Syriac.-If ye would be king (master of yourself) become a wild ass, i.e., retire to solitude in the desert.

Beauty in the Ignorant as a Jewel in a Swine's
Snout.-PROV. II. 22.

A body may be beautiful, but the soul loathsome—such were Absalom and Jezebel.

Chanakyea. A handsome youth of high family, but without learning, is like the palas (Butea frondosa) tree,

fair to see, but without scent.

Hindu Dramatist.-Men are foolish in cherishing the gay
blossoms of the palas, whilst they neglect the fruit-
bearing amon, because its flowers are insignificant.
Drishtanta Shatak.-A bad person, though decorated,
remains the same as cowdung, which, though it
be fertilizing, does not become pleasing.
Bengal.-Outside smooth and painted, inside only straw-
like Hindu idols stuffed with straw.

Russian.-A head without a mind is a mere statue.
Urdu.-The fruit of the colocynth is good to look at, not to

taste.

Tamul.-An ignorant man is despised even by women. Afghan. My friend is black, but so is molasses black, i.e., which is the best medicine for the wounded. Persian. The diamond fallen into the dunghill is not the less precious; the dust raised by high winds to

heaven is not the less vile.

Malay.-Like a broom bound with a silk thread.
Arab.-Thorny trees produce gum.

Turk.-Man's perfection is interior; a beast's, exterior. Sanskrit. The beauty of the cuckoo is the voice; of women, chastity; of the deformed, learning; and of ascetics, patience.

Hebrew.-The bee is little among such as fly; her fruit is the chief of sweet things.

Beginning and Unable to Finish; not Counting
the Cost.-Luke 14. 28.

Bengal. The bird cannot fly, it flaps its wings in vain.
Panjabi.-Arat, too big for his hole, ties a blanket to his back.
Panjabi.-A rat, having found a bit of turmeric, set up as a

druggist.

Sanskrit. In the fighting of she-goats, in the gathering of clouds at the dawn, in the squabble of husband and wife, the beginning is great and the doings. small.

Bengal.-Digging for a worm, up rose a snake, i.e., said when quarrels arise from jesting.

Telugu.-Make the hedge when you have sowed the seed.

The Glutton's God his Belly.-PHIL. 3 19.

The Bengalis call a glutton one all belly. The Egyptians, on embalming a body, threw the belly into the river, as the cause of all sin. Meat itself is not sinful, but the inordinate desire of it, longing after delicacies, eating at unseasonable times, Ecc. 10. 16, 17, eating too much, Luke 21. 34, injuring the understanding, Prov. 23. 21. Solomon says put a knife to thy throat if thou be given to appetite, Prov. 23. 2. Isaac's appetite was a snare to him, Gen. 25. 28, 27. 4: so Esau's, Gen. 25. 30; Eli's sons, I Sam. 2. 12; Belshazzar, Dan. 5. I ;. not so Daniel's, Dan. 1. 8-16.

Veman.-Why suffer anxiety for the belly? As to having
a belly, the frog that lives in a rock is thy equal.
Tamul.—The epicure digs his grave with his teeth.
China. His eyes are bigger than his stomach.*
Russian.-A full stomach is deaf to instruction.

Fool come to thrash-my stomach is aching.

Fool come to take wine-stop, let me take my caftan (coat) from the nail

i.e., he is great at drinking, slow at work.

Talmud. The lion roars, not in a crib full of straw, but in one full of flesh; i.e., fulness of bread leading to pride. Arab. The belly of a man is his enemy.

Afghans express their belief that the evils of gluttony arise more from the man than the food, by the following: "Though the food was another's, the mouth is your own;" i.e., you eat too much, and you throw the blame on the food.

Telugu. He slipped, fell, and then said the ground was unlucky.

* We have the same in English-which was the first used?

Talmud.-Eight things are difficult to enjoy in abundance, but in moderation are good: Labour, sleep,

riches, journeyings, love, warm water, bleeding,

and wine.

Afghan. The full stomach speaks Persian, i.e., makes one proud. Persian as spoken only by the learned adds to their pride.

Book Cram.-2 TIM. 3. 7.

Mrichhakate.-Nature is woman's teacher, and she learns more sense than man, the pedant, gleans from books.

Talmud. He is a box of books, i.e., learning without judgment, or use of it.

Tamul. He who is very learned is a learned fool. Persian.-One pound of learning requires ten of common sense to acquire it.

Sanskrit. Is the man possessed of books a pandit? Sanskrit.-Women are instructed by Nature, the learning of men is taught by books.

Telugu.—Though he have read all that can be read, and be an acute disputant, never shall the hypocrite attain to final happiness. His meditations are

like those of a dog on the dunghill.

Sanskrit.-Learning in the book is not learning, and money

in the hand of another is not money, in a time of need.

Anger rests in the Fool's Bosom.—Ecc. 7. 9.

The bosom is the seat of love, so Christ carries the lambs of the Church in his bosom, Is. 40. II. The beggar rested in Abraham's bosom, Luke 16. 22.

Christ took on him our natural infirmities; he wept, and was angry, on the Sabbath question, Mark 3. 5, in driving away the money-changers, John 2. 13, 17, which shows there might be gall in a dove, passion without sin, fire without smoke, and motion without disturbance, for it is not bare agitation, but the sediment at the bottom which troubles and defiles the water, and when we see it windy and dusty, the wind does not make, but only

rest in it, as it did with

raises, a dust; true anger, like the sword of justice, is keen but innocent, Eph. 4. 26; it sparkles like the coal on the altar with the fervour of pity. Anger passes through a wise man's heart, but does not Cain, Gen. 4. 5-8, with Jacob's sons, Gen. 34. 7; and with Herod, Mat. 2. 16. A gust of anger puts holy feelings to flight, as with David, 1 Sam. 25, Elijah, 1 Kings 19. 4, Job, 3. 1, Jonah, 4. 4, Paul.

Telugu.-Getting angry with a rat and setting a house on fire.

Bengal.-Cutting off one's nose to hinder another's journey. Bengal. His anger exploded like gunpowder.

Bengal. Should an angry man retire even to the forest there is no peace for him.

Malay-Anger has no eyes.

Modern Greek.-Anger is the last that grows old. Arab. Three things are only known in the following waya hero in war, a friend in necessity, and a wise

man in anger.

Arab.-Anger is the fire of the heart. Prov. 25. 28. Telugu.-A man ignorant of his own powers and those of his opponent, blustering in wrath, is like a bear performing the torch-dance, i.e., in which of course he will be burnt.

Arab.-Cure your anger by silence.

Sanskrit.-A good man's anger lasts an instant, a meddling man's for two hours, a base man's a day and night, a great sinner's until death.

Braying a Fool in a Mortar.—PROV. 27. 22.

Veman compares the trying to produce good qualities in a crooked heart to pouring milk and sugar over brambleberries, and boiling them, which will give no flavour. In Turkey great criminals were beaten to pieces in huge mortars of iron in which they usually pounded their rice. The Jews were in Babylon under captivity, yet were their proud hearts not humbled; God sent them messengers, but they ill-treated them; the Chaldeans came,

yet they bound the Prophet Ezekiel, Ezek. 2. 3. The plough breaks the earth in many places, but does not better it if nothing is put in; if nothing be sown, thorns and thistles will come up so afflictions may break our estate, yet if God do not sanctify these afflictions they yield only the harvest of tares. Mere affliction changes not the disposition, as the fire softens not a stone; pour vinegar from vessel to vessel it never becomes wine, Is. 1. 5.

Sanskrit.-Whoever treats kindly a bad man, ploughs the sky, paints a picture on water, and bathes the wind with water. Tit. 3. 10.

Telugu. No man's disposition will alter, say what we may; neither can a dog's tail be made straight; the stubborn woman will put her husband in a basket and sell him.

Sanskrit. It is possible to stop an elephant with a kick; for everything there is a remedy; but no cure for the headstrong.

The Shameless have a Brow of Brass.-Is. 48. 4. Brass is a strong metal, hence the brazen serpent in the wilderness was made of it, Num. 21. 9; so were the gates of Babylon. The sinners' obstinacy is compared to a brow of brass; while the righteous, on the other hand, set their faces like a flint against sin of the former were Pharaoh, Ex. 5. 1; Saul, 1 Sam. 15. 9-23; Jeroboam, 1 Kings 12. 28-33—of the latter, Jacob, Gen. 32. 24-28; David, I Sam. 17. 45; Stephen, Acts 7. 57.

Sinners are also said to have a hard or stony heart, a seared conscience, to be past feeling; they are likened to the deaf adder which will not hear the voice of the serpent-charmer. Such were Samuel's sons, I Sam. 2. 25, 6. 11; Jerusalem, Ez. 9. 9, 10.

Finnish. The pig does not blush for its face.

Shanti Shatak.-Dogs delight to devour human bones, which are so disgusting, filled as they are with worms and moisture, and they eagerly lick the putrid