“Se barbes le sens en usent,
Bouch at chevres moult sage fusent.”
Anon.i Le Gouronnemens Benart, line 2321.
“If a long beard good sense implies,
Then is the goat exceeding wise.”
“Se faire valoir par des choses qui ne dependent point des autres
mais de soi seul, ou renoncer a se faire valoir.”
La Beuyere. CaracUres. Du Merite Personnel, XI.
“We must base our claim to distinction on those things which depend not
on others but on ourselves, or else renounce our claim.”
“Se pare qui voudra des noms de ses aieux:
Moi, je ne veux porter que moi-même en tous lieux;
Je ne veux rien devoir a ceux qui m’ont fait naitre,
Et suis assez connu sans les faire connaître.
Ma valeur est ma race, et men bras est mon pére.”
“Let who will drape him in his father’s name,
I on myself alone will build my fame;
To those who gave me birth I’ll nothing owe,
I need not make them known, for me ye know,
My valour is my race, my arm’s my sire.”
“Se peignoit du peigne de Almain, c’estoit des quatre doigts et le poulce.”
“He combed his hair with the comb of Germany, to wit, the four fingers
and the thumb.”
“(II faudra) se soumettre ou se demettre.”
Gambetta. Discours à Lille, 15 Août, 1877.
“We must have either submission or demission.”
“Secret de Polichinelle.”
“Punch’s secret.”
“Selon vraye discipline militaire, jamais ne fault mettre son enemy en lieu de desespoir; parce que telle necessity luy multiplie la force, et accroist le couraige qui ja estoit deject et failly.”
“According to the true art of war, we should ne’er bring the enemy to the pitch of despair, for such straits do but multiply his strength and revive his courage which was before dejected and weakened.”
“Semiramis du Nord.”
“The Semiramis of the North.”
Perhaps by Marie de France.
J
