Time tries the troth in everything.

Thomas Tusser

Categorized in : Trying Time

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

xmas christmas cheer

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

flower spring sweet

Sing hey! Sing hey!

merry-christmas cheer winter

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

borrowed-money borrowing debt

February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.

In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all

cheer men children

A fool and his money be soon at debate

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

good-husband agriculture gold

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

magistrates fear-god law

Except wind stands as it never stood

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

errors quiet order

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

crime greater loss

If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.

yards garden lying

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.

harvest dry august

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

leap foresight looks

Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

sea giving long

Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand;

june running hands