Proverbial Wisdom

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

415. Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone.

Whyte Melville (1821-1878)

Chastelar

416. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

Emblems, Bk II

417. He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold-a.

Old Ballad (1609)

The Baffled Knight, or Blow Away the Morning Dew

418. There’s a new tribunal now
Higher than God’s — the educated man’s!

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

The Ring and the Book, X, line 1977

419. I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Othello (Iago), Act I, Scene I

420. Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.

John Howard Payne (1791-1852)

Song, ‘Home, Sweet Home’. From his Opera, ‘Clari, The Maid of Milan’