. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . TRUST NOT A GREAT WEIGHT TO A SLENDER THREAD. 228 [VERY ONE FOR HIMSELF AND GOD FOR US ALL. Ogni Gallo ruspa a fe. JJ Z< CO I 0 h UJ h< UJ Ih 0)UJ I 0) z oruj > UJ. EVERY COCK SCRATCHES TOWARDS HIMSELF. f/iff ENTLE Reader, would you fee— IJj Would you fomewhat wiih to know Life, depidled truthfully, And how things in this World go ? Simple though this Emblem be, In thefe bufy Fowls youll find, S* EVERY MAN FOR HIMSEL, G^UO THE MARTIN. -S*© 229 3 N S^SELF DO, SELF ^ Symbolifed mod faithfully, Type m
. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . TRUST NOT A GREAT WEIGHT TO A SLENDER THREAD. 228 [VERY ONE FOR HIMSELF AND GOD FOR US ALL. Ogni Gallo ruspa a fe. JJ Z< CO I 0 h UJ h< UJ Ih 0)UJ I 0) z oruj > UJ. EVERY COCK SCRATCHES TOWARDS HIMSELF. f/iff ENTLE Reader, would you fee— IJj Would you fomewhat wiih to know Life, depidled truthfully, And how things in this World go ? Simple though this Emblem be, In thefe bufy Fowls youll find, S* EVERY MAN FOR HIMSEL, G^UO THE MARTIN. -S*© 229 3 N S^SELF DO, SELF ^ Symbolifed mod faithfully, Type moft apt of Human obferve how evry one, Picking, fcratching here and there,Looks to felf, and felf alone, Recklefs how his neighbours a bird among them all Shews another bird a grain,Tells him where he faw one fall, Nor affifts, that he may gain : II Each, on his fole profit bent, W Plies with beak and claws apace; 5 Woe to thofe who, negligent, I Grafping, matching all they can DROXIMUS sum egomet mihi.—Terent. And. iv. i. Wie brengter water tot sijn buer-mans huys, als sijn eygen huys brant ? Elc
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