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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

George Herbert

Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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King Void Years
A child correct behind and not before.
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Behind Children Correct
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Better Health People Suffer
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Fishing Jew Pot Wine
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Bee Gain May Steal
Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Haste Meet Seldom
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Bow Fish Rule Sure
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Eat Greedy Horse
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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End Lasts Particular
When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Hell Openth War
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Beare Eye Jest Religion

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

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