How we apples swim.

Ray's Proverbs. Mallet, Tyburn. Swift, Brother
Protestants.

I don't see it.

Cibber, The Careless Husband, ii. 2.

Ill wind turns none to good.

Tusser, Moral Reflections on the Wind.

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
Shakespeare, Henry VI., Pt. iii. ii. 5.

Ill wind which blows no man good.

Shakespeare, Henry IV., Pt. ii. v. 3. Heywood's
Proverbs.

I name no parties.

Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit at several Weapons, ii. 3. The use of party in the sense of person occurs in the Book of Common Prayer, More's Utopia, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Fuller's A Pisgah Sight, and other old English writers.

Ignorance is the mother of devotion.

Jeremy Taylor, Letter to a person newly converted. Dryden, The Maiden Queen, i. 2. Hume, Natural History of Religion.

In spite of my [thy] teeth.

Middleton, A Trick to catch the Old One, i. 2.
Southerne, Sir Anthony Love, iii. 1. Fielding,
Eurydice Hissed. Garrick, The Country Girl,

iv. 3.

It was no chylden's game.

Pilkington, Tournament of Tottenham, 1631.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

Eastward Hoe, 1605, by Chapman, Marston, and
Jonson. Franklin, Poor Richard.

Labour for his pains.

Edward Moore, The Boy and the Rainbow. Pref ace to Don Quixote, Lockhart's ed.

Let the world slide.

Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Induc. 1.
John Heywood, Be merry, Friends. Beaumont

and Fletcher, Wit without Money.

Let us do or die.

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Island Princess, ii 4.
Burns, Bannockburn. Campbell, Gertrude.
Scott says "this expression is a kind of common
property, being the motto, we believe, of a
Scottish family." of Gertrude, Scott's
Misc. Vol. i. p. 153.

Look a gift horse in the mouth.

Rabelais, Book i. Ch. xi. Vulgaria Stambrigi, circa 1510. Butler, Hudibras, Pt. i. Canto 1. 1. 490. Also quoted by St. Jerome.

Look before you ere you leap.

Butler, Hudibras, Ft. ii. Canto 2, l. 502.

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

Heywood's Proverbs, 1546. Tottel's Miscellany, 1557. Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, Ch. 57.

Love me little, love me long.

Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.

Marlowe, Jew of

Malta, Act iv. Bacon's Formularies. Herrick,
Song.

Love me, love my dog.

Heywood's Proverbs. Chapman, Widow's Tears. This was a proverb in the time of Saint Bernard: - Dicitur certe vulgari quodam proverbio: Qui me amat, amet et canem meum.— In Festo S. Michaelis. Sermo Primus.

Lucid interval.

Bacon, Henry VII. Sidney on Government, Vol. i. Ch. ii. Sec. 24. Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine, Book iv. Ch. 2. South, Sermon, Vol. viii. p. 403. Dryden, MacFlecknoe. Johnson, Life of Lyttelton. Burke, On the French Revolution.

Nisi suadeat intervallis.

Bracton, fol. 1243, and fol. 420, b. Register Original, 267 a, 1270.

Mad as a March hare.

Skelton, Replycation against certayne Young Scholers (1520). Heywood's Proverbs.

Main chance.

Shakespeare, Henry VI, Pt. ii. i. 1. Butler,
Hudibras, Pt. ii. C. 2. Dryden, Persius, Sat. vi.

Midnight oil.

Gay, Shepherd and Philosopher. Shenstone, Elegy, xi. Cowper, Retirement. Lloyd, On Rhyme.

Mince the matter.

King (1663-1712). Ulysses and Tiresias.

Mine ease in mine inn.

Heywood's Proverbs, 1546. Shakespeare, Henry
IV., Pt. i. iii. 3.

Moon is made of green cheese.

Jack Jugler, p. 46.

Rabelais, Book i. Ch. xi.

Blacklock's Hatchet of Heresies, 1565. Butler,
Hudibras, Pt. ii. Canto 3, l. 263.

More goodness [wit] in his little finger than

you have in your whole body.

Ray's Proverbs. Swift, Mary the Cookmaid's Letter.

More the merrier.

Heywood's Proverbs. Gascoigne's Posies, 157 5.
Title of a Book of Epigrams, 1608. Beaumont
and Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, i. 1. The Sea
Voyage, i. 2.

Much water goeth by the mill,

That the miller knoweth not of.

Heywood's Proverbs, 1546. Shakespeare, Titus
Andronicus, ii. 1.

Mother-wit.

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book iv. Canto x. St. 21.
Marlowe, Prol. Tamberlaine the Great, Pt. i.
Middleton, Your Five Gallants, i. 1. Shake-
speare, Taming of the Shrew, ii. 1.

Music of the spheres.

Shakespeare, Pericles
Roaring Girl, iv. 1.

Montaigne, Essays, i. 22.
V. I. Middleton, The
Antony Brewer, iii. 7. Milton, Hymn on the
Nativity. Donne's Devotions. Webster, Duch-
ess of Malfi. Sir Thomas Browne, Relig. Med.
Pt. 2, Sec. 9. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. i. 1. 202.

Nine days' wonder..

Chaucer, Troilus and Creseide. Ascham's School

master. Heywood's Proverbs. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Noble Gentleman, iii. 4. Quarles, Emblems, Book i. viii.

No better than you should be.

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb, iv. 3.
Fielding, The Temple Beau, Sc. 3.

No love lost between us.

Middleton, The Witch, Sc. 3.

Goldsmith, She

Stoops to Conquer, Act iv. Garrick, Correspondence, 1759. Fielding, The Grub Street Opera,

i. 4.

Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.

Chaucer, Troilus and Creseide, Book ii. l. 470. Of two evils the less is always to be chosen. Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book ii. Ch. 12. Hooker's Polity, Book v. Ch. lxxxi.

Of two evils I have chose the least.

Prior, Imitation of Horace.

E duobus malis minimum eligendum.
Erasmus, Adages. Cicero, De Officiis, iii. 1.

Out of the frying-pan into the fire.

Heywood's Proverbs, 1546. Bunyan, Pilgrim's
Progress. Don Quixote, ed. Lockhart, Pt. i.
Book iii. Ch. iv.

On his last legs.

Middleton, The Old Law, v. I.

Outrun the constable.

Ray's Proverbs. Butler's Hudibras, Pt. i. Ch. iii.

7. 1145.

Paradise of fools. Fools' paradise.

Middleton, The Family of Love, i. 1. Shakespeare,
Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. Milton, Par. Lost,
Book iii. l. 496. Pope, Dunciad, Book iii.
Fielding, The Modern Husband, i. 9. Crabbe,
The Borough, Letter xii. Quevedo, Visions, iv.
L'Estrange's Trans. Murphy, All in the Wrong,
Act i.

Picked

up his crumbs.

Murphy, The Upholsterer, Act i.

Plain as a pike-staff.

Terence in English, 1641. Duke of Buckingham,
Speech in the House of Lords, 1675. Smollett,
Trans. Gil Blas, Book xii. Ch. 8.