to God, not
  to our selues.
  to vs.
• God dooth heare
  the groanings, or mournings.
  the sighes of the oppressed.
• Ouermuch talk.
  Pratling is not without sin.
• Pratling is
  a signe.
  an argument of foo­lishnesse and
  of lying.
  of a lie.
• God doth promise good things by grace
  to them not yet borne.
  to [men] not yet borne.

• God doth lift vp
  the lowly.
  the humble.
• We must not
  trust in man.
  trust to man.
• All things do serue man.
• Humility doth please God.
  God will haue humility.
• The life of man is a warfare.
• Honour
  it belongs on­ly to God, or comes only from God.
  is of God alone.
• Mans inde­uours are vnpr [...] fitable without God.
  Humane indeauours are not vnprofitable.
• Humane comforts do perish.
• Man is a
  miserable, or subiect to cala­mity.
  calamitous liuing creature▪
• Man is borne
  to misery.
  to to calamity.
• [Page]Man doth receiue all things from God.
• God dooth giue his gifts
  to the humble.
  to humble [men.]
• Men are gouerned by wisedom; not by their strength.
• God
  doth bring down.
  dooth humble all high things.
• The heart of man [is]
  euill.
  wicked, of the one nature.
• Humane reason dooth not ac­knowledge God.
• Man is
  the cause of his owne misery.
  the authour of calami­ties, to his owne selfe.
• [It is] the best reuenge, to ouer­come an enemy
  by deseruing well.
  by a benefit.

• The iudgements of God are vn­searchable.
• Disobedience displeaseth God.
• It is
  dangerous.
  a perilous thing to iudge others.
• Infidelity
  doth make all things vncleane, or impure.
  doth defile all things.
• Wee must iudge after the cause knowen.
• The counsells of
  impious men.
  vngodly men do not
  prosper.
  succeed.
• vnbeleefe.
  Incredulity is the roote of all sinnes.
• [Page 41]Wicked men
  are ouer­thrown by their owne deuises.
  are consumed by their owne counsells.
• Wicked men doe contemne the gifts of God.
• [
  They who knowe not.
  Men] not knowing the law of God are accursed.
• All things are to be
  attempted, or taken in hand.
  gone vnto in the feare of God.
• It is
  a delight; or pleasure.
  a will to wicked men to hurt another mans
  good name, or credit.
  fame.
• Wee are saued in the name of Ie­sus
  alone.
  only.
• Wee must not
  be lazie, or sleepie.
  be drowsie in good works.
• What thing
  an vngodly.
  a wicked man doth feare especially,
  that thing.
  [it] dooth happen to him.
• All things
  do fall out.
  doe giue place [or turne] vnto euill to vngod­ly men.

• The liuing is to bee gotten with labour.
• God doth blesse liberall men.
• Wee must labour that wee may
  benefit, or doe good to.
  profit [our] neighbour.
• The
  mirth, gladnes, reioycing.
  ioy of iust men doth neuer perish.
• [Page]
  Plenty, or multitude.
  Store of children [is] the best gift of God.
• Longer life,
  longer misery.
  long continuing calamity.

• We must obey the Magistrate.
• There is a cer­taine time of death.
  The time of death [is] certain.
• Diseases do come from sin.
• Honour is to be
  giuen.
  exhibited to our
  el­ders, or greater.
  betters.
• Miracles are not done rashly
  from God.
  of God.
• Euill [men] are to be punished, that good [men] bee not hurt.
• The mercy of God is the begin­ning of our
  health.
  saluation.
• The mercy of God is necessary to all [men.]
• Doth not follow, or seldom
  A hard death doth follow a good life.
• [
  They who o­bey not.
  Men] not obeying wholesom admonitions do perish.
• Death hath no
  power, or au­thority.
  right vpon the beleeuers.
• An euill Magistrate is giuen to an euill people.
• Euill is not
  put away by a­ny other means.
  driuen away by an [Page 42] other meanes then by good.
• God doth vse euill [men] as in­struments.

• We must not iudge rashly.
• No euill
  will be vnpu­nished.
  [is] vnpunished.
• Nothing is worse then
  vnthankfulness.
  ingrati­tude.
• We must
  curse.
  speak euill to no man.
• No man [is] without sin.
• No man [is] innocent before God.
• No man [is] borne to himselfe
  alone.
  only.
• A iust [man] doth abuse nothing.
• Vngodly [men]
  doe not indure chastisement.
  do not beare correction.
• Nothing is more easie then
  to charge false­ly, or deceitfully.
  to accuse maliciously.
• No Prophet [is] accepted in [his owne] countrey.
• The number of the people of God [is]
  the smallest.
  the fewest.
• We can do nothing of our selues.
• Nothing is more
  pernicious.
  pestilent then euill doctrine.
• God doth not forget his.
• Nothing is more blind then the [Page] heart
  of an vngodly man.
  of a wicked man.
• God
  doth stay for, or regard.
  doth pass for [or esteem]
  no externall thing.
  no outward thing.
• Thou hast not begun well e­nough, vnless thou perseuer.

• God doth
  detest.
  curse idlenesse.
• We all are sinners.
• All the works of men [are]
  vncleane.
  vn­pure.
• The work-man [is] worthy his meate.
• A new life [is] the best repen­tance.
• The lust, or feru'ent desire.
  The concupiscence of the eyes doth deceiue.
• All our things
  are in the hands
  are put in the hand of God.
• All things are possible
  to him that be­leeueth.
  to the beleeuer.
• God doth not respect the work, but the minde.
• All things are
  built.
  made for man.
• All things are made by the word of God.
• All things are to be
  expounded, or construed to the best.
  interpreted to the better.
• Opportunity [is] to be obserued [Page 43]
  not no where.
  euery where.
• Drowsiness of praying [is]
  an euill signe.
  an euill presage.

• God doth cast down the mighty▪
• The Lord
  doth foster, or make much of.
  dooth cherish the godly.
• Sin [is] the cause of death.
• Charity
  doth not think the worst, nor spread haynous sinnes.
  doth couer sins.
• The punishment of vngodly [men] [is] eternall.
• We ought to obey our parents.
• The memory of godly [men] [is] eternall.
• God doth reuenge the poore.
• Sinnes are not
  blotted out, or abolished.
  put out by works.
• Sweet things are
  reserued.
  kept to godly men with bitter things.
• All things doe fall out
  to godly men.
  to the godly, to good.
• A good prince is giuen from the Lord.
• Sinnes are
  forgiuen.
  remitted
  by the grace.
  of the grace of God.
• God doth feede his
  most certainly.
  most sure­ly.
• [Page]It is a sinne which is without faith, or That is a sin which is without faith.]
• There is
  acceptation.
  no acception of per­sons with God.
• The hirelings wage, or hire.
  The wage is not to be deferred to the poore.
• Onely God.
  God alone doth remit sins.
• The world is gouerned by the prouidence of God.
• The mercifull God is the best in­heritance.
• A boy.
  A childe doth bring
  sustenance.
  nourish­ments, with him into the world.

• Hee who
  sueth after.
  goeth about more,
  obtaines.
  gets lesse.
• They who
  indeuour, or attempt.
  goe about great things,
  bring nothing to passe.
  effect nothing.

• The Common-wealth doth flo­rish for the godly.
• It shall bee
  giuen.
  rendered to euery one according to his deeds.
• Good counsel.
  Right admonitions doe make
  reprobate men, or cast-awayes.
  reprobates worse.
• We must vse our goods: but wee [Page 44] must not
  trust to them.
  trust [in them.]
• Reprehension let it be.
  Let reprehension bee without
  detraction, or euill surmise.
  malitious accusation.

• Olde age [is] to be
  honoured.
  reuerenced.
• God doth destroy the
  proud men.
  proud.
• Euill
  company.
  societie [is] to be shunned.
• The successe is
  of God.
  from God.
• Pride [is] the destroyer of soules.
• A
  offence, or a­ny thing wherby another taketh harme.
  scandall is not to be giuen to children.
• Wisedom doth defend; not wea­pons.
• The end of se­ditious men hath neuer bin happy.
  It hath neuer fallen out happi­ly to seditious men, [or muti­nous, or factious men louing discord.]
• No man is saued without faith in Christ.
• No man is vvise vvithout the word of God.
• Wise men
  do indure cor­rection, or take it patiently.
  do beare correction.
• Sathan cannot hurt,
  except God do giue him leaue.
  God not permitting.
• God doth make the counsells of wise men
  frustrate, or vaine.
  vaine.
• Humane wisedome [is] foolish in the things of God.

• [Page]We must be angry slowly.
• Rest, or quiet­nesse.
  Tranquillity [is] not to be
  hoped for.
  ho­ped in this life.
• Men fearing the Lord
  will liue well.
  shal liue well.
• The will of God [is] good.
• We are nourished
  by his cōmand or appointment.
  by the word of God.
• The will of the Lord [is] stable.
• The Lord doth forbid reuenge.
• The truth
  alwaies will haue.
  will haue alwaies per­secutors.
• A good wife is giuē of the Lord.
• Let euery one look to his own vocation.
  His owne vocation is to be ca­red for to euery one.
• The contempt of truth [is] the most greeuous sinne.
• It is the grea­test fortitude, to ouercom coue­tousnes, or inor­dinate desire.
  To ouercom couetousness [is] the greatest fortitude.