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<p>We more should thrive, and erre the seldomer,<lb/> If we were like this honest Carpenter,<lb/> Whose Emblem, in reproofe of those, is made,<lb/> That love to meddle, farther then their Trade.<lb/> But, most are now exceeding cunning growne<lb/> In ev'ry mans affaires, except their owne:<lb/> Yea, Coblers thinke themselves not onely able,<lb/> To censure; but, to mend Apelles Table.<lb/> Great-Men, sometime, will gravely undertake<lb/> To teach, how Broomes and Morter, we should make.<lb/> Their Indiscretions, Peasants imitate,<lb/> And boldly meddle with affaires of State.<lb/> Some Houswives teach their Teachers how to pray,<lb/> Some Clarks, have shew'd themselves, as wise as they;<lb/> And in their Callings, as discreet have bin,<lb/> As if they taught their Grandames how to spinne :<lb/> And, if these Customes, last a few more Ages,<lb/> All Countries will be nothing els, but Stages<lb/> Of evill-acted, and mistaken parts;<lb/> Or, Gallemaufries, of imperfect Arts.<lb/> But, I my selfe (you'l say) have medlings made,<lb/> In things, that are improper to my Trade.<lb/> No; for, the MVSES are in all things free;<lb/> Fit subject of their Verse, all Creatures be;<lb/> And, there is nothing nam'd so meane, or great,<lb/> Whereof they have not Liberty to treat.<lb/> Both Earth and Heav'n, are open unto these;<lb/> And (when to take more libertie they please)<lb/> They Worlds, and things, create, which never were;<lb/> And, when they list, they play, and meddle, there.<lb/> </p> |
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A builder holding his tools: a ruler, a square and a plumb-line (comparison between poetry and architecture) |
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embstma_1903.xml |
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<p>TRACTANT FABRILIA FABRI.</p> |
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GUL EMBLEMS ILL_BOOK |
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11Q712 25I144 31AA2513(+933) 31B6211 31D14 41D221(HAT) 47G311 47G6(PLUMB-LINE) 47G6(RULER) 48C11(+0) 48C901 49D511(RULER) 49D5112 86(TRACTANT FABRILIA FABRI) |
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<p>When each man keepes unto his Trade,<lb/> Then, all things better will be made.</p> |
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embstma_1903_emblem114 |
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Tractant fabrilia fabri |