s

University of California

Berkeley

Frcm the estate of

JOAN WESCOTT

WITH

APHORISMS, ADAGES, AND PROVERBS, OF ALL AGES AND NATIONS,

FROM

JACOB CATS AND ROBERT FARLIE.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FREELY RENDERED,
FROM DESIGNS FOUND
IN

THEIR WORKS,

BY JOHN LEIGHTON,
THE WHOLE

F.S.A.

TRANSLATED AND EDITED, WITH ADDITIONS,

BY RICHARD PIGOT.

LONDON
1860.

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS.

V,

P3INTKH,

1I1IKA1)

STIIKKT Hill..

LIBROS Y AMIGOS,

TO

WILLIAM STIRLING,

ESQRE.

(OF

KEIR)

M.P.

A LEARNED COLLECTOR
BIAL

OF THE PROVER-

PHILOSOPHY OF ALL AGES AND

NATIONS, THIS ATTEMPT TO REVIVE

A LOVE FOR

EMBLEMATICAL

LITERATURE AND ART

IS

DEDICATED
BY

JOHN LEIGHTON.

LONDON

1860.

POCOS

Y BUENOS.

A GOOD NAME

IS

BETTER THAN A GOLDEN GIRDLE.

INTRODUCTION.
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Doctrines by Symbolical in remote antiquity, and subsequently became a Images and Devices had its origin favourite method of imparting counsel and instruction with the Greeks and Romans, it was not until the middle of the sixteenth century that it began to assume (first
the
truths
in Italy) the character of a distinct

ALTHOUGH

Typification of Moral

and

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kind of

literature.

Ul

that century, the poetic genius of the erudite Andrea of Alciati, Milan, imparted so pleasing an impress to this new style of literature,
as to direct thereto the attention of

Towards the 'end of

men

of

letters,

with

whom

it

soon became

a favourite

medium

for the diffusion

and popularization of moral maxims applicable

life.

to all the phases

and circumstances of human

The Emblems

of Alciati, written in Latin verse, and eulogized by such

men

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as Erasmus, Julius Scaliger, Toscan, Neander,

into the Italian, French,

and Borrichius, were soon translated

so highly esteemed,

and German languages, and became

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that they were publicly read in the Schools, to teach youth the Art of
writing.

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Thus
men,

established,

as

"Word and Eye-pictures, the virtues of

in France,

an elegant and useful method of inculcating, both by civil life ; men of learning, poets, and states-

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were, throughout the

Holland, Germany, Spain, and England, vied with each other, as it seventeenth century, in the cultivation of this branch of
it

Composition, insomuch that

in public favour

had become a favourite and admired medium

for

the diffusion of Religious, Social,

and

Political

maxims, and maintained

century.

that position

up

to the

end of the eighteenth

In the seventeenth century, Printing, and

in

its sister

art Engraving,

had attained
;

Holland to a higher grade of perfection than

in

any other country of Europe

and, favoured by circumstances so auxiliary to the artistic illustration of works in the then not inaptly-termed " Picture Language," the poetic genius of a Jacob

Cats found, in the pencils of Jan and Adrian Van De Venne, and the burins of Matham, Pet de Jode, Verstralen, Van Bremden, and others, artistic exponents worthy of his muse, and equal to his most ardent desires.

WISDOM FREQUENTLY CONQUERS FORTUNE.

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WISDOM

IS

BETTER THAN RUBIES:

Introduction.

D. JACOB CATS, the eminent Dutch Jurisconsult, Statesman, and Poet, was born Brouwershaven in the Isle of Schouwen, province of Zeeland, on the loth November, 1577. His father was a counsellor of some standing and his son Jacob
at
;

was

first

destined to the profession of the law.

Having completed

his course of phi-

losophy, he proceeded to the University of Leyden, to study jurisprudence. From thence he went to France, and was some time at the University of Orleans, where

he took the degree of Doctor of Laws. He subsequently went to Paris, and was visit desirous to but his ; Italy very family opposed his going thither, and he was to return to Holland. Arrived at the Hague, he applied himself wholly to obliged
jurisprudence, and was assiduous in his attendance at the Public Pleadings of the

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most distinguished lawyers. To perfect himself still more in his profession, he put himself under the direction of the jurisconsult, Cornelius Van der Pol, one of the
distinction at Zieuwreckzee,

most eminent pleaders of the Dutch Bar. Some time afterwards, Cats practised with and at Brouwershaven. At this period it would seem he

applied himself no less assiduously to Poetry, and not only became distinguished among the literati of Holland for the purity and elegance of his Latin verses, but
first lyrists in his native tongue. Falling seriously of an hectic fever, induced by over-application to study, he was advised by his physicians to seek a change of air.
ill

soon took rank as one of her

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Hereupon he repaired to England, and visited the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. When in London he consulted the then celebrated physician, Dr. Butter, on the subject of the obstinate fever which still afflicted him; but that physician was not more fortunate in his prescriptions than those of Holland. Upon
his return to his native country,

he was eventually cured, says his biographer, Moreri,

by an old alchemyst.
Distinguishing himself by his legislatorial and statesmanlike qualifications, no

less

Official

than he had done by his poetic genius, Jacob Cats rose subsequently to high rank, and for several years filled the post of State Pensionary and Chief

He was eventually promoted to the Magistrate of Middleburgh and Dordrecht. rank of State Counsellor and Grand Pensionary of the province of West Friesland, and
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made Keeper

of the Great Seal of Holland.

After

filling

these important Offices for

eighteen years, having

now
;

attained the age of seventy-two, he requested permission

at length

to retire into private life

which was

granted by the States.

His valuable
form a

services were, nevertheless, once

more

required, and he was

solicited to

member

of the

Embassy

sent at that time to England, to arrange a treaty of

com-

merce between the two countries.

delegated
faculties

After discharging the important duties therein

into

to him, he retired wholly

private

life,

and devoted himself with

advanced age of eighty-three years, up when he may be said to have expired with the pen in his hand. Few men have left behind them greater proofs of indefatigable industry than Jacob Cats ; and his
still

unimpaired to the Muses,

to the

numerous lyrical works are as rich in poetic genius as they are replete with evidence of world-knowledge and genial with the love of mankind.

ITS FRUIT

IS

BETTER THAN GOLD.

HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR

Introduction.

IS

DUE.

Would
and

the

limits
life

allotted

to

this

Introduction

permit of

more detailed
in

account of the

and works of

this

highly gifted, good man, numerous incidents

passages in both might be adduced, which would

awaken

the breasts

(for he was especially the poetic champion of the worth and virtues of the fair sex) an appreciation and esteem of his genius and character, as great Almost as that felt for him by his own countrymen and women
:

of Englishmen and

women

among whom Father

Cats, as he

is

affectionately called, is
still

honoured

as the

bard of

Home and
countrymen

of the Domestic hearth, the

in the Virtues of Social life,

and

in the

popular and revered instructor of his Maxims of purest world-wisdom.

Daniel Heinsius rendered

The " Moral Emblems "

his tribute of eulogy, as

of Jacob Cats, to which

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two of Holland's greatest lyrists, Hoogstraaten and Zeeuwes, are almost unknown, even by name, in England, from being chiefly written in the Dutch language, of which it has been truly said, that " it has been a language
also

too hastily neglected and despised by Englishmen."

They
a period

form, nevertheless, in the collect, a series of the most admirable com-

positions in

when

Emblematic Literature which any language can boast, though written at the Dutch tongue, like the rest of the northern European languages,
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was yet rigid and quaint in its structure, and so different in its orthographical style and idiom to the Dutch of the present day, that to most modern Dutch scholars his
earlier

works are almost a sealed book.

Nevertheless,

when Cats wrote

in the verna-

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cular of his day, the

Dutch language,

like that of his

contemporary, Shakespeare, had

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been developing
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capabilities of harmony combined with vigour of expression, quite equal to our own, as an exponent of poetic thought and imagery, and was one in
his

which no writer of
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day knew better how to speak to the

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feelings of his country-

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men, and win their hearts by the pleasantly conveyed wisdom words" than Jacob Cats.

of his " household

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"

his

" Sinne en
first

Minne Beelden," and

poet.

his

"

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Emblemata Moralia
Dutch and Latin

et

CEconoQJ

mica,

Jacob Cats

established his fame, both as a classical writer, an amiable

moralist,

and a popular

The former
distich in

written in

verse,

each

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theme accompanied by a short

versatility of his poetic genius

French

verse, gave

evidence both of the

and of

his linguistic talent.

The

success achieved

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by these compositions encouraged him to carry out his predilection for this style of and some time after he gave to the world his writing in a yet more extended form
;

"

" Mirrors of the Past and Spiegel van den Voorleden en Tegenwoordigen Tyt," or Present Time," in which he emblematised, in Dutch verse, the numerous proverbs
his

and sayings of antiquity, together with the most popular and current adages of day, in most of the European languages.

treatment of which he evinced as

out
the

The above-named Emblematic works comprise many hundred subjects, in the much ingenuity as poetic grace, in working them so as to render them a charming Code of Moral Instruction, addressed alike to
sexes,

Youth of both

and applicable

to every phase of Civil

and

Political

life.

INGENIO STAT SINE

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MORTE DECUS.

INQENUAS DIDICISSE FIDELITER ARTES,

Introduction,
every subject of his Word-Pictures, he appends, in support of the moral he inculcates, the most pertinent quotations from the Ancient writers, and a most interesting collect of

To

Popular adages, bearing upon the sense of each theme.

From

so rich a

mine of Emblematic

lore, the present

series,

volume forms, of course,

but a selection from each of the above-named

therefore be placed in the
;

the subjects of which could not

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same order

as in the originals, without the appearance of

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meagreness while the embodiment of the subjects selected in the present form will, it is hoped, be found more pleasing as a whole, and best calculated to give an idea
of the diversity of subject treated by the Author.

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Joshua Reynolds, when a youth, was much influenced by the Artistic excellence of Adrian Van de Venne's Designs for the illustration of the Dutch
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Folio Edition of Cats'

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Works, of which he

made

careful

copies

and

Sir

Wm.

Beechy, in his Life of Reynolds, states that "Sir Joshua's richest store was Jacob Cats' Book of Emblems, which his grandmother, a native of Holland, had brought
with her from that country."

Reproduced with the best appliances of Modern Art, in the Pictorial Illustration of the word-pictures of the Author, the original designs of Adrian Van de Venne, in
a few instances only, have been deviated from, in so far as was deemed most consistent with the more elevated taste of the present day in pictorial embellishment.

The Proverbs

of the different nations,

that

wisdom which of

all

others sprang

from the bosom of the Peoples in every land, and was handed down from generation to generation, rather orally than by books, form so pleasing and instructive a feature

Emblems of Cats, that they have been for the most part preserved in their literal garb of Cats' day, an adhesion to the original which it is believed will have a greater
in the

charm and
in

interest for the student of Languages, curious to see the

the traditionally acquired

wisdom of long past days was expressed the more polished garb of modern times.

until

shape in which it reached us

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in sense,

Wherever admissible, passages from English and other Authors, having an affinity and moral, to the Emblem or theme, have been introduced, by way of

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elaborating, or of giving

more weight

to the doctrine inculcated

by the Author.

from Cats' Moral Emblems of a reprint of the Poems and Emblems of his contemporary Emblematist, the pious Scot, ROBERT FARLIE, published in London under the title of " Lychnocausia,"

appendage

to this

selection

The now
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exceedingly rare and curious

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in 1638, will,

it

is

moralist,

and

their juxtaposition in

hoped, be considered a not unpleasing associate for the Dutch the same volume give an additional interest

to the whole.

THE TRANSLATOR.

EMOL.LIT MORES, NEC SINIT ESSE FEROS.

NON

G^UO,

SED QUOMODO.

LIST OF

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PORTRAIT OF JACOB CATS
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Under

allegorical figure of Universal Justice, supported

;

on one side
Infancy

by Solomon, Confncius, and ^Esop

upon the other by Age

;

instructing

and

Adolescence, in the presence of Labour and Travel Plenty are contrasted with the violent acts of
the centre foreground
is

whilst in the background Peace

and
In

man

against the will of

Supreme Power.

a vase of flowers surrounded by choke-weeds

type of elevated nature

a constant prey to the coarser elements.

"

On

the base are sculptured bas-reliefs,

fits
;

" Suum

cuique
the true

.......
shall't

Let each apply to himself that

which him
. .

" Bonus cum bonis "

The just with

LEIGHTON.

Frontispiece, engraved by
will

None can
4
IN

clean their dress from stain, but

/ lurke and shine

Act wisely and thou

03
\

Diogenes Lanterne

.... ........ .... ..... ....

be
free
.

some blemish

remain

LEIGHTON.

GREEN.
DALZIEL. DALZIEL.

9
12

Whither the breath of

Whilst

my mistress
.

calls

me

I breathe, I hope
.

13

If poor, act cautiously

.........
.
. .

...... .....
. . . . .

GREEN.
LEIGHTON.

WHYMPER.
LEIGHTON.

16
1

Light onely

is

my praise
little

Rest content where thou art

Better with a

20
2
1

Love takes possession of

the

24
25

I lay open
The

here onely

inexpert are

wounded

28

Hence commeth

my filth

29
32

While we draw, we are drawn

...... .... ..... .... ....... .......... ........ .....

. . . .
. . .

GREEN.

DE WILDE.
LEIGHTON.

mind

insensibly

DE WILDE.
GREEN.
LEIGHTON.

GREEN.
LEIGHTON.

Upward

MANY MEN, MANY MINDS,

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LABOUR

IS

THE SALT OF
and
Illustrations.

Contents
33

Both

sides should

be seen
to

Engraved by LEIGHTON.

36
37

Darknesse addeth glory

me
no one

Who
So

is

hurtful to himself, benefits

....
it

LEIGHTON.

GREEN.

40
41

I am

undon. by doing good

til

LEIGHTON
at last

The

pot goeth so long to the water,

commeth broken home

GREEN. GREEN.
GREEN.
LEIGHTON.
LEIGHTON.

44
45

Whither

my

soule

Play, but chastely

48
49
52

My life is my death
Hasten
So
at leisure
'

to die is

miserable

LEIGHTON.

56
57

The Lanterne

leades the

way

..,.
last
..

GREEN
GREEN.
LEIGHTON.

Smoke

is

the food of Lovers

60
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Fire fottoweth smoake

61

Each deplores

his

own

lot

GREEN.
DALZIEL.

64
65
'68

I nourish
Every flower

myselfe
loses its

perfume at

DALZIEL.

I will dye,
Many

but

I shall ascend
. . .

LEIGHTON.
,
..

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a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip

GREEN.
..

72
7

Light me, I shal sigh no more

Love, like a
ball, requires to

LEIGHTON.
DALZIEL.

be thrown back

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77

Quickly or

I am

consumed

DE
.

WILDE.

The

biter bitten

GREEN.

80

My light is net the lesse

The branches may be
In vaine thou puttest me out

GREEN
.

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81

trained, but not the trunk

LEIGHTON.

84
85

LEIGHTON.
.

When

slovenly servants get tidy, they polish the bottoms of the saucepans

LEIGHTON.

'Tis better to tarry

LEIGHTON.

89
92

Grease the

fat

sow

SMYTHE.

Altero extinguor, Altero accendor (The one puts

me out,

the other kindles

me) GREEN.

93

Play with the dog, and

he'll spoil

your clothes
less.

GREEN.
.

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96
97
too
101

I am

consumed more, and shine

Bees touch no fading flowers

....

(Magis consumer minus luceo)

GREEN.
DALZIEL

You feared me whilst

I skined

LEIGHTON
JACKSON.

One

rotten apple infects all in the basket

104
105
I

Farewell

DE

WILDE.

am

touched, not broken by the waves

not thy light
'.

GREEN.

108
109
112 113

I envie

GREEN
JACKSON.
.

Birdes of one feather will flocke together

If thou abroad,

I at home
hand

LEIGHTON.

The

ripe pear falls ready to the

LEIGHTON. LEIGHTON.

116

My light escapes thee

PERSEVERANCE VIENT A BOUT DE TOUT.

xiv

AS MUSIC TUNES THE EAR, AND COLOURS TUTOR THE EYE,

Contents
Page 201
204
205

and

Illustrations.

Great cry and

little

wool
(I

Sursun

Peto, deorsiim trahor.

bend up, and

-..-... Engraved am drawn down)

:

by SWAIN.
.

LEIGHTON.

Cripple will always lead the dance

LEIGHTON
..
..
.

208 209
212

Herostratus his light

Fire,

..../'
.

...'.'.
.

LEIGHTON. LEIGHTON.

Cough, Love, and Money are not long concealed

is

Death

gaine

to

me
to his

DE WILDE.
beak
I die)
.
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111

213
2 16

Every bird sings according

LEIGHTON

217

splendors aut situ consumer. (Either by light or mouldiness Hares are not caught with beat of drum, nor birds with tartlets

Aut

DE WILDE.
EVANS.

220
221

Ifaide

things lost

...

,.

; .

..

.,

The Gnat

stings the eyes of the

Lion
.

-....
.

LEIGHTON.

LEIGHTON
LEIGHTON.

224
225

How great a
intwenty

light

...

^.

f
is

Like melons, friends are to be found

in plenty, of

which not even one

good

..>.."
nothing
.

SMYTHE.
LEIGHTON.

228 229
232

I see all and say

Every cock scratches towards himself

LEIGHTON
.
.

An
Well

evill-doer hateth light

.

...

..

233

set off is half sold

....

LEIGHTON.
DALZIEL

236
237
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Finis

^
fells

DE WILDE.
HARRAL
LEIGHTON.

One

stroke

not an oak

240

THE END.

Study me in thy prime, bury death and weary time

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OF TASTE REFINE THE MIND,

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MORAL EMBLEMS.

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ne peut decrotter sa robe sans emporter

le

poil.

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NONE CAN CLEAN THEIR DRESS FROM

STAIN,

BUT SOME

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BLEMISH WILL REMAIN.

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or

|OW
How

I've fplafh'd
this

and

foil'd

my gown

With

gadding through the town

is

bedraggled

my
me

fkirt,
:

Trapefing through the bye-ftreets dirt

In what a
ftate

for

to be,
!

From

this

Town-life gaiety

EHRE QLAUBE, UNO AUGE KEIN SCHERTZ.

FILLE

TROP EN RUE, EST TOST PERDUE.

girls here,

Come

come

all

know,

Playmates mine, advife me, mew In this plight that I'm come to,

What

is

beft for
I

me

to

do

How
And

mail

remove

this ftain,

reftore

my gown

again

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If

to warn

it

out

try

Warning

fhrinks the cloth

when dry
:

Makes Or elfe
If
I

the colour often fade,

gives a darker
it

made

ro

cut

out, there'll be
all

Such a hole that

If I rub
it

muft

fee

hard,

'twill

take

All the nap off then, and make Yet more plain, the ftain that ne'er
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Honeft maiden's
Pray then
tell

drefs

mould
to

bear.

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me fome
mifhap

of you,

What
0-

in this

do

Thus fo flut-like to be ftain'd, Makes me of myfelf afham'd

;

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For wherever
People
will

may

go,

look at

me

fo,
fee,

And
I
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Li!

think perhaps, fuch dirt to 'm not what I ought to be.

Say, can none of you fuggeft, What in fuch a cafe is beft ?

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No

then this

plainly fee,

You muft

warning take by

me

If you would not foil your gown ; Go not gadding through the town

In the

ftreets

who

plays the
dirt
:

flirt,

Never yet efcaped fome

Run

not therefore Eaft and Weft,

for girls
is

Home

much

the beft.

RARA VAGA VIRGO PUDICA EST

Maidens, wherefoe'er you go, Walking, traveling to and fro

Over land

or over fea,

In whatever way it be ; In the Country or the Town,

Over meadow, dale or down, Over hill or over moor,

In the houfe or out of door,

Over road or over

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ftreet,

Girls, where'er you bend your feet, Keep your Clothes and Kirtles neat.

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Of

A GOOD
silver

name
and

is

rather to be chosen than great riches,

and loving favour

rather than

gold.

Proverbs

xxii. i.

Redire,

cum

periit, nescit

pudor.

Ego

ilium periisse puto, cui periit pudor.

si

SENEC. Agam. PLAUT.

;

Omnia

Qua

perdas ; famam servare memento semel amissa postea nullus eris.

cicatrix manet.

Etiam sanato vulnere

Although the wound be healed it always leaves a Of schoon de wond'al is genesen,

scar.

(!)

Daer

sal

noch

al

een teyrken wesen.

Old Dutch Proverb.

Ibid.

Who
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Die in een quaet geruchte kommt, is half gehangen. comes to an evil repute is half hanged.

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,

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

CONDUCT
by ten
eyes,

thyself

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and pointed

always with the same prudence, CONFUCIUS. at by ten fingers.'

if

as

though thou wert observed

PUT a curb upon

IT
is

thy desires

thou would'st not

fall

into

some

disorder.

ARISTOTLE.

better

to

the summit of our wishes by a loose conduct.

be poor, and not have been wanting in discretion, than to attain DIOGENES.

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BE

discreet in your discourse, but

much more

in

your actions

the

first

evaporates,

the latter endure for ever.

PHOCYLIDES.

SHUN

the society of the depraved, lest you follow their pernicious example,

and

lose

yourself with them.

PLATO.

Eer

is

teer.

Honour

is

tender.

The

finest silk will spoil

the soonest.
fait

Celle n'est pas entierement chaste qui

douter de sa pudicitd

MUCH

IN

THE STREET, LIGHT OF REPUTE.

LASSES AND GLASSES ARE ALWAYS

IN

DANGER.

my

Light was to the winds a fcorne,

likewife fubject to be torne
;

BEFORE My body
Now
So
whilft I fhine
as the

for a fafeguard I this lanterne have,

from wrong

it

doth

me

fave

Even

Diamond

his light forth fends,

ftill

And
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with his hardnelTe

himfelfe

defends.

Honour
h h

is

fubject to unconftant chance,

Nor

can

it

without envy
is

't

.felfe

advance

Vertue to honour

a brafen wall,
it

Guarded with which,

is

not hurt at all;

And how

fo ever Fortun's ftormes

doe blow,

Yet Glory lurking

thus, his light can

mow.
Emblems.

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STRAW BANDS

WILL- TIE
et

A FOOL'S HANDS.

Fac Saptas,

Liber ens.

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ACT WISELY AND THOU SHALL'T BE FREE.

UCH
And

Men
if

Folly merely ; afked the reafon, why

clearly,

do

is

Seldom, truthfully and

To

the queftion they reply.

If reply they make, 't is ever, With them all, the fame excufe

And fome

think the anfwer clever

"'Tis the Famion"

"cuftom"

" ufe "

!

CE QUE ME

LIE,

C'EST MA FOLIE.

EVERY MAN HATH A FOOL

Thus
it

IN

HIS

SLEEVE.

ever

is

with fools;
rules
:

Cuftom more than Reafon

And

where Reafon fhould be law,

Cuftoms,
flight as

Fafliion

ftraw,

Stronger chains

on them impofe,
far

Bonds more binding

than thofe,

Tyrants fince the world began, Laid upon their fellow man.

He

vainly boafts that he

fears
t'

is

free,

Who
01
Ill

infringe on Fafhion's
flave,

rule

For worfe than

Is

already,

he
fool.

both

at

once

a flave,

and

Q. 0)

Q.

TNTER

quod vivimus ad exempla, nee ratione componimur, sed consuetudine abducimur. Quod pauci faciunt, nolumus imitari quum
causas
est,
:

malorum nostrorum

plures facere
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coeperunt, quasi

honestius

sit,

quia frequentius, sequimur, et recti apud

nos locum tenet error ; &c.

SEN. Epist. 58.

D
Qjti veufy il petit.

"XT7"HAT

less,

Who knows
And bows

than Fool, and greater Fool, than he, no Heaven but his mistress' smiles,

his reason to the tyranny

<

Of her caprice and ever changing wiles 1 Than he, whose brain-sick fantasy can find
Subject for Love, in each insensate whim,

And

and mind, grace, to none apparent but to him Who sees not, when she most affects the Dove, She but derides the passion he reveals ;
in her very faults of heart

And

that

most

false

when most she vows her

least she is
it

love,

'Tis but to

seem what
he who

and
free
:

feels.

If true that,

wills

may be

Who

hath no Will, must have a lack of brains

!

straw-tied Fool

who

for his stultity,

else,

In Love, as in aught

deserves his chains.

WISE man's heart

is at

his right hand, but a fool's heart

is at

his

left.

Ecclesiastes x.

2.

FOLLY

IS

THE POVERTY OF THE MIND.

FAITES MESSAG.ERS DES F O L S

TLJE
that sendeth a message

by the hand of a Fool, cutteth

6.

off the feet,

and drinketh

damage.

Proverbs xxvi.

As a dog

returneth to his vomit, so a Fool returneth to his

folly.

Pro-verbs xxvi.

n.

Non

ex omni ligno
viris

fit

Mercurius.

Magna Negotia
BY
so

magnis committenda.

much

the
S.

more

are

we inwardly

foolish,

by how much we

strive

to

seem

outwardly wise.

GREG.

h
LL

Ex thymbra nemo lanceam conficiet Neque ex Socrate bonum militum. ATHEN.

;
'

lib. v.

o:
Q.

upward soaring

spirit

ever

D
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Craves the joys of heaven to know, But alas the vain endeavour
!

Bondslave of the

flesh,

below

Though they be but frail as straw, Worldly joys more strongly draw.

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0)

FOR, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty

to the flesh, but

only use not liberty for an occasion

v. 13.

by love serve one another.

Galatians

THE weak may

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be laughed out of anything but their weakness.

M. DE GENLIS.

talk of acquiring' a habit

we should
;

the janissary power in

man

Habit is rather say being acquired by it. Passion and Principle the antagonist revolutionary

z
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powers for

evil

and

for good.

may

Z p b

And
You may

as well go stand upon the beach, bid the main flood 'bate his usual height as well use question with the wolf,
;

Why

he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb

pines a noise

You may as well forbid the mountain To wag their high tops, and to make

When

they are fretted with the gusts of heaven,

to soften that (than

As seek

which what's harder?)

'

foolish heart.

SHAKESPEARE.

NATION deserves no

better laws than those

it

will

submit

to.

GOETHE.

THE

Nation, like the

first

man who would be

free,

Must merit

the rights of liberty.

A FOOL.

IS

LIKE

OTHER MEN AS L.ONO AS HE

IS

SILENT.

FOOLS AND THE PERVERSE,

HOSE

purchafe was his pouch, his houfe a tun,

Criticke of actions whatfoever done,

That learned dogge,

Searching for one,

at

noone-tyde tinn'd his

light,

whofe actions were upright.

The

Eagles young ones by the Sunne are try'd,

actions
in

Mens

by the lamp

are beft efpy'd;

For men
CD

day time mafkt with vizards goe,

Of

truth and faith

making an outward mow.

fecret filence find,

X h
(!)

But when they can nights

Before the lamp they doe unmaike their mind.

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II

Happy Who's

is

he

whom
ftill,

Sunne and

Lamp

fees one,

honeft

though witnefle there be none.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

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FILL

THE LAWYER'S PURSE.

AS THE WIND BLOWS, SO THE WEVELL GOES.

Domin<, quo me
vocaf, aura.

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WHITHER THE BREATH OF MY MISTRESS

CALLS ME.

PORT

of thy miftrefs'
!

fickle

mind,

Haplefs lover turning ever Like the wevell with the wind,

Haft not ftrength fuch bonds to fever

Look around
Fair as

thee, fenfelefs lover

me

thou

IPt

many

find

Many who

pofTefs moreover, Far more charms of heart and mind.

OU

G^UE

SPIRE,

ME

TIRE.

EL.

SABIO MUDA CONSEJIO,

IL_

NECIO, NO.

Slave of her defpot frown or fmile

Haft no other

will to

guide thee,

Than

her changeful will,

who

while
?

Ruling thee, doth but deride thee

He who thus To a fickle

Merits juft as

fubjects his reafon

woman's

rule,

much

derifion

As

the witlefs ftraw-tied fool.

UAM
UJ

misere

servit,
:

cui

mulier imperat, cui leges imponit, praescribit, jubet, vetat imperanti negare
;

quod
est
;

videtur

qui nihil
;

potest, nil recusare

!

poscit,

dandum

ejicit,

abeundum

vocat,

veniendum

minatur, extimescendum

CICERO.

UJ

IMPONIT leges vultibus

ilia tuis.

OVID.

a.

o
ghio nos

Numen

agit.

Whither God
TLJE
is

directs us.
school'd his

the wisest,

who has

mind

T' adopt the current of the ruling wind.

Blow whence With

it

will,

prepared for

all

event,

fortune's dispensations e'er content,

Who
~

with discernment both in time and place,

his opinion with a cheerful grace
;

Bends

To him unknown
The

the troubles which impart

constant fever of the stubborn heart,

aloof,

That 'mid a world of change would stand

UJ

To To
Is

stem the torrent with his vain reproof.

change opinion and yet constant be, possible alone to such as he

strength of

Whose

mind

is

in

its

pliancy.

T IT

acerbitates multas ac molestias evitemus, consilia

ad eventus ac tempora flectenda

ceciderit, res suas

sunt.

SENECA.
in talorum jactu,

OPORTET enim tanquam

LEVE
fit

ad id quod

accommodare.
PLATO.

quod bene
id fieri

fertur onus.
vis

OVID.
potest, velis id

QUONIAM

quod

non

quod

possis.

TERENCE.
est.

TEMPORI enim

cedere, id est necessitati parere, semper sapientis habitum

CICERO.

DECET

id pati sequo

animo

Si id facietis, levior labos erit.

PLAUTUS.

THE WISE MAN CHANGES

HIS OPINION

THE FOOL. NEVER.

"pHROW
ALL
part.

aside prejudice

and thou

art saved.

Who

prevents thee from doing so

MARCUS AURELIUS.
things change

It is

You yourself continually change, and the same with the whole world.

destroy yourself in

some

should take counsel of reason upon that which befalls us, and correct by our prudent conduct the injustice of fortune, as a gamester repairs a stroke of ill luck by PLATO. his skill.

WE

SURE means to become inaccessible to disappointment, is to become penetrated with the inconstancy of fortune, and to be prepared for all her capriciousness. PLUTARCH.
NECESSITATI ne quidem Dii
UJ

resistunt.

ERASMUS.

^
:

Les hommes legers et flottans, Perdent toujours leur avantage

~
GOMBERVILLE.
CARLYLE.
Arabic Prov.
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()

Aussi n'appartient-t'il qu'au sage, De sgavoir bien prendre son temps.

..

THE

goal of yesterday will be the starting-point of to-morrow.

things will not suit our will,
it

WHEN
moment.

is

wise to suit our will to things.

ALL our

undertakings should be bent in accordance with the circumstances of the

Q/

In Domino quies.

Reft

is

in

God.

Q:
jf

"T^IX'D to no point, the wevell sways about, Obedient to th' uncertain wav'ring blast ; the wind has ceas'd to blow in doubt, when But

m
(y

The
~
Q.

wevell to one point

!

is

fix'd

at last.

Vain heart
Pry into

all,

go search the world's remotest nook, examine every book,

thirst

Q_

With equal

and hunger
ll't

still

oppress'd,

In God, the Lord, thou

find alone true rest.

Z
1
unto me,
all

Z
I
ye that labour and are heavy laden, and
I

will

^^j

give you

rest.

Matthew

xi.

28.
I

WHOM

have

in

heaven but thee

and there

is

none upon earth

that

desire

beside thee.

Psalm

Ixxiii. 25.

TAKE my yoke upon you and

ye
shall

learn of
;

me

for I

am meek and
is

lowly in heart

and

find
xi.

rest

unto

your

souls

for

my

yoke

easy and

my

burden

is

light.

Matthew

29, 30.

ll_

SAVIO,

FA DEL-LA NECESSITA VIRTU.

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WHAT

CAN'T BE CURED MUST BE ENDURED.

THOUSAND

evils this

P
My

my

life

doth fpend,
:

At
light,

length fierce Boreas thereto puts an end

my
life

heat,

my
is

flame and

all

is

paft

Onely, whilft breath remaines,

my

hope doth

laft.

This

of ours

toft to

and againe,
:

Time and
Care

unconftant Fortune workes our bane

difeafes

kils us, griefe,

life,

doth outweare
to the dolefull biere.

This

Death dragges us

Fortune takes what

me

in the

morning gave
e're

Or enemies robbe and

spoile

what

we have

Strength, beauty perifh, honours flye away,

Falfe friends,

when meanes

are

gone, they will not

ftay.

Hope's onely conftant

in adverfity,

Before fhe's kild by death,

LL

me

will

not

fly.

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WHILST

BREATHE,

ll_

FAUT SOUFFRIR CE

G^U'ON

NE PEUT GUERIR.

THE WEAKEST GOES TO THE WALL.

Pauper agat
caute.

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IF

POOR, ACT CAUTIOUSLY.

fifh!

ITTLE
JL|j

why come you flamming

you do
?

On

the furface as

Deeper down you mould be fwimming,

That's the
fitter

place for you.

Here above, great fea-mews hover, Keen of eye, and fwift of flight

And

for fuch as
a

you moreover,
appetite.

Have

wondrous

HE

WHO CLIMBS TOO

HIGH,
13

IS

NEAR A FALL.

CHACUN A SA PLACE.
Here
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alone, the kings of ocean

with fafety dare the light, But how came you by the notion

May

ft:

Thus

to brave the eagle's fight

little

(I)

Every kind of
Should
its

creature

proper ftation
place

know

Ul

And
Is

your

fitter

by nature,
below.

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much
if

rather

down

But

little

Bleaks difport them,

Like the porpoife and the whale,

While j
.

fo

heedlefs they

comport them,
alTail.

Danger muft
Little

their lives

fimes undertaking What the great alone

all,

may

do,

Like

who

their part

miftaking,
rue.

Soon or
I
0)

late their folly

CO

"C^VERY

little fish

expects to

become a whale.

He who

would be every where

will

I Z
"

be no where.

Danish Proverb.

THOSE who wade

in

unknown

waters will be sure to be drowned.

h
UJ

AN

ounce of discretion

is

better than a

pound

of wit.

UJ

WHO

always does that which pleases him

ought.

Does not always what he

h
SEMPRE ha

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A
ON

torto il piu debole. cader va chi troppo in alto sale.

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UJ
Ct

ne doit jamais pretendre a des droits qu'on ne scauroit soutenir.

Q.

Quien siempre hace

No
UJ

lo que quiere. hace siempre lo que debe. Spanish Proverb.

TRASPASA

el rico las leyes,

y es castigado

el

pobre.
is

THE

rich

man

transgresses the law,

and the poor man

punished.

ALL THINGS

IN

THEIR PLACES.
14

HE
CEEKEST
As a
place.

WHO STANDS

HIGH

IS

SEEN FROM AFAR.

:

thou great things for thyself? seek them not upon all flesh, saith the Lord. -Jeremiah xlv. 5.
bird that wandereth from
8.

for

behold

will bring evil

her nest,

so

is

man

that wandereth

from his

Proverbs xxvii.

PRUDENT man

foreseeth the evil,

1 2.

and hideth himself

but the simple pass on, and

are punished.

Proverbs xxvii.

HE

that exalteth his gate, seeketh destruction.

Proverbs

xvii. 19.

shall

To

go about cozen Fortune and be honourable

!

Without the stamp of merit Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. SHAKESPEARE.

POOR and
0)

content,

is

rich

and

rich enough.

Ibid.

THRASO

is

Gnatho's prey.
is

LORD BACON.

TRUE
But

happiness
is

to

no place confined,
(0

still

found with a contented mind.

WHEN we
h
pinnacle where

have reached the summit of a vain ambition, we have only reached a we have nothing to hope, but everything to fear. COLTON. Lacon.

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2
.

PARVUM
FELIX

parva decent.

HORACE.
vivit.

est qui sorte

sua contentus

HORACE.
-I

NE
Si

te quaesiveras extra.
res, ut
si

Ibid.

~!

CUT non conveniat sua

pede major
erit

calceus olim,

<
Ibid.

subvertit,

minor

uret.

Ne

quid nimis.

TERENCE.

HAUD

facile

emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat

JUVENAL.

Res angusta domi.

Pauper amet caute, timeat maledicere pauper,

Multaque divitibus non patienda

ferat.

OVID.

Quid

fuit ut tutas agitaret

Daedalus

alas,
?

Icarus immensas

nomine

signet aquas
ille

Nempe, quod

hie

alte,

demissius

volaret,

pennas ambo non habuere suas, Crede mihi, bene qui latuit, bene vixit, et

Nam

intra

Fortunam debet quisque manere suam.

OVID.

Nullum Numen abest

si

sit

Prudentia.

JUVENAL.

HE

WHO PITCHES TOO

HIGH WON'T
15

GET THROUGH

HIS

SONG.

CONTENTEMENT PASSE RICHESSE.

IGHT
^1 Thus
To
The
it

is

the Torches

life

of heavenly kind,

to a fraile and greafie mafle combind,

which the Painter beauty doth impart,

glofTe

Giving

and colour from

his Art.

painting's nought, light doth the

firft
is

Torch commend

Which
It

was framed onely for

this end.
life

our mind that doth our

approve,

Shewing our race derived from above.

Blind Fortunes goods, kins generofity

Youths

ftrength,

and beauties

curiofity

Make
With

not, unlefle the fpirit doe us feafon

that Heav'n-bred fparkle of divine reafon.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

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D h
0)
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LIGHT ONELY PRAISE.

is-

MY

PRIDE THAT DINES ON VANITY, SUPS ON CONTEMPT.

16

EST

BIEN, G^U'IL
Vry dae-r gy

SY TIENNE.

zyt.

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REST CONTENT
'HERE
is

WHERE THOU
;

ART.

a Fifh, fo Fifhers fay,

fo

giddy and fo gay So fond of glare and dazzling light, That even in the darkeft night,

Of mood

'Twill crowd thereto in fportive play,

And

e'en

more ready than by day

Fifher's prey.

Become the wily

WHOSO

IS

WELL, LET HIM KEEP SO.

17

Tl

MIELE E

Tl

MANQERAN
would

l_E

MOSCHE.

The Fimer who

thefe fifh

get,
:

Needs neither baited hook nor net

blazing torch, his only lure,

is

Fix'd in his boat,

far

more

fure
bait,

Than
His
For

bow-net, feine, or hook and

in little

fluff

time to freight.

while his

mates propel the boat,

they float
light
;

As up and down the ftream The fifh enchanted with the

That makes
a

mimic day of

night,

From

far

and near toward the blaze

Directing their enraptur'd gaze,

Swim up

in moals,

and fport around,

Till giddy with delight they

bound

Into the fimer's bark, and there

Forfeit their
life

for love

of

glare.

Thofe who on Love or Pleafure

Leave
their

bent,
;

own home and element

far to court the grace

And
111

wander

Or win
Than Have

the fmile of ftranger face,

Of whom
their

they nothing farther know,

mere outward charm and show

ill

frequent reafon to repent

They were not

with their

home
tale,

content

And
CO

like the fifhes

folly,

of our
late,

Their

when too
!

bewail.

Wooers and wooed to both of you, Alike applies a maxim true,

.

Which cannot be

too oft repeated

Who
Or

far

away a-courting goes,

t'other little

Where one of
goes to cheat

knows,

or to be cheated.

/^\UIEN

lejos

va a casar

^^- O

va enganado
enganar.

va

a'

MAKE THYSELF HONEY AND THE FLIES WILL EAT THEE.

18

A NEAR NEIGHBOUR
FALLITUR

IS

BETTER THAN A DISTANT COUSIN.

amator in
oris.

ignotis, aut fallit

UT

cephalum Venetis

fallat

piscator in oris,
reti
:

Prsefiget parvae

lumina magna

Mox

piscis,

qua teda micat,

salit,

inque phaselum

Cum
Quid

ruit, in

praedam navita promptus adest.

flammis,

tibi

cum

cum

sint tua

regna sub undis,

Quid
UJ

salis in

Cymbam

stulte,

natare

tuam

est

Ni cupiat vel fraude

capi, vel fallere

si

quemquam,
cr

Errat, in ignoto littore

quis amat.

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0)

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Domus
'"PHE
finger of

arnica,

domus optima.
says to us
"
all,

God
"
!

points to home,

and

There

is

the

place to find
0)

your earthly joy

REV.

J.

ABBOTT.
does not love home, whose taste
is

IF you find a young

joys,

man who

formed
circle,

for other

who can

see
it

no happiness
is

in the serene
Ibid.

enjoyment of the domestic

you may

h
tr UJ

depend upon

he

not to be trusted.

h h
UJ LU

CD

'Mm
Be
it

pleasures

and palaces though we may roam,

ever so humble, there's

no place

like

home

charm from the sky seems

is

to hallow us there,

Which, wherever we rove,

not met with elsewhere.

Home

Home

sweet, sweet

home
B.

There's no place like

home

CORNWALL.

DRY BREAD AT HOME

IS

BETTER THAN ROAST MEAT ABROAD.

19

TRUST, BUT NOT TOO MUCH.

Light

is

beft maintain'd with little Oyle,

Too much

of that which feeds me, doth

fertile

me

fpoile.

Deluge of waters drownes the

Soft dropping raines

ground,
:

makes

it

with grafie abound

Riot

in cheere the

body

kils

and minde,
both we finde
:

The

meaneft
in

fare, the beft for

Rather

Mica than Apollo

dine,
ftill

If thou wouldft wit and health

to be thine.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

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CO

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BETTER WITH A
LITTLE.

TRUST, BEWARE WHOM.

20

TIME BRINGS ALL THINGS TO LIGHT.

Sensim amor sens us occupat.

LOVE TAKES POSSESSION OF THE MIND INSENSIBLY.

CHOUGH

fcarce

at

firft

The words which on Yet how diftinct, 'ere long,

So by degrees,
as

apparent to the fight, the tender bark we write

the letters

mew
!

In fize increafed, as with the rind they grow

on

that lettered bark,

Doth Time expand

to flame,

Love's

flighteft

fpark

So to the germ of Vice

in early

youth,

Time

gives the increafe with the body's growth;

SLOW AND

SURE.

A LITTLE LEAVEN, LEAVENS A GiREAT MASS.

And
too flight to trace, Spread to a depth no efforts can efface. From fmall beginnings rife the fiercer! ftrife ;
errors
at
firft

deem'd

Nor Love, The breeze

Is

nor Vice, at once leap into

at
firft

life

zephyr-like and warm, but too oft the prelude of the ftorm.
fo

how many have to The mifchief when full grown we But how it grew we fcarcely can
That
fo
it
is
;

grieve

can perceive
believe.

A MOR
(D

neque nos

statim,

neque vehementer ab

initio,
:

quemadmodum

ira,

invadit

neque

facile ingressus, decedit,

manetque diu

in sensibus.

quamvis alatus PLUTARCH.

sed sensim ingreditur ac molliter,

LABITUR sensim

furor in medullas,

Igne furtivo populante venas, Non habet latam data plaga frontem,

Sed vorat
" fc

tectas penitus medullas.

SENEC. Hippol.

LONG-WAITING love doth entrance

find

D
J D

Into the slow-believing mind.

SYDNEY GODOLPHIN.

Z
and elegancy than is the matter of Love for it seems to be as old as the world, and to bear date from the first time that man and woman was therefore in this, as in the finest metal, the freshest wits have in all
is

THERE

no argument of more

antiquity

ages shown

their best

workmanship.

ROBERT WILMOT.

"V\7"E are not worst

at

once

the course of evil

An
But

Begins so slowly, and from such slight source, infant's hand might stem its breach with clay ;
let

the stream get deeper, and Philosophy

shall strive in vain

Aye, and Religion too

To

turn the headlong torrent.

Old Play.

Tern-pus

omnia revelat.
TERTULLIAN.

THERE
known.

is

nothing covered that shall not be revealed

x. 26.

and hid

that shall not

be

Matthew

PEU DE LEVAIN AIGRIT GRAND' PATE.

22

EX UMBRA

IN

SOLEM.

BY
'

Genera Pietatis principia. Galatians degrees, until Chrift be formed in you.

the

iv. 19.

ILL we all come in the unity of the Faith, and of God into a perfect man, unto the measure of the
iv.

Knowledge of the Son of

stature of the fulness of Christ.

Ephesians

13.

"T\ESPAIR

not that the writing on the

at first

tree,
:

So indistinct

appear to thee

Of one day's growth was Virtue never known The Light of Grace spreads by degrees alone
Until throughout illumin'd by
its

ray,

The Soul

of Man made By Faith and Works, is The joys of Heav'n for

perfect in each
fitted to

way

partake

his

Redeemer's sake.

UJ

Q
ALTHOUGH
the operations of Nature are hidden,

Z
we must acknowledge
the

hand of

a Power which acts in secret, as

to the earth, or

we acknowledge a

force which attracts heavy bodies

which

carries light bodies upwards.

MARCUS AURELIUS.

UJ

UJ

Q Z <

CD
UJ

Medium
-

Sol aureus orbem

OrcM-hat. ft radiis raA Occupat y et ingentibus omnia luftrat

HpHE
Is

pitchy darkness of the night

not immediate changed to Light

'Ere morning shews his ruddy face,

First breaks the

dawn with

gentle pace

And

then, the Sun, the World's bright eye,

Rises and gradual mounts the sky;

Until at last his fullest ray,

Floods sea and earth with brightest day.

BETTER
is

is

the end of a thing than the beginning thereof

and the patient

in spirit

better than the

proud

in spirit.

Ecclesiastes vii. 8.

DESERVE SUCCESS AND YOU SHALL COMMAND

23

IT.

THE SUN

WILL.

BRING TO LIGHT

WHAT LAY UNDER THE SNOW.

'HIS

little

rift

and chap workes

it

all

my

woe,
;

Whilft thorow

fierce

Boreas doth blow

crevice
ftill

is

a city gate to death,

Who

in

ambufh
houfe
difeafe

feekes to flop our breath

little

chinke doth drowne the loaded barke,

is

ftately

And

one

doth

burned with a fparke this our health annoy,

: :

One wound our life is able to deftroy One finne can Soule and Body overthrow
Into the hell, and darknefTe that's below.

Doe not a danger which is meane From meaneft caufes greateft evils

defpife,
arife.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

LL

UJ

ct

LAY OPEN HERE

ONELY.
fi

LITTLE BY LITTLE THE BIRD BUILDS ITS NEST.

WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE MEDDLE NOT.

L<zdit inept os.

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THE INEXPERT ARE WOUNDED.

food for man, like

many
of

other fim,
is

A PS But

well drefT'd

Thornback

a dainty difh

in the cooking, lefs

art there lies,

Than how to hold it when you've caught the For he who doth not know this fifh's ways,

prize

And

grips

him

he juft as

would take another,

CUSTOM MAKES

ALL.

THINGS EASY.
H

NESSUNO NASCE M AESTRO.

Moft
dearly for his want of knowledge pays
pain, too great to fmother
fkill'd
:

With unexpected
Seizing

While the more him

firft

and cautious
gill,

fifher,

he

by one

then the other,

Short work of him foon makes, and as you fee, Laughs in his fleeve to hear his neighbour's pother.

Non omnibus

omnia.
all.

All things are not good for

All things alike to

think that they the faculty possess, do with like success

And
Ne'er

that alike all things

fail'd

may be

achiev'd,

alike to find themselves deceiv'd.

is

>

Not

ev'ry

one

apt to ev'ry thing,

:

Nor

the

same

talent to the purpose bring

it

To
(I)

take or this or that be what

certain thing has
its

may,

Each
.
'

T' achieve success in

all

own certain way. we would acquire

desire.
oft 'tis

Needs something

else

beyond the mere

And when

obtain'd
desir'd,
talent,

how

but to find,

The thing Or to our

All
is

nor suited nor design'd health, or frame of mind.

not good for all, though all would be Alike possessors of some thing they see
:

What
Is

joy to one imparts and

at

is

his gain,-

once another's loss and pain, And ev'ry day doth some example shew That one man's weal is but another's woe.
both

ARTE
Qui secundos

citae

remoque

rates veloque reguntur,

Arte leves currus, arte regendus amor.

optat eventus, dimicet arte,

OVID

I.

Amand.
lib.

non

casu.

VEGET.

3 in Praf.

AMABIT

sapiens, cupient cseteri.

APUL. ex A/ran.

NO ONE

IS

HIS

CRAFT'S MASTER
26

IN

ONE DAY.

SAQESSE VAUT MIEUX

G^UE FORCE.

Without knowledge meddle

not.

DILUIS helleborum certo compescere puncto Nescius quantum ? vetat hoc natura medendi.
Wilt thou mix hellebore,

who doth not know

1

How many
The

grains should to the mixture go art of medicine this forbids, I trow.

Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum.

'T'HAT

a twofold knowledge, which profits alike by the folly of the foolish, and the wisdom of the wise ; it is both a shield and a sword ; it borrows its security
is

W
j

IL

from the darkness, and

its

confidence from the

is

light.

COLTON. Lacon.
\

l~

ONE
IT
is

man's meat

another man's poison. another man's lesson.

< Z
QJ

One man's

fault is

better to learn late than to remain ignorant.

PHOCYLIDES.

2
UJ

WHAT
And

is

the true

good
?

Knowledge.
SENECA.
CD
LU

the true evil

Ignorance.

'Disappointment in Marriage.
collect all their pray you, to the stories of the disappointed in marriage hear their mutual reproaches ; upon what fatal hinge do the greatest complaints " part of them turn 1 They were mistaken in the person." Some disguise either of body or mind is seen through in the first domestic scuffle some fair ornament perhaps the

\0)

ISTEN,

UJ

UJ

m P
GO
5:

(D

I)

very one which

won

the heart, the ornament of a meek

served,

and

quiet spirit

falls off
1

//

is

not the Rachael for

whom I have
:

Why

hast thou then beguiled

;

me

conceal nothing, varnish Be open be honest give yourself for what you are will better not not if fair and these do, conquer at all, than conweapons nothing, ever be the same story, And it came is 'twill a when the for passed, quer day night
:

to pass,

behold
the

it

was Leah

If

heart

beguiles itself

in

its

choice,
:

which are not the portion of

in the morning,
will, as
it

flesh

and blood
'tis

and imagination when the dream

will
is

give

excellencies

over,

and we awake
it

it

matters

little

whether

Rachael or Leah

be the object what

it

must be on the earthly side, at least, of perfection, work of fancy, whose existence is in the clouds.
In

will fall short of the

What is such cases of deception, let not man exclaim as Jacob does in his, to his fault for 'tis his own doings, and he has nothing it thou hast done unto me ? lay STERNE'S Sermons, vol. iv. on, but the heat and poetic indiscretion of his own passions.
p.

ii.

EXPERIENCE TEACHES FOOLS.

27

L.A

EXPERIENCIA ES MADRE DE

I_A

SCIENCIA.

OMETIMES
More
pure,

was the brood of Gold'n-haird funne,

chaft,

more

than Vefta's watchfull nunne,

Purer than Eafterne gemmes, than Saphirs bright,

Purer than Ophirs gold, than Rubies Purer than Pactols gravell often try'd
In
fire,

light,

and furnace feven times purify'd

But

fince the fates to greafe did

filthy

me

combine,
:

His

dregges are judged to be mine

For why conjunction doth contagion make,

And
The

from

th'

impure the pure infection take.

foule once plung'd into the

it

body darke,

Forgets

was a chaft and divine fparke.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

UJ

z
UJ or LU

OL

X
UJ

S^EXPERIENCE

IS

THE BEST MASTER.

28

TON NON MOUVOIR, MOUVOIR .ME

Dum
TrahimuSy Trahimur.

FAIT.

cr

h
(I)

z
UJ

UJ

i h

D
J J

WHILE WE DRAW, WE ARE DRAWN.

to

move
I

thee to

my mind
;

JSEEK But in
That
'tis

fo doing, this I find

not

who
I

give to thee

The fond emotion

would

fee

But thine immobility, That moves me rather, more

Strange
!

to thee.

that the coldnefs of thine heart,

to

Should thus

mine more warmth impart;

THINE IMMOBILITY MOVES

29

Ml

WHO

IS

GOD SAVE THE LORD? WHO

And
thus,

IS

A ROCK SAVE OUR

GOD?

would draw, to fee Draw me, who would the drawer be The more thou doft my pray'r deny,
what
I
!

Alas

the

more

burn and

figh,

Lamenting Love's perverfity.

AdtrahenSy abftrahor.

The

Puller

is

pulled.

T IFE'S high-rais'd landmark is the firm set rock, Emblem of HIM who moveth all around, Himself quiescent, yet who gives the shock Of Life and Motion which throughout abound.

Q
tt

Would

Man, whose weak hand, and as it suits his will, pull to him that rock, shall strive in vain,
learn therein, his Destiny
is
still

And
"
UJ

Thereto but to be drawn, howe'er he

Sure guide to those Their bark thereon

strain.

who

unreluctant hale
;

I h
LL

their toil shall best avail

it

And

those

who

doubt, shall find

still

prevail.

0)

Si

nunquam Danaen habuisset ahenea turris, Non esset Danae de Jove facta parens. OVID, Amor.
Difficilis

Eleg. 19.

UJ

Saepe ego

cum possem facilem exorare puellam, mentem coepit habere meam.

Quod movet,

quiefcit !
is

That which moves,

the

at reft
xviii.

Immoveable Rock, moves

gift

all.

Psalm

EVERY good
Father of Lights,

and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning. -James i. 17.

DIEU

N'A

RIEN

FAIT QUE DE
3

BON.

IS

wo/aw

movetur,Jed in

quiejcente, et id

quod movet,

quiefcit.
cap. xi.

HERM. Pcemand.

IMMUTABLE,
On

yet changing all

high, around,

below
all

Immoveable, yet moving

The way
Fount of

that all should

go

all

Life
all

and

Light,

Love, all Grace; Encompassing with thought and sight,

Eternity and space
All Peace,
all
:

All Good,

sweet repose and

rest,

Yet ever moving still Earth, Sea, and Sky, as

He knows
:

best,
UJ

His purpose to

fulfil

I
Changeless, where endless change Unmov'd the Mover moves
All else in changeful harmony,

we

see,

And

though unmov'd

HE

LOVES.

D I h
is God 1 The Soul of the world. What is God ? All that we see, and we do not see. The grandeur of God is infinite ; alone He is all ; for He

TT7 HAT
V V
that
wills

h
0)

and

directs

His work.

SENECA.*
this mortal

AN
I
r\

Eternal

God moves
CICERO.

world

an Incorruptible

Spirit breathes life into

our

frail

organs

WE

cannot understand
:

God

other than as a
all things,

D a

simple, free

Being,
all,

divested

of

all

perishable admixture

knowing

impressing motion upon

and enjoying

in

o j

and of Himself an

eternal activity.
to us
?

How

do the Heavens speak

;

seasons run their course

all

is

reborn,

all

In what language doth It things are renewed.

it

instruct us

The

is

with this eloquent

all
is

silence that they discourse to

us the great Secret Principle by which

moved.

CONFUCIUS.

Mon

Dieu conduisse moy, par

la voie

ordonnee,

Je suivray volontiers, de peur qu'un fort lien Ne m'entraine mechant, ou en homme de bien Je pourrois arriver, suivant la
destine'e.

The Prayer of

Rpictetus.

LE SIEUR DU VAIR.

(Manuel d"

THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF

(3OD.

BLESSED

IS

THE MAN THAT FEARETH THE LORD.

light

from whence

it

came, mounts

ftill

on high

Unto
Like

the fource of light that's never dry.

as the

Rivers to the Ocean runne,

firft

From whence
Like

their fecret fountaines,

begun
;

as the ftone

doth to the center fway

So to the Spheres

my

light

ftill

makes

his

way.

No

joyes, delights,

and

greateft weights of gold,

faft

Nor pampering pleafure The panting foule refts

our foule can hold.

it

not, untill
Deitie.

fee

His maker God, a Tri-une

FAR HE'S

Emblems.

REJOICE

IN

THE LORD >6LWAY; AND ^GAIN

SAY REJOICE!

l_A

PEUR EST GRAND INVENTEUR.

Inverfe, et Avertes.

LU

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or

BOTH

SIDES
leen
firft

SHOULD BE SEEN.
in front,

fMASK,
Strikes

them with
and

terror

by children's and with wild

eyes,
furprife

But would'ft
Avert the
face,

reftore to
let

calm the urchin mind,

fee behind.

them

With men no lefs, how oft doth it appear, The worft interpreter of things is Fear How oft the crowds of men and women grown, Quailing like children at fome form unknown
!

FEAR

IS

A GREAT INVENTOR.
33

FOOLISH FEAR DOUBLES DANGER.

Or when fome found
Fly, to meet
ills

unufual ftrikes their ear,

!

And The

than thofe they fear yet how frequent, would they but reftrain fudden terror of their fever'd brain,
far worfe

And

calmer wait

t'

examine and to

fee

or end of what the thing may be ; Puerile as that which fill'd the child with dread,

The how,

They

'd find the fancied peril

which they
to fee,
!

fled

And

fcann'd with coolnefs, learn

in front
is

more probably,

That what

terrible

Seen from behind provokes

hilarity

IL

Timiditas est corruptio judicii.

SENECA.

\-

D
i

>"lpHE Imagination (says Seneca) appals us usually more than the thing itself; in like manner as the mere whizzing sound of a sling frightens birds, and makes them take
wing, so are

we alarmed more by

the noise than by the act.

As

the forms of bodies

:

appear increased in
so

size in misty weather, so are all things

magnified to us by Fear
fall,

in

much

that
peril.

many through

fear

of

coming

into

danger,

daily,

into

the

most

extreme
QJ

Men

have been known, in

peril of shipwreck,

to

throw themselves

overboard through fear of being drowned ; drowning themselves, therefore, in order not to be drowned, and dying to avoid death. What folly so great (says Seneca) as to
,

>

become troubled
call

at approaching difficulties, to spare ourselves no anguish, but rather an increase of sufferings to those that threaten ?

or

PERU,

interii,

occidi

quo curram? quo non curram?

?

Tene, tene

quern

quis

nescio

nihil video.

I'M lost, undone, I'm kill'd,

oh whither

shall I flee

Whither

shall I not flee?

Hold

hold

whom

what

who

know

not
its

do nothing

see.
terror.

THE

novelty of the danger

is

not unfrequently

chief

and only

^EQUAM memento rebus

IN
peril,
oft
still

in arduis servare

mentem.

preserve an unmov'd mind,

And

no

peril in the thing you'll find.

APPEARANCES ARE DECEITFUL.

34

FEAR ARGUES A DEGENERATE MIND.

rationem
scite ferentes
difficultatibus,

minus premere.

possunt et dura molliri, SENECA.

falsb

et

angusta laxari, et gravia

TERROR absentium rerum

efficit,

ipsa novitate

augetur; consuetudo autem et ratio

ut ea, etiam quse horrenda sunt natura, terrendi

vim

amittant.

PLUTARCH

in

Mor.
UJ

Mors

larvae similis: tremor

i

him, nihil inde maligni.

54.

>

CORINTH, xxv.
is

Death, where

thy Sting?

U*

EN

as the mask, in front seen, only,

Q
fills
(/)

of children with a panic fear, So Death by men is feared yet least of ills, Alike of both the terrors disappear When seen by Reason's light on every side.
:

The mind

And why

fear Death, ere

we

its

nature

know?

'Tis but a livid mask, which, seen behind, Hath terrors none, but balm for

every woe,
;

Hope, peace, and comfort to the righteous mind Opening to realms more bright, the portals wide.

I
UJ

pUERI

larvas

timent,

ignem non timent;

sic

nos timemus mortem quse est larva,

Q
h

contemptu digna, peccatum non timemus.

YEA, though
for thou art with
I

CHRYSOSTOM, Horn. 5 ad Pop.

I will fear
4.

me

walk through the valley of the shadow of Death, ; thy rod and thy staff comfort me. Psalm xxiii.
;

no

evil

THE Lord
of

is

my

life

of

my light and my salvation whom shall whom shall I be afraid IIbid, xxvii. i.
fearful,

I fear

The Lord

is

the strength

ft:

n
26.
UJ
(3

WHY are

ye

ye of

little faith

Matthew
2.

viii.

Sic nos in Luce timemus.

LUCRET,

/.

PRECIOUS

in the sight of the

Lord

is

the death of his saints.

Psalm

cxvi. 15.
:

5j

FOR
which
is

am

in a strait betwixt two,

having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ

far better.

Philippians

i.

23.

PRESENT
need to
fear

fear

begetteth
at all.
S.

Eternal security

Fear God, which

is

above

all,

and no

man

AUGUST, super

Psal.

EXPERIENTIA DOCET.
35

EXPERIENTIA STUL.TORUM MAGISTRO.

O
When

glory could

mew,

wer't not the night

In fable clouds did mantle up heavens light,

ftarres are vail'd,
creflet

and Phceb' her homes doth

attire afide.

hide,

Laying her

and

The more

nights fbgge doth mafke the fpangled fpheare,

in darkenefle

The more

Nights foggy cold doth

my make my

doth

Light appeare
flame

more

ftrong,

And

light's

more glorious pitchy clouds among.

contraries parallel,

If

you together

By

contrary oppofition they excell.

Vertue compare with Vice;

and you mall

fee,

This

mew

his glory, that his infamie.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

EXPERIENCE

IS

THE INSTRUCTOR OF FOOLS.

36

HE

IS

A QREAT FOOL
Sibi

WHO FORQETS

HIMSELF.

nequam, cui bonus.

LU

Z
(D
UJ

UJ

CD

J
CD

D
DL UJ

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0)
UJ

>
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UJ

(0

WHO

IS

HURTFUL TO HIMSELF, BENEFITS NO ONE.

JfAKE
Do
That

Love with

cheerful heart,
fadnefs
?

Of what
fattens

ufe thoughts of

as the Partridge doth,*

on Love's gladnefs

Do
*

as

Which on
La
perdrix s'engraisse a couvrir la femelle.
this

doth the pretty birdf the banks of Nile,

PLUTARCH.
lib.

t On the subject of
avium

bird, the

Trochilus of Pliny, see Plin.

8,

cap.

25.

De

Trochilo sive

rege, crocodile clentes scalpente et se saginante.

HELP THYSELF, AND C3OD WILL HELP THEE.

37

SELF-PRESERVATION
The
Doth

IS

THE FIRST LAW OF NATURE.

fill,

while he feafts his

no

lefs

fervice to the Crocodile.

Nay

ne'er repine, fweet youth,

'Tis fenfelefs, downright Folly,

To

let thine

ardent flame
:

Give caufe for Melancholy He that loves and ferves a maid, In truth, achieves two ends
;

For while her wifh he

So he no
lefs

pleafes moft,

himfelf befriends.

It)

>
t

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0)

Ex puer

es,

nee

te,

quidquam

nisi

ludere oportet.

UJ

Lude, decent annos mollia regna tuos. Cur aliquis rigido fodiat sua pectora ferro

UJ

Invidiam

csedis pacis

amator habes.
OVID,
lib.
i.

>.

de Remed.
sic facit
:

Amor, ad Cupidinem.

AMOR immoderatus
sui facit et
(I)

ipsi

amori novissime

inutiles

nam quum

fruendi

CD

cupiditate insatiabili quis flagrat,

novissime

sibi est

tempora suspicionibus, lachrimis, querelis perdit, otium odio. HIERON.

pour s'empecher d'aimer sont souvent plus cruelles que
j

LES violences qu'on

les rigueurs

se fait

>
i

j
UJ

de ce qu'on aime.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

N
UJ

0)

Non

id agis, quod agis.

Publica praetexuntur, privata curantur.

QUELQUE personage que 1'homme

MONTAIGNE.

joue,

il

joue toujours

le

sien

parmy.

MICH. DE

Public men, great fault the Public find, That while the business of the State they do, They shew themselves the while somewhat inclin'd To look to self, and mend their own state too.

In this withall,

And

those

we see not much to blame who most the impulse oft condemn,
;

IT IS

EASY TO HELP HIM WHO

38

IS

WILLING!

TO BE HELPED.

WHO

IS

OVER

NICE,

LOSES MANY A SLICE.

Would ten to one in office do the same, Or even worse than those whom they contemn.
In this as in
all else 'tis

the excess

That constitutes the

fault,

and those alone

:

Who
"

steer the

middle course, the best express

Serve well the Public ends, but serve thine own."

wisest Statesman of a surety,

The
Is

he who lab'ring for the Public weal, His own alike with the same glance can see

And feel for that for which none else would feel. On this world's stage, whate'er the Part man plays
In act and speech however seeming fair He always something of his own betrays,
;

And

in the Part

the

Man

himself

is

there.

LA cour du Roy, chacun pour

soy.

Sois serviteur, sans creVecreur.

Onder Vrientschaps

schyn, besorght hy't syn.

O
"VVTHEN
The

-prodiga

rerun luxuries

gorged with food, the greedy Crocodile Extended lies upon the sands of Nile ;

pretty

King bird with an appetite

Gross as the Vulture, or the bird of Night ; Hies to the monster's wide extended jaws To cleanse his fetid teeth with beak .and claws.

That bird so pretty should a taste display For food so filthy, doth too well pourtray
!

And

symbolise the grosser appetites

Which some men shew for sensual delights ; And who while doing service as they seem, The service of their bellies most esteem.

WHOSE end is shame, who mind

destruction,

whose God
Philip,

is
iii.

their
19.

belly,

and whose glory

is

in

their

earthly things.

STOLEN waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret

is

pleasant.

Prov.

ix.

17.

IT IS

QOOD TO HAVE FRIENDS

39

IN

ALL PARTS.

HE

WHO WOULD TAKE MUST

GIVE.

HILST
The

ftormy winds about the Lanterne rage,

light

ought to have lurked

in his

cage

Untimely love undoes him, while he lends

His Light,

loe

how

his

harmelefTe

life

he fpends.

When
For

troops of enemies befiege the wall,

fhut gates, though friends doe
a foe
call.

feare of hurt,

If that a friend

accompanyed with

Doth come,
If

feare neighbour danger, let

him goe.

thou

lov'ft

to be charitable, doe
it

Q
CD

So good to others, that

hurt not you.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

z
UJ

K
lil

UJ

I
UJ

I h
(D

U.

SIC^PIO PERM OFFICIO.

D
CD

J
|

UJ
0)

<
(/)

I-

SO

AM UNDON DOING
GQOD._
la

BY

G^UIEN

QUIERE TOMAR CONVIENELE DAR.

40

KNOW, ONE FALSE STEP

De Kanne

IS

NE'ER RETRIEVED.

gaet soo lang te water > totse eens breeckt.

CO

Q
UJ

z <
CD

Z
h < h D
D.
LU CC

THE POT GOETH

LAST IT
\*

LONG TO THE WATER, TIL AT COMMETH BROKEN HOME.

SO
Alas!
!

IDJFLAS!

Oh

What Woe is me
romping

have
this

done?
:

My

Pitcher's broke!
filly,

all

day from this fun,

This

play.

Oh! fad! what will my Mother fay? Her words have come too true
!

DONNA CHE PRENDE, TOSTE SE RENDE.

M

NEGLIGENCE AMENE DECHEANCE.

On me
And
alone the blame
(hall
I

(he'll

lay,

Whatever
yet full

do?
a time and oft,

many

In this fame Pitcher too,

I've water

drawn both hard and

:

foft,

Nor had mimap to rue Pumpt water in ana thrown it out, And pumpt it full again, Nor e'en fo much as chipp'd the fpout,
For Mother
UJ

to complain.

Alas!

that

could ever be

I-

So heedlefs of her fay The warning (he would give to me,

And, almoft ev'ry day But here about young fellows

!

are

So rollicking and

free

Pull girls about fo much, nor care

Q Z
k

p'rhaps me. That Hans there of our Village,

all

And

moft of

he's

So rough and wild alway

It
I

won't fpeak,
I

he'll

fulk, or teafe

CO

Whene'er

pafs his way.

9
Q
UJ

And I'm good natur'd too I know, And where is then the blame,
I

love a laugh fometimes, and At heart but does the fame

I

who
?

\-

And

and other

girls

when we

Perchance together meet,

Some lads are always fure to be At games about the ftreet

;

And
I

fo

it

was
I

juft

now, although
to go,

did

all

could do,

For Water

firft

my way

When Hans
Then

he joined us too.

there began a

game

all

round

Of running jibe and joke, When down we came upon the And I my pitcher broke
!

ground,

IDLE

MEN TEMPT THE

42

DEVIL.

AS YOU SOW SO MUST YOU REAP.

And
thus I've found the faying true, many times heard fpoken,

I've

"The

Pot that goes too oft unto The Well, at laft gets broken."

'JpANT

va

la

cruche a

1'eau,

que

le

manche y demeure.

DER Krug

gienge fo lang zur buch

Bis er zu lest zerbruch.

DER Krug
TANTES va

gehet so lang

zum brunnen,
che

bis das er bricht.

il

la secchia al pozzo,

vi lascia

manico.

CONSUMITUR peccando

saspius pudor.

TANTO va

la

capra

al cavolo,

che

vi lascia la pelle.
laet.

h
fl)

HET

geytjen loopt soo dickwils in de koolen, tot het eens de vacht

DE mug
't

die

om

de keerse sweeft,
die lange leeft.
"^

Is

wonder soo

WIE

veel wil mallen,

vallen.
!/c/3j'<7Jj

Moet eenmael
KaKots
ofj.i\(Zv

V'TOS

KQKOS.

Id

est,

MALOS

frequentans ipse

et

evades malus.

UNE
LET
!

folie est tost faite.

!

vrysters

wie ontruet u gaen

is

Een malle greep

haest gedaen.

BE

cautious, maidens,
foolish thing
is

how

ye run

speedy done.

o
Avoid
too

much Familiarity.

Who become both to use and to permit too great Familiarity. them and, soon to lose reserve the their which familiar, previous gave superiority their credit. We should be familiar with none never with our superiors, consequently,
is

TT

unwise

because
less

and still it is nor with our inferiors, because it is derogatory dangerous with the vulgar, whose ignorance renders them insolent, and, unable to perceive
; ;

the

honour that is done them, they presume that of the tendencies of a weak mind. GRACIAN.

it

is

their due.

Familiarity

is

one

THE
Is

purest treasure mortal times afford

spotless reputation
;

that away,

Men

are but gilded loam, or painted clay.

SHAKESPEARE, Rich.

III.

L'OISIVETE EST

MERE DE TOUT
43

VICE.

L.E

MECHANT EST COMME LE CHARBON,

|f3[ND
IJL

loth'ft

thou me,
I

my

Soule, loving to goe

let

J Was

Elfewhere,

pray thee whither,

this while

me know,

thou not
gueft,
I

all

my

deereft mate,
eftate
;

My

my

convoy, confort in

While

did florim, thou didft conftant prove,

is

My
SOULE.
I

times are darkned now, fo

thy love

Here

as a captive to a keeper, fo
lift,

tyed was with thee, at

to goe,
are loofe,

Banifht from

home
I

loe

now my bonds

Thou
z

dy'ft,

glad runne to

my

fathers houfe.

<
CL

Soules bond with body hardly maketh breach,

Yet

this

doth dye, and that Heav'ns dwelling reach. FARLIE'S Emblems.

CD

Z
UJ

2 Q <
CO

Q. UJ UJ

llIh/VHITHER

MY SOULE

S'lL.

NE VOUS BRULE,
44

II-

VOUS NOIRCIT.

BE MERRY AND WISE.

Ludite, Jed Cafte.

UJ

I <
UJ
o:

ft

X
LL

UJ

i h

z
UJ

>
LL

LU fc

<
UJ

PLAY, BUT CHASTELY.

HE

cunning Hedgehog, with inftindive

hole-like

art,

In ball-like fhape, rolled up, upon the ground,

With open

mouth, knows well his T' entrap the giddy mice that fport around.

part,

And

lo

when

one,

more prying than the

reft,

Draws

near, to peep within a hole fo nice,

RIRE

SANS MAL-ENGIN.
45

QIVE A

SPRAT TO CATCH A MACKREL.

fnaps

The Hedgehog

him up with eager

zeft,
!

And moufey

pays for peeping, in a trice

Let caution guide your fport, be what it may For where expected leaft, fome (hare may lay

Venus' boy was painted blind of yore, For that in darknefs he worked mifchief more.

And

FORMOSAS
UJ CD
IU t-

intueri

jucundissimum, tangere autem

et tractare sine

periculo

non licet. PLUTARCH.

AMOR
DETUR

latebricolarum
aliquid
ilia
setati,

hominum
sit

corruptor.

PLAUT. Trin.

adolescentia liberior,

non omnia voluptatibus denegentur.

Dummodb
h
inferat.
a:

pudicitiae suse,

hoc genere praeseriptioque moderatioque teneatur, parcat juventus ne spoliet alienam, ne probrum castis, labem integris, infamiam bonis
in

Cic. pro

Mar.

C<zlio.

Parva Patitur ut Magnis

NIUNO piu
ingannare.

Potiatur.
solito, e

facilmente inganna

gli

altri,

che chi e

ha fama,

di

non

gli

GIUCCIARDIN.
easily deceives

No

one so

others as he

who

is

expert in deceit, and has a repute

for Integrity.

He

is

not the greatefl cheat

gain his ends, the

who

begins with cheating.

first

HpO
More
So

Hedgehog

permits
;

sportive freedom that the mouse would take For well he knows if he to that submits,

Each
sure

is

he, his prey of

him
to

to

make.
;

is't

with those

who most

wrong intend

They

first

assume the semblance of the friend

sometimes to make the cheat more
offer,

And
Some
Till

e'en

sure,

favour

or

some

loss

endure

having gain'd the vantage ground they sought,

lull'd

And
And

suspicion with most fair pretence,

at length is caught,
ill

Their too reliant dupe

rues too late his

plac'd confidence.

SUPPORTER PEU, POUR EMPORTER TOUT.

46

GIVING

IS

FISHING.

VIGOR ingentibus

negotiis

par, eb

acrior,

quo somnum

et inertiam

magis ostentat. TACITUS.

PELLICULAM veterem

retines, et fronte politus,

Abstruse rapidam gestas sub pectore vulpem.

PERS. Satyr.

5.

FRAUS

in

parvis

fidem

sibi

preestruit,

ut,

cum

operae

pretium

est,

cum mercede

magna

fallat.

LIVY.

J J
ObjeEta movent.
be vigilant because your adversary the i Peter v. 8. about, seeking whom he may devour.
sober,
;

BE

devil, as a roaring

lion,

walketh

h
J7j

UJ

<

'"pHE Hedgehog knows the mouse's wanton ways, And knowing this, knows well to profit by it He shows the mouse a hole, nor aught betrays
That might abate his innate bent to try it Within his mouth in hole-like fashion hollow'd
:

Q
Z <

The mouse soon

With
Lures
just

creeps

and

is

as quickly swallow'd.
UJ
:

such baits as these Man's mortal foe

to
ill,

man

and

fills

this

world with woe

He knows
Z
<f

our hearts, he knows our love of

sin,

And by

that

knowledge
alike,

strives our, souls to win,

Tempts each The heart of

by that which most allures each, and thus his prey secures.

J
!

\UJ CD

D E
I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so 2 Corinth, xi. 3. minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. your

z
BUT

h
:!;

>

IT

so often

the
us,

As oft as we resist him, Ours, not to consent. As often as we overcome him, so often we bring joy to Angels, and glory to God, who opposeth us, that we may contend, and assisteth that we may conquer. S. BERNARD in Ser.
is

the Devil's part to

suggest

we overcome him

DONAR

SI

CHIAMA PESCAR.
47

UNLOOKED-FOR, OFTEN COMES.

JpOURE
As
all

Elements

in this

my my

body
ftill

are

All yockt in one, yet ever

agree to nourifh this

at

warre

light
:

So to

my mine

they combine their might

Aire maketh way for flame, Earth builds a pyre,

My
UJ
CD

moifture feeds the

as I

ftill

confuming

fire.

Still

J
UJ

mine by
life,

light,

by

light I dy,

As
It

caufe of

fo

of mortality,
fault

was Prometheus
fire,

who
it

ftole

away

Heav'ns

h
UJ

and joyn'd

to his mortall clay.

Moifture doth heat, and heat doth moifture quale,

That dryes our body,

CO

this

makes

it

dampe and

fraile,
;

That which doth

CO

our breath give, doth likewife fpend

is

The
UJ o: LU

firft

of being,

firft

houre of death.
FARLIE'S Emblems.

I h
I

h
J * <
CD UJ

I h
cr

UJ

Q Z D

UNDER FAIR WORDS BEWARE OF A FRAUD.

48

ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT MAKE A SUMMER.

17, met

Wyl

HASTEN AT LEISURE.
'HE Peach-tree with too eager To fhew its bloflbms to the
Gives oft
its

hafte

fun,

pretty bloom
frofts

to wafte

Before the

of Spring are done.

Much

wifer

is

the Mulberry,
its

Which

only thinks

leaves to fhew,

UNA HIRUNDO NON FACIT VER.

49

HASTE MAKES WAST E.

When leaves And rofes
They moft
are green

on ev'ry

tree,

have begun to blow.

enfure Succefs and Praise,

Who,

guided by the Rule of Reafon,

Do fitting things on fitting days, And drefs as most becomes the

feafon.

meuner,
Qu'amandrier.

D'AMANDEL bloeyt Maer let eens wie

SAT

vroeg, de

Moerbesy
!

laet

het beter gaet

bene.

citb, si sat

Assez

tost, si bien.

HAEST genoeg,
Is't

wel genoeg.

SOON enough begun,

Q_

That which

is

well done.

DRESS drains our

0)

Cellar dry,

And
FOND

keeps our Larder lean.

is

COWPER.

pride of Dress

sure a very curse.

Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.

U. QJ

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Vanity leaves us

THE most
no repose.

violent Passions will sometimes allow us

a respite, but

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Z
D

quidquid

est,

da tempus ac spatium

tibi

Quid
Si quid

ratio nequit ssepe sanavit mora.

velis,

SENECA, Agam.
Ibid.

bene factum

tempori trade.

spatium tenuemque moram, male cuncta ministrat Impetus. STATIUS

.

DA

DIFFER, habent parvse

commoda magna
f

morse.

OVID.
to reach
it

THE mean,

is

the
it.

point nearest to

Wisdom

it

is

better not

at

all,

than to over-run

Chinese Proverb.
at
all

LET Reason guide you

times,

even

in

the

most

unimportant things.

PYTHAGORAS.

HASTY SPEED DON'T OFTEN SUCCEED.

HASTE TRIPS UP
AVOID doing
that

ITS

OWN

HEELS.

which may draw down upon you the reproaches and the envy

of your neighbours.

PYTHAGORAS.

your opportunity, and do not speak before-hand of that which you will Should your project fail, you will furnish subject for ridicule to those who are THALES. jealous of you.
do.

KNOW

Esto

Cultu
is

modicus.

I
|-

V\/"E

are

told

by Jewellers that there

no Diamond of so
lustre.

fine

water, but

it

requires
IF

some

aid

to

improve

its

This

observation has

been also

>

applied to young women.

No
healthy

objection
sense.

can be

made
is

thereto,

provided
that

it

be understood in a

fitting

and

For

it

indisputable

Virtue

and

Modesty are

the greatest

ornaments or

auxiliaries to the

Beauty of

Woman.

Z
LA
chastete est la premiere beaute.

Z
r;

EXTERNAL Show and costliness of Dress are pernicious in their effects upon the female mind, and tend to sap the principles of Virtue and Modesty. As regards her attire, the motto of a virtuous young Woman should be
:

LU
I

Nitide,

non

delicate.

0)

Reyn

gekleet,

En
CD
UJ

niet te breet.

Clean

in Dress,

Without Excess.
I

NE

sois

Paon a toy

parer,

Ny Perroquet en ton parler, Ny Cicogne en ton manger, Ny Oye aussi en ton marcher.
SUSPECTA semper ornamenta ementibus.

VEEL

vlaggen, luttel boters.

WHOSE

adorning

let it

wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel.

not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of i Peter iii. 3.

MORE HASTE, WORSE SPEED.

HI

WHO

LOSES, SINS.

HE
One

Crafts-man did
fit

me

of pure tallow frame,

;

And made me

to nourifh heav'ns flame

I

thing remain'd, that

feafon due,

mould take with

fire,
:

When
With
I

and

fit

houre doth require

Loe how

the rats catching

me

all

alone,

envious teeth

my

body

ceafe

upon
;

dye before
I

my

day, they
livelefle

life

prevent

Before
I

live,

my

body's fpent:

dying could with teares

this

my
it

death bemoane,

But

untimely death doth yeeld

infant fo oft doth
it

me

none.

The

felfe

entombe,

Before

fee the day,

in

mothers wombe.

So by untimely death youths hope decayes,

Which might have

well deferved

many

daies.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

SIC PERIRE

MISERUM EST.

SO TO DIE

IS

MISE-

G^UI

PERD, PECHE.

THE LORD

IS

MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION.

Lux
Veftra coram Hominibus.

Luceat

(0

Q
o:

and weary, fif NXIOUS, tempeft tofT'd

I*

To
As

the feaman's gladden'd fight,

fo cheery
?

'Mid the night-ftorm, what

the gleaming beacon's light

Though

the wild waves wilder threaten,

fteers his

Calmer now, he

way

SHEW ME THY WAYS, O LORD; TEACH ME THY PATHS.

53
p

To

the long defir'd haven,

its

Guided by

friendly ray.

Like unto that beacon,

0)

truly, !

He

of upright heart and mind,

Holding high his light mould mew the Heav'nward way to all mankind.
Chriftian
!

lift

your
o'er

light
all,

Let

it

mine

on high then, and mew,

all

In this darkfome world to

How

men, and where that men mould go.

LU

I h
~

T ET

which
Ill

your Light so shine that men seeing your good works is in Heaven. Matthew v. 16.
labour in the boisterous sea
:

may

glorify

your Father

WE
J

Thou

standest

upon the shore and

seest our

give us grace to hold a middle course betwixt Scylla and Charybdis, that dangers both dangers escaped, we may arrive at our Port secure. S. AUGUST. Soliloq. cap. 35.

LIGHT

inaccessible, in respect of

which

my

Light

is

utter
:

darkness

so reflect

upon my weakness,

that all the world

may behold
is

hensible, in respect of

which

my

glory

O Majesty incomprethy strength mere shame ; so shine upon my misery that

Desid.

Q Z
CO

all
| '

the world

may behold thy

glory.

HUGO, Pia

to

>

m IVT^ ^ 0(^' y
Increase
'Tis
frail
'tis

^
its
:

lt:

*s

^ ark enou gh

at lightest,
:

flame,

at best
its

LJ

and give it strength to shine 'Tis dim enough at brightest,

:

But

glory to be foil'd by thine,

Let others lurk

Propos'd to all
'

my

light shall

be

men

and by them to Thee.

QUARLES, Hieroglyph

viii.

(0

HE

does wickedly, that does not shew the right to one

who

is

in the wrong.

VIRTUTIS ENIM LAUS OMNIS

54

IN

ACTIONE CONSISTIT.

QOD

IS

A LIGHT THAT

IS

NEVER DARKENED.

"LJEAVEN
Not

doth with us, as we with torches do, light them for ourselves ; For if our virtues

Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not
But to
fine issues
;

finely touched,

nor Nature never lends

The

smallest scruple of her excellence;

But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines

Herself the glory of a creditor,

Both thanks and

use.

SHAKESPEARE.
candle throws
its

Z
UJ

So So

far the little

far shines

j
IL

beams,
!

a good deed in a naughty world

h
/~\UI
;::

in occulto

bene

vivit,

sed alieno profectui minime proficit carbo

positus,

est.

Qui verb

^^^
lampas

in imitatione
est
:

sanctitatis

lumen

rectitudinis

ex sese multis demonstrat,

5.

>

quia sibi ardet, et

est

aliis lucet.

GREG. Super Ezech. homil.

SENECA.

NUMQUAM

mutila opera civis bonis.

quiescentis.

UTILE etiam exemplum

MELIUS homines exemplis docentur,

approbant, quse praecipiunt,
fieri

quse in primis

hoc

in

se

boni habent, quod

posse.

PLINIUS, Paneg.

DOCTUS

sine opere est ut

nubes sine pluvia.

;

Adag. Arab.
verb ex hoc
fit,

Sic luceat lux vestra coram hominibus

QJ

id

cum

apparet miseriin

cordia in affectu, benignitas in vultu, humilitas in

patientia in tribulatione.

habitu, modestia
lib.

cohabitatione,

HUGO, De

Claustro Animce,

3.

Sic agitur censura, et ne exempla parantur,

Cum

judex, alios

quod manet,

ipse facit.

OVID.

LORD

who

art the Light, the

darkness,

error,

vanity nor

Death

Way, the Truth, the Life in whom there the Light, without which there is darkness
;

is
;

no
the
the

Way, without which there is wandering ; the Truth, without which there is Life, without which there is Death say, Lord, let there be Light, and I shall
:

error

see Light,

and eschew darkness and shun

error

I shall see

the Way, and avoid wandering

:

I shall see

the Truth,

and escape Death ; Illuminate, O illuminate my blind which in feet in the way sitteth and the of Death shadow Soul, darkness, ; and direct my of Peace. S. AUGUST. Soliloq. cap. 4.
I shall see Life,

YET A LITTLE WHILE

IS
55

THE LIGHT WITH YOU.

HE THAT DOETH GOOD,

IS

BETTER THAN THE GOOD HE DOETH.

HEN
And

ftormie Boreas puts the feas in rage,

fwelling

waves inteftmg warre do wage

When fun is And foaming

darkn'd,

when night doth heav'n confound,

billowes give a difcord found.

My

light then leads the

way through

reeling ftrands,

Guiding by Scyllas rocks, Charybdis

fands.
feares
;

Here we

are tofTed in a

maine of

But Chrift our admirall the lanterne beares

Leaft

we fhould

fuffer

fhipwracke in the night,

all

He

leads us through

dangers by his light.

Who

then wouldft come to Heav'ns long wimt-for bay,

Follow thy Saviour who's Truth, Light, and Way.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

THE PRACTICE OF DOING GOOD ENGENDERS GOOD WORKS.

56

LOVERS LIVE BY LOVE, AS LARKS BY LEEKS.

Fumo pascuntur
amantes.

h D
LU

>
LU

SMOKE

IS

THE FOOD OF

LOVERS.

HEN
Was
Love keep

Cupid open'd Shop, the Trade he chofe

the very one
?

juft

a {hop

his trade,

you might fuppofe. Oh quickly name

! !

A
No

Dealer
lefs

in

tobacco

Fie for fhame

fet afide all

than true, and

joke,

From

oldeft time he ever dealt in

Smoke

AMANT, TON BONHEUR N'EST

57

G^UE

VAPEUR.

AS JET DRAWS A STRAW,

Than Smoke, no other thing he fold, or made Smoke all the fubftance of his flock in trade His Capital all Smoke, Smoke all his ftore,
;

'Twas nothing

elfe

but Lovers

aflc

no more
!

And
The

Hence

thoufands enter daily at his door it was ever, and it e'er will be
:

trade moft fuited to his faculty

Fed by

the vapours of their heart's defire,

;

No
Z

other food his Votaries require the Favour of the Fair, For, that they feek
Is unfubftantial as the

Smoke and

air.

A MORES

et delicise

mature, et celeriter deflorescunt.

CICERO

pro.

M.

CceL

OMNIA speramus, promissaque vana fovemus

Molliter:
et faciles

ad nova vota sumus.

Interea totum paupertas possidet aevum,

(0

Caecaque volvendo somnia, vita

perit.

DANIEL HEYNS.

Ill

Q
\-

Love.

THE

cherish'd Fire,

Which blindly creeps through every vein and dries The fluent blood, whence grosser vapours rise,

Sadding the soul with

It is to

fearful phantasies.

be

all

made

of fantasy,
all

All

made

of Passion, and

made

of wishes

All adoration, duty, and observance ; All humbleness, all patience, and impatience

All purity,

all trial, all

obedience.

SHAKESPEARE.

LOVE

reigns a very tyrant in

my

heart,

Attended on his throne by all his guards Of furious wishes, fears and nice suspicions.

OTWAY.

O MIGHTY Love from thy unbounded power, How shall the human bosom rest secure How shall our thoughts avoid the various snares?
!

Or Wisdom to our cautioned soul The different shapes thou pleasest

declare
to employ,
!

When

bent to hurt, and certain to destroy

in Life as Love's

SOLOMON.

THERE'S nothing half so sweet

young Dream.

MOORE.

SO DOES BEAUTY LOVE.

58

AS TOUCHWOOD TAKES
Love and Hope.
I

FIRE,

Love

HAVE heard many say lives on Hope they knew not what they
:

said.

Hope

is

Love's Happiness, but not

its

Life.

How many
They

hearts have nourished a vain flame

secret,

In silence and in

fed the scorching

air

fire

though they knew that would consume them.

;

L. E. L.

LIGHTER than
If but a

Hope's summer visions die

;

If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky

beam of sober reason

play,

Lo

fancy's fairy frost-work melts away.

ROGERS.

SIR

KENELM DIGBY,
them

in his

Private Memoirs, makes a lover say, "I will go to the

souls

other world to preach to

damned

that their pains

P. 38.

are but imaginary ones, in

^
m

respect of

that live in the hell of love."

LOVE

is

a species of Melancholy.

BURTON.

Cure for Love.

an hour one evening entirely in love with a Dutchman ; and the next morning she took a dose of algebra fasting, which she says Memoirs, vol. i. p. 36 7. entirely cured her.

TVT^' CARTER

was

for half

0)
III

Z
Love and Legislation.

OTRANGE,
and our

and passing strange, that the relation between the two Sexes, the Passion of Love, in short, should not be taken into deeper consideration by our Teachers
Legislators.
if

the

People educate and legislate as let Priest, ask the Physician

there was

no such thing

in the

World

but ask

them reveal the amount of Moral and Physical

results

from

this

one cause.
in

Must Love be always discussed

in

blank verse, as

if

it

were a thing to be played

Tragedies sung Songs a subject for pretty Poems and wicked Novels, and had nothing to do with the prosaic current of our every day existence, our Moral Welfare and Eternal Salvation ? Must Love be ever treated with profaneness, as a mere
or
in
illusion
1

or with

coarseness, as

with shame, as a mere weakness

a mere impulse 1 or with fear, as a mere disease Whereas ? or with levity, as a mere accident 1
at the

or
is

it

a great Mystery, and a great Necessity, lying

Morality,

foundation of

Human
Why,

Existence,

and Happiness

mysterious, universal, inevitable as Death.

then, should

Love be

treated less seriously than

Death

It is as serious

a thing.

MRS. JAMESON.

SO DOES AN IDLE PERSON LOVE.

59

THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE

HO
And
Put out the

fearft

outragious Vulcans

damned

ire,
fire
;

wouldft be fafe from night-furprifing

flame, the fmoaking fnuffe supprefTe,
fire
it

Leaft from the fmoake the

felfe redrefle
its

For

fire

is

next to fmoake, and oft

feene,

That reaking

fnuffe a blazing fire hath beene.

Who
And

feares the

damned

fire

of inward
this rule

luft,

Cupids flames, obferve

'fore

he muft.

Hearts concupifcence,

it 's

vehement,
not to vent
;

Looke
CO

that in words he fuffer

are

't

I h 2
CO

For words
Smother

fmoake of burning

hearts defire
fire
:

his words,

he needs not feare the

*
J

But otherwayes a wanton complement,

J
FARLIE'S Emblems.

Doth blow

his fire,

and makes him give confent.

z
CO

FLAMMA FUMO PROXIMA EST

NEVER YET

RUN
60

SMOOTH.

CONTENT
Su<e quemque

IS

HAPPINESS.
pcenitet.

Fortune

EACH DEPLORES
'HE Fim that When they
find

HIS

OWN
more,

LOT.

in the

Weel
iflue

are taken,

no

Feel the ftronger wifh awaken To be where they were before

But the Fifh

that fee

them

in

it,
;

Think

it

far

more

pleafant there

And

they ftrive their beft to win

it

it,

Swimming round

ev'rywhere.

THOU SHALT NOT COVET.

61

COVETOUSNESS BRINGS NOTHING HOME.

Thus
Ever
it

is

that

men,

like Fifties,
lot,

Ne'er contented with their

reftlefs

in their wifties,

Craving more than what they've got; In their greed of wealth and ftation,
Coveting yet more and more, Oft in change of fituation,

Find

it

worfe than t'was before.

ui

I
ffl

pISCIS cum modo

ingrediatur,

ingrediendi nassam videat, egrediendi

fit
:

non

videat,

et

nihilominus

(0

prseda perspecta ratione qua te possis inde rursus ingrediendi sunt sine filo, quo securus possis redire.
prius

piscatoribus

non

est

ergo

suscipiendum negotium, nisi nee enim labyrinthi explicare

:

< >

NEMO
que

est,

quin ubivis,
;

quam

ibi,

ubi

est,

esse malit
suis

nam suam
esse,

(D

quisque conditionem
certissimae-

Q
nu

miserrimam putat

cum tamen contentum

rebus

maximse sunt

Z
111

divitiae.

CICERO.

Non
Si vis gaudere per
si

esse cupidum, pecunia

si

est.
LU

unum

diem, radas barbam,

per septimanam, vade ad nuptias

per mensem, erne pulchrum equum ; si per semestre, erne pulchram domum ; si per annum, ducas pulchram uxorem ; si per biennium, fias sacerdos ; si semper vis esse Isetus et gaudens, vives tua sorte contentus. Thesaurus ridendi.
CO

I h
CO

<
LU

AMONG good
The

things I prove

and

find

\L UJ

quiet lyfe doth

most abounde,

U D

And

sure to the contented

is

mynde
Songs and Sonnetes.

There

no riches may be founde.

I

LET not what

cannot have

My

cheer of mind destroy.

COLLEY GIBBER.

A LL men
to

have their

trials

and
life

afflictions,

but a contented mind accommodates

itself

; every poverty nor distress, neither losses nor DR. BREWER. disappointments, neither sickness nor sorrow, can affect its equanimity.

vicissitude

of

neither

CONTENTED mind
envy

is

free
like,

jealousy,

and
Ibid.

the

from the distressing passions of ambition, covetousness, which prey like Vultures upon the peace of the

discontented.

AVARICE BURSTS THE BAG.

62

OUT OF DEBT, OUT OF DANGER.

always desire more than they possess, yet scarcity has been the ruin of fewer than abundance and repletion. THEOGNIS. People
I

MEN

AM

richer

than you,

if

do not want

things,

which you

cannot do without.
SOCRATES.

THERE

No
QJ

a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, chemic art can counterfeit j
is

makes men rich in greatest poverty, Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold, The homely whistle to sweet music's strain Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent,
It
;

That much

in little

all in

nought

Content.

WILBYE'S Madrigals.

Hi

tt

IF

there
:

contentation
Gentiles
(0 UJ

be any happiness to be found upon earth, it this is a flower that grows not in every garden
us
that

is
:

in

that

which we

call

the great Doctor of the

tells

he had

it

have learned

(saith

he) in

what

estate soever I

am, therewith to be content.

BP. HALL.

Of

Contentation.

IF solid happiness

we

prize,
lies
;

Within our breast the jewel

|_

And

>.

The From our own

they are fools who roam world has nothing to bestow;

:

selves our joys

must

flow,

And

that dear place our home.

COTTON.

h
0)

Vain

is

alike the joy

we

seek,

And
The

vain what

we

possess,

Unless harmonious reason tunes

Passions into peace.

To

Is

temper'd wishes, just desires, happiness confm'd ;

to folly's call, attends

And, deaf

The music of

the mind.

CARTER.

HE THAT

IS

WARM THINKS
63

Al_l_

ARE SO.

BE CONTENT WITH
-SHrJ^

ISF

LL

living things with others loffe maintaine

life,

J The

Their

not fo

my

harmelefle light
fertile foile
;

gaine.

plant doth feede

upon the

And

bruitifh beafts the pleafant plants

heart,

doe

fpoile

So harmelefle

and

bird,

and

fifh

must dy,

To pamper mans
Yet
this

too licorim gluttony.

I

But of condition though

mortall be

my

Light

is

onely nurft by me.

live

The moft of men doe

by others

lofTe,
:

Whilft others goods they to themfelves engrofle

So

man

proves wolfe to man, and robbery gives

to him,

Moft gaine

who moft

unjuftly lives.
ftate content,

Thrice happy's he, who's of his

As

if

it

were CrafTus or Crcefus

rent.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

SUCH THINGS AS YE HAVE.

64

BEAUTY

IS

NO INHERITANCE.
y

Ogni Fiore al

fin

perde

l odore.

UJ

* J
(D

UJ

D h

EVERY FLOWER LOSES

[AIDEN
And
!

ITS

PERFUME AT
learn

LAST.

will

you never
in turn

All the leflbns Flowers teach,

that each of
its

them

Hath

potent power of fpeech

In the early violet's bloom, Modest mien, and fweet perfume,

BEAUTY

IS

THE SUBJECT OF A BLEMISH.

65

BEAUTY AND FOLLY ARE OFTEN COMPANIONS.

In the daify of the mead,
If

you have the mind

to

to read,

Simple though

you they seem,

!

Each

affords

its

moral theme

Ev'ry Rofe that here you fee, Ev'ry Flower that blooms a-field,

Whatfoe'er their Beauty be,

Muft

alike that
!

Aye

Beauty yield believe me, maiden fair,

!

Whatfoe'er the Gard'ner's care,

Whatfoe'er
It

his fkill

may

be,

but

little

needs, to fee
is

That which
UJ

day Vanifh like a dream away

!

fo fair to

[jj

~
i

Z
Let there come a
chilling rain,
flighteft froft,

Nipping wind or

Few would

lift

their heads

again!

All their Beauty would be loft Or, e'en let the Sun, whofe light Calls to life their colours bright,
UJ

>.

But too
i

fiercely

<

Straight you'll fee their

on them mine, bloom decline,

00

Wither'd by too great excefs

Of
Maidens
All the

that very Sun's carefs

l_

and Young
as

Women

all

Learn then
ills

you mould from

Beauty
is!

this,

that youth befall,

fleeting

And how

Lips that with, the coral vie,

Witching Beauty of the eye, Ev'ry charm of form and face,

Whatfoe'er their winning grace, Have their Emblem of decay
In the Rofe of yefterday
!

BEAUTY

IS

BUT DROSS
66

IF

HONESTY BE LOST.

BEAUTY
Maiden, there
is

IS

A BLOSSOM.

fomething too,
ne'er defied,

Woman's Beauty

Though

as rich in

charms

as you,

And as full of youthful pride. You have but to look at me, And you may that fomething
That can
fteal

fee,

And

in little

away each grace, time deface,

Whatfoever be your care, All that makes you now fo

fair.

Time

it

is,

whofe
all

ftealthy
its

wing

Throws on
Howfoever

alike

made,

Fades the bloom of ev'ry thing,

fair 'twas

made

though it fo foftly treads, Silent ruin round us fpreads And as Age has done by me,
!

Time

If

you
J

live,

you'll furely fee

Beauty s but an idle boaft, Your's to-day ; to-morrow loft

But, there

is

a Beauty yet,
lafting in the

Far more

wear

That which Virtue doth

Fadelefs

beget,
:

beyond compare Make that Beauty your's, fair maid; Time o'er that can caft no made;
bright

And when
With

wrinkled that

fair

brow,

'Twill be fairer far than now,

a Beauty that mall gain

Lafting

Love

in

God's domain.

As
more.

Man, his days are For the wind passeth over

for

as grass
it,

as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

is

and

it

gone

and the place thereof

shall

know

it

no

Psalm

ciii.

15, 16.

PRETTINESS DIES QUICKLY.

67

VANITY HAS NO GREATER FOE THAN ITSELF.

UCH
It

is

lights love to

Heaven,

that

ftill

above
;

mounts, and cannot to the center move

it

Hold you

under,
its

it

will

upward

reach,

And

through

ruinous body

make

a breach.
ftraight
raife to

Our

foule doth

bend our bodies

it

and even,

As
But

with
all

it

felfe,

would them

Heaven

in

vaine
will
it

it

undergoes fuch toyle,

its

The body
Age
h
LL

not leave

native foyle
it

puls

downe, and makes

ftoope full low,

Till death doth give his fatall overthrow

Then through

the bodies breach the Soule doth

rife,

And
<D

like a

conquerour, mount to the fkyes.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

h < I h
UJ

z
LL

XTINGUAR QUIN ASOENDAM

0)

J J

VANITY WILL. PROVE VEXATION.

68

EN AMOUR, EN COUR, ET A
Inter

l_A

CHASSE,

manum

et

mentum.

MANY A
i

SLIP

'TWIXT THE CUP AND

THE
WIFT,
With

LIP.
his matter's praife,

through the flood, cheer'd by

And

vig'rous ftroke the Spaniel cleaves his way, lo already with his ardent gaze,
!

He

marks the wounded wild-fowl

as his prey.

CHACUN NE PREND CE
69

G^U'IL.

POURCHASSE.

HOPES AND FEARS CHEQUER HUMAN

Near and more near upon the bird he gains, And as the fpace that parts them fmaller grows,

LIFE.

With

fpeed increafed, he plies the foot and strains

the game,

Towards

now
at

clofe before his nofe.

Then bounding highWith fudden rum

once from out the wave

:

to feize the certain prize

That which he thought no means of

i

flight could fave,

Dives 'neath the flood, before

In

his

wond'ring eyes.

z
UJ
I

Love

affairs,

as in intrigues at court,

It oft
or

occurs as in the field of fport; Almoft before the chafe we have begun

UJ

We We

deem
fee

the Fair, the place, and

game

are

won

j
UJ

And when
it

z z

moil fure we've grafp'd the prize aright, quickly vanifh from our fight.
;

'Tis not alone in fleep that dreams arife

Q
0)

Our hopes are oft but dreams with waking As vifionless and vain by day as night,

eyes

We
To

and they fade from fight, Leaving the heart to grieve and to complain,
real,

think them

UJ

find itself fo cheated

by the

brain.

caQa e amores

Per

um

prazer

cem

dores.

POTIUNDI tempore

in ipso,

Fluctuat incertis erroribus ardor amantum.

LUCRET.
OVID.

lib.

4.

FALLITUR augurio spes bona

saepe suo.

MULTA

Inter os atque

cadunt inter calicem supremaque escam multa interveniunt.

labra.

Inter os atque offam multa intercident.

NON

esse sapientis praefidere constanter

iis,

quae aliter evenire nata

stint.

POLYB.

FERE

libenter

homines

id

quod

volunt, credunt.

C/KSAR.

SPEM PRETIO NON EMAM.

70

WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE.

O
quse

in

FALLACEM hominum spem, fragilemque Fortunam et inanes nostras contentiones medio spatio saepe franguntur et corruunt ; et ante in ipso portu obruuntur,
!

quam portum

contingere potuerunt.

CICERO.
est

3.

de Orat.
ration e
difficile
lib. 4.

PLERUMQUE

hominum proprium

quod

cognoscunt,

id

sibi

cupiditate et spe facile fingere.

FRANSC. GIUCCIARD. Hist.

WE

readily believe

what we wish.

Our wishes
wish.

are

fathers

to

our thoughts.

We

believe unwillingly that which

we do not

FORTUNE
us.

fond of change ; she allows herself to be possessed, and she escapes from Dost thou suffer from her fickleness ? Learn to bear it with patience. PYTHAGORAS.
is

God's Providence, alike

in the Smiles
et

and Frowns of Fortune.

Ferendum

Sperandum.

'T'HAT
rr;

Fortune

is

so changeful in her moods,

in such degree

Is scarcely to

be blam'd

As we are wont to hear. Did we but put the question to ourselves We, who do change each moment of our In her so fickle nature we should see
That which our changeful nature best

lives

befits.

The

only difFrence

lies

therein

that

we

Find Fortune's changes more abrupt and loud Than those which daily in ourselves take place

Which

like the

Shadow

n
~

of the Dial,

mark
still,

Their

silent progress

but a progress
it

Not the

less certain that

seem
!

to us

Less evident, because insensible

<

Yet, mutative in body as in mind, With faculties that change with ev'ry day Their pow'r t' enjoy, or estimate aright

The

lights
still

and shades which

fall

across our path

We

repine ungrateful for the Light,

And deem the Shadows more than we can And this withal, forgetful of that Power

bear

Who

in

Knew To make

His Wisdom, wiser far than we, best what our frail nature would befit,
us that

He

will'd that

we should

be.

With humble joy bear Fortune's transient

smile,

Nor
With

let

her frown to discontent beguile

stedfast

Thou'lt find the

Hope, Columbus-like, at last New World when the storm

is

pass'd.

FINCHE

VI

E FIATO
71

VI

E SPERANZA.

THOUGH THE

BIRD'S

IN

THE NET,

HEN
And
I

as

Light with beames did brightly mine, ftarre-light was but equall unto mine

my

was

in great requeft

and

fet

above, did

Was

deare to

all,

who faw me,

me

love

Now

breathing fighes, and languishing I grone I'm hatefull to my felfe, belov'd of none.
If once againe

my

light beginne to burne,

With

it

my light and When Fortune

Doth
But
if

honour mall returne.

{landing on her flippery ball,

favour, then are

we admir'd of

all

No

frowne, then flatterers flye away, friends abide, if once your meanes decay
if

me

but

Then fawne

Fortune change, and fmile againe, thefe flatterers, and beare up your
flote

traine.

Much like the Sea thefe Clients And Fortune turnes her coat, at

and flow;

every

mow.
FARLIE'S Emblems.

IT

MAY GET

ANA/AY

LOVE

IS

THE LOADSTONE OF LOVE.

Amor, ut
Pi/a, vices exigit.

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LOVE, LIKE A BALL, REQUIRES TO BE THROWN BACK.

'AIDEN
Well

fair

if

you would learn

to play this pleafant

ftrike
I

game

You muft
So that
Should you
fail

in quick return.

may do

the fame.
all,

to ftrike at

And

that I

make

play alone,

73

LOVE SEES NO FAULTS.

Then
Mark,
the fhuttle's fure to the
fall,
is

And
And
^'

game

at

once

done.
I
:

fweet maiden,

when

ftrike,

attend to what I fay

Tennis and Love's game alike Need a quick return of play

Who
2

their pleafure
in equal

moft would know,

mare partake, In both games alike muft fhew Equal zeft to give and take. Love and Tennis both, play'd ill,
Soon upon the players pall, When one mews a want of will

And

I ^
<(

To

hit

back the flying

ball.
;

Love, to

Love

is

demonftrative

Love, gives

life

and ftrength to Love,

its

And

in being thus creative,

Love doth moft

Love, of Love's
at

power prove.
loves beft

once the Price,

And Reward

that

Love

Nothing can to Love fuffice, But the Love that gives it reft. If from me to Love you'd learn,

Love j
But
if

and be

my

Sweetheart true

you give no return,

I'll

Then
LU

fay

good-bye to you.

JAMAIS ET Pretium,
BENEFICIUM non

1'Amour ne se paye que par Amour reciproque. et Merces solus Amoris Amor.

Amor

aurum, sed enim Beneficii anima.

est

Amor
Vid.

per quern datur.

Benef.

SENECA de

Divinissimus

est,

quern redamare piget prius amantem.

AUGUST, dc Amore

divino-

LOVE WILL CREEP WHERE

74

IT

CANNOT

<3O.

LOVE

IS

THE TOUCHSTONE OF VIRTUE.

AMA
a chi t'ama,
ti

Rispond a chi

chiama.

Antwoord

dieje vraegt,

Min

dieje Liefde draegt.

calls

Answer him who

unto you,
to you.

And

love

him who brings Love

due lavano
il

UNA mano

lava

1'altra,

e le

viso.

L'une main lave

1'autre, et les

deux

le visage.

Als d'eene hant d'ander wast, soo wordense beyde reyn.

D'eene Min brengt d'ander

in.

MANUS manum

fricat, gratia

gratiam

parit.

FERRO ferrum
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acuitur.

Fructus Amoris Amor.

AMOUR au
>
Quand

creur me poind, bien aime je suis ;

je

Mais aimer

ne

puis,

Quand on ne m'aime point. Chacun soit adverti

De

faire

comme moi
party,

Car d'aimer sans

C'est

un trop grand esmoy.

tibi.

MAROT.

h h J

EXCUTE mihi ignem,

Id

et

allucebo
ut

Proverbium Arabicnm ex Erpenio.

est,

Jo
tibi.

Scaliger interpretatur ,

Esxo mihi, ero

QJ

Be mine,

I will

be thine.

UT

ameris, amabilis esto.

OVID.
amer.

AIMER

sans

Amour

est

Vriendtschap van eener zijde en duert niet lang. Friendship all on one side lasts not long.

Xapis

X&pw

<ji>pei.

Amare
Ilium

recuso.

quem

fieri

vix puto posse

est d' Amour est trop
le

meum.

OVID. Ep. Helen.

AMOUR

Et celui

recompense, a blamer

Qui pour

moins

(s'il

ne commence)

Ne

veut pas, quand on 1'aime, aimer.

LOVE AND HARDSHIP LIKE NO FELLOWSHIP.

75

FOLLOW LOVE AND

IT

WILL

HEN
I

this

wimt-for light to tinne

it

defire,
fire
;

proftrate crave
if light

from

this

flaming

From whence
I

come not

in

fitting

time,

am confum'd

before the light be mine. o

are fmall,

Whofe meanes
They

whom

Fortune favours not,

;

take their patrons mercy for their lot

their fupplications they direct,
ftill

To them
Attending

with homage and

refpecl:

Delay undo'th them, makes them fpend

(I)

their oyle,

UJ

Their hopes grow

lerTe,

and greater

is

their
:

toyle

UnlefTe their Patrons timely

mew

their love

For
D
or
Hi

gifts,

by timely giving, double prove.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

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QUICKLY OR
COfNj-

AM

SUK/IED.

FLEE LOVE, AND

IT

WILL FOLLOW THEE.

76

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.

Qui Captat,
Capitur.

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THE BITER
1GH
An
up

BITTEN.
fea-mew
fpies

in air, the

oyfter lying on the ftrand,

fhell
t'

D
Q.

Gaping with open

inhale

The fummer

breeze from off the land.

To

feize the lufcious morfel

quick

With fudden fwoop and deadly pick, The fea-bird darts his horny beak
Between the
oyfter's fhell
:

HOLD-FAST

IS
77

GOOD DOG.

FORCE WITHOUT FORE-CAST

But
clofing

IS

OF LITTLE AVAIL.

on

it

quick as thought.
!

The
That

bird

is

And

by the oyfter caught nipped fo tight and well

ftrive

To

free his beak,

and ftruggle as he may, and get away ;

He

keeps him captive, firmly bound, Till with return of tide he's drowned.

Who
Of

to themfelves

would

all

appropriate
;

that they fee, deferve the fea-mew's fate

Nor doth he fail to meet it, soon or late, Whofe nofe is thruft in everybody's plate.

'The

Event

is

often different

from

the Intent.

P\EFEATING

our intent and expectation,

;

In strange reverse of that we think to see

When certain most, we find ourselves mistaken, And he is caught, who would the catcher be.
To
curb the pride and malice of man's nature, 'Twas wise ordained, that he should sometimes
see,-

J
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(/)

In his

own toils the hunter captive taken And he despoiled, who would the spoiler be
;

The

evil doer, 'gainst his calculation,

By his own mischief foiled and hurt, alone, The slander of a neighbour's reputation, Recoil with deeper wound upon his own.

C
The fame
Konst van

in another fenfe.

How

besiuaren, gaet voor't vergaren to retain, is more than how to gain.

is

Q
between
:

HpHE

mew

in a

fix,

as

we have seen

With beak well jamm'd the

But what avails the

oyster's shells
?

It

shell-fish his success

Strange case it is yet nothing less than true, His very fortune causes him distress,

his capture what to do very load to him, a trouble quite, The catcher would be well rid of the caught,
!

Nor knows he with

'Tis almost 'gainst his grain to

hold him

tight
!

Yet, to let go

were perhaps with

peril fraught

Just so in

life,

whom management

doth

fail,

Success nor riches to their good avail.

A HASTY MAN NEVER WANTS WOE.

FORTUNAM

CITIUS REPERIAS G^UAM RETINEAS.

harm

m
<[

HARM As
A

seek,

find.

you sow, so you must reap.

bed, so you must
lie

As you make your

on

it.

0)

Q
|_

Qui mal cherche, mal trouve. Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.

CICERO.

Comme

on

fait

son

lit

on

se couche.
est

Tute hoc

introisti, tibi

omne

exedendum.

TERENCE.

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Power and the Riches acquired by a life of anxious toil, slip not unfrequently '"TpHE from their possessor's hands, from defective government, or mismanagement because it is easier to acquire power and to gain wealth than to keep and use them
:

prudently

when

gotten.

An

especial
riches.

virtue

is

needful to

this,

more than

is

required

for the gradual

heaping up of

Z
03

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Non laborc* fed munificentid Not by labour, but by the

'

Domini.
bleffing

of the Lord.
toil,
:

'HE

oyster without change of place, or

The

Prospers in peace, and easy takes his spoil sea-mew, restless, sweeps the shore and main
little

In quest of food, and,

oft to gain

The oyster toils but little, yet he The sea-mew, less from his great

thrives
toil

derives

2
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And God

so

all

labour

is

in vain, unless

of His blessing doth our labour bless.

Eccleftaftes

IX.

1 1

SAW

neither yet bread to the wise,

under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
of
skill
;

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favour to

men

but time and chance happeneth to them

all.

'~pHE
j Go Z

Righteousness of the upright shall deliver them taken in their own naughtiness. Proverbs xi. 6.
not forth hastily to
strive, lest

but. transgressors

shall

be

thou

know

not what to do in the end thereof,

8.

when thy neighbour hath put thee WITHOUT counsel, purposes are

to shame.

Proverbs xxv.

disappointed.

Proverbs xv. 22. Proverbs xv. 27.

HE

that

is

greedy of gain, troubleth his own house.

FORTUNE

IS

EASIER TO FIND THAN TO RETAIN.

79

ENQUIRE NOT, WHAT

IS

IN

ANOTHER'S POT.

HE

glaflie gulfe

joyn'd with Earth's globe in one

rivers, loofeth

Gives waters to the

none;

The Sunne
BL

that

makes

fo

many
ftill

glorious dayes,
:

<
(t

Doth

loofe

no

light,

and

he waft's his rayes

h
z

The Loadftone

to the iron gives vertue rare,

And
So

yet no wayes his

owne he doth impaire

this

my
as

torch can give to others light,

is

(0

And

ftill,

his

wont, fhine perfect bright.

Thus Divine Wifdome doth communicate

h
I
Herfelfe, that others

may The good more common,

all

participate.

better

is,

and grace
cafe.

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Wimeth,

were partakers of her

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

NEC MINOR EST MEA

I_UX.

EVERY MAY-BE HATH A MAY-BE-NOT.

80

AS THE

TWIGi

IS

BENT, SO THE TREE'S INCLINED;

Rami

correcti rectificantur

trabs minime.

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II
LU

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til

Q Z
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Z < J D
a

Of

THE BRANCHES MAY BE TRAINED, BUT NOT THE TRUNK.

|pf VI,

I I

want wood to build a houfe,

would cut down

this tree

'Tis a fine ftem, although in truth

It

fomewhat crooked
funk
this pole,
in

be.

I've
It

hopes to bend

fomewhat

ftraighter

by

YOUTH AND WHITE PAPER TAKE ANY IMPRESSION.

81

TRAIN UP A CHILD
Yet

IN

THE WAY HE SHOULD GO.

fear,

A
(It
is

though I the trunk e'en with hundred withies tie

fo
ftiff in
it

heart and growth,)

That

will

never take

better fhape, whatever be

The

efforts I

may make.
ladder, I
!

But while here on the

j~j
|

Some perfon hear below Some voice unknown that

Holloa
!

calls to
!

me,

up
to

there

holloa

And fomehow (why

Leave off

know

not)

hear what he

Has

got to fay, and this is the Difcourfe he holds to me

:
!

Eh
m

man, what
full

art

about

wouldft bend
!

grown
it

tree like this

Doft take

for a fapling, eh

Why
There
is

what's with thee amifs

no fenfe

in

what thou
friend
is
;

do'fl,

So fpare thy labour,

LU

'Tis only

when

the tree

young
bend
!

That thou the ftem

CD
UJ

canft

Go, get thee home, and rather

let

Thy

children have thy care

The labour that thou here Were better given there.

(0

beftow'ft,

are the trees whofe growth once Will give thee moft concern And from th' experience of my years,
;

Thofe

fet

This

leflbn

thou

may 'ft

learn

In tender youth alone, the

mind
;

To
But

Virtue can be train'd

its

that once pafs'd,

growth and bend

Are not
'

to be reclaim'd.

HE

above

adage

is

taken from

the

collection

of Arabic

sayings

collected

and

translated

by the learned Polygot D.

This saying admonishes

Erpenium, who was

all

Professor in the high

school of Leyden.

parents and guardians that the years

VIEIL

ARBRE MAL AISE A REORESSER.

82

CE
of

G^U'ON

TETTE AVEC

L.E

L.AIT

childhood only are fitted for instruction, and that therefore a special regard should be had to them for that purpose. "Bend the neck of thy child whilst he is yet young, so that he become not stiff-necked," saith the Lord. Many sayings of
our time, either in word or
admonition.
spirit,

and frequently

in both, correspond with that divine

In allusion hereto, Scaliger in his day, cited in his Collection of Proverbs

as coincident in

meaning the French adage

VIEIL arbre mal aise a redresser.

Alte

Alte

Baume sind bose zu Hunden boss bandig

biegen.

zu machen.

Old dogs are hard

to train.

ETH moet vroeg krommen dat een goede reep worden To make a good rope it must be bent early.

sal.

MEN mag

A man
UJ
(I)

sijn oude schoenen verwerpen ; maer niet sijn oude seden. can throw away his old shoes, but not his old habits.

GEWOHNTE maeckt
Custom makes

eelt.
UJ

things hard.

Q
UJ

WAT
What

heeft geleert de jonger

al sijn

man,
life.

Dat hangt hem

the young

leven an.

man

has learnt sticks to him through

natura.

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UJ

NUTRITURA passa

DELLA matina
111

si

cognosce

il

buon

giornb.

L 'HAVER
Non
TAGYRI adeth

cura de putti

e mestiere

de

tutti.

gaiet mischkhiuldur.

Turkish Proverb.
UJ

Id
It is

est,

difficult to

change customs.
vt<j>

Tepoi'Ta

8'

6p6ovv, (f>\avpov} os

Trecrot.

ARISTOPH. apud Suidam.

Id
Erigere

est,

durum

est,

qui cadit juvenis, senem.

Annosam arborem

transplantare.

Eodem

sensu adagium refertur ab Erasmo.

Castigar vieja, y espulgar pellon, dos rivancos, son.

'Tis

Education forms the

is

common mind

Just as the twig

bent, the tree's inclin'd.

:

TRAIN up a
depart from
it.

child in

the
6.

way he should go

and when he

is

old,

he

will

not

-Prov. xxii.

AU SUAIRE SE RESPOND.
8.3

AS YOU SOW, YOU SHALL REAP.

HOU

goeft about mifchiefe

and

ftill

doft feare,
witnefle beare
;

Leaft this

my

light 'gainst thee

mould

So having put

me

out thou think'ft to worke

in fecret
ftill

Thy

will,

and yet
art

to lurke.

Thou

deceiv'd, the darknefle of this cell

hell.

Containes a light, that fees the loweft

But thou a Want,

canft

not perceive this light,

Neither difcerne Sun- mine from cloudy night.

Then malt thou

I

fee

it,

when

the Deity

Shall kindle that fparke which in thy bread doth ly.

h
<
UJ

What

e're

thou

doft,

looke to that Light which made

in

All Lights, and mines as day

midnight made.

FARLIE'S Emblems.
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IN

VAINE THOU

PUTTEST ME OUT.

WE LEARN

BY TEACHING.
84

EXTREMES MEET.
morfige lieden Kuys warden,
foo

chuerenfe de

Panne van

achteren.

WHEN SLOVENLY SERVANTS GET

OOK &
ILJJI

TIDY,

THEY POLISH
came
to

THE BOTTOMS OF THE SAUCEPANS.

thefe Girls
!

When

they

firft

me,

They were fo fluttifh and untidy both, never had a faucepan fit to fee, And fcarcely ever a clean kitchen cloth.
it

But now

is

a pleafure to behold
fo

They

are

become

wondrous

clean and neat

NEITHER A LOG, NOR A STORK, GOOD JUPITER.

85
a

TOO MUCH
I

IS

STARK NAUGHT.

never have to rate them, nor to fcold,

Nor

ever

now an

order to repeat.

They're fcouring, fcrubbing things continually,

'Tis rare indeed fuch girls as

them

to

meet

Their kitchen's quite a palace, as you

fee,
?

And
They

look, their drefier

isn't it a

treat

never

now

require to be told
:

fingle thing

and, what

is

even .more,

I'm often now almoft obliged to fcold, They've got fo over nice, 'tis quite a bore They're now what I call cleanly to excefs,

And make

themfelves more

work than need be made.

"*

So much, that oft I'd rather fee a mefs, That I might have fome reafon to upbraid.
"7'

There, look
ill

'tis

quite ridiculous to fee

kettles
it

fo
;

Thofe pans and

Although
I've faid

which they're fcrubbing

don't require to be,

Q-

They

clean the very bottoms of

them too

'Tis juft the

way with

foolifh people all,

When
In
th'

once their old bad habits they forfake, oppofite extreme too oft they fall,

And
h

of a virtue then a folly make.

The

Spendthrift,

when he

takes to fave, a Mifer oft becomes,

And, where he fquander'd thoufands once, will make his meal of crumbs. The niggardly, when he the part of liberal would play,
Is

But both

generous beyond his means, to give, to lend, or pay. are in excefs, and act in oppofition quite
Sense and Reafon's rules for doing e'en the thing that's right.
friends,
line

To

So be advifed by me, my The path of Light, the

and keep within the mean

lies
all

of Right,

extremes between.

DOR
ALLEZ par
le

Medio y no

caereys.

Milieu, et vous ne tomberez.

MEDIO

intissimus

ibis.

IL n'y a banquet que de chiches.

TOO MUCH BREAKS THE BAG.

86

TOO TOO WILL

Zu wenig und
Verderbet

IN

TWO.

zu viel

alle Spiel.

Zu

viel ist

ungesund.

AL

zu scharff macht schartig.

Ii,

molio e

'1

poco.

Rompe

le givoco.

Ni tan hermosa que mate, Ni tan fea que espante.

Ni tant
belle,

qu'elle tue

Ni

tant laide, qu'elle espouvente.

Noch y

noch

fy.

OGNO
00 rn

bel givoco vupl durar poco.

la Strada di

Tien

mezzo.
tenuere beati.
I

PERGE

via

media

medium

ill

Qui commence a
CD

etre liberal, devient prodigue.

J
BAULLU curium
etion vetra
est

mensaran carnadu.

Turkish Adage.
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OMNIS intemperantia

a tota mente ac a recta ratione defectio.

CICERO.

INCIDIT in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim.^-HoRACE.

<

ID arbitror adprime in

vita esse utile

"ne quid ntmis."

TERENCE.

T;

Z I

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^void Extremes.

'Tis all in vain to

keep a constant pother

About one Vice, and fall into another; Betwixt excess and famine lies a mean
Plain, but not sordid
;

though not splendid, clean.

POPE.

Never exaggerate.

pHE

Wise never speak

in the superlative, for that

mode

of speech always offends

Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation, inasmuch as they expose the shallowness of the understanding and 'the bad taste of the speaker. he who exaggerates shews himself to Exaggeration is a species of lying
either
;

Truth or Prudence.

be a

man

of bad taste, and, what

is

worse, a

man

of

mean

intellect.

GRACIAN.

TOO MUCH CORDIAL WILL DESTROY.

87

TOO MUCH COURTESY, TOO MUCH CRAFT.

Light into a fnuffe

is

almoft turn'd,

FY And
Which

now

the candle to fmoaking afhes burn'd,

Behold another Light ftands ready by,

to enjoy

my

place will
it'

make me

dye.

Yet not unpunim'd

puts out

my

breath,

My

very ames doe revenge

my

death.

So doth the fonne

his

Father

make away,

If not with fword, with griefe, before his day,

That he

his Fathers

goods and meanes may joy,

convoy.
fo evill gotten

Which Nemefis revenging doth

For
oft the fpendthrifts

goods

Are

fpent before his Fathers bones are rotten.

FAR LIE'S

Emblems.

DO BUSINESS, BUT BE NOT A SLAVE TO

IT.

PROSPERITY GAINS FRIENDS,

When
the

IVind serves,

all

aid.

GREASE THE FAT SOW!

HO
The

claimeth kindred with the Poor

!

"
?

So few

that 'twas the reafon

firft

why

queftion was
truly
!

put, no doubt,

And

it

doth

much

imply.

Replete with meaning Though few to picture and exprefs In time of yore, as even now,
are thofe words,

Man's

all-abforbing felfimnefs.

ADVERSITY

TRIES

THEM.
AA

CHANQE OF FORTUNE
The
*
fage

IS

THE LOT OF
:

LIFE.

who

said in antient days

"When
And
<

the ftrong-box contains no more,

is

that the kitchen fire

friends

out,

Both

and

flatt'rers

mun
:

the door,"

Attefted then, what even

Is daily feen

now

on every hand

The profperous in life, alone Have profTer'd fervice at command.

Let Fortune with propitious winds Waft but the laden bark to more,

He
CD

finds a hoft

Who
Beyond

of helping friends, never had a friend before. need on ev'ry

fide,
;

IU

his

l_

Z
'

fympathy Officious zeal to help and aid The tide of his profperity.
Greafe the fat fow
!

He

fees unafk'd-for

all

help!

all
;

aid!"

On
Of

ev'ry

hand the harpies cry

'Tis eafy rowing in the

others' toil

wake
!

and induftry

Thus 'tis in life, we conftant fee The Drones and Idlers of our
h
Prey on the labours of the Bee, And fatten on what others find.

The Foxes of the human race, The Beavers of their own defpoil
<
Ill

Craft, lord

it

in

poor Merit's place,

toil.

And

take the credit of his

UJ

T^ONEC
(t
I,

eris felix,
si

multos numerabis amicos

Tempora

fuerint nubila, solus eris.

Aspicis ut veniant ad Candida tecta columbje,

Accipiat nullas sordida turris aves

* Plutarch.

ALL

IS

LUCK OR

ILL

LUCK
90

IN

THIS WORLD.

A'

THINGS HAE AN END, AN' A PUDDING HAS TWA.

Horrea formicse tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
:

Utque comes radios per

solis

euntibus

umbra
:

est

Cum
Mobile

latet hie pressus

nubibus,

ilia fugit
:

sic sequitur fortunse

lumina vulgus
abit.

Quse simul inducta nube teguntur,

OVID,

i.

Trist. 8.

GRANARO vuoto
U.

formica non frequenta.

Italian Proverb.

OP

ledige solders en

komen geen
lauft alle

Kalanders.

Dutch Proverb.

WER
D

da

liegt, iiber

dem

Welt

hin.

German

Proverb.

PARENTE con parente Guai a chi non ha niente.

UJ

LL

l~

<LL
VRIENDEN
sijn

vrienden,

maer wee diese van doen

sainct aide.

heeft.

BON vent chaque

serrata,

IN borsa

amico non
noot

si

trova.

VRIENDEN

in der

Vier-en-twintigh in een loot.

FELICIUM omnes consanguinei.

CO

MEN
Den

kent geen vrient als in der noot

rijcken

na den doot.
legt

DIEWEIL

die

Henn' Eier

legt,

man

ihr auch.

Old German Proverb.

UJ

WHILE

the Pot boils, Friendship blooms.

IN Prosperity Friends are numerous and cheap.

UJ

Q
9:

INFELICIUM

nulli sunt affines.

Q
541.
UJ

L'HOMME pauvre

est toujours

en pais etranger.

JUAN RUFO, Apoph.

:

THE
UJ

Vulgar find Friends neither in Prosperity nor Adversity

that in Adversity
all

because in the former

they

know nobody, and

INTEREST makes

nobody

will

know
it.

them.

GRACIAN.
Sec.

seem Reason that leads to

DRYDEN,

Love.

J J

The The

noblest Friendship ever shown,

makes known, some have turned and turned Though

Saviour's history

it

And whether
Or

being crazed or blind, seeking with a biassed mind,

Have

not,

it

seems, discerned

it.

COWPER.

Al_l_

BITE THE BITTEN DOG.

91

THE MORE SERVANTS, THE WORSE SERVICE.

HILST
As fometimes

did mine fierce Boreas put

me
bout

out,
:

Againe he kindles

me

at the fecond

did the clowne,

now Boreas
his

doth,

Both heat and cold he breatheth from

mouth,

The

billow

whom

it

caft into the

maine,
;

Returning threw him

in the

Shippe againe
raifeth
it

Fortune throwes downe, then

Achilles fpeare doth cure

from the ground;

whom
;

did wound.

Lofles prove good to fome

whom

Greece condemnd,

The

Perfian for his vallour could

cast

commend.

Be not

downe, difpaire not

at mifchance,

God who

hath crofTed thee, will thee advance.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

TIME PAST NEVER RETURNS.

92

TOO MUCH FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT.

Faites feste au chien,
il te

gastera ton habit.

LU

K
Q.

CO

<
IL

< h
o:

< j

PLAY WITH THE DOG, AND HE'LL SPOIL YOUR

CLOTHES.
in the

PS And
The

In

full

garden yefterday, Court fuit, I coax'd our Tray, with each friendly pat and ftroke,
;

ufual words of kindnefs fpoke

in return for

He

my

carefs,

Sprang up, unmindful of

my

drefs,

I_A

FAMIL.IARITE

ENQENDRE
93

L.E

MEPRIS.

-S-.

BB

PLAY WITH AN ASS, AND HE

And
with his dirty feet and nofe Befmear'd my handfome cloak and hofe.
all

In fpite of

that I could fay,

his ruthlefs play
;

To

keep

in

bounds

Grown bolder ftill, the vexing As though intent to fpoil my

Jump'd up again

brute,
fuit,

my

fhoe-ties foil'd,
fpoil'd
;

My
I

fatin

knee-bows fray'd and

all

Till finding

my

chiding vain,
to reftrain
;

His wanton fondnefs

h
\~
0.
|

In wrath

kick'd th' unmanner'd hound.

And laid him fprawling on the ground. As with the brute, with man no lefs, The friendfhip of th' uncultur'd mind
Is

Uj

irkfome
zeal to

oft,

from fheer excefs

that's kind.

Of

do the thing

However

friendly

you may be

Difpos'd your ferving-man to treat, Let not your partiality Be fhewn beyond the bound that's meet

With

When you
For both

equal care your fondnefs fhew, your child or dog carefs ;

alike as little

know,

How
That
Z

far the frie'ndfhip

ruffles felf-love

may

tranfgrefs,

through the Drefs.

T5URLAOS
LES enfans

con

el

asno, daros

ha en

la

barba con

el rado.

Cria corvo, y sacar te hal

et serviteurs
il

el ojo.

Old Spanish Proverb.

si

ne

les faut

mignarder,

tu veux en jouir.

FAITES

feste

au chat,

il

vous sautera au visage.

Nimia
II

familiaritas parit

contemptum.

troppo conversar partorisce dispregio.

NULLI

te facias

nimis sodalem.

Gaudebis minus? Et minus dolebis.

MARTIAL.
:

JAMAIS trop compagnon k nul ne te feras Car bien que moins de joye, moins d'ennuy tu auras.

WILL WHISK HIS TAIL

94

IN

YOUR FACE.

DO NOT SPUR A FREE HORSE.

CHOSE accoustumee
N'est pas fort prisee.
|_

A A

CASA de tu

(9

tia,

Mas no cada

dia

caso de tu hermano,
iras

Non

cada ferano.
ta tante,
:

A
UJ

la

maison de

~
UJ

Mais pas tous les jours A la maison de ton frere

Mais non tous
les soirs.

(D

UJ

Q.

3
DL

Ale luporum

catulos.
sint,

TN

eos qui Iseduntur ab

solet id

iis,
illis,

de quibus bene meriti

qui catulos

aut in ingratos.

Nam

plerunque

usu venire

luporum

enutriunt.
:

ERASM.

in Adagio.

Qui
Qui

se fait brebis, le loup le se fait porceau, se

mange

met dans
et
il

la fange

Amignotte ton enfant, Joue-toi avec lui, et il

te

donnera maint

effroy

te contristera.

Ne
ti

te

joue point avec un

homme mal

appris.
UJ

TN

been said above, the Hebrew proverb saith, " If your friend be sugar you must not eat him all up," /. e. that we must not require too
reverse sense of what has

I h
0)

(5

much
I

of those
;

who

are willing to serve us

:

that

we should never misuse any

one's

courtesy

nor over-ride a willing horse

any ask the reason why I use nor whip nor spurs to ply The mare I ride? It is that she

CHOULD

Z
o:

h
(D

Requires nor whip nor spur from Because her mettle is so good,

me

And
UJ

she's so willing in her mood, That since I've her besirode, I ne'er

Found her

dispos'd her legs to spare.

UJ

For whip or spur no use I see Whene'er a horse goes willingly

* J
:

And
That

this I

hold

From

horse nor

man
:

UJ

Nor

willing gives, take all you can is he wise who tries his friend
his will to give or lend.
ass,

K
<
0)

Beyond

Who

overloads his

no

less

D Z
:

T' obtain his wish the worst

way chooses
distress,
!

His [is ass stands

still

from sheer

And

greed of gain the market loses

IL

NE FAUT PRENDRE DE SON AMI TOUT CE

95

G^U'ON

PEUT.

MEN KAN'T KINT WEL. TE

VEEl_ WIEQEN.

OW
He
I

Boreas puffing in his boiftrous

as

ire
fire
:

Blows

he were to kindle Vulcans

doth undoe

me

by

his churlimnefTe,
lefle
:

am confumed

more, and mine the

I

He

fpends his labour, fo

lofe

mine

oyle,

As no wayes fit to undergoe fuch toyle. You beat the AfTe lingring under his
0)

load,
:

Q Z
UJ
a:
[i

The

generous Horfe deferveth not a goad

The Mufes
Which
Each
are

Tonnes cannot away with lames,

more

fitting for

Arcadian

afles.

(5

ftrength within his limits, Nature bounds,

fo pafleth,

z h
(0

Which who

Nature he confounds.
FARLIE'S Emblems.

CO UJ (0

<
UJ
o:

z
Q.

I
fl)

Q Z
UJ
o: LL

THE CHILD MAY BE ROCKED TOO HARD.

96

ROSE FLETRIE

NUL.

NE

Tur-pe Senilis

Amor.

0)
UJ

UJ

CD

UJ ct

UJ

BEES

TOUCH NO FADING FLOWERS.

late in

HE

Rofe round which of

t'

fuch difport,

So many came admire and to court; With drooping head now mourns that me mould By all forfaken me was wont to fee. No gentle Zephyr now as yefter-noon, Comes near to revel in her fweet perfume
;

be

THE FADED ROSE NO SUITOR KNOWS.

c c

WEALTH MAKES WORSHIP.

No Butterfly with Now hovers near,
Her
wings of varied hue, and ftays his flight to view
nor as hitherto,
breaft the pearly
hies

full-blown beauties
kifs

To No

from ofF her

dew

on eager wing tuneful Bee* now His admiration of her charms to fing,

Nor longer The honied

feeks to

rifle

and to

fip

treafures of her fragrant lip.

this
?

And why
_

is

the reafon foon

is

told

Nor

Butterflies nor Bees are

!

grown more cold

art

But thou, poor Rofe

'tis

thou

growing old
;

Thy
h

beauties in their prime but yefterday

Yield thee to Love, fweet youth, while youth

is

thine;

Seek thee a mate

e'er yet

thy youth decline,

Nor make
Till

delay to love, to

woo and wed,

Of

fnows upon thine head. Life's beft years wafte not the richeft bloom

Age

has ftrewn

its

Beauty's tomb ; Youth, Strength, and Beauty have not long to ftay,

In fruitlefs ufe, for

Time

is

To-day
CD

they're thine

to-morrow pafs'd away

h
Q.
(I)

A MARE

juveni fructus, crimen seni.

SENEC. in Proverb.

DESINE, dulcium

Mater
jrj

saeva cupidinum,

Circa lustra

decem

flectere mollibus

Tarn durum imperiis.

Abi

Quo

blandse juvenum te revocant preces.

HORACE.

E
In Caducum Parietem non inclinandum.
the fresh rose
first

Tis wooed by all But when it droops and

that love
all
its
its

opens to the day, round flowers to play:

bloom

is

o'er,

No Bee

then seeks

it

for

honey more.

*Apes a marcidis

floribus abstinere solent

mortuis, ait Plinius, floribus ne

quidem corporibus

insidunt.

POVERTY TRIETH FRIENDS.

98

PROSPERITY GAINS FRIENDS, ADVERSITY TRIES THEM.

So
fares
it

ever with the rich and great

:

To poverty reduc'd by adverse Fate Few know them then, or their acquaintance boast Not even those who fawn'd on them the most Smil'd when they smil'd, and made without a cause
;
;

their subject for applause ; In sordid worship of that wealth and state Which grov'lling minds then pay towards the great.

Each look and word

Then

like the
all
its

Rose deserted by the Bee,

When

wealth of sweets has pass'd away, Each shuns the fall'n, nor merit more can see
call

In him whose

they truckl'd to obey.

A /TY

lovers
off.

and

my

friends stand

aloof from

my

sore

and nay kinsmen stand

afar

0)

Psalm

xxxviii.

n.
UJ

MANY

will entreat the favour of the prince,

;

giveth gifts

[But] all the brethren of the poor

and every man is a friend to him that do hate him how much more do his
:

friends go far from

him

Prov. xix.

6,

7.

a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy In thy prosperity he will be as thyself, and will be bold over thy servants affliction. if thou be brought low, he will be against thee, and will hide himself from [But] thy
friend
is

SOME

face.

Ecclesiasticus vi.

10

12.

FRIEND cannot be known

in

prosperity,

and an enemy cannot be hidden

will

in

adversity.

In the prosperity of a
will depart.
Ibid. xii.

man enemies
8,
9.

be grieved, but in his adversity

even a friend

WEALTH maketh many

n

friends;

but the poor

is

separated from his neighbour.

>
Q.

Prov.

xix.

4.

a companion which rejoiceth in the prosperity of a friend, but in the There is a companion which helpeth his friend for the belly, and taketh up the buckler against the enemy. Ecclesiasticus xxxvii. 4, 5.
is

THERE

time of trouble will be against him.

WHERE

the carcase

is,

there the eagles will be gathered together.

Matt. xxiv. 28.

CUM Fortuna manet vultum servatis Cum cedit, turpi vertitis ora fuga.

amici,

OVID.

RICH

MEN HAVE NO FAULTS.

99

FLATTERERS HAUNT NOT COTTAGES.

HEN
h
UJ

as

my

Light much like an ev'ning

glittering

ftarre,

Did

caft his

beames both neare and

farre

o
f-

Then

light

me

glorious, flame

me

dreadfull made,
;

And

none injurioufly durft

me

upbraide

But when
(0

my

Light into a fnuffe did turne,

did ceafe to burne,
ftand,

I
I h

And
Thus

cloth'd with darkenefle, I

I

Loe how without defence

torne and rent

naked

by

this
it

devouring band.

Glory, as envy, fo

terrour lends
it

To
h
I

Mortals

Majefty

felfe

defends
flies

But

after treacherous

Fortune
its

away,

h
Ui

To

an unarmed dwarfe

made

a prey.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

UJ

(T UJ

>
UJ
h

z
UJ

J J

(0

UJ UJ

o:

h
UJ

i h z
UJ

YOU FEARED ME WHILST

I

SHINIED.

MEN USE TO WORSHIP THE

100

RISING SUN.

ONE

ILL.

EXAMPLE SPOILS MANY

pourrie gate sa compagnie.

Pomme

z
Q Q D
CL

d
Q.

UJ

J I

h
'0
Q.

ill

I h
(0

UJ

J o i

J
Q.
(D

UJ

Z
LU

h h
tt

UJ

ONE ROTTEN APPLE INFECTS ALL THE BASKET.

Maid! who comes fo FAIR Your fruit of me to buy
oft this
!

IN

J J
UJ

way,

In guerdon of your kindnefs, pray! Before my fruit you try,

Give ear to what

have to

fay,

For

would

fervice

do

To

fuch as buy of me to-day, Good cuftomers like you

!

ONE MANG.Y SHEEP SPOILS A WHOLE FLOCK.

101

D D

BETTER BE ALONE THAN

Full

IN

BAD COMPANY.

many
well

years have I fold fruit,

its

And
As
That

nature

know

that of ev'ry herb and root,

in the

And
cc

this I've
all

garden grow found, and heard

;

it

too

From

who

fruit

have grown,

However fine and frefh to view, The good, keep beft alone."
rotten pear, however flight

No

token of decay, But foon as e'er it meets the

OL

The

fight,

W
Iti
I

It

mould be thrown away

little

For be the damage

In

e'er fo fmall,

time, I've

known
all,

The taint will often fpread to From that one pear alone.
>-

I've

<

had of Jargonels a lot, As found as fruit could be,

rot,

All from one apple take the

And
Nor
I
is

prove fad

lofs to

me.

there fruit that ever grew,

fpoil'd in
fpoils
all

When
But foon

any part,
that's near
it
:

too,

So take thefe truths to heart

A
J

tainted grape the

bunch may

fpoil

mildew'd

ear, the corn in

mock
boil,

fcabby fheep, with rot and

Infect and kill the fineft flock.

Hence, maiden,

would have you know

fruits that

The

ill

that evil contact brings

fineft

To all the And faireft

Seek only

grow,

maids, like other things.

all

that's

good

to learn

Thine

ears

from

evil counfel

turn
fair,

For

all

the

more
is

the fruit

is

The

greater

its

need of

care.

BE CAUTIOUS

IN

CHOOSINQ THY COMPANIONS.

102

SE COUCHE AVEC DES CHIENS SE LEVE AVEC LES PUCES.

/^lUCCIARDINI,
singular
in

his

Book
to

entitled

"Hours
a
observes

of

Recreation,"
of
the

says that

it

is

and
a
:

sure

way
if

acquire
diligently

knowledge
the

inner

nature

and
most

character

of

person,

one

kind

of

society

he

frequently keeps

For two of a kind, whate'er they Are forthwith certain

as Cicero said formerly
like
;

be,

to agree,
:

when speaking

of Cato

because Nature always inclines to

is

its
:

and hence,

specially applicable to the foregoing subject

the

Spanish proverb

Di

me con

quien

iras

Dizir te he lo que haras.

Tell me, with

whom

thou goest,

And

I'll tell

thee what thou doest.

To

shun

evil

company

is

therefore

one of the most

important

things

to

be

impressed on the mind of the youth of both sexes ; and the extent of mischiet which it leads to, may be well inferred from the writings of David, a man after God's heart, and of Solomon, the wisest of kings ; both of whom gave this subject
the

David in his first Psalm, and Solomon in the place in their writings. his of coincide with the sense expressed in the Proverbs of Proverbs, chapter
first

first

all

nations, as

may

herein be seen

HE
UJ

that handles pitch shall foul his fingers.

HANDELT

gy't

peck,
fleck.

Gy

krygt een

BREBIS rogneuse
Fait 1'autre tigneuse.

ONE

rotten sheepe wille marre a whole flocke.

LA mancana podrida
Pierde a su compannia.

UNICA prava pecus

inficit

omne

pecus.

Dum

spectant

laesos oculi, laeduntur et ipsi.

OVID.

GREX
Unius scabie

totus in agris
:

cadit, et porrigine porci

Uvaque

conspecta livorum ducit ab uva.

ist,

JUVENAL,

Sat.

2.

WER
EIN

unter den Wolfen

muss mit ihnen heulen.

Ein reudig Schaf macht die ganze Heerde reudig.

schurft schaep maeckt'er veel.

Die by de kreupelen woont, leert hincken. Vuyle gronden bederven de Kabels.

DIE met den goeden

omme

gaet,

En

acht ick noyt

myn

leven quaet.

HE

WHO KENNELS WITH WOLVES MUST HOWL

103

KEEP YOURSELF FROM OPPORTUNITIES,

JplLAME goes * Bids earth

The

to heav'n,

from whence
it

it

once did come,

adue, and what

hath therefrom.
into ay re
;

fnuffe to afhes,
's

fmoake turnes

Lights beauty

gone, which fometime was fo faire

his laft

When
Our

Death hath giv'n

and

fatall

blow,
;

foule to

Heaven, our Earth

it

to earth doth goe

Riches and honours, which

once did love,

:

The

Soule

now

lothes
all

and feekes to dwell above

pleafures to contemne,

Learne Mortals,

falfe

And

treafures,

which the foule muft once condemne

Seeke rather for the graces of the minde,

Which you your convoy

to the

Heaven

will finde.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

AND GOD

WILL.

KEEP YOU FROM

104

SINS.

EVERY SUITOR

IS

NOT A HE ART- BREAKER.

Tangor, non Frangor, ab undis.

h z
Q
a.

i
0)
o:

AM TOUCHED, NOT BROKEN

At

BY THE WAVES.
''^^e

ev'ry feftive board th' admir'd gueft, ev'ry Ball the partner in requeft
;

'Mid Fafhion's throng wherever thou

Th' acknowledg'd
faireft

art feen
:

type of Beauty's Queen

And

yet

with

all

this tribute to

thy grace,
face
;

This fervent homage of thy form and

ALL.E

AANSPRECKERS, aEEN HERTE-BREKERS.

E E

BIEN TE BAIONE, MAIS SANS MEL.ANC3E.

Unmov'd, unchang'd, thou
art in all

the fame

As

heretofore

nor Love, nor

praife,

nor blame,

To

Such

thee or pleafure or annoy impart is the icy coldnefs of thine heart

That thou

art thus, explains full well to

me,
:

What
Where
Hj

once deem'd mere fabulous to be

That even
all

'midft the Ocean's rolling wave,

earth's waters find a

common
lefs

There flow fome Rivers which no

grave ; maintain
*
!

F <
o'
IL

Their courfe unbroken, and unmix'd retain Their Water's fweetnefs 'mid the briny main

So thou, who kindleft in all hearts, defire, Mov'ft cold and ftill unfcath'd amidft the

fire!

/"\U UIS fornacem Regis Babylonii sine adustione ingressus est, inquit, cujus adolescentis ^s^ ^Egyptica Domina pallium non terruit ? Inter illecebras voluptatum etiam ferreas
mentes libido domat.
Difficile inter

opulas servatur pudicitia.

humilitas
in
divitiis,

HIERON.

lib.

iii.

Epist.

5.

PERICLITATUR

castitas

in

diliciis,

pietas

in negotiis, veritas in

multiloquio, charitas in

hoc mundo.

BERNARD,

in quod.

Serm.

ll

~PHE

rolling

wheel that runneth often round,

The

hardest steel in tract of time doth tear;

And
The

drizzling drops, that often

do redound,
wear
:

firmest flint doth in continuance

I,

>
_

Yet cannot

with

many

a dropping tear

And

<

long entreaty, soften her hard heart, That she will once vouchsafe my plaint to hear, Or look with pity on my painful smart.
But,
;

when I plead, she bids me play my part And, when I weep, she says Tears are but water And, when I sigh, she says ; I know the art And, when I wail, she turns herself to laughter.
;

So do

While she as

weep, and wail, and plead in vain, steel and flint doth still remain.

EDMUND

SPENSER.

* This
Sicilian Sea.

was

antiently

affirmed

and

believed

of

the

River

Alpheus,

in

its

course

through

the

106

THE LAST COMERS ARE OFTEN THE MASTERS.

T PR'YTHEE send me back my
Since I can not have thine
;

heart,

For

if

Why
To

from yours you will not part then shouldst thou have mine
I

Yet now

think on't,
it

let it lie,
;

find

were in vain

For thou'st a

thief in either eye

it

Would

steal

back

again.

SIR

J.

SUCKLING.
CO

Hi

OH
Q
It

who would

love

woo'd a

Woman

once,

But she was sharper than an eastern wind, And all my heart turn'd from her, as a thorn

Turns from the

sea.

TENNYSON.
0)

J
~-

THE

fair Lauretta's eyes,

so blue

and

bright,

Look blank and cold when / am

Paint her not thus, kind limner
!

in her sight.

give her that

cat.
(/)

00

<{

Sweet smile she wears when talking to her So shall I fondly think, whene'er I see

The beaming

Portrait, that

it

smiles

on me.

Anon.

y
Mediis immixtus
"D
in undis.
learn to be

K
;

jj!

EADER
this

from

this

our

Emblem

Of

Th' unmingling River, flowing through the sea World's brackish waters. Thou too, keep
'mid the briny deep
lusts
0)

Thy course unbroken Of all its lures, its

Though
UJ

and

vanity.

Q,

living in

men's 'midst, yield not thine heart

To
Of

those who would their taint to it impart ; Lest soon commingling with the 'whelming tide
Passion's waves which press

<

on

ev'ry side,

Thy

Soul's sweet waters lose their purity.

DISCITE in hoc mundo, supra

ales interior.

mundum

esse

et si

corpus

geritis, volitet in

vobis

AMBROS. de

Virg.

ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in
the world.
Philip,
ii.

THAT

15.
it
:

AND

they that use this world, as not abusing

i

for the

fashion of this world

passeth away.

Corinth,

vii.

31.

HE

WHO CAN WAIT OBTAINS WHAT

107

HE WISHES.

HE

WHO DEMANDS DOES NOT COMMAND.

HEN
I

thou

in darkenefle

of the night didft blaze,

could not without envy on thee gaze;

in
fight,
:

But when the Cyclop Titan comes There

I
is

no ods twixt darkenefle and thy light

;

doe not envy thee, although thou fhine

glor' I

No

have nor

is

the glory thine.

;

As

lightfome bodyes doe a fhaddow give

live
:

So glory without envy cannot

When
It

greater glory doth the

meane

fupprefle,
lefle.

likewife takes the

envy from the

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

(D

CHI

DIMANDA NON COMMANDA.

1

08

LIKE TO LIKE.

AND NAN TO NICHOLAS.

Eirdes of one feather will flocke together.

HAT
It's

are
!

you then
it

in earneft, friend
:

Oh, no

cannot be

quite impoffible that

you
!

Should think of courting me Indeed you'd better take your love

Elfewhere
;

for fure

am

We

are

The

by no means fuited for Matrimonial tie.

LIKE WILL
109

TO

LIKE.
F F

CHACUN CHERCHE SON SEM BL ABLE.

You
!

who by
I,

all

are faid to be

A
And

roving, ruffling blade

as ev'ry

body knows,
maid;

quiet, gentle

From early youth accuftom'd to The peaceful joys of home, Amid the rude and buftling world I have no wim to roam
:

Im Houfewif'ry and

its

behefts,
I

The

greateft

charm

find,
UJ

And when from

thefe I feek relief,

Why
I

then with humble mind

jj

read fome holy book, or fpm, And often take delight

imitate in 'broidery
pofie's colours bright:
I
Q.

ft:

To

Q.

Some

'Tis feldom

go out

to walk,

And

in the Street

but rare,

Excepting to and fro from Church,

>
UJ
I

Jjj

^
Q

Or when I go to bear Some comfort to the fick and poor, For we are taught to give Some mare of that we have, to thofe

Who
i

labour hard to

live.
Ill

But you without

reftraint give

loole

To
Love

paflion's wilder fway,

feafting,

wine and

riot,

And are You know

As when
Calls

giv'n

much

to play

no

reft,

and to your mind

or trumpet mrill
to arms.

No moment
the
all

hath fuch charms,

drum

the

Camp

Methinks fome Trooper's daughter were For you a fitter bride,

Who

in the Soldier's ruder life

And
Whofe The

habits takes a pride

eye unmov'd could look upon

blood-ftain'd battle-field,

A UN BOITEUX, FEMME QUI CLOCHE.

no

SE MARIER ET FAIRE COMPARAISON,

Can fwing
a

fword and

trail

a pike.

Nor

to the beft one yield.

Who

when me

hears the cannon roar,

Would ftand unmov'd by fear, And fay, what others terrifies

Is

mufic to her
is

ear.

Such

the Bride would fuit

you

beft,

The Wife whom you would

Moft
fuited to

find

your

habits,

And

Who
<

your rougher tone of mind. without dread would pafs her hand
Rapier's blade,
fight until

Upon your And bid you And 'neath

But
I

you

fell,
:

the turf were laid

a timid thing,

who am

9 <

Who

even fear the fmoke

Of Petronel and Much lefs the

Arquebus,
cannon's ftroke
;

<
m

Who
<
I

fee in

you

alone what would

Make me much mifery, u r am no ways a match for Nor are you fit for me.

you,

Look but around and you

<

will fee

Where'er you turn your eye, The Birds which on the water fwim,

And
And

thofe which foar on high

All choose their mates as moft befeems,

concord every where

his like,

Each woos

as

it

mould
pair.

foe,

And

like with like

doth

Nought The Eagle for The Partridge to

can induce the

Dove

to take

her mate,
the Buzzard-hawk
fate
;

Will never link her

The Raven

black weds not the Swan,

'Twas not by Nature meant, For " Like with like " alone, my

friend,

Can give

the heart content.

CHACUN AVEC SON F A R E

III

1_

ENTRE OEMS DE MEME NATURE

HIS waxen torch is The winds, when
ferene

able to endure

It

^Eolus puts them in ure, leads the way in darknefTe of the night,
fall,
it

And, though the

fhewes his Light

The

candle

ftill

lurks at home, and there doth

mow

Its light,

not caring how the winds doe blow, This as the houfes joy at home doth
ftay,

The
lil

other

The
K D h < Z
LU

abroad doth make his way hardy hufband from his houfe goes forth
ftill
;

Seeking to compafle bufinefs of worth He failes by rockes and fands, earely and

late
:

He
The

toiles,

and feekes to purchafe an

eftate

wife at

home much

like a fnaile
:

me

fits

On
o:

hous-wifry employing all her wits UlyfTes in his travels hard did fhift,
at

h z

Penelope

home

did ufe her

thrift.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

UJ

Q
GO

Z
UJ

LU
tt

h Z
LU

CD

L'AMITII

SE

FAIT
112

ET

DURE.

EVERYTHING!

IS

GOOD

IN

ITS
Fluit.

SEASON

Mite Pyrum vel Sfonte

UJ

>
UJ

z
I o i

THE

RIPE PEAR FALLS

READY

(D

TO THE HAND.
OULD'ST
Nor
early be fuccefsful in thy fuit, languish long in Love's confuming flame

LU o:

LU

I h
?-

In Beauty's garden, fhun the unripe fruit, And breathe thy paflion to the riper dame.

The

fruit that's

green clings longeft to the tree,

NA/OO

THE WIDOW WHILST SHE

IS

IN

WEEDS.
G G

THERE

IS

A CRITICAL MINUTE FOR ALL THINGS.

willing yields to leave the parent fpray
that

Nor

While

which has

attain'd maturity,

Warm'd

to the core beneath the funny ray,

Yields to the touch

and quickly comes away.

CO

TOLLE cupidinem
Immitis uvse
f_
:

Jam

te sequetur,

jam proterva

Fronte petet Lalage maritum.

HORACE,

lib.

2,

Car. Od.

5.

Primis et adhuc crescentibus annis.

Non mentem Venus

ipsa dedit

Homo
Oj

forno fimilis.

T IKE unto Man whose course is nearly run, The Apple, ripen'd by the autumn sun,

UJ

And

Yields to the touch, or to the slightest breath, is the image of his Death. falling

But not alone

in this the

semblance

lies
:

Between the Man's and Apple's destinies The ripe, in Age, part ready from the spray

The
0)
IL

green, in Youth, are torn

by force away.

J I
..

Un homme,
Nos
corps,

une pomme.

comme

les fruits

Ou
-J

meurent, tombent en

terre,

aux arbres attaches, ou verds sont arraches.

Du

VAIR'S Epictetus.

IL

me

de mourir,

semble, que la dite comparaison est propre et vive, pour exprimer la faQon et d'un robuste jouvenceau, qui est encore en la fleur de son age, et d'un
qui ja va penchant vers la terre.

bon

vieil
is

homme,
said,

Du

VAIR.
sunt, sunt

IT

by the Philosopher, "Omnia quse secundum naturam

habenda

But all that happens to us contrary to the usual course of nature, is geneCicero, who seems to share the sentiment of Epictetus, rally considered lamentable. and who borrowed from him in his book " De Senectute," expresses himself in yet
in bonis."

more elevated and impressive terms

DEATH MEETS US EVERYWHERE.

114

DEATH DEVOURS LAMBS AS WELL. AS S H E E P

Adolescentes mihi mori
sic

videntur, ut

aquae

multitudine

flammse vis opprimitur.

extinguitur
:

Senex autem,

sicut sua sponte nulla vi adhibita

consumtus
matura

ignis

et quasi

porria ex arboribus,

cruda

si sint,

si

velluntur

si

et cocta, decidunt.

Sicut vitam

adolescentibus vis aufert, sic senibus maturitas.

UJ

D
Qtuod crudum^ idem et per tin ax.

HpHE
Who
LL

fruit that's ripe, parts willing

'tis

from the tree;

:

Unripe,
call'd

not so willing to comply

by Death resists his destiny, Proves most that he is unprepar'd to die.

UJ
:

IT

is

sad to die before the time

idle
life

speech
to

Before what time

only,

Before that

JL

2
hi

prescribed
its

by Nature

But Nature lent

us

without fixing the term of

J <
I

withdrawal.

CICERO.

Offeramus Deo pro munere> quod pro

debito

teneamur reddere.
CHRYSOS. Super Matth.
ro.

t_

TN
~
UJ

the hope of a better award,

is

Forgetful that Life

a loan;

We

but offer to God, as reward,

Life

The

which

is

His

not our own,

OUR

Life

is

better

life

taken from us but to give wherewith in Heav'n to live

Spirit,

Unquench'd our

by our body's death,

Rises refreshed to breathe with purer breath.

UJ

THE

glories of our

blood and

state
'<

Are shadows, not substantial things There is no armour against fate,

<t

l_

Death

lays his icy

hand on kings

Sceptre and crown Must tumble down,

And

in the

dust be equal

made
SHIRLEY.

With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

WE
THE

spend our years as a

tale

that

is

told.

Psalm

xc. 9.

days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength be fourscore they years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut
off,

and we

fly

away.

Ibid. 10.

DESTINY LEADS THE WILLING!, BUT DRAQS THE UNWILLING.

THERE

IS

NO APPEAL. FROM TIME PAST.

firfl

HEN
Now
my
Preferv'd

my
is

light did mine,

you

lik'd

me

well.
;

you hate my loathfome fmell You with prolongers made me live, and art
that

gone

now Time acts his part, Triumphant Time, fhewes now my glaffe is runne, (What way God knowes) I finde my threed is fpunne Envy hath playd its part, and I doe goe
light
;

but

To

Coffin

as I doe,

all

muft doe

fo.

Time
I

breaths a

mrewd and

life-bereaving blaft,

Yet upward

flyes

my

light,

where

it

mail
I

laft.

D
I

'me glad to part from body, which

lov'd

h D
I h

So deere, that many wayes and arts I prov'd The mudwall to maintaine, and body fave, But yet in fpight of me 'twill go to grave. This
is

my
is

Which
(0
(0

comfort, Body, that thy tombe thy grave, mail be thy mothers wombe
thee once againe unto the light,
:

To bring And life,

UJ

z J
I
UJ

which death mail never know, or night Then be content, though you and I depart
:

Yet Soule and Body

ftill

fhall

have one

heart.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

D
o:

h z
0)

THERE

IS

NO MEDICINE AG5AINST DEATH.

116

LOVE

IS

THE LOADSTONE OF LOVE.

Quid non
fen/it

amor

UJ
fc

h z
UJ

(0

5
or

x D

WHO
EHOLD
The
Is
it

HAS NOT FELT LOVE?

the wond'rous fympathy between

UJ

firings

of yonder

lute,

and

this I play

not juft as though fome hand unfeen Swept the fame chords, and tun'd the felf-fame lay

*
in his

The

cause of this

phenomenon

is

assigned by
it

Cardanum

in

his

8th book

De

Subtilit.

Du

Pleix,

Corps de Philosophic, 1626, accounts for

also in nearly similar terms.

AMOR REGGE SENZA LEGGE.

117

H H

LOVE SEES NO FAULTS.

So lov'd one
though untouch'd by
thee, I feel,

Senfe of thy touch through all my being fteal ; Hear thy lov'd voice though filent thou may'ft be, See thy lov'd form though far away from me,

And
CO

all

Undimm'd

the radiance of thy Beauty's light, to me by diftance, mine no lefs

h
UJ

To me
As

effulgent in
its

my

dream of

night,

doth by day

light of lovelinefs.

h
CD

I
o:

VETUS verbum

esr,

similitudinem amoris auctorem esse.

est

PLATO,

lib.

6,

De

Leg.

Experientia notum

arcanam

quandam

et

occultam inter

homines esse natu-

UJ CD
Q:

rarum affinitatem aut odium, vel naturae quadam occulta vi, vel astrorum influentia, Unde fit ut aliquis ab altero toto pectore abhorreat, in alterum verb provel, &c. pensus sit, nee rogatus causam dicere posset cur hunc amet, ilium oderit, juxta illud
Catulli,

J
UJ

Non amo te, Volusi, Hoc tantum possum

QUID non

nee possum dicere quare,

dicere,

non amo

te.
7.

CYPR. Tract, de Spans, cap.

cernit

h
UJ

Amor

quid non vestigat Amator

BEROALD.

CO

D T
UJ

OVE
And

looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

therefore
is

wing'd Cupid painted blind

taste,

Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment

Wings and no
eyes, figure
is

And

therefore

unheedy haste ; Love said to be a child,

is

Because in choice he often

beguil'd.

SHAKESPEARE.

h
tu

THINGS base and vile, holding no quality, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Ibid.

AH

remember, and how can I But ever more remember well, when
!

first

Our flame began when scarce we knew what 'twas, The flame we felt when as we sat and sigh'd,
;

And

looked upon each other and conceived Not what we ail'd, yet something we did ail ; And yet were well, and yet we were not well

And what was

our disease we could not

tell.

Old

Poet.

O AMOR NAO TEM

LEI.
118

LOVE KNOWS NO LAW.

LOVE DEMANDS FAITH, AND FAITH FIRMNESS.

LOVE
refines
:

The thoughts and

heart enlarges
:

hath

its

seat

In reason, and is judicious is the scale By which to Heavenly love thou mayest ascend

Not sunk

in carnal pleasure

for

which cause
MILTON.

Among

the beasts no mate for

Love was found.

that dart
;

OH
An
As
As

there are looks

and tones

instant sunshine through the heart

if

the soul that minute caught

treasure
it

Some
if

through

life

had sought

the very lips

and eyes
all

Predestin'd to have

our

sighs,

And

never be forgot again,

Sparkled and spoke before us then.

MOORE.
?

WHY

should I blush to

own

love

'Tis love that rules the realms

above

111

Why should I blush to say to all, That virtue holds my heart in thrall
Is
it

..

weakness thus to dwell

tell
?

5
~
'

On

passion that I dare not

I

Such weakness

would ever prove

'tis

'Tis painful, but

sweet to love.

KIRKE WHITE.

z 2

Gaudendum cum Gaudentibus.

Joying with the Joyful.

AS
^
<(

lute to lute in

harmony

attun'd,

The
So

Vibrates in glad response, as though it shar'd joy that thrills the other's waken'd strings ;
thine heart responsive share the joy
feels
;

let

Thy neighbour

nor look with sullen eye

this

On

To And banish rankling envy from thy breast When fortune smiles upon thy fellow man.
;

Learn thou from eyes where gladness beams. share in the delight which others feel,

Learn thou from this no less his grief to soothe With brotherly response for just as joy Gains increase more from that which it bestows, So grief grows less, lull'd by the soothing tones

Of

Pity's

kind compassion for her woes.

:

THOU
right

wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm xvi. n.

fulness of joy

at

thy

LOVE KNOWS NOT LABOUR.

119

LIEBESZORN

1ST

NEUER LIEBESZUNDER.

ERO

who

dwelt by Hellefponticke ftrand,

Hang'd forth a Light, Leanders marke for land, Whither his helmelefle courfe he fleerd and mov'd,
Whilft he made hafte to fee his welbelov'd,

Which when
So that
his

Boreas with his bluftring Put out, he in the floods away was caft
fierce
:

blaft

wedding

light

became a torch,
his

To

convoy him

to Proferpines blacke porch.

Almighty God who made all by Holds forth his Light from the

power,

Celeftiall

Tower

h D

That when the ftormes our

It

Z
<

to fled foules annoy, our may heav'nly joy. No ftorme againft this Light can fo prevaile But Saints unto their wifht-for Haven may faile.
direct us to

Where Which
h z
UJ

for their

Wedding

never

fhall

torch this Light they have, convoy them to their grave.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

> Q Z Z
o: UJ

LOVE'S ANGER

IS

FRESH
1

FUEL.

TO LOVE.

20

Ut

lapfu graviore ruant.

THE HIGHER THE RISE THE GREATER THE FALL.

|gf

TORTOISE
Such
as in

of ambitious mind,

lH

Men we

fometimes

find,

Puff'd up with an egregious fenfe

Of his fuperior excellence, Much wifh'd to change his

For one more
fitted to his

lot

on earth

worth;

PRIDE

IS

THE BEGINNING OF ALL DESTRUCTION.

121
I

PRIDE AND POVERTY ARE

ILL.

MET,

Which in his Too little by

felf-conceit

he deem'd

his friends efteem'd

Who
Of

neither

would allow nor

fee

That he

pofTefs'd a quality
intelligence,

form or of

Beyond

their Tortoife

common-fenfe.

Refolv'd ne'erlefs that they mould be

Convinc'd of

his ability

To
t

With

mine where they could never hope his fuperior mind to cope,

Seeing one day the bird of Jove Alighting from the clouds above,

He To
9:

urged him with addrefs polite

bear

him upward

in

his flight
all

That he might prove

to

his race

How

qualified he

was to grace

A
I-

ftation

more

exalted than
:

<

Their weak intelligence could fcan Whence he at once might grafp and

fee

The

glories of the land

like the eagle

and

fea,

<

The

gaze upon effulgence of the fun, High up above the puny ken Of grov'lling Tortoifes and men.
full

And

3
tti

The The

Eagle, quick as thought to fee

filly

reptile's vanity,

Exprefs'd himfelf but too content

To do what from the And feizing him right

firft

he meant

He

quickly too, with the Tortoife flew, upward So high into the realms of light,

That almoft

lofing fenfe

and

fight,

The

Tortoife

wimed

himfelf again

Below upon the humble plain. But upward ftill the Eagle rofe,

As though

pretending to difclofe

YET OFTEN TOGETHER.

IN

MEDIO STAT VIRTUS.

range of view as high and wide

fatisfy his pride.

As moft would
Like

filver threads the rivers flow,

And wind fome

thoufand feet below

Like mole-hills are the mountains high In vaft expanfe Earth, fea and fky
Lit

up and flooded with

aiks

a light

Too

glorious for the reptile's fight.

Anon, the Eagle

him how
from things below
rife
?
?

He
And

liked the change

If higher yet he'd like to

felt

at

home

and how the

?

ikies

Agreed with

his abilities

When lo Had not

With
h

the Tortoife,
a fingle

all

difmay,
!

0)

word

to fay

fcornful

and

derifive mriek,

Unloofing then both claws and beak,

The Eagle
Which, Became

lets

the Tortoife go

UJ

dafh'd

upon

the rocks below,

learnt

Uj

his prey,

and

too late

l_

The
m
l_

ills

that

on ambition

wait.

E'en

fo at Courts,

when men of low

degree,
;

UJ

And

How
Caft

menial minds, are raifed to rank and place oft are they uplifted but to be

down with

greater force and

more

difgrace

pORTUNA
MAGNA

vitrea est

turn,

cum

splendet, frangitur.

P.

SYRUS.
i.

ruunt, inflata crepant, tumefacta premuntur.

LUCAN.

ver.

17.

SUMMISQUE negatum
Stare diu, nimioque graves sub pondere lapsus.

SYRACH.

iii.

12.

SEEKEST thou great things

for thyself?
-Jer.

seek them not

5.

for,

behold, I will bring evil

upon

all flesh,

saith the Lord.

xlv.

GOD

hath a special indignation at Pride, above

all

sins.

BISHOP HALL.

VERTU QIT AU
123

MILIEU.

IT'S

HARD FOR AN EMPTY

BA<3

chinke there was and not another way

For Boreas,
So Hectors
fatall

his fury
gift

to eflay

Ajax confounded,
;

And

ftob'd

him where he onely could be wounded

Apollo fo directed Paris dart

To wound
Death
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Achilles foote, and kill his heart.

lies

in

ambufh

like

an enemy,

And
Or

brafheth where our fconces weakeft be.

icecle or

Whether an
gnat, or

drop of water,
Scholler-killing letter.
;

Londons

DC

<
UJ

A
He

thoufand trickes we fee of cunning death

makes or

finds

way

to ftop

our breath.

K.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

UJ

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0)
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o:

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TO STAND UPRK3HT.
124

REPROVE OTHERS, BUT CORRECT THYSELF.

El
corcob ado ne vee su corcoba, y vee la de su comf anon.

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(0

UJ

o
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tt

THE HUNCHBACK
ITH
Is

SEES

NOT

HIS

OWN HUMP, BUT HE

one
faults to {ee;

SEES HIS NEIGHBOUR'S.

rare exception, almoft ev'ry
his his

And yet, To them

From

wondrous apt however evident

he's blind

Neighbour's

own,

or thinks that only he

is

imperfection and from fault

free.

EVERY MAN HATH A FOOL.

125

IN

HIS SLEEVE.

KK

AUNQUE NEGROS, SOMOS GENTE.

Hunchback

here, brimfull of felf-conceit,

;

Derides a fellow-Hunchback patting by And points to him, that ev'ry one they meet

May

ridicule the

man's deformity.
Jeerer,

Yet he himfelf; the

what

is

he

crooked Dwarf, mis-fhap'd from head to With bofs behind of fuch enormity,

toe,

As though

mountain on
that he

which Nature gave his fellow-man In what deriving from ourfelves, are we
Shall

And what Of that

is

Man,

his back did grow would cenfor be

!

In aught entitled other men to fcan we aflume in figures of our own

j
<(

To reckon up another man's account And carp at him for flaws and faults alone, When our own ledger mews no fmall amount To ev'ry man, we know to indicate
!

Wherein he

fails

and

ftrange fagacity!

To make the moft unerring Of what he is and what

But on
Q-

eftimate
!

himfelf,

who
fo

he ought to be turns his eye ? not one

keen our neighbour's humps to We're blind to that upon our back alone,
It

And though

fee,

I-

E'en though that hump by far the greater be was not thus, my friends, that we were taught That practice fweet of Love and Charity,
!

0)

By which
!

the

Man-God

our Redemption bought,

!

h
1

In pity for our mortal frailty Look not in fcorn upon thy brother's ftiape, If nature chofe to vary it from thine;

For though
It

may

refemble more the Ape, have Light within far more divine!
it

may

Turn

thine eyes inward

flaws are there,
care, left

on thine

heart,

and

fee
ill

What

what feething germs of

their malignity
ftill.

That need thy

Shall render thee

one day more hideous

THOUGH BLACK, WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS.

126

WHERE
Who

VAIN-QL.ORY REIGNS,

ridicules his neighbour's frailty,

Scoffs at his

own

in

more or

lefs

degree

Much wifer he who And tries his talent

others' lets alone

to correct his own.

A ND

why beholdest thou the mote that is not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Thou Hypocrite, first cast out the beam out
mote out of thy

in

thy brother's

eye,

but

considerest

of thine

own

eye

and then
3,
5.

shalt

thou

see clearly to cast out the

brother's eye.

Matt.

vii.

Z
P Z
Qui
d'

autruy parler voudra,

;

z:
ft:

Regarde soy

et

il

taira.

No ay quien sus faltas entienda, Como las de su vecino.

r
"-

II n'y

Comme

a personne qui reconnoit ses fautes, celles de son voisin.

altrui,

W
0)

Dal biasima

che se stesso condanna.

UJ

Ziehe Dich selber bei der Nase.

D
}Jj

Een ander heeft Geen mensch en

altyt
siet

de

schult.
bult.

syn eygen

Q.

CRIMINA qui cernunt aliorum, nee sua cernunt, Hi sapiunt aliis, desipiuntque sibi. OWENUS.

THERE
own.

are those

who can

see the faults of others, but

who cannot

discern

their

These people are wise

for others,

and

fools to themselves.

Esx proprium

stultitiae,

aliorum

vitia

cernere

oblivisci suorum.

CICERO.

NIHIL turpius

est convitio

quod

in

auctorem

recidit.

PLUTARCH.

OF

all

the causes which conspire to blind

Man's erring judgment, and misguided mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules
Is Pride, the never-failing

Vice of Fools.
POPE.

FOLLY

IS

PRIME COUNSELLOR.
127

WHERE YOU ARE JACK, THERE

AM

JILL.

vaine thou mantles

up

this light

of mine,
it

JN Thinking
But
all

that no

man

mall perceive
it

mine.

in vaine, flame will

felfe

bewray,
his

And

through thy coat, by burning, make

way.

Who
He
X D
LU

in his lower heart

doth hurt conceale,

Hoping

that nothing mail the fame reveale,

hides the torches of the hellim rout,

will at length

Which

with violence burft out

Who

doth conceive Oreftes' impious thought,

long to furious fact be brought.
can'ft,

It will ere

Diflemble what thou

h z
0)

that inward fparke

its

Will burft forth into Light, though now

darke.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

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IN

VAINE THOU COVEREST ME.

SELF-CONCEIT PRECLUDES IMPROVEMENT.

128

NOTHING!

IS

IMPOSSIBLE TO A WILLING MIND.

Non intrandum, aut penetrandum.

ENTER NOT, OR
with the

PASS

THROUGH.

PSSo
The

fpun by the Spider's care, T' entrap the flies and gnats which fill the
with th' entangling nets

Web

air,

by Venus

laid
:

T' enfnare the hearts of heedlefs youth and maid For in the Love net, as the Spider's too,
gnat
is

taken, but the Bee breaks through.

VOLONTE REND TOUT POSSIBLE.

129
L L

WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY.

Hence, young
folks, learn thro'

Venus' nets to break,

Nor

let

their flimfy

Both heart

memes captive take and mind Take pattern by the Bee

:

Like him

refift

the lofs of liberty

;

Take my

Break boldly through but if the ftrength you lack, advice, and cleverly turn back.

Q
UJ Q.

Qui trop embrasse, feu

estreint.

>

Spider which too widely spreads his net Before a door, or window's open space ; Incurs more risk his livelihood to get

HpHE

Than one which chooses a more humble place. A Horse-fly now, and now a bird flies through,
~
(0

Making

vast rents, through

which the
else to

flies

make way
day.

And

he,

poor

fool,

has

little

do

C! UJ

Than mend his net, and fast throughout the He who from failure would secure disgrace, Must never all at once too much embrace
:

111
j

seek to compass least, and least aspire, Achieve most oft the things which they desire.

Who

UJ

i_ tt

Hoc unum moneo, si quid modb creditur arti, Aut nunquam tentes, aut perfice. OVID, de Art.
LE
vice
est

i.

UJ

de

n'en pas

sortir

non pas

d'y

entrer.
lib.
iii.

MICH. MONTAIGNE,
IN vulnus majora patent.
Forti et fideli nihil
difficile.

Essais,

cap.

5.

Possunt, quia posse videntur.

VIRGIL.

AUDACES

fortuna juvat.
perdidit.

Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures

Qui totum
vult,

totum

perdit.

PUBL. SYRUS. OVID.

INTRA fortunam quisque debet manere suam.

MIEUX

reculer que

mal

assaillir.

MAKE A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY.

130

QRASP

AL.L,

LOSE

Al_L_.

Pervia virtuti, sed vilibus

trivia.

A ND

that

they

may

recover themselves out of the

at his will. 2

snare

of the

Devil,

who

are

taken captive by him

Timothy

ii.

26.

As in the mesh spread by the Spider's The weaker flies and gnats alone are

skill,

caught,

While insects more robust of wing and will, Break boldly through, nor heed his toils in aught

UJ

What to the virtuous heart shall bar the way, Or hold it from the chosen path of good ?
Since this World's snares are but as
frail

stay,

Q
U.

And When heart and mind To force through ev'ry

as the Spider's easily withstood,

with one accord unite

stop the road to Right.

Hold on thy course to Virtue, nor refrain The wind the chaff disperses, not the grain.
;

fc

>
His own
cords of his
iniquities shall take the
sins.

UJ

wicked himself, and he

shall

be holden with the

(_

Proverbs

v.

22.

I
viros

DIABOLUS non
locum
ei

invalesceret

contra nos, nisi

:

ex

vitiis

nostris

prseberemus,

et

E
UJ

dominandi nobis peccato faceremus

unde

nolite

locum dare diabolo.

AUGUST. Horn.
3.

CUORE

forte

h
/A

Rompe

cattiva sorte.

Vaine peur certaine misere.

Een moedig

hert

Vermint de smert.
Beter
is't

te rug

gegaen

Als een quaden sprong gedaen.

>
UJ

HE

that begins

without reason, hath reason enough to leave

J.

off,

by perceiving he

had no reason

to begin.

TAYLOR,

vol. xii. p.

28,

QUI

TOUT CONVOITE, TOUT

PE.RD.

THE MORE YOU HAVE THE MORE YOU DESIRE.

brightly whilft

flood upright,
;

JSHINED And firmely

But
I

feated gave a perfect light

after that
caft

mifchance did

me

furprife,

am

downe and know not how

fees

to

rife.

Helpe, helpe, who

So, as before,

my
this

cafe,

now

fuccour me,

my

Light mall glorious be.

fall,

A
Is

man may
fubject to

brittle

life

of ours
to houres
fall
all
:

more chances than

Or

fortune

falfe,

or errours flippery

Suffers us not, conftant to proove at

Happy is he who Much like a God,

By

falling

findes a

man,

fupporting what he can.

hurt he learning gaines, he wifer growes,

And

with the weary

Oxe more

warily goes.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

UJ

UJ

Z
UJ

Q D
Ct

Q.

HELPE, OR ELSE
DYE.

BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING.

132

LIGHT C3AYNES
Ein
klein

MAKE HEAVYE PURSES.

tag,

henn leget

alle

da ein Strauss im

iahr

nur

ems.

w
CD
cc

D
CL
LU

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CO

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IL

z
u

h
LL

Q Z

s
h
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A HEN LAYS EVERY DAY, BUT AN OSTRICH ONLY ONCE A YEAR.

TEAR
now what
this

has befallen
!

All through

my Wife

who

I'm nicely taken in thought at once a mine of wealth to win

;
!

me

A
I

Dealer mew'd

And making
bought
it

egg to her one day, her believe 'twas fuch a wondrous bird to Jay at her it like home, and, bidding her, brought
its

Oftrich and

thought

Bird that lay fuch eggs as that, could not be dearly bought.

PASSO A PASSO SE VA L.ONTANA.

133

M M

LITTLE BY LITTLE THE BIRD BUILDS ITS NEST.

Hens' eggs (thought

I),

however good, were

at the best

but fmall,

And,

as

compar'd to Oftrich eggs, were of no fize at

all.

Off fuch an egg as that, why, two could make a dinner 'Twas big enough to fatisfy a ploughman's appetite.

quite,

my mind but very foon I'd reafon to regret my money, or an Oftrich ever met. Oh fuch a bird to eat as that I never faw It eat No end of food and things could fatisfy its hungry maw
Such was
:

I'd parted with

!

not one it laid But Eggs though all the while I did my beft With hay and ftraw and feathers foft to make the bird a neft.
! !

When,
I

after waiting long,

!

'twas juft about the

month of May
!

now, thought I, it has begun to lay But all my joy was very fhort, for from that time till now, It hasn't laid another egg, nor will it any how.
!

found one egg

Eh

Yet

all

this while

our Hens,

as

is

with

Hens

the ufual way,

They've always

laid at intervals,

At
I

length,

all

patience lofing,

and often ev'ry day. and my temper put about,

I

went up

to the Oftrich,

and

call'd to

him

Turn out

Away
I

with you, you rav'nous brute, you mall no longer ftay

You're big enough, and eat enough, and yet no eggs you
fee

lay.
;

how

'tis

with you, you're

all

appearance, nothing more

In buying you I've learnt what I ought well t' have known before The biggeft things are not the beft, the brighteft often drofs
;

And when we

grafp

-at

profit

moft, we

oft get greater lofs.

A PIUMA a piuma A gotta a gotta

VON

se pela 1'oca.
il

mar

si

secherebbe.

kleinen fischlin werden die hecht gross.

file

PEU a peu
Qui

la vieille sa quenouille.
s'enrichit.

s'agite,

LITTLE
IL bue
s'e fatto

pot,

soon hot.

grande, e la stalla piccola.

little
stall.

The ox

fattens in a

EN

petite

maison Dieu a grand

part.

LITTLE BROOKS MAKE GREAT RIVERS.

T

34

OREAT PROMISERS, BAD PAYMASTERS.

FORTUNAM qui avide vorare pergit, Hanc tandem male concoquat necesse
CELUI qui meprise
les petites choses,

est.

tombera

petit

petit.

Syrach. xxix.
21.

i.

LE peu

est suffisant a

Fhomme

bien appris.

Ib,

xxx.

KLEYN
(I)

visje, soet visje.

It
UJ

MAJORA

perdes, parva ni servaveris.

Who vviiu
,.

me little, luses the me greater. lime, loses neglects the greaier.

'

ADDE parum
u
|-

parvo, tandem

fit

magnus

acervus.
j

I Q
tt

Gutta cavat lapidem.

OVID.

WER

keinen Pfennig achtet,

eines

|_

Der auch nimmer

Gulden Herre.

'

CO

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UJ
1

ALBAXANSE

los adarves,
(0

Y
MET

alcanse los muladeres.

J
veel schlagen wort de Stockvisch murvv.

GRANO
2

a grano hinche la gallina el papo.

Q
~

Amasse

Grain a grain la fourmy son pain.

kleyntje diekmael wat,

DOET by een
Soo
CO

wort'et

noch een groote

shat.

DOS proximus
(t

est,

quicunque eget paucissjmus.

h
(0
UJ

J
Tandem
fit

Surculus Arbor.

mj

TTOW
From

small soe'er your Profit be,

it

Despise

not, but learn to

know,

That almost ev'ry thing you see

small at
little
first

to large did

grow

Do

but a

oft,

and you
grow apace
accrue,
;

Will find that

little

The Penny

to the

Pound

And "slow and

sure oft win the race.

GREAT BOASTER, LITTLE DOER.

A LITTLE STREAM DRIVES A LIGHT MILL.

HE
As
The
Give
flint

Smith the
that
it

fteele,

may

tempers in the fire, indure flints ftroke and ire

fo

and

fteel,

'gainft others while they ftrive,

;

which the tinder keeps alive Untill the fulphure to the match gives flame,
fparkles,
;

Which keeps, and to the candle doth give the fame The candle thus lighted proper ufe hath none Thus all ordained is for man alone.
:

Dame
In his

Nature

fo

commandeth
to ferve his

ev'ry thing

owne kind

Lord and King

Things of meere being, and which doe not

live,

As Elements, food to The living herbs doe

the living give

beafts with fenfe mainetaine,

And

thefe, to feede us, ev'ry

is

houre are

flaine

So every thing

for the ufe

of man,
?

To God mould

he not doe then, what he can

FARLIE'S Emblems.

SO YOU ARE BORNE FOR OTHERS.

CHICKENS FEED CAPONS.

136

WHO WINS THE EYES WINS

Verwonnen
Oog,
begonnen

ALL.

Min.

UJ (D

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ffl

p J
ui

LU

>
UJ LU

I h

UJ

WHEN THE
WAS
It

EYES ARE WON, LOVE

faid

IS

BEGUN.

of Old,

and, like moft fayings too,

hath been proven by experience true,

majeftic might, " eyes, subdues him quite.

That e'en despite his fierce " Who wins the Lion's
Herein
is

well explain'd and typified

:

Another truth that cannot be denied

CEIL

GAGNE, CORPS PERDU.

137

N N

EL CARACOL, PER G^UITAR DE ENOJOS,

The
eye of

And

once taken by the grace 'witching beauty of a Maiden's face,

ftern his nature hitherto,

Man

However
AlTumes

a foftnefs

it

before ne'er knew.

the cold imperious look
!

Ah

then

how chang'd

Which

fcarce the

gaze of other eyes could brook

How
Of

pliant then the fternly moulded mind Sage and Soldier, as of rugged hind
!

Each then
Submits
his

alike,

as

though himfelf

defpite,
;

ruder to the gentler might 'And, Strength to Softnefs through the eyes betray 'd,

The Lion

gentle as the

Lamb

is

made.
"

I h

I
*"

D
bene convemunt, nee in una sede morantur
Majestas
et

Amor.
servit
;

OVID, Metam.

3.

QUISQUIS amat,
Verbera,

sequitur captivus amatam,

QJ

Fert domita cervice jugum, fert dulcia tergo

QJ
j

fert stimulos, trahit et

bovis instar aratrum.

fenestres,

MANTUAN.
IL

I
UJ
I

PAR des yeux

Dards
PRIMI, in omnibus
prceliis,

les

deux

d'

Amour

deviennent maistres.
TACIT, de Morib. Germ.
:

oculi vincuntur.

UJ

D h

I
et

CLAMOR

repentinus aliquis, aut imago, aut aspectus

magis,

haec talia

quam

gladius,

fuga ssepe exercitum implevit consternant hostem, videbisque militem vanis et

LIPS. Doct. Civil, lib.
rei
v.

inanibus magis,

quam

justis formidinis causis moveri.

cap.

16.

NIHIL

tarn leve est,

quod non magnae interdum

momentum

faciat.

LES Femmes peuvent

tous.

tout,

parce qu'elles gouvernent les personnes qui gouvernent

-I

HAVE mark'd

thousand blushing apparitions, To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames, In Angel whiteness, bear away those blushes ;

And in her eye there hath appeared a To burn the errors that these princes
Against her maiden truth.

fire

hold

SHAKESPEARE.

BEAUTY with a bloodless conquest finds welcome sov'raignty in rudest minds.

WALLER.

POR LOS OUERNOS TROCO LOS OJOS.

138

THE EYES BELIEVE THEMSELVES

-WHOSE radiant look strikes every gazing eye Stark blind, and keeps th'amaz'd beholder under

The

stupid tyranny of

Love and wonder.

;

Old

Poet.

THEN only hear her Eyes Tho' they are mute, they plead, nay, more, command For beauteous Eyes have arbitrary pow'r. DRYDEN,
.

WHO

knows how eloquent these Eyes may prove, Begging in Floods of Tears and Flames of Love.

ROCH.

THE Bloom
And
h
(D
CD

of op'ning Flowers, unsully'd Beauty, Softest and sweetest Innocence she wears;

looks like Nature in the World's

first

spring.

Ro WE.

J
LU

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Duces,

Oculi.

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I
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z
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Eye therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the Light which is in thee be not darkness. Luke
light

THE

of the

Body
;

is

the

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(t

xi-

34, 35-

UJ

GO

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UJ

BUT

if

thine
is

Eye be
in thee

evil,

the Light that

If therefore Body shall be full of Darkness. Matt. vi. 23. be Darkness, how great is that Darkness

thy whole

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I
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Love

in the Godhead.

Love it was, that first created Light, Mov'd on the Waters, chac'd away the Night From the rude Chaos, and bestow'd new Grace

rpOR

On

Things, dispos'd of to their proper Place

to rest here,

Some

and some

to shine
all th'

Above

Earth, Sea, and Heav'n, were

Effects of Love,

WALL.

LOVE
First

is

that Passion,

which

refines the Soul

made Men Heroes, and

soften,

those Heroes

Gods

Its genial fires

inform the sluggish

Mass

The rugged
Give Wit to

and the tim'rous w&rm. Fools, and Manners to the Clown

The The

an ignoble Calm ; Soul, unmov'd by Love's inspiring breath, Like lazy Waters, stagnates and corrupts. HIG. Gen. Con.
rest of Life is

THE EARS, OTHER PEOPLE.

139

WHAT THE EYE SEES NOT,

Y
To
It's

fplendor with his bright and Sun-like ray,

Doth

cheere the houfe, and darkeneffe chafe away

thee wh' art blind, I'm darke as fable night,

thy default, not mine;

thou

lak'ft

thy fight.
;

The Moule

cannot Hyperions glory fee

their eyes,
is

Who

want
Chrift

no comfort have by me.

the glory of that light from hie,

full

Which

can the darkeft Chaos

defcry

And

yet

we

fee

him not

untill

our eyes
;

He
Z
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open, which thicker! darkenefle doth furprife

his light

Then doth

unto himfelfe

reflect

From

us as mirrours, with a

new

afpect.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

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THE HEART RUES NOT.

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IT

IS

NOT LAWFUL. TO DO
fcheut
fijn

EVIL.

Snijt

men fan Neus af men

Aenficht.

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WHO

CUTS OFF HIS NOSE SPITES HIS

jHlOME

OWN

Q E D

FACE.

CD

here, all Friends,

who know, and would

;

Advise

me

for the beft

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I've got a

Nofe, the fight and thought

Of

which deftroys my reft. Nofe, alas with wens and wheals

!

<

Surcharged and cover'd o'er

huge unfightly Nofe, fuch as

No man

e'er

had before.

THAT G.OOD MAY COME.

141

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AVOID EXTREMES.
It

looks juft like a bald-coot's nofe,

It's

fcirlet-red
if a

and blue,

on it grew. Nofe a fnout fo ftrange a fuch Oh, That when I'm in the ftreet,
!

And juft as Of Nofes

younger

lot

Each looks

at

it

furpris'd,
I

and

all

< h
-

The
I

children that

Point after

me

and

fay,

meet " Oh
!

what

A
Who
ft:

Nofe

that man has got ever faw the like of that

"
!

'Tis like a Porter's knot

And

in forfooth,

my

Nofe
(ize,

is

like

An

Oftrich-egg in

'Tis like a huge black-pudding that

Stands out between

my

eyes.

At

fight

of

it,

myfelf, fometimes

I'm

terrified,

nor

know
if

What
Z

with

it

I'm to do, or

Yet larger it may grow. Nofe but there, I've faid enough
!

cannot longer bear So hideous a thing as this

I

Upon my
I

face to
I'll
?

wear.
it

often think

cut

off!delay
in

And why To do what

The
But hold!

not

why

one hears fpeak of Proverb ev'ry day ?

are

Nofes

after all
?

:= Ul
I

No

ufe

upon

the face

Although

their fhape

and

fize

be not

Confident quite with grace ? If cut it off I do Why what

UJ

(5

An

awful gap

there'll

be

^
Y

Without a Nofe, Be horrible to

my
fee
!

face will then

Eh

friend,
fuicidal

put by thy knife, nor

lift

hand
!

Againft thyfelf

for as

thou

art,

'Tis meet to underiland,

Lies neither in thy will nor right

ANGER AND HASTE HINDER GOOD COUNSEL.

142

TO ERR

IS

HUMAN, TO FORGIVE
;

DIVINE.

To mar, nor to upbraid Bow meekly rather to His

Will
!

Who
Seek

thine affliction laid

not with violence to

patience

do
;

What
By
Try

may

effect

To

gentle means 'tis heal and to correct.

thefe,

eafier oft

my

friend, they

may

avail,

But mould they not fucceed, Spare thine own flem, nor mar thy

face

By

fuch ungodly deed.

Wouldft further know,

my

friends,

fome

rule
UJ

Of From
HI
'

conduct to deduce
this
i

my
1
\

theme
'

Read on

my

aim
i

Is

but to be or

r ule.

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Herefrom

learn alfo to refpect

The

failings

"""

To him who Thine helping 1C? hand When hufband or the

of thy friend, to thy blood belongs,

extend
:

Q .,
left

wife have

A
UJ

Their duty's path awhile mother, brother, fitter err'd, Strive thou to reconcile.

Forfake thy kindred not that they Have falPn their crofs beneath
;

The

ftrength has not been giv'n to To gain the Victor's wreath

:

all

Though thou

their errors

mayeft hate,

U.

Let judgment be deferr'd; Hate thou not them, but pity more That they mould fo have err'd.

Drag not

their faults into the light,

But kindly draw the veil, As teaches Love, that other eyes May fee not where they fail. Be the Phyfician thou, and ftrive
All that thou canft to cure
;

Canft thou not heal, then learn, and teach How others may endure.

The Nor

fufFring limb by force is not made whole heals Reproof the gangrene of the foul.

CHARITY SHALL. COVER THE MULTITUDE OF SINS.

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FORGIVE,

AND YE SHALL BE FORGIVEN.

|Y Light

is

pleafant,

when

the night doth gloome,

And
Or

pitchy darkenefle lines the mourning roome;

lifts

Whither thou
if

Cleanthes fmoake to blow,

like to twift her tow.
I

the

Matron

When

Phoebus

fetteth,

watch centenall
doth

Untill he from

my

ftation

me

call.

Spare me, lend not

my

light to Titans ray

So malt

th'

enjoy

me when

there

is

no day.
well,

If thy eftate be meane, hufband

it

And

it

Attalick wealth mail parallell.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

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BE YE KIND ONE TO ANOTHER.

144

DRINK LITTLE THAT YE MAY DRINK LANG.

Noch vinnigh
Slaen,

noch harden Divanck,

tot

En

brengt den Esel

den Drank.

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THOUGH TAKEN TO THE WATER'S BRINK, NO BLOWS CAN FORCE THE HORSE TO DRINK.

fNAnd
Of

vain with cheering words I've tried,

ev'ry

means

that I can think

oaths, and blows, and kicks befide

To
And

get this plaguey beast to drink

I've led

him by the

bridle thrice,

coax'd and pull'd, and coax'd again,

WHEN THE WINE

IS

IN,

THE WIT

IS

OUT.
P P

WHEN WINE ENTERS, MODESTY DEPARTS.

But he wont drink
at

any

price,

And
I

blows and words alike are vain.

I

Yet when

turn the matter o'er,

really think,
I

That

in fenfe

am

myfelf defpite, wanting more,

is

And

of the two the Horfe

right

Why, after all, mould I feel fore And lofe my temper in this way ? The beaft p'rhaps drank enough before, And feldom drinks three times a day
That's

he had no why J

will thereto,

Nor would approach the water's But how could I expect him to ?

brink

If he'd nor thirft nor need of drink

And
0)

if

the brute himfelf but had

fpeech, afTuredly, he'd call me mad,
!

The pow'r of
Brute as he
is,

And much
Hence
it

the greater fool than he

is

plain that even

Man,

So bent each

beaft with fcorn to treat,

May
HI

learn

from them more wifdom than

he'll

In his own fellow oft

meet

For

lo

no force can bring the beaft

creation's lord at leaft,
all

To

drink, if not his thirft to flake,

While Man,
Will drink

The

faying

is

well

day for drinking's fake known and true,

That when

a beaft has

drank

his need,

E'en though a King himfelf might fue, He'll drink no more, not he, indeed
Fie
!

Man

fie

you, the lord of

Mind

Who, fway'd by In needlefs drink enjoyment find,

Your
thirft

fenfelefs appetite,

'Gainft nature, reafon, and 'gainft right

once quench'd,

defift,

nor

let

The

taunts of fools, nor

warmth of
forget

friends

Prevail to

make you once

The bound where

Reafon's empire ends.

DRUNKENNESS

IS

VOLUNTARY MADNESS.
146

DIE WIJN

DRINKEN SONDER SMAECK,

Senfes',

Are you your

Paflions' flave,
?

More than the humble brute a-field Or in the pow'r of Mind you have,
Muft
it

before his Inftinct yield

the people fay to fee
into the

What would
Good wine

Kennel

caft

And

A
UJ

Drunkard, is not he human Kennel to the laft ?

yet, the

Why

good drink down the Sewers throw? Worfe than the brute art thou, Man-fool
duty know, Betake thee to the Horfe to fchool.
a nobler

Wouldft thou
J-

If 't's

more than Horfes' work

to think

In one thing yet the Horfe ftands firft, It's more than Horfes' work to drink

Without the need or

fenfe of

thirft.

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n'est

manger, qu'a bonne faim.

souls cerises ameres.
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COULONS

JAMAIS homme sage on vit Buveur de vin sans appetit.

VIN

dentro, sermo fuori.

eingehet, da gehet wiss
auss.

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NE
monstre pas

Wen Wein
ta

vaillance

a bien

boire

car le

vin

faict

pe'rir

plusieurs.
29.

SYRACH. xxxi.

WINE measurably
of the

mind

drunk, and in reason, bringeth gladness of heart and cheerfulness but wine drunken with excess maketh bitterness of the mind diminishes
Ecclesiasticus xxxi. 28, 30.

<

strength,

and maketh wounds.

first

THE

glass for

thirst,

the

second for

nourishment, the

third for pleasure,

and

the fourth for madness.

ANACHARSIS.
surfeit is the father of

As

much

fast,

So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint our natures do pursue
:

(Like

rats that

raven

down

their proper

bane)

thirsty evil,

and when we drink we

die.

SHAKESP. Measure for Measure.

EEN ONBESUYSDE SAECK.

t47

DRANCK EN ETEN

HEN
And
Then
I

Phoebus

fets

in the

Hefperian ftreames,
his

Westerne fhores blufh with

drowned beames

as

And And
So
I

aft

Phoebus fecond muft give Light, my part in darkenefle of the night

But now

Light complaines that I decay, into greafie teares doe melt away
;

my

am

forft to yeeld.

O
mew

turne thy teame

Phoebus, and Phofpher

When
Vnto

Chrift the
his

thy morning beame. Sonne of righteoufnefle did goe Heavenly manfions from below,

Then he
LL

his holy fervants did

command,
toile,

Confpicuous to the world, like lights, to ftand;

But when they

h D

faile

with watching,

and age,

o:

And now
Then up

are ready to

goe off the ftage,

life

(D

they yeeld the light of

and cry

i
;

come thou Sonne of

righteoufnefle,

we

die.

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MORNING STARRE SHEW YE

DAY.

NIET UYT LUST,

MAER OM TE
148

L.EVEN.

WHO RUNS FAST CANNOT RUN

Nimia
libertas fit servitus.

L-ONQ.

EXCESS OF LIBERTY LEADS TO SERVITUDE.

NTIL
But now oh
So long

this haplefs

moment

was

free,
;

And went
!

where'er

my
is

will

or fancy led

where
?

where
alas
!

that liberty

my
is

boaft

for ever fled.

Ah
To

woe

me

that ever I was lur'd

taftelefs as this rind,

By aught

fo

poor and
exit

enter here, before I was aflur'd

Some means of

and efcape to

find.

EXTREMES ARE
M9',

EVIL.
Q Q

NA LANGE LOOPEN, MOET MEN'T BEKOOPEN.

Till

now without

reftraint I ran about,

Each
I 'd

place alike, a houfe fecure for

me

holes in plenty to

go

in

and out,

Nor

fear'd our race's direft

enemy.

Now

here,

now

there, the barn, the granary,

The kitchen, larder, Were mine to roam

parlour, and the ftore

in full fecurity,

And
I

feaft

my
I

fill

what could

wifh for more

Fool that

was, thus to be captive

tremble at the

doom
I

that waits

made me now

Yet

whom

have
;

Myfelf alone
Convinc'd too

blame or to upbraid and to my fate I bow,

to

late,

that he

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Who

runs about too

much

caught at Ian:, and lives too faft.

is

3
Of

TMBERBIS
UJ

juvenis,

tandem custode remote

.

Q
*k<

Gaudet

equis,

canibusque,
flecti,

Cereus in vitium

aprici gramine campi, monitoribus asper,

aeris,

et

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Utilium tardus provisor, prodigus

Sublimis, cupidusque, et amata relinquere

pernix.
lib.

UJ

MINIMUM

debet libere, cui nimium

licet.

PLUTARCH, de Edncat,
will,

in

fin.

WHO

most would act according to his Requires most to be restrain'd from ill.

Fit fpolians fpolium.

'The Spoiler -is

made

Spoil.

/^vNE summer
I

eve,

beneath the greenwood shade,

Phillis sitting fast

found young

asleep.

With

noiseless step before th' unconscious maid,

Joying to catch her in that slumber deep, I stood and gazed ; as though to feast my sight On ev'ry feature of her charming face
:

And
Her
So

though her eye-lids

veil'd

from

me

their light,

rosy mouth, with such bewitching grace,

it

Seem'd as
oft

were to proffer

me

the kiss
;

denied

me

with a smart rebuke

LONG INDULGENCE

IS

ITS

OWN PAYMASTER.

150

THOU SHALT NOT COVET.

That turning Thief at once, I stole the bliss ; But in that theft, lost more than what I took.
So, gentle reader, in the Love-chase too, As with the mouse entrapp'd for love of

bacon

We're often made our very luck

Just
I

to rue,

when

the thing most wished for has been taken.

kiss,

stole

from her a
stole heart

but

Phillis,

she
;

At once

and peace of mind from me

;

The mouse, poor

But without

thing, lost life with liberty

Phillis,

what were

life

to

me

Oh
,

That

Phillis

Love, thy pow'r surpasses all belief sleeping, thus should steal the Thief

Who

poaching goes on Love's domain,

:

Oft loses where he thought to gain

2 3

And when least thinking such may To his surprise doth ofttimes see,
Just like the

be,

mouse above pourtray'd, Himself ensnar'd, and captive made.

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Carpitque

carpitur una,

Suppliciumque
r~

sui

est.

OVID.

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Pcena comes
Punifliment
is

Sceleris.

l_

the companion of Crime.

(/)

TUST

as the greedy rat has seiz'd the bacon,

falls

(D

Down

the trap, and lo

seized, of

the thief
avail to
!

is

taken.
?

The prey though

That blow struck
'Tis not
1{J

what

him

terror into every limb

enough

to

say

the evil deed

Brings

its

requital as the doer's

meed

culprit from the moment of his crime, Stung by his conscience through each hour of time, Though none pursue, in each a captor sees,

The

Starts at

each sound that's borne upon the breeze,

other aught of terror deems, of his nightly dreams.
pursueth.

And where none

Quails
'fore
flee

the

hangman

THE

wicked

when no man

Prov. xxviii.
!

i.

OH

coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh What do I fear? Myself? SHAKESPEARE.

Cold

WHICH way

move

is

Hell

myself

am

hell.

MILTON.

TREASURES OF WICKEDNESS PROFIT

NOTHINC3.

HONESTY

IS

THE BEST POLICY.

HEN
And
And And

as the conqu'ring fleete return'd

from Troy,
;

Pallas ftormy wrath did

them annoy
the Greekes,
;

Then Nauplius fought revenge upon

hang'd out Lanterns on the rocky creekes

deceived did the rockes miftake,

The Greekes

darning gainft them did nights mipwracke make.

Whilft we unto our wimt-for Country goe,

This

lifes

fierce billowes tofTe

us to and fro
faire,
:

Honour and

glory hang out lights fo

And

Siren-like doe feeke us to enfnare

joy full, quiet haven they doe pretend

oft they drave us to a dolefull

But

end

If thou be wife fhunne honours lights fo hy,

And

from fhipwracking Siren pleafure

fly.

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LEARN TO RESTRAIN THINE HAND, AND TO CURB THINE ANGER.

152

HE

WHO

IS

BORN A FOOL
Bar be

IS

NEVER CURED.

de Fol apprent a raire.

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FIRST PRACTISE

WELL, SHOULD
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ON A
well

FOOL'S BEARD.

HE
His

Proverb

is

of antient date,

That he who
fulleft

would

learn to {have,

wifh to confummate.
a Fool's beard practice have.

Should on

As

with each phrafe of antient lore, The fenfe implied hath ta'en its rife

A WISE LOOK MAY SECURE A FOOL.

153

IF

HE TALK NOT.
R R

From

That Fools

long experience gone before, to deal with maketh wife.

all

For Fools, of

men moft
leaft,

precife
e'er

In things of import

gave

The

wideft fcope for practice nice

Patience and of Virtues grave. In fhaving Fools the barber '11 find

Of

Thofe Virtues

to the utmoft tried,

And
(0

howfoe'er to pleafe inclined,

(kill

Both

and patience mifapplied.

Of

J
IL

head and beard each fep'rate hair Muft have the fame attention paid,
niceft care,

Muft be arranged with

And
At
If

juft as

Fool

will

have

it

laid

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ev'ry clip he fays,

"Take

heed!"-

And
all
is

in the looking-glafs

muft view

done

as he decreed,
:

And And

what the Barber next muft do

is

h
J
IL

This lock

now fomewhat
mort
ails,

too long,
here,

this too

now

now
wrong

there,

There fomething
UJ

a curl lies

In beard or whifker, or fomewhere.

On
" So

this

fide

now
look

there needs

anew
do
nay!
nay!

Juft
!

juft a leetle fnipp'd away,

let

me

yes

that will

But here!

this turn!

looks well?
fo,
!"

No
And
Is

mouftache ever look'd well

it

Like that indeed

all

cannot ftay

the Barber ftrives to

all

do
:

vain as
!

he

tries to lay

Yet
!

juft this place behind the ear

!

Aye From what

It

Fool

that's

juft the place that ail'd thee

'tis

we've feen

very clear
that fail'd thee
that,
!

was the brains from

firft

Who
What

wants now

this,

now

nor knows
:

he needs, doth clearly mow it For lacking brains, he feels and mows
'tis

He

wants within the means to

know

it.

THERE

IS

NO CONCLUSION.
154

A FOOL'S HEAD NEVER WHITENS.

DY

moeyelicke heeren
Is veel te leeren.

'T moet een wijse hant sijn, die een sotten

It

Kop

wel scheren

sal.

must be a wise hand to cut the hair of a Fool's head.

WAT

let,

dat

leert.

Quae nocent, docent.

VEXATIO dat

intellectual.

HOMINE
putat.

imperito nil quidquam

est injustius, qiii, nisi

quod

ipse facit nihil

rectum

TERENT. Adelph.

MEN

heeft groote kunst

van doen

Om

de narren

te

voldoen.

IL

All those who appear

Fools, are so,

and no

less,

half of those who do not appear

;

to be so.

TROLLY
UJ
it

has a wide

dominion

in the

World

and

if

there

be

some

little

Wisdom,
~.

7 D
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pure Folly compared with the Wisdom of the Most High. But the greatest Fool is he, who does not believe that he is so, and who imputes Foolishness to every body else. To be Wise, it is not sufficient to appear so to one's self. He is Wisest
is

U
UJ

who does not

Q
li

Wise; and he who does not perceive that others see, does not see himself. How full soever the World be of Fools, there is no person who thinks himself one, nor even, who suspects himself of folly. GRACIAN.
think that he
is

are People (in every class of Society) who entertain a high opinion of themEach considers himself but those more particularly, who are the least worthy. selves, the centre of the Universe, and destined for an exalted position. Hope undertakes
rashly,

THERE

L ^

and Experience renders

it

no

assistance.

Vain imagination
his

finds

an executioner

in Reality,

who undeceives

it.

Every one should know

proper sphere of action,

of Self-Opinion.
Idem.

and

his fittest condition.

Reality would then be the regulator

FORTUNE
Of Of
all

takes care that Fools should

aloft,
o' th'

still

be seen

She places 'em

her wheel.

topmost spoke Fools are the daily work

:

nature, her Vocation

If she

form

A.Man,
'T would

she loses by't

'tis
:

too expensive;

make

ten Fools

Man's a Prodigy.

DRYDEN,

CEdip.

UN

Sot n'a pas assez

d'e'toffe

pour

etre bon.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

WAQER

IS

A FOOL'S ARGUMENT.
155

HE THAT TEACHES HIMSELF

UCH
You

like as

wine the nurfe of Poets veine,

it

When
will
it

prifon-like the cafke doth

conteine

Farre from the bottome while you draw the wine,

more plenteous and more fine But when you come to dreg, no wine abounds. Both leaft and worft remaineth in the grounds:
find
;

Such

like the

mining of

a candle

we

fee,

Which kindled once burnes At firft it giv's greater and

not

ftill

equally

clearer light,
;

And
It

is

more
it

pleafant both to fmell and fight

But when
fhineth

comes

to fnuffe

and even fpent,

0)

The
Doth

lefTe, and gives a filthy fent. candle and wine's our life, which, in

its

prime,

more, and hath more hope of time; But when with muftie age our life decayes,
flourifh

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Then many

forrowes have we, and few dayes.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

UJ

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IN

IMO MINIMUM ET PESSIMUM

AT BOTTOM LEAST
WORST.

AND

HAS A FOOL FOR

156

HIS

MASTER.

ONE DOTH THE SCATH, ANOTHER HATH THE HARM.

Wat
de seuge doet, moeten de biggen ontgelden.

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WHAT THE SOW

HEN
And

DOES,

THE LITTLE

PIGS

MUST

PAY FOR.
the old

Sow

has play'd her pranks,

upfet tubs and pails around her,

Out comes the Mafter in a rage. With broom in hand, refolv'd

to

pound her

INNOCENCE

IS

NO PROTECTION.
157
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THE CROW GiETS PARDONED, AND

But
fhe, well

vers'd in

all

his oaths,

And
Runs

in their

meaning

full confiding,

off and leaves her pigs behind

To bear the blame and get the hiding. And they, poor pigs, though innocent Of all the harm, defpite their fqueaking,
Get beat
all

round and made to fmart

For

all

the big

Sow

has been breaking.

life,

'Tis thus

we

often fee in

The

great misdoers fave their bacon,

While blame and punimment alike Fall on the fmaller folks when taken
W

How
I

Kings and Statesmen for

fcathelefs off,
all

their faults

Get

nor fear vexation,

While

the

Are
"
Q.

felt

ills which they have wrought and paid for by the nation.

Q
it

Q
OL
.

C^^
QUIDQUID

ue

a truye

forfait, les

porceaux

souffrent.

delirant Reges, plectuntur Achivi.

HORACE

i.

Epist.

2.

X
\-

DAT

veniani Corvis, vexat censura Columbas.

IloXXaci
KO.I

JUVEN. Sat.

2.

ZvfjLiraaa TTO\IS

KUKOV dvcSpos
esf,

Travpei.

Id
S^EPE universa civitas

viri

mali scelera

luit.

IL peccato del Signore souvente fa piangere

il

vassallo.

Un

fa

il

peccato,

1'altro la

penitenza.

DER Herrn
WANNEER

siind,

der bauren buss.

een Prinz springt uyt den bant, Daerom lijdt dickmael al het lant.
entgelten des er nie genossen hat.

MANCHER muss
QUID agimus hoc casu
imbres,
aut caetera naturae
?

feramus.
ita

Nam quemadmodum
luxum, ambitionem
et

sterilitatem,

aut

nimios

mala;

avaritiam

dominantium

habeamus.

DOVE HAS THE BLAME.

158

EEN PLOEQ
SICHEM

DIE

WERCKT,

BL.INCKT.

rapuit, et agricola plectitur.

Arabian Adage.

Vid.

RIGHT. Axiom. (Econ.

24, 25.

[The same
IT'S

in another sense.~\

GOOD FISHING

IN

TROUBLED WATERS.
a Fisher disturbing
the

The Reader will imagine a

long pole,

picture, representing

water with a

and driving

the fish towards the net.

"Y^OU

wish to

know what
is

I'm about
:

My

bus'ness

soon told

I'm going to fish upon a plan Advis'd from time of old.

In waters that are most disturb'd,

Most

fish are caught,

they say

But when the water's calm and clear

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h
(0

The

fish all

swim away

CD

For then too cautiously they scan The meshes of the net,

D
j,

(0

Or be your

bait

however good,
get.

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No

bite

from them you

But quite another sport it is If you disturb the stream

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;

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The troubled water then gets thick, And roach, perch, eels and bream
Are taken then alike
at once,

>

Large

fish as well as small,

;

All caught together in the net

That's what I fishing call

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UJ

Need I say more ? He who knows not To make a stir in this World's stream,
Will but a sorry Fisher prove,

Nor minnows
Stir,

catch,
!

much

less

a bream.
;

Fisher,

stir

Stillness

does harm

It little profits

when

the water's calm.

-Ex multis

utile bellum.

LUCAN.

i.

v.

182.

OPPORTUNI magnis conatibus

transitus rerum.

TACITUS.
se

MULTI

honores quos quieta

republica

desperant,

perturbata

consequi

posse

arbitrantur.

LIVY.

EAU

trouble gain de pecheur.

NAER

STIL.LE

WATER
159

SCAVOIR, VIENT AVOIR.

CARRY

f
If
it

about with me. *

I

my
*/

frugall O

ftore, ^

With which
be meane,
I

am

content, and feeke no

it

more;

can with

agree,
to

What
I

ftate foever,

welcome comes
what
is

me

never begge,

alive,

diftrefle,
I

know

not; but once dead,

live

care for

't

lefle.

Some

on others trenchers, and doe

eate
:

The
They
Rich

bread of floth, for which they never fweat

're

greedy ravens of mankind, kitching drones,

harpyes, rats, Chamelions.

tables

The wifeman howfoever

Fortune, to
it

he doth finde
his

he

fits

and frames

mind,
faire,

He

doth proferre his courfe and country

his

Unto

Patrons dole and dimes

rare.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

ON MINE OWN COST.

STIRRINQ MASTERS

MAKE A
160

RICH HOUSEHOLD.

EXAMPLE

IS

STRONQER THAN PRECEPT.

in

Een Schip op een Zant> een Eaken

Zee.

fc

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A SHIP AGROUND,
!

IS

A BEACON AT
!

SEA.

fORT
Upon

hard a-port ftarboard your helm look out See what our neighbour in the Schuyt's about
! !

a fand-fpit there as fure as day,

fair.
;

He's hard and

right in the courfe

we

lay

Give her a good wide berth, my mate, that we Clear well the fand-tail where thofe breakers be.

WISE MEN L.EARN BY OTHERS' HARM.

161

T T

IT

IS

EASIEST LEARNING AT ANOTHER'S COST.

to ftrive
is

They'll never pole her off

vain

With
She'll

ebbing-tide as

now, there fhe'll remain

And mould
!

the wind chop round and blow to more,

break her rudder, or get damage more. Reader look well to this, and let it be
caution in Life's voyage unto thee.

A
No

The Skipper who

mip aground, beacon needs to guide, nor lead to found

truly prudent
is

defcries a

And

that

Who

by another's

fault

man alone, can mend his

own.

Many who have themfelves but little {kill To mape their courfe where peril may accrue,
X
-

Avert

full oft

the greater

mare of

ill,

Who take example from what others do. For Youth, than this, there is no better fchool For Men, no milder difcipline and rule,
Than well t' obferve, and weigh with prudent The acts of others from the fruit they bear.

care

CD

z
~

Ex

vitio alterius

Sapiens emendat suum.

P.

SYRUS.

FELIX quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum.

HOMINES amplius

oculis

quam

auribus credunt.

SENECA.
Ibid.

LONGUM
HI
CL

iter est

per prsecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.

patterns, for

WE

do not want precepts, but

PLINY.

example

is

the gentlest and least invidious

way of commanding.

EXAMPLE

is

a living rule that teaches without trouble to the learner,

and

lets

him

see his faults without

open reproof and upbraiding.

precept
;

SERJ. PALMER'S Aphorisms.

EXAMPLE works more than

without
I
effect.

for

words without practice are but counsels

Ibid.

HAVE given you an example,

xiii.

that

ye

should do as

have

done

to

you.

John

15.

CHRIST
i

suffered

for

us,

leaving

us

an example that we should follow

his steps.

Pet.

ii.

21.

PRECEPTS LEAD, EXAMPLES DRAW.

162

BAD NEIGHBOURS HAVE A

Chi ha mal vicin, ha mal matin.

"~pIS
UJ

well that ev'ry one should know,

his next

Something of

door neighbour;

What

are his hours of to

life,

and

fro

Habits of

and trade or labour?

For, whate'er our love of quiet,

And
l_

our care to keep aloof,

If he's giv'n to drink

and

riot,

Mischief soon
U,

may

reach our roof.

Peaceful neighbours are a treasure

To be
LL

wish'd for in this life;

B distressing beyond measure, But

Neighbours prone to
All such people

~
strife
:

noise and

much

require

QJ dl

Watch and ward on

Lest
It
if

all

they do

their

house should take

fire,
|-

perchance

may

spread to you.

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tua res agitur paries

cum proximus

ardet.

HORACE,

i.

Epist.
i.

18.

NE

mala

vicini pecoris contagia laedant.

VIRGIL, Eel.

HINC bene commendavit Philosophus domum a bonis

Aliquid mali propter vicinum malum.

vicims,

PLAUTUS, Merc.

D
MIEUX
vaut etre seul, que mal accompagne.
Brebis rogneuse font les autres tigneuses.

EVIL communications corrupt good manners. Better alone than in bad company.

DIE ontrent den molen woont,

Bestuyft het meel.

j.

CHI ha mal vicin, Ha mal matin.

QUANDO

egli

arde in vicinanza,

Porta 1'acqua a casa tua.

is

trouble.

IN the house of the righteous Proverbs xv. 6.

is

much

treasure

but in the revenues of the wicked

QUADE GEBUEREN MOET MEN BESUEREN.

163

HE

WHO TOUCHES
>IGHTS

PITCH SOILS HIS FINGERS.

ftarre-like fplendor

doth allure

this flye,
:

Not knowing
Thus

that

me may

be burnt thereby

whilft fhe kindled with a great defire

Of

Light, loe

now

fhee dies in flaming

is

fire.

hie, Glory Envious to many, lovely to the eye But many times glory doth fooles undoe,
:

in purple robes

fet

on

Whilft, without wit and reafon, they It raifeth them that with the greater
It

it

wooe

fall,

may them overthrow and crum

withall.

J D
Q.

Whilft Icarus foares to Hyperions beames,

He
And Was

headlong fals into th' Icarian ftreames Pha'ton daring for to rule the day, thunder-beate, and burnt with Phoebus ray.
;

We

nearer to the Sunne

more glorious

are,

If of the fcorching rayes

we be

aware.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

Z < b o
in

3 K o Q
I

SEEKS MINE HURTji

CHI

TOCCA

L_A

PECE, S'IMBRATTA
164

LE MANI.

De gam

blaeft

wety maer en bin

niet.

THE GOOSE

HISSES WELL,

BUT

IT

DON'T BITE.
and heard

HEN
With

firft

thefe Geefe I faw,

fierce at

Them
And

hifs fo

me

fear o'erwhelm'd, I fled the bird,

thought therein to
breath

fee
fell,

Some winged bead, Whofe peftilential

or dragon

WORDS ARE BUT

WIND, BUT
165

BLOWS

UNKIND.
u u

GREAT CRY, LITTLE WOOL.

Alone
fufficed, as I'd

heard

tell,

To
At
I

fpread difmay and death.

length their fnappifh noife defpite, felt within my breaft

ftrange refolve to ftay

my

flight,

And

meet them

at

my

beft.

So looking round as fiercely too, I was about to draw,

CD
I

And pierce the hifling monfters through; When all at once I faw And faid, as plain as I could fpeak
:

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I'm a fool outright The beaft 's a flat and toothlefs beak

Why

With

that he cannot bite

No
No
'Tis

claws
I

upon

his feet has

fear,
I

he

That

had need to

crooked talons that

fee
tear.

With which my
all

flefh to

So dread
(I)

mere empty wind, e'en though to th' ear and fight

;

Fear not,

my

mates

who
bite.

hifs

and blow

m
j

Are feldom

fierce to

h
|-

TX^IJT
SY en bijten

gapen, en bijt niet

Veel blasen en smijt

niet al, die haer

niet.

tanden laten

sien.

CHAT

mioleur ne

fut

jamais bon chasseur, non plus qu'homme sage caquetteur.

die veel maeuwt, vangt weinigh muisen.

Een Kat

A MUCHA parola, obra poco. CAN ch' abbaja, non vuol nocer.
HUHNER
die viel schwatzen, legen wenig Eier.
cor, quivi e piu lingua.

Dov' e manca

DE
Wenn

grands vanteurs

Petits faiseurs.

die

Worte Leute schlugen, so war

er ein tapferer

Mann.

WORDS ARE GOOD WHEN WORKS FOLLOW.

166

BEWARE OF A MAN THAT DOES NOT TALK,

VASA
inania plurimum tinniunt.

AN
Ventosa
in lingua,
1

tibi

Mavors
istis,

Semper

erit

pedibusque fugacibus VIRG. sEn. n.

Jam
Magis metuendi

senectus

mundi

est,

quse est garrula.

taciturni et lenes,

quam

feroces et clamatores.
ira.

VANA est sine MINARUM strepitus,

Asinorum
VALIDIOR vox
crepitus.

viribus

operis,

quam

oris.

IGNAVISSIMUS quisque

et in periculo

minimum

ausurus nimii verbis, lingua feroces.

TACITUS.

UT
Ill

quisque ignavus animo, procax

ore.

Ibid.

QUID dignum

tanto feret hie promissor hiatu

Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

HORACE.

MONS

parturibat gemitus

immanes

ciens,

Eratque in terris maxima exspectatio. At ille murem peperit. Hoc scriptum

est tibi,

Qui magna cum

minaris, extricas nihil.

PH^EDRUS, FabuL

Ixxix.

<
CD

CANIS timidus vehementius

latrat,

quam mordet.

CURTIUS.
xiii.

QUID

verbis opus est

spectemur agendo.

OVID.

Metam.

MULTA
h

verba, modria fides.

RICHTER, Axiom. Oecon. 221.

DIE Kiihe
(/)

die sehr briillen, geben wenig Milch.

Hunde

die sehr bellen, beissen nicht.

UJ

'T

een wijse van het lant. Lange tonge kort van hant.
is

TEL menace,

qui est battu.

Tel menace, qui a grand' peur. De grand menaceur peu de fait.

WHO

Let him fear

knows himself a braggart this for it shall come to pass

;

That every braggart

shall

be found an

ass.

SHAKESPEARE,

All's

Well that Ends Well.

BRAGGARTS must needs be factious, for all bravery stands upon comparisons. They must be violent to make good their vaunts. Neither can they be secret, and
therefore not effectual.

LORD BACON.

AND OF A DOQ THAT DOES NOT BARK.

167

MANY WORDS DON'T

/

FILL

THE SACK.

HEN
light
is

as the

waxen

light

and candle did mine,

:

As was

the taper, fo the candle was fine

When

gone, this gives an odious fnuffe,

nectarian ituffe.
in

That fmels of Hyblas fweete

So when the wicked
fits

honours chaire,
;

Unto

the

good man

all

doe him compare

his

But when Death fparing none,

maike puls
:

off,

And
UJ

changing Fortune

fets

him

for a fcofFe

0)
o:

Then

to the frittle people he doth ftinke,

like a

His name fmels

I

common-more

or finke

The good
UJ

againe, even in adverfity,

falfe

Cares not for Fortunes

J Q
(t

inconftancy

And when

againft

him death hath done her

Phenix fpicy
neft.

beft,

m Z D

His name fmels

like the

FARLIE'S Emblems.

UJ

h h
UJ

CD

68

TOUT PAR AMOUR, RIEN PAR FORCE.

Met
onwillige honden
is't

r quaet ha en vangen.

h D h
o:

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o:

WITH UNWILLING HOUNDS IT'S HARD TO CATCH HARES.

OT
far

from here there

as I've heard

lives a

Maid,
faid,

Who,

by many

Will bring a good dow'r of gold and land To him on whom me beftows her hand.

buxom,

cheerful, buftling lafs,

father's kine to grafs,

She leads her

NO

STRIVING;

AGAINST THE STREAM.

169

X X

HAPPY

IS

THE WOOING THAT

IS

NOT LONG

IN

DOING.

She bakes and she brews, she spins and she sews, And all a good housewife's duty knows.

Nimble and neat of limb

is

she,

temper'd too as a lass can be ; With pouting red lips, and a cheek that glows With the freshest hues of the opening rose
;

Good

No

burgher maid in Leyden town Can match her eyes of lustrous brown

And were I again in my youthful prime, To woo and to win her I'd lose no time,
wish our Claes, that son of mine, to my advice incline, close like a sensible lad, court her And
I

Would but

While she and her dow'r are yet to be had For oft I 've heard her father say Whoe'er she choose, he'll not say nay ; But give her a well stock'd farm and land,
:

And
~

Q
,!

fill'd purse besides in hand. son Claes, he is so slow, my To her he will not courting go He only fancies the town-bred grace

a well

But

It

Of a Courtly dame and

a painted face.

>
QJ -I
?

But what's your Court or burgher dame, With pride of birth and empty name,

h
~

To a village lass with And wholesome alike

But,

a purse well
in

lin'd,

body and mind

vexing quite not bite ;

Oh

this

At

bait so fair
all

boy he

'tis

~j

will

And

J can do, or think, or say,

0)
:

Alike on the lad are thrown away. How oft have I not brought him to
DC

hopes But there he'd stand

lass,

The

in

that he

would woo

like a tongue-tied lout

!

Nor open

mouth but gape about In vain to cheer him on I strive, And wink to make him more alive
his
will

But not e'en once

he take her hand, Nor speak one word she can understand. E'en though 'tis Fair-time now, yet he

Buys her no Cakes nor Christmas tree

No girdle, nor ring, nor handsome coif To set the young damsel's head-dress off. He writes no Sonnets in her praise,
As
is

the custom now-a-days,

But cold as a stone, not a word will say, That hints in the least at a Wedding-day.
But, setting all such gifts aside Though gifts are proper to a Bride-^

E'en from her

he'll

not take a thing,

Nor new

neck-ruff,

nor handsome ring

WHO SO

BLIND AS HE THAT WILL NOT SEE?

170

FAIR

IS

NOT

FAIR,

BUT THAT^WHICH PL.EASETH.

Yet lovers mostly have the sense To look on gifts as no offence ;

And

if

a young

man

will

aught receive,

'Tis a sign

at least, so girls believe

That he next day may come again,

And

then p'rhaps speak his mind more plain

the receiver doth
!

For Love doth ever more hopeful burn,

When
At

make
he
will
!

return.

But oh
all

this

Claes

not

woo
0)
ffj
:

as other people

do

E'en when she herself asks him to dance, He says that he can't, and looks askance

For her he has no pleasing

talk

He

never takes her out to walk,

And when

He
-

she kindly bids him stay, takes up his hat to walk away To lose such a chance to me is odd
!

Now

isn't

my

Claes a downright clod

But now I find my wife was right, When she said to me t'other night Do hold thy tongue, now, Father, do!
:

'Tis plain

our Claes don't care to woo.

Thou'lt never bring the match to pass, He has no taking to the lass
:

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Q
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He's p'rhaps some other girl in view, And take my word you may for true ; The Love that's forc'd will never do
!

not a lover, after all, Best judge on whom his choice should
Is
UJ

fall

not an impulse free, That knows no force nor law's decree

Is courting

Do, Father,
GO

let the boy alone Compulsion never yet was known

;

To

rule th' affections of the heart,

Nor guide the course of Cupid's dart. Let him be free to choose his mate
According to his heart's dictate "No Well so bad as that, we think, Whose water we're compelled to drink."
:

<

Is

not the Love-chase just the same

1

l_

As hunting any other game

What though the sportsman even The hare, so tame as not to flee,
Squat here and there

see

at distance short,

As though

the very dogs to court ; Yet none the more the hare is won

If that his

dogs refuse to run

For hounds which hunt against their will, Were seldom known the game to kill.

THERE

IS

NO DISPUTING OF TASTES AND FANCIES.

171

LET EVERY TUB STAND ON ITS OWN BOTTOM.

fAM
The The
The

confumed with devouring fire, Whilft Vulcane gainft me doubles thus his hand, much like an Ifthme, doth feparate
flames,

ire

and doth

it

felfe

praecipitate

Into open danger,

mewing
hufband

fb its love,
it

fcorching flames compels

to remove.
ftate,
;

thriftlerTe

if

he fpend his

And And
CL

fo the wife loving to

goe too neat

Their ftocke and meanes quickely goes to decay,

repentance comes, when all's away. But if a friend their ruine would prevent, And flay their fall ; be fure he mall be fhent
late

(0

CD

> I
0.

He

lofing labour fcarce fhall harmelefle goe,

againft

They both

him turne

their malice fo.

Oft times who parteth quarrels and debate, Againft himfelfe doth turne the parties hate.
FARLIE'S Emblems.

CONSUMAR NECESSE
D
DQ

EST.
j

i'fTHUS

MUST BE CON SUMED

I

LAST SUITOR WINS THE M A D

I

172

GREAT DESIGNS REQUIRE GREAT CONSIDERATION.

Om
weynigh Graens een gansche Moole.

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z
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A WHOLE MILL TO GRIND A PECK OF CORN.

lp H
!

Matter, what

is

all

this

work,
?

This hamm'ring, fawing, <2t| Each morning that I wake of

I

clatter
late

wonder what's the matter

is't

What

that

you

are building here

Mill, forfooth!

but furely

GREAT FOOLS MUST HAVE GREAT BELLS.

173

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CUT YOUR COAT ACCORDING! TO YOUR CLOTH.

So large
a Mill as this will be

A
For
So

lofs

ot

money purely
of yours

in this fack
little

feel

corn for grinding,

it

That when you've made

into meal

'Twill fcarce be worth your minding.

Hand-mill would be large enough

corn,

To grind this And if you'd be

You'd
I
ceafe
rely,

good neighbour

advifed by

me

your
this

ufelefs labour.

You may

Mill of yours
profit,

<
Lti

Will yield you

'Twill foon ftand

little
ftill,

or,

what
it:

is

worfe,

You'll be obliged to let

o:

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i
h
Ul

Don't fpend your money thus, my 'Tis hard enough to find it; Who only hath a peck of corn

friend,

Need

K
o
LL
111

build no Mill to grind

it.

CD

I
(D

LL

'pRUDITUR
o:

dies die,
lunse.

Tu

Novseque pergunt interire secanda marmora

Locas sub ipsum funus, et sepulcri Immemor struis domos. HORAT. ii. Od.

18.

Senes, inquit Arnisceus, spolia

opima marina Dece suspendere

debent,

cum hac

inscriptione,

(De Jur. Connub.}

Vixi puellis nuper idoneus, Et militavi non sine gloria,

Nunc arma defunctumque bello Hunc gladium paries habebit.

HORAT.
iii.

Od.

26.

-DESINE dulcium

Mater

saeva

Cupidinum.

Idem

iv.

Od.

i.

DON'T FLY TILL YOUR WINQS ARE FEATHERED.

174

GOT WITH THE

CIRCA lustra decem Jam durum imperiis

FIFE,

flectere mollibus
:

abi

Quo

blandae juvenum te revocant preces.

EEN oudt man met een jonge vrou, Wat kan het wesen als berou ?
C'EST chose aussi follastre de voir
qui ne peut marcher sans aide.
le

gendarme qui va au baston, que 1'amoureux

VEEL

geschreeus en luttel wolle.

luttel boter.

Veel vlagen

LA

piu guasta rota del carro

strepito.
[~

Fa sempre maggior ~

Viel geschrey, wenig wollen.

Grosse word und nichts da hinder.

h
UJ -)

o
0)

Ne'er put the

IN every undertaking, that which Accessory, if there is occasion for
UJ

Plough afore the

is
it,

Owsen.

UJ

Essential should have the

first place ; and the should be considered afterwards. Many men

commence with

that

which

is

of least

moment

to them,

and defer the consideration

of

those things which would be useful and profitable, to a period when it is too late to reap the advantages which would accrue from them. We thus frequently see men who

have no sooner begun to prosper in

very success,

life,

than they become eclipsed as

is

it

were

in

their

and emerge

in poverty.

Method

as necessary to the art to Live, as to

the acquirement of Knowledge.

h
D
pain il faut le couteau. Selon ta bourse gouverne ta bouche.
le

8 Q
SELON
rj

UJ
9:

Fou
STRETCH out your

.est

qui plus depense que sa rente ne vaut.

legs according to the length of your blanket.

00

Qui
CHI

trop embrasse, mal etreint.

tutto abraccia, nulla stringa.

CE

qui vient au son de la flute s'en va au son

du tambour.

MAKE no more
CAVENDUM
est,

haste than good speed.

celeritates.

ne in festinationibus suspiciamus nimias

transegit,
is

CICERO.
incipit

Qui unumquodque mature

perficit, festinat.

properat

qui

multa

simul

neque

CATO.

SPENT WITH THE DRUM.

175

MORE BELONGS TO

RIDING

THAN A PAIR OF BOOTS.

'ITANS

day burning lamp

is

fet

on high,

The more

to light'n the Earth

from faphir fky

His beames more glorious and confpicuous mine

From

Eaft to Weft, from South to midnight line

My
Q Z < h
0)
a:

light
in a

you muft not under bumell

chinky corners prifon mut;

put,

Nor
That

lights

may
aloft

cleare the

chambers

all

throughout,

They muft

be hanged round about.

UJ

Q z D

You

holy Priefts, to

whom

the

word of

light

Is truft,

advance your torches in the fight

h
Z Q

Of

mortals,

mew them who

in darkenefle dwell,

The narrow way

that leads to

Heaven, from Hell.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

f-

z
LU

J Q Q
111

DO NOTHING HASTILY, BUT CATCHING OF FLEAS.

I

76

TAKE HOLD OF A GOOD MINUTE.

Two
~Dogges
strive for

a Bone,

and the third taketh

it

away.

Li

U.

(D
UJ

CD

h h
I
CO

(0

Z
:

o o
IL

HI

I h

z
UJ

THE DOGS AND THE BONE.

ye who would a Moral learn,

dogs in For Dogs, like Men, will difagree. The caufe of quarrel was a bone,

PLL Two

Your

eyes

upon this Emblem turn combat fierce you fee,

With dogs

a very frequent one

177

z z

IT'S

AN

ILL

WIND BLOWS NOBODY

in deadly fight,

G.OOD.

But while the two

Half blind with

rage, bark, tear

flefh to

and

bite,

More bent Than heed

each other's
the bone

wound
;

upon the ground

by
t'

Up
The

comes a

third, attracted

brawl, and, quick the caufe

efpy,

And
The

Snaps up with

the bone without ado,

it

difappears from view. combatants, whofe kindled bile

Had

fomewhat

fettled

down

the while,

Exhaufted almoft with the

fight,
!

At once both

mifs the bone from fight

And

quick as thought, with one confent, They ceafe the fray, and, both intent

which they fought, With eager hafte the bone is fought But all in vain, no bone is there,
find the prize for
:

To

But foam and bloodftains everywhere,

Mingled with

clotted flakes of hair.

At

length away the dogs depart, In pain and discontent of heart,

That

they,

who fought

the prize to gain,

;

Should doubly lofers thus remain While fome one, who no rifle had run, The " bone of their contention " won.

Such things and like refults are feen T' occur full oft young folks between

Among And Princes,

'An
inftance

the People oft'ner

ftill,

where there's want of

this fubject

{kill.

But while I'm on

I'll

now,

relate to

you,

Of
Full

which

I've

known
a

before to-day

many end
fuitors

the felf-fame way.

Two

woo'd

Burgher maid,

With dow'ry rich, and each afraid His rival mould with her prevail,
Bethought him
all

he could

t'aflail

And

prejudice the other's name,

WHAT FORCE CANNOT

I

DO, ING.ENUITY MAY.

78

That he might

beft fecure the

game.

With

feelings fuch on either fide, Throughout the City, far and wide,

Reports were current foon of each,

did fo mutually impeach Their name and fame, that fwords alone

Which

Could

for fuch calumnies atone.

fell
;

They met
h

the younger they fought too well all His rival's blade prov'd The bitter rancour of the thruft

That
<

ftretch'd

him

proftrate in the duft.

Though

victor, yet compell'd to fly,

UJ

T'efcape the Duel's penalty, The field at once of both made

clear,

<

Another

fuitor

now drew
before but
lefe,

near
little

Who, though

feen,

Had

ne'er the

like

them
ft

too, been

A
To
.

Fifher in the felf-fame

ream,
:

Though not prefuming fuch to feem And boldly now he fets his fail,
profit

by the
all
its

fav'ring gale

UJ

Declares in

honest truth
lj;

The

love that had o'ercaft his youth

at

Subdues

once the damfel's pride,

.

And
The

changes Sweetheart into Bride. Brawlers, when they both return'd

health and home, the tidings learn' learn'd,
far

UJ

To
(0

That one

more

difcreet

than they,.
fray,

Advantage taking of

their

Had won

the Prize the proper way.

"pvUMOS
Sic

concussi, sustulit alter aves.

nidificatis aves.

Sic vos

non vobis vos non vobis

non vobis

vellera fertis oves.

Sic vos
Sic vos

mellincatis apes,
fertis aratra

non vobis

boves.

TEL

bat les buissons

les oisillons.

Qui n'a pas

WAR

IS

SWEET TO

HIM

WHO DOES NOT QO FOR

179

IT.

WHEN THE

FRIAR'S BEATEN, THEN

COMES JAMES.

HAT
To
Or when Or fome

e're

my

flat's

my
we

love proves conftant

part againft our will
;

flill,

this

my

Soule,

fierce

Boreas with his bluftring gale,

mifchance

Elfe I and Light

my lovely light doth quale my life, would never part,

me
convert.

Before to afhes fates did

Nature commands us to maintaine our breath

And
Z
III

being,

munning

life-deftroying death.
oft takes the knife,
life
:

Yet man from Atropus

And
I

cuts his fatall thred devouring

h h
0)

For why, he fearing death before

Before
th'

his day,

allarum,
!

makes himfelfe away.

Z
<

Ah

wretch

unworthy to behold the fkye,

and knowes not how to dye.
FARLIE'S

Who

will not live,

Emblems.

0)

Z I
t-

J J

UJ

h
<:

TWO

SIR POSITIVES

CAN'T MEET WITHOUT A SKIRMISH.

180

BETWIXT TWA STOOLS THE DOUP FA'S DOUN.

]\emo potest Thetidem simul
et

Galatean amare.

UJ

a
a: UJ

h z
UJ

Z z <
(D

J D
UJ

UJ

D Q

J
0) UJ

D
0)

J J
UJ
0)

J D

X D
UJ

UJ
o:

h
z
UJ

NO ONE CAN LOVE THETIS AND GALATEA AT THE SAME TIME.

attend to me, would fomething to you fay, Which, may of fome fervice be
I

,ISTEN, Mates!

Rather curious

in its

way

I've a fondnefs for the Fair,

Which,

my

reafon

all

defpite,

Makes me ev'ry day defpair Where to fix my heart aright.

GRASP ALL, LOSE ALL.

181

CH\

DUE
girl
I

L.EPRI

CACCIA,

Ev'ry pretty
Sets

meet,
ftir,

my

heart in fuch a
leaft

That, without the

I

deceit,

would make ftrong love

fo wav'ring in
girls

to her.

Thus
But

my
once

mind,
I

Two
'Tis

now

at

woo

I've long

begun

to find
I

much more

than

can do.

One

is

Galatea nam'd,
the other, as you

And
Thetis

know,

for her beauty fam'd,

Spoken of where'er you

Thetis lives

go.

down by

the Sea,
;

Galatea on the

Moor

Thetis talks of fhips to me,

l~

And

of things along the more.

!

0)

Galatea, lively lafs

Speaks of

Of And Of the
rj

and of cows, the meadows, and the grafs,

dairies,

the crops her father grows; tuneful woods and fields,

Where

the fheep in hundreds ftray,

>

What their fleece in profit yields, And the joys of market-day

:

Speaks of fhady lanes to me,

With

their

hedgerows green and gay,

And

the Linden trees where

we

Often chat an hour away. Thetis too tells pleafing tales

In the Fifhers' homely talk
;

How

Greenland they catch whales, Charming 'tis with her to walk

in
:

Herring nets

to
tells

make and mend

Then me

me
hand

how, and
to lend,

Long

a helping

When me
And how

fpreads them out

to dry.

Plaice and flounders

how

they take,
the

dry them on

more

UNA NON PIGLIA E L'ALTRA LASCIA.

182

HE

WHO SERVES TWO MASTERS

one man of
fifh

How

may make
:

Oft a catch of twenty fcore How they fifh with hook and

net,

All fo pleafing like and true,

That by her bright eyes of

Galatea fays that

jet

I'm both hook'd and netted too.

me
nor those

Likes no

fifh,

who

live

Or

by fiming, or the fea,

But the reafon

Galatea's conftant
Is
<c

me

won't give.

theme
;

her butter and her cheefe

fish

What's your
If
I

compared

to

cream

Soles or plaice (fays

me)

to thefe

"
!

ft:

speak of

fields

and

trees,

Or

the leaft of farm-things fay,

Thetis' look's

enough

to freeze,
:

And me
If
I

takes her hand away

drefs,

wear a rimer's

Galatea from

me

turns,

And, when
Thetis
all

in farm-clothes,

no

lefs,

my wooing
loofe

fpurns.
(0

When my
Q

fimer's cap I've on,

Flumings

and jacket rough,

!

Galatea fays, Begone But her look is quite enough

If in fhepherd's flouch
I

go,

Thetis,
Calls

if

fhe chance to fee,

!

me Boor
all

and jeers

me

fo,

That

eyes are turn'd on

me

Thus

Juft

two long years have I Chafed this game, and nothing caught as one " who hunts two
for
hares,

Lofes both, and catches naught."

So, Mates,

when you wooing

Fool

is

he

who my way

go, choofes

Who

at

once courts sweethearts two,

!

Pleafes neither, and both lofes

MUST

LIE

TO ONE OF THEM.

THE FOX

IS

CUNNING,

BEHOLD Nor Man,

He To
faies,

the Bridegroome comes, he takes his way,

nor Angell knowes the houre or day

like a theefe in night,
;

he

'Ie

come, much

judge the world with equity and right

Angels mall charge with trumpets founding cleare, And Chrift as Judge mail in the clouds appeare ;

The

righteous and the wicked mall arife, Bodies and Soules, to pafle upon that fize
the oyle of preparation hath,

He who

Whom

Chrift mall find furnim'd with faving faith

Shall with the blefTed

Bridegroome mount on
glorioufly
;

hie,

Mongft Seraphimes triumphing But he who hath no oyle, nor

Heavens
dreadfull

faith at all,

Judge mall

that

man

curfed

call,

And banim him

Where

into the pit

of

hell,

with the fiends for ever he muft dwell.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

BUT MORE CUNNING HE WHO CATCHES

184

HIM.

FAIR

TO THE EYE, THAT'S ALL.

In

Recessu

Nihil.

h
UJ

01

<
DQ

J D
LL

J D
LL

LU

LL

K.

LL

<

WITHIN

IS

EMPTINESS.

OU

of fuch furpaffing grace, So beautiful in form and ev'ry feature of her face
fay that Ifabella
is

That you're

furpris'd

do not afk her hand

place,

at once,

as

you

Affirm, if you were in

my

you would without

:

ado.

But, Friend, you are miftaken, and you eftimate too high The beauty of a figure, and the luftre of an eye

Thefe

admit

me

has, but
in face,

Though

beautiful

fomething wanting ftill I find me wants the beauty of the mind.

BELLE CAGE, SANS OISEAU.

TWO EYES ARE NOT

She's like the

SUFFICIENT

handfome Monument, to which the fculptor's Has given grace and fymmetry to every outward part ; Externally adorn'd with all that mofl the eye can win,

art

All outward

mew

like that

is

me, but empty

all

within.

Pay

lefs

The

regard to Form and Face, when you felect a wife ; Beauty of the Mind alone is that which lafts for life.

0)

JV/TISTAKEN

Nature here has join'd

;

beauteous face and ugly mind

faultless features strike,

2
L.

In vain the

When

soul

and body are unlike

Pity that

snowy

breast should hide

Deceit and avarice and pride.

POPE.
Q.

NAM
D
JT-

divinitus interdum, Venerisque sagittis,

fit

|J{

Deteriore

Nam
Ut

facit

forma muliercula ametur; suis interdum fcemina factis, ipsa

ut
et

Morigerisque modis,

mundo

corpore culta,

facile insuescat vir

secum ducere vitam.

LUCRET.

PLUS aliquid forma

est, plus est oculisque genisque ; Plus aliquid toto corpore, quidquid amo. DAN. HEYNSIUS.

SIT procul

omne
non

nefas, ut ameris amabilis esto

facies,

Quod
TEMERARIIS

tibi

solaque forma dabit.

OVID.

<

optimus;
certus est,

judiciis plena sunt omnia, de quo desperamus subito convertitur, et fit de quo multum prgesumpseramus, deficit et fit pessimus, nee timor noster nee amor. AUGUST, de Past.

JUDGE not according

to the Appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

John

vii.

24.

THE Lord

seeth not as

man

seeth

for

man
xvi.

looketh
7.

on the outward appearance,

but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Sam.
;

FAVOUR
shall

is

deceitful,

be praised.

and Beauty is vain Proverbs xxxi. 30.

but a

woman

that feareth the

Lord, she

TEL semble
Qui

sage en apparence,

fol est

en quintessence.

TO CHOOSE A WIFE.
186

APPEARANCES ARE DECEITFUI

Fronti nulla
Fides.

travellers first the

Pyramids behold,

Lifting their sun-lit tops in contrast bold

Against the splendour of th' Egyptian sky Their grand dimensions to the fancy brings The semblance of the Palaces of Kings ;

|J

So great is their external majesty But what are they within ? No Halls are No Royal Courts, nor Princely Chambers
!

there,
fair,

Z
!

The imaged scenes of Eastern pageantry. What then 1 mere dust the Ashes of the Dead
!

Around, within, In one drear, dread Sepulchral mockery

'Tis thus
r:

on every

side outspread

Z
Q.

"

we are instructed to beware Of judging from Appearances alone The Castles that we image in the air " Are not more empty when the truth
;

is

known.

;-

Plus on a de fonds,

et plus on est

homme.
UJ

'"pHE Inside ought always to be worth as much again as the outward appearance. There are people who have exterior only ; resembling houses which have not
been finished
for

I
0)

want of funds

the entry
fix

is

palatial, the inside a hovel.

all

This kind
is

of Persons presents nothing to for after the first salutation the

the attention, or rather,

is

within

them

fixed

conversation

ended.

They make

their introductory

bow, after the fashion of the Sicilian horses, which after one or two caracoles become For words are soon exhausted suddenly metamorphosed into motionless taciturnity.

when

the

mind

is

barren.

It is

easy for them to deceive others

who

like themselves

yj

have nothing but appearance, but they are objects of pity to persons of discernment, who soon discover that they are empty within. GRACIAN'S Maxims.
K.

Tinnit

inane

est.
'tis

IT'S empty: hark,

it

sounds:

vain and void,

UJ

What's here to be enjoy'd

But grief and sickness, and large

bills

of sorrow,
1

Drawn now, and

Or what

cross'd to-morrow

are men, but puffs of dying breath,

Reviv'd with living death

Fond

youth, oh, build thy hopes on surer grounds

Than what

dull flesh

propounds

Trust not this hollow world,

'tis

empty

hark,

it

sounds.

QUARLES' Emblems.

A FOOLISH WOMAN

IS

KNOWN BY HER
187

FINZIRY.

FAIR

IS

NOT

FAIR,

BUT THAT WHICH PLEASETH.

HO
He
But now
Onely of

fo

beholds this fmoaky fnuffe of mine,

I

muft needs thinke that fometime

Light
is

did fhine;

my

gone,

my

glory's darke,

light I

have the brand and marke.

Who

for his

Country hath with valour

ftood,
:

His wounds doe mew,

In Venus training

that he hath fpent his blood

who

hath beene practifed,

Some token he

beares of what he exercifed.

The The

Schollars badge, are fallow lookes and blanch,

gluttons

is

the fatnefle of his panch.

Vertue and vice doth leave fome token behind,

z
0)

Which of

themfelves doe put us

ftill

in

minde.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

I

J
0) LU

CD

IT IS

A TOKLEN
I

THATJ

SHINED.

OGNI

DONNA A G^UALCHE T ACCA.

188

UNION GIVES STRENGTH.

Vechtende Koeyen voegen haar
te

samen,

ah

de

Wolf

komt.

o:

IU

D
or

LU

WHEN THE WOLF

OT

COMES,

THE OXEN LEAVE OFF

FIGHTING TO UNITE IN SELF-DEFENCE.

long ago, fome oxen of our herds upon the moor,
In furious fight
themfelves, as oft I've feen before,

among

Were

fuddenly furpris'd to fee fome Wolves, which, crouching low, dealing on the herd to ftrike an unexpected blow.
all

Were

Like magic,

at once,

th'

inteftine feuds

and bloodmed

ceafe,

EENDRAGT GEEFT MAGT.

189

WITHOUT, MAKE PEACE AT HOME.

As though
the

common

And quick, as if Made fenfible that Union Of each and all, to face And croup to croup clofe
'Twas just
in

danger had fubdued them all to peace imprefs'd with all the folly of their ftrife;
alone could fave the
life

the foe they hafte a ring to form,

prefs'd

time

impending ftorm/ for fcarcely were they marmall'd back to back,

th'
:

make

front to

meet

When down upon

But
all

the herd already burfts the rav'ning pack

;

n Z

Wolves afTail for everywhere they meet their of onfet fierce to greet ; oppofing horns, phalanx And high in air uptofs'd, or difembowelPd on the plain,
in vain the

The few

remaining take to

flight,

nor dare

th'

aflault again.

So mould confed'rate States and Peoples hum all inward When from without a foreign foe afTails the Nation's life
UJ
I

ftrife,
;

All difcords then out-trodden

'tis

by Unity alone

The
h
0)

Free mall fave their Freedom, and the Brave preferve their own.

^ONCORDIA
l

parvae res crescunt

discordia autem maximae dilabuntur.

SALLUST. Jugurth.

TWIST

verquist.

UJ

EENDRAGT

geeft

magt

Eenigkeyt vermag veel.

VERDEILT vyer brandt

Scatter' d fire
i

qualick.

burns badly.
:

SACRUM
jv,

nomen, et quod vix terram sapiat nee alio nomine Hebraei To adeb nee quid aliud humano generi lubentius ipsam perfectionem, innuebant
est Pacis
:

Q ^

vel gratulati sunt Angeli, vel legavit Christus, vel Apostoli prseceperunt, &c.

JOSEPH HALL, Rom.

Irreconciliab.

KRIJG van buiten Doet vrientschap sluiten.

COMMUNE

periculum

dissidentes

conjungit.
lib.

Instante
8.

communi

periculo,

conciliari

solent dissidentium animi.

DIONYS. Halicarn.

The

instinctive

resort

of horned

cattle to this

mode

of defence against the wolf,

is

more

especially

remarkable, and of very frequent occurrence, among the herds of half wild horses in the Bukowina, and on the Pusztas of Hungary, with the difference that these form the "Karika" or Ring, with their heels outwards, in order to give the wolves the full advantage of that characteristic and efficient mode of defence of the horse. Note of Translator.

DIVERSITY OF HUMOURS ENGENDERS TUMOURS.

190

SCATTERED
Ne
FOR

FIRE

BURNS B A D
le

l_

point montrer

doigt malade.

Shew not where your

every one will strike you there.
as Malice always attacks the weakest point, the

finger

ails.

Beware also

to complain of

it,

for in as

much

serves to gratify
it

and

to divert to

it.

show of resentment and suffering only The malice of mankind always endeavours to unhinge

gives

utterance

cutting
it

words, and resorts to

can pierce to the never exposes his weak point, whether personal or hereditary ; because Fortune herself takes delight sometimes in wounding the place where she knows the pain will be felt

covered the sore, where

every expedient, until it has disThe man of sense and tact quick.

most

acutely.

She always mortifies

all

conceal from mankind

gives
satisfaction
;

the quick. Consequently it is requisite to both of which that mortifies, and of that which knowledge in order to bring the former to the speediest termination, and to
to

make

the latter endure the longer.

GRACIAN.

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STRENGTH

is

increased by Concord.

THE

fast faggot is

not easily broken.

Force.
facit.
sit.
:

L'UNION

fait la

AUXILIA humilia firma consensus

UJ
!

Z
UNIUS dissensione
totus consensionis globus disjectus

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NEPOS.

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ADVERSITY

tries friends.

IN angustis amici boni apparent.

GOD

helps those

who

help themselves.
juvat.
[~

FORTES Fortuna

TIMIDI nunquam statuere tropseum.

SUIDAS ex Eupolide.

IL n'y a que les honteux qui perdent.

AUDACES Fortuna

juvat, timidosque repellit.

UJ

hti ipsi sibi sapiens prodesse nequts,

ne quidquam sapit.
CICERO, Ep.
lib.

vii.

IN circumstances of

difficulty,

there
it

is

no better company than a

resolute

heart

and

if

that should

less for

happen them who know how

an
effort to

to

fail,

should be aided by the Mind. Difficulties grow to help themselves. Submit not to the strokes of adlest

versity without

overcome them,
little

they

become

less

endurable.

Some
want of

persons help themselves so

in their troubles, that they increase them, for

knowing how

to

assistance to his

meet and bear them with courage. He who knows himself well, finds weakness in reflection. The man of judgment comes out of every

dilemma with

credit

and advantage

to himself.

WHERE THE KNOT

IS

LOOSE, THE STRING! SLIPPETH.

191

WHERE NECESSITY PINCHES,

P

HILST
I
I

give light to others,

decay

lofe

my

felfe, whilft I to others play

watch

And

How
And
I

night with an unfleepy eye, oft, before the day doth dawne, I dye oft am I by bluftering Boreas mockt,
all

lighting others,

my

felfe

am

chokt

If tumult, of a night afTailing be,

am What

To

employ'd, no reft, no peace for me moft of men neglect, that I obferve, fuccour others, though my felfe mould ftarve
:

Law

but not of nature, which directs

All of themfelves to have the prime refpects.

Codrus the King,

his

Country to defend,
fpend
;

Much
0!
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like a Prodigall his life did

The

I h h h
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Pelican to feede her plumelefle brood, Doth lance her breaft, and ftraine her pureft blood,
.

The

watchfull fheepherd feldome feeing fleepe,

Directs, and keepes

from wolves

his ftraying sheepe

Even Chrift himfelfe, Did fufFer death, left

the Sonne of the moft Hie,

mortall

man mould

die.

D
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FARLIE'S Emblems.

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NOCEO, ALMS PROSUM

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BOLDNESS

IS
192

PRUDENCE.

SEMPER OB

INSIDIIS

CYNTHIA FLERE SOL.ET.

Dum

p/orat, vorat.

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WHILE SHE WEEPS, SHE DEVOURS.

a few days fince to

pay

dA-LLING A viiit
Her
She look'd

to

my
fill'd

miftrefs fair,

face quite

me

fo pale

with difmay, and wan with care.

That me,

fo full

of

life

and fong,

As was

her wont, thus fad

mould

be,

Made me

conclude, that fomething

or p'rhaps that

wrong

Had Had
VRIENT,

her befall'n

me

got fome

filly

doubts of me.

LET'ER OP;

MEN VINT'ER NOCH.

BEAUTE ET FOLIE SONT SOUVENT

Well, deareft love
!

but what

is

this

What

ails

what has occurr'd

?

to thee
!

Why
Art

then so cold
ill

not e'en one kifs

or difcontent with
thou'rt
it
ill

me
I

Nay, nay,
I

I'm fure

fee,

know

by thy drooping

eye,

Thou lookft not as thouVt wont on me, Come let me know, why then that figh
Speak, speak, did
I

?-

yet aught deny

reply,

But long

ftie

made me no

Though The more

ftill

me

figh'd,

and

could

fee,

faid,

the

more her eye

and turn'd from
I

Was
Z

fill'd

with

tears,

me

Until at length quite griev'd,

faid,

|"

Come Tell me

ceafe this

thy grief,

weeping fpeak then, donor be afraid;

I

If iilent thus,

how can

know
?

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Hi

In what to aid or comfort you

On
<

this

upon
this

my

arm

fhe laid

Her
Alas!

pretty hand, and

'tis

murm'ring low

(fhe fighing faid)

My

caufe of grief, fince

you
!

will

know

fad misfortune I have had

That
I've loft

e'er fo lucklefs I

could be

I'm fure

mail go

mad
to

That handfome

ring

you gave

me

Which

all

admir'd

who
is

us'd to fee.

And
The
I
I

then

Oh

woe

me

to-day,
I felt

While walking
Bracelet on
really

in the

Park,

my arm give way, thought my heart would

!

melt

look'd, and lo

the

diamond

clafp
I
!

Which held the ftring of pearls Had broken fomehow at the hasp You know what fplendid pearls
Well
!

wear,

they were
!

eight are loft,

do declare

EN COMPAQNIE.
194

FEMME
Oh
!

CROIT,

ET ANE MENE,

how shall I this loss repair 1 All thy best presents thus to lose I've scarce a jewel now to wear
!

And fifty pounds won't replace those When she had ended this lament,
Her
sobs and tears

came

fast

anew,

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And I, upon her grief intent, Knew neither what to say or do, And truth to say, 'twas vexing too.

>

When

How

A
J
,

was deep in thought, best her grief somewhat t' allay, Jeweller my notice caught,
just as I

Who
He

seem'd by chance

t'

have come that way

respect,

Greeting us both with

much

And To let me shew some rings to you And to my lady, something new
!

op'd his caskets to our view said Sir, p'rhaps you'll not object

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She, (so
5,

seem'd) her grief appeas'd At once, at sight of all his ware,

it

la-

costly

diamond

ring

first

seiz'd,
;

The

finest, largest
:

he had there

And
Of
l~

said

Eh

this is just the

kind
!

Had I but now a To buy me that

And,

ring that I have wish'd for so generous friend

!

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'twould soothe

my woe
too.

as she spoke, she kiss'd

me

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I,

mov'd

to see her mournful face,

;

Ask'd him the cost

and being
;

told,
,

Began I found

to bid for

it

apace

I'd just the

sum

in gold

IU

But nothing in the price would he Abate and she, with eyes still red, Look'd in my face so anxiously
!

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That

e'er I well

knew what

I said,

The
That

ring

was bought, and money paid.

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I'd

been cheated to

Since then I found to

my face, my surprise
!

The

thing was plann'd to time and place, It was her Brother in disguise
I
!

'Twas her own diamond ring that

Had

bought and paid for

o'er

anew

So when you see your Mistress cry, Take heed, my Friends, what 'tis you do. But laugh or cry 'tis much the same,
They're both the sex's Winning Game.

SON CORPS NE SERA JAMAIS SANS PEINE.

LA FEMME FOLLE EST BRUANTE.

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HEN
I

that

my clammy
me

fubftance was entire,

fire
;

was an earthly nurfe of heav'n-bred

in afhes turne

Now
And
Loe
I

envious time doth

to a tedious fnuffe

my

light doth
this light

burne

have done, take thou

of mine;
is

I yeeld,

doe what thou

canft, the turne

thine.

So the Comedian having plaid

Gives place to others,

his

mare,

who

then actors are:

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King

his

weighty

office

having done,
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Dying

transfers his Scepter to his fonne

When

that the craiie Souldiers ftrength doth

faile,

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The younger muft

the

enemy

aflaile.

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Happy

is

he the evening of whofe dales

his death with ever-living bayes.

Doth crowne
h 2 h
or

FARLIE'S Emblems.

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A FOOLISH WOMAN
196

IS

CLAMOROUS.

BETTER BEND THAN BREAK.

Cedendo Victor abibis.

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THOU MAY'ST CONQUER,

Reed you
fee,

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HAT
Or upon
That
Is

the (lender

Chafd and

driven by the blaft,

Should not foon uprooted be,

the waters caft
;

fo frail a thing in form not quickly borne away,

Rent
Is

by the ftorm, a wondrous thing, you fay

to tatters

FLECTI NON FRANGI.

197

HE THAT ENDURETH,
Since fo oft the ftately

IS

NOT OVERCOME.

Oak,

Tow'ring upward
Is

to the fkies,

uprooted by the ftroke, E'en defpite its ftrength and

fize

Strange as this

may feem

to thee,
rife,

'Tis with wife inftruction

And

imports how men may be

Victors in the ftorms of Life.

Things of lowly growth and height

Have
Feel

but

little

weight to bear

And, whate'er
it

the tempeft's might,

in diminifh'd

mare

Lefs expos'd to every wind Than the lofty foreft trees,

.

Humbler
That
is

plants a quiet find

feldom known to

thefe.

Fragile though the

Reed appear

To
Yet
CQ
I

refift

fo fierce a blaft,

it

hath no need to fear;

gale
is

For when once the

Lifting then
Still
its

paft,

0)

head anew,
o'er fen

unharm'd,

and lake,
true,

Proves the antient maxim

"That which

bends, doth- feldom break."

A UREAM
Sordibus

quisquis mediocritatem

Diligit, tutus caret obsoleti

tecti,

caret invidenda

Sobrius aula,

HORACE,
FELIX, mediae quisquis turbse Parte quietus, aura stringit
Littora tuta, timidusque mari

lib.

ii,

Od.

10.

Credere cymbam, remo terras

Propriore
legit.

SENECA, Agamem.
intra

CREDE

mihi, bene qui latuit, bene vixit, et Fortunam debet quisque manere suam.

OVID.

L.IQHT

BURDENS BRAK NAE BANES.

198

YIELDING STAYS
REBUS
in adversis facile est
ille

NA/AR.

contemnere vitam,

Fortiter

facit qui

miser esse potest.

;

In adverse times,

But nobler

far,

'tis easy of life's burdens to complain with fortitude to suffer, and sustain.

THE gods take pleasure oft when haughty On their own Pride erect a mighty fabric,
By
slightest

mortals

means

to lay their towering

schemes
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OIL
THOUGH
plung'd in
let
ills,

Low

in the dust,

and teach them they are nothing. THOMSON. and

exercis'd in care,
:

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Yet never

the noble

mind despair

When

press'd

by dangers, and beset by

foes,

U.

The gods their And when our

By

timely succour interpose ; Virtue sinks, o'erwhelm'd with

relief.

grief,

unforeseen expedients bring

PHILIPS.

STORMS

often

fell

the stately oak,

High mountains

feel the thunder's stroke

And

lofty tow'rs,

when winds

assail,

^ H

In their resistance less prevail Than doth the reed upon the shore,

UJ

Which

rises

when

the storm

is

o'er.

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Confidoj conquiesco.

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Meek
!

Source of every good, and every joy, resignation felt without alloy ;

CD

Jehovah from whose ever bounteous store, Mercy, and joy, untainted blessings pour ;

j
^

Who

bidst us ask,

and asking not amiss,

55

Convey'st an heavenly, in an earthly bliss ; Whose hand protects us, and whose eye pervades,

Whose promise cheers us, and whose grace persuades Though thron'd on high, where blessed spirits bow, And blissful saints sublimest raptures know
:

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r <

Yet stooping low as earth, our prayers are heard, Our wants reliev'd, and all our sorrows cheer'd
:

Alike thy fondness to thy creatures shew'd In what's withholden as in what's bestow'd.

Then

let

me

pause

and

if

presumptuous thought
grieves at aught
that I
;

My humble state bewails, or O soothe with calm content,

Thy
gifts

may

share
are.

with grateful heart, whate'er they

Anon.

THE END MAKES

199

ALL.

EQUAL.

HIQH BIRTH

IS

A POOR DISH ON THE TABLE.

thus

my

light nights fable filence glads,

Making

a cheerefull

roome

in

midnight mads
fitter,

If Gold'n-like Phoebus and his filver

He

in the day, fhee in the night

doth

glitter

What thought-furpamng
Q:

light then mail that be,

fee
?

When we
Sooner

in

Heaven Empyrean God mail

world hold
in

h
(0
o:
III

thoil canft the

thy hand,
;

Or
Q. GL

in a mell containe the glaffie ftrand

tell

Than

how

glorious

is

the light of
Stars,

Heaven,
and Planets feven
:

D
ill

That dark'ns the Sunne, Moone,

This onely
tell
:

it

is

I h

not Phoebus light,

Nor
That

Phoebes, nor the fpangles of the night.

light

which tongue cannot, nor mind defcry,

fee,

Once malt thou

fupreame Deity.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

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PARVIS

COMPONERE MAGNA

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COMPARE SMALL WITH

ALL'S

WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

WHO BEGINS AMISS ENDS

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AMISS.

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GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WOOL.

I

^EREIN
To
Another

we

fee a

fomewhat novel Sight,

invite
:

which the Reader's notice we

One -man doth

fhear a Sheep, and ftrange to fee,

in

Pig Let us confider what

{hears a

company.
leflbn

this thing

Perchance therefrom fome

may mean we may glean.

;

Believes he

He, who the Pig doth knows full

fhear, the fenfelefs lout,

well what he's about

VEEL GESCHREEUWS, EN L.UTTEL

2OI

WOL_.

DON'T LEAVE THE HIGH ROAD FOR A SHORT CUT.

And
that

when done,

to

him there

will accrue

By far the greater profit of the The Pig's the heavier! beaft he Has thicken1 fat, and much the
But the unruly brute,
Is

two.
thinks, no

doubt,
;

longeft fnout

like all his kind,

at all inclin'd

hard to manage, nor

To yield fubmiflive to his treatment new, And gives his Shearer roughim work to do.
Rending the air with mrilleft, piercing mrieks, He kicks and ftruggles, twifts about and fqueaks

With
<

fuch untiring ftrength and energy, That all the neighbours round look out to fee

Or gather near to afcertain aright The real meaning of fo ftrange a

fight.

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He
I,.

very fmall, For in the place of Wool, what is't he gains

turn

mortly finds

his profit

Now
Z

we

to our friend
lies

who mears

the Sheep
;

Unlike the Pig, he

as

though alleep

He

wreftles not, he neither kicks nor mrieks,

In gentle tones the Shearer to him fpeaks, And moves at will the (Hears o'er every part,

Z
(0

Nor

fears a
all

motion that

his will

may

thwart.

To
The Not
His

men's eyes who watch the procefs here, labour's eafy and the gain is clear
:

fcrubby briftles, lap not only, but his bafket full, Atteft which Shearer hath the better gains,
as to profit
life

but of

fineft

wool

Both

and to

gift

of brains.

'Tis thus in

we not

unfreqxient fee,

How

fome

Men

labour long and wearily,

T' achieve a purpofe which they have in view, Yet lofe their labour and the object too
;

The

A
In

while that others eafily attain kindred purpofe, with completeft gain.
all

men

do, fo
that

much on

tact depends,

That where

fails,

fuccefs but rare attends;

RECKON WITHOUT YOUR HOST.

202

DO THE LIKELIEST AND HOPE THE BEST.

That which
That which
is is

well confidered belt iucceeds well conducted fureft fpeeds

:

Hence who

in Shearing

would no

profit lack,
;

Should choofe a beaft with wool upon its back Confider well all he would take in hand,

Nor mix

with matters he don't underftand

What
What's

one
fit

Man
for

does, another fails to

-fit

do

me, may not be

for you.

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Q.

te wijs 'kan

niet beginnen,
;

Al te geek kan niet versinnen Tusschen mai, en tusschen vroet, Wint men wel het meeste goet.
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moet wagen

LL

Die wil bejagen.

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dit

Hoe

en gint geduetig schroomen, konnen die tot riickdom komen

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GATO guantato non
'T
prese mai sorci.

wayen, stil zijn, vloeyen, of ebben, Die niet en waegt en sal niet hebben.

MACH

0)

SUMPTUM
RIEN ne

facial oportet is qui

lucrum

quaerit.
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s'acquiert sans aventure, et rien se conserve sans Industrie.

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CHI guerda

a ogni piuma,

non

fa

mai

letto.

SONDER wagen

niet vergaren, niet bewaren.

Sender wijsheyt

DIE elcke veer

wil sien en raken,

Hoe kan

die oyt een

bedde maken

Qui

na' guerre,

N'a guerre.

NERINGH en
Qui perd
le

is

geen
perd

erf.

sien,

le

sens.

WHO DOES TOO MUCH OFTEN DOES

203

LITTLE.

WHO PROVES TOO MUCH PROVES

NOTHING.

Light up to Heav'ns Manfions

ftill

doth move,
;

Seeking

his native place

of

reft

above

But being
It ftoopes

ty'd in

bondage to

this frame,
:

to feeke his food, and feed his flame

So

ftill

it

finkes

downeward,

untill

it

turne

Into a fnufte, and afhes ceafe to burne.

My
But

mind,
the

know

not how, longeth to

flye,

Unto

Heavenly Courts and Saphire

its

fky,

ftill

plung'd, fo to the body bound,

:

That
UJ o:

its

compel'd to grovell on the ground

its

Thus

cralling for
tafting Lote,

food

my

foule can fret,

forget.

And
U. LU

his

Country doth

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DRIVE THE NAIL THAT WILL. GO.

204

THE EMPTY CASK MAKES THE MOST SOUND.

Krepel wil altHdt
voor
dan<en>

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CRIPPLE WILL ALWAYS LEAD

THE DANCE.

CROSSING

o'er a Village green,

Once
lads

faw a pleafant fcene

lafles

Country

and

gay,

Dancing on the
'Twas a pleafant

firft

of

May,
;

Singing, fhouting,

full

of glee

fight to fee

How
To

they danc'd the May-pole round, the Bagpipe's merry found.

THE WORST WHEEL CREAKS MOST.

205

AN UNPLEASANT GUEST
When the Piper mrilleft play'd, Greater was the noife they made
And
not one but feem'd to be
jollity.
all

Almoft mad with But among them

was one

Who
He,

in noife

the reft outdone,

the leader of the game,

Was
As

both bandy-legg'd and lame, With a club-foot of fuch fize,

quite
fo
fill'd

me

with furprife,

That
So

clumfy fhaped a thing Should be leader of the ring.

it

was

ne'erlefs,

and he
:

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Firft in everything would be Whatfoe'er was piped or fung,

It

Cripple's voice the loudeft rung.

Nimble though young Hans might

Great though Claes'
agility,

be,

And though
/R

Jordan knew the way

Smarteft things to

Tryn

to fay,

Whether jump, joke, ring or Cripple will eclipfe them all.

bawl,

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But, as on that Village green, Juft the fame is elfewhere feen
:

For

in

Town-life

much

the fame,
:

Cripple oft will lead the game Though to limp is all he can, Cripple is a clever man, And whatever may befall, Cripple muft be firft of all. Is it not a curious thing,

When
That

thereto our thoughts

a mallow- pated fool

we

bring,

Juft efcaped from boarding fchool,

Wanting mereft common

fenfe,

Full of prate and vain pretence,

IS

AS WELCOME AS SALT TO A SORE EYE.

206

MORE FRIENDLY THAN WELCOME.

Is the firft to

have

his fay,

And, unalk'd, will With opinions and

lead the
conceits,

way

Where the world-wife hefitates ? Would you know whence this

'Tis that

derives

wifdom flower drives

Wife men ever cautious weigh That which they may have to
Give opinions ne'er by guefs,

h
fay
;

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Nor

unafk'd their thoughts exprefs But a Fool, all hafte that he

be,

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Something may be thought to Do or fay, be what it may,

Will
in all things lead the

I h

way.

Hence
" Fools

the faying doth derive,

are they

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And
LU

its

well

who fafteft drive," known proverb twin,

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"

Cripple will the dance begin."

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imperitise pedissequa est Impudentia, et inanis jactatio. At initium Sapientiae, imperitiae suae agnitio. Spes est melior de stulto, quam de sapiente in oculis suis. Arab. Adag.

T7ATALIS

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Qui

plus balbutiunt, plus loquuntur.

lutter,
LU

L'ABBATU veut tou jours

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111

GODT beware my voor jemant

die

maer een boeckrken gelesen

HOE

slimmer timmer-man, hoe meerder spaenders.

geest
:

a.

VEEL roemen melt een dommen Een ydel vat bomt aldermeest.

Hoe
EEN penning
C'EST
la plus

slimmer

wiel,

hoe meer het

raest.

in

den spaer-pot maeckt meer geraes dan

roiie

als

hy vol

is.

meschante

du

chariot, qui

mene

le

plus grand bruit.

In another sense.

QUANDO la cornemusa e When the bag-pipe's full

STULTUM, quam semi-stultum

piena,
it

commincia a sonare.

begins to sound.

ferre, facilius est.

Ben-Syra.

A FOOL WHO HOLD3 HIS TONQUE PASSES FOR WISE,

207

A FULL SACK PRICKS UP ITS EARS.

wretch unworthy of thy infamous name,

Burne not

this facred

Church, to

raife

thy fame

For though twas Yet ought

Truft
it

built

by Heath'ns impiety,
:

not be thus deftroy'd by thee

is

me

impiety every where

nought,
:

And

Heath'ns their heathen profanenefle dearly bought

Let Tolofe gold, and Delphus robbery,

And Hammons
It's

fandy

ire

this teftifie

thine, not
facrifice,

my

default, for I

was made

For

and to make Creatures glad.

fo harmelefTe

Nothing

and

fb

good can

be,

Which may

not hurt,, by mans impiety.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

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A FOOL WILL HAVE HIS FLING.

208

G.LI

DENARI SONO SPIRITI FOLLETTI.

et

Feu, Toux, Amour,

Argent ne

se cachent longuement.

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FIRE,

COUGH, LOVE, AND MONEY, ARE NOT LONG CONCEALED.

HIS Candle
I

would carry
in

fo
fee

That neighbours cannot

gleam of Light that may Reveal a glimpfe of me;

if I

aught

For

can,

no one
I

will

watch

Me

then, and

may go

ENIM BENE CELET

209

AMOREM

DAER DE SCHAT
Where'er
I
lift,

IS,

IS

MET HERTE,

without the fear

That any one will know. But {till, in fpite of all I do,
I

fear the light

ftill

is

feen

Its rays

ftream thro'

all

the holes
;

And
I

Lanthorn's chinks between

care I take, howe'er

Whatever

ftrive to

fhade

it

o'er,

Some gleams pierce thro' The fide, or thro' the

behind, or at
door.

My
|L

neighbour's very old, and as Old people often are,

He's very much afflicted with A cough, and bad catarrhe

But

ne'erthelefs,

ftrange though

it

feem,

As ev'ry one muft own, The good man has a great

-.!

diflike

To

lie

at night alone.

He's courting a young maiden now,

And

while he's fo engaged,

He
I-

ftrives his beft to ftop the

'twill
:

cough,-

But

And To make
The

not be afluag'd while he fits and looks his beft,

his courtlhip fure,
lafs,

fprightly

tho' ftriving all

She can to look demure, Says, that is not the Mufic a

Young Maiden's

heart to gain,

And

deep Alone, and not complain But if a Wife he's bent to have,
:

bids

him

reft

content to

The
Is

beft thing he can do,

his

one of

own age

to choofe,

Who

has a bad cough too. fellow who to gain his bread,

errands here and there,
a purfe well
in the
fill'd
:

Runs

Found recently, With ducats,

Square

EN DE HANDT

IS
2IO

BY DE SMERTE,

HOE DATJE GELT OF LIEFDE SLUYT,

With joy
elate

he took

it

home,
:

And

to his
!

Wife he

faid
!

Look here dear Trijn Our fortune now is made

!

I've
!

found a prize

But you you muft not breathe a word So mind you what you do
!

No No
But

one, Trijn, fave yourfelf, muft aught

this

Of

good Wind-fall know

longer
I

now with meflages

;

Will

run here and there

like a

And Thy

Burgher live at eafe, have the beft of cheer

!

Therefore

ftitch

thou

this purfe infide

fleeve,

or elfe fomewhere.

and with an oath Trijn fwore me would, To take the beft of care.
But,

mark e'en from that very The Wife began to fpend;

!

<(

time,

Q
l_

Drefs

fine,

prate large,

and

treat or this
;

Or

that dear-goffip-friend
too, he will

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The Man,
With

so no more
;

mefTages

not he

Such paltry jobs he fays are quite Beneath his dignity.

The Daughter, me is drefs'd as The babe put out to nurfe,

'Tis
!
!

fine

wondrous ftrange but money Will ftop within the purse

prifoner made, within a cell, that he

ne'er

At length the The man is

truth gets wind, and lo

And mourns Had left an honeft trade. The fprightly Trijn in forrow
Her
foolish fpendthrift-riot

blames

And all becaufe the money would Not reft in peace and quiet.

MET WYL, MET SAL, MET MOET'ER UYT.

211

THERE

IS

NOTHING SO SECRET

Y
I

Light

is

gone, yet hope doth

fhall

ftill

remaine,

That Light revived

gaine by

me

quick'n againe.

death, for fo I longer

laft,

Life fhall returne, after fome houres are paft.

All of us dye,

when

this

our threed
is

is

fpunne,

And
Our

cut, deaths droufie fleepe

is

then begunne.

After the ghueft

gone, the Innes decay,

;

body's turn'd to rubbifh and to clay

Untill the foule returning doe polTefTe

Our

bodies in Eternall happinefTe.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

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EVERY ONE SPEAKS AS HE

Elck Vogeltje singt soot gebeckt
is.

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EVERY BIRD SINGS ACCORDING TO

'IS

HIS BEAK.

an old Saying and a true,

That

ev'ry bird fings

its

own

note

Nor

can
as

it

But

any other do permits its beak and

throat.

Whene'er you rove

thro' field or

wood,

And

well attend with ears and eyes,

EVERY MAN

TO
213

HIS

TRADE.

EVERY ONE TO

HIS

OWN

CALLING,

You'll find the Proverb juft and good, Whate'er the bird in fhape or fize.

Thofe which a hook'd fharp beak have Are for the moft part Birds of Prey,

got,

And

bent alone on War, they wot No note of fong or minftrelfy.

rivers, lake or flood

Whene'er near

You chance From groping

Be

a flat-beak'd bird to meet,

in the flufh
is

and mud,

fure his voice

never fweet.

The

birds with longer flute-like beak,

Might more be thought to fong inclin'd, But in their thrumming note and fhriek,
jl

No
I

turn for melody you'll find.

as far as fize

therefore fay,

nor fear proteft, fhape of beak, That of all birds beneath the fkies,

And

h
I-

The

little

beaks they fing the

beft.

JE'en thus

among mankind, we fee, God gives the little now and then,
talent rare

A
!

and quality
gives not to bigger men.

'.

Which He

Of

little

beaks, what bird like he

night-thro'
fings
in

Which
That
^

wood and

dale

feather'd Soul
little

of Harmony,
!

That

And

beak, the Nightingale would you feek a tuneful throat,

You'll find throughout the feather'd throng,

The greater beak the harfher note, The fmaller beak the fweeter fong. As with the Fowls of earth and air, Not fo with Man he hath no beak,
But
in his

mouth beyond compare

!

The

nobler Godlike power to fpeak

And when he fpeaks in fpirit kind, What note of bird more foftly fweet To breathe the mufic of the mind, When kindred hearts and fpirits meet

AN D THE OX TO THE PLOUGH.

V

214

EVERY ONE SNEEZES AS <3OD PLEASES.

But when the mouth of

Man

outpours
breath,

The blaft of Parlion's wrathful The Lion not more fiercely roars

His angry note of blood and death Hence what befalls mankind between,

Comes from Where fits, by

a deeper fource exprefs'd,

ev'ry eye unfeen

But God's, the impulfe of the breaft. The Mouth commands, implores, decries, As moves the Heart, and gives thereto

The
Z

tone which moft

its

will

implies,

By

force or foftnefs to fubdue.

-fnpalr

PTpnrp VP wlir
GO

in

Kiff**r

fnnp

And
Beware,,

fiercely

wound

another's heart,

and learn to curb thine own,

it

Left

repay thee fmart for fmart.

his ears the

As " by

Afs

is

known,"

truth which no one can impeach,

as

The Man," " Is known

Proverbs long have mewn,

as truly

by

his fpeech."

Ill

DIE
>
ID

rede verrath das hertz.

Q
betrays the man.

The speech

Au
AL suono

chant cognoit on 1'oiseau, Et au parler le bon cerveau.

si

cognosce la saldezza del vaso.

Was

der

Man

kan,

Zeiget seine rede an.

NABAL nabala

idaber.

Turkish Adage.

Id

est,

STULTUS

stulta loquitur.

OUT

of the abundance of the heart the

mouth speaketh.

Matthew

xii.

34.

EVERY MAN

IN
215

HIS

WAY.

EVERY MAN

IN

HIS

HUMOUR.

ATURE

propounds a dilemme, chufe

muft,
:

Either to dye by light, or rot by ruft

If I feeke eafe and
reft,

then

lafinefle

Doth me confume with mouldy

But
if I

hoarinefle

love to mine with glorious ray,

flames in teares
I

Then by my
Z
o:

melt away.
I

Patience doth light'n this evill:

wim

to live

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In glorious light, and light to others give,

This

life

is

worne out with laborious

toile,

I h

And
Than

flothfull reft
it's

doth minde and body

fpoile

But yet
J
CD

better for to

dye a fparke,
to live in darke.

like a laizie

moule

FARLIE'S Emblems.

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EVERY MAN AS

HIS
216

BUSINESS

LIES.

A
On

STILL.

TONGUE MAKES A WISE HEAD.

c

ne prend Lievre au

tabourin^ ny Oiseau a la Tartevelle.

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HARES ARE NOT CAUGHT WITH BEAT OF DRUM,

NOR BIRDS WITH TARTLETS.

E
who by
beat of

drum would
his

catch a hare,
;

Took
For foon
as

the beft

means

purpofe to defeat
her

Pufs the noife began to hear,

With

ears erect

me

quickly

left

feat,

A MUCHA PAROLA OBRA POCA.

217

BIRDS ARE ENTANGLED BY THEIR FEET,

And making
Within
nimbly for the neareft wood,

its leafy cover got away, our friend and dogs, however good, Leaving But little chance their fleetnefs to display

So that

at eve, returning

from

his sport,

With empty game-bags and

dejected look,

He

found but

little

reafon to report
for not a hare he took
fits,
!

His

ftrange device
in

He who
Of
all

Council

or would attain
fee his plans fucceed,
reftrain,
:

Knowledge of aught, or
things
firft

his

tongue mould well

Nor

fpeak a

word beyond the

his

matter's need

For he who

lets

tongue

his wits outrun,

all

And

blabs his businefs into

it

men's

ears,

Will find

fpoil'd e'er yet

it

hath begun,

And reap no other harveft than their jeers. In Love affairs as in State Government, The Lover and the Prince fucceeds the beft,

Who

Silence keeps

upon

his

mind's intent,

Nor

e'en permits his purpofe to be guefs'd.

Nothing by

chatter ever yet was done,

Conquer): achiev'd, nor battle ever

won

But who with "

"
ftill

Wins

beft as

tongue Lover, and as Warrior too.

doth

his

aim purfue,

Ila'Xai

7-0

oiyav QapfJiaKov

/3\a/3;/e

*X.

-^SCHYL. Again.

Id

est,

SILERE p.ridem remedium damnis puto.

EXIMIA

est Virtus, praestare silentia est culpa,

rebus

At contra gravis

tacenda loqui.

OVID,

2 Art.

WEISE

Leut' haben ihren

Mund em

Herzen.

Alle vogels schouwen d'openbare netten.

CHI dice
non

tutto quel ch'egli sa, fa tutto quel

ch'egli

pub, e

mangia

cib

ch'egli

ha

gli resta niente.

AND MEN BY THEIR TONGUES.

218

G >SSIPS AND TALEBEARERS SET ON FIRE

Du weist, Glaub' nicht Alles das Du horest, Thue nicht Alles das Du kannst, Wisse nicht Alles das Du lisest.
SAG' nicht Alles das

MULTORUM
IN
ira- nihil

conscii pauca loquuntur.

decentius

quam cum

adest silentium. PLUTARCH, de Cohib. Ir&.

VESTIGATORIBUS
silentio

et

venatoribus

diurni

nocturnique

labores

essent

irriti,

si

non

priusquam venabulis et impetu, feras interciperent,

CAROL. PASCHAL.

Virt. et

Vit.

cap.

32.

Qui veut prendre

oiseau, ne faut l'effaroucher.

o
Silence
is

the

Sanctuary

of Prudence.
esteemed.

\ RESOLVE
(5

loudly expressed was never yet

much
if

He who

declares his
is

intentions, exposes himself to censure, and

he does not succeed he

doubly
(/)

unfortunate.

>
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A man
speak as
to

is

always in time to
;

speak, but not to refrain from speaking.

We

should

we make a Will

the fewer the

words the
little

less

ground

for

law-suits.

We
fail
f~l

should accustom ourselves thereto in matters of

moment,

so that
is

we may not

do so

in affairs of importance.

Whosoever

is

prompt

to speak,

always upon the

point of being conquered and convinced.

OL

A heart without a secret is an open letter. Where there is depth, the secrets lie deep for there must be great space, and a great vacuum, which will hold all that is thrown into it. Reserve derives from the great controul a man has over himself, and
;

'

(/)

that

is

a real triumph.

We

pay

tribute to all to

whom we
The

disclose

our

affairs.

The

security of Prudence consists in interior moderation.

things

we would do should

be kept to ourselves, and those which may be told may not be good to do.*

WE

should hear and see, but thereby be

silent.

GEACIAN'S Maxims.

S'IL y a

beaucoup

d'art

a parler,

il

n'y en a pas

moins a

se taire.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

It

was

said of

POPE ALEXANDER VI. and of

said,

his

Son

the

Due DE VALENTINOIS,

that the father

never did what he

and the son never

said

what he

did.

ALL.

THE HOUSES THEY ENTER.

*

219

SAY NOT

ALL.

THOU KNOWEST.

'HE
Let

carefull
fall

Matrone

in her cell below,

a groat, yet where fhe did not

know

Forthwith fhe tinnes a Light, then with her broome

She neatly fweepes the corners of the roome:

Thus from

the duft and darkenefle

when

fhe finds

it,

More

than the Phrygian Midas wealth fhe mindes

foule a divine fparke fince that
it

it.

Our

fell

Into Cimmerian darkenefle of this

cell,

The

foules true

knowledge doth appeare no more

Which goeth beyond Pygmalions richeft ftore. Then muft we light Cleanthes Lamp and find
By
ftudy, the loft treafure of our mind.

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

UJ

BELIEVE NOT ALL THOU HEAREST.

LITTLE CHIPS KINDLE A LARGE FIRECulex fodit oculum Leonis.

(0
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THE GNAT

STINGS
!

THE EYES OF THE

lift

LION.

come here and

ftrange I

to

me
;

FRIENDS Something
Should
it

would

relate

prove of ufe to thee,

That

will

me

well compenfate.

Though Though

fo ftrong the
fo full

Lion

be,

of Majefty,

LITTLE BROOKS MAKE GREAT RIVERS.

221

LITTLE BODIES HAVE GREAT SOULS.

Though
his eyes fo fiercely

gleam,

And

fo terrible

he feem

That no man, whoe'er he be, Can unmov'd his anger fee

;

Yet the

gnat,

And
Is fo

fo flight

though of limb withal,

feen

he's fo fmall,

wond'rous brave and keen,

oft
is

That the Lion

Fill'd
or

with dread as foon as he

!

in

Gnats perceives but two or three Yet the gnat doth not attack
Slyly, or behind his

h
LU

back

DO
LU

But,

firft,

like a gen'rous foe,

all

Scorning

advantage low,

When
Sounds

the Lion comes in fight,

his challenge to the fight
;

Z
Hi

And

forthwith bids
fiercest

h
11

him prepare
foe

All his

wrath to bear.

Z
0)

Nor doth he aflault his Where he leaft defence

Though
Like a Paladin of
old,
t'

can

mow

fo fmall, yet keenly bold,

h
LL

He
On

the Lion fcorns

arTail,
tail.

the flank or on the

Front to front in open fight, Heedlefs of the Lion's might, Headlong at his face he flies,

And
(0

attacks his rage-lit eyes.

Where

the Lion beft can fee

hoftility,

All his foe's

There the gnat,

his rage defpite, 'mid their Rufhing flaming light, the fount of fight Deeply ftings
;

Till half blind

and

mad

with pain,

The Lion

flees

acrofs the plain.

Let Arrogance by

this
its

be taught,
Strength and Size,

That whatfoe'er

LITTLE MISCHIEF, TOO MUCH

222

SMALL GAINS BRING GREAT WEALTH.

There's nothing with more danger fraught

Than what

is

little,

to defpife

There's neither

man nor

brute fo great

But, like the Lion pictur'd here, May learn to rue the wrath and hate

Of

that which feem'd too fmall to fear.

TNIMICUM quamvis humilem docti est metuere A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper. OVID.
LEO etiam minimarum avium
fit

Art.

pabulum.

CURTIUS.

UN
j

petit

homme

abat bien grand' chesne.

EEN

kleyn man, met een kleyn geweer, Velt wel een grooten boom ter neer.

_
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et formicse et

sua

bilis.

Habet

musca splenem.
MARTIAL,
fodit
i.

m
Ep.
4.

ET
UJ

pueri

nasum

rhinocerotis habent.
;

UJ

NE

despicias debilem
in

nam Culex
two a

oculum

leonis.

STRABO.

OQ

MOUSE

tyme maye

bite in

cable.
it

Old English Proverb.

Ibid.

2
m

TREAD a worm on
>.
QJ

the tayle,

and

wil turne againe.

TWAS
So

the

Mouse

that set the

ist

Lion

free.

Ibid.

WEN

der feind

wie ein omeiss,

far ein elephant.

halt ihn

doch

Q_
(I)

UN

petit

moucheron pique bien un grand

siet

cheval.

UJ

EEN Kat

wel op een Koning.

Kinge.

CAT maye looke

IL n'y a

at a
si

Old English Proverb.

si

grand, ni

sage,

Qui de

petit n'ait

bien dpmmage.

IL est bien petit qui ne peut nuire.

GESELLEN,

wilt

uw

wel beraden,

Hy

is

wel klein die niet kan schaden.

fol.

IL n'est pas sage qui n'a peur d'un

Es

ist

nicht an der grosse gelegen,

erliefT

Sonst

eine

kuh einen hasen.

dedans
;

GRANDE

Ville rien

Petite chose nuist souvent.

ANCHE

la

moscha ha

la

sua collera.

SMALL RAIN LAYS

223

A.

GREAT WIND.

DON'T DIVIDE THE SPOIL BEFORE THE VICTORY

IS

WON.

ONE And

candle difpels the darkenefle of the night,

many doe

refemble Phoebus light

One Sunne

illight'ns the
th'

round globe every where,

:

What way
If

horizon bounds the hemifphere

you ten thoufand thoufand Sunnes fhould

once,

fee

At

what a daylight would that be

Chrift amidft the clouds our

When

doome

shall plead,

When
Saints

Earth and Sea mall render up their dead,

more then

ftarres at

once mall mount on hye.

As

glorious Sunnes, to meete Chrift in the fkye.

That day mail

That
after that,

drive

away the

darkenefl'e fo,

no day mall darkenefle know.

FARLIE'S Emblems.

HOW GREAT A
LIGHT.

LITTLE

BIRDS MAY PICK A DEAD

224

LION,

TRY YOUR FRIEND ERE YOU TRUST

Amis
font

HIM.

comme

le

Melon

De

dix Jouvent pas un de bon.

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OF WHICH NOT EVEN ONE

choofing Friends,
it's

IS

FOUND IN PLENTY, GOOD IN TWENTY.

to ufe
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requifite

fN The
No
And

felf-fame care as

when we Melons choofe

three or four he tries;
this fruit,
fuit,

one in hafte a Melon ever buys,

his choice
till

Nor makes

oft indeed

when purchafing

Before the buyer can find one to

"TRY THE ICE

BEFORE YOU VENTURE ON

22.1

IT.
3

TRUST NOT A NEW FRIEND,

He's
e'en obliged
t'

examine half a

fcore,
is

And

p'rhaps not find one when his fearch Be cautious how you choofe a friend;

o'er.

For Friendmips

that are lightly made,

Have feldom any other end Than grief to fee one's truft
'

betray'd

h J

"DEPROEF uw
Beproef

vrient,

uw

sweert,

Dat

is

uw

groote schatten weert.

WHO
Q
UJ

Must prove

from mishap himself would guard, his Friend as he'd prove his sword.
le

LES amis sout comme

II

faut essayer plusieurs,

melon, pour rencontrer un bon.

n'est-il

LE compagnon ou
UJ

1'ami
1

qui

se

tourne a inimitie,
2.

pas une tristesse

qui

demeure jusque a

la

mort

Syrach. xxxvii.
tes

ESPROUVE
UJ

amis selon ton pouvoir. en 1'esprouvant,

Ibid. ix.

21.
te

Si

tu

acquiers

un ami, acquiers-le
7.

et

ne

fie

point

en luy

>

legerement.

Ibid. vi.

Kpt'vei <t'Xovs 6 KcupoS;

ws xpvcrov TO

irvp.

MENANDER.

Id

est,

AURUM
J J
''

probatur igne, amicus tempore.

As

Fire, of

Gold

is

e'er the surest test,

So Time doth prove the worth of Friendship

UJ

best.

THERE
'tis

is

nothing better

or.

more advantageous no

to

mankind than prudent Diffidence

the guard and preservation of our lives and

it
;

fortunes, our

own

security obliges us

to

without

it

there would be

caution, without which

no

safety

For

who can
whose
contradict.

secure himself of Man's heart, the tongue dissembles, ASTRY'S Saavedra Faxardo.
is

secrets

hid in the privatest corner of the breast, the eyes and all the motions of the body

THE
know
it?

heart

deceitful
xvii.
9.

above

all

things,

and

desperately

wicked

Who

can

Jeremiah

NOR AN OLD ENEMY.

226

TRUST NOT STILL WATER

False Judgment of the

Many.

FORTUNE now

To my

heart's

hope

gold, silver

and base

lead.
all

"Who
You What

chooseth me, must give and hazard shall look fairer, ere I give or hazard.
says the golden chest
?

he hath."

ha

let

me

see

"Who

chooseth me, shall gain what

What many men desire! Of the fool multitude, that choose by Show,
Not learning more than Which pries not to the

many men desire." That many may be meant

:

the fond eye doth teach

interior, but, like the martlet,

Builds in the weather on the outward wall,

^
LL

h
r
(0

Even
I

in the force

and road of

casualty.
desire,
spirits,

will

not choose what

I will

many men

^
\-*

Because

not jump with

common

x-

And

rank

me

with the barbarous multitudes.

SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of

Venice.

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BE not
in haste to

make new

friends,
is

nor to abandon those thou

hast.

SOLON.

<
THE
friendship of one wise

man

better than that of a host of fools.

DEMOCRITUS.

CONTRACT no friendships with persons of less worth than more harm than benefit from them. CONFUCIUS.
IF you desire to

yourself; you will derive

know
;

a man's sentiments towards you, consult

reveal
to

which

interests

you

his reply will

you

his

whole

him upon something heart, and whether he is

UJ

your friend or your enemy.

CD
!

PLATO.
;

not your friends at hazard ISOCRATES. friendship.

TAKE

attach

yourself only to

men worthy

of your

THE

friendship of the wicked

Ibid.

has no duration

but

Time worketh no change

in

the friendship of the good.

AMICUM

ita

habeas, posse ut

fieri

hunc inimicum
if

scias.

LABERIUS.

Be on such terms with your

your enemy.
IT
is

friend as

you knew

that he

may one day become

CATO.

better to untie, than to break a friendship.

exhibit
vices

OUR

friends sometimes
is

which have long been concealed.

The

best

thing then to be done not tear. CICERO.

to abate your intercourse gradually.

You should

unstitch, but

NOR A SILENT MAN.

227

TRUST MAKES WAY FOR TREACHERY,

fecret filence

of the night what's done

JN
And
That
I

Is truft to

me, concealed from the Sunne

Phoebus did Mars and Venus love betray,

turning backe did greater crimes bewray
I
:

What

doe

fee

when

witnefle
I

is

afleepe,

like

Harpocrates

clofely keepe.

Let mortals learne to rule

their

tongue by me,
fee.

What

lawfull fecret they

doe heare or

FARLIE'S Emblems.

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NOTHING.

TRUST NOT A GREAT WEIGHT TO A SLENDER THREAD.

228

EVERY ONE FOR HIMSELF AND GOD FOR US ALL.

Ogni Gallo ruspa a
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EVERY COCK SCRATCHES TOWARDS HIMSELF.

ENTLE
And how

Reader, would you

fee

Would you fomewhat

Life, depifted truthfully,

wifh to

know

things in this
this

World go
be,

Simple though

Emblem

In thefe bufy Fowls you'll find,

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSEL',

229

G^UO'

THE MARTIN.
3

SELF DO, SELF

Symbolifed moft faithfully, Type moft apt of Human Kind.

Well obferve how

ev'ry one,

Picking, fcratching here and there,

Looks

to felf,

and
his

felf alone,

Recklefs

how

neighbours
all

fare.

Not
Tells

a bird

among them

Shews another bird a

grain,
fall,
:

him where he faw one

aflifts,

Nor

that he

may

gain

Each, on

his fole profit bent,

Plies with

beak and claws apace

who, negligent, Lofe their chance, or mifs the place Poultry of the felf-fame mould,
Grafping, fnatching
all

Woe

to thofe

they can,

Have been found 'mong Young and Ever fince the World began.
Hence, young
Something
friends, if
in Life's

Old,

you would get

Scramble too,

Keep

a fharp look-out, nor let

Others match the grain from you.

sum egomet

mihi.

TERENT. And.

iv.

i.

WIE

brengt'er water tot sijn buer-mans buys, als sijn eygen buys brant

ELCK

wil

de boter op
selven, en

sijn

koeck hebben.
alien.

ELCK voor hem

Godt voor ons

CHACUN tire 1'eau a son moulin. CHACUN estudie pour soy. CHACUN tire a son profit.
QUISQUE suae casas. A LA Cour du Roy Chacun pour soy.

AIDE TOI, DIEU T'AIDERAS.

230

A'

WA'D HAE

A'

Es denckt

ein yeder in seinen Sack.

OGNI

grille grilla

se.

Ognun

tira 1'acqua al

suo mulino.

TUTTI vogano

alia galiota.
se.

Tirano a

OGNIUNO
LES vertus
se perdent

caccia con la rete al suo

fratello.

dans

1'inte'ret

comme

les fleuves se

perdent dans la mer.

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uw

111

Saecken met Verstant.

0)

A KING
,

the dwelling spacious

of England being at table in the house of one of his Courtiers, and finding and full of costly furniture and plate, although the owner

~
|-

had been

QJ

appointment he then held, the King became very desirous to learn from him how he amassed so much valuable property in so short a period assuring him at the same time that no
:

in but

very narrow circumstances previous to

his

to the office

fl)
j

mischief should
pressed,
said
:

come

to

him

if

he told the

truth.

Whereupon the

Courtier, thus

incontinently,
that he

that

he had always been a

it

man

of exceeding diligence

and industry

had constantly made

a rule to rise early in the morning, and

always looked after his to the King's business.

own concerns

first

Upon

this the

having completed which, he then attended King made answer that he should have just
;

minded the King's business, and then The Courtier forthwith assured the King that he had thereby never done his own. the least prejudice to his Majesty's affairs; for that he had only appropriated the time
done the very reverse
;

that he should have

first

>-

effected passed by others in sleep to the care of his own personal concerns; having before those his Office of duties to the he still who, having indulged in long which, got
sleep,

{j:

had got

to theirs,

and had neglected

their

own

affairs.

>
III

COLLIDE, non omni tempore messis

erit.

Vergader graen in uwe schuren, De Oegst en sal niet eeuwigh dueren.

Es

ist

alle tage Jagen-tag,

Aber

nit alle tage fange-tag.

faite

PROVISION

en saison,

Fait de bien a la maison.

SELF'S THE MAN.

231

EVERY ONE RAKES THE FIRE UNDER

HIS

OWN

POT.

HILST
No

theeves doe digge at middle of the night,

the works of darkenefle, not of Light
;

Working
But they

fooner through the

window they me fpy

and
fly.

affrighted turne their backes

ill-doers

This Light

no wayes can abide,

falfely hide.
all

Simply revealing, what they

There was

a time

when

in darkenefle lay,
;

Z
J

When
Then

mortals had a naturall night, no day

Satan that arch-theefe did range abroad,

;

Seeking in hearts and houfes his aboad

But

fince that Chrifts bright Starre

is

had mewne
flight.

his Light,

Great Pan

dead, the Devill

is

put to

FAR LIE'S Emblems.

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MALE FACIT

ODIT

LUCEM

AN EVILL-DOER HATETH
LIGHT.

MOST, TAKE ALL.

232

SHEW THE BEST

Schoon voor-doen

SIDE TO LONDON.
is

half verkocht.

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WELL

SET-OFF

IS

HALF
art

SOLD.
of wooing,
:

HO
And

would learn the

enfure the moft fuccefs

Or acquire the art of doing Winning things with moft addrefs; Need not learned volumes open,
Writers old, in foreign fpeech,

But may

fee

it

plainly fpoken
I

In the lefTon

now

teach.

WELL. BEQUN

IS
2.33

HALF DONE

WELL DONE OUTLIVES DEATH.

In your manner unpretentious, Yet, be diligent to fhow,

Without being too

fententious,

All the pleafing things you know.

While you

ftrive to pleafe

and ferve

all

To

attain the

end in view,

Well examine, and obferve all Without feeming fo to do.

If in

them you faults Shew not you thofe

if difficult to

difcover,
faults perceive;

But

fmother,

That

they're flight, let

them

believe.

By

this rule abide in all things,

And
Than
(0

you'll be efteemed the

in life

more,

Nothing

more

fuccefs brings

to hide your neighbour's fore.

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I
111

Or

in

wooing, or when married,

this
:

maxim ftill in mind Seldom Wedded Life mifcarried Where both fides were fomewhat
Bear

blind.

Shew your

brighter fide to
that

all

men,

And mew them

you

fee theirs,

Friends more readily you'll find then To advance your own affairs.

Who
To

moft

tafte

and judgment ufes

wares to view,

difplay his

Beft the Buyers eye feduces,

And

moft quickly

fells

them

too.

quacunque potes dote placere, place.

OVID.

OCCULE mendas, Quaque potes, vitium

corporis abde

tui.

Idem.

WEEL

IS

THAT WEEL DOES.

234

A GOOD BEGINNING
MULTA
viros nescire decet.
si

Pars

maxima rerum

Offendit,

non

interiora tegas.
:

Cui gravis oris odor, nunquam jejuna loquatur Et semper spacio distet ab ore viri.
Si niger, aut ingens, aut

non

sit

inordine natus
feres.

Deus

tibi,

ridendo maxima

damna

OVID.

Ante omnia tamen.

pRIM A
BRENGH

sit

in nobis

morum

tutela, puellae

Ingenio fades conciliante placet.

alles by,
lief,

Daer ghy uw

o frissche Jeught, door maken meught.

METTRE en
SCIPIO and
other great

evidence

et faire valoir les

bonnes

parties.

men

of antient and later times excelled in this useful art

to

one

which

Ovid

especially

recommends

the

attention

of

young

persons

as

fundamental rule of conduct.

IL

C'EST la raison pourquoy

les

gens d'Estat conseillent aux Princes de monstrer leurs

;

bonnes parties

(comme

ils

de dissimuler leurs imperfections imitant le bon Architecte, qui loge de son bastiment. disent) ses plus beaux materiaux au frontispice
et

JEAN MARNIX aux Rers.

Polit.

Res. 5.

AENSIEN doet Vryen.

Het oogh

is

leydtsman van de min,

in.

En vreught voor eerst de lusten Wat het ooge niet en siet,

Dat begeert het
herte niet.

Ex

aspectu nascitur amor.

Z < I

ASEYTA un cepo
Parecera mancebo.

ACCOUSTRE un
OCULI sunt

tronq,
in

il

semblera un jeune adolescent.

amore duces.
qui plaist

PROPERT.

2.

El.

12.

CE

Est a

demy

faict.

WAS

das aug nicht siht, Beschwehrt das hertz nit.

'EK TOV tlaopav yap ytverai aV^pwVots epai.

Id

est,

Ex

intuendo nascitur hominibus amor.

vidi, ut perii
!

Ut

VIRGIL.

MAKES A GOOD ENDING.

235

POLICY GOES BEYOND STRENGTH,

lengthe

my
I

Store of Light hath reach'd

its

ende,
;

Nor have

wherewithal more light to lende O

all

Greafe fpente, wick burned and fmoake

pafled away,
?

Of

Light berefte, what bootes

I

it

here to stay

Yet while
It is to

am

permitted to remaine,

mewe

that I

may

ferve againe

In patient
UJ

Until in

Hope I therefore byde my time, me freme Light the Fates do trimme

reft

&
Z

And

if

the greafe and wick be equale goode

I

To
h

holde fuch Light

of willinge moode.

For while

to ferve, the

means

to us

is

given

Who

willinge ferve, mail have their faults forgiven.

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SMOOTH WORDS MAKE SMOOTH WAYS.

236

PERSEVERANCE ACHIEVES SUCCESS.

Geen Boom en valt ten eersten Slag.

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ONE STROKE FELLS NOT AN OAK.

Ifl

friend,

why then
diftress,

fo fad, I pray

Thy
I

woeful mien and looks betray

Some deep

fome poignant
relief.

grief,

To

which

fain

would bring
crofs-grain'd,
ill

Methinks fome

haughty maid

Hath

thine affection

repaid,

FAINT HEART NEVER

237

WON

FAIR LADY.

NINETEEN NAY-SAYS
Treated thy
fuit

O'

A MAIDEN

with cold difdain,

all

And

bade thee from

!

hope
I

refrain
I

Yes, yes

Young man,

fee

know
;

'Tis that which thus dejects thee fo

down Full many other men have known A like repulfe, when firft they ftrove
But never be
like this caft
!

To
It

win a wav'ring woman's love. Come, come aroufe thee from this mood
!

ill

befits
fret,

thee thus to brood,

And
0)

For

lofs

and fume fo woebegone of what may yet be Won

Caft but thine eye upon this tree,

And
The
But

therefrom thou fhalt quickly be

Inftrucled in the art to gain

one who hath caufed thy pain. This tree, which now fo lowly lies,
fair

CO

lately lifted to the flues

j
in
fize,

Its lofty

crown

and though
fo
fair

And
Its

girth,

and grain

and found,
!

pride is proftrate on the ground Thou feem'st to wonder how 'twas done

;
ffl

How
m
I >

that alone the

arm of one

So great a conqueft. could achieve ? Lift then to me, nor longer grieve For as that oak was fell'd, fo thou

Thine haughty
I

fair

one's heart may'ft bow.

Arm'd with an axe of

faw yon fturdy

trenchant
deal,

fteel,

Woodman

In long repeat, ftroke after ftroke Againft this mamve heart of oak
Till with the oft repeated

blow

He

brought the

foreft

monarch low.

Learn thou from

this,

young man, no
all

lefs,

How
The

truthful

from

time was held

:

pithy

Maxim
firft

for Succefs

" At the

ftroke no tree

is

fell'd."

ARE HA'F A GRAUT.

238

JHE

WHO WOULD
my

REST, MUST WORK.

Lover
fo fucceed,

like, nor one repulfe bemoan, Succefs, of Perfeverance is the meed

;

Would'ft thou, Do thou the

friend, as

"The

conftant drop will wear the hardeft ftone."

NON uno

ictu dejicitur quercus.

OMNIA conando
MIT
VEEL

docilis solertia vincit.

viel Streichen

wird der Stockfisch

lind.

slagen

maken den
irdvra.

Stock-vis murw.
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diligentise subjiciuntur.

DILIGENCE passe Science.

PAR

est fortuna labori.

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THE
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wise and active conquer difficulties

to attempt

By daring

them

sloth
toil

and

folly

Shiver and shrink at sight of

and hazard,

And make

th'

impossibility they fear.

ROWE.

CD

Q
Perseverance achieves Success.
"JV/TANY are the sayings of the Wise, In ancient and in modern books

enroll'd,
;

<
if;

HI

Extolling Patience as the truest fortitude

And

to the bearing well of all calamities,

frail
life,

All chances incident to Man's

Consolatories writ

With studied argument, and much persuasion Lenient of grief and anxious thought
;

fraught,

But with

th'

afflicted, in

his pangs, their

sound

Little prevails, or rather

seems a tune

Harsh, and of dissonant Unless he feel within

mood from

his complaint

Some

source of consolation from above,

Secret refreshings, that repair his strength,

And

fainting spirits uphold.

MILTON.

FIR^T OBSERVE, AND THEN DESIRE.

239

OUR THEME RELATES TO MAN.

BEING ADMONISHED LET US

FOLLOW BETTER

THINGS.

BOUND BY

^OS&REM
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