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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

George Herbert

Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ill Straw
An old dog barks not in vain.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bark Dog Vain
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERT

Need Patience Speak
Better never begin than never make an end.
GEORGE HERBERT

End Laziness Speaker
The life of man is a winter way.
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Way Winter
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Affection Brain Heat
Never was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERT

Create Faire Strumpet
All that shakes falles not.
GEORGE HERBERT

People Shakefall
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Miserable Pennies
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Morsel Own
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
GEORGE HERBERT

Assurance Master Pay
Music helps not the toothache.
GEORGE HERBERT

Help Music Toothache
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Eye Lose
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Flame Light
Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Cost Dear

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

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