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Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Proverb on the happiness of being poor, among a collection of "Latin proverbs
with English ones that answer to them".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Somers's Tracts, vol.XV or Coll.4 vol.3 p.314; [Latin]
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Proverb on the money value or resale worth of everything, said to be from
Somers's Tracts, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with English ones
that answer to them".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: friends are numerous only when a man has
money. Cf. BCMSV 677.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: better to be poor and at liberty than rich and
in prison
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb, partly biblical: love your neighbour and do
him no wrong.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: action speaks louder than words
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: friends are numerous only when a man has money. Cf. BCMSV 677.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: he who relies on chance is at the mercy of fools
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Epigram or proverb: a person's mind is revealed by his face. Latin version follows.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: it is impossible to please everybody
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb on the happiness of being poor. Latin version follows.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: test something before putting faith in it