Proverbial Wisdom

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

409. He that will not use the rod on his child, his child shall be used as a rod on him.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)

Holy and Profane States. Holy State,
The Good Parent.

410. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

411. 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.)

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Wife of Bath’s Prologue, line 572

412. A patient man’s a pattern for a king.

Thomas Dekker (?1572-1632)

The Honest Whore, Pt II (Duke), last line

413. Curses, like young chickens, come home to roost.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Curse of Kehama

414. Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have?

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

The Faerie Queene, Bk IV, Can. I, St. 42