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.
199. The bitter goes before the sweet. Yea, and for as much as it doth, it makes the sweet the sweeter.
Pilgrim’s Progress (Timorous), Pt II
200.
Heaven forfend that vengeance e’er should strike,
Ere justice doomed the blow.
The Fall of Robespierre, Act II
201. By the bird’s song ye may learn the nest.
Geraint and Enid
202.
To follow foolish precedents and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
Tirocinium
203. If fields are prisons, where is Liberty?
The Farmer’s Boy, Autumn, line 226
204. Flatterers looke like friends, as wolves, like dogges.
Byron’s Conspiracie, Act III, Scene I