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The way is an ill neighbour.

George Herbert

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

Money Mony Women
All our pompe the earth covers.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cover Earth Pompe
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
GEORGE HERBERT

First Fool Wedge
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
GEORGE HERBERT

Brabling Need
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Estate Two Wallet
Where there is peace, God is.
GEORGE HERBERT

God Life Peace
A penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERT

Payment Penny People Twice
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Husband Lover Poor
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cow Lost Tail
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bacon Chimney Think
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.]
GEORGE HERBERT

King Void Years
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
GEORGE HERBERT

Morning Night Soul
There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fame Many Way
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
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
GEORGE HERBERT

Married Men Stake
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT

Alcohol Drink Glass

The way is an ill neighbour.

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