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It is better to have wings then hornes.

George Herbert

Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Medicine Mony People Ready
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Needle Past People Thread
A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Better None People Servant
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Fool Hour Wit
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 Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Broken Ill Look Ustom
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Fear God Knowledge Men Void
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Fish Morsel Take
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Gentle Heart Love
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Little Own Patient
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Fire Soldier Water
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Dog Fire Nut
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow

It is better to have wings then hornes.

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