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.
295. What cannot be eschew’d, must be embrac’d.
Merry Wives of Windsor (Page), Act V, Scene V
296.
Ah! better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace, alone.
Chastelar
297.
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy
What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom is — to die.
The Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. XXIV
298. Curses, like young chickens, come home to roost.
The Curse of Kehama
299.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch, and not their terror.
Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene I
300. Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
Every Man Out of his Humour (Carlo Buffone),
Act II, Scene II