I go CAT PROVERBS. 



That comes of a cat will catch vii^e. What is bred in 

 the bone comes out in the flesh. Like father, like son. 



The cat atid dog may kiss, but are none the better friends. 

 Policy is one thing, friendship another. 



The cat invites the mouse to her feast. It is difficult for 

 the weak to refuse the strong. 



The cat is in the cream-pot. Any one's fault but hers. A 

 row in the house (Northern). 



The cat is hu?igry 7uhen a crust co?itents her. Hunger is 

 a good sauce. 



The cat is out of kind that sweet milk will not lap. One 

 is wrong who forsakes custom. — "History of Jacob and 

 Esau," 1568. 



The cat, the rat, and Lovel the dog, rule England under 

 one hog. — "A Myrrour for Magistrates," edition 1563, 

 fol. 143. This couplet is a satire on Richard HI. (who 

 carried a boar on his escutcheon) and his myrmidons, 

 C«/esby, i?«/cliffe, and Lovell. 



The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. — 

 Heywood, 1562. 



" Fain would the cat fish eat, 

 But she is loth to wet her feet." 



" What cat's averse to fish ? " — Gray. 



Dr. Trench has pointed out the allusion to this saying 

 in Macbeth, when Lady Macbeth speaks of her husband as 

 a man, 



" Letting I dare not, wait upon I would. 

 Like the poor cat i' the adage." 



The cat sees not the inouse ez'er. — Heywood. Those 

 that should hide, see more than they who seek. The fearful 

 eye sees far. 



The liquorish cat gets fnatiy a rap. The wrong-doer 

 escapes not. 



