CHAPTER III

"The Book of Merry Riddles" -- Introduction of Proverbs in our Literature -- A Surfeit of Proverbs -- "The two Angrie Women of Abington" -- Fuller on the Misuse of Proverbs -- The Sayings of Hendyng -- Proverbs in Works of Chaucer, Lydgate, Spenser, Dryden, Shakespeare, and other Writers -- The "Imitation of Christ" -- Glitter is not necessarily Gold -- The Cup and the Lip -- Comparisons odious -- The Rolling-Stone -- The "Vision of Piers Plowman" -- Guelph and Ghibelline -- Dwellers in Glass Houses -- A Spade is a Spade -- Chalk and Cheese -- Silence gives Consent -- A Nine Days' Wonder -- The little Pot soon Hot -- Weakest to the Wall -- Proverb-Hunting through our old Literature 65