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“To death we must stoop, be we high, be we low,
But how and how suddenly few be that know -,
What carry we then but a sheet to the grave,
To cover this carcass, of all that we have?”

Thomas Tusser

Tenants of God's Farmstead or A Description of Life and Riches (c. 1557), lines 9-12.

“Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.”

Thomas Tusser

"June's Abstract".
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“Naught venture naught have.”

Thomas Tusser

"October's Abstract". Compare: "Naught venture naught have", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part I, Chapter XI.
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.”

Thomas Tusser

"The Farmer's Daily Diet".
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“HAST thou a Friend, as heart may wish at will?
Then use him so, to have his friendship still.
Would'st have a Friend, would'st know what friend is best?
Have God thy friend who passeth all the rest.”

Thomas Tusser

Posies for a Parlour, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“At Christmas be merry and thankful withal,
And feast thy poor neighbors, the great with the small.”

Thomas Tusser

"December Husbandry".
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

Thomas Tusser Quotes

“Yet true it is, as cow chews cud
And trees at spring do yield forth bud,
Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind turns none to good.”

Thomas Tusser

A Description of the Properties of Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“[He] spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon.”

Thomas Tusser

Thomas Fuller, describing Tusser's failure to profit from numerous ventures.
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“Dry sun, dry wind;
Safe bind, safe find.”

Thomas Tusser

Washing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part I, Chapter III; "Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind", William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5.

“God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.”

Thomas Tusser

Compare: "God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks", John Taylor, Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630).
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“T is merry in hall
Where beards wag all.”

Thomas Tusser

"August's Abstract". Compare: "Merry swithe it is in halle, When the beards waveth alle", Life of Alexander, 1312; (author unknown, but earlier wrongly attributed to Adam Davie, who had elsewhere written "Swithe mury hit is in halle, When burdes waiven alle").
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

“Such mistress, such Nan,
Such master, such man.”

Thomas Tusser

"April's Abstract". Comment: M. Cimber of the Bibliothèque Royale ascribes this proverb to Chevalier Bayard: “Tel maître, tel valet.”
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)