. 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 . SlL. NE VOUS BRULE, IL VOUS NOIRCIT. 44 BE MERRY AND WISE. Ludite, sed Cafte. 0) Sli < UJ BUT THE cunning I kdgcliog, with inftin(5tivc art,In ball-like fhapc, rolled up, upon the grounii,With open hole-like mouth, knows well his part,Tentrap the giddy mice that fport lo ! when one, more prying than the reft,Draws near, to peep within a hole fo nice, RIRE SANS GIV
. 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 . SlL. NE VOUS BRULE, IL VOUS NOIRCIT. 44 BE MERRY AND WISE. Ludite, sed Cafte. 0) Sli < UJ BUT THE cunning I kdgcliog, with inftin(5tivc art,In ball-like fhapc, rolled up, upon the grounii,With open hole-like mouth, knows well his part,Tentrap the giddy mice that fport lo ! when one, more prying than the reft,Draws near, to peep within a hole fo nice, RIRE SANS GIVE A SPRAT TO CATCH A MACKREL. The Hedgehog fnaps him up with eager zeft, And moufey pays for peeping, in a trice ! Let caution guide your fport, be what it may ; For where expefted leaft, fome fnare may lay : And Venus boy was painted blind of yore, For that in darknefs he worked mifchief more. z LlJ 0 ? LU pudicitise suae, ne spoli
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