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Part 6

1831. WOOL SELLERS. Wool sellers know wool buyers.

1832. WORD. An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

1833. WORDS.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

1834. WORDS.

Words are but sands, 'Tis money buys lands.

1835. WORDS.

Sometimes words Wound more than swords.

1836. WORDS. Words are like weights, gravity gives them effect.

1837. WORDS. Words are for women, actions for men.

1838. WORDS AND BLOWS.

Words are but wind, But blows unkind.

1839. WORD (ENOUGH). A word is enough to the wise.

1840. WORDS (EVENING). Words spoken in an evening the wind carrieth away.

1841. WORDS (FAIR). Fair words butter no parsnips.

1842. WORDS (FAIR). Fair words will not keep a cat from starving.

1843. WORDS (FEW). Few words are best.

1844. WORDS (GOOD). Good words cool more than cold water.

1845. WORDS (GOOD). Good words fill not a sack.

1846. WORDS (MANY). Many words will not fill a bushel.

1847. WORDS (SOFT). Soft words hurt not the mouth.

1848. WORK. They that will not work in heat, must hunger in frost.

1849. WORKMEN (BAD). Bad workmen always complain of their tools.

1850. WORLD. One half of the world knows not how the other half lives.

1851. WORLD. The world is his who knows how to wait for it.

1852. WORLD. The world was never so dull but if one won't another will.

1853. WORLD. This world is nothing except it tend to the next.

1854. WORLD'S PULSE. There needs a long time to know the world's pulse.

1855. WORM. Tread on a worm and it will turn.

1856. WORST. When things get to the worst, they'll mend.

1857. WORST SPOKE. The worst spoke in the cart-wheel breaks first.

1858. WOULD.

"He that wolde not when he might, He shall not when he wold-a."

1859. WOUNDS. Wounds may heal, but not those made by ill words.

1860. WRANGLERS. Wranglers never want words.

1861. WRATH. A soft answer turneth away wrath.

1862. WRESTLE. He that is thrown would ever wrestle.

1863. WRETCH. He who maketh others wretched is himself a wretch, whether prince or peasant.

1864. WRONGS. Two wrongs will not make a right.

1865. WRONG SOW. To take the wrong sow by the ear.

1866. YEAR. Say no ill of the year till it is passed.

1867. YEARS. Years know more than books.

1868. YES AND NO.

Between a woman's yes and no, There is not room for a pin to go.

1869. YORKSHIRE. Yorkshire fashion--every man pay his share.

1870. YOUNG. Old young, and old long.

1871. YOURSELF. Help yourself and your friends will like you.

1872. YOURSELF. If you want a thing done, do it yourself.

1873. YOUTH. A growing youth hath a wolf in his stomach.

1874. YOUTH.

If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save.

1875. YOUTH. Youth and white paper take any impression.

1876. YOUTH. Youth will have its swing.

1877. YULE. Yule is good on Yule even.

1878. ZEAL. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

1879. ZEAL. Zeal without knowledge is frenzy.

1880. ZEAL. Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

INDEX

OF PRINCIPAL WORDS.

_The Subject Words of the Dictionary are not repeated here._

_Word_ _No._

Ability--gentility 668

Abroad--beef 460

Abundance--money 1099

Accuser 735

Acorn--October 1167

Acquittance 614

Acquaintances 571

Actions 1282

Actions for men 1837

Advantage 628

Adversity--friends 645

Adversity tries 1301

Affairs--others 1305

Affairs of men 1616

Afraid--cowardice 342

Afternoon--fair 1104

Age--rueful 1342

Age--save 1390

Age--youth 1874

Agrees worse 1302

Air--castles 206

Alloy--joy 874

Almanacks 330

Alone--better 54

Amends--angry 32

Angry man 827

Another's table 1577

Answer--fool 603

Appetite 475

Apple--rotten 1372

April--rainy 1052

Architect 625

Argument--fact 528

Argument--wager 1709

Arm--bone in 143

Armour--hog 790

Ash 454

Asleep--sorrow 1475

Ass--head 765

Ass--mere 1403

Ass-ride 1361

Autumn 48

Bachelors 1039

Back--the 169

Bacon--father's 241

Bad clothes--truth 1673

Bad company 84

Bad excuse 516

Bad sack 1378

Baggage--riches 1360

Bait--fishes' mouth 589

Bait--wind 1783

Bake--brew 164

Bankrupt--beggar 95

Bare--spare 1483

Barefoot 392

Bargain--bad 113

Bark at--thieves 1594

Barks--old dog 1175

Barley--St. David's 1382

Barrel--knock 798

Bartholomew--St. 420

Basket--one 478

Bat--blind 132

Battle--afraid 12

Battle--colours 291

Battle--hard 498

Beast--nature 1133

Beauty--fancy 546

Bed--early to 463

Bed--supperless 1562

Bed-fellows 796

Bed-fellows--poverty 1279

Beef--buys 86

Bees--turned 1679

Beg--poor 1358

Beggar--quarrel 1322

Beggars--bite 1810

Beggars--eat birds 1808

Beggars--ride 1809

Beggars--wishes 1807

Beggar's purse 1302

Beggary 837

Bellows--windmill 1791

Besom--sweep 1570

Best day--Wednesday 1094

Better--good 699

Bide--wishes 1809

Bill--bites 336

Bind--fast 551

Bind--sure 1564

Bird--best 1211

Birdcall 587

Bird--catch 1386

Bird--early 465

Bird--fairest 361

Bird--old 223

Bird--roost 1366

Bird--sing 1442

Birds--little 970

Birds of prey 1291

Bite--bark 442

Bite best--fish 1784

Bite--beggars 1810

Bite--fish 1782

Bite--own dog 1203

Biters--barkers 71

Bitter--sweet 829

Bitter thing 1535

Blackamore 1722

Blackberries 1262

Blame--bidden 118

Blame--pity 1251

Blamed--truth 1674

Blessing--God 1693

Blind--will 1773

Blind horse--mettle 1074

Blind horse--wink 1799

Blind--love 1001

Blossom--timely 1627

Blow--felled 1165

Blow--first 578

Blow--second 1410

Blows--unkind 1838

Blows--wind 1787

Boast--great 140

Body--think 1598

Bond--honest man's 1832

Bone--bred 162

Bone--tongue 1636

Bones--buys 23

Book--author 50

Books--years 1867

Born--stable 1514

Born--wept 1754

Borrow--contented 313

Borrowing 1477

Bosom--snake 1462

Bottle--milk 1076

Bottom--bare 1483

Bottom--fish 584

Bottom--spare 1484

Bottom--tub 505

Bought wit 1812

Brain--idle 832

Brains--mob 1091

Branch--roost 1366

Brave--the 624

Bray--vicar of 1703

Bread--buttered 182

Bread--dry 460

Bread, no 737

Bread--eaten 623

Bread--snow 544

Breakfast 801

Breath--mother's 1112

Bride--sun 745

Brim--spare 1484

Broken at last 1250

Broken--promises 1299

Broken staff 1667

Broom--furze 660

Broth--cooks 1506

Brusher's--critics 354

Bud--nip 1150

Build--flit 1213

Build houses 613

Build--pull down 1310

Built--Rome 1369

Bung-holes 1393

Buried--rich 1140

Burneth--gown 581

Bush--beats 122

Bush--bird 120

Bush--wine 1795

Bushel--corn 1058

Business 503

Butter--cheese 1075

Butter--parsnips 1465

Butter-cakes 1810

Buttock 63

Buy--houses 613

Buyers--wool 1831

Cable--mouse 1620

Cake--good 375

Calendar 396

Calends 866

Calf--bad 339

Calm--storm 1540

Calm sea--pilot 1244

Calms--vows 1708

Calves--fat 229

Camel's back 919

Camels--gnats 682

Candle--devil 417

Candle-stick 195

Candle--sport 1509

Candlemas--wind 1785

Care--coin 287

Care--court 329

Care--goods 974

Care--kill 214

Care--sings 1444

Cares--children 248

Cart--creaks 350

Cart-wheel 1857

Castle--house 489

Cat--care 201

Cat--fair words 1842

Cat--mercy 1067

Cat--old 1173

Cat--scalded 1401

Cats--muffled 1123

Catch bird 1386

Caught--thief 1592

Certainty 227

Chance--main 226

Change mind 1083

Change of weather 1741

Chapel of devotion 225

Chastening 317

Cheap--pity 1251

Cheapest--best 111

Cheeriman--Doctor 1240

Cheese--butter 1075

Cheese--chalk 224

Chickens--count 324

Chickens--crumbs 366

Chickens--curses 371

Chickens--picking 244

Child--nurse 893

Child--train 239

Children--devil's 1013

Children--maid's 52

Children--twice 1182

Chimneys 1466

Chin--swim 1572

Chip--stock 1533

Choice--the 53

Choosers--beggars 97

Christened 687

Churchyard--fat 729

Churchyard--May 810

City--pity 1252

Civility 1117

Clasp--one hand 1189

Clay--St. David's 1382

Clergy--wit 1114

Clerk--clock 268

Cloak--religion 1350

Cloth--ale 22

Cloth--coat 278

Clothes--critics 354

Cloud--pryeth 1306

Clouting--sack 1378

Clown--doctor 437

Clown--title 1628

Coat--gay 279

Cock--crows 778

Cock's stride 1680

Coin--own 1217

Cold--soon 1468

Cold water--words 1844

Colour--horse 805

Colours--treatise 135

Colt--ragged 1328

Companion--pocket 1229

Companions 1372

Company--bad 84

Company--fit 938

Comfort 908

Comforts 248

Common life 1304

Complain--workmen 1849

Confession 305

Confidence 1311

Confine--tongue 1634

Conjure down 1335

Conquer--kindness 889

Conscience--clear 307

Conscience--guilty 735

Conscience--stomach 1536

Constant dropping 1739

Contempt 542

Contention 1578

Cook--lazy 828

Cooks--broth 1506

Cooks--devil 685

Cook-shop 1520

Cool--good words 1844

Corn--April 36

Corn--buy 369

Corn--May 1053

Corn--measure 1058

Corn-bin 207

Corpse--rain 745

Cottages--love 1003

Cough--dry 461

Cough--hid 779

Cough--love 1008

Counsel--fool 604

Counsel--glass 677

Counsel--good 702

Counsellor--best 1243

Country--rich 1365

Courage 852

Courts--love 1003

Cow gives water 74

Cow--keep 1076

Cow--kissed 962

Cow--sell 369

Cow's horn 181

Cozen--cousin 334

Craft's master 1043

Craves 410

Crosses--Thursday 1094

Crown 357

Crows--cock 1174

Crows--hen 363

Cruel--cowards 341

Crumb--musician 1127

Crust--cat 211

Cry--never 1531

Cure--care 200

Cure--prevention 1290

Cut--nose 1503

Cuts--short 1431

Cuts--tongue 1637

Daintiness 820

Dance--chance 227

Danger--debt 401

Dangerous--delays 405

Dark night 918

Daughter--little 969

Daughter--son 1467

Day--longest 994

Daylight--truth 1671

Dead--speak 1488

Dear--wit 1816

Dearth--wet 49

Death--cough 461

Death--taxes 221

Death's blossoms 730

Death's feast--war 1715

Debt--sorrow 1471

Debt--supperless 1562

Deceit--brimmer 166

Deceit--smooth 1353

December--thunder 1613

Deed--better 116

Deed--will 1771

Deeds--words 713

Deeds--words 1833

Delays--desires 409

Depth--out of 406

Depth--out of 1573

Deserve--success 1556

Desire--deserve 408

Despair--hope 800

Desperate cures 379

Devil--chapel 256

Devil--colours 291

Devil--cooks 685

Devil--horseback 98

Devil--imp 1580

Devil--knife 944

Devil--quote 1327

Devil--truth 1672

Devil's chaplain 1716

Devil's delight 365

Devil's luck 1013

Devotion--short 822

Die--love 1006

Diet--Doctor 1240

Digests--cheese 233

Dines late 1577

Dinner--waits 1711

Discretion--valour 1697

Disparagement 530

Dispraise 1282

Distress--company 296

Divine--forgive 496

Doctor--death 399

Doctor--pay 177

Doctor--truth 1675

Dog--bone 142

Dog--Brag 153, 154, 155

Dog--foremost 619

Dog--hanging 1732

Dog--hare 787

Dog--keep 70

Dog--killing 744

Dog--living 986

Dog--sleeping 1451

Dogs--dainty 384

Dogs--little 748

Dog's tooth 1668

Doing--saying 1396

Donkey's gallop 1433

Door--poverty 1277

Doors--housekeeper 815

Dowry--great 723

Drawer's--wine 1794

Dream--courtship 333

Drink--ale 22

Drink by measure 474

Drink--eat 473

Drink--horse 808

Drinking--appetite 475

Drive--plough 1265

Drive--women 1349

Dropping--constant 308

Drowned--born 145

Drowned--wilful 1769

Drowned--wine 1792

Dry--ever 456

Dry--well 1729

Due--devil 414

Dull boy 1257

Dunghill 285

Dust--bushel 1029

Eagles--carcase 198

Eagle's eye--surgeon 1565

Ease--honour 796

Ease--itch 863

Ease--sufferance 1558

East--rain 1329

East--too far 1644

East wind--fish 1782

East wind--man 1786

Easter--white 253

Easter day 1330

Easy chair--frugality 654

Ebb--tide 1617

Eel--hide 477

Eel--sack 780

Eggs--reason 1339

Eggs--sluts 34

Egg-shell--wit 1813

Elbow-grease 481

Ell--inch 853

End--day 994

Ends--both 190

End well 103

Enemy--faults 558

Enemy--shoots 1428

Enemy--wine 1797

England--famine 545

Englishman--house 208

Englishman--mist 1406

Enough--ask 42

Enough--word 1839

Escutcheon 137

Estate--trade 1647

Evasions--crafty 347

Evening--red 501

Evenings--clear 275

Everything--place 1254

Evil--bear 82

Evil--good 698

Evil name 510

Evil--old age 1171

Evil--root 839

Exception--rule 1374

Experience--caution 220

Extravagance 1492

Eye--picture, mind 1081

Eyes--fields 576

Eyes--hedges 775

Face--painting 1061

Face--wind 1504

Faces--fair 533

Faces--two 1683

Fair day--praise 1284

Fairest rose 1371

Fair lady 529

Fair weather 1332

Faith--tale-bearers 1579

Fall--pride 1293

Fall--sit still 1445

Fall--standing 1517

Fast bind 551

Fast-day 100

Fast--St. Stephen 1383

Fasting 314

Father--children 249

Father--like 963

Fat--windfalls 1790

Fault--amends 304

Fault-menders 555

Fault--woo 1827

Faults--search 1707

Favour--kissing 894

Fear--cruelty 364

Feast--enough 490

Feather--birds of a 123

Feathers--fine 563

Feet--light 1775

Feet--slip 1452

Feet--warm 1721

Feet--wet 217

Fellowship 1278

Fiction--truth 1670

Fiddle 940

Fiddlers--sing 1443

Fifer--pay 573

Fifer play--fiddle 574

Fight--flourish 599

Fighting 1208

Filth--pools 1518

Find--seek 1413

Find--sure 1564

Fingers--thorns 1606

Fire--burnt child 172

Fire--frying-pan 656

Fire--hot 727

Fire--house 1144

Fire--quench 1323

Fire--ships 1425

Fire--slow 1021

Fire--smoke 1461

Fire--sticks 1526

Fire--zeal 1878

Fires--straight 356

Firmness 536

First--be not 1146

First sight 876

Five pounds 1320

Five--up at 593

Fish--all 1145

Fish--bite 1782

Fish bite best 1784

Fish--cat 217

Fish--small--venture 1700

Fish--small 1458

Fish--troubled waters 1660

Fishes--mute 1129

Fishing--best 402

Flail--November 1161

Flatter 313

Flattereth 7

Fleas--catching 756

Flies--hungry 825

Flies--large 929

Flies--law 928

Flint--coldest 290

Flock--infects 1399

Flood--fortune 1616

Flour--fancy 548

Flower--patience 1214

Flowers--May 38

Flowers in May 1746

Fodder--barley 74

Fodder--morning 1196

Folk--poor, pottage 1269

Folk--poor 1268

Folly--wealth 1736

Folly--wisdom 1804

Folly--wit is 1815

Folly--zeal 1880

Fool--beggar 94

Fool--bet 115

Fool--demands 1119

Fool--fifteen 1022

Fool--land 917

Fool--money 1100

Fool overtakes 1201

Fool--play 1258

Fool--scholar 1042

Fool's argument 1709

Fools--feasts 562

Fools--fiddlers 1443

Fools--harms 751

Fools--market 1032

Fools--merry 243

Fools--mistress 519

Fools--old 1178

Fools--tie 902

Fools--truth 242

Fools--wise 1702

Foot--bare 66

Foot--shoe 1426

Forbear 81

Forearmed 620

Forehead--mind 1081

Forelock--time 1619

Foresee--hazards 952

Forget--apt to 1298

Forget--forego 618

Forget--forgive 622

Forget wrong 1356

Forgotten--seen 1414

Forgotten vows 1708

Fortune--face 527

Fortune--good 424

Fortunes--manners 1025

Fortune--riches 1360

Fortune--pipes 381

Fortune--tide 1616

Fortune--wife 1761

Foul heart 534

Four pounds 1320

Fox--grapes 1479

Foxes--old 1179

Fray--blow 1410

Free--spend 1496

Free--thoughts 1608

Frenzy--zeal 1879

Friday--losses 1094

Friday--Sunday 639

Friday--sing 638

Friend--court 328

Friend--faults 558

Friend--in need 1138

Friend--jest 868

Friend--leave 1018

Friend--lend 943

Friend--trifle 1658

Friend--try 1676

Friend--wine 1797

Friends--adversity 6

Friends--few 891

Friends--long 1345

Friends--old 1180

Friends--packing 700

Friends--poverty 1274

Friends--prosperity 1301

Friends--purse 659

Friends--store 686

Friends--trade 1649

Friendship--window 1277

Frost--hail 736

Frost--work 1848

Frosts--May 1089

Frugality 855

Fruit--flowers 598

Fruit--forbidden 615

Fruit--September 1418

Fruit--tree 1654

Gain--little 1205

Gain--pain 1204

Gamesters 1516

Gander--sauce 1388

Garments 146

Garner--dearth 395

Gate--creaking 349

Gate--stile 1527

Gent--title 1628

Gentleman--coat 279

Gentleness--wife 831

Giblets--alms 28

Gladness--sadness 1381

Go--send 443

God--blessing 1693

God--charity 230

God--church 256

God--church 257

God--flax 594

God--for all 504

God--friend 643

God--healeth 768

God--inches 854

God--rich 1358

God--spender 1497

God--tempers 1430

God--trust in 1666

God disposes 1023

God will send 1495

Gold--balance 60

Gold--butter 178

Gold--fetters 570

Gold--glitters 681

Gold--lead 670

Gold--spins 909

Goodness--idleness 838

Goods--care 974

Goose--alms 28

Goose--barefoot 1745

Goose--lay 1695

Goose--sauce 1388

Goose--woman 1033

Govern--thinkers 1600

Grandeur--utility 1694

Grapes--fox 1479

Grass--rain 1330

Grave--sleeping 1450

Grave--teeth 1586

Gravity--words 1836

Grief--time 1623

Griefs--marriage 1035

Grin--bachelors 51

Grinds--lower millstone 1079

Groat a year 1247

Groat--penny 1227

Groat--threepence 1610

Ground--stools 1538

Hadland--title 1628

Hair--split 1505

Half done 104

Half of world 1850

Hand--bird 120

Hand--left 1362

Hands--master's 1049

Hands--pair 777

Hand to hand 1373

Handmaid of virtue 1093

Hang--thief 1591

Hanged--almost 27

Hanged--drowned 145

Hanged--half 738

Hanging--destiny 411

Hanging--dog 1732

Hardest work 1157

Hard upon hard 1537

Hare--breakfast 160

Hare--dog 787

Hare--run 811

Harm--music 1126

Harm--silence 1437

Harmony--sweetest 669

Harvest--August 47

Harvest--good 704

Haste--marry 1038

Haste--waste 1547

Hat--head 764

Hat--two faces 1683

Hatch--own egg 121

Hatched--chickens 237

Hatchet--tree falls 539

Hawk--hand-saw 740

Hay--April 36

Hay, corn and 1053

Hay--Easter 1330

Hay--load 91

Hay--needle 1139

Hay--doomsday 444

Hazards 952

Head--warm 1721

Head--wax 1730

Heads--two 1684

Heads differ 771

Heal--thyself 1239

Heal--wounds 1859

Health--mother of 1276

Health--Tuesday 1094

Health--wealth 1764

Hearsays 526

Heart--burst 731

Heart--grieve 525

Heart, mother's 1113

Heart--break 802

Heart--merry 1068

Heart--rues 523

Heart sick 799

Hearts ache 51

Hearts--true 572

Heat, work in 1848

Heaven--ladders 360

Heaven--lawyers 932

Heaven--marriages 1036

Heaven--time 1409

Heaven's gate 692

Hedge--neighbour 1141

Hedge--steal 1523

Heir--land 916

Hell--paved 861

Hen--moult 283

Hen crows 363

Highway--grass 721

Hill--valley 1696

Hills--clouds 273

Hind--bier 194

Hinges--gate 349

Hog--October 1167

Hold--plough 1265

Holdfast 153

Hold fast nothing 1645

Home--charity 231

Home--fool 1258

Home--muddles 1122

Home--wife 707

Home--wife--cheat 1760

Homer 1152

Honest--just 881

Honest--thunder 1614

Honest man 346

Honest man's word 1832

Honesty--age 14

Honesty--best 898

Honesty--craft 1046

Honey--bees 92

Honeycomb 1535

Honourable--old age 15

Hope--certainty 222

Hope--life 956

Horn--April 36

Horn--pig's tail 1242

Hornets--laws 928

Horse--blind 1799

Horse--born 1514

Horse--colt 1328

Horse--gift 671

Horse--passion 1212

Horse--steal 1523

Horse--stumbles 1553

Horse--tail 765

Horse--thinks 1599

Horse--want of 1713

Horse--willing 1777

Horseback--agues 19

Horseback--beggars 98

Horse-manger 545

Horse's heel 1668

Horses--wishes 1807

Host--guest 734

Host--reckons 1343

Hot--love 1009

Hot--soon--cold 1468

Hot--soon--pot 1272

Hot--strike 1548

Hounds 180

Hour--lose 1108

Hour's sleep 1449

House--fine 1144

House--thatched 1590

House--well-ordered 1752

Houses--women 680

Human--err 496

Humble--noble 1151

Hunger--work 1848

Hungry--sweet 1535

Hunters--horn 804

Hunting--trouble 1714

Hurt--afraid 13

Hurt--cry 367

Hurt--healed 767

Husband--good 1763

Husbands--roam 1122

Ill--do 1155

Ill--doing 1160

Ill fortune 1034

Ill-luck 1014

Ill-taught 1691

Ill wed 738

Ill words--wounds 1859

Imp--devil 1580

Impression--youth 1875

Inheritance 87

Ink and pen 1225

Inscription 358

Instinct--woman's 860

Invention 1136

Iron--strike 1548

Iron Age 694

Jack of all trades 1651

Jack--play 1257

James--Saint 803

Janiveer--grass 719

Jest--true word 1663

Jest not 856

Jewel--woman 386

Jill--Jack 865

Job--patient 1216

Job--poor 1267

Joys 1035

July--bees 91

June--corn 316

June--dripping 462

June--weather 188

Justice--clerk 262

Kernel 344

Kettle--black 1273

Keys of the year 35

Kill--dog 1732

Kindred--poor 1268

Kindred--trade 1649

King--cat 210

King's guard 1554

King's horses 46

King's ransom 1029

Kingdom 318

Kisses--stolen 1534

Kitchen--dinner 426

Kitchen--fat 895

Kitten--laps 1173

Knife--devil 944

Knight--strongest 73

Knowledge--decreaseth 797

Knowledge--folly 1880

Knowledge--frenzy 1879

Knowledge--zeal 1878

Labour--seek 1413

Lack--love 1000

Lad--unhappy 1687

Ladder--crosses 359

Ladders--step 912

Lade--nutshell 1164

Ladle--sceptre 1402

Lady's hand--surgeon 1565

Lamb--hung 819

Land--money 1286

Land--little 976

Lands--words 1834

Lane--long 992

Larks--lovers 1010

Last--cobbler 281

Last, be not 1146

Laugh--hearts ache 51

Law--costly 17

Law--necessity 1134

Law--possession 1271

Law--trouble 1714

Laws--lords 996

Law breakers 927

Lawyer--hide 781

Lawyer--truth 1675

Lawyer--young 438

Lazy--long 531

Lead--balance 60

Lead--butter 178

Lead--gold 670

Leaf--grave 651

Lean--sorrow 1472

Leap--look 989

Leaves--tree 1654

Leeks--lovers 1010

Leisure 833

Lenders--bad 1498

Lent--salmon 1385

Liberty--marries 1037

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Life--end 1499

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Light heart 1319

Light suppers 1563

Light work 1026

Lightning--wit 1811

Liking--life 955

Link--think 1598

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Lion, dead--dog 986

Lion's heart--surgeon 1565

Liquors--weak 977

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Little--loud 531

Little strokes 1549

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Lives, nine 214

Lives on wit 1817

Load--willing horse 1777

Lock--gold 693

Loft--fruit 1418

Logs 356

London--news 326

Long lives--suppers 1563

Longest--short cuts 1431

Lordship 569

Lose--substance 1420

Lose all 717

Lose last 1780

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Lost--occasion 1166

Lost all 1121

Loud--little 531

Love--faith 536

Love--lordship 569

Love--quietness 1325

Love rules 1375

Love--self 1416

Love, subjects' 1554

Loves--dearly 1235

Loves not 1491

Luck, ill 847

Luck--Saturday 1094

Lurch--friend 1018

Madness 676

Mahomet 1116

Maid--children 52

Maid--honest 707

Maids--dun 1027

Maladies--much 1059

Man--head 763

Manners--good 506

Manners--meat 1060

March--April 37

March--bridge 565

March--frosts 650

March--mists 1089

March--windy 1052

March grass 718

Mare to go 1102

Market--fool 1258

Market--rate 1030

Married--needy 1140

Married, newly 1766

Marries--son 388

Marry--bad 1040

Marry--match 1044

Master--fire 580

Master--marry 1044

Master--purse 1314

Master--trades 1651

Master-blow 1354

Master-craft 346

Master-craft 1046

Masters, good 1419

Master's--wine 1794

Maxim--good 705

May and April 35

May--beautiful 1052

May--bees 91

May--cold 1053

May--corn 316

May--frosts 650

May--frosts--mists 1089

May--hot 810

May--marry 1040

May--merry 1073

May--shear 1423

May--sows 1481

May--sun 1027

May--weather 866

May--welcome 1746

May--wind 1785

May flood 597

May flowers 38

Meal--little 158

Meal--mill 1077

Measure--strife 1546

Meat--ale 22

Meat--best 343

Meat--cooks 685

Meat--merry 1070

Meat--mouths 1118

Meat--quick 1324

Meat--sweet 1389

Meddling 476

Meet--old friends 1180

Memories 352

Memory--liar 945

Memory--wolves 1821

Men, old 422

Men--reins 1349

Mend--worst 1856

Mice--cat's away 209

Mice--catch 213

Mile--miss 1088

Mill--grind 732

Mills--clouds 273

Mind--picture 1081

Mind--sight 1436

Mind--speech 1493

Mind--think 1598

Mind--wit 1811

Minds, little--soured 977

Minds--little things 978

Minds--light 1459

Minister--hide 781

Minute too late 1641

Misfortune--watch 1725

Mist--Scotch 1406

Mole 39

Mole-hill 1115

Monday--Christmas 255

Money buys land 1834

Money--land 1286

Money--ready 1336

Money--spots 1511

Money--trade 1650

Monk--devil 419

More--much 1121

Moon 106

Morning, bit in the 128

Morning--cloudy 457

Morning, cloudy--moon 1104

Morning--fodder 1196

Morning--grey 501

Morning--law 925

Morning--study 1550

Mornings--cloudy 275

Mortals--success 1556

Moss--stone 1367

Mote--self-love 1416

Mother--daughter 389

Mother--little 969

Mother--necessity 1136

Mother--poverty 1454

Mother of money 1650

Mother's blessing 240

Mouse--cable 1620

Mouse--cat sees 212

Mouse--cat winketh 215

Mouse--drowned 455

Mouse--one hole 1190

Mouse--plough 1263

Mouth--close 269

Mouth--fishes' 589

Mouth--melt 179

Mouth--spoon 1441

Mow--early 464

Muck--riches 1359

Mud--beans 78

Mud--clear 261

Mushroom 560

Nag 297

Nail--door 391

Nail--second 452

Nail--want of 1713

Name, good--life 1132

Name, good--riches 1130

Neighbour--evil 931

Nest--defile 842

Nettle--dock 436

Newcastle 205

News--country 326

Night--good 55

Night--law 925

Night--stumble 1551

Nine days' wonder 1826

Ninepence 1149

Nine points 1271

Nineteen--twenty 1681

No--woman's 1868

Nod--wink 1799

Noland--title 1628

Note--music 1127

Nothing--cheese 234

Nothing--children 246

Nothing--promise 1296

North--wind 1781

Nose--off 1503

Nothing--venture 1699

Nut--crack 344

Nut--sound 1478

Nuts--sluts 34

Oak 454

Oaks--great 1549

Oats 867

Oats--St. David's 1382

Oats--wild 1767

Obey 149

Office--Jack 864

Oil, in fire 1323

Old--learn 937

Old--long 1870

Old--needy 835

Old--spare 1485

Old age 654

Old block 251

Old men--woo 1827

Old praise 1285

Old saws 1040

Old sore 1185

Old tree 1351

Old wife 1137

Old wine 1181

Old young 1870

Order 1347

Ornament--silence 1439

Ounce--mischief 1086

"Our Father" 258

Overcome 487

Owl--lantern 918

Ox--drink 450

Ox--steal 1521

Oxen--plough 1264

Pack--own 1224

Pack--small 1223

Padlock--wedlock 1743

Pain--pride 1292

Pains--gains 661

Pains--idle 834

Pains--lazy folk 933

Paint--faces 533

Painting--face 1061

Pair--couple 327

Paradise 488

Pardons--offender 1169

Parleys--valour 1698

Parsnips--fair words 1841

Parsnips--soft words 1465

Passions--absence 1

Pasture--change of 229

Pater-noster--churches 258

Path--puddle 1307

Patrimony--diligence 423

Paul--Peter 1238

Pause--bargain 69

Pay--sorrow 1471

Pay--too dear 1756

Pay--Yorkshire 1869

Peace--war 1717

Peace--wisdom 1802

Peas--like 961

Peasant--wretch 1863

Peck--of ashes 41

Pence--care of 202

Penny--companion 298

Penny--for friend 830

Penny--shilling 1500

Perform--quick 1297

Peter--Paul 1238

Philosopher's stone 310

Physic--ague 18

Physic--plague 907

Physic--temperance 1587

Physician--defy 567

Physician--fool 606

Physician--hide 781

Physician--thanks 768

Picture--speech 1493

Pie-crusts 1299

Pig--child's 241

Pig's tail--horn 1242

Pilot--calm sea 187

Pin--steal 1522

Pinch--friend 1337

Pinches--shoe 1427

Pitchers--ears 466

Pitied--envied 493

Place--sit in 1253

Places--two 1685

Plaister--patience 1215

Plant--removed 1352

Play--cards 199

Pleasure--tax 431

Pleasure--woo 1827

Plentiful--pity 1251

Plenty--peace 1802

Poison--weed 127

Poke--pig 183

Policy--honesty 793

Poor--beg 1358

Poor--giving to 675

Poor--honour 795

Poor man's table 1576

Pope--would be 1270

Pot--ladle 911

Pot--watched 1727

Pottage--other's 1400

Pottage--poor 1269

Pottage--prettiness 1288

Pottage--sluts 1457

Pottle--hay 1139

Pound foolish 1232

Pound--in for 1230

Pound--mischief 1086

Pounds--care of 202

Pounds--pence 1226

Pours--rains 1334

Poverty--debt 400

Poverty--sloth 1454

Powder--trust 1666

Power--knowledge 904

Praise--self 1417

Precept--example 514

Prickles--thistles 1601

Pride--ingratitude 857

Prince--sword 1575

Prince--wretch 1863

Privilege--folly 1736

Prize--wife 1765

Profit--pains 1206

Promises--pity 1251

Prosperity--friends 645

Prosperity--gold 690

Proud--black and 531

Proud--cock 285

Provender--carry 807

Provident--harvests 704

Puddings--dirty 384

Pudding--end 486

Pudding--proof 1300

Pulse--world's 1854

Purse--ask thy 43

Purse--courtesy 331

Purse--empty 484

Purse--fills 1170

Purse--heavy 960

Purse--little 968

Purse--no money 1103

Purse--penny 1228

Quarrels--tools 1642

Quart--neighbour 1142

Quick--markets 1718

Quick--perform 1297

Quiet--Doctor 1240

R--oysters 1202

Rain--Candlemas 192

Rain--corpse 745

Raven--starling 129

Reason--bluster 139

Reason--will 1773

Reasoning--man's 860

Rebellion--oppression 1194

Reckoning--feast 561

Reckonings--short 1432

Repent--marry 1038

Repent--trust 1665

Repentance--late 309

Rest--rain 1331

Revenge--best 621

Reversion--kingdom 318

Reward--desert 407

Ribs--birchen twigs 119

Rich--adversity 5

Rich--die 1266

Rich--fifty 741

Rich--lucky 1015

Rich--shame 795

Riches--children 245

Riches--name 1130

Rider--lost 1713

Rider--time 1625

Right--two wrongs 1864

Rise--early to 463

Rise at five 1612

Road--companion 297

Roast--small 140

Roast beef 460

Roasting--eggs 1339

Robbery--exchange 515

Robs Peter 1238

Rock--ruled by 1370

Rogues--laws 930

Rolling stone 1367

Roost--curses 371

Roots--crooked 1543

Rope enough 1591

Ropes--sand 1387

Rose--thorn 1603

Roses--thorns 1605

Ruins--youth 1099

Ruins of folly 1804

Rules--woman 1348

Runs--stumbles 1551

Rushes--good words 713

Saddle--colt 292

Sail--Friday 640

Sail--sea 1407

Salt--advice 8

Salt of life 173

Sands--words 1834

Satins--kitchen 897

Saturday--no luck 1094

Saturday--wife 1759

Sauce--hunger 824

Save--spend 1494

Save--youth 1874

Saved--penny 1231

Saving--alchemy 21

Sawyers--top 1646

Sayings--thrifty 1611

Scarce--good men 1188

Scholar--mere 1403

Scholar--fool 1042

Scripture--quote 1327

Sea--calm 187

Sea--fish 588

Sea--lade 1164

Sea--luck 1012

Sea--pray 1287

Second nature 1692

Second thoughts 1607

Seed, good 512

Seen--seldom 1414

Send--go 443

Send--sigh 1435

Sermon--salmon 1385

Servants, good 1419

Seven--rise at 1612

Seven years 228

Shadow--crooked 355

Shadow--light 958

Shadow--sunshine 1561

Shame--devil 1672

Shame--pride 1294

Shave--hand-saw 739

Shaven--bald head 61

Sheep--buy 369

Sheep--hung 819

Sheep--scabbed 1399

Sheep--shear 1423

Sheep--shorn 1430

Shells--eggs 23

Shilling--slow 1149

Shilling--spends 1500

Ship--crazy 348

Ship--great 726

Ship--leak 936

Ship--own 197

Ship--sail 1384

Ship--stocks 877

Ship--tar 1507

Ships--November 1161

Shipwreck--complain 300

Shirt, ragged 1256

Shoe, finest 1426

Shoe fits 592

Shoe pinches 1248

Shoe, want of 1713

Shot--bolt 612

Shovel--silver 935

Shower--drops 453

Sick--devil 419

Sickness--devotion 225

Silent--man 1528

Silent--speak 1487

Silver--butter 178

Silver lining--cloud 271

Silver--white 1440

Sing--birds 1291

Sing--can 124

Sing--say 1395

Sings--Friday 638

Sin, none without 1312

Sin--sorrow 1473

Sink--leak 936

Sit--awhile 425

Sit--lowly 1011

Sit still 1445

Skin deep--beauty 88

Slander--confession 303

Slave--secret 1411

Sleep on it 1243

Sloe-tree--barley 72

Sloth--harms 910

Sloven 1457

Slow--promise 1297

Sluts, eat after 34

Smack--pepper 1233

Smell--kitchen 896

Snow--bread 544

Snow--lies 193

Snow--water 141

Soberness--conceals 459

Soft answer 1861

Soft upon soft 1537

Solomon--wife 1765

Son--like 963

Son--marries 388

Sore eye--elbow 480

Sore--store 1541

Sores--patience 1215

Sorrow--joy 875

Sorrow--lies 870

Sorrow--mirth 1084

Sorrow--time 1624

Sorrows--less 427

Soul--cleansed 317

Souls--large 972

Sour--sauce 871

Sour--sweet 1571

Sow--wrong 1865

Sow's ear--purse 1315

Spain--wine 450

Spaniel--beaten 85

Speak little 1597

Speak once--think 1596

Speak--purse 658

Speak--spare 1486

Speak--think 1595

Speak--well 1489

Speakers--dead 1241

Speed--worse 753

Spend--old 1485

Spend--spare 1486

Spending--bung-hole 1393

Spiders' webs--laws 929

Spigot--saving 1393

Spirits--raise 1335

Spite--nose 1503

Spoon--silver 1441

Spring--swallow 1567

Spur--free horse 1513

Spur--horse 806

Stable door 988

Stable door 1524

Staff--dog 83

Staggerer--lame 914

Starling--raven 129

Steed starves 720

Steed--stolen 988

Steel--tongue 1637

Steeple--bell 108

Sting you--snake 1462

Stink--bear 250

Stinking fish 1531

Stocking 167

Stolen--steed 1524

Stone--dropping 308

Stone--blood 136

Stone--rugged 1373

Stool--guest 733

Stool, own--guest 1476

Stoop for pin 1245

Storms--vows 1708

Story--re-telling 1355

Straw--drowning 449

Straw--last 919

Strength, woman's 1822

Strong--thirty 741

Strife--poverty 1275

Substance 1420

Sudden falls 265

Summer--chimneys 1466

Summer--good 1800

Summer--swallow 1566

Sun--bride 745

Sun--clouds 272

Sun--hay 762

Sun--light 959

Sun--morning 1109

Sun riseth 325

Sunday--Friday 639

Sunday--weep 638

Sunday--wife 1759

Sundays--two 1686

Sun shines--moon 1106

Sunshine--stars 1519

Supper, after 425

Supper--hope 801

Supperless--bed 1562

Sure card 307

Surely--softly 1464

Sweet--taste 1583

Sweetest water 1753

Swim--depth 406

Swine--pearls 1221

Swine--turned 1679

Swing--youth 1876

Swords--words 1835

Tail--salt 1386

Tale--tell 394

Talk--good 696

Talk--nurse 1163

Talks--tongue 1638

Tame Shrew 1434

Tame--wedding 1742

Tar--ship 1507

Tarry--tide 1622

Taste--kitchen 896

Tax--disease 431

Taxes--death 221

Teaching--child 161