James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].
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PROVERBS QUOTED OR ALLUDED TO.
A bad cook that cannot lick his own fingers, vi. 190.
a little pot soon hot, v. 456.
a long spoon to eat with the devil, iv. 235.
............................ xv. 98.
a man of forty is either a fool or a physician, viii. 136.
a friend at court is worth a penny in purse, xvii. 202.
a crafty knave needs no broker, xviii. 183.
all hoods make not monks, xix. 398.
an two men ride of a horse one must ride behind, vii. 104.
as fit as Tib's rush for Tom's fore finger, x. 370.
as the bell clinketh, so the fool thinketh, vii. 79.
as true as steel, viii. 334.
at hand, quoth pick-purse, xvi. 236.
baccare, quoth Mortimer to his sow, v. 416.
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black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes, iv. 122.
blessing of your heart, you brew good ale, iv. 83.
blush like a black dog, xxi. 360.
bought and sold, viii. 285.
Brag is a good dog, but Hold-fast is a better, xvii. 323.
by chance, and not by truth, xv. 211.
something about, a little from the right, xv. 211.
in at the window, or else o'er the hatch, xv. 211.
have is have, however men do catch, xv. 211.
care killed a cat, vii. 137.
cry with the lapwing farthest from her nest, iv. 223.
cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool, x. 174.
curæ leves loquuntur ingentes stupent, x. 234.
dead as a door-nail, xvii. 225.
good goose bite not, vi. 104.
good liquor will make a cat speak, xv. 99.
good wine needs no bush, vi. 511.
happy man be his dole, viii. 135.
................... xiv. 24.
he is mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath, x. 170.
honest as the skin between his brows, vii. 102.
I know a hawk from a hand-saw, vii. 296.
I'll make a shaft, or a bolt, of it, viii. 132.
it is easy to steal a shive from a cut loaf, xxi. 289.
it is an ill wind which blows no man to good, xvii. 222
let the galled jade wince, vii. 360.
let the world slide, v. 358.
love will creep where it cannot go, iv. 99.
maids say nay, and take it, iv. 21.
more water glideth by the mill than the miller wots of, xxi. 289.
my cake is dough, v. 508.
needs must, when the devil drives, x. 336.
neither flesh, nor fish, nor good red herring, xvi. 348.
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out of God's blessing, into the warm sun, vii. 196.
patience, per force, is a medicine for a mad dog, vi. 65.
pitchers have ears, xix. 91.
praise in departing, xv. 124.
pray God my girdle break, xvi. 348.
respice finem, respice funem, iv. 238.
service is no heritage, x. 336.
sowed cockle reap no corn, iv. 392.
still swine eat all the draff, viii. 152.
tell truth and shame the devil, xvi. 307.
the cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet, xi. 82.
the devil rides on a fiddle-stick, xvi. 297.
there went but a pair of shears between them, ix. 16.
'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all, xvii. 218.
two may keep counsel, putting one away, vi. 112.
ungirt, unblest, xvi. 348.
Vineggia, Vineggia,
chi non te vede ei non te preggia, iv. 359.
walls have ears, v. 324.
wedding and ill-wintering spoil both man and beast, v. 458.
we burn day-light, vi. 49.
while the grass grows the steed starves, vii. 369.
who goes to Westminster for a wife, to St. Paul's for a man, and to Smithfield for a horse, may meet with a whore, a knave, and a jade, xvii. 27.
worth a Jew's eye, v. 55.
young ravens must have food, viii. 37.
James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].
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