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 Tirer pets d'un asne mort. To make a dead asse fart; to worke impossibilities.  Asne d'Arcadie broute chardons, & ortie, &c. Pro. Looke, Ortie. L'asne qui brait le plus, est celuy qui mange le moins: Prov. Th' asse that brayeth most eateth least.  Vn asne n'entend rien en Musique: Pro. An asse is but a bad Musician; or, cannot iudge of Musicke.  à lauer la teste d'un asne on ne perd que le temps, & la lexive: Pro. In vaine one striues to make learned a sottish, or make honest a gracelesse, person.  à la preuve l'on escorche l'asne: Prov. Looke Escorcher. à qui est l'asne si le garde: Prov. Let him that owes a thing looke to it.  à qui est l'asne si le tienne par la queue: Prov. See Queue. à rude asne rude asnier: Pro. A stubborne seruant needs a froward master; a curst wife a curbing husband; a rebellious subiect a rigorous Soueraigne.  à vilain charbonnée d'asne: Prov. A churle would haue churles fare, grosse meats, course entertainment.  Amour apprend les asnes à danser: Prov. Looke Danser. Assez va au moulin qui son asne y envoye: Prov. He may be said to doe a thing that sets his man about it.  Chantez à l'asne il vous fera des pets: Prov. The ignorant blockhead scornes both Musicke, and the Muses; or, as wee say, Claw a churle by the breech, and he will beray your fist.  Deux orgueilleux ne peuvent estre portez sur vn asne: Prov. One poore asse cannot carrie two proud ones.  Il ne faut pas lier les asnes auec les cheuaux: Pro. Churles are not to be matcht, or sorted, with gentlemen.  On n'aura ia bon asne vieil: Pro. A slugg, or dullard growne old is worse then naught.  On ne fait boire à l'asne quand il ne veut: Prov. Men force not th' asse (but asses men) to drinke.  Plus d'un asne à la foire a nom Martin: Prov. We say (with a small resemblance of sence) there be more maids then Malkin, or, more maids then one be called Malkin.  Pour vn poil Martin perdit son asne: Pro. The punishment, or taxation of those that vpon a small occasion enter into a great contention; as this poore man did, who laying a wager that his asse was all white, was shewed a blacke haire on him, and so, like an asse, lost his asse, which was the wager.  Pour vn poinct Martin perdit son asne: Prov. A small omission, or error may turne a man to much preiudice; Looke, Poinct. Qui à asne tend à asne vient: Prov. He that will, may, soone ynough, proue an asse.  Qui femme croit, & asne mene, son corps ne sera ia sans peine: Prov. He that beleeues a woman, and leads an asse, will neuer be in quiet.  Sous ombre d'asne entre le chien au Moulin: Pro. (So many a knaue sneakes into good places in companie, or vnder the pretext, of honest men.)  Tel asne tel aiguillon: Prov. Such as the asse, his goad.

Asnée: f. An Asse-load of.

Asne-fueille. A kind of Origan, which Asses loue exceeding well.

Asnerie: f. Sottishnesse, dulnesse, ignorance, doltish-*
 * nesse, blockishnesse; any impertinent, or Asse-like, pranke.

Asnesque: com. Asse-like; sottish, dull, ignorant, blockish.

Asnesse: f. A shee Asse.  De petit esguillon poinct on bien grande asnesse: Prov. Great beasts are pricked forward with small goads.

Asnichon: m. A young asse.  Asnichons. Two little starres in the signe Cancer. Asnier: m. One that driueth, or dresseth, Asses.  Gros asnier. A iolthead, blockhead, loggarhead; a fellow of a heauie mettall; grosse capacitie, dull spirit.  A rude asne rude asnier: Pro. A rude knaue is to be awed by a rough controller.  A l'hospital les bons ouvriers, en dignité les gros asniers: Pro. Looke Ouvrier. Asnier. To ride vpon an Asse.

Asnon. as Asnichon. A young Asse; also, the little water-vermine called, a Bull-head.

Asnonner. To fole, or bring forth, an Asse.

Asoté: m. ée: f. ''Sotted, besotted, doting on. Looke,'' Assoté. Asoter. To sot, besot, make dote on, bring too farre in loue with.

Aspalathe: m. A kind of prickly shrub, whose massiue, ruddie, and aromaticall wood is vsed by Perfumers: some, erroniously, haue thought it to be red Saunders; others the Rhodian wild Oliue tree; and Gerard cals English Galingale, Aspalathum. Aspalier. as Espallier. Asparge. as Asperge. Aspect: m. An aspect, regard, sight; the visage, or countenance.

Asperer. To sharpen, exasperate, aggrauate, make rough, churlish, angrie.

Asperge: m. The hearbe Sparage, or Sparagus; also, the young, and tender sprig, or shoot of any plant.  Asperge de marais. Marsh Sparage.  Asperges montagnars. Mountaine Sparagus; a kind of wild one.  Asperge palustre. as Asperge de marais. Asperges pierreus. Stone Sparage, wild Sparagus. Asperge sauvage. The same.

Aspergement: m. A besprinkling; a poudering, or bepoudering.

Asperger. To besprinkle; pouder, bepouder; to sprinkle, or strew water, or dust vpon.

Asperget: m. A holy-water sprinkle.

Aspergiere: f. A bed of Sparagus. Aspergoutte: f. The hearbe Featherfew, Feuerfew, Whitewort.  Aspergoutte menuë, ou mineur. Starrewort, Cudwort, Sharewort.

Aspergule: f. Clauer, Goosegrasse.

Aspersé: m. ée: f. Besprinkled, or bedeawed with.

Aspersion: f. A besprinkling, or bedeawing; an aspersion.

Aspersoie: f. A holy-water-sprinkle made of bristles.

Aspertule: f. Clauer, Goosegrasse.

Asphalthe. as Bitume. Asphodile. The Daffadill, Affodill, or Asphodill flower; also, the root, or bulbes thereof.

Asphrodille. as Asphodile; or, as Aphrodille.

Aspic: m. The Serpent called, an Aspe.