Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

613. Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find;
Occasion, once past by, is bald behind.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

Pyramus and Thisbe, XV

614. The eye is traitor to the heart.

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

That the Eye bewrayeth, etc..

615. If fields are prisons, where is Liberty?

Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)

The Farmer’s Boy, Autumn, line 226

616. He that is but able to express
No sense at all in several languages,
Will pass for learneder than he that’s known
To speak the strongest reason in his own.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Satire upon Human Learning, Pt I, line 65

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Geraint and Enid

618. Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes:
Antiquity and birth are needless here; ’Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

The True-born Englishman, Pt I