PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION INTO GREEK TRAGIC IAMBIC VERSE 5 APHORISMS FROM SHAKESPEARE, 1—125. IRTUE itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. VIR He who not needs shall never lack a friend. No heart so fierce but knows some touch of pity. The worm of conscience still gnaws the soul. Why should calamity be full of words? What is the city but the people? Extremity is the trier of the spirits. Common chances common men can bear. A man is loved when he is lacked. An old man's tears are salter than a youth's. Woman is naturally born to fears. We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. 15 None can cure their harms by wailing them. 20 Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. Cowards father cowards and base things sire base. 25 Some falls are means the happier to rise. F. S. III I 30 Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion sway. Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible. The heavens are just and time suppresseth wrong. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. Women are wooed and were not made to woo. 45 Things out of hope are compassed oft with venturing. They thrive well that take counsel of their friends. Long still are lovers' hours, though seeming short. Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief. Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee. 50 Mar not what marred can never be amended. A mournful host ill brooks with merry guests. Cowardice boldly wounds a body dead. 55 60 Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow fords. Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. The law and not the judge condemns the criminal. Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. 65 Continued wrongs may make the wisest mad. 70 |