The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.
Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.
1. It’s ill livin’ in a hen-roost for them as doesn’t like fleas.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser)
2. Women’s weapons, water-drops.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
King Lear (Lear), Act II, Scene IV
3.
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy;
And ’tis the crown of justice, and the glory,
Where it may kill with right, to save with pity.
John Fletcher (1579-1625)
The Lover’s Progress (Lisander), Act III., Scene III.
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