item: #1 of 6 id: A03057 author: Herbert, George, 1593-1633. title: Outlandish proverbs, selected by Mr. G.H. date: 1640 words: 10413 flesch: 103 summary: The gentle Hawke , halfe mans her selfe . An old wise mans shaddow , is better then a young buzzards sword . keywords: bee; day; doth; faire; foole; god; goe; good; hath; head; hee; himselfe; house; ill; knowes; love; man; men; text cache: A03057.xml plain text: A03057.txt item: #2 of 6 id: A15606 author: Herbert, George, 1592-1637. title: Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses date: 1640 words: 42344 flesch: 95 summary: Creta doth love her husband wondro●s well , It needs no proof , for every one can tell : So strong 's her love , tha● if I not mist ake , Yet Virgill for his strain was counted great , And Ovid for his love was bannished quite ; No marvell then if c●ur●ezie grow cold , When hare is prais'd and love it self control'd . keywords: age; bed; bee; body; child; court; day; death; doe; doth; dy'd; dye; e're; earth; ere; eyes; face; faire; fly; foole; fortune; friend; god; goe; good; grave; great; hand; hast; hath; head; heart; hee; himselfe; house; ill; law; leave; let; life; lives; love; lyes; man; master; men; new; night; praise; quoth; reason; shee; sir; strange; thee; things; thinke; thou; thy; time; tongue; unto; want; way; weare; wife; wine; wit; women; world; worth; ● t; ● ● cache: A15606.xml plain text: A15606.txt item: #3 of 6 id: A16737 author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? title: Crossing of prouerbs Crosse-answeres. and crosse-humours. By B.N. Gent. date: 1616 words: 2137 flesch: 90 summary: P. Had I wist was a foole . P. keywords: cros; crosse; pro; tcp cache: A16737.xml plain text: A16737.txt item: #4 of 6 id: A16738 author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? title: Crossing of proverbs The second part. With, Certaine briefe questions and answeres. By B.N. Gent. date: 1616 words: 3980 flesch: 95 summary: Q. Which is the best trauell , that euer was ? A. Towards heauen . Q. What ware is cheapest ? A. That which is had for thankes . keywords: cros; euer; hee; man; tcp; text; world cache: A16738.xml plain text: A16738.txt item: #5 of 6 id: A47620 author: Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671. title: Select and choyce observations, containing all the Romane emperours the first eighteen by Edward Leigh ... ; the others added by his son Henry Leigh ... ; certain choyce French proverbs, alphabetically disposed and Englished added also by the same Edward Leigh. date: 1657 words: 66385 flesch: 73 summary: Ingenio ad repentina long●●●riore . Aurel. * Su●tonius Tranquillus Graecorum & Latinorum Scriptorum diligentissimus , atque incorruptissiimus , res duod●cim C●sarum videtur mihi integerrimè exponere qui in optimi● Principibus nec vitia , nec suspiciones vitiorum tacet : in pessimi● vero colores virtutum non di●simulat . keywords: age; alexander; annal; antoninus; army; augustus; aurel; aut; beasts; blood; body; book; brother; c. 2; caesar; caligula; caracalla; cast; cause; children; choyce; christians; city; claudius; commodus; common; cruell; cruelty; cum; d. c.; dayes; dead; death; dion; dye; emperour; empire; enemies; enemy; esse; est; eusebius; eutropius; eyes; father; fear; foot; france; friends; fuit; galba; god; gods; gold; good; great; hands; hath; head; hee; herodian; hist; history; honour; house; ibid; inter; iulius; king; l. 2; lamprid; law; lib; life; love; macrinus; man; manner; maximinus; men; mind; moneths; money; mother; names; nature; nec; neque; nero; new; night; nisi; non; observations; onely; otho; people; persecution; person; place; plutarch; prince; proverb; publick; quae; quam; qui; quod; quàm; reason; reigne; roman; rome; saith; saying; sea; sed; self; senate; seneca; service; set; severus; slew; son; souldiers; speech; state; suetonius; sword; tacitus; temple; things; thought; tiberius; time; titus; tristan; vel; vespasian; vict; victor; vopiscus; war; way; wife; wine; women; words; world; xiphiline; yeares; ● s; ● ● cache: A47620.xml plain text: A47620.txt item: #6 of 6 id: A85437 author: Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680. title: Most holy and profitable sayings of that reverend divine, Doctor Tho. Goodwin Who departed this life, Feb. 23. 1679/80. date: 1680 words: 1599 flesch: 76 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A85437) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 152660) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: death; eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A85437.xml plain text: A85437.txt