. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . ■^^ BEWARE, FROTH IS NOT BEER.^ TOUT PAR AMOUR, RIEN PAR FORCE. Met onwillige honden tit quaet haren vang. WITH UNWILLING HOUNDS ITS HARD TOCATCH HARES. J! OT far from here there lives a Maid,^ Who, as Ive heard by many faid,Will bring a good dowr of gold and landTo him on whom fhe beftows her buxom, cheerful, hurtling lais,She leads her fathers kine to grafs, NO STRIVING AGAINST THE STREAM. HAPPY IS THE WOOING THAT IS NOT LONG IN DOING. She bakes and she brews, she spins and sews, And all a good housewifes
. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . ■^^ BEWARE, FROTH IS NOT BEER.^ TOUT PAR AMOUR, RIEN PAR FORCE. Met onwillige honden tit quaet haren vang. WITH UNWILLING HOUNDS ITS HARD TOCATCH HARES. J! OT far from here there lives a Maid,^ Who, as Ive heard by many faid,Will bring a good dowr of gold and landTo him on whom fhe beftows her buxom, cheerful, hurtling lais,She leads her fathers kine to grafs, NO STRIVING AGAINST THE STREAM. HAPPY IS THE WOOING THAT IS NOT LONG IN DOING. She bakes and she brews, she spins and sews, And all a good housewifes duty knows. Nimble and neat of limb is she, Good temperd too as a lass can be ; With pouting lips, and a cheek that glows With all the hues of the opening rose : No burgher maid in Leyden town Can match her eyes of lustrous brown; And were I now in my youthful prime, To woo and win her Id lose no time. I wish our Claes, that son of mine, Would but to my advice incline, And court her close like a sensble lad, While she and her dowr may yet be had : For oft Ive heard her father say : Whoeer she choose, hell not say nay ; But give her a well stockd farm and land, r- And a well filld
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