[199] The following have all a right to be termed Christian proverbs: Chi non vuol servir ad un solo Signor, à molti ha da servir;—E padron del mondo chi lo disprezza, schiavo chi lo apprezza;—Quando Dios quiere, con todos vientos llueve. [200] Perimus licitis. [201] Non quam late sed quam læte habites, refert.—Mas vale un pedazo de pan con amor, que gallinas con dolor. [202] Quien siembra abrojos, no ande descalzo. Compare the Latin: Si vultur es, cadaver expecta; and the French: Maudissons sont feuilles; qui les seme, il les recueille. [203] No se mou la fulla, que Deu no ha vulla. This is one of the proverbs of which the peculiar grace and charm nearly disappears in the rendering. [204] Quien à dos señores ha de servir, al uno ha de mentir. [205] Verum mihi videtur illud: Dives aut iniquus, aut iniqui hæres. Out of a sense of the same, as I take it, the striking Italian proverb had its rise: Mai diventò fiume grande, chi non v’entrasse acqua torbida. [206] Πολλοί τοι ναρθηκοφόροι, παῦροι δέ τε βάκχοι. [207] The fact which this proverb proclaims, of a great gulf existing between what men profess and what they are, is one too frequently repeating itself and thrusting itself on the notice of all, not to have found its utterance in an infinite variety of forms, although none perhaps so deep and poetical as this. Thus there is another Greek line, fairly represented by this Latin: Qui tauros stimulent multi, sed rarus arator; and there is the classical Roman proverb: Non omnes qui habent citharam, sunt citharœdi; and the medieval rhyming verse: Non est venator quivis per cornua flator; and this Eastern word: _Hast thou mounted the pulpit, thou art not therefore a preacher_; with many more. [208] Qui me amat, amat et canem meum. (_In Fest. S. Mich. Serm._ 1, § 3.) [209] Libera me ab homine malo, a meipso. [210] Ὀψὲ Θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλοι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά. We may compare the Latin: Habet Deus suas horas, et moras; and the Spanish: Dios no se queja, mas lo suyo no lo deja. [211] Dii laneos habent pedes. [212] _Life_, vol. i. p. 312. [213] Wo der Teufel nicht hin mag kommen, da send er seinen Boten hin. [214] La farina del diavolo se ne và in semola. APPENDIX. ON THE METRICAL LATIN PROVERBS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (See p. 29.)