Ill it is ill to be .............................................. 165 Ill it is to goad the foolhardy .................................. 30 Let one oak have what from the other it shaves ................... 67 Little can cope with cunning of eld .............................. 205 Long it takes to try a man ....................................... 61 Many a man lies hid within himself ............................... 203 Many a man stretches round the door to the lock .................. 86 More one knows the more one tries ................................ 30 No man makes himself ............................................. 125 Now this, now that has strokes in his garth ...................... 125 Odd haps are worst haps .......................................... 37 Oft a listening ear in the holt is anear ......................... 173 Oft fail in wisdom folk of better trust .......................... 32 Old friends are the last to sever ................................ 240 One may be apaid of a man’s aid .................................. 44 Overpraised, and first to fail ................................... 132 Sooth is the sage’s guess ........................................ 92 Swear loud and say little ........................................ 266 The lower must lowt .............................................. 267 The nigher the call, the further the man ......................... 211 Things boded will happen, so will things unboded ................. 32 Though the spoon has taken it up, yet the mouth has had no sup ... 168 Thralls wreak themselves at once, dastards never ................. 35 Thrice of yore have all things happed ............................ 262 To the goat-house for wool ....................................... 226 With hell’s man are dealings ill ................................. 176 Woe is before one’s own door when it is inside one’s neighbour’s ................................................ 105