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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e it is derogatory ; and stillless with the vulgar, whose ignorance renders them insolent, and, unable to perceivethe honour that is done them, they presume that it is their due. Familiarity is oneof the tendencies of a weak mind.—Gracian. The purest treasure mortal times afford Is—spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.—Shakespeare, Rich. III. LOISIVETE EST MERE DE TOUT VICE. I_E MECHANT EST COMME l_E CHARBON, ND lothft thou me, my Soule, loving to goeElfewhere, I pray thee whither, let me know,Was thou not all this while my deereft mate,My gueft, my convoy, confort in eftate ;While I did florifh, thou didft conftant prove,My times are darkned now, fo is thy love ?Soule. Here as a captive to a keeper, fo I tyed was with thee, at lift, to goe, Banifht from home : loe now my bonds are loofe. Thou dyft, I glad runne to my fathers houfe. Soules bond with body hardly maketh breach, Yet this doth dye, and that Heavns dwelling reach. Farlies Emblems.
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Sll_ NE VOUS BRULE, ll_ VOUS NOIRCIT. BE MERRY AND WISE.

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