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.
73.
Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.
The Farewell, line 27
74. There is nothing on earth so lowly, but duty giveth it importance; No station so degrading, but it is ennobled by obedience.
Proverbial Philosophy, of Subjection, 155
75.
I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek
That hath but oon hole for to sterte to.
(Trans. — I hold a mouse's heart not worth a leek
That has but one hole to run to.)
Wife of Bath’s Prologue, line 572
76. One ear it heard, at the other out it went.
Troilus and Cresscide, Bk IV, line 435
77.
O what’s a table richly spread,
Without a woman at its head!
The Progress of Discontent
78. Better a little chiding than a great deal of heart-break.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mrs Page), Act V,
Scene III