Identifier: moralemblemswith00catsj (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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S>^ FIGLIE E VETRI SON SEMPRE IN PERICOLO.S>:2; STRAW BANDS \A^I1_I_ TIE A FOOLS HANDS. Fac Sapias, et Liber eris.
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ACT WISELY AND THOU SHALLT BE FREE. UCH Men do is Folly merely ; And if afked the reafon, why ? Seldom, truthfully and clearly,To the queftion they reply.If reply they make, tis ever.With them all, the fame excufe ;And fame think the anfvver clever : Tis the Fafliion — cuftom — ufe ! so- CE G^UE ME LIE, CEST MA FOLIE. -S^S EVERY MAN HATH A FOOL IN HIS SLEEVE. Thus it ever is with fools; Cuftom more than Reafon rules: And where Reafon fhould be law, Fafhion-—Cuftoms, flight as ftraw, Stronger chains on them impofe, Bonds more binding far than thofe, Tyrants fince the world began, Laid upon their fellow man. He vainly boafls that he is free. Who fears t infringe on Fafliions rule ; 3 For worfe than flave, already, he (t Is both at once—a flave, and fool. UJ Q. CD a 2 INTER causas malorum nostrorum est, quod vivimus ad exempla, nee ratione com- ponimur, sad consuetudine abducimur. Quod pauci faciunt, nolumus imitari : quum plures facere cceperunt, quasi honestius sit, quia freque

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