Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.