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"Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still."
"Two ill meales make the third a glutton."
"Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion."
"An ill deed cannot bring honor."
"An ill wound is cured, not an ill name."
"An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles."
"An ill deede cannot bring honour."
"Better to be blinde, then to see ill."
"Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]"
"Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.]"
"A Caske and an ill custome must be broken."
"He that marries late, marries ill."
"He that makes his bed ill, lies there."
"Hee that lives ill, feare followes him."
"Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick."
"Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches."
"It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. [It costs more to do ill than to do well.]"
"In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne."
"Ill vessels seldome miscarry."