“Maudit soit le premier dont la verve insensee
Dans las bornes d’un vers renferma sa pensée,
Et dormant a ses mots une etroite prison,
Voulut avec la rime enchainer la raison.”
“Upon his senseless whim be laid my curse
Who first did trim his thought to fit a verse,
And, penning all his words in dungeon strait,
Compelled his reason on his rhyme to wait.”
“Mauvaise graine est tot venue.”
“Ill weeds grow apace.”
“Mauvaise haste n’est preus.”
Jacquemart Gielee. Eenart le Nouvel, line 1034.
“Ill haste doth nothing profit.”
“Me pensais tu veufve de ma vertu
Comme d’ Antoine?"
“Didst think that I was eke ray virtue’s widow,
As I am Antony’s?”
“Mefiance est toujours mere de surete.”
Fabre d’ Églantine, Act I., Sc. VI.—(La Sœur.)
“Mistrust is mother of security.”
Mefie2-vous d’une femme qui parle de sa vertu.”
Minotauriques, XIV. (P. 390.)
“Mistrust a woman who talks of her virtue.”
“Melz voeill murir que hunte nus salt retraite.”
Chanson DE Roland. Line 1701.
“Let death our portion be sooner than shame.”
“Meme quand Toiseau marche on sent qu’il a des ailes.”
“E’en when birds walk we feel that they have wings.”
“Menaces moy de vivre et non pas de mourir.”
Sallebray. La Troade, Act II., Sc. IV.—(Andromaq’ue.)
“Threat me with living, threat me not with death.”
“Mentir pour son avantage a soi-même est imposture, mentir pour
l’avantage d’autrui est fraude, mentir pour uuire est calomnie.”
“To lie for one’s own advantage is imposture, to lie for the advantage of
others is fraud, to lie for the purpose of harming is calunmy.”
“Mès ki ne mustre s’enferte,
A paines puet aveir sante.”
Marie de France. Lai de Gugemer, line 483.
“He who shows not his hurt
Shall hardly find a balm.”
