the maid must be still a-doing,
that hopes to see the men come awooing."

He that covers, discovers.

The poor man is scarcely looked at, while every eye is
turned upon the rich; and if the poor man grows rich and
great, then I warrant you there is work enough for your
grumblers and backbiters, who swarm everywhere like bees.

"The first time, he was brought home to us laid athwart an
ass, all battered and bruised. The second time he returned
in an ox-wagon, locked up in a cage, and so changed, poor
soul, that his own mother would not have known him; so
feeble, wan, and withered, and his eyes sunk into the
farthest corner of his brains, insomuch that it took me
above six hundred eggs to get him a little up again, as
Heaven and the world is my witness, and my hens, that will
not let me lie."

"I can easily believe that," answered the bachelor; "for
your hens are too well bred and fed to say one thing and
mean another."

All objects present to the view exist, and are impressed
upon the imagination with much greater energy and force,
than those which we only remember to have seen.

When we see any person finely dressed, and set off with rich
apparel and with a train of servants, we are moved to show
him respect; for, though we cannot but remember certain
scurvy matters either of poverty or parentage, that formerly
belonged to him, but which being long gone by are almost
forgotten, we only think of what we see before our eyes. And
if, as the preacher said, the person so raised by good luck,
from nothing, as it were, to the tip-top of prosperity, be
well behaved, generous, and civil, and gives himself no
ridiculous airs, pretending to vie with the old nobility,
take my word for it, Teresa, nobody will twit him with what
he was, but will respect him for what he is; except, indeed
the envious, who hate every man's good luck.

People are always ready enough to lend their money to
governors.

Clothe the boy so that he may look not like what he is, but
what he may be.

To this burden women are born, they must obey their husbands
if they are ever such blockheads.

He that's coy when fortune's kind, may after seek but never
find.

All knights cannot be courtiers, neither can all courtiers
be knights.

The courtier knight travels only on a map, without fatigue
or expense; he neither suffers heat nor cold, hunger nor
t