A] "My reasoning your reason setteth nought by, But reason for reason yee so stiffly lay, By proverbe for proverbe that with you doe way.
But now consider the old proverbe to be true, yt saieth that marriage is destinie.
It is a proverbe old and true, that weakest goe to th' wall, Rich men can drinke till th' sky looke blue, but poore men pay for all.
The truth it is to pride they are given all, And pride the proverbe saies must have a fall.
When Scogin had done so, in surrendring thankes to God, hee said, Now the proverbe is fulfilled, that he that worst may shall hold the Candle, for ever the weakest is thrust to the wall.
Wherefor it is sayd by a commonproverbe Jack wold be a gentilmen if he coude speke frensshe.
The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.
Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest.
By the good lorde this is a pyteous warke-- But nowe I se well the olde proverbe is treu: The parysshe preest forgetteth that ever he was clarke!
Now, sir, what proverbe have ye to deliver a letter?
And now to mynde there is one olde proverbe come, One bushell of marche dust is worth a kynges raunsome, What is a hundreth thousande bushels worth than?
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