God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.