<p>MUCH Men do is Folly merely;<lb/> And if asked the reason, why?<lb/> Seldom, truthfully and clearly,<lb/> To the question they reply.<lb/> If reply they make, 't is ever,<lb/> With them all, the same excuse;<lb/> And some think the answer clever:<lb/> "'Tis the Fashion"-"custom"-"use!" <lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac026"/> Thus it ever is with fools;<lb/> Custom more than Reason should be law,<lb/> Fashion-Customs, slight as straw,<lb/> Stronger chains on them impose,<lb/> Bonds more binding far than those,<lb/> Tyrants since the fellow man.<lb/> Laid upon their fellow man.<lb/> He vainly boasts that he is free,<lb/> Who feas t'infringe on Fashion's rule;<lb/> For worse than slave, already, he<lb/> Is both at once- a slave, and fool.</p> <p>Inter causas malorum nostrorum est, quòd vivimus ad exempla, nec ratione com-<lb/> ponimur, sed consuetudine abducimur. Quod pauci fuciunt, nolumus imitari: quùm<lb/> plures facere coeperunt, quasi honestius sit, quia frequentius, sequimur, et recti apud<lb/> nos locum tenet error; &amp;c.- SEN. Epist.58. </p> <p>Qui veut, il peut.<lb/> WHAT less, than Fool, and greater Fool, tan he,<lb/> Who knows no Heaven but his mistress' smiles,<lb/> And bows his reason to the tyranny<lb/> Of her caprice and ever changing wiles?<lb/> Than he, whose brain-sick fantasy can find<lb/> Subject for Love, in each insensate whim,<lb/> And in her very faults of her heart and mind,<lb/> A grace, to none apparent but to him!<lb/> Who sees not, when she most affects the Dove,<lb/> She but derides the passion he reveals;<lb/> And that most false when most she vows her love,<lb/> 'Tis but to seem what least she is- and feels.<lb/> If true that, he who wills it may be free:<lb/> Who hath no Will, must have a lack of brains;<lb/> A straw-tied Fool! who for his stultity,<lb/> In Love, as in aught else, deserves his chains.<lb/> A WISE man't heart is at right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left._Ecclesiastes x. 2.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac027"/> <p>He that sendeth a message by the hand of a Fool,cutteth off the feet, and drinketh<lb/> damage. - Proverbs xxvi. 6.<lb/> As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a Fool returneth to his folly.- Proverbs xxvi. II.<lb/> Non ex omni ligno fit Mercurius.<lb/> Magna Negotia viris magnis committenda.<lb/> By so much the more are we inwardly foolish, by how much we strive to seem<lb/> outwardly wise.- S.GREG.<lb/> Ex thymbrâ nemo lanceam conficiet;<lb/> Neque ex Socrate bonum militum. - ATHEN. lib. v.<lb/> TH'upward soaring spirit ever<lb/> Craves the joys of heaven to know,<lb/> But alas! the vain endeavour!<lb/> Bondslave of the flesh, below:<lb/> Though they be but frail as straw,<lb/> Wordly joys more strongly draw.<lb/> FOR, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion<lb/> to the flesh, but by love serve one another. - Galatians v.13.<lb/> THE weak may be laughed out of anything but their weakness. - M. DE GENLIS.<lb/> WE talk of acquiring a habit! we should rather say being acquired by it. Habit is<lb/> the janissary power in man; Passion and Principle the antagonist revolutionary<lb/> powers for evil and for good.<lb/> You may as well go stand upon the beach,<lb/> And bid the main flood 'bate his usual height;<lb/> You may as well use question with the wolf,<lb/> Why the hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;<lb/> You may as well forbid the mountain pines<lb/> To wag their high tops, and to make a noise <lb/> When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven,<lb/> As seek to soften that (than which what's harder?)<lb/> A foolish heart. - SHAKESPEARE.<lb/> A NATION deserves no better laws than those it will submit to. - GOETHE.<lb/> THE Nation, like the man who would be free,<lb/> Must merit first the rights of liberty.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac028"/> <p>WHOSE purchase was his pouch, his house a tun,<lb/> Criticke of actions whatsoever done,<lb/> That learned dogge, at noone-tyde tinn'd his light,<lb/> Searching for one, whose actions were upright.<lb/> The Eagles young ones by the Sunne are try'd,<lb/> Mens actions by the lamp are best espy'd; <lb/> For men in day time maskt with vizards goe,<lb/> Of truth and faith making an outwad show.<lb/> But when they can nights secret silence find,<lb/> Before the lamp they doe unmaske their mind.<lb/> Happy is he whom Sunne and Lamp sees one,<lb/> Who's honest still, though witnesse there be none.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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