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Epigrams upon Proverbs cxxviii: Measure is a mery meane. / Which fylde with noppy drynke. / When mery drynkers drynke of cleane; / Then merely they wynke.at nappy (ale), n.
Epigrams upon Proverbs cxxviii: Measure is a mery meane. / Which fylde with noppy drynke. / When mery drynkers drynke of cleane; / Then merely they wynke. Epigrams upon Proverbs (3rd hundred) cxxviii: Measure is a mery meane, / But inche, foote, yarde, or ell: / Those measures are not worth a beane / They measure no drynke well.at not worth a bean (adj.) under bean, n.1
Epigrams upon Proverbs cxliii: Stumble at a strawe, and leape over a blocke, / Such stumblers are blockheads, or else they do mocke.at blockhead, n.1
Epigrams upon Proverbs xliiii: Thy hande is on thy halfpeny, and must John: / For thou hast no more coyne to set thy hande on.at coin, n.
Epigrams upon Proverbs xii: All shall be well, Jacke shall have Gyll: / May, nay Gyll is wedded to Wyll.at have, v.
Epigrams upon Proverbs cxlix: Thy heare growth through thy whood, is thi whood torne, / Or doth thy heare perse through thy whood, lyke a horne.at horn, n.1
Epigrams upon Proverbs clix: There be mo maydes then Malkin, thou sayst truth Jone, But how may we be sure, that Malkyn is one.at joan, n.
Epigrams upon Proverbs clix: There be mo maydes then Malkin, thou sayst truth Jone, / But how may we be sure, that Malkyn is one.at malkin, n.
Epigrams upon Proverbs (3rd hundred) xvii: Mum is counsel in every man we see / But mum except, nothynge is councell in thee.at mum, n.1
Epigrams upon Proverbs xci: Nede maketh th’olde wyfe trot: is she a trotter now? / Gallop yonge wyves, shal th’olde trot, out trot you?.at trot (out), v.
Epigrams upon Proverbs cliii: Thou art a benche whystler, a shryll whystlyng wenche; / But how long hast thou whystled in the kynges benche, / I have whystled in the kynges benche (Gefrey) / As longe as thou hast marcht, in the Marshalsey.at whistling shop, n.
Epigrams upon Proverbs (third hundred) xcvi: The smeller of smellers then, thou art even hee.at smeller, n.
Epigrams upon Proverbs lvi: Thou art at an ebbe in Newgate, thou hast wrong. / But thou shalt be a flote at Tyburne ere long.at Tyburn, n.
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