proverbs (proverbs as evidence); (as maxims); (as metaphors). Particular proverbs (in prose or verse), ‘evils draw men together’ (‘misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows,’ Tempest, Act ii, Sc. 2); ‘to break the pitcher at the door’ (‘labour lost,’ ‘many a slip,’ &c.): the verse-quotations in the same passage may also be regarded as proverbial; ‘benefits of all kinds on all occasions’; ‘sweet is variety,’ ‘gratae vices’; ‘mate delights mate,’ ‘like to like,’ ‘beast knows beast,’ ‘jackdaw to jackdaw’ (‘crabbed age,’ ‘birds of a feather,’ &c.) ‘Mysian prey’ (i.e. an easy prey, a helpless victim); ‘wickedness needs but a pretext’; ‘never show an old man kindness’; (and ), ‘Fool who slayeth the father,’ &c.; (and), ‘potter against potter’ (‘two of a trade’); , ‘to pick a corpse’s pocket,’ ‘to rob the dead’; ‘shame dwells in the eyes’; ‘kin can even be jealous of their kin’; and ‘cicalas chirping on the ground’; ‘the one best omen is our country’s cause’: this line, and perhaps the half-line in may be reckoned a proverb as well as a maxim; ‘the War-God showeth no favour’; ‘an Attic neighbour’; ‘to buy the marsh with the salt’ (‘to take the fat with the lean’); ‘fish need salt,’ and ‘olive-cakes need oil’; ‘the dog-less house,’ and ‘open-handed Hermes’ (‘Shares!’); ‘Caunian love’; ‘the Carpathian and the hare’; ‘the man who carries the beam’ (‘stiff as a poker,’ ‘the man who swallowed a poker