"I am right sorry for your heavinesse."

Troilus and Creseide. Book v. Line 146.

"Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!"

Troilus and Creseide. Book v. Line 1798.

"Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse."

The Court of Love. Line 178.

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering."

The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1.

"For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe, Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere; And out of old bookes, in good faithe, Cometh al this new science that men lere."

The Assembly of Fowles. Line 22.

"Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord."

The Assembly of Fowles. Line 379.

"O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?"

The Flower and the Leaf. Line 59.

"Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun."

Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 41.

"That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all."

Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 183.

"For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away."

The Ten Commandments of Love.

"Man proposes, but God disposes."

Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 19.

"And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind."

Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 23.

"Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen."

Imitation of Christ. Book iii. Chap. 12.

"Moche Crye and no Wull."

De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Chap. x.

"Comparisons are odious."

De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Chap. xix.

"There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God, Than from theyr children to spare the rod."

Magnyfycence. Line 1954.

"He ruleth all the roste."

Why Come ye not to Courte. Line 198.

"In the spight of his teeth."

Colyn Cloute. Line 939.

"He knew what is what."

Colyn Cloute. Line 1106.

"By hoke ne by croke."

Colyn Cloute. Line 1240.

"The wolfe from the dore."

Colyn Cloute. Line 1531.

"Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest."

Poems against Garnesche.

"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, 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."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.

"Good to be merie and wise."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.

"Beaten with his owne rod."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.

"Look ere ye leape."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.

"He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"The fat is in the fire."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"When the sunne shineth, make hay."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"When the iron is hot, strike."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"The tide tarrieth no man."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde."

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."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"So many heads so many wits."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"Happy man, happy dole."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

"God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

"Like will to like."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

"When the skie falth we shall have Larkes."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

"More frayd then hurt."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

"Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

"Nothing is impossible to a willing hart."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

"The wise man sayth, store is no sore."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

"Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne."

Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.