Insatiable desires counted

The leech has two daughters named Give, and four things do not say Enough

The horseleach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yes, four that do not say, It is enough: the grave; the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that does not say, It is enough.

Leech and Give, give are appetite that only knows intake. Grave, dry earth, and fire are never-full forces. The barren womb in this list is the old ache of unfilled desire for a child, treated as an unappeasable longing, not a verdict on women, not a shame on infertility, and not a command that every woman must want children. The point of the four is insatiability, not a ranking of griefs.

The eye that mocks a father and scorns an old mother is left to the birds

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young eagles will eat it. The eye is the organ of contempt. Carrion birds are the proverb's hard picture of an unburied end, the opposite of honored age. It is fierce rhetoric against scorn of parents, not a forecast you may wish on a neighbor, and not a rule that every parent must be obeyed into harm.

Give, give and the mocking eye are kin: one cannot stop taking, the other cannot honor the people who gave it life.