. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . ^S^BUT \T ^S EVERY ONE SPEAKS AS HE IS. Elck Vogeltje singt sotft gebeckt EVERY BIRD SINGS ACCORDING TO HIS BEAK. TIS an old Saying and a true,That evry bird rings its own note ;Nor can it any other do But as permits its beak and you rove thro field or wood, And well attend with ears and eyes, Youll find the Proverb juft and good, Whateer the bird in fhape or fize. EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE. EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN CALLING, Thofe which a hookd fharp beak have got, Are for the raoft part
. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . ^S^BUT \T ^S EVERY ONE SPEAKS AS HE IS. Elck Vogeltje singt sotft gebeckt EVERY BIRD SINGS ACCORDING TO HIS BEAK. TIS an old Saying and a true,That evry bird rings its own note ;Nor can it any other do But as permits its beak and you rove thro field or wood, And well attend with ears and eyes, Youll find the Proverb juft and good, Whateer the bird in fhape or fize. EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE. EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN CALLING, Thofe which a hookd fharp beak have got, Are for the raoft 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 meet, From groping in the flufh and mud, Be fure his voice is never fweet. The birds with longer flute-like beak, Might more be thought to fong inclind, 1 ^ But in their thrumming note and fhriek, No turn for melody youll therefore fay,—as far as fize UJ J QZ1(!) 0h 0) And fhape of beak,—-nor fear proteft,That of all birds beneath the fkies, D0 z The little beaks they fing the thus among mankind, we fee,
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