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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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John Heywood. (1497?–1580?) (continued)
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.1
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
All is well that endes well.2
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Of a good beginning cometh a good end.3
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Shee had seene far in a milstone.4
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Better late than never.5
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.6
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Pryde will have a fall;
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.7
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.7
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.8
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
The still sowe eats up all the draffe.9
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Ill weede growth fast.10
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Note 1.
Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.—Sir H. Sheres: Satyr on the Sea Officers. Tom Brown: Æneas Sylvius’s Letter. John Dryden: Epilogue to the Duke of Guise. [back]
Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.—Sir H. Sheres: Satyr on the Sea Officers. Tom Brown: Æneas Sylvius’s Letter. John Dryden: Epilogue to the Duke of Guise. [back]
Note 2.
Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit (If the end be well, all will be well).—Gestæ Romanorum. Tale lxvii. [back]
Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit (If the end be well, all will be well).—Gestæ Romanorum. Tale lxvii. [back]
Note 3.
Who that well his warke beginneth,
The rather a good ende he winneth.
Gower: Confessio Amantis. [back]
Who that well his warke beginneth,
The rather a good ende he winneth.
Gower: Confessio Amantis. [back]
Note 5.
Thomas Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, An Habitation Enforced. John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress. Mathew Henry: Commentaries, Matthew xxi. Murphy: The School for Guardians.
Potius sero quam nunquam (Rather late than never).—Livy: iv. ii. 11. [back]
Thomas Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, An Habitation Enforced. John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress. Mathew Henry: Commentaries, Matthew xxi. Murphy: The School for Guardians.
Potius sero quam nunquam (Rather late than never).—Livy: iv. ii. 11. [back]
Note 6.
Quant le cheval est emblé dounke ferme fols l’estable (When the horse has been stolen, the fool shuts the stable).—Les Proverbes del Vilain. [back]
Quant le cheval est emblé dounke ferme fols l’estable (When the horse has been stolen, the fool shuts the stable).—Les Proverbes del Vilain. [back]
Note 7.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.—Proverbs xvi. 18.
Pryde goeth before, and shame cometh behynde.—Treatise of a Gallant. Circa 1510. [back]
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.—Proverbs xvi. 18.
Pryde goeth before, and shame cometh behynde.—Treatise of a Gallant. Circa 1510. [back]
Note 8.
She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth.—Jonathan Swift: Polite Conversation. [back]
She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth.—Jonathan Swift: Polite Conversation. [back]
Note 9.
’T is old, but true, still swine eat all the draff.—William Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, act iv. sc. 2. [back]
’T is old, but true, still swine eat all the draff.—William Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, act iv. sc. 2. [back]
Note 10.
Ewyl weed ys sone y-growe.—MS. Harleian, circa 1490.
An ill weed grows apace.—George Chapman: An Humorous Day’s Mirth.
Great weeds do grow apace.—William Shakespeare: Richard III. act ii. sc. 4. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Coxcomb, act iv. sc. 4. [back]
Ewyl weed ys sone y-growe.—MS. Harleian, circa 1490.
An ill weed grows apace.—George Chapman: An Humorous Day’s Mirth.
Great weeds do grow apace.—William Shakespeare: Richard III. act ii. sc. 4. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Coxcomb, act iv. sc. 4. [back]