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.
85.
’Tis good in every cause, you know,
To have two strings unto our bow.
The Ghost, Bk IV, line 1296
86. Enough is as good as a feast.
Love in a Village (Hawthorne sings), Act III,
Scene I
87.
He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold-a.
The Baffled Knight, or Blow Away the Morning Dew
88.
Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.
Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)
89. He pays the half who does confess the debt.
Hesperides, 226
90. When th’ iron is hot, strike.
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. III