Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

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

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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. Eke wonder last but nine daies never in town.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresseide

2. It’s ill livin’ in a hen-roost for them as doesn’t like fleas.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser)

3. Contempt of fame begets contempt of virtue.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Sejanus (Tiberius), Act I, Scene II

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