the rod and spoyl the child.--RALPH VENNING: _Mysteries
and Revelations_ (second ed.), _p. 5. 1649._

Spare the rod and spoil the child.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, pt. ii. c.
i. l. 843._

[8-2] Rule the rost.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes, part i. chap. v._

Her that ruled the rost.--THOMAS HEYWOOD: _History of Women._

Rules the roast.--JONSON, CHAPMAN, MARSTON: _Eastward Ho, act ii.
sc. 1._ SHAKESPEARE: _2 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1._

[8-3] In spite of my teeth.--MIDDLETON: _A Trick to catch the Old
One, act i. sc. 2._ FIELDING: _Eurydice Hissed._

[8-4] He knew what 's what.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i. canto i.
line 149._

[8-5] In hope her to attain by hook or crook.--SPENSER: _Faerie
Queene, book iii. canto i. st. 17._

[8-6] It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.--HEYWOOD:
_Proverbes, part ii. chap. v._

JOHN HEYWOOD.[8-7] _Circa_ 1565.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man 's without a shirt.

_Be Merry Friends._

Let the world slide,[9-1] let the world go;
A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
If I can't pay, why I can owe,
And death makes equal the high and low.

_Be Merry Friends._

All a green willow, willow,
All a green willow is my garland.

_The Green Willow._

Haste maketh waste.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

Beware of, Had I wist.[9-2]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

Good to be merie and wise.[9-3]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

Beaten with his owne rod.[9-4]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

Look ere ye leape.[9-5]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

He that will not when he may,
When he would he shall have nay.[9-6]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

The fat is in the fire.[9-7]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

When the sunne shineth, make hay.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

When the iron is hot, strike.[10-1]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

The tide tarrieth no man.[10-2]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde.[10-3]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

And while I at length debate and beate the bush,
There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.[10-4]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.[10-5]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._