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You must let your phlegm subdue your choler, if you would
not spoil your business.

You have good manners, but never carry them about you.
You must not cut and deal too.

You may give him good advice, but who can give him wit to
take it.

You must not expect sweet from a dunghill, nor honour from a clown.

Your looking-glass will tell you what none of your friends
will.

You may know by a penny how a shilling spends.
You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.
Your trumpeter is dead, so you sound yourself.
Your great admirers are mostly but silly fellows.
-Spanish.

You had rather go to mill than to mass.

You must cut your coat according to your cloth.
French. Selon le pain il faut le couteau.

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WOMEN, LOVE, AND WEDLOCK.

A.

A BONY bride is soon dressed, a short horse soon whisked.Scotch.

At the gate which suspicion enters, love goes out.

A maid that laughs is half taken.

A mill, a clock, and a woman, always want mending.

At weddings and funerals, friends are discerned from kinsfolk. An old man is a bed full of bones.

As the good man saith, so say we; but as the good woman saith, so it must be.

A woman and a greyhound must be small in the waist.Spanish.

A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed.

A fair woman, with foul conditions, is like a sumptuous sepulchre, full of corruption.

A buxom widow must be either married, buried, or shut up in a convent.-Spanish.

All come to delude her, but none to marry her.-Spanish.

A man may love his house well, and yet not ride on the ridge. A man may love his children and relations well, and yet not be foolishly fond and indulgent to them.

A young woman married to an old man, must behave like an old woman.

All women are good; good for something, or good for nothing. A woman is known by her walking and drinking.—Spanish.

More, I apprehend, may be known of a woman by her talking than

her "walking." The Spaniards entertain an unfavourable
opinion of ladies, who are fond of walking, especially in public
places.

A virtuous woman, though ugly, is the ornament of the house.
A jealous man's horns hang in his eyes.
An obedient wife commands her husband.
A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.

French." Un homme de paille, vaut une femme d'or."

If this proverb be meant literally, we can only say, it is a very ungallant one, especially from so gallant a nation as the French. It is an instance of what we had occasion to remark in the Introduction, that those countries the most celebrated for love and intrigue, are the most severe in their reflections on the female sex. A woman that loves to be at the window, is like a bunch of grapes on the highway.

A woman and a cherry are painted for their own harm.
A woman's work is never at an end.

A liquorish tongue, a liquorish tail.

A good wife is the workmanship of a good husband.

A true friend does sometimes venture to be offensive.

An old whore's curse is a blessing.

A woman that paints, puts up a bill that she is to be let. A woman is to be from her home three times; when she is christened, married, and buried.-Spanish.

What jealous-pated knaves these Spaniards must be! A woman had better go to a nunnery at once.

Advise no one to go to the wars, nor to marry.—Spanish.

A nice wife and a back door, do often make a rich man poor. Italian.

A man's best fortune or his worst is a wife.

A man would not be alone even in Paradise.

A husband without ability is like a house without a roof.— Spanish.

A lewd bachelor makes a jealous husband.

A groaning wife and a grunting horse never fail their master.

Scotch.

A fair woman, without virtue, is like palled wine.

A handsome courtezan is the hell of the soul, and the scourge of the purse.-Italian.

A very great beauty is either a fool, or proud.

Women of great personal charms are apt to rely too much upon them, and neglect other means of making themselves agreeable. But, according to another saying, "There is no rule without exception," and we doubt not, but there are many among our fair countrywomen.

An amorous person has never too much.-Spanish.

A barren sow was never good to pigs.-Scotch.

Applied to old maids and unfruitful wives, who, having no children of their own, deal harshly to other people's.

A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you. An enemy to beauty is a foe to Nature.

A dog's nose and a maid's knees are always cold.

An amorous old man is like a winter flower.-Spanish.
Spanish.-Viejo amador, invierno con flor.

All are good lasses; but where come the ill wives frae?-
Scotch.

A maid that taketh yieldeth.

Ital.-Donna che prende, tosto si rende.

A woman conceals what she knows not.

A lass that has many wooers oft fares the worst.-Scotch.

A man must ask his wife leave to thrive.

A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement of love.

A good occasion for courtship is, when the widow returns from the funeral.

B.

Bare walls make gadding housewives.

Beauty will buy no beef.

Beauty in women is like the flower in Spring; but virtue is like the stars of heaven.

Beauties without fortunes have sweethearts plenty, but husbands none at all.

Be a good husband, and you will soon get a penny to spend, a penny to lend, and a penny for a friend.

L

Biting and scratching is Scots' folks wooing.-Scotch.

Which answers to the Spanish saying, on the amorous dallyings of the feline race-Los amores del gato, vinendo entran :-" Cat's love begins with quarrelling."

"Their friskings, crawlings, squawl, I much approve,
Their spittings, pawings, high raised rumps,
Swell'd tails and merry-andrew jumps,

With the wild minstrelsy of rapt'rous love.

How sweetly roll their gooseberry eyes,
As loud they tune their amorous cries,

And, loving, scratch each other black and blue !"-WALCOT.

Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry.Spanish.-Italian.

Bachelors' wives and maids' children are always well taught. Better wed over the mixon than over the moor.-Cheshire. That is, at home or its vicinity, where the parties are known to each other, than far off where they are strangers: mixon is the dung and litter in the farm-yard, while the road from Chester to London is over the moorland in Staffordshire. It is a spark of provincial pride, to induce the gentry to intermarry among themselves, to prolong their own families, and perpetuate ancient friendships.

Better go away longing than loathing.

Better be half hanged than ill wed.

Beauty draws more than oxen.

Beauty is no inheritance.

Better be a cuckold and not know it, than none and every body say so.

C.

Call your husband cuckold in jest, and he'll ne'er suspect you.

Children are uncertain comforts: when little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

Chuse a wife rather by your ear, than your eye.

Commend a wedded life, but keep thyself a bachelor.

D.

Delays increase desires, and sometimes extinguish them.

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