Chapter M: Madness 676
Mahomet 1116
Maid--children 52
Maid--honest 707
Maids--dun 1027
Maladies--much 1059
Man--head 763
Manners--good 506
Manners--meat 1060
March--April 37
March--bridge 565
March--frosts 650
March--mists 1089
March--windy 1052
March grass 718
Mare to go 1102
Market--fool 1258
Market--rate 1030
Married--needy 1140
Married, newly 1766
Marries--son 388
Marry--bad 1040
Marry--match 1044
Master--fire 580
Master--marry 1044
Master--purse 1314
Master--trades 1651
Master-blow 1354
Master-craft 346
Master-craft 1046
Masters, good 1419
Master's--wine 1794
Maxim--good 705
May and April 35
May--beautiful 1052
May--bees 91
May--cold 1053
May--corn 316
May--frosts 650
May--frosts--mists 1089
May--hot 810
May--marry 1040
May--merry 1073
May--shear 1423
May--sows 1481
May--sun 1027
May--weather 866
May--welcome 1746
May--wind 1785
May flood 597
May flowers 38
Meal--little 158
Meal--mill 1077
Measure--strife 1546
Meat--ale 22
Meat--best 343
Meat--cooks 685
Meat--merry 1070
Meat--mouths 1118
Meat--quick 1324
Meat--sweet 1389
Meddling 476
Meet--old friends 1180
Memories 352
Memory--liar 945
Memory--wolves 1821
Men, old 422
Men--reins 1349
Mend--worst 1856
Mice--cat's away 209
Mice--catch 213
Mile--miss 1088
Mill--grind 732
Mills--clouds 273
Mind--picture 1081
Mind--sight 1436
Mind--speech 1493
Mind--think 1598
Mind--wit 1811
Minds, little--soured 977
Minds--little things 978
Minds--light 1459
Minister--hide 781
Minute too late 1641
Misfortune--watch 1725
Mist--Scotch 1406
Mole 39
Mole-hill 1115
Monday--Christmas 255
Money buys land 1834
Money--land 1286
Money--ready 1336
Money--spots 1511
Money--trade 1650
Monk--devil 419
More--much 1121
Moon 106
Morning, bit in the 128
Morning--cloudy 457
Morning, cloudy--moon 1104
Morning--fodder 1196
Morning--grey 501
Morning--law 925
Morning--study 1550
Mornings--cloudy 275
Mortals--success 1556
Moss--stone 1367
Mote--self-love 1416
Mother--daughter 389
Mother--little 969
Mother--necessity 1136
Mother--poverty 1454
Mother of money 1650
Mother's blessing 240
Mouse--cable 1620
Mouse--cat sees 212
Mouse--cat winketh 215
Mouse--drowned 455
Mouse--one hole 1190
Mouse--plough 1263
Mouth--close 269
Mouth--fishes' 589
Mouth--melt 179
Mouth--spoon 1441
Mow--early 464
Muck--riches 1359
Mud--beans 78
Mud--clear 261
Mushroom 560
N
Nag 297
Nail--door 391
Nail--second 452
Nail--want of 1713
Name, good--life 1132
Name, good--riches 1130
Neighbour--evil 931
Nest--defile 842
Nettle--dock 436
Newcastle 205
News--country 326
Night--good 55
Night--law 925
Night--stumble 1551
Nine days' wonder 1826
Ninepence 1149
Nine points 1271
Nineteen--twenty 1681
No--woman's 1868
Nod--wink 1799
Noland--title 1628
Note--music 1127
Nothing--cheese 234
Nothing--children 246
Nothing--promise 1296
North--wind 1781
Nose--off 1503
Nothing--venture 1699
Nut--crack 344
Nut--sound 1478
Nuts--sluts 34
O
Oak 454
Oaks--great 1549
Oats 867
Oats--St. David's 1382
Oats--wild 1767
Obey 149
Office--Jack 864
Oil, in fire 1323
Old--learn 937
Old--long 1870
Old--needy 835
Old--spare 1485
Old age 654
Old block 251
Old men--woo 1827
Old praise 1285
Old saws 1040
Old sore 1185
Old tree 1351
Old wife 1137
Old wine 1181
Old young 1870
Order 1347
Ornament--silence 1439
Ounce--mischief 1086
"Our Father" 258
Overcome 487
Owl--lantern 918
Ox--drink 450
Ox--steal 1521
Oxen--plough 1264
P
Pack--own 1224
Pack--small 1223
Padlock--wedlock 1743
Pain--pride 1292
Pains--gains 661
Pains--idle 834
Pains--lazy folk 933
Paint--faces 533
Painting--face 1061
Pair--couple 327
Paradise 488
Pardons--offender 1169
Parleys--valour 1698
Parsnips--fair words 1841
Parsnips--soft words 1465
Passions--absence 1
Pasture--change of 229
Pater-noster--churches 258
Path--puddle 1307
Patrimony--diligence 423
Paul--Peter 1238
Pause--bargain 69
Pay--sorrow 1471
Pay--too dear 1756
Pay--Yorkshire 1869
Peace--war 1717
Peace--wisdom 1802
Peas--like 961
Peasant--wretch 1863
Peck--of ashes 41
Pence--care of 202
Penny--companion 298
Penny--for friend 830
Penny--shilling 1500
Perform--quick 1297
Peter--Paul 1238
Philosopher's stone 310
Physic--ague 18
Physic--plague 907
Physic--temperance 1587
Physician--defy 567
Physician--fool 606
Physician--hide 781
Physician--thanks 768
Picture--speech 1493
Pie-crusts 1299
Pig--child's 241
Pig's tail--horn 1242
Pilot--calm sea 187
Pin--steal 1522
Pinch--friend 1337
Pinches--shoe 1427
Pitchers--ears 466
Pitied--envied 493
Place--sit in 1253
Places--two 1685
Plaister--patience 1215
Plant--removed 1352
Play--cards 199
Pleasure--tax 431
Pleasure--woo 1827
Plentiful--pity 1251
Plenty--peace 1802
Poison--weed 127
Poke--pig 183
Policy--honesty 793
Poor--beg 1358
Poor--giving to 675
Poor--honour 795
Poor man's table 1576
Pope--would be 1270
Pot--ladle 911
Pot--watched 1727
Pottage--other's 1400
Pottage--poor 1269
Pottage--prettiness 1288
Pottage--sluts 1457
Pottle--hay 1139
Pound foolish 1232
Pound--in for 1230
Pound--mischief 1086
Pounds--care of 202
Pounds--pence 1226
Pours--rains 1334
Poverty--debt 400
Poverty--sloth 1454
Powder--trust 1666
Power--knowledge 904
Praise--self 1417
Precept--example 514
Prickles--thistles 1601
Pride--ingratitude 857
Prince--sword 1575
Prince--wretch 1863
Privilege--folly 1736
Prize--wife 1765
Profit--pains 1206
Promises--pity 1251
Prosperity--friends 645
Prosperity--gold 690
Proud--black and 531
Proud--cock 285
Provender--carry 807
Provident--harvests 704
Puddings--dirty 384
Pudding--end 486
Pudding--proof 1300
Pulse--world's 1854
Purse--ask thy 43
Purse--courtesy 331
Purse--empty 484
Purse--fills 1170
Purse--heavy 960
Purse--little 968
Purse--no money 1103
Purse--penny 1228
Q
Quarrels--tools 1642
Quart--neighbour 1142
Quick--markets 1718
Quick--perform 1297
Quiet--Doctor 1240
R
R--oysters 1202
Rain--Candlemas 192
Rain--corpse 745
Raven--starling 129
Reason--bluster 139
Reason--will 1773
Reasoning--man's 860
Rebellion--oppression 1194
Reckoning--feast 561
Reckonings--short 1432
Repent--marry 1038
Repent--trust 1665
Repentance--late 309
Rest--rain 1331
Revenge--best 621
Reversion--kingdom 318
Reward--desert 407
Ribs--birchen twigs 119
Rich--adversity 5
Rich--die 1266
Rich--fifty 741
Rich--lucky 1015
Rich--shame 795
Riches--children 245
Riches--name 1130
Rider--lost 1713
Rider--time 1625
Right--two wrongs 1864
Rise--early to 463
Rise at five 1612
Road--companion 297
Roast--small 140
Roast beef 460
Roasting--eggs 1339
Robbery--exchange 515
Robs Peter 1238
Rock--ruled by 1370
Rogues--laws 930
Rolling stone 1367
Roost--curses 371
Roots--crooked 1543
Rope enough 1591
Ropes--sand 1387
Rose--thorn 1603
Roses--thorns 1605
Ruins--youth 1099
Ruins of folly 1804
Rules--woman 1348
Runs--stumbles 1551
Rushes--good words 713
S
Saddle--colt 292
Sail--Friday 640
Sail--sea 1407
Salt--advice 8
Salt of life 173
Sands--words 1834
Satins--kitchen 897
Saturday--no luck 1094
Saturday--wife 1759
Sauce--hunger 824
Save--spend 1494
Save--youth 1874
Saved--penny 1231
Saving--alchemy 21
Sawyers--top 1646
Sayings--thrifty 1611
Scarce--good men 1188
Scholar--mere 1403
Scholar--fool 1042
Scripture--quote 1327
Sea--calm 187
Sea--fish 588
Sea--lade 1164
Sea--luck 1012
Sea--pray 1287
Second nature 1692
Second thoughts 1607
Seed, good 512
Seen--seldom 1414
Send--go 443
Send--sigh 1435
Sermon--salmon 1385
Servants, good 1419
Seven--rise at 1612
Seven years 228
Shadow--crooked 355
Shadow--light 958
Shadow--sunshine 1561
Shame--devil 1672
Shame--pride 1294
Shave--hand-saw 739
Shaven--bald head 61
Sheep--buy 369
Sheep--hung 819
Sheep--scabbed 1399
Sheep--shear 1423
Sheep--shorn 1430
Shells--eggs 23
Shilling--slow 1149
Shilling--spends 1500
Ship--crazy 348
Ship--great 726
Ship--leak 936
Ship--own 197
Ship--sail 1384
Ship--stocks 877
Ship--tar 1507
Ships--November 1161
Shipwreck--complain 300
Shirt, ragged 1256
Shoe, finest 1426
Shoe fits 592
Shoe pinches 1248
Shoe, want of 1713
Shot--bolt 612
Shovel--silver 935
Shower--drops 453
Sick--devil 419
Sickness--devotion 225
Silent--man 1528
Silent--speak 1487
Silver--butter 178
Silver lining--cloud 271
Silver--white 1440
Sing--birds 1291
Sing--can 124
Sing--say 1395
Sings--Friday 638
Sin, none without 1312
Sin--sorrow 1473
Sink--leak 936
Sit--awhile 425
Sit--lowly 1011
Sit still 1445
Skin deep--beauty 88
Slander--confession 303
Slave--secret 1411
Sleep on it 1243
Sloe-tree--barley 72
Sloth--harms 910
Sloven 1457
Slow--promise 1297
Sluts, eat after 34
Smack--pepper 1233
Smell--kitchen 896
Snow--bread 544
Snow--lies 193
Snow--water 141
Soberness--conceals 459
Soft answer 1861
Soft upon soft 1537
Solomon--wife 1765
Son--like 963
Son--marries 388
Sore eye--elbow 480
Sore--store 1541
Sores--patience 1215
Sorrow--joy 875
Sorrow--lies 870
Sorrow--mirth 1084
Sorrow--time 1624
Sorrows--less 427
Soul--cleansed 317
Souls--large 972
Sour--sauce 871
Sour--sweet 1571
Sow--wrong 1865
Sow's ear--purse 1315
Spain--wine 450
Spaniel--beaten 85
Speak little 1597
Speak once--think 1596
Speak--purse 658
Speak--spare 1486
Speak--think 1595
Speak--well 1489
Speakers--dead 1241
Speed--worse 753
Spend--old 1485
Spend--spare 1486
Spending--bung-hole 1393
Spiders' webs--laws 929
Spigot--saving 1393
Spirits--raise 1335
Spite--nose 1503
Spoon--silver 1441
Spring--swallow 1567
Spur--free horse 1513
Spur--horse 806
Stable door 988
Stable door 1524
Staff--dog 83
Staggerer--lame 914
Starling--raven 129
Steed starves 720
Steed--stolen 988
Steel--tongue 1637
Steeple--bell 108
Sting you--snake 1462
Stink--bear 250
Stinking fish 1531
Stocking 167
Stolen--steed 1524
Stone--dropping 308
Stone--blood 136
Stone--rugged 1373
Stool--guest 733
Stool, own--guest 1476
Stoop for pin 1245
Storms--vows 1708
Story--re-telling 1355
Straw--drowning 449
Straw--last 919
Strength, woman's 1822
Strong--thirty 741
Strife--poverty 1275
Substance 1420
Sudden falls 265
Summer--chimneys 1466
Summer--good 1800
Summer--swallow 1566
Sun--bride 745
Sun--clouds 272
Sun--hay 762
Sun--light 959
Sun--morning 1109
Sun riseth 325
Sunday--Friday 639
Sunday--weep 638
Sunday--wife 1759
Sundays--two 1686
Sun shines--moon 1106
Sunshine--stars 1519
Supper, after 425
Supper--hope 801
Supperless--bed 1562
Sure card 307
Surely--softly 1464
Sweet--taste 1583
Sweetest water 1753
Swim--depth 406
Swine--pearls 1221
Swine--turned 1679
Swing--youth 1876
Swords--words 1835
T
Tail--salt 1386
Tale--tell 394
Talk--good 696
Talk--nurse 1163
Talks--tongue 1638
Tame Shrew 1434
Tame--wedding 1742
Tar--ship 1507
Tarry--tide 1622
Taste--kitchen 896
Tax--disease 431
Taxes--death 221
Teaching--child 161
Teeth--aching 4
Teeth--tongue 1635
Teeth--wolves 1821
Temper--tongue 1633
Tempers--God 1430
Tenant--bad 482
Tenants--ill 4
Texts--proverbs 1304
Thief of time 1295
Thief--opportunity 1192
Thief--receiver 1340
Thief--receivers 1341
Thief--thunder 1614
Think--live 1598
Thinks--says 1397
Thirty years 606
Thistles--brain 157
Thistles--harvest 752
Thorn--cuckoo 369
Thorns--barefoot 65
Thorns--dancing 382
Thread--draw 448
Thread--breaketh 1735
Three women 1033
Thrift--ruin 1501
Thrive--up at five 593
Thrive--plant 1352
Thrive--wive 1818
Thrown--wrestle 1862
Throws--horse 1361
Thrushes--beggars 1808
Thunder-bolt--pryeth 1306
Thursday--crosses 1094
Tide--tarry 1622
Timber--split 716
Time for study 1550
Time--season 1409
Time--sorrow 1474
Time--stitch 1532
Times--fault 553
Toil--pleasure 1261
Toilers--thinkers 1600
Toll--market 1031
Toll--talking 1582
Tom--play 1256
Tongue--shorter 468
Tongue--knot 901
Tongue--nurse's 1163
Tongue--slip 1452
Tongue speaketh 770
Tongue--strength 1822
Too late--advice 11
Too late--never 1064
Tools--edged 476
Tools--workmen 1849
Toothache--music 1125
Touchstone--love 1002
Trade--two of a 16
Trash--beggary 99
Tread on worm 1855
Treasurer--God 1497
Tree--crooked 355
Tree--falls 539
Tree--fruit 652
Trees--straight 1543
Trials--present 1346
Tricks--old dog 1176
Tries--time 1626
Trifles--troubles 1661
Trouble--bagpipe 57
Trouble--company in 295
Trouble--hunting 1714
Troubles--company 296
Troubles--dowry 723
Trough--own 1480
Trumpery--beggary 99
Trumpet--own 1283
Truss up wit 1813
Trust--speak fair 1491
Trust--try 1676
Trust not--water 1528
Truth--drunken folk 458
Truth--evasions 347
Truth--fools 242
Truth--libel 947
Truth--old saws 1184
Try--trust 1665
Tuesday--health 1094
Turncoat--wine 1797
Twig--bend 109
Twig--tree 110
Tyrant--cruelty 364
U
Unbidden guest 1476
Unkindness--cut 377
Unmissed--unknown 1689
Use--keep 882
Use--nature 1692
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