bray. Change of weather finds difcourfe for fools. A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt. The forrow men have for others hangs upon one hair. A wife man changes his mind, a fool never will. That day on which you marry you either mar or make yourself. God comes to fee, or look upon us, without a bell. You had better leave your enemy fomething when you die, than live to beg of your friend. That's a wife delay which makes the road fafe. Cure your fore eves only with your elbow. Let us thank God, and be content with what we have. The foot of the owner is the best manure for his land. He is my friend who grinds at my mill. Enjoy that little you have while the fool is hunting for more. Saying and doing do not dine together, Money cures all difeafes. A life ill-fpent makes a fad old age. 'Tis money that makes men lords. We talk, but God doth what he pleases. May you have good luck, my fon, and a little wit will ferve your turn. Gifts break through ftone walls. Go not to your doctor for every ail, nor to your lawyer for every quarrel, nor to your pitcher for every thirst. There is no better looking-glafs than an old true friend. A wall between both beft preferves friend. fhip. The fum of all is, to ferve God well, and to do no ill thing. The creditor always hath a better memory than the debtor. Setting down in writing is a lafting memory. Repentance always cofts very dear. Good-breeding and money make our fons gentlemen. As you ufe your father, fo your children will ufe you. There is no evil, but fome good use may be made of it. No price is great enough for good counfel. Examine not the pedigree nor patrimony of a good man. There is no ill thing in Spain but that which can speak. Praise the man whofe bread God keep me from him whom 1 truft, from him whom I trust not I fhall keep myself. Keep out of an hafty man's way for a while, out of a fullen man's all the days of your life. If you love me, John, your deeds will tell me fo. I defy all fetters, though they were made of gold. Few die of hunger, an hundred thousand of furfeits. Govern yourself by reason, though fome like it, others do not. If you would know the worth of a ducat, go and borrow one. No companion like money. A good wife is the workmanship of a good hufband. The fool fell in love with the lady's laced apron. The friar who afks for

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God's fake, afks for himself too. keeps him who takes what care he can of himself. Nothing is valuable in this world, except as it tends to the next. Smoke, raining into the house, and a talking wife, make a man run out of doors. There is no to-morrow for an afking friend. God keep me from ftill-water, from that which is rough I will keep myfelf. Take your wife's firft advice, not her fecond. Tell not what you know, judge not what you fee, and you will live in quiet. Hear reafon, or the will make herself be heard. Gifts enter every where without a wimble. A great fortune with a wife is a bed full of brambles. One pin for your purfe, and two for your mouth. There was never but one man who never did a fault. He who promifes runs into debt. He who holds his peace gathers ftones. Leave your fon a good reputation and an employment. Receive your money before you give a receipt for it, and take a receipt before you pay it. God doth the cure, and the phyfician takes the money for it. Thinking is very far from knowing the truth. Fools make great feafts, and wife men eat of them. June, July, Auguft, and Carthagena, are the four best ports of Spain. A gentle calf fucks her own mother, and four cows more (between two own brothers, two witneffes, and a notary). The devil brings a modelt man to the court. He who will have a mule without any fault, muft keep none. The wolves eat the poor afs that hath many owners. Vifit your aunt, but not every day in the year. In an hundred years time princes are pealants, and in an hundred and ten peafants grow princes. The poor cat is whipped because our dame will not spin. Leave your jeft whilft you are most pleased with it. Whither goest thou, grief? Where I am used to go. Leave a dog and a great talker in the middle of the street. Never truft a man whom you have injured. The laws go on the king's errands. Parents love indeed, others only talk of it. Three helping one another will do as much as fix men fingle. She fpins well who breeds her children well. not do better for your daughter than to breed her virtuously, nor for your fon than to fit him for an employment. Lock your door, that fo you may keep your neighbour honeft. Civil obliging lan guage costs but little, and doth a great deal of good. One "Take it" is better than two" Thou shalt have it." Prayers and provender

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I would live quietly in the world, I hear, and fee, and fay nothing. Meddle not between two brothers, The dead and the abfent have no friends left them. Who is the true gentleman, or nobleman? He whofe actions make him fo. Do well to whom you will; do any man harm, and look to yourself. Good courage breaks ill luck to pieces, Great poverty is no fault or baseness, but fome inconvenience. The heard-hearted man gives more than he who has nothing at all. Let us not fall out, to give the devil a dinner. Truths too fine pun are fubtle fooleries. If you would always have money, keep it when you have it. I fufpe&t that ill in others which I know by myself. Sly knavery is too hard for honeft wifdom." He who refolves to amend hath God on his fide. Hell is crowded up with ungrateful wretches. Think of yourself, and let me alone. He can never enjoy himself one day who fears he may die at night. He who hath done ill once, will do it again. No evil happens to us but what may do us good. If I have broken my leg, who knows but 'tis best for me. The more honour we have, the more we thirst after it. If you would be pope, you must think of nothing elfe. Make the night night, and the day day, and you will be merry and wife. He who eats mot eats leaft. If you would live in health be old betimes. I will go warm, and let fools laugh on. Chufe your wife on a Saturday, not on a Sunday. Drinking water neither makes a man fick nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. No pottage is good without bacon, no fermon without St. Auguftin. Have many acquaintance, and but a few friends. A wondrous fair woman is not all her hufban's own. He who marries a widow, will have a dead man's head often thrown in his dish. Away goes the devil when he finds the door fhut against him. 'Tis great courage to fuffer, and great wisdom to hear patiently. Doing what I ought fecures me against all cenfures. I wept when I was born, and every day fhews why. Experience and wisdom are the two beft fortune-tellers. The best foldier comes

from the plough. Wine wears no breeches, The hole in the wall invites the thief. A wife man doth not hang his wifdom on a peg. A man's love and his belief are seen by what he does. A covetous man makes a half-penny of a farthing, and a liberal man makes fix-pence of it. In December keep yourself warm and fleep. He who will revenge every affront, means not to live long. Keep your money, niggard, live miferably that your heir may fquander it away. In war, hunting, and love, you have a thoufand forrows for every joy or pleasure. Honour and profit will not keep both in one fack. The anger of brothers is the anger of devils. A mule and a woman do best by fair means. A very great beauty is either a fool or proud. Look upon a picture and a battle at a good distance. A great deal is ill wafted, and a little would do as well, An eftate well got is fpent, and that which is ill got deftroys its mafter too. That which is bought cheap is the deareft. 'Tis more trouble to do ill than to do well. The husband must not see, and the wife must be blind. While the tall maid is ftooping the little one hath fwept the house. Neither fo fair as to kill, nor fo ugly as to fright a man. May no greater ill befal you than to have many children, and but a little bread for them. Let nothing affright you but fin. I am no river, but can go back when there is reafon for it. Do not make me kifs, and you will not make me fin. Vain-glory is a flower which never comes to fruit, The abfent are always in the fault. A great good was never got with a little pains. Sloth is the key to let in beggary. I left him I knew, for him who was highly praised, and I found reafon to repent it. Do not fay I will never drink of this water, however dirty it is. He who trifles away his time, perceives not death which ftands upon his fhoulders. He who fpits against heaven, it falls upon his face. He who ftumbles, and falls not, mends his pace. He who is fick of folly recovers late or never. He who hath a mouth of his own fhould not bid another man blow. He who hath no ill fortune is tired out with good. He who depends wholly upon another's providing for him, hath but an ill breakfaft, and a worfe fupper. A cheerful look, and forgiveness, is the best revenge of an affront. The request of a grandee is a kind of force upon a man. I am always for the frongeft fide. If folly

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were pain, we fhould have great crying out in every house. Serve a great man, and you will know what forrow is. Make no abfolute promifes, for nobody will help you to perform them. Every man is a fool in another man's opinion. Wisdom comes after a long courfe of years. Good fortune comes to him who takes care to get her. They have a fig at Rome for him who refufes any thing that is given him. One love drives out another. Kings go as far as they are able, not fo far as they defire to go. So play fools-I mult love you, and you love fomebody elfe. He who thinks what he is to do, muft think what he fhould fay too. A mifchief may happen which will do me (or make me) good. Threatened men eat bread ftill, i. e. Get but a good name and you may lie in bed. Truth is the child of God. He who hath an ill cause, let him fell it cheap. A wife man never fays, I did not think of that. Refpect a good man that he may refpe&t you, and be civil to an ill man that he may not affront you. A wife man only knows when to change his mind. The wife's counsel is not worth much, but he who takes it not is a fool. When two friends have a common purfe, one fings and the other weeps. I loft my reputation by fpeaking ill of others, and being worfe fpoken of. He who loves you will make you weep, and he who hates you may make you laugh. Good deeds live and flourish when all other things are at an end. At the end of life La Gloria is fung. By yielding you make all your friends; but if you will tell all the truth you know, you will have your head broke. Since you know every thing, and I know nothing, pray tell me what I dreamed this morning. Your lookingglafs will tell you what none of your friends will. The clown was angry, and he paid dear for it. If you are vexed or angry you will have two troubles inftead of one. The last year was ever better than the prefent. That wound that was never given is best cured of any other. Afflictions teach much, but they are a hard cruel mafter. Improve rather by other men's errors, than find fault with them. Since you can bear with your own, bear with other men's failings too. Men lay out all their understanding in ftudying to know one another, and fo no man knows himself. The applaufe of the mob or multitude is but a poor comfort. Truths and rofes have thorns about them. He loves you better

who ftrives to make you good, than he who ftrives to pleafe you. You know not what may happen, is the hope of fools. Sleep makes every man as great and rich as the greatest. Follow, but do not run after good fortune. Anger is the weaknefs of the understanding. Great pofts and offices are like ivy on the wall, which makes it look fine, but ruins it. Make no great hafte to be angry; for if there be occafion, you will have time enough for it. Riches, which all applaud, the owner feels the weight or care of. A competency leaves you wholly at your difpofal. Riches make men worfe in their latter days. He is the only rich man who understands the ufe of wealth. He is a great fool who fquanders rather than doth good with his eftate. To heap fresh kindneffes upon ungrateful men, is the wifeft, but withal the moft cruel revenge. The fool's pleasures coft him very dear. Contempt of a man is the fharpeft reproof. Wit without difcretion is a fword in the hand of a fool. Other virtues without prudence are a blind beauty. Neither enquire after, nor hear of, nor take notice of the faults of others when you fee them. Years pafs not over men's heads for nothing. An halter will fooner come without taking any care about it than a canonry. If all afles wore packfaddles, what a good trade would the packfaddlers have. The ufual forms of civility oblige no man. There is no more faithful nor pleasant friend than a good book. He who loves to employ himself well can never want fomething to do. A thousand things are well forgot for peace and quietnefs fake. A wife man avoids all occafions of being angry. A wile man aims at nothing which is out of his reach. Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. A good man hath ever good luck. No pleafure is a better pennyworth than that which virtue yields. No old age is agreeable but that of a wife man. A man's wisdom is no where more feen than in his marrying himself. Folly and anger are but two names for the fame thing. Fortune knocks once at leaft at every one's door. The father's virtue is the best inheritance a child can have. No fenfual pleasure ever lasted so much as for a whole hour. Riches and virtue do not often keep one another company. Ruling one's anger well, is not fo good as preventing it. The moft ufeful learning in the world is that which teaches us how to die well. The best men come worse out of company

company than they went into it. The mot mixed or allayed joy is that men take in their children. Find money and marriage to rid yourfelf of an ill daughter. There is no better advice than to look always at the flue of things. Compare your griefs with other men's, and they will feem less. Owe money to be paid at Eatter, and Lent will feem fhort to you. He who only returns home, doth not run away. He can do nothing well who is at enmity with his God. Many avoid others because they fee not and know not themfelves. God is always opening his hand to us. Let us be friends, and put out the devil's eye. 'Tis true there are many very good wives, but they are under ground. Talking very much, and lying, are coufin-germans. With all your learning be fure to know yourself. One error breeds twenty more. I will never jeft with my eye nor with my religion. Do what you have to do just now, and leave it not for to-morrow: Ill tongues fhould have a pair of fciflors. Huge long hair, and very little brains. Speak little, hear much, and you will feldom be much out. Give me a virtuous woman, and I will make her a fine woman. He who trufts nobody is never deceived. Drink water like an ox, wine like a king of Spain. I am not forry that my fon lofes his money, but that he will have his revenge, and play on fill. My mother bid me be confident, but lay no wagers. A good fire is one half of a man's life. Covetoufnels breaks the fack; i. e. lofes a great deal. That meat relishes beft which cofts a man nothing. The afs bears his load, but not an over-load. He who cats his cock alone, mut catch his horfe fo too. He who makes more of you than he used to do, either would cheat you or needs you. He that would avoid the fin, must avoid the occafion of it. Keep yourself from the anger of a great man, from a tumult of the mob, from fools in a narrow way, from a man that is marked, from a widow that hath been thrice married, from wind that comes in at a hole, and from a reconciled enemy. One ounce of mirth is worth more than ten thousand weight of melancholy. A contented mind is a great gift of God. He that would cheat the devil must rife early in the morning. Every fool is in love with his own bauble. Every ill man will have an ill time. Keep your fword between you and the ftrength of a clown. Be ye laft to go over a deep

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river. He who hath a handsome wife, or a castle on the frontier, or a vineyard near the high way, never wants a quarrel. Never deceive your phyfician, your confeffor, nor your lawyer. Make a bridge of filver for a flying enemy. Never truff him whom you have wronged. Seek for good, and be ready for evil. What you can do alone by yourself, expect not from another. Idlenefs in youth makes way for a painful and miferable old age. He who pretends to be every body's particular friend is nobody's. Confider well before you tie that knot you never can undo. Neither praise nor difpraise any before you know them. A prodigal fon fucceeds a covetous father. He is fool enough himfelf who will bray against another afs. Though o'd and wife, yet ftill advise. Happy is he that mends of himself, without the help of others. A wife man knows his own ignorance, a fool thinks he knows every thing. What you eat yourfelf never gains you a friend. Great houfe-keeping makes but a poor will. Fair words and foul decds deceive wife men as well as fools. Eating too well at firft makes men eat ill afterwards. him fpeak who received, let the giver hold his peace. An houfe built by a man's father, and a vineyard planted by his grandfather. A dapple-grey horfe will die fooner than tire. No woman is ugly when he is dreffed. The best remedy against an evil man is to to keep at a good diftance from him. A man's folly is seen by his finging, his playing, and riding full fpeed. Buying a thing too dear is no bounty. Buy at a fair, and fell at home. Keep aloof from all quarrels, be neither a witness nor party. God doth us more and more good every hour of our lives. An ill blow, or an ill word, is all you will get from a fool. He who lies long in bed his eftate pays for it. Confider well of a bufinefs, and difpatch it quickly. He who hath children hath neither kindred nor friends. May I have a difpute with a wife man, if with any. He who hath loft fhame is loft to all virtue. Being in love brings no reputation to any man, but vexation to all. Giving to the poor leffens no man's ftore. He who is idle is always wanting fomewhat. Evil comes to us by ells, and goes away by inches. He whofe houfe is tiled with glafs must not throw ftones at his neighbour's. The man is fire, the woman tow, and the devil comes to blow the coals. He who doth not look

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forward, finds himself behind other men. The love of God prevails for ever, all other things come to nothing. He who is to give an account of himself and others, must know both himself and them. A man's love and his faith appear by his works or deeds. In all contention put a bridle upon your tongue. In a great froft a nail is worth a horfe. I went a fool to the court, and came back an afs. Keep money when you are young, that you may have it when you are old. Speak but little, and to the purpofe, and you will país for fomebody. If you do evil, expect to fuffer evil. Sell cheap, and you will fell as much as four others. An ill child is better fick than well. He who rifes early in the morning hath fomew hat in his head. The gallows will have its own at last. A lie hath no legs. Women, wind, and fortune, are ever changing. Fools and wilful men make the lawyers great. Never fign a writing till you have read it, nor drink water till you have feen it. Neither is any barber dumb, nor any fongfter very wife. Neither give to all, nor contend with fools. Do no il, and fear no harm. He doth fomething who fets his houfe on fire; he fcares away the rats, and warms himself. I fell nothing on truft till to-morrow. Written over the hop-doors.] The common people pardon no fault in any man. The fidler of the fame town never plays well at their feaft. Either rich, or hanged in the attempt. The feaft is over, but here is the fool fill. To divide as brothers ufe to do: that which is mine is all my own, that which is yours I go halves in. There will be no money got by lofing your time. He will foon be a loft man himself who keeps fuch men company. By courtefies done to the meanest men, you get much more than you can lofe. Trouble not yourself about news, it will foon grow ftale and you will have it. That which is well faid, is faid foon enough. When the devil goes to his prayers he means to cheat you. When you meet with a fool, pretend bufinefs to get rid of him. Sell him for an afs at a fair, who talks much and knows little. He who buys and fells doth not feel what he fpends. He who ploughs his land, and breeds cattle, fpins gold. He who will venture nothing must never get on horfeback. He who goes far from home for a wife, either means to cheat, or will be cheated. He who fows his land, trufts in God. He who leaves the great road

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for a by-path, thinks to fave ground, and he lofes it. He who ferves the public obliges nobody. He who keeps his first innocency efcapes a thousand fins. who abandons his poor kindred, God forfakes him. He who is not handfome at twenty, nor ftrong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wife at fifty, will never be handfome, ftrong, rich, nor wife. He who refolves on the fudden, repents at leifure. He who rifes late lofes his prayers, and provides not well for his houfe. He who peeps through a hole may fee what will vex him. He who amends his faults puts himself under God's protection. He who loves well fees things at a distance. He who hath fervants hath enemies which he cannot well be without. He who pays his debts begins to make a flock. He who gives all before he dies will need a great deal of patience. He who faid nothing had the better of it, and had what he defired. He who fleeps much gets but little learning. He who fins like a fool, like a fool goes to hell. If you would have your bufinefs well done, do it yourself. 'Tis the wife man only who is content with what he hath. Delay is odious, but it makes things more fure. He is always fafe who knows himfelf well. A good wife by obeying commands in her turn. Not to have a mind to do well, and to put it off at the prefent, are much the fame. Italy to be born in, France to live in, and Spain to die in. He lofes the good of his afflictions who is not the better for them. "Tis the most dangerous vice which looks like virtue. 'Tis great wildom to forget all the injuries we may receive. Profperity is the thing in the world we ought to trust the leaft. Experience without learning does more good than learning without experience. Virtue is the best patrimony for children to inherit. 'Tis much more painful to live ill than to live well. An hearty good-will never wants time to fhew itfelf. To have done well obliges us to do fo ftill. He hath a great opinion of himfelf who makes no comparison with others. He only is rich enough who hath all that he defires. The belt way of inftruction is to practise that which we teach others. 'Tis but a little narrow foul which earthly things can pleafe. The reafon why parents love the younger children beft, is because they have fo little hopes that the elder will do well. The dearest child of all is that which is dead. He who is about to marry should confider

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