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. The eye is traitor to the heart.
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
That the Eye bewrayeth, etc..
2. Count not your chickens before they be hatch’d.
Old Proverb
3.
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
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