Identifier: moralemblemswith00cats (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660 Farley, Robert Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662, ill Leighton, John, 1822-1912, ill Pigot, Richard
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Nought can induce the Dove to take The Kagle for her mate,The Partridge to the Buzzard-hawk Will never link her fate ;The Raven black weds not the Swan, Twas not by Nature meant,Ior Like with like alone, my friend, Can give the heart content. - . -■ CHACUN AVEC SON PAREIU i ENTRE GENS DE MEME NATURE THIS waxen torch is able to endureThe winds, when iEolus puts them in ure,It leads the way in darknefle of the night.And, though the ferene fall, it fhewes his Light:The candle ftill lurks at home, and there doth fhowIts light, not caring how the winds doe blow.This as the houfes joy at home doth ftay,The other ftill abroad doth make his way The hardy hufband from his houfe goes forth Seeking to compafte bufmefs of worth ; He failes by rockes and fands, earely and late He toiles, and feekes to purchafe an eftate: The wife at home much like a fnaile fhe fits On hous-wifry employing all her wits : Ulyfles in his travels hard did fhift, Penelope at home did ufe her thrift. Fari.ies Emblems.
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Z SE FAIT ET DURE. :S<S^ EVERYTHING IS GOOD IN ITS SEASON. -C-.3: M//f Pyrum vel Sponte Fluit. ?i! J ■J UJ

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