CAT PROVERBS. 187 



Dun, besides being the name of one who arrested for 

 debt in Henry VII.'s time, was also the name of the 

 hangman before " Jack Ketch." — Grose. 



"And presently a halter got, 

 Made of the best strong teer, 

 And ere a cat could lick her ear. 

 Had tied it up with so much art." 



1664, Cotton's Virgile, Book 4. 



By biting and scratching dogs and cats come together. — 

 Heywood. Quarrelling oft makes friends. 



Care ciamjned a cat. — Sir G. C. Lewis's " Hereford- 

 shire Glossary." Clammed means starvation ; that is, care 

 killed the cat; for want of food the entrails get "clammed." 



Care killed the cat, but ye canna live without it. To all 

 some trouble, though not all take heed. None know 

 another's burden. 



Care will kill a cat. 



" Then hang care and sorrow, 

 'Tis able to kill a cat."— D'Urfey. 



Alluding to its tenacity of life and the carking wear of care. 



Cats after kind good mouse hunt. — Heywood. Letter 

 by F. A. touching the quarrel between Arthur Hall and 

 Melch Mallorie, in 1575-6, repr. of ed. 1580, in " Misc^. 

 Antiq. Anglic." 1816, p. 93. "For never yet was good cat 

 out of kinde." — E?iglish Proverbs ^ Hazlitt. 



Cats and Carliiis sit in the su7i. When work is done 

 then warmth and rest. 



Cats eat what hussies spare. Nothing is lost. Also 

 refers to giving away, and saying " the cat took it." 



Cats hide their claws. All is not fair that seems so. 

 Trust not to appearances. 



Cry you mercy, killed my cat. — Clarke, 1639. Better 

 away, than stay and ask pardon. 



