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CXXIX.

GRAY’S Inn for walks,
Lincoln’s Inn for a wall,

The Inner-Temple for a garden,
And the Middle for a hall.

[A proverb, no doubt, true in former times, but now only partially correct. ]

CXXX.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty,
In time of adversity not one amongst twenty.

[From Howell’s English Proverbs, p. 20. The expression, zo¢ one amongst twenty,
1s a generic one for not one out of a large number. It occurs in Shakspeare’s ‘‘Much
Ado About Nothing,” V., 2.]

CXXXI.
TRIM tram,
Like master like man.
[From an old manuscript political treatise, dated 1652, entitled ‘A Cat may look at
a King.” ]
CXXXIL
BEER a bumble,
"T will kill you
Afore ’t will make ye tumble.

{A proverbial phrase applied to very small beer, implying that no quantity of it will
cause intoxication. ]

CXXXIIL

FRIDAY night’s dream
On the Saturday told,

Is sure to come true,
Be it never so old.