Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
595.
That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III
596.
Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Henry VI, Pt I (Bedford), Act II, Scene II
597.
From shaven chins never came better justice
Than those ne’er touched by razor.
The Old Law (Eugenia), Act V, Scene I
598. A chyld were beter to be unbore, than to be untaught.
Lessons of Wysedome for all maner Chyldryn, II
599. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
The Comedy of Errors (Dromio), Act IV, Scene III
600.
True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Homer’s Odyssey, Bk XV, line 83