Proverbial Wisdom

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

589. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI

590. Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night

591. Every one can master a grief, but he that has it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Much Ado about Nothing (Benedick), Act III,
Scene II

592. The absent Danger greater still appears,
Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Tragedy of Cleopatra (Rodon), Act IV, Scene I

593. 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

594. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Lear), Act I, Scene IV