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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.
Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
The bowl dispels corroding cares.
The bowl dispels corroding cares.
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
