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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]

George Herbert

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT

Deception Feet Physicians
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Sea Settle
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fear God Knowledge Men Void
No Alchymy to saving.
GEORGE HERBERT

Alchymy People Save
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERT

King Loss Spring
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Sky Success
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERT

Covertly Rude Speak Truth
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fine Ill Littles Wrapt
When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mirth Needs Sin
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERT

Live Well Well
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
GEORGE HERBERT

Blame Peter Saint
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
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Honest Thieves Thunder
A child correct behind and not before.
GEORGE HERBERT

Behind Children Correct
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ill Straw
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
GEORGE HERBERT

Brest Side Squrres

Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]

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