Proverbial Wisdom

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.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim’s Progress (Timorous), Pt II

200. Heaven forfend that vengeance e’er should strike,
Ere justice doomed the blow.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Fall of Robespierre, Act II

201. By the bird’s song ye may learn the nest.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Geraint and Enid

202. To follow foolish precedents and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

William Cowper (1731-1800)

Tirocinium

203. If fields are prisons, where is Liberty?

Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)

The Farmer’s Boy, Autumn, line 226

204. Flatterers looke like friends, as wolves, like dogges.

George Chapman (1559-1634)

Byron’s Conspiracie, Act III, Scene I