An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house

He that can see a louse as far away as China is unconscious of an elephant on his nose

If one, two and three say you are an ass, put on the ears

Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one hole make three

Three, helping one another, bear the burden of six

That whisky priest, I wish we had never had him in the house.