Proverbial Wisdom

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

487. A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of Pictures; and talke but a tinckling Cymball, where there is no love.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay XXVII, Of Friendship.

488. Throw no gift againe the giver’s head;
For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI

489. 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

490. And those who live as models for the mass,
Are singly of more value than they all.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Luria (Tiburzio), Act V

491. How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Othello (Iago), Act II, Scene III

492. Music, the mosaic of the air.

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

Music’s Empire, 17