. Moral emblems : 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 . Sll_ NE VOUS BRULE, ll_ VOUS NOIRCIT. BE MERRY AND PLAY, BUT CHASTELY. HE cunning Hedgehog, with inftinftive art,Li ball-like fhape, rolled up, upon the open hole-like mouth, knows well his part,Tentrap the giddy mice that fport lo ! when one, more prying than the near, to peep within a hole fo nice. RIRE SANS aiVE A SPRAT TO CATCH A MACKREL. The Hedgehog
. Moral emblems : 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 . Sll_ NE VOUS BRULE, ll_ VOUS NOIRCIT. BE MERRY AND PLAY, BUT CHASTELY. HE cunning Hedgehog, with inftinftive art,Li ball-like fhape, rolled up, upon the open hole-like mouth, knows well his part,Tentrap the giddy mice that fport lo ! when one, more prying than the near, to peep within a hole fo nice. RIRE SANS aiVE A SPRAT TO CATCH A MACKREL. The Hedgehog fnaps him up with eager zeft,And moufey pays for peeping, in a trice !Let caution guide your fport, be what it may ;For where expedled leaft, feme fnare may lay :And Venus boy was painted blind of yore,For that in darknefs he worked mifchief more. ZUJ0< FoRiioSAS intueri jucundissimum, tangere autem et tractare sine periculo non licet. [? Plutarch. Amor latebricolarum hominum corruptor.—Plaut. Trin. Detur aliquid stati, sit adolescentia liberior, non omnia voluptatibus ilia in hoc genere praescriptioque moderatioque teneatur, parcat juventusQ pudicitiae suce, ne spoliet alienam, ne probrum castis, labem integris,
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