Y fieren de arcos en tiempos devidos.
Ca estos por saña no son comovidos,
Nin vana cobdicia los tiene subjetos,
Nin quieren tesoros, ni sienten defetos,
Nin turba fortuna sus libres sentidos.
[636] There is another collection of proverbs made by the Marquis of Santillana, that is to be found in Mayans y Siscar, “Orígenes de la Lengua Castellana” (Tom. II. pp. 179, etc.). They are, however, neither rhymed nor glossed; but simply arranged in alphabetical order, as they were gathered from the lips of the common people, or, as the collector says, “from the old women in their chimney-corners.” For an account of the printed editions of the rhymed proverbs prepared for Prince Henry, see Mendez, Typog. Esp., p. 196, and Sanchez, Tom. I. p. xxxiv. The seventeenth proverb, or that on Prudence, may be taken as a fair specimen of the whole, all being in the same measure and manner. It is as follows:—
Si fueres gran eloquente
Bien será,
Pero mas te converrá
Ser prudente.