Among the thorns and dangers of this world.—King John, iv. 3.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward.—Prov. xxii. 5.
When we first put this dangerous stone a rolling,
’Twould fall upon ourselves.—Henry VIII., v. 2.
He that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.—Prov. xxvi. 27.
The speech of Ulysses, in “Troilus and Cressida,” i. 3, is almost a paraphrase of St. Luke xxi. 25, 26:—
But when the planets
In evil mixture to disorder wander,
What plagues, and what portents! What mutiny!
What raging of the sea! Shaking of earth!