<p>The big-bon'd Oxe, in pace is very slow,<lb/> And, in his travaile, step by step, doth goe,<lb/> So leisurely, as if he tir'd had bin,<lb/> Before his painfull Iourney did beginne;<lb/> Yet, all the day, he stifly ploddeth on,<lb/> Vntill the labour of the day be done:<lb/> And, seemes as fresh (though he his taske hath wrought)<lb/> As when to worke, he first of all was brought.<lb/> Meane-while, the Palfray, which more swiftnesse had,<lb/> Hath lost his breath, or proves a Resty-jade.<lb/> This Emblem, therefore, maketh it appeare,<lb/> How much it profiteth, to persevere ;<lb/> And, what a little Industry will doe,<lb/> If wee continue constant thereunto.<lb/> For, meanest Faculties, discreetly us'd,<lb/> May get the start, of nobler Gifts, abus'd.<lb/> This, may obserued be in many a one:<lb/> For (when their course of life was first begunne)<lb/> Some, whose refined wits, aspi'rd as high,<lb/> As if above the Sphaeres, they were to flie:<lb/> By Sloth, or Pride, or over-trusting to<lb/> Their owne Sufficiencies, themselves undoe.<lb/> Yea, and those forward-wits, have liv'd to see<lb/> Themselves inferiours, unto those, to be,<lb/> Whom, they did in their jollity, contemne,<lb/> As blocks, or dunces, in respect of them.<lb/> Then, learne, Great-wits, this folly to prevent:<lb/> Let Meane-wits, take from hence, incouragement:<lb/> And, let us all, in our Affaires proceed,<lb/> With timely leisure, and with comely speed.<lb/> </p>

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A bull walking slowly; in the background: two men running, watched by(?) a turtle and hare(?)

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<p>PAS À PAS.</p>

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25F26(HARE)

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25F711(ANT)

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31A2512(+9321)

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47I2111(+95211)

51MM1(+4)

85(HARE, TURTLE)

86(PAS À PAS)

<p>They, who but slowly-paced are,<lb/> By plodding on, may travaile farre.</p>

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