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Found Records:
London, British Library Harley 2321
Number 656-1
1. f. 146
As long as I am rich reputed
Two couplets in a series of proverbs followed by other scattered single lines and couplets
Number 5230-3
2. f. 146
v
The cat will fish eat
A proverbial couplet
Number 2333-4
3. f. 147
I would lend but I ne dare
Verses on the Incommodities of Lending — four couplets
Number 94-1
4. f. 147
A little in the morning nothing at noon
A proverb — one couplet
Number 4481-1
5. f. 148
Riches are gotten with labor holden with fear
A moralizing couplet
Number 6468-1
6. f. 148
v
When thou hast gathered all that thou may
The inevitability of death — one couplet
Number 42-4
7. f. 149
A fools bolt / Is soon I-shotten
A proverbial couplet
Number 6521-5
8. f. 149
While the grass groweth
A proverbial saying, translating ‘
Gramen dum crescit equus in moriendo quiescit
’ — one couplet
Number 4425-1
9. f. 149
Put not in this world too much trust
On the vanity of the world — one couplet
Number 1914-1
10. f. 149
He that will with the devil eat / A long spoon must he get
A proverbial couplet (
Tilley (1950)
X
Tilley, Morris Palmer.
A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1950
, S 771)
Number 3064-1
11. f. 174
v
Let thy work thy word pass
A proverbial couplet