it is this: Timidus Plutus: and has sometimes suggested to me the question whether he might not have had it in his mind when he composed his great sonnet in prospect of the invasion: “These times touch monied worldlings with dismay;” not that his genius needed any such solicitation from without; for the poem is only the natural outgrowth of that spirit and temper in which the whole series of noble and ennobling poems, the _Sonnets to Liberty_, is composed, and in perfect harmony with the rest; yet is it, notwithstanding, in a very wonderful way shut up in the two words of the ancient proverb. [162] Τῇ χειρὶ δεῖ σπείρειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ ὅλῳ τῷ θυλάκῳ. [163] Giv saa i Dag, at du og kandst give i morgen.—Giv een at du kand give en anden. [164] L’ultimo vestito ce lo fanno senza tasche. [165] This is the English form of that worthy old classical proverb: Φεύγων μύλον, ἄλφιτα φεύγει, or in Latin: Qui vitat molam, vitat farinam. [166] Ahont anirás, bou, que no llaures? I prefer this form of it to the Spanish: Adonde yrá el buey, que no are? [167] Pereza, llave de pobreza. [168] Dii facientes adjuvant. [169] According to the Spanish proverb: Quien bien ata, bien desata. [170] Quien tiene boca, no diga á otro, Sopla. [171] Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. [172] Nondum omnium dierum sol occidit. [173] Il mondo è, di chi ha pazienza. [174] Se ben ho perso l’anello, ho pur anche le dita;—Si se perdieron los anillos, aqui quedaron los dedillos. [175] In their bastard French it runs thus: Gambette ous trouvé nen gan chimin, nen gan chimin ous va pèdè li. It may have been originally French, at any rate the French have a proverb very much to the same effect: Ce qui vient par la flute, s’en va par le tambour; and compare the modern Greek proverb: Ἀνεμομαζώματα, δαιμονοσκορπίσματα. (What the wind gathers, the devil scatters.) [176] Εὕδοντι κύρτος αἱρεῖ.—Dormienti rete trahit. The reader with a _Plutarch’s Lives_ within his reach may turn to the very instructive little history told in connexion with this proverb, of Timotheus the Athenian commander; an history which only requires to be translated into Christian language to contain a deep moral for all. (_Sulla_, c. 6.) [177] Sera in imo parsimonia. [178] Seneca (_Ep._ i.): Non enim tantum _minimum_ in imo, sed _pessimum_ remanet. [179] Morgenstund’ hat Gold im Mund. [180] Lo que hace el loco á la postre, hace sabio al principio. [181] Henry More, _On Godliness_, b. 8. How remarkable a confirmation of the fact asserted in that proverb and in this passage lies in the twofold uses of the Greek word κακοήθεια; having, for its first meaning, an evil disposition in a man’s self, it has for its second an interpreting on his part for the worst of all the actions of other men. LECTURE VI. THE THEOLOGY OF PROVERBS.