By thys tale ye may se that the olde prouerbe ys trew, that it is as great pyte to se a woman wepe as a gose to go barefote.
The prouerbe biddeth thus: Iudge righteously the cause of the pore and needy.
This tale touchethe them, that wolde couer a smalle offence with a greatter wyckednesse; and as the prouerbe saythe: Stomble at a strawe, and leape ouer a blocke.
Earle Richard did what he could to persuade the people to this paiment, but he cast his net in vaine before the face of the feathered foule, as the old prouerbe saith, Apparens rete fugere volucria quaeq;.
But these of this kingdome being forewarned (as ye prouerbe saith:) Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum.
Loe here once againe (gentle Reader) Munsters falsifying eccho, and (as the prouerbe saieth) his blind dreame.
Wherfore it is a comyn prouerbe that women can kepe no counceyle And accordyng therto Macrobe reherceth in the book of the dremes of Scipio.
And it is also growne into a prouerbe in the south, when anie man susteineth a great hinderance, to saie, I am beggered and all my barnes.
But as the prouerbe saith, "In trust appeared treacherie.
No man hath hurt by it but himselfe, who peraduenture will go in wider buskens than his legs will beare, or as our prouerbe saith, now and then beare a bigger saile than his boat is able to susteine.
Why then do folke this prouerbe put, The blacke oxe neare trod on thy fut,[E417] If that way were to thriue?
It is a harde thing to take a fierce Lion in hunting as they do, being in manner a naked people, and the beast couragious and strong, but yet the Prouerbe saith, slight and cunning is better than strength.
The old prouerbe is verie well parted betweene my Maister Shylocke and you sir, you haue the grace of God sir, and he hath enough Bass.
The Monkish Prouerbe is tritum: Cur moritur homo, cum saluia crescit in horto?
I shall not want false Witnesse, to condemne me, Nor store of Treasons, to augment my guilt: The ancient Prouerbe will be well effected, A Staffe is quickly found to beat a Dogge Card.
I will cap that Prouerbe with, There is flatterie in friendship Orleance.
I, but while the grasse growes, the Prouerbe is something musty.
Well plac't: there stands your friend for the Deuill: haue at the very eye of that Prouerbe with, A Pox of the Deuill Orleance.
Homer disaloweth wher many beare rule: and after the olde prouerbe of the grekes.
So that this name duke of Glocester is taken for an vnhappie stile, as the prouerbe speaketh of Seians horsse, whose rider was euer vnhorssed, & whose possessor was euer brought to miserie.
For it standeth not with their enuious nature to alter their malicious maners; as the old prouerbe saith truelie of them: Celtica natura semper sequitur sua iura.
So that as the prouerbe saythe, "all though truth be blamed, it shal neuer be shamed.
Therupon it came euer after to be vsed for a prouerbethat when any good turne commeth too late to be vsed, to cal it Diopithus reward.
A] "By thys tale ye may se that the olde prouerbe ys trew that yt is as gret pyte to se a woman wepe as a gose to go barefoote.
Why ye prouerbe booke bound up in follio, have ye no other sense to answere me but euery word a prouerbe, no other English?
A] "Daughter, in this I can thinke none other But that it is true thys prouerbe old, Hastye loue is soone hot and soone cold.
B] "For thilke verrei prouerbe befelde to him--The hound turnyde agen to his castyng, and a sowe to waischen in walewing in fenne.
Ah sirra, nowe I see truthe in the prouerbe olde, All things that shineth is not by and by pure golde, If any doe lyue a woman of honestie, I would haue sworne Christian Custance had bene shee.
Nourse medle you with your spyndle and your whirle, No haste but good, Madge Mumblecrust, for whip and whurre The olde prouerbe doth say, neuer made good furre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prouerbe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
