At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

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.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

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

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.