Proverbial Wisdom

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

631. It is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Measure for Measure (Isabella), Act II, Scene II

632. ’Tis hard for kings to steer an equal course,
And they who banish one oft gain a worse.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Tarquin and Tullia

633. Loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Sonnet, XXXV.

634. A patient man’s a pattern for a king.

Thomas Dekker (?1572-1632)

The Honest Whore, Pt II (Duke), last line

635. Nothing speaks our griefe so well
As to speak nothing.

Richard Crashaw (?1613-1649)

Upon the Death of a Gentleman, line 27

636. Society is now one polish’d horde,
Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. VIII, St. 95