<p>The Barrell, from whose bottome, sides, and bung,<lb/> The liquor (as in this our Emblem ) flowes,<lb/> May fitly typifie the babling Tongue,<lb/> Of him that utters ev'ry thing hee knowes.<lb/> For, such as are their taskes, who strive to fill<lb/> An ever-leaking Vessell, to the brim;<lb/> Ev'n such are his, who laboureth to still<lb/> A tatlers tongue; for, paines are lost on him.<lb/> This Figure, also, serveth to expresse,<lb/> The trustlesse nature of a whorish woman ;<lb/> For, shee to all displayes her wantonnesse,<lb/> And, cares to keepe her secresies, from no man.<lb/> Within her bosome, nothing long shee keeps,<lb/> But, whatsoever shee conceives or knowes,<lb/> Streight, from the heart, up to her tongue, it creeps;<lb/> And, round about the Citie, then, it goes.<lb/> Bee warned therefore, and commit thou not<lb/> Thy person, state, or fame, to such as these;<lb/> Lest, they thy Reputation doe bespot,<lb/> Consume thy Substance, or thy Minde disease.<lb/> But, most of all, bee wary, lest the crime,<lb/> Which here wee doe reproove, thy mind infect:<lb/> For, Vice, like weeds, will grow in little time,<lb/> And, out-grow Vertues, if wee them neglect.<lb/> The surest way to keepe such errors out,<lb/> And, in our selves true Vertnes to maintaine;<lb/> Is, to bee hoopt with Temp'rance, round about,<lb/> And, our out-flowing humors to restraine.<lb/> If thus we practise, 'twill prevent the wrongs<lb/> Of our owne errors, and of others tongues.<lb/> </p>

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Water seeping from a leaking barrell; in the background: men visiting a brothel

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<p>The Tongue, which every secret speakes,<lb/> Is like a Barrell full of leakes.</p>

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