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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
427 
Sep Fast tt te ee ee eee ee 
“ Lesse like than Poules steple to a dagger shethe.” — 
Sir Thos. More’s Eng. Works, 595. 672. 
7 No more like together then is chalke to coles.” — 10. 
“Let him take myne pie for an apple if he finde ete.” — 
Ib. 689. 
“He which hath been once at Jerusalem may lie by 
authority, because he shall be sure seldom to meet any 
man that hath been there.” — Jb. 726. 
“To seke out one lyne in all hys bookes were to goloke 
a nedle in a medow.” — Zo. p. 837. 
“To fyshe before the nette, and set the carte before the 
horse.” — Ib. p. 920. 
“The maid’s child is ever best taught.” — Latimer’s 
5th Sermon. 
“ Whosdever loveth me loveth my hound.” — Jb. Ist 
Sermon on Lord’s Prayer. 
“Tt is a common saying among the people, ‘The law is 
ended as the man is friended.’” — Jd. p. 483., 
which is similar to one in Barclay :— 
“ Aungels worke wonders in Westminster Hall.”— Ship 
of Fools, folio 4. ed. 1570. 
“Jt is acommon saying there do come as many skins 
of calves to the market as there do of bulls or kine” [i. e. 
the young die as well as the old].— p. 416. 
em proverb much used, ‘ An evil crow an ill egg.’ ”” — 
p. 42. 
“There is a common saying, that when a horse is 
rubbed on the gall he will kick: when a man casteth a 
stone among dogs, he that is hit will cry.” — Remains, 
p- 40. Parker Soc. ed. 
“A common saying, ‘When a man will be rich, he 
must set his soul behind the door,’ that is to say, he must 
use falsehood and deceit.” — p. 42. 
“Every thing is as it is taken.” aa p. 140. 
“Well, I have fished and caught a frog; brought little 
to pass with much ado.” — Jd. p. 419. 
_“ As just as Germains lips, which came not together by 
nine mile.” — Jb. p. 425. 
“Who may have a more ungracyous lyfe 
Than a chyldis birde and a knavis wyfe.” 
Skelton’s Works, ed. Dyce. 
“A proverb of old, ‘say well or be still.’ ”” — Zé. i. 17. 
“ Masid as a marche hare.” — Jd. i. 386. 
“Tt isa wyly mouse 
That can build his dwellinge house 
Within the cattes eare.” — Ib. ii. 50. 
“Wyse men may ete the fysshe when ye shal dra 
the pole.” — b. i. 235. m Baysnakcraw 
“What, wyll ye waste wynde, and prate thus in vayne? 
Ye have eten sauce, I trowe, at the Taylers hall.” 
Tost QU 
“Te hyt the nayle on the hede.” — Jd, i. 312. 
“They are loth to hang the bell 
Aboute the cattes necke.” — Jb. i. 317. 
“ As wise as Waltoms calfe.”” — Colyn Cloute, 811. 
« All is fysshe that cometh to net.” — Zé. 935. 
“The blynde eteth many a flye.” — Jb, i. 213. 
“Suche apple tre suche frute.”— Jb. i, 214. | 
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“He shot like a gentleman fair and far off.’ * — 
Ascham. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY. 
“ The Journal of the Parliament in Treland,” §c., 
March 25, 1689. — 
(Continued from p. 407.) 
“ June 1. John Brown’s Petition read and argued at 
the Bar; the Chair-man Reports the Alterations and Ad- 
ditions made to the Bill of Repeal; which are approved: 
Judg Daly’s Petition, desiring a further day for an answer, 
read and granted. Mrs. Wall’s Bill against her husband 
read once. 
“ June 3. Petitions read, and referred to the Committee: 
Lord Galway’s Councel heard at the Bar, concerning his 
Ladies Remainder, and Arrears due to the Heirs of Ulick, 
E. of Clanricard: Lord Riverstown Reports from the 
Committee several Alterations and Provisoes to be in- 
serted in the Bill of Repeal; which were each twice read. 
Sir William Talbot came up with a Message from the 
Commons, which imported their earnest Request to the 
Lords, to pass the Bill with all the expedition they could, 
because the Heart and Courage of the whole Nation were 
bound up in it. 
“ June 4, Journals read: Petition from the Bishop of 
Cork for relief for Arrears of Rents: A Bill for Mrs. Wall 
against her Husband, read the second time: Lord Rivers- 
town Reports new Alterations, new Provisoes in the Bill 
of Repeal; the new ones read twice; the whole Bill, with 
all its Alterations and Provisoes, read; after reading the 
Bishop of Meath speaks against it, Lord Chancellor and 
Riverstown for it; the Bishops desire leave to enter their 
Protest, and four of the Temporal Lords, which were all 
the Protestants in the House. Mem. That the King said, 
That they must not enter their Protestation, but only 
their Dissent; for Protestation came in in Rebellious 
Times, and that they should not give the Reasons of their 
Protestation. 
“ June 5. The Bishops’ Protestation. ‘We the Lords 
Spiritual in Parliament Assembled, which Names are 
hereafter subscribed, having for divers reasons, then 
humbly offered to the House of Lords, dissented from 
| passing the Bill into a Law, sent up to this Honourable 
House from the House of Commons, intitulled, dn Act 
repealing the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, &c. And 
having obtained leave from the House of Lords to enter 
our Dissent against the said Bill, do accordingly subscribe 
our Dissent from the said Bill.’ 
“This was brought in Parchment to the Clerk of the 
Parliament the next morning before the House sat, and 
signed, Meath, Ossery, Cork, Limerick ; the like Protest- 
ation in Parchment signed per Granard, Longford, Rosse, 
Howth. 
“ «J, Anthony, Bishop of Meath, being constituted and 
allowed Proxy for the most Reverend Father in God 
Mich. Lord Archbishop of Armagh, do, in his name and 
behalf, dissent from the said Bill. Mich. Armagh.’ 
“The like signed by Ossory, as Waterford’s Proxy. 
“ Journals of the House read: Lord Clanmaliera’s Case 
against Sir Patrick Trent heard at the Bar, and adjudged 
against: The Lord Mountgarret petitions the House that 
Sir John Ivory may commit no waste on his Estate; a 
general Order made against it. Committees of Trade, 
Privileges and Petitions revived: A Committee appointed 
for Mrs. Wall’s Bill. 
* Archery was, par excellence, the yeoman’s occupation 
and delight, not that of the gentleman. | 
