"For it is a prouerbe, and an olde sayd sawe
That in euery place lyke to lyke wyll drawe."—(II. 35.)
"Better haue one birde sure within thy wall
Or fast in a cage than twenty score without"—(II. 74)
"Gapynge as it were dogges for a bone."—(II. 93.)
"Pryde sholde haue a fall."—(II. 161).
"For wyse men sayth ...
One myshap fortuneth neuer alone."
"Clawe where it itchyth."—(II. 256.) [The use of this, it occurs again in the Eclogues, might be regarded by some of our Southern friends, as itself a sufficient proof of the author's Northern origin.]
The following are selected from the Eclogues as the most remarkable: