not knowing what bed or bread did mean. The winter of 1635/6 was cold even by New England standards. That winter, Narragansett Bay froze over, an event that rarely happens. In this extreme cold, Roger Williams, a city boy from London, made his escape on foot from Salem.
Discretion is defined as the right of someone to make choices or the quality of someone who is careful about what they do or say. 1  An example of discretion is the ability of a juror to determine a verdict. 2  An example of discretion is not talking about politics at family dinners.
A completely different take on this phrase is that discretion means being discrete as in protecting people or information from exposure in some manner. If one is to be perceived as possessing valor by others, then they cannot express this by being merely brash and powerful.