. 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 . iEWARE, FROTH IS NOT Wnil UNWILLING HOUNDS ITS HARD lOCATCH HARES. « f OT far from here there hvcs a Maid,JM Who, as Ive heard by many bring a good dowr of gold and landTo him on whom (he bcftows her hand. A buxom, cheerful, hurtling lafs, She leads her fathers kine to grafs. NO STRIVING AGAINST THE STREAM. HAPPY IS THE WOOING THAT IS NOT LONG IN DOING. • She bakes and she brews, she spins a
. 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 . iEWARE, FROTH IS NOT Wnil UNWILLING HOUNDS ITS HARD lOCATCH HARES. « f OT far from here there hvcs a Maid,JM Who, as Ive heard by many bring a good dowr of gold and landTo him on whom (he bcftows her hand. A buxom, cheerful, hurtling lafs, She leads her fathers kine to grafs. NO STRIVING AGAINST THE STREAM. HAPPY IS THE WOOING THAT IS NOT LONG IN DOING. • She bakes and she brews, she spins and she sews, And all a good housewifes duty knows. Nimble and neat of limb is she, Good temperd too as a lass can be ; With pouting red lips, and a cheek that glows With the freshest hues of the opening rose : 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 Id lose no time. I wish our Claes, that son of mine, Would but to my advice incline, And court her close like a sensible lad. While she and her dowr are yet to be had : For oft I ve heard her father say : Whoeer she choose, hell not say nay; But give her a well stockd far
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