 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1869 - 722 pàgines
...grandchildren that may be styled your lordships * — Look you, Teresa, I have always heard my betters say, ' He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay ;' and it would be wrong, now that fortune is knocking at our door, not to open it and bid hur welcome.... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1870 - 826 pàgines
...grandchildren that may be styled Your Lordships ? — Look you, Teresa, I have always heard my betters say, ' He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay ; ' and it would be wrong, now that fortune is knocking at our door, not to open it and bid her welcome.... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1861 - 256 pàgines
...with the offer on the spot. . "When the fool has made up his mind the market has gone by " (Spanish).5 He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. " Some refuse roast meat, and afterwards long for the smoke of it " (Italian).5 The nearer the church,... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1871 - 434 pàgines
...grandchildren may be styled Your Lordships ? Look you, Teresa, I have always heard my betters say, ' He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay ; ' and it would be very wrong, now that Fortune is knocking at our door, to shut it against her. Do... | |
 | 354 pàgines
...goose is sauce for the gander.' ' Help a lame dog over a stile.' ' Spur not a willing horse.' ' He who will not when he may, When he will, he shall have nay.' ( Concluded.) READINGS ON THE BIBLE. No. IX. THE MINOR PEOPHETS. OBADIAH. JONAH. NEXT to the Book of... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 pàgines
...without pains. He that gapeth until he be fed, Well may he gape until he be dead. Nosce tempus — He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. Nascitur a sociis — Tell me with whom thou goest, I'll tell thee what thou doest. Nunc est bibendum,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1873 - 614 pàgines
...invitation—an invitation that had been declined at the time. . " You may quote against me the proverb, ' He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.' And I shall have no reason to complain," he had said. But Mrs. Hamley was only too much charmed with... | |
 | John Heywood - 1874 - 254 pàgines
...faulte should die an houre before 8 He that will not, 6fc. In BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621: — He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. ' The fat is in the fire. Than one minute after ; than haste must provoke When the pigge is proffer... | |
 | Proverbial folk-lore - 1874 - 176 pàgines
...testifies to the uncertainty of our weather. Make hay while the sun shines. Similar in character are He that will not when he may, When he will, he shall have nay. No time like the present. The Rain of course, has plenty to say for itself. Bain from East Two days... | |
 | 1874 - 924 pàgines
...There are no mountains near London. But we might give them the water off our moors. No, no, my lad. " He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay." Some fifteen years ago the Londoners might have had water from us ; and I was one of those who did... | |
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He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. 
