t.--RABELAIS: _book ii. chap. xxxi._
WEBSTER: _Westward Hoe._ _Tom A'Lincolne._ FARQUHAR: _The Beaux'
Stratagem, iv. 1._

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Hoist up saile while gale doth last,
Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

ROBERT SOUTHWELL: _St. Peter's Complaint. 1595._

Nae man can tether time or tide.--BURNS: _Tam O' Shanter._

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Fast bind, fast find;
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.

SHAKESPEARE: _Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5._

Also in _Jests of Scogin. 1565._

[10-4] It is this proverb which Henry V. is reported to have
uttered at the siege of Orleans. "Shall I beat the bush and
another take the bird?" said King Henry.

[10-5] Entre deux arcouns chet cul a terre (Between two stools one
sits on the ground).--_Les Proverbes del Vilain, MS. Bodleian.
Circa 1303._

S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre (One falls to the
ground in trying to sit on two stools).--RABELAIS: _book i. chap.
ii._

[10-6] As many men, so many minds.--TERENCE: _Phormio, ii. 3._

As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.--QUEEN
ELIZABETH: _Godly Meditacyon of the Christian Sowle. 1548._

So many men so many mindes.--GASCOIGNE: _Glass of Government._

[10-7] Hanging and wiving go by destiny.--_The Schole-hous for
Women. 1541._ SHAKESPEARE: _Merchant of Venice, act 2. sc. 9._

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in
heaven.--BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 2, mem. 5,
subs. 5._

[11-1] Happy man be his dole--SHAKESPEARE: _Merry Wives, act iii.
sc. 4_; _Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2_. BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i.
canto iii. line 168._

[11-2] Si les nues tomboyent esperoyt prendre les alouettes (If
the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks).--RABELAIS: _book i.
chap. xi._

[11-3] To cast beyond the moon, is a phrase in frequent use by the
old writers. LYLY: _Euphues, p. 78._ THOMAS HEYWOOD: _A Woman
Killed with Kindness._

[11-4] Let the world slide.--SHAKESPEARE: _Taming of the Shrew,
ind. 1_; and, Let the world slip, _ind. 2_.

[11-5] Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?--SHAKESPEARE: _1
Henry IV. act iii. sc. 2._

[11-6] See Skelton, page 8. SHAKESPEARE: _2 Henry VI. act i. sc.
1._ THOMAS HEYWOOD: _History of Women._

[11-7] Hold their noses to the grindstone.--MIDDLETON: _Blurt,
Master-Constable, act iii. sc. 3._

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