"Why urge yee me? My hart doth boyle with heate And will not stoope to any of your lures: A burnt child dreads the ffyre."--Timon, c. 1590. [72:B] Ovid writes: "Tranquillas etiam naufragus horret aquas"--the man who has been wrecked dreads still water. The Portuguese make the cat the subject of their proverb--"Gato escaldado d'agua fria tem medo." [73:A] We need scarcely point out that any reference to the use of any proverb is not intended to imply that this is the only use of it by that writer. "Yet gold is not that doth golden seem" is equally Shakespeare with the quotation given above. One passage will ordinarily suffice, but not because it is the only one available. [74:A] The story is told by Pausanias: "Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra."--_Horace._ [77:A] "Stones and idle words are things not to be thrown at random." [82:A] "Petit à petit l'oiseau fait son nid." [83:A] "What cloke for the rayne so ever yee bring mee, Myselfe can tell best where my shoee doth wring mee."--_Heywood._ [83:B] In "Cymbeline" Shakespeare writes-- "But that you shall not say I yield, being silent, I would not speak." It was a proverb of Ancient Rome, "Qui tacet consentire videtur," and in Modern Italy it reappears as "Chi ta ce confessa." In France it is "Assez consent qui ne dit mot." [85:A] Or, to quote another expressive and homely English proverb, "The chimney-sweep told the collier to go wash his face." In France they say "La pêle se moque du fourgon," the shovel makes game of the poker. [85:B] "Burden not thyself above thy power, and have no fellowship with one that is mightier or richer than thyself. For how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? For if one be smitten against the other it shall be broken."--_Ecclesiasticus_ xiii. 2. [85:C] "An yll wynd that blowth no man good."--HEYWOOD, _Song against Idleness_, 1540. "It is an old proverb and a true, I sware by the roode, It is an il wind that blows no man to good." --"Marriage of Wit and Wisdom," 1570. CHAPTER IV National Idiosyncrasies -- The Seven Sages of Greece -- Know Thyself -- The Laconic "If" -- Ancient Greek Proverbs -- Roman Proverbs -- The Proverbs of Scotland: Strong Vein of Humour in them -- Spanish and Italian Proverbs -- The Proverbs of France -- The "Comédie des Proverbes" -- The Proverbs of Spain: their Popularity and Abundance; Historic Interest: their Bibliography -- Italian Proverbs: their Characteristics -- The Proverbs of Germany -- Chinese Adages: their Excellence -- Japanese Proverbs: their Poetry and Beauty -- Arab Sayings: their Servility: their Humour -- Eastern Delight in Stories -- African Sayings: their pithy Wisdom -- The Proverb-philosophy of the Talmud.