Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

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

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.