Middle English proverbs

Proverbs from central England.

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• A bad shearer never had a good syckle.
  • English equivalentː An ill workman quarrels with his tools.
  • von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "329, Schreiber" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. II. pp. 184-185. 

See also

• English proverbs