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 (1860) (14744087154)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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EVERY MAN AS HIS BUSINESS LIES. A STII_l_ TONGUE MAKES A WISE HEAD. On ne prend Lievre au Tabourin, tiy Oiseau a la Tartevelk.
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HARES ARK NO r CAlK.Hr WITH \\\-.\V OF DRUM,NOR lilRDS Wn n lARn.KTS. WK who by beat of drum would catch a hare,Took the heft means his purpofe to defeat;For foot! as Pufs the noife began to hear,With cars erect fhe quickly left her feat, Jl^. A MUCHA PAROUA OBRA POCA. -^^ BIRDS ARE ENTANQLED BY THEIR FEET, And making nimbly for the neareft wood. Within its leafy cover got away, j j Leaving our friend and dogs, however good, ! i But little chance their fleetnefs to display : • So that at eve, returning from his sport, i With empty game-bags and dejected look, I He found but little reafon to report His ftrange device—for not a hare he took !He who in Council fits, or would attain < Knowledge of aught, or fee his plans fucceed, X Of all things firft his tongue fliould well reftrain, 0 Nor fpeak a word beyond the matters need : I ^ Q For he who lets his tongue his wits outrun, 1 ^ And blabs his businefs into all mens ears, i ^ Will finrl \t rnnilrl ppr vpf- i^ Ucith hpfrnn _ Will