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Selected By Mr George Herbert, Late Orator
of the Universitie of Cambridg
| (1a). Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men. (Before No. 1.) | |
| (40a). Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh. (After No. 40.) | |
| (40b). Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed. (After No. 40a.) | |
| (56a). Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of. (After No. 56.) | |
| (71a). Cities seldome change Religion only. (After No. 71.) | |
| (135a). Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest. (After No. 135.) |
[The following come after No. 1032.]
1033. Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches
1034. To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool)
1035. To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot)
1036. Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion
1037. After Death the Doctor
1038. Ready mony is a ready Medicine
1039. It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe
1040. It is a sheep of Berry, it is marked on the nose (applyed to those that have a blow)
1041. To build castles in Spain
1042. An Idle youth, a needy Age
1043. Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.
From Herbert's Remains ( 1652): separate title-page to Jacula Prudentum, worded as above and dated 1651. No proverbs are numbered in that edition. Explanations of Nos. 1034, 1035, 1040, &c., there given without brackets, are here bracketed. 1040 Berry (Fr. Berry or Berri): Beery JP 1043 Cf. No. 912
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