It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.