The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.
Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.
1. Plenty, as well as want, can separate friends.
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Davideis, Bk III, line 205
2.
How happy could I be with either,
Were t’ other dear charmer away!
John Gay (1685-1732)
The Beggars’ Opera (Mac heath sings), Act II,
Scene II
3. For every ‘why’ he had a ‘wherefore’.
Samuel Butler (1613-1680)
Hudibras, Bk Can. I, line 131
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