. 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 . (S<&-iS<^ BUT IT «r-S^ EVERY ONE SPEAKS AS HE IS. Elck Vogeltje singt soot gebeckt EVERY BIRD SINGS ACCORDING TO HIS BEAK. IS an old Saying and a true, That evry bird fings its own note;Nor can it any other do But as permits its beak and throat. Wheneer you rove thro field or wood, And well attend with ears and eyes. EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN CALLINa, Youll find the
. 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 . (S<&-iS<^ BUT IT «r-S^ EVERY ONE SPEAKS AS HE IS. Elck Vogeltje singt soot gebeckt EVERY BIRD SINGS ACCORDING TO HIS BEAK. IS an old Saying and a true, That evry bird fings its own note;Nor can it any other do But as permits its beak and throat. Wheneer you rove thro field or wood, And well attend with ears and eyes. EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN CALLINa, Youll find the Proverb juft and good, Whateer the bird in fhape or which a hookd fharp beak have got, Are for the moft part Birds of Prey,And bent alone on War, they wot No note of fong or near rivers, lake or flood You chance a flat-beakd bird to groping in the flufh and mud. Be fure his voice is never birds with longer flute-like beak. Might more be thought to fong inclind,^ But in their thrumming note and fliriek, Q D l_ No turn for melody youll find. n ffl I therefore fay,—as far as fize 0 And fhape of beak,—nor fear protefl:, Z Z That of all birds beneath the flcies, > The little beaks they fing the befl:. _ Een thus among mankind, we fee,
Size: 1581px × 1581px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorcatsjacob15771660, bookcentury1800, booksubjectemblems
