. 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 . BEWARE, PROTH IS NOT ^. TOUT PAR AMOUR, RIEN PAR FORCE. Met onwillige honden ist quaet ha^en WITH UNWILLING HOUNDS ITS HARD TOCATCH HARES. OT far from here there lives a Maid,Who, as Ive heard by many bring a good dowr of gold and landTo him on whom fhe beftows her buxom, cheerful, buftling leads her fathers kine to grafs, NO STRIVING AGAINST STREAM. HAPPY IS THE \A/O
. 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 . BEWARE, PROTH IS NOT ^. TOUT PAR AMOUR, RIEN PAR FORCE. Met onwillige honden ist quaet ha^en WITH UNWILLING HOUNDS ITS HARD TOCATCH HARES. OT far from here there lives a Maid,Who, as Ive heard by many bring a good dowr of gold and landTo him on whom fhe beftows her buxom, cheerful, buftling leads her fathers kine to grafs, NO STRIVING AGAINST STREAM. HAPPY IS THE \A/OOINa THAT IS NOT LONG 1 SI DOING. She bakes and she brews, she spins and she sews,And all a good housewifes duty and neat of limb is she, Good temperd too as a lass can be ;With pouting red lips, and a cheek that glowsWith the freshest hues of the opening rose :No burgher maid in Leyden townCan 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 court her close like a sensible lad, While she and her dowr are yet to be had :For oft Ive heard her father say : Whoeer she choose, hell not say nay ; h 0) < 0 But give her a well stockd farm and land,A
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