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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.

George Herbert

Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Medicine Mony People Ready
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Salt Smell Taste
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Children Love Smell
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Money Mony Women
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Door Enter House Leave
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Fire Soldier Water
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Mean Meditation Soul
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.]
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Men Miserable Pennies
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Lying Perish Trust
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Call Chuse Olives
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Giving Soul Sweet
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Children Father First
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.

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