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A tear bedews my Delia's eye, From morn till dewy eve; But if you ask the reason why, She can't tell, I believe.

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. .

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Saint Martin was an easy man, he loved to drink Cerevisiam; and when he'd no Pecuniam, he left in pledge his Tunicam.

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A nail secures the horse-shoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and the castle the whole land.

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One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him.

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Saint Swithun's day, if thou be fair, for forty days it will remain; Saint Swithun's day, if thou bring rain, for forty days it will remain.

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Who knows nothing in his thirtieth year, is nothing in his fortieth, has nothing in his fiftieth; learns nothing, is nothing, and comes to nothing.

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There is nothing for which the boors pray so much to God as that the horses of the squirearchy may not die, for otherwise they would ride the boors with spurs.

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Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews, else Christians would not practise usury.

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