George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
horse jade good-horse
A jade eates as much as a good horse.
horse legs four
A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]
horse miles good-horse
Good horses make short miles.
horse race long
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
horse
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
horse wife made
Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.
horse scabs combs
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.
horse rivers may
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.
horse water wife
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.
horse eating greedy
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
horse eye masters
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
horse
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.
horse faults saddles
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.
horse sides behinds
Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.