<p>LITTLE fish! why come you skimming<lb/> On the surface as you do?<lb/> Deeper down you should be swimming,<lb/> That's the fitter place for you.<lb/> Here above, great sea-mews hover,<lb/> Keen of eye, and swift of flight;<lb/> And for such as you moreover,<lb/> Have a wondrous appetite.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac034"/> Here alone, the kings of ocean<lb/> May with safety dare the light,<lb/> But how came you by the notion<lb/> Thus to brave the eagle's figth?<lb/> Every kind of little creature<lb/> Should its proper station know;<lb/> And your fitter place by nature,<lb/> Is much rather- down below.<lb/> But if little Bleaks disport them,<lb/> Like the porpoise and the whale,<lb/> While so heedless they comport them,<lb/> Danger must their lives assail.<lb/> Little fishes undertaking<lb/> What the great alone may do,<lb/> Like all, who their part mistaking,<lb/> Soon or late their folly rue.</p> <p>Every little fish expects to become a whale. He who would be every where will <lb/> be no where. - Danish Proverb.<lb/> THOSE who made in unknown waters will be sure to be drowned.<lb/> AN ounce of discretion is better than a pound of wit.<lb/> WHO always does that which pleases him<lb/> DOES not always what he ought.<lb/> SEMPRE ha torto il piu debole.<lb/> A cader va chi troppo in alto sale.<lb/> ON ne doit jamais prétendre à des droits qu'on ne scauroit soutenir.<lb/> Quien siempre hace lo que quiere.<lb/> No hace siempre lo que debe. - Spanish Proverb.<lb/> TRASPASA el rico las leyes, y es castigado el pobre.<lb/> THE rich man transgresses the law, and the poor man is punished.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac035"/> <p>SEEKEST thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for behold I will bring evil<lb/> upon all flesh, saith the Lord. - Jeremiah xlv. 5.<lb/> As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his <lb/> place. - Proverbs xxvii. 8.<lb/> A PRUDENT man froeseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and<lb/> are punished. - Proverbs xxvii. 12.<lb/> HE that exalteth his gate, seeketh destruction. - Proverbs xvii. 19.<lb/> WHO shall go about<lb/> To cozen Fortune and be honourable<lb/> Without the stamp of merit! Let none presume<lb/> To wear an underserved dignity. SHAKESPEAR.<lb/> POOR and content, is rich and rich enough. - Ibid.<lb/> THRASO is Gnatho's prey. - LORD BACON.<lb/> TRUE happiness is to no place confined,<lb/> But still is found with a contented mind.<lb/> WHEN we have reached the summit of a vain ambition, we have only reached a <lb/> pinnacle where we have nothing to hope, but everything to fear. - COLTON. Lacon.<lb/> PARVUM para decent. - HORACE.<lb/> FELIX est qui sorte sua contentus vivit. - HORACE.<lb/> NE te quaesiveras extra. - Ibid.<lb/> Cui non conveniat sua res, ut calceus olim,<lb/> Si pede major erit subvertit, si minor uret. - Ibid.<lb/> Ne quid nimis. - TERENCE.<lb/> HAUD facilè emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat<lb/> Res angusta domi. - JUVENAL.<lb/> Pauper amet cautè, timeat maledicere pauper,<lb/> Multaque divitibus non patienda serat. - OVID.<lb/> Quid suit ut tutas agitaret Daedalus alas,<lb/> Icarus immensas nomine signet aquas?<lb/> Nempe, quòd hic altè, demissiùs ille volaret,<lb/> Nam pennas ambo non habuere suas,<lb/> Crede mihi, benè qui latuit, benè vixit, et intrà<lb/> Fortunam debet quisque manere suam. - OVID.<lb/> Nullum Numen abest si sit Prudentia. - JUVENAL.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac036"/> <lb/> <p>LIGHT is the Torches life of heavenly kind,<lb/> Thus to a fraile and greasie massee combind,<lb/> To which the Painter beauty doth impart,<lb/> Giving it glosse and colour from his Art.<lb/> The painting's nought, light doth the Torch commend<lb/> Which sirst was framed onely for this end.<lb/> It is our mind that doth our life approve,<lb/> Shewing our race derived from above.<lb/> Blind Fortunes goods, kins generosity<lb/> Youths strength, and beauties curiosity<lb/> Make not, unlesse the spirit doe us season<lb/> With that Heav'n-bred sparkle of divine reason.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.<lb/> </p>

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