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.
133. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
The Tempest (Trinculo), Act II, Scene II
134.
Him who ne’er listened to the voice of praise
The silence of neglect can ne’er appal.
The Minstrel Bk I, St. 2
135.
Laws are vain, by which we right enjoy,
If kings unquestioned can those laws destroy.
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 763
136.
That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III
137.
Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.
Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)
138.
Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone.
Chastelar